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A Comparison Wrath of Man Made to Praise God Fall of Senator Edmunds Fate of Those Who Oppose God's Work Persecution for Religion Unavailing Case of the Huguenots Intemperance Startling Statistics Drink, the Cause of Other Evils Appeal to the Saints

Moses Thatcher · 1883 April General Conference · 1883-04-07

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◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 24, pp. 110-116. Reported by Unknown 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 24:110-116

Pitman shorthand by Unknown; 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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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 24:110-116 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-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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