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Oct 23, 1891

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October 23, 1891 ~ Friday

23 In company with many others including my wife
Emma I took cars & rode to Lehi to visit the sugar
works it was vary interesting it took us several
[FIGURE] hours to go through the works first we visited
the store houses whare the new beets were stored
there were 3 sheds 500 feet long filled with Beets
& room for 2 more there was a canal runing in
the Middle of the sheds with runing water whare
the Beets were flung in & washed in the curant

The beets were never touched again by hand
but were sliced up by Machinery & the juce
pressed out & traveled in pipes three Miles & then
droped into sacks pure white granulated sugar
it was a great institution at a cost of a about
500000 Dollars we then returned home distance 80 m[iles]

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I wish to make the following remarks upon the principal of Revelation. Some had thought that Revelation had sceased, But this is not the case The Lord is with us & gives us Revelation. But I will say for myself that I wish to Avoid saying Thus Saith the Lord as far as I can when I give the will of the Lord to the people In the Days of Joseph Smith it was "Thus saith the Lord almost Daily untill the Revelations now embodied in the Book of Doctrins & Covenants had Been given, Since that day President Brigham Young John Taylor & myself have seldom used the words (Thus saith ^the^ Lord) when giving the word of the Lord to the people. In the 68 Sec of the Book of D & C we are informed that

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