The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1907-03-27
Ths Lexington Dispatch.
Jesus Christs' Letter.


Great Stone, sixty-fve years after
the Crucifxion of our blessed
Saviour, eighteen miles from Icon
ium; transmitted from the holy
city, by a converted Jew; faithfully
translated from the original Hebrew
copy, now in possession of the Lady
Cuba's Family at Mesopotamia:
This letter was written by Jesus
Christ, and found under great stone,
both round and large, at the foot of
the cross, eighteen miles from Icon
ium, near village called Mesopo-
tamia; upon that stone was witten
and engraved: "Blessed is he that
shall turn me over" All people who
saw it, prayed to God earnestly, and
desired He would make known to
them the meaning of this writing,
that they might not attempt in vain
to turn it over. In the meantime
there came little child, about six or
seven years old. and turned it over
without help, to the admiration of all
the people that stood by, and under
this stone was found a letter written
by Jesus Christ, which was carried, to
the city of Iconium; and there pub
ished by person belonging to the
Lady Cuba, and in the letter, was
written the Commandments of Jesus
Christ" signed by the Angel Gabriel,
twenty-eight years after our Saviour's
birth:
"Whoever worketh on the Sabbath
day shall be cursed. I command you
to 90 to church, and keep the Lords
day holy, without doing any manner
of work. You shall not idly misspend
your time in bedecking yourselves
with superfuities of costly apparel
and vain dresses, for Ihave. ordained
it a day of rest; will have that day
kept holy, that your sins may be for
given you; you shall not break my
commandments, but observe and keep
them, written with my own hand;
write them in your hearts, and stead
'fastly observe this was written with
my own hand, spoken by my own
mouth. You shall not only go to
church yourselves, but also your man
servants and your maid servants, and
observe my words and learn my COM
mandments; you shall finish your
labor every Saturday in the afternoon
by of the clock, at which hour the
preparation for the Sabbath begins. I
advise you to fast five Fridays in every
year, beginning with Good Friday,
and to continue the four Fridays i'm
mediately following, in remembrance
of the five bloody wounds I received
for all mankind. You shall diligently
and peaceably labor in your respective
vocations, wherein it hath pleased
God to call you. You shall love one
another with brotherly love, and
cause them that are not baptized to
come to church and hear the Holy
Sacrament, viz: Baptism and the
Lords Supper, and be made members
thereof; in 80 doing will give you
long life and many blessings, and
comfort you in the greatest tempta-
tions, and when he that doeth to the
contrary shall be unblest and unrrofit-
able. I will also send hardness of
heart upon them, till I have destroyed
them. but especially upon hardened
and impenitent unbelievers. He that
hath given to the poor, he shall not
be unprofitabe. Remember to keep
holy the Sabbath day, for the seventh
day I have taken to myself; and he
that hath copy of this letter, writ
ten with my own hand, and spoken
with my own mouth, and keeps it
without publishing it to others, shall
not prosper; but he that, publisheth
it to others, shall be blest of me, and
though his sins be in number as the
stars in the sky, and he that believes
in this shall be pardoned, and if he
believes not this writing and my COM
mandments, will send my plaques
upon him, and consume both him and
his children, and his cattle; and
whomsoever shall have copy of this
letter, written with my own hand,
and keeps it in their houses, nothing
shall hurt them; neither pestilence,
lightning nor thunder shall do them
any hurt; and if a woman be with
child and in labor, and copy of this
letter be about her, and she firmly
put her trust in it, she shall safely be
delivered of her birth. You shall have
no news of me but by the Holy Spirit
till the day of Judgment.
All goodness and prosperity shall
be in the house where copy of this
letter shall he fOund