John Taylor · 1867 April General Conference · 1867-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, pp. 353-359. 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 353. 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 11:353-359 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Saturday Afternoon Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference. Body opening line ('We have met together on the present occasion...') and closing line ('...in the name of Jesus. Amen.') both confirmed verbatim against the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 11 at the expected page 353/359 boundaries; no truncation. Note: the Weebly page's own raw-HTML transcript for this same title is markedly longer and includes a full quotation of the Word of Wisdom (D&C 89) and additional material not present in the printed JD — that fuller text is a Deseret News-derived account, not the JD text; this file correctly reproduces the shorter JD version, verified word-for-word against the IA scan, not the longer newspaper account.
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