George Q. Cannon · 1872 October General Conference · 1872-10-08
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 15, pp. 202-210. Reported by David W. Evans in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans; 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 15, page 202. 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 official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; confirmed clean, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: no official churchofjesuschrist.org or CHL digitization exists for this pre-1880s discourse, so BYU ContentDM JD 15:202-210 remains the best verified source. Speaker, date, and theme (gathering, prosperity's dangers, Order of Enoch, cooperative economics) independently confirmed against jod.mrm.org/15/202 with no discrepancies found. Talk boundaries are clean.