Williams news., 1910-06-11
A REPUTED LETTER
 FROM JESUS CHRIST

6xion and deposited by Him under stone at the foot of the cross is being given wide circulation by the newspapers of the country. Mrs. c. o. Friend, of Cherryvale, Kans., has clipped it from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and asked the Den yer Post to reprint it.
 An injunction to have the letter published has frightened some into whose hands it has fallen, and like the old chain prayer it threatens misfortune on those who deliber- ately withhold it from others. The belief that Christ really gave the letter to be spread broadcast has inspired many to aid in giving it publication. The story is that little child turned the stone under which the letter was hidden and that the document was given to a convert of the Christian faith.
 This convert kept it as sacred memento of Chist and down through generations in his family it was un- til 1000 years had passed. Misfor- tune attended the family always, according to the tale, and at last one of the members came to Amer ica, bringing the letter with him, Mrs. Fannie Wortman, of Marion, Ind, claims to know the history of the document from that time on. According to her the owner of it went to Virginia and after series of misfortunes the last of the family passed out. A Mrs. Thompson, a neighbor of the family, took the letter and had it published in the Rome, (Ga.) Tribune of Oct. 3I, 1891. Mrs. Wortman cut it out and kept it in her home. She made no attempt to have it published until lately and says that she was pun ished for her failure to give it pub licity.
 Mrs. Rubian Crutchfield of Ter zevant, Tenn, is another who says she suffered misfortune until she printed the letter. The document reads.
 Whosoever works on the Sabbath shall be cursed. command you to go to church and keep holy the Lords day without any manner of work. You shall not idle or mis- spend your time in bedecking your selves in opportunities of costly ap- parel and in vain dressing, for I have ordered it a day of rest. I will have that day kept holy that vour sins may be forgiven.
 You will not break my com- mandments, but observe. and keep them, they being written by my hand and spoken from my mouth. You shall not only go to church yourselves, but also your nan ser want and maid servant. Observe my words and learn my command ments.
 You shall finish your work every Saturday at 6 o'clock in the after noon, at which hour the prepara- tion for the Sabbath begins. I ad- wise you to fast five Fridays in the year and continuing the Fridays following, in remembrance of the five bloody wounds I received for you and mankind.
 You shall love one another and cause them that are not baptized to come to church and receive the holy sacrament-that is to say baptism and then the supper of the Lord. and be made a member thereof, and in so doing I will give you long life and many blessings. Your land shall be replenished and bring forth abundance and I will comfort you in the the greatest temptation, and surely he that doeth to the contrary shall be cursed.
 1 will also send hardness of the heart on them, and especially on hardened and unpenitent unbeliev- CTS. He that hath given to the poor shall find it profitable. Re. member to keep holy the Sabbath day, for the seventh day I have ta-