The Book of the Law of the Lord exists in two distinct print editions, and the gap between them says something about how fast Strang's kingdom on Beaver Island was still taking shape. The first, published in 1851, ran eighty pages. The second, in 1856, had grown to 320 pages, expanded with additional material Strang continued producing as his theocratic government developed, and it was left unbound at the time of his assassination that same year, not bound into finished copies until afterward.
What sets this book apart from many nineteenth century American scriptural claims is not its content alone but its persistence. Strang's kingdom itself did not survive him. Beaver Island's Mormon settlement was violently driven off by mob action within months of his death, and the Strangite movement never rebuilt anything resembling the political structure the book was written to govern. Yet the small church that carried Strang's claim forward kept the book itself as living scripture rather than letting it become only a historical artifact.
That continuity is visible directly today. The modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Strangite, still small and still centered on Strang's original claims, publishes the complete text of the Book of the Law of the Lord on its own website, offered freely and without restriction, treating a document written to govern an island kingdom that collapsed within Strang's own lifetime as scripture its members still read.