George F. Richards · 1912 April General Conference · 1912-04-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report (82nd Annual Conference), published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive as conferencereport1912a (internal scan file conferencereport821chur). Running heads, page numbers, printed synopsis, and line-break hyphenation removed; paragraphs reflowed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
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Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 39-41 (page/n39, running head 'ELDER GEORGE F. RICHARDS.'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after Elder Hyrum M. Smith's address with 'I sense very keenly, my brethren and sisters, the responsibility resting upon me...'; recounts the First Vision and the Three and Eight Witnesses as external evidences of Joseph Smith's mission; ends '...that all may be brought to the light of the everlasting Gospel, and eventually to salvation in His kingdom, through Jesus Christ. Amen.', followed by a soprano solo ('The Song of Ruth,' Sister Anna Newell) and then Elder Thomas E. McKay's address. A stray 'ELDER THOMAS E. McKAY.' running head bleeds onto leaf 41 mid-sentence while Richards's own text ('...the character and the testimony of...') is still concluding underneath it -- a page-proof artifact, excluded from the body and confirmed by reading past it to where the true McKay byline and synopsis appear. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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