Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-20
SACRED NOTE
GETS INTO PRINT
Letter Alleged to Have Been
Written by Christ; Threats
and Promises to People

Country papers throughout the
United States are printing what is
alleged to be a letter written by
Christ.
In this letter was an injunction
that it should be published to the
world by whoever found it, together
with the statement that misfortune
and bad luck would follow the person
having possession if it in the event
that 1t was not given publicity.
There was likewise a promise that
whoever may have a copy of this in
his or her possession will prosper
and be followed by good fortune.
According to the history of the let
ter it was written by Christ just after
his crucifxion, signed by the Angel
Gabriel SO years after the Saviour's
birth and presumably deposited by
him under q stone at the foot of the
cross.
On the stone appeared the legend,
Blessed is he who shall turn me
over"
No one knew what the inscription
meant or seemed to have sufficient
curiosity to investigate, until the
stone was turned over by a little
child, and the letter which follows
was discovered:
"Whosoever works on the Sabbath
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
self in superfiuities of costly apparel
and vain dressing for l have ordered
it day of rest. / will have that
day kept holy that your sins may be
forgiven you.
You will not break my command
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
servant. Observe my words and
learn my commandments.
You shall finish your work every
Saturday at 6 o'clock in the after
noon, at which hour the preparation
for the Sabbath begins. l advise you
to fast five days in the year, begin
ming on Good Friday and continuing
the five days following, in remem-
brance of the five bloody wounds 1
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 l will give you long life and
many blessings. Your land shall be
replenished and bring forth abun-
dance and 1 will comfort you in the
greatest temptation and surely he
that doeth to the contrary shall be
cursed.
'T will also send hardness of the
heart on them and especially on
hardened and unpenitent unbe-
levers. He that hath given to the
poor shall find it profitable. Remem-
ber to keep the Sabbath day, for
the seventh day I have taken as
resting day to myself.
And he that hath a copy of this
letter written y my own hand and
spoken by my own mouth and keep
eth it without publishing 1t to others,
shall not prosper, but he that pub
lisheth 1t to others shall be blessed
by me and If their sins be as many
as stars by night, and If they truly
believe 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
and cattle and all other worldly en-
1oyments that 1 have given you. Do
but once think of what have suffer-
ed for you. If you do, it will be we'll
for you in this world and in the
wrold which Is to come.
"Whosoever shall have a COPY of
this letter and keep it in their house,
nothing shall hurt them, neithor
pestilence, thunder nor lightning, 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 Scriptures, until the day of
judgment. All goodness and pros
perity shall be in the house where
a copy of this letter shall be found.
Finished"
The story goes that the little child
who found 1t passed it to one who
became a convert to the Christian
faith. He failed to have the letter
published. He kept 1t, however, as
a sacred memento of Christ and II
passed down to different generations
of his family for more than 1000
years.
During this period the family suf-
fered repeated misfortunes, migrated
to different countries until finally one
of them came to Amerien, brip~in~
the letter with them. They settled