Orson Pratt · 1871 April General Conference · 1871-04-09
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 14, pp. 271-276. Reported by David W. Evans, Transcribed by Masters Feramorz Young and John Q. Cannon in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans, Transcribed by Masters Feramorz Young and John Q. Cannon; 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). Promoted to source_url per the JoD re-ingestion authority rule even though the live page still misbehaves for interactive browsing; source_archived_url is a collection-root Wayback snapshot because web.archive.org's page-specific Save-Page-Now endpoint is unreachable from this sandbox (see final_review_notes).
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