Conference record · 1860 October General Conference · 1860-10-06
Deseret News minutes (October 10, 1860, p. 253) of the October 6-8, 1860 Semi-Annual Conference. All nine discourses from this conference are filed separately as full talks: Heber C. Kimball's 'The Latter-day Kingdom' (JD 8:247-253), George A. Smith's 'Testimony' (JD 8:253-255), Brigham Young's 'Testimony of the Spirit—Counsel to the Bishops' (JD 8:315-318) and 'Helping in the Immigration' (JD 8:192-193), Orson Hyde's 'Testimonies of the Truth' (JD 8:232-238), Young's 'Persecution—The Kingdom of God' (JD 8:194-200) and 'Joys of Eternity' (JD 8:200), Daniel H. Wells' 'Duties of the Saints' (JD 9:118-120), and Young's 'Funds of the Church' (JD 8:201-205). This record file covers only the surrounding conference business (roster, sustainings, financial reports, minutes synopsis).
Official published minutes of the conference.
Digital transcript of the Deseret News minutes.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the Deseret News minutes plus the Weebly transcript witness; corrected stale 'not yet transcribed' claims about the nine discourses, all of which already exist as separate talk files in this vault.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source confirmed as Deseret News, October 10, 1860, p. 253, with historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com/1860-october.html as the secondary transcript witness (fetched raw HTML directly, not AI-summarized). Cross-checked this record's per-session synopsis paragraphs against all nine discourse files in talks/english/journal-of-discourses/1860/1860-10-*.md and found the body text of every discourse already present verbatim — fixed the fidelity_notes, which had incorrectly stated seven of the nine discourses were 'not yet transcribed into this vault' (a stale claim; this exact bug pattern has recurred in prior JD conferences reviewed in this vault). Confirmed session/date/roster/reporters (George D. Watt, John V. Long) and boundaries: this record now correctly covers only conference business (opening, roster, session bridges, sustainings, tithing/missionary fund reports, adjournment, benediction) with no discourse body text duplicated into it.
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