Textual record

Appreciation of Divine Gifts and Blessings Return to Jackson County Encouragement of Home Manufactures

Heber C. Kimball · 1861 April General Conference · 1861-04-07

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 9, pp. 24-28. Reported by G. D. Watt in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

Witnesses

Journal of Discourses 9:24-28

Pitman shorthand by G. D. Watt; 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.

Internet Archive — per_utah-and-the-mormons_journal-of-discourses-_brigham-young-_1862_9, page 24transcription source

Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 9, page 24. 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).

Primary source — archive.org archived

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; confirmed body text is complete and matches the witness verbatim.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: JD 9:24-28 citation confirmed; speaker/date/occasion/title-basis verified against the raw historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com HTML (fetched directly, not AI-summarized), whose synopsis paragraph (oil, family government, Jackson County prophecy, home manufactures) matches this discourse's content and the full JD text below it. Fixed a leftover OCR line-break hyphenation artifact ('expe- rience' -> 'experience'; also normalized 'welldoing' to 'well-doing' per the witness). No boundary bleed found; body opens at 'The remarks of brother Snow' and closes at the Amen-equivalent final sentence. 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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