Franklin D. Richards · 1884 October General Conference · 1884-10-05
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 25, pp. 371-376. 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. Title corrected from the generic 'Remarks' to 'Little Children', matching Weebly's agenda entry and the discourse's actual subject (file id left unchanged to avoid breaking existing links).
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 371. 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 25:371-376; confirmed complete text, closes with 'Amen'. Corrected the generic title 'Remarks' to 'Little Children' (matching Weebly's agenda and the discourse's actual subject). Added session/talk_order from the Weebly page's day-by-day agenda (Sunday, October 5, 10 a.m. session, 1st speaker).
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed citation JD 25:371-376 against indexes/jod-page-index.json (byu_pointer 8773, IA page/n380) 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 ~6-page discourse. Confirmed session (Sunday Morning, October 5, 1884, before Cannon's 'Fulfillment of Ancient and Modern Prophecy') and talk_order 1 from Weebly's day-by-day agenda, which titles this entry 'Little Children' — corrected the file's generic title to match.
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