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Ideas Held By the Latter-day Saints Winning Their Way Territorial Prosperity Mormonism Not Favored of the Government Latter-Day Saints to Save the Government Good Counsel on Many Points

George Q. Cannon · 1878 April General Conference · 1878-04-07

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 20, pp. 1-8. Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

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Journal of Discourses 20:1-8transcription source

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

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