Orson Pratt · 1873 April General Conference · 1873-04-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 16, pp. 1-8 (confirmed against indexes/jod-page-index.json and the Weebly page's own bibliography). No Internet Archive page-anchor exists for volume 16 page 1 (confirmed in indexes/jod-page-index.json — 'No IA page-number match found'), so the BYU ContentDM pointer remains the best available citation. Reported by David W. Evans in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans; speaker did not review.
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: confirmed JD 16:1-8 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged; no IA page anchor exists for volume 16 page 1, so BYU id/6375 remains the best available citation, not a bare/generic link). Added session ("Monday Morning Session") and talk_order (2, after Hyde) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda. Body length (~3365 chars/page) consistent with the conference's other talks; opening and closing lines confirmed verbatim against the Weebly raw-HTML transcript; no truncation.
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