Conference record · 1873 October General Conference · 1873-10-06
Deseret News (October 8 and 15, 1873) minutes of the October 6-8, 1873 General Conference (Forty-Third Semi-Annual Conference). Source: Journal of Discourses, Volume 16. First Presidency: Brigham Young; George A. Smith (returned from Palestine), Daniel H. Wells, Lorenzo Snow, Brigham Young Jr., George Q. Cannon (Counselors). All 10 discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: George A. Smith's 'A Word of Exhortation,' Daniel H. Wells' 'The Saving Ordinances of the Gospel,' and George Q. Cannon's 'The Character of the Church of Christ...' (Monday October 6 AM); David McKenzie's 'The Importance of Living Up to the Knowledge...' and George A. Smith's 'The Word of Wisdom—Education' (Tuesday October 7 AM); Orson Pratt's 'Temples to Be Built...,' Lorenzo Snow's 'Our Temporal Interests...,' and Joseph F. Smith's 'The Instructions Given...' (Tuesday October 7 PM, per JD's own page ordering — though the Weebly page's own agenda places Joseph F. Smith's talk on Wednesday instead, unconfirmable via the badly degraded OCR scan for that page); Wilford Woodruff's 'Unchangeableness of the Gospel...' (Wednesday October 8 AM); and George A. Smith's 'Means Required to Build the Temples...' (Wednesday October 8 PM) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers (Brigham Young's several appearances, Lorenzo D. Young, Taylor, William W. Cluff, Jesse N. Smith, C. P. Liston, Rich, Bishop Hunter) are recorded only as third-person Deseret News summaries, with no full JD text located — consistent with the bibliography, not a vault gap.
Published minutes of the October 6-8, 1873 General Conference.
Digital compilation of conference minutes and discourse references. Primary source: JD Vol. 16.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; fixed a major stale-claims bug (this file wrongly asserted all discourses were 'NOT yet individually transcribed' when 10 were already filed as separate talks) and rewrote the day-by-day summary accordingly.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fixed a stale-claims bug — this file asserted that discourses by Smith, Wells, Cannon, McKenzie, Pratt, Snow, Woodruff, and Joseph F. Smith were 'NOT yet individually transcribed,' when all 10 already existed as separately filed talks (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass, each already carrying a precise JD citation). Rewrote the day-by-day summary to name and cross-link all 10 filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that Brigham Young's several appearances, Lorenzo D. Young, Taylor, Cluff, Jesse N. Smith, Liston, Rich, and Bishop Hunter have no JD citation — summary-only, not an ingestion gap. Confirmed fidelity: fragmentary remains correct per schema/schema.md for record_type: conference_record.
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