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The Present Crisis—The Prospects of Zion and the Fall of Babylon

John Young · · 1857-10-25

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◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 5, pp. 368-376 (delivered October 25, 1857). Printed byline: 'A Discourse by Patriarch John Young, delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Sunday Morning, October 25, 1857.' Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Does not fall inside a General Conference window in indexes/conference-calendar.md (the printed October 6-7, 1857 window had already closed); category set tabernacle_address.

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