John Wells · 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.
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Proofread against the OCR/scan witness (Internet Archive conferencereport1927a); fixed numerous OCR errors and misreadings (garbled 'm , , . << • _' after 'Book of Mormon', 'Perca' for 'Perea', stray lower-case 'm' for 'in' in 'arrived m Bethany', missing period after 'disciples', 'ass s colt' for 'ass's colt', 'lam-ily' running-head-split for 'family', 'mlay' for 'may', 'him( a' for 'him a', 'Tohn' for 'John', 'c*ur' for 'our', 'mjne' for 'mine', and similar), removed running heads and page numbers, and reflowed paragraphs. Replaced the reused-calling-label placeholder title with a supplied title drawn from the talk's own central narrative theme. 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 via the printed running head 'ELDER JOHN WELLS' recurring at each page break in this talk and via the printed index ('Wells, Elder John ... 165'). Confirmed this talk falls inside the Concluding Meeting (Fourth Day Afternoon Meeting, Wednesday, April 6, 1927) immediately following Elder David A. Smith's address (1927-04-53) and immediately preceding Elder Rey L. Pratt's address (1927-04-55), with no adjacent session material intervening -- same boundary evidence as 1927-04-53. Corrected date from 1927-04-01/approximate to 1927-04-06/exact and session from 'Second Day Morning Session' to 'Fourth Day Afternoon Meeting (Concluding Meeting)', consistent with 1927-04-50 through 1927-04-53. Corrected calling_at_time from the generic 'General Authority' placeholder to 'Second Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric', matching Wells's actual office at this conference (per the convention used elsewhere in the vault, e.g. 1926-04-32). Corrected source_url page anchor from a proportional estimate (n166) to the exact leaf n168 using the item's page_numbers.json leaf map (printed page 166 = leaf 168, leaf = printed page + 2, matching the pattern confirmed across this conference's Fourth Day talks). Body text collated word-for-word against the OCR paragraph by paragraph. Replaced the placeholder title (a reused calling label, 'Of the Presiding Bishopric') with a supplied title drawn from the talk's own extended retelling of the final week of Christ's mortal ministry, which is its entire subject.
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