Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-02-15

Devlnely lnSpHe d
Letter 70 Huron Lady
y Daily Huronite: Mrs. E. Danlas
has asked The Huronite TO print the
following
Country papers thruout the United
States are printing what is aliege II
to be a Letter Written BY Christ. Il
In this letter is an Injunction that.
1t should be published to the world
by whoever found it, together with
the statement that misfortune and
bad luck would follow the person In
possession OF it unless he gave it pub
LEFTY There Is likewise promise
that whoever may Keep a copy of il
will prosper and be followed BY good
fortune. Beg
According to the history OF the LETT
ter, it was written by Christ just at
[ ter his crucifixion, signed by the An
gel Gabriel ninety-nine years after
the Saviors birth, and presumably
deposited by Him under a stone at
the foot of the cross. On this stone
appeared the legend, Blessed Is He
Who Turns Me Over" No one knew
what the inscription meant or seem
ed to have sufficient curiosity to in
vestigate, until the stone was turned
over by a little child and the letter
discovered. It follows:
Whoever works on the Sabbath day
shall be cursed. command you 70
go to church and keep holy the Lords
day, without any manner Of work,
You shall not idle or mispend Your
| time in bedecking yourself in super.
fiuities or costly apparel and vain
dressing for ] have ordered it a day
of rest. will have that day kept
holy that your sins may be forgiven
i you.
You will not break my command
ments, but observe and keep them
they being written by my hand and
spoken by my mouth. You shall moi
4 only go to church yourself but YOU
| inanseryant and maid servant. CD
serve my words and learn my com
mandments. You shall finish you,
| work every Saturday at six O'Clock il
the afternoon, at which hour the pre-
paration for the Sabbath begins.
90 advise YOU to fast five days il
the year, beginning with Good Frida!
and continuing the four days follow
ing, in remembrance of the fiv,
bloody wounds ] received for yol
and mankind. You shall love on
4. another and cause them that are no
! baptised to come to church and re
ceiye the holy sacramentthat is t
say, baptism--and then the supper
3 Iof the Lord, and be made a membe
1 thereof, aid in SO doing will civ
you long life and many blessing;
: Your land shall be replenished an
bring forth abundance and VII
comfort you in the greatest tempte
} ton; and surely he that doeth to tn
? contrary shall be cursed. ] will ais
t send hardness of the heart on then
r and especially on hardened and III
( penitent unbelieYers. He that hat
! given to the poor shall find it prof
3 able. Remember to keep the Sal
! bath day, for the seventh day hay
n taken as a resting day to mysel
s And he that hath a copy Of this lie
= ter, written by my own hand and sp
Y ken by my own mouth, and keepei
h it without publishing it to others,sha
n not prosper, but he that publishes
d to others shall be blessed by me, al
n if their sins be as many as stars
night, and If they truly believe. thu
II shall be pardoned; and they that i
q iieye not this writing and my col
"a mandments win have many plaques
% on you, and you will be consum
10 with your children, goods and cat
and all other worldly enjoymer
i that have given you. Do but thil
! once Of what have suffered for 20
: If you do. it will be well for you
: this world and in the world which
- to come.
!. Whoever shall have a copy of t
!, letter and keep 1t in their hou
:. nothing shall hurt them neither p
= thence, thunder nor lightning; a
~ if any woman be in birth and i
ne her trust in me, she shall be deliv
ed Of her child.
ifL you shall hear no more news
re me except thru the Holy Scriptu
Mt antil the day of judgment. All XII
ng of goodness and prosperity shall
ITS in the house where copy of I
ge letter shall be found. finished"
lid The story goes that a little ci
ON who found 1t passed it to one who