James E. Talmage · 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 122-127 (page/n122, running head 'ELDER JAMES E. TALMAGE.'). Confirmed boundaries: this is the Closing Session's first address, begins immediately after the opening anthems and prayer, with 'It is with feelings of genuine gratitude that I stand before you...'; argues for a literal bodily resurrection (rejecting nature analogies like the egg and the chrysalis), discusses missionary work for the dead, and defends the Church's claim to the name of Christ; ends '...May His spirit ever guide us, through all the scenes of life, to make us worthy of our name, worthy of our promised destiny, I ask, in His name, Amen.', followed by a sacred song ('O Divine Redeemer,' Sister Olive Nixon) and then Elder Ben E. Rich's address. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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