George Q. Cannon · 1878 April General Conference · 1878-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 20, pp. 77-88. Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by Geo. F. Gibbs; speaker did not review. BYU ContentDM's item-detail page currently fails to render in modern browsers (loads, then a client-side script redirects to the generic lib.byu.edu collections page; reproduced 2026-06-30, site-wide BYU bug, not link-format specific). Re-promote to preferred/source_url once BYU fixes this.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 20, page 77. Currently the only reliably clickable link for this talk; BYU ContentDM is the institutionally preferred citation but its item pages are currently broken client-side (see the BYU witness note).
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 20:77-88 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Saturday Afternoon Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Forty-Eighth Annual Conference. Note: this discourse's own date (April 6, per its JD citation and the vault's existing file date) is not explicitly named in the April 1878 Weebly page's agenda listing, and is instead listed (also dated April 6, 1878) in the October 1878 Weebly page's own agenda — an apparent site-compilation mix-up between the two conference pages, not a reason to change this file's well-corroborated date. 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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