Joseph Fielding Smith · 1913 April General Conference · 1913-04-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive, dedicated April 1913 scan (conferencereport1913a, file prefix conferencereport831chur). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed. The printed synopsis line ('Descendants of righteous men admonished to be faithful...') is reproduced as the supplied title basis rather than in the body.
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Heavyweight pass: this address by Joseph F. Smith Jr. did not exist as its own file at this position in the prior ingest (an existing file with this id/name at talk_order 27 is unrelated wrong-sourced content and will be handled separately when that position in true order is reached). Created this file with the true text from the dedicated conferencereport1913a scan via XY-cut reading-order extraction. De-hyphenated and reflowed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1913a leaves 99-100 (page/n99, running head 'ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH, JR.'). Confirmed boundaries: follows John L. Herrick's address and the sustaining of the General Authorities (presented by Elder Joseph F. Smith, Jr., unanimous vote), then the printed synopsis 'Descendants of righteous men admonished to be faithful.—Saints should diligently obey God's laws.' and 'I appreciate the kindness of my brother, Elder Herrick, in proffering me the time that was alloted to him...'; ends '...I pray that we may all be faithful and true in the discharge of every duty as Latter-day Saints, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.', followed by the anthem 'Inflammatus' and benediction by President Hugh J. Cannon, closing the Third Day Second Overflow Meeting. A separate, concurrent Third Day meeting ('Barratt Hall Meeting,' presided over by President Seymour B. Young) follows as a new session with Joseph Eckersley's address.
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