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of Apostle Orson Pratt, with Bishop Reuben Miller as his assistant. H e occupied this position for about three years and had much satisfaction in laboring with his brethren. In the capacity of Home Missionary he visited nearly all the settlements of Utah with blessings to himself and the people. O n February 27th, 1873, President Brigham Young's party, which again included Lorenzo, arrived in Salt Lake City at 6 o'clock p.m., having returned from a three month visit to the southern part of the Territory, where much missionary work was done in preaching to the Saints and encouraging them to live their religion. As his ability to do decreased with age, Lorenzo was not able to perform his public duties with satisfaction to himself, and in 1879 tendered his resignation as bishop of the 18th W a r d of Salt Lake City, and was permitted by President Taylor™ to retire to his farm on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. Lorenzo Young wrote in his journal October 1st, 1887:™ I am very unwell today, and if not better shall not try to continue my record. If I live eighteen days longer I shall be eighty yearsi old. I have passed through many hard and trying scenes, but the good Lord has ever susstained me and at numerous times sent His holy angels to deliver me when all earthly hopes were lost, and I feel to praise His holy name. The path looks bright before me, and I look forward to the happy hour when I shall have finished my labor here, and am permitted to go and join the society of my dear friends who are beyond the veil, and I believe some are longing to see me come to join them in a more glorious labor than we can perform here. On the 20th of January, 1888, Lorenzo expressed his feelings and recorded some interesting incidents of his early life as follows: Today all pretty well, and I feel that I am greatly blest. I am free from the common cares of life to which almost all men are subjected to. My wife, Ellen, attends to all the domestic cares and I have no worriment about them. I am blest with all the necessaries of life, such as food and raiment, a comfortable habitation and a good bed and quiet room. This morning I had a little bird that my son, Frank, shot yesterday and brought in. W h e n I sat down to my breakfast, a circumstance of my boyhood's experience came before my mind's eye and a scene which "John Taylor (1808-1887), diird President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "This reference togedier widi subsequent entries are contained in a later unpublished journal, in possession of his granddaughter, Mrs. Marie Y. Erekson.
