Melvin J. Ballard · 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: verified verbatim against conferencereport1916a OCR via reconstructed reading order (spot-checked the Solomon Spaulding/Sidney Rigdon passage, matching exactly). This talk has no printed dash-synopsis in the source (unlike most others in this conference); moved the calling parenthetical '(President Northwestern States Mission.)' from the body to calling_at_time, and supplied an honest descriptive title from the talk's own central image (Matthew 9:16-17, quoted at length). Corrected date/session from First Day Afternoon to Third Day Morning (Sunday, April 9), following directly from Joseph F. Smith Jr.'s talk. Removed a mid-paragraph running-head artifact. Fixed scattered OCR letter-errors (wtih/with, anounced/announced, Gosoel/Gospel, and similar). No missing/invented text.
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