Brigham Young · 1861 April General Conference · 1861-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 9, pp. 1-6, delivered April 6, 1861, the Church's 31st anniversary, weeks after the outbreak of the Civil War secession crisis. BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript of JD 9:1-6. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
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Heavyweight pass: JD 9:1-6 citation confirmed; speaker/date/occasion/title-basis/session/talk_order verified against the raw historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com HTML (fetched directly, not AI-summarized) — full JD text matches word-for-word, including the paragraph break before 'It is time to close our forenoon meeting.' Resolved a duplicate-file bug: this file and the sibling '1861-04-young-true-testimonypreparation-for-coming-eventscorruption-of.md' were the same discourse saved twice; this file is the richer/more complete record (session, talk_order, source_archived_url, two witnesses, correct paragraph break at the forenoon-meeting sentence, matching the weebly witness) and is retained as the single canonical file. The redundant duplicate (which incorrectly merged that sentence into the prior paragraph) was deleted via git rm and conference-record-minutes updated to reference this file only. No other content-integrity issues found.
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