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Desire for Immortality Natural

Charles A. Callis · 1939 October General Conference · 1939-10-06

Fidelity

◕Authoritative print

Transcribed from Internet Archive OCR for the One Hundred Tenth Semi-Annual Conference (October 6-8, 1939), using reconstructed reading order from the DjVu XML. Basic cleanup, paragraphing, and artifact removal applied; not yet fully proofread against page images. Title is supplied from the printed index or discourse subject headings.

Witnesses

No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the Internet Archive conferencereport1939sa 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 conferencereport1939sa (110th Semi-Annual Conference, held Fri Oct 6 - Sun Oct 8, 1939). 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 n130-132), which lists every address with its own page range and sub-topic headings. This conference's original ingest was already complete and accurate: all 32 vault files map to the real discourses listed in the index, including President Heber J. Grant's five separate brief remarks scattered through the conference, and existing date/session/talk_order metadata was already correct with no speaker misattributions found. Filled in page-anchored source_url values for four mission-report files that still had only the bare item link. Confirmed no missing addresses this pass.

Corrections

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.