Eldred G. Smith · 1970 October General Conference · 1970-10-01
OCR ingestion with auto-cleaning and paragraph reflowing. Archive snapshot pending.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the IA scan/OCR witness (conferencereport1970sa); confirmed body matches the scan verbatim.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: collated against the conferencereport1970sa djvu OCR witness (lines ~1864-2267, First Day, speaker header 'Elder Eldred G. Smith, Patriarch to the Church'). Disambiguated from the other Smith talks in this conference (Joseph Fielding Smith, President of the Church) by the distinct OCR byline 'Patriarch to the Church', confirming speaker_id eldred-g-smith and calling_at_time 'Presiding Patriarch' are correct and non-colliding. Removed three bled-in running-head/page-number artifacts that a prior pass had missed ('GENERAL CONFERENCE Friday, October 2' mid-quotation after the Abraham 3:24-26 citation, 'First Day' mid-sentence in the Hebrews 5:8 passage, a second 'GENERAL CONFERENCE Friday, October 2' before 'The great commandments', and a second 'First Day' interrupting the George Albert Smith quotation). Fixed an OCR typo '(D8;C 89:18.)' to '(D&C 89:18.)'. Stripped trailing session-transition boilerplate (President Harold B. Lee's closing remarks and introduction of Elder Henry D. Taylor) that did not belong to this talk — it now ends at Smith's own 'Amen.' No authoritative CHL catalog record found distinct from the IA item; source_url retained as the verified IA scan.
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