gan. The mob rushed up the stairs, shooting into the room where
the four brethren were. The prisoners sprang to the door to close it but
the guns of the mob forced it open. Elders Taylor and Richards tried to
push the guns aside with their canes. The bullets flew like hail into the
room. One ball came through the door and struck Hyrum in the head. Four
others hit him, and he fell back saying:

"_I am a dead man_."

Joseph gazed on his brother and exclaimed: "Oh! dear brother Hyrum!"

Elder Taylor now tried to jump from the window. A ball struck him, and he
was about to fall from the window, when another bullet from the outside hit
his watch in his vest pocket and threw him back into the room. Here he was
hit by two more balls, and he rolled under the bed.

Then Joseph went to the open window intending to leap out. Two bullets
struck him and he fell outward, exclaiming:

"_O Lord, my God_!"

As soon as he had struck the ground a mobber set him against a well curb a
few feet from the jail, and then, by order of Col. Levi Williams, a mobber
and Baptist preacher, four men sent bullets into his body.

Then the mob fled, and the whole town of Carthage with them, fearing the
vengeance of the people of Nauvoo. But vengeance is the Lord's.

Willard Richards was not hurt. That night he spent in attending to his
wounded brother, John Taylor, and watching over the dead bodies of the
Prophet and Patriarch.

Joseph's earthly work was done, and the Master had called him away from the
haunts of mobs and wicked men. He sealed his testimony with his blood. He
had spent his life in working for the salvation of his fellowman, and even
yet in a freer and grander sphere he is working for the cause of Christ and
the Church.

Topics.--1. Joseph nominated for president. 2. Traitors. 3. The
Expositor. 4. Joseph goes to Carthage. 5. The martyrdom.

Questions and Review.--1. When was Joseph nominated for President of the
United States? 2. What were his ideas of slavery? 3. Where were the large
meetings in Nauvoo held? 4. Who proved false to Joseph? 5. How did the
Saints know that Joseph was not a fallen prophet? 6. What was the Nauvoo
Expositor? 7. Why was it destroyed? 8. Why did Joseph object to being tried
in Carthage? 9. On what occasion did Joseph deliver his last speech? 10.
Why did not Joseph go west to the mountains? 11. What did Governor Ford
promise? 12. Give some expressions of the prophet on going to Carthage. 13.
Who were