Wilford Woodruff · 1889 April General Conference · 1889-04-07
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review.
Reported for The Deseret Weekly; speaker did not review. This is the full standalone discourse reprint (a separate later issue), not the brief April 13, 1889 composite 'General Conference' proceedings article; the specific Utah Digital Newspapers item ID for this later issue was not independently re-verified this pass (source_url/witness URL may still point to the earlier issue) -- flagged honestly rather than left silently wrong.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the full Deseret Weekly April 13, 1889 proceedings text (plus the later standalone reprint 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 Weekly, April 13, 1889 proceedings account (pp. 481-491) plus the standalone full-discourse reprint of Apr 20, 1889 (pp. 513-516), 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 conference immediately following John Taylor's death, at which Wilford Woodruff was sustained as President and the First Presidency reorganized. Replaced a fabricated/mismatched compiler summary with President Woodruff's real, lengthy Sunday afternoon (Apr 7) discourse accepting his call as President of the Church, delivered immediately after the solemn assembly sustaining vote; date/session already matched. Updated the witness citation to the later Apr 20, 1889 standalone full-discourse reprint rather than the brief Apr 13 composite proceedings article.
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