Minutes of the April 1874 General Conference
Conference record
Minutes of the Forty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City. Convened April 6, 1874, and adjourned to reconvene May 7-9, 1874. President Brigham Young presiding. ¶
Monday, April 6: Elder Orson Pratt delivered [[1874-04-pratt-the-kingdom-not-organized-by-manman]] (filed separately), on the impossibility of organizing the Kingdom of God without revelation and the United Order. ¶
Thursday, May 7 (reconvened): President Brigham Young delivered [[1874-05-young-the-united-ordera-system-of-onenesseconomy]] (opening remarks of the reconvened conference), President George A. Smith delivered [[1874-05-smith-zion-to-be-redeemed-through-the]], and Elder John Taylor delivered [[1874-05-taylor-the-position-the-saints-have-occupied]] (all filed separately, in the JD's own printed order — precise AM/PM session breakdown could not be confirmed without an agenda source). ¶
Friday, May 8: Elder Wilford Woodruff delivered [[1874-05-woodruff-union-is-strengthunited-order-will-bring]] and Elder Erastus Snow delivered [[1874-05-snow-the-united-order-of-zion-affords]] (both filed separately), continuing the discussion of the United Order. ¶
Saturday, May 9: President George A. Smith delivered [[1874-05-smith-the-blessings-of-eternal-life-attained]] (filed separately), the conference's final filed discourse, on tithing, economy, and home manufacture. ¶
No Historical General Conferences (Weebly) page exists for this conference (all URL variants tried return 404), so no additional third-person summary of the many other speakers at this conference could be cross-checked; consult the Deseret News for April/May 1874 directly for a fuller record. ¶