Heber J. Grant · 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 source text.
Proofread against the OCR/scan witness (Internet Archive conferencereport1927a); fixed OCR errors ('havingbeen'-type hyphenation artifacts, a running-head bleed splitting 'telegram' as 'tele-PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT gram', 'having-' stray hyphen, 'oppdsite' for 'opposite', 'W e' for 'We', a stray period after 'ninety-eight stakes...vicinity', and similar), removed running heads and page numbers, and reflowed the internal subheadings and paragraphs. Supplied a title drawn from the talk's own first subheading. Corrected session and calling_at_time; confirmed date.
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 'PRESIDENT HEBER J. GRANT' recurring at each page break in this talk. Confirmed via the printed index that this is a real discourse, distinct from the immediately preceding sustaining-of-officers block (now 1927-04-56): the index entry for page 174 lists actual subject subheadings -- 'Growth of the Church in power and testimony, 174 -- Regret no time to hear from more stake presidents, 174 -- New stake tabernacle in Los Angeles, 174 -- Ours an American Church, 175 -- Testimonies and warnings endorsed, 175 -- Call to repentance our supreme obligation, 175' -- matching the six internal subheadings printed in the body text itself. This is President Grant's closing address of the 97th Annual Conference, delivered immediately after presenting the General Authorities for sustaining vote and immediately before the closing hymn, benediction (by President Anthony W. Ivins), and adjournment 'for six months' (which follow this talk in the source and are session housekeeping, not part of this discourse, and were excluded from the body). Corrected source_url page anchor from a proportional estimate (n175) to the exact leaf n176 using the item's page_numbers.json leaf map (printed page 174 = leaf 176, leaf = printed page + 2, matching the pattern confirmed across this conference's Fourth Day talks). Confirmed date 1927-04-06/exact and session 'Fourth Day Afternoon Meeting (Concluding Meeting)', consistent with 1927-04-50 through 1927-04-56. Corrected calling_at_time from the generic 'General Authority' placeholder to 'President of the Church', matching Grant's actual office. Body text collated word-for-word against the OCR paragraph by paragraph, including all six internal subheadings. Replaced the placeholder title (a truncated fragment of the opening sentence) with a supplied title drawn from the talk's own first subheading, which also names its central theme.
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