John Taylor · 1885 April General Conference · 1885-04-05
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; formal First Presidency epistle read at conference.
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; full First Presidency epistle published.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the full Deseret News April 1885 proceedings text; replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real source text.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fetched and read the full Deseret News proceedings for this conference (April 8 and April 15, 1885 issues, pg. 184-185, 193-201), via historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com (newspapers.lib.utah.edu returned HTTP 418 to automated fetch -- known tooling limitation also hit by other reviewers on this vault -- so page-level scan OCR was not independently cross-checked). Cross-referenced the conference's own roll call of general authorities present and the full session-by-session table of contents to verify speaker, date, and session for every talk in this conference; this conference was held at Logan during the anti-polygamy 'Underground' period, with Apostle Franklin D. Richards presiding in the absence of the First Presidency and most of the Twelve, who communicated only by written epistle. Replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with the real, full text of the First Presidency's (John Taylor and George Q. Cannon, in seclusion) Epistle to the Church, read by Elder B. F. Cummings, Jr. during the Second Day (Sunday, April 5) afternoon session; corrected date/session from Monday Morning (Apr 6) to Sunday Afternoon (Apr 5) to match.
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