Stephen L Richards · 1927 April General Conference · 1927-04-06
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 OCR/scan witness (Internet Archive conferencereport1927a); fixed OCR digit/letter substitutions ('1' for 'I' at several sentence starts, 'Jgood' to 'good', stray punctuation), removed a mid-body running-head/page-number bleed, reflowed paragraphs, and replaced a placeholder title (a truncated fragment of the opening sentence) with a full supplied title drawn from that same opening sentence. Corrected date, session, and calling_at_time.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: page-by-page collation against the conferencereport1927a djvu OCR (conferencereport981chur_djvu.txt); confirmed speaker (Stephen L. Richards) via the printed running head 'ELDER STEPHEN L. RICHARDS' and the printed index entry 'Richards, Elder Stephen L . . . 153' with its sub-heading list matching this talk's own internal subheadings verbatim. Confirmed this talk opens the Concluding Meeting (the Fourth Day Afternoon Meeting) immediately after the session-business block (now 1927-04-50) and is followed by Elder Melvin J. Ballard's address (1927-04-52), with no adjacent-speaker or session-business bleed into the body. Corrected source_url page anchor from n154 to the exact leaf n155 using the item's page_numbers.json leaf map and the printed index (printed page 153 = leaf 155, leaf = printed page + 2, matching the pattern confirmed across this conference's Fourth Day talks). Corrected session from 'Second Day Morning Session' to 'Fourth Day Afternoon Meeting (Concluding Meeting)' and date from 1927-04-01/approximate to 1927-04-06/exact based on the printed 'CONCLUDING MEETING . . . held on Wednesday, April 6, 1927' header preceding this talk (see 1927-04-50). Body text collated word-for-word against the OCR paragraph by paragraph, including all six internal subheadings, which the OCR and the printed index both confirm verbatim. Replaced the placeholder title with a supplied title drawn from the talk's actual opening sentence. Corrected calling_at_time from the generic 'General Authority' placeholder to 'Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles', matching Richards's actual office at this conference (per the convention used elsewhere in the vault, e.g. 1926-04-19 and 1927-10-40).
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