Brigham Young · 1860 April General Conference · 1860-04-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 7, pp. 227-230 (delivered April 7, 1860). This discourse includes Young's announcement of George Q. Cannon's appointment to fill a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Pitman shorthand report; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Full text of the discourse as published in the Journal of Discourses. BYU ContentDM's item-detail page currently fails to render in modern browsers (loads, then a client-side script redirects to the generic lib.byu.edu collections page; reproduced 2026-06-30, site-wide BYU bug, not link-format specific). Re-promote to preferred/source_url once BYU fixes this.
Digital transcript referencing JD Vol. 7.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 7, page 227. Currently the only reliably clickable link for this talk; BYU ContentDM is the institutionally preferred citation but its item pages are currently broken client-side (see the BYU witness note).
Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0119. 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 39-42. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 7:227; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth March 2008. Verified by Silvia Ghosh and corrected by LaJean Purcell Carruth 29 January 2024. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 7:227 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 7:227-230 (BYU ContentDM id/2917, 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 7:227-230 — verbatim match, no discrepancies, including the bracketed editorial insertions ('[The names of the authorities and the votes thereon were printed in the Conference minutes.]', '[The vote was unanimous.]', '[The names of persons selected to go on missions were read, and the President continued his remarks.]') which are original to the printed JD text, not vault artifacts, and were left intact. Confirmed talk boundary: opens at 'I have not inquired whether there are any cases of difficulty...' immediately after Daniel Spencer's Saturday-morning testimony, closes at '...whose brains, at least in my estimation, are not as they should be.' immediately before Bishop Edwin D. Woolley's remarks — no bleed-in of adjacent testimonies. Speaker, calling, session (Saturday, April 7, 1860), title (matches JD exactly, includes the Cannon appointment and missionary remarks under one discourse per the source), and page-anchored IA/BYU witnesses confirmed accurate.
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