Brigham Young · 1852 April General Conference · 1852-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 1, pp. 198-203, delivered April 6, 1852 (the JD heading reads 'A Discourse by President Brigham Young, Delivered at the Opening of the New Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, April 6, 1852'; date corrected during heavyweight review from a prior 1852-04-07 misdate — see heavyweight_review_notes). BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript of JD 1:198-203. Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
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Heavyweight pass: no official churchofjesuschrist.org or CHL digitization exists for this 1852 discourse; BYU ContentDM/IA JD 1:198-203 remains the best verified source (BYU item page currently broken client-side, IA page-anchored link used as source_url). Speaker, title, and full opening/closing sentences independently confirmed verbatim against [redacted legacy mirror] The JD heading itself dates this discourse 'Delivered at the Opening of the New Tabernacle...April 6, 1852' and the discourse's own opening line ('as we have opened our Conference by the dedication prayer') confirms it was given the same morning as Richards' dedicatory prayer (1852-04-06), not April 7 as the prior date field claimed — corrected. The conference-record-minutes file's April 7 paragraph also misplaced the 'best hall...2,500 persons' framing line that belongs to this April 6 discourse; flagged for correction there. Body text matches the printed JD with no discrepancies found.
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