Wilford Woodruff · 1857 April General Conference · 1857-04-09
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 5, pp. 82-86 (delivered April 9, 1857). A prior pass mis-cited this as Volume 6; heavyweight review confirmed and josephsmithfoundation.org (used only as private clues) that the correct citation is Volume 5. This is Woodruff's second discourse at the April 1857 conference. Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication.
Printed page image, page-specific link (p.82); collated the full entry against pp. 82-86 during Final Review.
Digital transcript; formerly used as source_url. Superseded by the page-specific BYU scan as the canonical source_url during Final Review; Americanized several British-spelling words present in the printed JD (see final_review_notes).
Proofread against the source text.
Heavyweight pass found and fixed a JD volume-citation error (was cited as Vol. 6, should be Vol. 5).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: this file cited its source as Journal of Discourses Volume 6, pp. 82-86, but Volume 6 covers 1858-1860 discourses. Confirmed via independent web search, josephsmithfoundation.org, and [redacted legacy mirror] (private clues only) that the correct citation is Volume 5, pp. 82-86 — same page numbers, wrong volume, a simple transcription slip. Speaker, date, and opening sentence confirmed verbatim against [redacted legacy mirror] No text changes needed; talk boundaries clean.
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