The Russellville Democrat., 1889-12-19
The Copy of a Letter Found at the Foot of the Cross.

good will sto all. A true copy of a letter written by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and found eighteen miles from Iconium, sixty five years after hIs crucifixion, transcribed from the Holy City by convicted Jew-faithfully transcribed from the original Hebrew copy, now in pos session of the Lady Cubasse's family, at Mesopotamia. This letter written by Jesus Christ; found under a rock, both large and round, at the foot of the Cross, eighteen miles from Iconium, near the village called Mesopotamia-upon that stone was written and engrayen-"Blessed is he that shall turn me over" All people that saw it prayed to God sincerely, and deslred that he should make known to them the meaning of this writing that they might not attempt to turn 1t over in vain-in the mean time there came little child about six or seven years old who turned it over without help, to the admiration of all the people who stood by--under this stone was
 found a letter written by Jesus
 Christ, and carried to Ieonium, and
 there published by person belong
 ing to the Lady Cubasse's family
 and in this letter was written the
 commandments of Jesus Christ
 signed by the Angel Gabriel, ninety
 nlne years after our Savior's birth,
 viz: "Whosoever worketh on the
 Sabbath shall be cursed; l command
 you to go to church and keep the
 Lords Day holy without any manner
 of work" Ton should not idle and
 spend "your time in decking your
 person in opportunities. costly ap-
 parel and vain dressing--for have ordained it day of rest" l will
 have that kept holy that your sins
 may be forgiven--you shall not
 break my commandments, but ob-
 serve to keep them. they being
 written with my own hand, write
 them in your breasts, and steadfast- ly believe that this was written
 with ''my own hand and
 spoken with my own mouth" You
 shall not only go to church yourself
 but also "Your man servants and
 maid servants. Observe my words and keep my commandments. You should finish your laboring every Saturday evening at 6 o'clock at which time the preparations for the Sabbath begin" I advise you to fast five days ln the year, beginning at "Good Friday and continue four days in succession, in rememberence of five bloody wounds l received for you and all mankind. You shall diligently and peaceably labor in your respective "vocation wherein it has pleased God to call you" You shall love one another and "cause them that are not baptized to come to Christ and receive the holy sacra
 ment, that is to say Baptism and the Lords Supper, and be member thereof, and in so doing l will give you long "life and many blessings" Your land shall be replenished and bring forth an abundance--and l "will comfort you in your greatest temptations, and surely he that doth to the contrary, "shall be cursed and unprofited." I will also send hard
 ness of heart upon them until l have consumed "them"--especially upon hardened and impenitent sinners and unbelievers. He that hath given "to the poor" shall not be unprofted
 to keep holy the Sab
 bath day, for the seventh day l have taken resting day to myself. He that hath copy of thls letter written with my town hand and spoken with my own mouth" and keepeth It without publishing it to others shall not prosper, but he that publisheth it to others shall be bless
 ed of me. And if their sins be as many as the stars of the skles, and they truly believe ir me, they shall be pardoned; and If they believe not this writing and my commandments, will send all my plaques upon them, and "consume both you and your children. Your lands and chat
 tels, and all other worldly enjoyments "that I gave all of you" But once think what l have suffered for you, both in this and the world to come" Whosoever shall have copy of this letter in their house, nothing shall hurt them, neither thunder nor And if a woman being with child, and in labor, if sue put her trust in me, shall safely be de- livered from her birth. "You shall hear no more of me but by the Holy C,o,s;, ,rt;J fha dav of Jndoament D