Joseph F. Smith · 1884 April General Conference · 1884-04-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 25, pp. 97-101. Reported by Geo. F. Gibbs in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
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.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 25, page 97. 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).
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; confirmed against Internet Archive OCR (per_utah-and-the-mormons_journal-of-discourses-_brigham-young-_1885_25_djvu.txt) with no substantive changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: source URL verified (archive.org JD vol. 25, page 97, matches BYU ContentDM item cited as institutionally preferred witness). Page-by-page collation against the IA djvu OCR: title/subheads ('Divine Mission of Joseph Smith — Predictions Fulfilled', full run-on subhead block), speaker header ('REMARKS BY PRESIDENT JOSEPH F. SMITH... Sunday Morning, April 6, 1884'), opening sentence, and closing paragraph ('God bless Israel, and pour out His Spirit...Amen.') all match verbatim against the scan (OCR itself is heavily garbled/Fraktur-misread, but underlying wording lines up). Discourse boundaries confirmed: begins directly after Cannon's discourse ends, ends immediately before the next discourse header (Erastus Snow, March 9 -- a different, earlier-dated discourse bound into the same volume). No missing text found; no boundary bleed.
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