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Saints Improving Slowly—Guidance of the Spirit and Dictation of the Priesthood—Fasting and Gathering the Poor

Brigham Young · · 1867-12-29

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 12, pp. 123-129. Reported by G. D. Watt in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

Witnesses

Carruth CR 100 912 inventory item cr-100-912-0287. Scholarly re-transcription of George D. Watt's original Pitman shorthand report, catalogued at the Church History Library. Papers of George D. Watt MS 4534 box 4 disk 1 1864b images 36-38. Sermon in Journal of Discourses 12:123; not in CR 100 317. Transcribed by LaJean Purcell Carruth 10 November 2020. Carruth's transcript in fact opens at image 35 rather than image 36 as the catalog description states, and it reproduces Watt's longhand docket reading Sunday Morning, Old Tabernacle, Dec 29th 1867, Afternoon. Recorded as a separate witness per docs/ingestion.md's Carruth policy; the printed Journal of Discourses 12:123 text stays preferred until this transcription is reviewed against it.

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Ingested; not yet independently reviewed.

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