Orson Pratt · 1860 April General Conference · 1860-04-08
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 8, pp. 44-52 (delivered April 8, 1860). Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
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Heavyweight pass: authoritative source is Journal of Discourses 8:44-52 (BYU ContentDM id/3484, confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json); fetched historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com/1860-april.html raw HTML and collated the full body word-for-word against its transcript of JD 8:44-52 — verbatim match, no discrepancies. Confirmed talk boundary: opens at 'Having been requested, this afternoon...' immediately after the conference-record synopsis of this same discourse (and the sacrament administration), closes at 'May God bless you! Amen.' immediately before the closing remarks and conference adjournment — no bleed-in of adjacent business. Session corrected from generic 'Sunday Session' to 'Sunday Afternoon Session' (delivered after the sacrament, per the source). Speaker, calling, and page-anchored IA/BYU witnesses confirmed accurate.
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