Brigham Young · 1860 April General Conference · 1860-04-08
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 8, pp. 39-43 (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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Digital transcript referencing JD Vol. 8.
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Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0120. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. MS 4534 box 3, disk 2, 1860b, images 50-56. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 8:39; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth March 2008. Verified by Silvia Ghosh and corrected by LaJean Purcell Carruth 1 February 2024. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 8:39 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the printed Journal of Discourses text plus the Weebly transcript witness; no corrections needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source is Journal of Discourses 8:39-43 (BYU ContentDM id/3489, 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 8:39-43 — verbatim match, no discrepancies. Confirmed talk boundary: opens at 'Pertaining to the school that Brother Hyde has been mentioning...' immediately after the conference-record synopsis of the same remarks, closes at 'May God bless you! Amen.' immediately before the closing hymn/benediction — no bleed-in. Session corrected from generic 'Sunday Session' to 'Sunday Morning Session' (delivered before the sacrament/Pratt discourse per the source). Speaker, calling, and page-anchored IA/BYU witnesses confirmed accurate.
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