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A Few Questions Every Latter-day Saint Can Answer for Himself The Fruits of the Spirit The Proper Use of Riches No Comparison Between Earthly Wealth and Eternal Riches Principle Must not be Sacrificed for Riches Consecration Satan Rebuked We Ought to Cultivate the Fruits of the Spirit The Work of God Onward and Upward The Fate of Those Who Sacrifice Principle at the Shrine of Greed Conclusion

Moses Thatcher · 1883 April General Conference · 1883-04-06

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 24, pp. 297-301. Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs and John 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 24:297-301

Pitman shorthand by Geo. F. Gibbs and John 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 297transcription 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 24:297-301 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct). Added session ("Friday Morning Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fifty-Third Annual Conference. Note: this discourse's own printed dateline reads 'Saturday Morning, April 6th, 1883' (per the raw text embedded, oddly, on the October 1883 Weebly page rather than April's), an internal contradiction since April 6, 1883 was itself a Friday; the Weebly agenda for Friday morning does not list Thatcher by name, so exact talk_order within that session is uncertain — kept the existing April 6 date, which is corroborated independently on both the April and October bibliography pages. 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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