The evening times., 1896-09-08
COLORED PEOPLE H0AXED
Induced to Buy Copies of a Mysteri-
Gus Letter.
Missi VIZ Purported to Have Been Writ
ten by the Saviour-Lettcr Causes
Religious Excitement.

Griffin, Ga, Sept. S.-Many colored peo-
pie III this city have paid 10 cents for copies
OF letter which they believe was written
by the Saviour. There is great religious
excitement over the letter among those who
have been made victims by one of their
number, but the educated and prominent
people of the race pay no attention to the
matter The document says:
Copy of letter written by our Saviour.
Jesus Christ. Found eighteen miles from
Iconium, siXty-five years after our Blessed
Saviour's crucifixion, transmitted from the
Holy City by a converted Jew, faithfully
translated from the original Hebrew copy
now IN the Lady Cubas' family, OF Mesopo-
tamia.
This letter was written by Jesus Christ
and found under great stone, both round
and large, at the foot of tie cross, near a
village near Mesopotamia. Upon th stone
was written and engraved, Blessed is he
that shall tur n me over All the people that
saw it prayed God earnestly and desired
lie would make kno wB to them the meaning
OF the writing, that they might not try IN
vain to TURN ii over.
..In the meantime there came child about
six or seven years Old and turned 1t over
without help, to the admiration of the peo-
pie that stood by, and under this stone WAS
found a letter written by Jesus Christ, which
was carried to the city OF Iconium. and
published by person belonging to the Cubas
family.
ION the letter We're written the com
mandments OF Jesus Christ, signed by the
Angel Gabriel, ninety eight years after our
savIour's birth, to which is added King
Abarrus' letter to our Saviour and also His
miracles.
Copy of the letter: 'whosoever worketh
ON the sabbath day shall be cursed. l COM
mand you to go to church and keep the
Lords day holy, without doing any manner
OF work. You shall not idly spend your
time in bedecking yourself with superfiu-
tiles of costly apparel and vain dresses. for
have orlainedi ita day of rest.
- 4 will have that day kept holy that sins
may be forgiven. You shall not break my
commandments, but observe and keep them,
written with my own hand; W rite them in
Your hearts and steadfastly observe. This
was written by my own hand and spoken
by my own mouth.
You shall not only go to church your
selves, butalso your man servants and learn
my commandments. You shall finish your
labor every Saturday evening by 6 o'clock,
at which time the preparations begin.
q 4 advise you to fast five Fridays in the
year beginning with Good Friday and con-
tinuing for four days Immediately follow
ing. in remembrance of the five bloody
wounds received for all mankind. Dill
gentlyand peaceably labor in yourrespective
vocations wherein it hath pleased God to
call you.
'Youshailloveon one another rwithbrotheriy
love, and cause them that are not baptized
To come to church and hear the holy sacra-
ments-naniely, baptism and the Lord Sup
per-and be made members thereof. In so
doing will give you long life and many
blessings, and your land shall replcnish and
bring forth abundance.
81 win give you many blessings. and
comfort you in the greatest Temptations.
and surely he that dothto the contrary shall
be cursed and unproritable. I will also
send hardness Of heart upon them till
have destroyed them, but especially upon
hardened and iInpenitent unbelievers. He
that hath given to the poor shall not be un-
profitable. Remember .o' keep holy the
Sabbath Day. for the seventh have taken
to rest myself"