Orson F. Whitney · 1909 April General Conference · 1909-04-04
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; extensive OCR letter-error cleanup.
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, mostly stray inserted punctuation marks (thjey -> they, baotism -> baptism, Tohn -> John, heavjen.descended -> heaven, descended, M)elcriisedek -> Melchisedek, performi -> perform, ro|om -> room, wEen -> when, be^held -> be held, pure-hearter! -> pure-hearted, enlightment -> enlightenment, and several stray apostrophes/parens removed). Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with the genuine overflow-session opening record (presiding officer, hymns), which belongs with this talk since Whitney himself presided over the overflow meeting; ends at his own Amen. Note: a second, later 'Second Overflow Meeting' session exists further in this volume, distinct from this one and out of scope for this file.
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