Heber C. Kimball · 1852 October General Conference · 1852-10-08
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 1, pp. 204-209 (delivered October 8, 1852; corrected during heavyweight review from a prior 207-209 page-range error — [redacted legacy mirror] confirms the discourse actually opens on p. 204, not p. 207). BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text is drawn from the Historical General Conferences (Weebly) transcript of JD 1:204-209. Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Full text of the discourse as published in the Journal of Discourses. BYU ContentDM's item-detail page currently fails to render in modern browsers (loads, then a client-side script redirects to the generic lib.byu.edu collections page; reproduced 2026-06-30, site-wide BYU bug, not link-format specific). Re-promote to preferred/source_url once BYU fixes this.
Digital transcript referencing JD Vol. 1.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 1, page 204. Currently the only reliably clickable link for this talk; BYU ContentDM is the institutionally preferred citation but its item pages are currently broken client-side (see the BYU witness note).
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the IA scan witness; corrected JD page range from 207-209 to 204-209 (see heavyweight_review_notes).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: no official churchofjesuschrist.org or CHL digitization exists for this 1852 discourse; BYU ContentDM/IA JD 1:204-209 remains the best verified source (BYU item page currently broken client-side, IA page-anchored link used as source_url). Speaker, date (October 8, 1852), title, and full opening/closing sentences independently confirmed verbatim against [redacted legacy mirror] Found and corrected a page-range error: the prior pass cited JD 1:207-209, but the discourse actually opens on p. 204 ([redacted legacy mirror]'s volume-1 index confirms it begins there); updated source_url, witness URL/label, and fidelity_notes accordingly (IA page anchor n214 -> n211). Body text matches the printed JD with no discrepancies found. Talk boundaries clean.
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