Joseph Fielding Smith · 1916 April General Conference · 1916-04-09
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1916a). 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: reconstructed true reading order from conferencereport1916a's DjVu XML via scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py. This file and the former 1916-04-19-joseph-f-smith-jr-remarks-19.md are a single continuous Third Day Morning address by Joseph F. Smith Jr., wrongly split into two files mid-quotation (mid-sentence, in fact, in the middle of a quoted Dr. William Hays Ward passage); merged into one file at this slot and deleted the duplicate. Removed a stray leaf-number fragment ('7]') and a mid-paragraph running-head artifact. Corrected date/session from First Day Afternoon to Third Day Morning (Sunday, April 9) -- this talk directly follows Orson F. Whitney's Third Day address with no intervening session break. Fixed scattered OCR letter-errors throughout (socalled/so-called, manv/many, paragrph/paragraph, unpentant/unrepentant, Testis Christ/Jesus Christ, and similar). Restored the real printed title from the synopsis block. No missing/invented text; boundaries against the preceding Whitney talk confirmed clean.
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