John Taylor · 1859 October General Conference · 1859-10-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, pp. 317-327 (delivered October 7, 1859). Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
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Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0536. 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 3 disk 1 1859 images 33-45. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 7:317; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth July 2008; verified by Geri Owens; proofread and corrections input by LaJean Purcell Carruth December 2019. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 7:317 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed two leftover OCR line-break hyphenation artifacts ('per- manent' and 'per- taining').
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified (JD 7:317-327, Internet Archive page-anchored scan at n324); opening and closing sentences independently confirmed word-for-word against both the IA OCR of the printed volume and the weebly witness (raw HTML fetched directly, since an AI-summarized fetch of this page incorrectly reported this discourse as having 'no transcript' — a misleading summarization artifact, not an actual gap; the full text was present in the raw HTML and matches this file exactly). Fixed two leftover line-break hyphenation artifacts in the body. Speaker, date, session, and talk_order confirmed consistent with the conference-record-minutes narrative. No content-integrity issues found.
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