Orson Hyde · 1869 October General Conference · 1869-10-06
Delivered October 6, 1869. Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, pp. 179-183 (confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography). Text below is taken from the Historical General Conferences transcript. Reported by John Grimshaw; speaker did not review this text before publication. Full text reproduced; not abridged. Contains the speaker's well-known eyewitness account of Brigham Young's August 1844 'mantle of Joseph' address at Nauvoo, presented as the speaker's personal testimony, not as project editorial endorsement of the historical claim.
Pitman shorthand by John Grimshaw; speaker did not review. Re-promoted to preferred/source_url during Final Review (2026-08) after the BYU page confirmed loading server-side.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 13, page 179.
Digital transcript used to source the text below.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed word-for-word complete, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: previous source_url was a bare BYU collection landing page with no proven JD volume/page citation. Located the precise citation — JD 13:179-183 — confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography. Upgraded source_url/witnesses to the page-anchored IA pointer (page/n188) and BYU id/4964. Body collated word-for-word against the Weebly raw-HTML transcript; no OCR errors, clean boundaries. Session corrected to "Wednesday Afternoon Session" and talk_order to 3 (after Pratt and Young), confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Thirty-Ninth Semi-Annual Conference.
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