Lorenzo Snow · 1869 October General Conference · 1869-10-09
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, pp. 253-259. Reported by John Grimshaw in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
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 253.
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 13:253-259 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Saturday Morning Session") and talk_order (2) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Thirty-Ninth Semi-Annual Conference. Body opening and closing lines confirmed verbatim against both the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 13 and the Weebly raw-HTML transcript; no truncation. Note: the Weebly page's own agenda lists this discourse under Thursday, October 7, but the JD scan's own printed dateline unambiguously reads 'DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCT. 9, 1869' — matching the Weebly bibliography and this file's existing date, not the agenda; the agenda entry is treated as the Weebly page's own compilation error, not a reason to change this file's date.
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