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The Gospel Trumpet Salvation More Than Baptism and the Laying on of Hands Responsibilities of Believers Labors and Opportunities of the Spirit World The Office of the Holy Spirit Knowledge of the Gospel, Certain and Sure Its Fruits Good, and Manifest in the Lives of Those Who Receive It

Joseph F. Smith · 1876 April General Conference · 1876-04-08

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 18, pp. 271-277. Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

Witnesses

Pitman shorthand by Geo. F. Gibbs; speaker did not review.

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed against the Weebly transcript, no changes needed.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 18:271-277 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged; no IA page anchor exists in this range of JD Volume 18, so the existing BYU pointer remains the best available citation). Added session ("Friday Afternoon Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda. Checked for volume-crossing continuation markers — none found. Body length and closing "Amen" line confirmed against the Weebly raw-HTML transcript; no truncation.

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