Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-28
WRITTEN By THE SAVIOUR?
Atlanta Man Claims TO Have a Let
ter Written by Christ,


to The Courier by Georgia reader
for publication. AS to the claim Of
Christ as the author we, OF course,
simply lay 1t aside as 30 much
stuff" If the possessor of the letter
believes 1t, what matter? "As he
believes, 80 be It." In it there is
much of what might technically be
termed ret" Take Il for what Il
Is worth, which Is not great deal. !
There is in The possession Of an
Atlanta man, a w. H. Pasco. who
lives at 62 Mcdaniel street, and who
works for the Southern Saw Works,
letter which he believes was writ
ten by the Christ. So firmly does he
believe this that he is trying to obey
Its mandates, and wherever he goes
has 1t published, for fear If he does
not the curse pronounced in 1t for
failure thus to dc Will fall on his
head.
The letter, which Is said to have
been written more than two thou
sand years ago, fell into the hands
OF family living IL Virginia, who
have kept 1t in their possession from
the time they got it until 1879, it
having been handed down from ia
ther to son and so on.
At that time copy of it was given
to Mrs. M. f. Towson, a near neigh
Dor, and she gave a copy to Rev. P.
G. Fletcher, of Rome, Ga. A COPY
of the letter also got into the hands
OF Mrs. w. w. Gillian, who, up to
the time of her death lived near
Cowpens, S. c. ..-
w. Fl. Pasco fell into possession
OF copy Of the letter while on a
trip recently to Spartanburg, s. c.,
and prizes the same very highly. He
says that all those who have a COPY
of the letter prize 1t very highly and
believe the letter to have been writ
ten by Christ Himself, never for a
moment doubling it's genuineness.
The preface to the letter is as fol-
lows:
This letter was written by Jesus
Christ,and found under a great stone
round and long, at the foot of the
cross, 1S miles from Iconium, near
the village called Messopotamia
Upon that stone was written and en-
graved:' Blessed Is he that shall
turn me over.' All the people that
saw it prayed God earnestly and de-
sired that He would make known to
them the meaning Of this writing,
that they might not attempt in vain
to turn 1t over. In the meantime
there came little child about six
years old, and turned it over with
out help, to the admiration of all
the peole that stood by, and under
this stone was Cubasses' family and
In this letter was written the Com
mandments Of Jesus Christ, signed
by the Angel Gabriel ninety-ninA
years after our Saviour's birth"
The Wonderful Letter.
The letter itself reads as follows:
"Whosoever works on the Sabbath
day shall be cursed. I command you
to go to church and keep the Lords
day holy without any manner of
work. You shall not idle nor mis-
spend your time in debecking your
selves in superfuities of costly ap-
parel and vain dressing, for I have
ordered it day of rest. 1 will have
the day kept holy that your sins may
be forgiven you. You shall not only
go to church yourselves, but also
your servant and maid servant. OBJ
serve my words and learn my COM
mandments. You shall finish your
labor every Saturday at o'clock in
the afternoon, at which hour the
preparation Of the Sabbath begins.
I advise you to fast five Fridays in
the year, beginning at Good Friday,
and continuing the five Fridays fol-
lowing, in remembrance of the five
bloody wounds l received for you
and all mankind. You shall dill
gently and peaceably labor in your
several vocations when 1t hath pleas
| ed God to call you. You shall love
one another and cause them that are
not baptized to come to church and
receive that holy sacrament, that Is
to say baptism and the supper OF the
Lord, and be made a member there
of, and in so doing, I will give you
long life and many blessings, your
land shall replenish and bring forth
abundance, and I will comfort you
In the greatest temptations, and
surely he that doeth to the contrary
shall be cursed. I will also send
hardness Of heart on them till |
have destroyed them, but especially