David H. Cannon · 1912 October General Conference · 1912-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1912sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: this single Cannon discourse had been wrongly split into three separate files (originally talk_order 26, 28, 29), with the middle fragment additionally misattributed to a phantom speaker 'Woodruff President' assembled from OCR noise inside the fragment's own garbled, letter-spaced placeholder title. Confirmed the three fragments are one continuous talk: part 1 ends mid-sentence ('...acquainted with the other leaders of the Church,'), the garbled title of the middle fragment decodes to '...SNOW, AND PRESIDENT SMITH. I BEAR...', and part 2 continues 'testimony to their integrity...'; part 2 in turn ends mid-sentence ('I rejoice in it from the fact that it is'), and part 3 continues 'applicable to every condition...'. Merged all three into this single file at talk_order 26, reconstructing the two missing bridge clauses from the garbled fragment (a list of Church presidents Cannon says he personally knew — Young, Taylor, Woodruff, Snow, and Smith — bracketed below as this exact wording is the file's own best-effort reconstruction of an illegible OCR fragment, not a verbatim print quote). Corrected calling_at_time typo ('Goerge' -> 'George'). Confirmed the merged talk's closing 'Amen' intact. Follow-up correction: re-verified against conferencereport1912sa leaf 90 while reviewing the surrounding sequence and found this talk belongs to the Assembly Hall overflow meeting held Sunday, Oct 6, 1912, not First Day Afternoon (Oct 4) as previously stamped -- corrected date/session and added a page-anchored source_url. 0 QC ERRORs.
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