Brigham Young · 1863 October General Conference · 1863-10-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, pp. 265-274. 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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Heavyweight pass: authoritative source URL verified against indexes/jod-page-index.json (JD vol. 10 p. 265 maps to BYU ContentDM pointer 4111 and IA page/n272, matching the existing source_url exactly, so no upgrade was needed). Body collated word-for-word against the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com raw-HTML transcript (fetched directly, not summarized) and confirmed complete and correct, including the Nebuchadnezzar/tithing/gold-mining passages. Talk boundaries confirmed clean (immediately follows the Necessity for Watchfulness discourse in the same Tuesday morning session, closes before the Thursday sustaining-vote business, no bleed). Confirmed genuinely distinct from the Tithing/Temples discourse and the Hyde discourse despite overlapping tithing/gold themes — this is Young's second, separate Oct. 6 discourse (JD 10:265-274), not a duplicate of the Tithing/Temples discourse (JD 10:251-256).
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