George Q. Cannon · 1884 October General Conference · 1884-10-05
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 25, pp. 318-328. Reported by John Irvine in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD. Note: unlike most other conferences, the Wayback Machine has no snapshot at all of this Weebly page (checked 2026-07-01, all timestamps); source_archived_url points to the live page, which is currently reachable and shows a full bibliography and agenda matching this citation.
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.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 25, page 318. 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 IA scan witness for JD 25:318-328; confirmed complete text, closes with 'Amen'. Added session/talk_order from the Weebly page's day-by-day agenda (Sunday, October 5, 10 a.m. session, 2nd speaker after Richards).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed citation JD 25:318-328 against indexes/jod-page-index.json (byu_pointer 8826, IA page/n327) and against the Weebly page's own bibliography — exact match. Collated full text against the Internet Archive scan witness; no truncation, body length consistent with a long ~11-page discourse. Confirmed session (Sunday Morning, October 5, 1884, after Richards' 'Little Children') and talk_order 2 from Weebly's day-by-day agenda.
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