Melvin J. Ballard · 1926 October General Conference · 1926-10-03
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1926sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed OCR typos (Rulpn->Rulon, T->I, etc.) and hyphenation/running-head artifacts, corrected the II Nephi 26 scripture quotation against the source text, corrected session/date to Afternoon Session, Sunday, October 3, 1926.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified; page-by-page collation against scan/OCR witness (archive.org conferencereport1926sa, pages n34-n41). Boundary check: talk begins cleanly after the 'ELDER MELVIN J. BALLARD' heading (no Richard R. Lyman material bled in) and ends cleanly at 'Amen.' before the next 'PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT' heading; no adjacent-speaker or session-business bleed found. Fixed numerous OCR errors (Rulpn->Rulon S. Wells, T->I in the scripture quotation, 'no* in darkness'->'not in darkness', 'ht loveth'->'he loveth', 'the ether'->'the other', 'ispeak'->'speak', 'ike the rose'->'like the rose', etc.) and removed running-head/page-number bleed (GENERAL CONFERENCE, ELDER MELVIN J. BALLARD, PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT mid-paragraph). Corrected session to Afternoon Session, Sunday, October 3, 1926 (talk follows directly after President Grant's and precedes President Grant's Tabernacle Choir remarks that close the session) and refined calling to General Authority (Council of the Twelve Apostles), Ballard's calling at the time.
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