John Wells · 1927 October General Conference · 1927-10-08
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. [Accuracy audit 2026-07: the review's OCR fix 'I pount him weak' -> 'I pronounce him weak' was itself wrong; the page image (conferencereport1927sa n136) prints 'I count him weak' — restored to the printed text.]
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Heavyweight pass: collated word-for-word against the conferencereport1927sa djvu OCR witness (Second Day Afternoon Meeting, Saturday, October 8, 1927). Corrected date from approximate to exact. Retitled from the printed calling subhead to the talk's opening words, moving the calling into calling_at_time. Removed a bled-in running-head fragment ('ELDER JOHN WELLS'). Fixed OCR typos: '"Cohie unto me"' -> '"Come unto me"' (Matthew 11:28); stray quote in "thou shalt 'of fer thine oblations" -> 'thou shalt offer thine oblations'; 'must be- detained' -> 'must be detained'; 'I pount him weak' -> 'I pronounce him weak'; 'Not Latter-day Saint can feel' -> 'No Latter-day Saint can feel'. Confirmed boundary: begins with the talk's opening words and ends with 'Amen.' [Accuracy audit 2026-07: the review's OCR fix 'I pount him weak' -> 'I pronounce him weak' was itself wrong; the page image (conferencereport1927sa n136) prints 'I count him weak' — restored to the printed text.]
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