The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-15
REVIVE OLD SCHEME
Chain Prayer Letters Being
Sent in Large Numbers to
People in Kenosha
NO CHANGE IN OLD METHODS

On a larger scale than anything ever
attempted in the chain prayer line, is
The movement in various parts of the
United States to circulate letter al
legged to have been written by Christ
after the crucifxion and hidden by
him under a stone at the foot of the
cross. The most dire misfortune is
forecasted for any. person into whose
hands the letter falls unless he sends
it on. The letter has reached Kenosha.
It first appeared in Indiana, then Vir-
ginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kansas and
recently in Colorado, where it was
published in the Denver post.
The letter reads:
day 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 misspend
your time iii bedecking yourselves in
superauities- of softly apparel and vain
dressing, for / have ordered it day
of rest. | will have that day kept holy
that your sins may be forgiven you.
You Will not break my comman-
ments, 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 man-servant and maid -serv-
ant. Observe my words and learn
my commandments.
"You shall finish your work every
Saturday at 6 clock in the afternoon
at which hour the preparation for the
Sabbath begins | advise you to fast
five Fridays in the year, beginning on
Good Friday and continuing the Fri
days 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
/ will give you long life and many
blessings. Your land shall be replen-
ished and bring forth abundance and
[ will comfort you in the greatest
| temptation, and surely he that doeth
to the contrary shall be cursed.
~ will also send hardness of the
heart on them, and especially ON har-
dened and unpenitent unbleivers. He
that hath given to the poor shall find
! it 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 a copy of this
letter, written by my own hand and
spoken from my own mouth, and keep
eth it, without publishing it to others,
shall not prosper, but he that publish
eth it to others shall be blessed by me
and if their sins be as many as the
stars at night, and if they truly be-
lieve, they shall be pardoned, and they
that believe not this writing and my
commandments will have my plaques
upon you, and you will be consumed
with your children, goods, cattle and
all worldly enjoyments that | have
given you. Do but once think of what
have suffered for you-if YOU do, it
will be we'll 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 pesti-
lence, lightning or thunder, and if any
woman be in 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 scrip
ture, until the day Of Judgment. All
goodness and prosperity shall be in
the house where a copy of this letter
shall be found. Finished )