Brigham Young · 1867 April General Conference · 1867-04-06
Delivered April 6, 1867. Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 11, pp. 347-349 (confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography). Text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript. Reported by David W. Evans; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged.
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