Heber C. Kimball · 1866 April General Conference · 1866-04-04
Delivered April 4, 1866, two days before the formal April 6 conference opening (this conference's preliminary sessions began April 4). Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, pp. 208-212 (confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly bibliography during heavyweight review). Text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged. Contains period doctrinal teaching defending plural marriage, reproduced verbatim per the project's no-alteration rule, not as an editorial endorsement.
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: previous source_url was a bare BYU collection landing page with no proven JD volume/page citation; located the precise citation (JD 11:208-212, confirmed against both indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography list) and upgraded source_url/witnesses to the page-anchored BYU pointer (id/4551) and IA scan (page/n223). Body collated word-for-word against historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com raw HTML (fetched directly, not summarized): complete verbatim match including the period plural-marriage doctrinal content, reproduced per the no-alteration rule; no OCR errors, clean boundaries.
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