Conference record · 1879 April General Conference · 1879-04-06
Deseret News minutes of the April 6-8, 1879 General Conference (Forty-Ninth Annual Conference). President John Taylor presiding. All 7 discourses with surviving JD full text are filed separately as talks: Erastus Snow's 'Parable of the Fig Tree...' (Sunday April 6 AM) and George Q. Cannon's 'Influence of the Latter-Day Saints...' (Sunday PM); Lorenzo Snow's 'Blessings of the Gospel...' (Monday April 7 PM); Brigham Young Jr.'s 'The Growth of Zion...' and Joseph F. Smith's 'Duties of the Saints...' (both Tuesday April 8 AM); and Moses Thatcher's 'Manifest Blessings of God...' and John Taylor's 'Opening of the Last Dispensation...' (both Tuesday PM) — confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography, which lists no other JD citations for this conference. The many other named speakers (Taylor's other remarks, Rich, Richards, Carrington) are recorded only as third-person Deseret News summaries, with no full JD text located — consistent with the bibliography, not a vault gap. Notable: Moses Thatcher was sustained to fill Orson Hyde's vacant apostolic position.
Published minutes of the April 6-8, 1879 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 7 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 Erastus Snow, Cannon, Lorenzo Snow, Smith, Young Jr., Thatcher, and Rich were 'NOT yet individually transcribed,' when 7 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 7 filed discourses by session. Confirmed against the Weebly page's own bibliography that Taylor's other remarks, Rich, Richards, and Carrington 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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