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The Gospel Like Leaven Labor Required of the Elders Promises to Abraham Honorable Men in the American Nation Formerly and Now Liberty in Religion and the Elective Franchise Claimed As Rights The Saints Cannot Afford to Do Wrong Relationship to God Exhortation

John Taylor · 1883 April General Conference · 1883-04-08

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 24, pp. 123-129. Reported by Gibbs and Irvine 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 24:123-129

Pitman shorthand by Gibbs and Irvine; 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-_1884_24, page 123transcription source

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Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 24:123-129 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Sunday Afternoon Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fifty-Third Annual Conference. 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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