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Future State of Existence

Brigham Young · 1862 October General Conference · 1862-10-06

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, pp. 24-25, delivered October 6, 1862. BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript of JD 10:24-25. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.

Witnesses

Full text of the discourse as published in the Journal of Discourses. 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.

Digital transcript used to source the text below; matches the JD 10:24-25 citation.

Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 10, 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).

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Light review: in-context proofread, encoding-artifact cleanup, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: authoritative source verified (JD 10:24-25); BYU/IA page-anchored links already match indexes/jod-page-index.json. Body collated word-for-word against historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com raw HTML (opening/closing lines and full text match; no truncation, no bleed-in from Brigham Young's preceding 'Never-Ending Character' discourse or the Hon. William H. Hooper remarks that follow). Session (Monday Afternoon), talk_order, and boundaries confirmed distinct from the companion Young discourse in this conference.

Corrections

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