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Retrospective Review of the Providences of God in Relation to the Saints The Wrath and Schemes of Men Turned to the Advantage of God's People The Order of God's Church Perfect The Wicked Disturbed By Judgments, While The Righteous Enjoy Peace The Administration of the Law of God in Relation to Offenses Should Be Resigned to The Will of God in All Things

Franklin D. Richards · 1883 October General Conference · 1883-10-06

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 24, pp. 278-286. Reported by 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 24:278-286

Pitman shorthand by 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 278transcription 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 24:278-286 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct — note JD publication had fallen well behind by this era, scattering this single conference's discourses across Volumes 24, 25, and 26). Added session ("Saturday Morning Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fifty-Third Semi-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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