Joseph Fielding Smith · 1912 April General Conference · 1912-04-07
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.
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Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 66-71 (page/n66, running head 'ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH, JR.'). Confirmed boundaries: this is the Third Day (Easter Sunday, April 7, 1912) Morning Session's first address, begins immediately after Elder Anthony W. Ivins's address and a baritone solo ('Hosannah,' Elder Horace S. Ensign), opening with a quotation from D&C 18:10-15 on the worth of souls; discusses the resurrection witnesses and the Genealogical Society of Utah (organized 1894 under President Wilford Woodruff); ends '...give them courage to resist and overcome the world, and do all things in righteousness required of them, is my prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.' A stray 'ELDER CHARLES A. CALLIS.' running head bleeds onto the final leaf while Smith's own text is still concluding underneath it -- a page-proof artifact, excluded, confirmed by reading past it to Callis's true byline, calling note, and opening remarks. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md. Speaker identified as Joseph Fielding Smith (later Church President), styled 'Joseph F. Smith, Jr.' in this conference report to distinguish him from his father, President Joseph F. Smith.
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