B. H. Roberts · 1909 October General Conference · 1909-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the Eightieth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1909), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1909sa). 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: corrected date metadata (Third Day was Oct 6, not Oct 5); anchored source_url leaf; extensive OCR letter-error cleanup on a long address.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed true reading order from the conferencereport1909sa DjVu XML word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) to anchor source_url leaf. Corrected the date field from 1909-10-05 to 1909-10-06 (systematic Third Day date error present across this session's files). Fixed roughly twenty OCR letter/spacing errors throughout this long address (^ather/lis -> Father/His, clay -> day, occassion -> occasion, wdl -> will, permitted' -> permitted, fro-M -> from, LJrim -> Urim, thtit -> that, che -> the, aposties -> apostles, consisency -> consistency, Glad stone -> Gladstone, histoiy -> history, foreswear they self/preform -> foreswear thyself/perform, and several stray punctuation marks). Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with Roberts's own remarks (the preceding John Smith fragment and musical-number notice belong to the prior file), ends at his own Amen.
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