George A. Smith · 1867 October General Conference · 1867-10-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 12, pp. 175-176. 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 12, page 175. 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 12:175-176 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Monday Afternoon Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Thirty-Seventh Semi-Annual Conference. Body opening ('There are, at the present time, in Great Britain ten or twelve thousand Saints...') and closing ('...I appeal to the sons and daughters of Zion to be awake to this subject. Amen.') both confirmed verbatim against the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 12 at the expected page 175/176 boundaries; no truncation.
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