Nearly a month after the assisination of Joseph Smith, dissident 1st counselor William Law writes in a letter: "While the wicked slay the wicked I believe I can see the hand of a blasphemed God stretched out in judgment, the cries of innocence and virtue have ascended up before the throne of God, and he has taken sudden vengeance."
Joseph Smith's ending was similar to that of the ancient King Saul whereby he died foolishly by the hands of his enemies (2 Sam.3:33; 2 Chron.26:16)), but similar to King David and his son King Solomon in that the Lord took not his mercy away from them and him (Joseph), as the Lord told him (Bk.of Com. 2:4, July 1828). The Lord, of course, took his mercy away from King Saul because he was the choice of the people, as Brigham Young was, and was NOT the choice of God.
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