John Smith · 1909 April General Conference · 1909-04-06
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: extensive OCR letter-error cleanup on a heavily garbled scan.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: proofread against the conferencereport1909a DjVu XML reading-order reconstruction. Fixed roughly twenty OCR letter/spacing errors throughout (oass -> pass, recc've/mi"d/sav/vou -> receive/mind/say/you, h^s/h^>s b°en/Fatber -> has/has been/Father, shouH -> should, adchess -> address, n?med -> named, ftisnv -> many, ba<~k/setth'ng -> back/settling, tho^e/sneaking -> those/speaking, mon:tor/*'t -> monitor/it, rieht -> right, stra:ghtforward -> straightforward, moneyleft -> money left, and a couple synopsis typos). Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with John Smith's own remarks, ends at his own Amen; a trailing musical-number notice was kept as genuine session record.
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