George A. Smith · 1867 April General Conference · 1867-04-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, pp. 359-366. Reported by David W. Evans in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans; 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.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 11, page 359. 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 against the IA scan, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 11:359-366 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Sunday Morning Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference. Body opening and closing lines confirmed verbatim against the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 11 at the expected page 359/366 boundaries (ending '...jured thereby. May the Lord bless. all Israel. Amen.' with only trivial OCR line-wrap noise); no truncation.
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