Joseph Fielding Smith · 1911 October General Conference · 1911-10-08
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1911sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass: corrected date (1911-10-07 -> 1911-10-08) and session (was labeled Second Day Morning Session; this is the Closing Session held in the Tabernacle at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8), corrected the speaker's OCR-garbled name/speaker_id/filename ("Joseph F. Smith Je." -> "Joseph F. Smith, Jr.", matching the speaker_id convention used elsewhere in this same 1911 volume), the placeholder title, and added the source_url page anchor.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: reconstructed reading order from the conferencereport1911sa DjVu XML and confirmed the source_url leaf (n120), which opens the Closing Session with 'ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH, JR.' as byline. Body collated word-for-word against the OCR; removed two mid-body 'ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH, JR.' running-head bleeds and fixed three OCR letter errors (stray 'f' before 'Those who die without law', 'behalf}' -> 'behalf.', and 'Tf we' -> 'If we'). Confirmed boundaries clean: begins with Smith's own remarks (following the Closing Session's opening choir/prayer) and ends at his own Amen plus the trailing 'Brother David Rees, and the choir, rendered the sacred song, Hosannah' announcement, which correctly belongs here before Seymour B. Young's talk begins.
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