Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-06

man servant and maid servant OBJ
serve my words and learn my COM
mandrnents
You shall finish your work every
saturday at O'Clock In the afternoon.
at which hour the preparation for the
sabbath begins. / advise you to fast
nVe Fridays in the year. beginning on
Good Friday and continuing the Fri b.
days following, In remembrance OF the
I'VE bloody wounds I received for you
and manltisl
You shan, love one another and
cause them that are not baptized to
come TO chuSoh and receive the holy
sacranent-the IL to say, baptism and
then the supper OF the Lord and be
made mombar thereof and In so do
ing ! will give YOU long lie and many
blessings. Your land shall be repIen-
ished and bring forth abundance ana |
VIII comfort you IN the greatest tempta-
ton and surely he that doeth TO the
contrary shall be cursed
II win also send Hardness OF the
heart on them, and especially on hard
cned and unpenitent unhelievers He
that hath given to the poor shall find
II profitable Remember TO keep holy
the sabbath day. FOR the seventh day
/ have taken as a resting day to my
self.
And he that hath n copy Of this let
ter. written by my own hand and spok-
en- from my own mouth, and keepeth
II. without publishing II TO others, shall
not prosper. but he that publisheth II
20 others shall he blessed by me, and
II their sins be as many as the stars
at night, and II they truly believe that
they shall be pardoned, and they that
believe not this writing and my COM
mAndments viii have my plague upon
YOU and YOU viii be consumed with
your children, goods. cattle and all 9th
err worldly enjoyments that ! have
given you. DO but once think or
what I have suffered for you'll you
do Il win be well Tor you In this world
and In the world which IL to come.
"Whosoever shall have a copy of this
letter and keep IL in their house moth
ing shall hurt them. neither pestilence,
lightning or thunder, and II any wom-
an be ln birth and put her trust In me
she shall be delivered OF her child. You
shall hear no more news Of me except
through the Holy Scripture, until the
day OF Judgment. All goodness and
shall he In the house where
a cony Of this letter shall be found.
Finished"
That the whole thing IL forgery no
person can doubt That
II was written by some pious fraud who
probably thought he was serving God
by frightening people into Sabbath OBJ
servance, fasting. etc, is so clear that
he who runs can read II. The letter
talks about Saturday. and Friday, and
Good Friday The Jews. at the time
Of our Lord. did not know the days OF
the week by those names; nor did they
have Good Friday" How does II
happen that letter said TO be written
1 900 years ago has the modern Eng
lish name for one Of the days of the
calendar7
Where il the original document found
under the rock? Specimens OF writing
from the time Of this alleged
letter ARE extant In books found
i'm the ruins OF Pompeii and
Herculaneum which cities were des-
troyed in tho year 81 A. D. These
books consist OF sheets Of papyrus,
glued together and rolled. The writ
ing runs across the volume II IL
without division OF words or sentences.
Were the alleged original document In
existence II could easily he compared
with other ancient documents and the
fraud exposed But there never was
such a document The letter Is a
clumsy forgery. and nothing else.
We pay this attention to II because II Is
not improbable that II will be launched
again upon the press. Like the chain
prayer. Il should be exposed. The pub
lc should be warned against taking any
notice Of It's imprecations and prom
SEES IL has nothing 10 do with any
oody's good. or bad. luck. The way
10 have good luck is to honor father
and mother and keep the command
nents Of God our Savior has given |
he rule for good luck, when He said: |
Seek ye first the kingdom Of God ana |
His righteousness; and all these things |
,hall be added unto you" The mere |
-eading or publishing OF a letter has |
no effect whatever any more than the |
repetition of written prayers
hat has become the custom among !