Conference record · 1869 April General Conference · 1869-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the Fortieth Annual Conference, April 6-8, 1869 (corrected from a prior 'Thirty-Ninth' misnumbering — the Weebly page's own masthead reads 'FORTIETH ANNUAL CONFERENCE'). All 6 discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: George A. Smith's 'Contributions for Emigrating the Saints...' and George Q. Cannon's 'The Order of Enoch...' (both Tuesday AM, JD 13); Brigham Young's 'Cooperation' (Tuesday PM, JD 12 — a JD publication-lag quirk, printed in a different volume than the rest of the conference); Daniel H. Wells' 'Cooperation—Merchandising and Productive Businesses...' (Wednesday AM, JD 13); Brigham Young's 'Responsibility for Teachings...' (Wednesday PM, JD 13); and Brigham Young's 'Gathering the Saints...' (Thursday AM, JD 13) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers (Ezra T. Benson, Franklin D. Richards, Erastus Snow, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff) and Brigham Young's Thursday-afternoon 'State of the Church' remarks 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 5 of the conference's 6 filed discourses were 'not yet transcribed' when all were already filed as separate talks) and a conference-numbering error ('Thirty-Ninth' corrected to 'Fortieth').
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fixed a stale-claims bug — this file asserted that discourses by Smith, Cannon, Wells, and two further Young discourses were 'not yet transcribed,' when all already existed as separately filed talks (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass; Young's 'Cooperation' was already filed too). Also fixed a conference-numbering error: the Weebly page's own masthead reads 'FORTIETH ANNUAL CONFERENCE,' not 'Thirty-Ninth' as previously stated. Rewrote the day-by-day summary to name and cross-link all 6 filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that no other conference speaker (Benson, Richards, Erastus Snow, Pratt, Woodruff) or Young's Thursday-afternoon 'State of the Church' remarks has a JD citation — summary-only, not an ingestion gap. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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