John Taylor · 1886 April General Conference · 1886-04-06
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 13, 1886 proceedings text (plus later standalone reprints where applicable); 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 (Apr 13, 1886 issue, pg. 198-199, 205-206) plus the First Presidency's separately published Epistle (same issue, pg. 194-196) and 2 standalone full-discourse reprints from a later issue (May 5, 1886, covering Richards's opening and closing remarks), 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 Provo during the anti-polygamy 'Underground' period, with Apostle Franklin D. Richards presiding and the First Presidency communicating 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 exile) Epistle to the Church, read across two sessions by Bishop Orson F. Whitney and Elder James E. Talmage; corrected date/session from Sunday Morning (Apr 4) to Tuesday Afternoon (Apr 6, when the reading was completed) to match.
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