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The Mission of the Holy Ghost Commissions of the Ancient and Modern Apostles Unbelief, Division, Superstition and Fanaticism Sincerity No Evidence of Truth, But Always Entitled to Respect Marriage Commanded of God and Forbidden By Man Moral Courage and Anti- Mormon Legislation Righteous and Unrighteous Dominion The Purity of the Elders of Israel The Worship of Wealth and Its Poverty Public opinion and Independence of Character The Latter-Day Saints Never Destined to Be Slaves Persecution and Its Consequences Exhortation to Loyalty, Long-suffering, Kindness, Integrity and Righteousness

Moses Thatcher · 1882 April General Conference · 1882-04-08

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 23, pp. 196-214. 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 23:196-214

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.

Internet Archive — per_utah-and-the-mormons_journal-of-discourses-_brigham-young-_1883_23, page 196transcription source

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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 23:196-214 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 Fifty-Second Annual Conference (during the Edmunds Act anti-polygamy crisis). 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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