Ezra T. Benson · 1861 April General Conference · 1861-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 8, pp. 369-370. Reported by J. V. Long in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by J. V. Long; speaker did not review. 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.
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Heavyweight pass: JD 8:369-370 citation confirmed; speaker/date/occasion/title-basis verified against the raw historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com HTML (fetched directly, not AI-summarized), which reproduces the full JD text for this discourse — body matches word-for-word, no OCR errors or boundary bleed (talk opens at 'I feel truly thankful' and closes at the Amen, with the synopsis paragraph and session material correctly excluded from the body). Also fixed a missing top-level source_archived_url provenance field (weebly archived URL added) needed for QC. No other content-integrity issues found.
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