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); corrected calling_at_time; removed stray quote mark from speaker field; removed running-head bleed ('GENERAL CONFERENCE', 'ELDER JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH 119') and rejoined a two-line subheading split by the page break ('INSPIRATION AND THE GREATER ACCUMULATION OF KNOWLEDGE THE CAUSE'); fixed OCR garble '•^briefly' to 'briefly' and hyphen-for-period artifacts.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified (archive.org conferencereport1926sa, printed page 117, continuing directly from talk_order 31 with no gap: 'Council of Twelve Apostles, who has long since departed this life' follows 'one of the members of the' exactly at the source's page break); page-by-page collation against scan/OCR witness through printed page 120 confirms clean boundaries (talk ends with 'Amen.' immediately followed by President Heber J. Grant's remarks, talk_order 33; no truncation). Corrected session/date/calling metadata and source_url page anchor; removed running-head/page-number bleed mid-body and rejoined a subheading split across the page break; fixed isolated OCR character-recognition errors (hyphen-for-period, stray glyph before 'briefly'); no wording changes to the substantive text.
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