The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-08-11
WRITTEN BY CHRIST.

The following rather strange and start
lingproduction is lurnshed us by a friend
for publication. tits clipping from the
Baptist Banner and is credited to an In
diana paper
Believing that shewould never prosper
or have any kind of luck as long as she
kept certain article in her household
without attempting to give it to the world
Mrs. Fannie Workman, living at Seventh
and d streets, has the following letter,
which she states is printed for the third
time since its finding
The history OF the letter is indeed in
teresting. Mrs. Workman says she lived
at Dalton Ga, until last August, when
she came TO this city. She said the letter
given below was first found under stone
at the foot of the cross on which Christ
was crusitied. On the stone was written
BLESSED is he who turns me over" No
one knew what this inscription meant un-
til child one day turned the stone over,
and discovered the letter written by
CHRIST himself.
The letter came into the hands of aman
who had been converted and who keptit
as a memento of the Savior. He how
ever, refused to have it published accord
ing to the orders of Christ and consequent-
ly he never prospered. He kept the fact
that he possessed the letter secret and
on his death gave it to his oldest son,
thus the letter was kept in the family for
over thousand years, and was brought
to this country by early settlers.
1t was kept a secret by the family while
they lived in Virginia, but they never
prospered and i'll luck continually follow
ed them, as it did their ancestors until
on the death OF their only daughter the
letter was turned over to lady by the
name of Mrs. Townson, who not wishing
to disobey the order of Christ, at once had
Unpublished in the Tribune, of Rome, Ca,
Oct. 8. 1891 The Citizen. OF Dalton,
Ga, copied the article, and Mrs. Wort |
man, now living at Marion, Ind, clipped
the piece, and has had it in her posses
sion for number of years. She has
never had published and states that she |
has had bad luck since she has been keep |
ing the article and believes that hermis- |
fortunes have all come from the fact that |
she never gave the article out for publ |
cation.
In the letter was written the command
ments of Christ signed by the angel Cab
riel ninety-nine years after the Savior's
birth. The letter follows:
"Whosoever works on the Sabbath day
shall be cursed. l command you to 60
to church and keep holy the Lords day
without any manner Of work. You shall
not idle or msspend your time in bedeck-
ing yourselves in superhuities OF costly
apparel and vain dressings for / have
ordered it day of rest. will have that
day kept holy that your sins may be for
given yon. You will not break my COM
mandments, but observe and keep them,
they being written by my hand and spok-
en- from my mouth. You shall not only
go to church yourselves but also your
man servant and your maid servants.
Observe my words and learn my COM
You shall finish your work
every Saturday al six O'Clock in the after
noon, at which hour the preparation for
the Sabbath begins | advise you to fast
five Fridays lin the year beginning on
Good Friday and continuing the five FRI
days following in remembrance of the
five bloody wounds received for you and
mankind. You shall love one another
and cause them that are baptized to come
to church and receive the holy sacrament
that is to say baptism and the supper
Of the Lord, and be made member there.
Of, and in so doing will give you long
life and many blessings. Your land shall
be replenished and bring forth abund-
ance, and | will comfort you in the great
est temptation, and surely he that doeth
to the contrary shall be cursed. | will
also send hardness of heart on them, and
on hardened sinners. He that
has given to the poor shall find it profit
able. Remember to keep holy the Sab
oath day, for the seventh day have TAX
an as a resting day to myself.
"And he that hath copy of this letter,
written by my own hand and spoken from
my own mouth, and keepeth it without
publishing it to others shall not prosper,
out he that publishes it to others shall be
blessed by me, and if their sins beas many
as the stars Of the night, and if they truly
believe they shall be pardoned, and they
hat believe not this writing and my COM
will have my plaques upon
hem, and will be consumed with their
children, goods, cattle and all other world
y enjoyments that | have given them.-
Do but once think Of what have suffer-
ID for you--if you do, it viii be well for
you in this world and in the world which