Heber C. Kimball · 1861 April General Conference · 1861-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 9, pp. 6-8. Reported by G. D. Watt in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
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.
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Heavyweight pass: JD 9:6-8 citation confirmed; speaker/date/occasion/title-basis verified against the raw historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com HTML (fetched directly, not AI-summarized) — full JD text matches word-for-word, including the vine/branches quotation from John 15 and the closing remarks on secession. Fixed a leftover OCR line-break hyphenation artifact ('culti- vate' -> 'cultivate'). No boundary bleed found. 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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