George A. Smith · 1874 April General Conference · 1874-05-07
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 17, pp. 58-63. 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.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 17, page 58.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed against the IA scan, fixed one encoding artifact.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 17:58-63 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). No Weebly page exists for this conference (1874-april.html and variants all 404); relied directly on the IA OCR scan of JD Volume 17 for verification. Added session ("Thursday Session") and talk_order (2) inferred from the conference's own printed page order and each file's existing date (no agenda source available to confirm AM/PM session labels). Fixed one genuine encoding artifact: the opening quotation mark had been corrupted to a Unicode replacement character; restored to a proper opening curly quote, confirmed against the IA OCR scan ('“ Behold I will send you Elijah...'). Closing line confirmed verbatim; no truncation.
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