Gilpin observer., 1917-01-18
! REMARKABLE
ANCIENT LETTER

This letter is said to have been
written by Christ. and handed down
from generation to generation. The
original letter, said to have been
written by Christ was found in the
early days of Christianity by child.
There is a promise that who SO ever
may have copy of this letter In
their possession will prosper and be
followed by good fortune If they pub
lish it. II they do not heed the COM
mand, bad luck and misfortune will
follow them until 1t is made public.
From the hands Of the child who
found 1t.
The letter is said to have passed
into the possession of a convert to
the Christian faith For some reason
the convert failed to have it pub
lished. He kept it, however, as
sacred momento of Christ and 1t
passed on to his eldest son, and on
down through many generations, but
was never published. The tradition
being that when it finally was given
publicity it had been in this one fam
lily more than a thousand years. Dur
ing all this time, the story goes, the
family suffered repeated and continu-
Gus misfortune. Discouraged mem
bers Of the family migrated to coun-
tries other than where the letter was
found, which was evidently Palestine,
and finally one of them came to Am
erica, bringing the faithful letter with
him. The family having possession
of it settled in Virginia, still keeping
Of the family moved further south,
still followed by misfortune. Finally
as the last member of the family lay
on her death bed, she called a neigh
Dor woman named Thompson and
gave the letter to her. Relating it's
history, the Thompson woman's at
tempts to have it published were re-
warded in the Rome, Ca, Tribune,
October 31st, 1891. From there it
was reprinted in the Dalton, Ca, Cit
izen, and Mrs. Fannie Workman, of
Marion, Ind, clipped it from the Pa
per and had it in her possession for
many years. Recently Mrs. Workman
had it published, stating that during
the time she had retained the letter
in her possession, wi hout having it
published or attempted to, she had
species of bad luck, which she attrib
utes to her failure to secure public
ity for the letter. Here is the letter:
who so ever works on the Sab
bath 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 mis-
spend your time in bedecking your
selves in superflu,ies of costly appar-
ell and vain dressing. Fer I have or
that day kept holy that your sins
may be forgiven you. You will not
break my commandments. but OBJ
serve and keep them; they being
written by my hand and spoken from
my mouth. You will not only go to
church yourself, but also your man
servants and maid servants. You
shall finish your work on the eve of
every Sabbath at o'clock. at which
hour preparations for the Sabbath be-
gin. l advise you to fast five Fri
days in the year, beginning on Good
Friday and continuing the Fridays
following in remembrance of the five
blood wounds l received for you and
mankind. You shall love one anoth-
er and cause them that are not bap-
tized to come to church and receive
the holy sacrament-that is to say,
baptism, ard then the supper of the
LOrd-and be made q member there
long life and many blessings. Your
land shall be replenished and bring
forth abundance. And will comfort
you in the greatest temptation. And
surely he who doeth to the contrary
shall be cursed. will also send
hardness of heart on them. and es-
pecially on hardened and impenitent
unbelievers. He that hath given to
the poor shall find 1t profitable. Re.
member to keep holy the Sabbath
day. for the seventh day have tax
en- as a resting day. And he who
hath copy of this letter from my