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Responsibility for Teachings The Word of Wisdom Cooperation, Etc.

Brigham Young · 1869 April General Conference · 1869-04-07

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, pp. 1-4. Reported by David W. Evans in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

Witnesses

Journal of Discourses 13:1-4transcription source

Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans; speaker did not review.

Primary source — contentdm.lib.byu.edu archived

Collation history

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 13:1-4 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Wednesday Afternoon Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fortieth Annual Conference. Body opening and closing lines confirmed verbatim against the Weebly raw-HTML transcript; no truncation.

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