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My Dear Brethren and Sisters: This Is Certainly a Surprise to Me

Byron O. Colton · 1927 April General Conference · 1927-04-04

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Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1927a). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.

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Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; corrected speaker (Elder Byron O. Colton, President of the Roosevelt Stake of Zion, per the djvu OCR text and the printed index), session/date (Second Day Afternoon Meeting, April 4, 1927), and title (supplied).

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: verified against the conferencereport1927a djvu OCR full text (archive.org/download/conferencereport1927a/conferencereport981chur_djvu.txt), confirmed via the printed index entry "Colton, Elder Byron O. . . . 113" and the in-text header "ELDER BYRON O. COLTON / President of the Roosevelt Stake of Zion" preceding this talk on p.113-114. Boundaries confirmed clean: preceded by Elder C. Alvin Orme's remarks, followed by Elder Wayne H. Redd's remarks, no adjacent session business bled in. Body text collated word-for-word against the OCR; only OCR noise (a garbled '(tear' corrected to 'dear', a stray digit '1' corrected to 'I') corrected, no wording changed.

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