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Nature of Man—Happiness—Influence of God's Spirit Upon Mankind, Etc

Brigham Young · · 1859-07-03

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, pp. 1-8, printed as 'Remarks by President Brigham Young, made in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, July 3, 1859,' reported by G. D. Watt. Not General Conference (no GC window covers July 1859; see indexes/conference-calendar.md). Pitman shorthand report; speaker did not review this text before publication.

Witnesses

Journal of Discourses 7:1-8transcription source

Item-level BYU ContentDM link for the first page (p. 1).

Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0106. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. MS 4534 Papers of George D. Watt box 3 disk 2 1859b, images 234-239. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 7:1; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth 2009. The transcription also draws on a loose page filed apart from the run, box 3 disk 1 1859 image 316 with image 315 as its verso, and Watt's header fixes the session as the afternoon meeting of 3 July 1859. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 7:1 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.

Collation history

Ingested; not yet independently reviewed.

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