Wilford Woodruff · 1887 October General Conference · 1887-10-09
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review.
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the full Deseret News October 12, 1887 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 (Oct 12, 1887 issue, pg. 612-613, 620-621), 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 is the first conference after President John Taylor's death in exile, held during the anti-polygamy 'Underground' period with Apostle Lorenzo Snow presiding, and it includes Wilford Woodruff's historic first public appearance at conference in roughly three years. Replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with President Woodruff's real, historic Fourth Day afternoon (Oct 9) discourse ('I Come to Bury Caesar, not to praise him') -- his first public appearance at conference in roughly three years, met by the congregation with a spontaneous ovation; date/session already matched the real source.
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.