Serge F. Balif · 1909 April General Conference · 1909-04-05
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Seventy-Ninth Annual Conference (April 1909), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1909a). OCR corrected by hand (running heads and line-break hyphenation removed, paragraphing restored, obvious OCR errors corrected). Not yet proofread line-by-line against page images. Grade reflects the officially published Conference Report.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass: anchored source_url leaf; OCR letter errors fixed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1909a DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) to anchor source_url leaf. Fixed about a dozen OCR letter/spacing errors (twentytwo -> twenty-two, Hip -> His, I atter-day -> Latter-day, eo -> go, one- tenth -> one-tenth, t( -> to, supplv -> supply, dore -> done, Mess -> bless, and a couple stray punctuation marks). Editorial flag: the printed running head reads 'ELDER SERGE L. BALIFF' (with a double-f surname and 'L.' initial), differing from this file's existing speaker metadata ('Serge F. Balif'); left the pre-existing metadata unchanged since it was not part of this pass's scope, but flagging the discrepancy for verification against other historical records. Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with Balif's own remarks, ends at his own Amen.
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