The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-10-30


News upon the request of reader
STAMFORD, Tex, June 9, 1909.
Editor Waco Tribune: | enclose you
a clipping from a newspaper in
which you will find a letter from
Christ, and written at the foot of
the cross. l will kindly ask that you
print same in your valuable paper.
Your truly, w. +. HlLLE4.
W. r. Hilton handed us the fol
lowing letter last week with the re-
quest to publish same, with the
thought that it might be interesting
to our readers. 1t is letter pur-
porting to have been written by
Christ at his crucifxion. The letter
is headed, "a Letter from Christ, F."
and reads as follows:
GREENFIELD, Tenn, March 18.
The Greenfield Times published this
week what is purported to be letter
from Christ written just after His
crucifxion on the cross. The letter
was published at the request of Miss
Rubia Crutchfeld, Route l, Treze-
want, Tenn, who said that she had
had the letter three years, and that
bad luck had continually followed
her until she decided to obey its in
junction and have it published. The
letter says: "And he that hath copy
of this letter without publishing it to
others shall not prosper. But he that
publisheth it to others shall be bless
ed by me, and if their sins shall be
as many as the stars of the night,
and if they truly believe, they shall
be pardoned."
History of the Letter.
Mrs Fannie Workman, of Marion,
Ind, knows something of the his
tory of the letter. 1t was when she
had had the letter published that
Mrs. Crutchfeld is supposed to have
gotten possession of it. The follow
ing is taken from a Marion paper {:
Mrs. Workman says she lived in
Dallas, Ga, until last August when
she came to this city. She said the
letter given below was first found
under a stone at the foot of the
cross on which Christ was crucifed
and that on the stone was written,
blessed is he who shall turn me
over" No one knew what this in
scription meant until a child turned
the stone over and discovered the
letter written by Christ Himself. The
letter came into the hands of a man
who had been converted and who
kept it as sacred instrument of the
Saviour. He, however, refused to
have it published, according to the
orders of Christ, and as a conse-
quence he never prospered. He kept
the fact that he possessed the letter
a secret, and on his death gave it to
his oldest son. Thus the letter was
hCPt III bllt lliIltiy lOI over IuOu-
sand years and was brought to this
country by early settlers.
1t was kept a secret by the family
while they lived in Virginia, but they
never prospered, and ill-luck contin-
ually followed them as it did their
ancestors. On the death of the only
daughter, the letter was turned over
to lady by the name of Mrs. Town
son, who, not wishing to disobey the
orders of Christ, at once had it pub
lished in The Tribune, of Rome, Ga,
October 81, 1891. The Citizen, of
Dalton, Ga, copied the article and
Mrs. Workman, of Marion, Ind,
clipped the article and has had it in
her possession for a number of years.
She has never had it published and
states that she has had bad luck
since she has been keeping the article
and believes that her misfortunes
have all come from the fact that she
never gave it out for publication. In
the letter was written the Command
ments Of Christ and signed by the