Conference record · 1878 April General Conference · 1878-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the April 6-8, 1878 General Conference (Forty-Eighth Annual Conference). President John Taylor presiding (Brigham Young died August 29, 1877). Quorum of the Twelve present: John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Charles C. Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards, George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young Jr., Joseph F. Smith. Counselors: John W. Young and D. H. Wells. All 5 discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: Wilford Woodruff's 'The Blessings Realized By the Saints...' (Saturday April 6 AM) and George Q. Cannon's 'Labors and Experience of the Elders...' (Saturday PM, per its own JD citation — the Weebly page's agenda does not explicitly list this discourse under April 6, and the same discourse is oddly also listed on the October 1878 Weebly page's own agenda, an apparent site-compilation mix-up); Orson Pratt's 'Parable of the Vineyard...' and George Q. Cannon's 'Ideas Held By the Latter-day Saints...' (both Sunday April 7 AM); and John Taylor's 'No Man Can Direct the Kingdom of God...' (Sunday PM) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers (Lorenzo Snow's separate remarks, Richards, Erastus Snow, Brigham Young Jr., Joseph F. Smith) 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 6-8, 1878 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 5 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, Snow, Richards, Erastus Snow, Pratt, Cannon, and Taylor were 'NOT yet individually transcribed,' when 5 already existed as separately filed talks (reviewed under claude-sonnet-4-6's earlier light pass, each already carrying a precise JD citation). Rewrote the day-by-day summary to name and cross-link all 5 filed discourses by session. Noted a genuine Weebly site quirk: Cannon's 'Labors and Experience of the Elders' discourse (dated April 6, 1878 per its own JD citation) is oddly listed on the OCTOBER 1878 Weebly page's agenda rather than April's — an apparent cross-conference compilation error on the site's part, not a reason to change this vault's well-corroborated date. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that Lorenzo Snow, Richards, Erastus Snow, Brigham Young Jr., and Joseph F. Smith 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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