George Q. Cannon · 1869 April General Conference · 1869-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, pp. 95-103. Reported by David W. Evans; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD. (Reporter corrected from a prior pass's misattribution to 'John Grimshaw'; the printed byline reads 'Reported by David W. Evans,' verified 2026-08-04 against the BYU page scan.)
Pitman shorthand by John Grimshaw; 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 13, page 95. 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 Weebly transcript, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 13:95-103 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Tuesday Morning Session") and talk_order (2) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fortieth Annual Conference. Body opening ('I look upon this Conference as one of the most important...') and closing ('...crowned with glory and immortality... Amen.') both confirmed verbatim against the Weebly raw-HTML transcript; no truncation.
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