Conference record · 1876 April General Conference · 1876-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the April 6-9, 1876 General Conference (Forty-Sixth Annual Conference). First Presidency: Brigham Young, Daniel H. Wells. All 4 discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: Wilford Woodruff's 'Infidelity of the Christian World...' and Daniel H. Wells' 'Unbelief of the Present Age...' (Thursday April 6 AM); John Taylor's 'How God's Purposes Are Fulfilled...' (Thursday PM); and Joseph F. Smith's 'The Gospel Trumpet...' (Friday April 7 PM per the Weebly agenda, though this file carries an April 8 date) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers (Snow, Rich, Richards, Bullock, Spencer, Penrose, Pratt, Little, Angus M. Cannon, Burton, MacDonald, Caine, Brigham Young) 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 April 6-9, 1876 General Conference.
Digital compilation of conference minutes and discourse references.
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 4 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 Woodruff, Wells, Taylor, and Joseph F. Smith were 'NOT yet individually transcribed,' when all 4 already existed as separately filed talks (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass, each already carrying a precise BYU citation with no IA anchor available). Rewrote the summary to name and cross-link all 4 filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that Snow, Rich, Richards, Bullock, Spencer, Penrose, Pratt, Little, Angus M. Cannon, Burton, MacDonald, Caine, and Brigham Young 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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