John Taylor · 1863 April General Conference · 1863-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, pp. 145-151. 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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Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0546. Scholarly re-transcription of John V. Long's shorthand record, catalogued at the Church History Library. Papers of John V. Long MS 28233 box 2 folder 2 image 17. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 10:145; not in CR 100 912. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth; verified by Silvia Ghosh 30 April 2021. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 10:145 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the printed JD text plus the Historical General Conferences (Weebly) transcript witness; body confirmed verbatim complete (opening through closing 'Amen'), no OCR errors or missing text found, boundaries clean (no session/hymn/sustaining-vote bleed).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative source (BYU ContentDM JD 10:145-151, pointer 4231) and IA page-anchored witness (page/n152) verified against indexes/jod-page-index.json; added missing source_archived_url (weebly wayback snapshot). Page-by-page collation against the Historical General Conferences transcript witness confirmed the body is complete and accurate, correctly excluding Taylor's earlier informal remarks on home manufactures (summarized only, not part of this discourse per the source). Cross-checked against 1863-04-conference-record-minutes.md, which previously misdescribed this talk as 'not yet transcribed'; that stale claim has been corrected.
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