Conference record · 1865 October General Conference · 1865-10-06
Deseret News minutes of the Semi-Annual Conference, October 6-9, 1865. All ten discourses given during this conference are filed separately as full talks: [[1865-10-kimball-others-sins-no-justification-of-ours]], [[1865-10-hyde-instructions-concerning-things-temporal-and-spiritual]], [[1865-10-smith-prosperity-of-the-saints]], [[1865-10-taylor-revelation-from-god-true-knowledge]], [[1865-10-cannon-riches-of-the-gospel]], [[1865-10-smith-synopsis-of-remarks]], [[1865-10-wells-eternal-life-revealed-in-the-gospel]], [[1865-10-lyman-development-of-the-understanding-necessary]], [[1865-10-benson-exhortation-to-home-manufacture]], and [[1865-10-young-home-manufacturing-merchandising-and-general-economy]]. The closing dismissal by Patriarch John Smith is preserved in full below.
Official published minutes of the conference.
Digital transcript of the Deseret News minutes.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed a stale-claims bug (see heavyweight notes) and added [[talk-id]] cross-links for all ten discourses.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fixed a recurring stale-claims bug — this file wrongly asserted Hyde's, Taylor's, and Wells' October 7-8 discourses were 'not yet transcribed in this vault,' when all three, plus Smith's two discourses, Cannon's, Benson's, and Young's, already existed as separate filed talks; rewrote the Saturday/Sunday/Monday summaries to name and cross-link all ten discourses in their correct session, matching the historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com session order (verified: Saturday Oct. 7 = Hyde, Smith 'Prosperity of the Saints', Taylor; Sunday Oct. 8 = Cannon, Smith 'Synopsis of Remarks', Wells; Monday Oct. 9 = Lyman, Young, Benson, plus Cannon's missionary/PEF report and First Presidency statement on Orson Pratt's publications). Body collated paragraph-by-paragraph against the Weebly witness (fetched as raw HTML, not summarized): session order, sustaining-vote/report details, and the closing dismissal/benediction all confirmed accurate with no OCR errors found. Confirmed all ten discourse files are genuinely distinct (no duplicate-file pairs in this conference, unlike 1864 October). fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.