John A. Widtsoe · 1927 October General Conference · 1927-10-07
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1927sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.
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Heavyweight pass: collated word-for-word against the conferencereport1927sa djvu OCR witness (First Day Afternoon Meeting, Friday, October 7, 1927). Corrected date from approximate to exact. Removed three bled-in running-head/page-number fragments ('ELDER JOHN A. WIDTSOE' twice, splitting 'ap-proach', and '28 GENERAL CONFERENCE') left mid-word/mid-sentence. Fixed OCR typos: 'spoke briefly oh the subject' -> 'spoke briefly on the subject'; 'steamship came'that' -> 'steamship came that'; 'oc'eans' -> 'oceans'; 'sarne everlasting truth' -> 'same everlasting truth'; 'unrighteousnass' -> 'unrighteousness'; 'the \vork itself' -> 'the work itself'; 'a -day, published' -> 'a day, published'; 'principles of eternal truth";' -> 'principles of eternal truth;'; 'and- that a definite plan' -> 'and that a definite plan'; 'history — - are found ... that are 1 presented' -> 'history are found ... that are presented'; double 'that that Lord' -> 'that the Lord'; a stray comma-period after 'the disobedient' removed; 'joy oif accepting' -> 'joy of accepting'. Confirmed boundary: begins after President Grant's announcement and ends with 'Amen.'
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