John A. Widtsoe · 1927 April General Conference · 1927-04-03
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1927a, underlying file conferencereport981chur_djvu.txt). 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 scan/OCR witness (Internet Archive conferencereport1927a); removed the trailing choir-solo notice ('Jessie Williams sang a solo...') that had bled in after Widtsoe's 'Amen', relocated to the record as session business context for the next talk.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified against conferencereport1927a djvu OCR and the item's page_numbers.json leaf map (printed page 30 = IA leaf n32; corrected source_url page anchor from an earlier proportional estimate (n38) to the exact leaf n32). Confirmed talk starts correctly after Nibley's address and ends at 'Amen.' Removed the trailing running head ('ELDER BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS') and the choir-solo announcement ('Jessie Williams sang a solo, "The Voice in the Wilderness." (Isaiah 40.)') that were bleeding in as the last two lines of the body -- that is session business belonging with B. H. Roberts's talk introduction, not Widtsoe's discourse. Set date to 1927-04-03 (exact, First Day) and session to 'First Day Afternoon Meeting' (Widtsoe explicitly references 'President Nibley, this afternoon' in his opening line, placing this after the afternoon session opened in 1927-04-05); calling_at_time set to 'Quorum of the Twelve' (was generic 'General Authority'; Widtsoe was an apostle at this conference).
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