William McLachlan · 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, and line-break hyphenation removed; paragraphs reflowed.
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Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 93-94 (page/n93, running head 'ELDER WILLIAM McLACHLAN.', OCR variant 'M'LACHLAN'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after Elder German E. Ellsworth's address, with '(President of Pioneer Stake.) My brethren and sisters, I feel very grateful, indeed, for the privilege of being a member of the Church...'; recounts arriving in Salt Lake City in 1863 and over fifty years in the Church; explicitly references 'Brother Ellsworth'; ends '...May God help us to faithfully perform the work that He has assigned to us, individually and collectively, is my prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.', immediately before Elder John F. Tolton's address. This talk's boundary, unusually for this conference, had no page-proof running-head bleed at either end. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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