Brigham Young · 1853 October General Conference · 1853-10-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 1, pp. 322-327, delivered October 6, 1853. BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript of JD 1:322-327, cross-checked against the surrounding Deseret News minutes. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
Page-anchored BYU ContentDM scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 1, page 322.
Digital transcript referencing JD Vol. 1.
Page-anchored IA scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 1, page 322.
Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0076. 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 1853 - October 1853 images 142-154. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 1:322; in CR 100 317 box 2 folder 24. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth 14 August 2013. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 1:322 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 1:322-327 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), opening sentence, and closing benediction ('May the Lord bless you. Amen.') independently confirmed verbatim against [redacted legacy mirror] Body reads as one coherent, unbroken discourse with no apparent gaps; talk boundaries clean; no OCR errors found requiring fixes.
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