Sylvester Q. Cannon · 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 113-121 (page/n113, running head 'ELDER SYLVESTER Q. CANNON.', OCR variant 'a. CANNON'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after Elder Joseph Eckersley's address and a solo ('High on the Mountain Tops,' August Glissmeyer), with '(Of the Presidency of Pioneer Stake.) This is a new experience for me, my brethren and sisters and friends, to address an outdoor gathering...'; reflects on the hymn 'Come, Come, Ye Saints' and William Clayton's authorship, and on the Word of Wisdom as evidence of the Gospel's divinity; ends '...May the Lord bless and help us to be true to these principles, I ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.', immediately before Bishop Lorenzo N. Stohl's address. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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