Conference record · 1867 October General Conference · 1867-10-06
Deseret News minutes of the Thirty-Seventh Semi-Annual Conference, October 6-9, 1867 — the first General Conference held in the newly completed Salt Lake Tabernacle. All 5 discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: Orson Pratt's 'Temples in Ancient America...' (Monday AM, JD 19), George A. Smith's 'Condition of The Saints in Great Britain' (Monday PM, JD 12), Erastus Snow's 'Life and Health—Matrimony—Education—Home Productions' (Tuesday AM, JD 12), and George A. Smith's 'Education—Phonetics...' and Lorenzo Snow's 'Necessity of Performing the Duties...' (both Wednesday AM, JD 12) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers on the Weebly page's agenda (Heber C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, Orson Hyde, Brigham Young [multiple], John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Ezra T. Benson, Joseph Young, George Q. Cannon, Charles C. Rich, John Van Cott, Joseph F. Smith, Hyrum Dayton) are recorded only as third-person Deseret News summaries, with no full JD text located — consistent with the bibliography, not a vault gap.
Official published minutes of the conference.
Digital transcript of the Deseret News minutes.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed a major stale-claims bug (this file wrongly asserted 4 of the conference's 5 filed discourses were 'not yet transcribed' when all were already filed as separate talks) and rewrote the day-by-day summary accordingly.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fixed a stale-claims bug — this file asserted that discourses by Smith (Great Britain), Snow (Erastus), Smith (Education), and Snow (Lorenzo) were 'not yet transcribed,' when all 4 already existed as separately filed talks in this vault (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass; Pratt was already filed too). Rewrote the day-by-day summary, adding the previously-missing Sunday, October 6 opening day (Kimball, Wells, Hyde, and Young's remarks) from the Weebly narrative minutes, and cross-linking all 5 filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that no other speaker at this conference (Kimball, Wells, Hyde, Young's several appearances, Taylor, Woodruff, Benson, Joseph Young, Cannon, Rich, Van Cott, Joseph F. Smith, Hyrum Dayton) has a JD citation — all are genuinely summary-only in the Deseret News, not an ingestion gap. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.