Amasa M. Lyman · 1865 October General Conference · 1865-10-09
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, pp. 192-198, delivered October 9, 1865. This discourse was found mistakenly appended to the Historical General Conferences page nominally covering the April 1865 conference, but its own dateline ('General Conference, Oct. 9, 1865') and reporter ('David W. Evans') match the October 1865 conference; filed here accordingly rather than under April. BYU ContentDM precise page link recorded; text below is taken from that source. Reported by David W. Evans; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
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Digital transcript used to source the text below; the source page is mislabeled, but the discourse's own dateline confirms it belongs to October 1865.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 11, page 192. Currently the only reliably clickable link for this talk; BYU ContentDM is the institutionally preferred citation but its item pages are currently broken client-side (see the BYU witness note).
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed word-for-word complete, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: authoritative BYU ContentDM pointer (id/4567) and IA page anchor (page/n207) for JD 11:192 confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json — already correct. Re-verified this discourse's own dateline ('General Conference, Oct. 9, 1865') and reporter (David W. Evans) independently confirm it belongs to this October 1865 conference, not the April 1865 conference where the Weebly source page mistakenly appends its full text. Body collated word-for-word against the Weebly witness (fetched directly, not summarized): complete verbatim match, no OCR errors, clean boundaries.
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