Joseph L. Wirthlin · 1944 October General Conference · 1944-10-06
Official printed text of the One Hundred Fifteenth Semi-Annual (October) General Conference, held October 6-8, 1944, as published in the Church Conference Report (Church History Library call no. M205.1 C536). Page images were consulted through the Church History Catalog record and the Church History Library preservation scan on the Internet Archive (conferencereport1944sa). Heavyweight review collated the text page-by-page against that scan; running heads, page numbers, column and page-break hyphenation, and non-talk session material were removed. Title supplied from the printed index and discourse subject headings where the report prints no formal title.
Authoritative CHL catalog record (call no. M205.1 C536) for the printed Conference Report; canonical source.
CHL-contributed preservation scan; used as the page-by-page OCR collation surface for this review.
Secondary transcript checked for comparison only; not canonical.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight proofread against the Church History Library scan/OCR (Internet Archive conferencereport1944sa) and the printed index; builds on the prior gemini-3.5-flash light pass. OCR, spelling, and layout artifacts corrected.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: source upgraded to the Church History Catalog record for the October 1944 Conference Report (Wayback-archived) with the Internet Archive preservation scan kept as the page-by-page collation witness; OCR, spelling, and layout artifacts corrected; session, date, calling, and talk_order verified against the printed index. The Church publishes no 1944 General Conference page (its online archive begins in 1971).
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.