George A. Smith · 1862 April General Conference · 1862-04-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, pp. 59-64. 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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