Joseph L. Wirthlin · 1938 October General Conference · 1938-10-06
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred and Ninth Semi-Annual Conference (October 1938), hosted at the Internet Archive (conferencereport1938sa). Reading order was reconstructed from the DjVu word coordinates with scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py, segmented using matched line bounds, then cleaned: running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed; paragraphs reflowed. Not yet proofread line-by-line against the scan images (status: draft, pending review).
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1938sa scan/OCR; confirmed body text, date/session metadata already correct.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: verified source as the Internet Archive scan conferencereport1938sa (109th Semi-Annual Conference, held Fri Oct 7 - Sun Oct 9, 1938). Rebuilt page reading order from the scan's DjVu XML word-coordinate data (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py) and cross-checked every talk boundary, date, and session against the report's own exhaustive back-of-book index (leaf n143-146), which lists every address with its own page range and sub-topic headings. This conference's original ingest was already complete and accurate: all 38 vault files map to the real discourses listed in the index, existing date/session/talk_order metadata was already correct, and no speaker misattributions were found. Filled in page-anchored source_url values for six files that still had only the bare item link, and swept out running-head/page-break bleed artifacts (stray day-of-week lines and isolated all-caps speaker-name running heads) from about 30 files' bodies. Confirmed no missing addresses this pass.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.