John Taylor · 1866 April General Conference · 1866-04-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, pp. 216-224. 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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Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0577. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. Papers of George D. Watt MS 4534 box 4 disk 4 images 54-59. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 11:216; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth 19 September 2011; verified by Geri Owns and corrected by LaJean Purcell Carruth November 2021. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 11:216 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.
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