Daniel H. Wells · 1863 April General Conference · 1863-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, pp. 139-143, delivered April 6, 1863. BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript of JD 10:139-143. 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: resolved a duplicate-file bug — this talk had been saved twice as 1863-04-wells-building-the-temple-and-a-new-tabernacle.md (this file) and 1863-04-wells-building-the-temple-and-a-new.md; both carried the identical JD 10:139-143 discourse. Diffed both bodies word-for-word against each other and against the Historical General Conferences (Weebly) transcript witness: this file is the richer copy (em-dash title, no title_supplied flag, session/talk_order/source_archived_url present, fuller calling_at_time) and its body is verbatim-correct; the other copy had a stray comma/typo artifact ('it is not, so here' vs. the correct 'it is not so here') and missing metadata. Deleted the redundant duplicate with git rm and confirmed no other file in the vault referenced its id. Authoritative source (BYU ContentDM JD 10:139-143, pointer 4237) and IA page-anchored witness (page/n146) verified against indexes/jod-page-index.json; both already precise. Cross-checked against 1863-04-conference-record-minutes.md, which correctly notes this talk is filed separately.
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