Brigham Young · 1868 April General Conference · 1868-04-06
Delivered April 6, 1868, in the new Tabernacle. Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 12, pp. 192-196 (confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography). Text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript. Pitman shorthand report by George D. Watt; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged. Contains period rhetoric on gender roles and plural marriage typical of the era, reproduced verbatim per the project's no-alteration rule, not as editorial endorsement.
Pitman shorthand by G. D. Watt; 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 2026-07-01, site-wide BYU bug, not link-format specific). Re-promote to preferred/source_url once BYU fixes this.
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