Hear the Gospel by Chance--Compunction at Speaking Lightly of the Prophet--Join the Church--A New Suit of Clothes--Opposed by Relatives--My Old Friend, the Bible--A Dream--Required to Renounce "Mormonism" or Leave the House--My Relatives Refuse to Speak to me--They Pawn my Clothes--I Recover Them--Violence Used--My Clothes Torn--My Mother's Death--My Brothers Quarrel, and call upon me to Settle their Difficulties--My Brother Sick--Healed in Answer to my Prayer. DISOBEDIENCE TO COUNSEL. Driven from my Property by the Mob--Desire to Return and Recover some of it--Counseled by the Church Authorities not to Go--Persist in Going--Visit a Friendly Family--Amiable Intention of my Debtors--Meet two of Them They Threaten my Life--Despair of Getting Anything and Try to Start Home--Beaten over the Head with a Pole--Barely Escape with my Life--Ashamed to have my Friends Know It--The Lesson I Learned. LORENZO DOW YOUNG'S NARRATIVE. CHAPTER I. My Mother's Promise--Chased by Wolves--A Remarkable Dream--Thrown from a Horse--Providentially Saved--Religious Revival--Preachers Try in vain to Convert me--Ridiculed for not Playing at Cards--Read Infidel Works--Their Effect--A Vision. CHAPTER II. Marriage--A Vision of Other Worlds--My Reluctance at Returning to a Mortal Existence--A Promise with Conditions--I Exhort Others to Faithfulness. CHAPTER III. I Take to Preaching--Make Many Converts--Refuse to Baptize Them--They are Baptized by a Campbellite Preacher--Urged to Join the Campbellites--Refuse, and the Devil Tempts me--I Grieve the Spirit, but Regain it Through Fasting and Prayer--Hear the Gospel--Visit from Elder Gifford--He is Threatened with Tar and Feathers--My Brother and I Defend Him. CHAPTER IV. Converted--Start for Missouri--Called to Preach "Mormonism" without being Baptized--Join the Church--Voyage to Pittsburg--Preach the Gospel and Establish a Branch--Experience as a Trunk-maker--Mission to New York--Speak in Tongues--Effects of Preaching Counteracted by Lies--Second Voyage Down the Ohio--Providential Delay. CHAPTER V. Removal to Kirtland--Work upon the Temple--A Lesson-- Sickness--Pronounced Incurable by Doctors--Healed in Answer to Prayer--Cured of Lameness--Removal to Missouri--Commencement of Hostilities--Surrounded by a Mob--Face Death--Rescued. CHAPTER VI. Warned to Leave the Country or Renounce "Mormonism"--Wife and Children Threatened--A Boy's Pluck--Forced to Flee for our Lives--Property Confiscated--Battle of Crooked River--Providentially Saved--Far West Besieged--Escape to Iowa--Pursued--Providential Snow Storm. AN INSTANCE OF DIVINE INTERPOSITION. Visit to Scotland--Meet Old Friends--Return to Liverpool--About to go by Steamer to Bristol--A Voice Warns me not to Go--Turn Back--Short of Money--Means Providentially Provided--Journey to Portsmouth--Sequel to the Warning--The Steamer Wrecked. MY LAST MISSION TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. CHAPTER I.