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I Know of Nothing Wiser Than the Word of Wisdom

Stephen L Richards · 1927 October General Conference · 1927-10-08

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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 (conferencereport1927sa). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed.

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Heavyweight pass: collated against conferencereport1927sa djvu OCR.

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Heavyweight pass: collated word-for-word against the conferencereport1927sa djvu OCR witness (Second Day Afternoon Meeting, Saturday, October 8, 1927, directly following Charles W. Nibley's address in the same meeting). Corrected date from approximate to exact and session from First Day Afternoon to Second Day Afternoon. Retitled from the printed subhead to the talk's opening words. Removed a bled-in running-head fragment ('ELDER STEPHEN L. RICHARDS') and two stray page-break asterisks. Fixed OCR typos: 'ambigtiilty' -> 'ambiguity'; stray commas in 'greatest thing, in life' -> 'greatest thing in life' and 'indispensable thing, to good living' -> 'indispensable thing to good living'; stray quote after 'no one may"' removed; stray apostrophe in '"as a\' principle with promise"' removed; 'the. disorders of society' -> 'the disorders of society'; 'been quilty of infraction' -> 'been guilty of infraction'; stray comma in 'society,,' removed; 'my sisters of theChurch' -> 'my sisters of the Church'. Confirmed boundary: begins with the talk's opening words and ends with 'Amen.'

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