Brigham Young · 1860 April General Conference · 1860-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 8, pp. 37-39, delivered April 6, 1860, following an afternoon of testimony from the Twelve, Seventies, and High Priests. BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript of JD 8:37-39. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
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Digital transcript used to source the text below; matches the JD 8:37-39 citation.
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Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0116. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. Summaries are given at the beginning of each sermon; second sermon is conversion narrative. Papers of George D. Watt MS 4534 box 3 disk 2, images 35-39. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 8:34-39; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth February 2009. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 8:34-39 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.
Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0118. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. MS 4534 box 3 disk 2 images 35-38. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 8:37-39; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth March 2008. Verified by Silvia Ghosh and corrected by LaJean Purcell Carruth 26 January 2024. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 8:37-39 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 8:37-39 (BYU ContentDM id/3491, 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 8:37-39 — verbatim match, no discrepancies. Confirmed talk boundary: opens at 'I feel very well satisfied with our thirty-first anniversary...' immediately after the afternoon roster of Twelve/Seventies/High Priests testimonies (including Brigham Young's own closing remarks to that session), closes at 'I bless you all in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.' immediately before the closing hymn and Saturday session — no bleed-in. Speaker, calling, session (Friday Afternoon, April 6, 1860), and page-anchored IA/BYU witnesses confirmed accurate.
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