Joseph Fielding Smith · 1926 October General Conference · 1926-10-04
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; corrected session to Second Day Afternoon Session and date to 1926-10-04 (exact) per OCR session headers; corrected calling_at_time to Quorum of the Twelve/Church Historian; added page-anchored source_url. No wording changes needed in body.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified (archive.org conferencereport1926sa, printed page 115, where this address begins immediately after Elder David O. McKay's address 'The World Needs Men' ends); page-by-page collation against scan/OCR witness confirms clean boundaries through printed page 118 (talk continues in the companion file talk_order 32, split at the source's own page break; no adjacent-speaker or session-business bleed, no truncation). Corrected session (Second Day Afternoon Session, Monday, October 4, 1926), date, calling, and source_url page anchor; body text matched OCR verbatim, no wording changes required.
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