Amasa M. Lyman · · 1855-12-09
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 3, pp. 164-177 (delivered December 9, 1855). Printed byline: 'A Discourse, by President Amasa Lyman, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, December 9, 1855.' The discourse opens by referring to the First Presidency's recent absence on a journey south (see jod-03-020, delivered by the same speaker three days earlier under similar circumstances). Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD, collated page-by-page against the BYU/IA page images. BYU ContentDM's item page for this entry (id/211) has no Wayback Machine snapshot yet and the sandboxed research environment could not reach web.archive.org's Save Page Now endpoint this session (a known environment limitation); the Internet Archive page-anchored scan, itself a permanent archival copy, is recorded as both source_url and source_archived_url until a BYU snapshot can be captured. Does not fall inside a General Conference window in indexes/conference-calendar.md (nearest GC window is April 6-8, 1855); category set tabernacle_address.
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