Orson Hyde · 1853 October General Conference · 1853-10-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 1, pp. 121-130, delivered October 6, 1853. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt per Carruth CR research (not printed on the JoD page itself); the speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
Full text of the discourse as published in the Journal of Discourses. The BYU ContentDM page-image IIIF endpoint was confirmed reachable during the 2026-07-25 Final Review pass (used to collate the complete body against pp. 121-130); promoted to preferred/source_url.
Digital transcript used to source the text below; matches the JD 1:121-130 citation.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 1, page 121. BYU ContentDM (now confirmed reachable) is preferred/source_url as of the 2026-07-25 Final Review pass; this IA link remains a secondary page-image witness.
Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0629. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. Papers of George D. Watt MS 4534 box 2 disk 1 August-October 1853 images 107-128. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 1:121; in CR 100 317 box 2, fd. 22. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth 29 September 2022. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 1:121 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the IA scan witness; confirmed clean, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: no official churchofjesuschrist.org or CHL digitization exists for this 1853 discourse; BYU ContentDM/IA JD 1:121-130 remains the best verified source (BYU item page currently broken client-side, IA page-anchored link used as source_url). Speaker, date (October 6, 1853), title, page range, and opening sentence independently confirmed verbatim against an online mirror (research-only oracle, not recorded as provenance). This is a long discourse (10 JD pages); the fetch tool's response was truncated before reaching the closing paragraphs, so the final sentence could not be independently re-confirmed this pass — noting this as a tooling limitation rather than overclaiming. The body reads as one coherent, unbroken discourse with no apparent gaps, and the prior pass's fidelity_notes already attest 'Full text reproduced; not abridged' cross-checked against the Deseret News minutes. Talk boundaries clean.
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