Healing of Lorenzo D. Young through Joseph A. Young's administration
Published October 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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While traveling in the Kanab region, Lorenzo D. Young suffered a severe illness and felt he was near death. Joseph A. Young administered to him, and after the prayer, Lorenzo D. Young felt the renovating power of God run through his system, resulting in an immediate recovery that allowed him to travel twenty-seven miles the next day.
In Their Own Words
“My sons and Joseph A. administered to me a number of times, and I will here mention one thing. After administering to me one morning Joseph A. jumped into his buggy and, in company with one of the brethren went fifteen miles to a little settlement, held a meeting there and returned home before sundown, back to Kanab. He attended some forty meetings in thirty days, and this was one of them. He came in at night, and I was lying on the bed in a little back room, and he came in and said—‘Uncle Lorenzo, how do you feel?’ Said I—‘Joseph, I am not in as much pain as I was this morning, but I am sick.’ Said he—‘I know you are,’ and he pushed to the door and put his hands on me and prayed with all the fervency of his soul and I felt that his prayer was heard, and before his hands were removed from me the renovating power of God ran through my system, and from that moment I received strength, and the next day I traveled twenty-seven miles over roughest road in the Kanab country.”
— Lorenzo D. Young, as recorded in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 37, No. 41
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 11 October 1875 (Vol. 37, No. 41). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1875-10-11_37_41 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, 11 October 1875 (Vol. 37, No. 41), page 646 https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1875-10-11_37_41
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