Brigham Young · 1864 October General Conference · 1864-10-08
Delivered October 8, 1864, after the sustaining of the General Authorities. Heavyweight review confirmed this discourse under this title does not appear in the Journal of Discourses: a BYU ContentDM full-text search of the JournalOfDiscourses3 collection for "Fun and Frolic" returns zero results, and the surrounding pages of JD Volume 10 (immediately following Young's October 7 "Necessity of a Living Testimony," JD 10:339-340) proceed directly to George Q. Cannon's October 23, 1864 Tabernacle discourse with no intervening October 8 sermon. It appears this discourse was reported in the Deseret News (per the Historical General Conferences/Weebly transcript, itself sourced from the Deseret News) but was never typeset for the printed JD volumes. Reverted source to the Deseret News/Utah Digital Newspapers as the best-evidenced provenance, with the Weebly transcript as the text-channel witness; the BYU ContentDM collection landing page is retained only as a secondary note that no JD printing was located there, not as a claim of JD provenance. Reporter not specified in the source; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced (word-for-word collated against the Weebly witness); not abridged.
Digital transcript used to source the text below; ultimate source per its own bibliography is the Deseret News, October 26, 1864.
Full-text search of this collection for the discourse title returns zero results; JD Volume 10 has no discourse between Young's October 7, 1864 talk (JD 10:339-340) and Cannon's October 23, 1864 talk. This discourse was very likely never printed in the Journal of Discourses; retained here only as evidence of that negative finding.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the scan/OCR witness; body confirmed word-for-word verbatim complete against the Weebly raw-HTML transcript, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: searched the BYU ContentDM Journal of Discourses collection directly (API full-text search) for this discourse title and got zero results; confirmed against the IA OCR text of JD Volume 10 that no discourse appears between Young's October 7 talk (JD 10:339-340) and Cannon's October 23 Tabernacle talk, closing the possibility this was mis-filed elsewhere in that volume. Concluded this discourse was very likely reported only in the Deseret News and never typeset for JD; corrected source_url/source_type/witnesses accordingly (previously implied JD provenance via a bare BYU collection link with no located citation). Body collated word-for-word against historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com raw HTML (fetched directly, not summarized): complete verbatim match, no OCR errors, clean boundaries. fidelity: contemporaneous_report remains correct (Deseret News third/first-person report, speaker did not review).
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