Joseph Fielding Smith · 1970 October General Conference · 1970-10-03
Split out of the 1970-10-evans-president-smith-my-beloved-brothers-and-sisters file during heavyweight review (claude-sonnet-4-6); that file had merged this General Priesthood Meeting address by President Smith in after Richard L. Evans's talk and the Fifth Session opening boilerplate.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass: extracted from a merged file where this address was embedded after the General Priesthood Meeting (Fifth Session) opening boilerplate, itself appended after Richard L. Evans's prior talk. Collated against the conferencereport1970sa OCR.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: this General Priesthood Meeting address by President Joseph Fielding Smith ('My dear brethren of the priesthood...') had no file of its own — it was embedded mid-file inside 1970-10-evans-president-smith-my-beloved-brothers-and-sisters.md, after that talk's closing and the Fifth Session's full opening boilerplate (Tanner's introduction, choir/prayer notes, N. Eldon Tanner's biographical introduction of President Smith). Extracted verbatim, no wording changed; fixed one OCR-scrambled passage near the opening where two interleaved column lines had been concatenated out of order ('oath and covenant of the Melchizedek I welcome this opportunity to speak Priesthood. I think if we have a clear to the priesthood holders who are understanding...') by reordering to the correct reading-order sentence. Date set to Oct 3, 1970 (General Priesthood Meeting, Saturday evening) per the report's own session heading.
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