Moses Thatcher · 1884 April General Conference · 1884-04-04
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 25, pp. 113-116. 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.
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Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the IA scan witness for JD 25:113-116; confirmed complete text (opens mid-address per JD convention, closes with 'Amen'). Added session/talk_order from the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda (Friday, April 4, 2 p.m. session, first JD-published speaker of the afternoon).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed citation JD 25:113-116 against indexes/jod-page-index.json (byu_pointer 9031, IA page/n122) and against the Weebly page's own bibliography — exact match. Collated full text against the Internet Archive scan witness; no truncation, no missing paragraphs, body length consistent with a 3-4 page discourse. Confirmed session (Friday Afternoon, April 4, 1884) and talk_order (1st JD-published speaker that session) from Weebly's day-by-day agenda.
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