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This letter was published at the request
of Mrs. Rubic Cructhfield, route l.. Free,
want, Tenn. who said that she has had the
letter three Years and that bad luck has
continually followed her until she decided
to obey lis Injunction and have it publish
ed. The letter says: ".\nd he that hath
Il copy OF this letter without publishing ii
to others shall not prosper, but he that
publisheth it to others shall be blest by me
and If their sins he as many rs the stars
of the night. and if they truly believe. they
, shall Ice p%ardoncd.'
HISTORY 0F LETTER.
Mrs. Fannie Workman. of Marion, Ind,
knows something of the history of the
letter. 1t was when Mrs. Workman had
the letter published that Mrs. C%rutchficld
is SuppOScdtU have gotten possession OF
it. The following is taken from a Marion
paper.
Mrs. Workman a V she lived in Dalton,
GA, until August when sine came to this
city. She said the letter given below was
first found undera stone at the foot OF the
cross on which Christ was crucilied. On
shall turn me over" No one knew what
this inscription meant until a child turned
the stone over and discovered the letter
written by Christ himself. The letter
came III to the hands of Il man who kept 1t
as a secret mcmcntn of the Savior. He,
however, refused to have il published ac-
cording TO the orders Of Christ and con-
srqlrmtly he never p~rospercd. He kept
the fact that he possessed the letter Il
secret, and on his death bed gave it To
his oldest SON.. Thus the letter was kept
| in tnn tHnlllN- TnI' nN-nts "a thnnCnnI Won lS
and was brought to this country by early
settlers.
MORE Ill LUCK.
It 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 the only daughter the let
ter was turned over 10 Il lady by the name
of Mrs. Townson, who lot wishing to dis
obey the order of Christ at once had it
published in the Tribune, of Rome, Ca,
! October 81, 1891.
The citizen, of Dalton, Ga, copied the
article, and Mrs. Workman, now living in
Marion, Ind, clipped the piece and has
had it in her possession for 9 number OF
years.
She has never had it published and
| states that she has been keeping the arti-
| Gle ana DelleNcS GltU HeI lllSloI GIlIcS lihNc
all come from the fact that she never gave
the article out for publication.
LII the letter was written the command
ments Of Christ signed by the angel Cab
riel ninety-ninc years after the Savior's
death. g.
THE LETTER.
The letter follows: ''Whosoever works
| on the Sabbath day shall be cursed. l com
mand you to go to church and keep holy
the hOrd'S day without My manner OF
time in bcdecking yourselves in super
nuities of costly apparel and vain dressing
for | have ordered it a day of rest.
I will have that day kept holy that your
sins may be forgiven you. You will not
break my commandments, but observe
| and keep them, they being written by my
hand and and spoken from my mouth.
You shall not only go to church yourselves,
but also your man servant and your maid
servant. Observe my words and learn my
commandments. You shall finish your
| work every Saturday at 6 o'clock in the
afternoon, at which hour the preparations
for the Sabbath begins.
| l advise you to fast five Fridays in the
| year beginning on Good Friday and con-
tinuing the five Fridays following, in re-
mrmbrance of the five bloody wounds l
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 b~aptism-and the supper of
| the Lord, and in so doing l will give you
long life and many blessings. Your land
shall be replenished and bring forth
| abundance and I will comfort you in temp
tatiOn, and surely he that to the contrary
| shall be cursed. I will also send hardness
| OF heart on them, and especially on hard
| ened and unpenitent unbelievers. He that
hath given to the poor shall find in pro-
ftable.
Remember to keep holy the Sabbath
day for the seventh day have taken as a
resting day to myself"
THE INJUNCTION.
And he that hath a copy of this letter,
written by my w hand and spoken from
my own mouth, and keepeth it, without
| publishing it to others shall not prosper,
! but he that publiSheth it to others shall be
| blessed by me, and if their sins he as
many as the stars of the night, and if they
truly believe they shall be pardoncd> and
they that believe not in this writing and
my commandments will have my plaques
| upon you, and you be consumed with your
| children, goods, cattle and all other world
ly cnioyments that | have given you. Do
but once think OF what l have suffered for
you. If you do it will be well for, you in
this world and in the world which is to
come.
Whosoever shall have a copy of this
letter and keep it in their house nothing
shall hurt them, neither pestilence, light
ming or thunder, and if any woman be III
birth and put her trust in me she shall be
delivered Of her cnild.
You shall hear no more news of me, eX-
cept through .he holy scripture, until the
day of Judgment.
All goodness and prosperity shall he in
the house where a copy Of this letter shall
he found"