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Parable of the Fig Tree The Rise of the Latter-Day Work Organization of the Church Its Subsequent Progress and Development The Manner of Calling God's Servants Duties of Church Officers The Saving Power of Truth The Disobedient and Idle Condemned Liberality of the Gospel Plan

Erastus Snow · 1879 April General Conference · 1879-04-06

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◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 20, pp. 180-187. 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 20:180-187

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.

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