Textual record

Persecution Fulfilling Prophecy Vermont, the Birthplace of Prominent Mormons and Their Oppressors The Faith and Integrity of the Saints to Be Tested Peace Among God's People a Peculiar Characteristic In Time of Trouble Trust in God, Watch the Captain The Acts of the Utah Commissioners God's Overruling Power and Wisdom A Great Work Requires Great Sacrifice Non-Performance of Duty No Cause for Self-Gratulation Man's Penalties More Endurable Than God's The True Saviors of the Latter-day Saints Better to Disobey Man Than God The Danger of Disobedience, of Diverse Temporal Interests and Class Distinctions All God's Gifts Intended for the General Benefit and Blessing

George Q. Cannon · 1882 October General Conference · 1882-10-08

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 23, pp. 271-282. Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

Witnesses

Journal of Discourses 23:271-282

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 271transcription source

Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 23, page 271. 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).

Primary source — archive.org archived

Collation history

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 23:271-282 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Sunday Morning Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fifty-Second Semi-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.

Corrections

This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.