Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-18
JESUS CHRIST'S LETTER.
(Ee-Published By Request

SAID TO HAVE BEEN FOUND CN-
DER A GREAT STONE, SIXTY
FIVE YEARS AFTER THE CRU
CITiNION OF OUR BLESSED
SAVIOUR. EIGHTEEN MILES
FROM iCuNIU2l; TRANSMIT
TED From THE HOLN CITY BY
4 CONVERTED JEW; FAITH
FULLY TRANSLATED FROM
THE ORIGINAL HEBREW COPY.
n =. ~ POSSESSION OF THE
LADY CUBA'S FAMILY At ME-
SDPDTAAGIA:
This letter was written b. Jesus
both round and large, at the foot Of
the cross, eighteen miles from Iconi-
um. near a village called MesopOta-
mia: upon the stone was written and
engraved: "Blessed is ne that shall
turn me over" All people who saw
it, prayed to God earnestly, and de-
sired He would make known to them
might not attempt in vain to turn it
over. Ins the meantime, there came
a little child, about six or seven years
Old, and turned it over without help,
to the admiration of all the people
that stood by, and under this stone
was found a letter written by Jesus
Christ, which was carried to the city
a person belonging to the Lady Cuba,
and in the letter was written the
commandments of Jesus Christ,
signed by the Angel Of Gabriel,
twenty-eight years after our Saviour's
birth:
whoever worketh on the Sabbath
day shall be cursed. I command you
to go to church, and keep the Lords
day holy without doing any manner
of work You shall not idly misspend
your time in bedecking yourselves
with superfluities Of costly apparel
and vain dresses, for I have ordained
it a day of rest; l will have that day
kept holy. that your sins may be for
given you; you shall not break my
Commandments, but observe and
keep them. written with my own
hand; write them in your hearts, and
steadfastly cling to this was written
with my own hand, spoken by my own
mouth. You shall not only go to
church yourselves, but also your man
servants and your maid servants,
and observe my words and learn my
Commandments; you shall finish your
labor every Saturday in the afternoon
by of the clock, at which hour the
preparation of the Sabbath begins. I
advise you to fast five days in every
year. beginning with Good. Friday,
and to continue the four Fridays i'm
following in remembrance
of the five bloody~wounds I received
for all mankind. You shall dill
igently and peaceably labor in your
vocations, wherein it hath
pleased God to call it. You shall
love one another with brotherly love,
and cause them that are not baptized
10 come 70 church and hear the Holy
Viz: Baptism and the
Lords Supper, and be made members
thereof; in so doing I will give you
long life and many blessings and
comfort YOU in the greatest tempta-
tons, and when he that doeth to the
contrary shall be unblest and unprof-
liable. l will also send hardness of
heart upon them, till have DESTROYED
them. but especially upon hardened
and impertinent unbelievers. He that
hath given to the poor, he shall not
be unprofitable. Remember to keep
holy the Sabbath day, for the seventh
day l have taken to myself; and he
that hath a copy of this letter, writ
ten with my own hand, and spoken
with my own mouth, and keeps It
without publishing it to others, shall
not prosper; but he that publisheth
it to others, shall be blest of mc, anc
though his sins be in number rs the
stars in the sHys, and he that believes
in this shall be pardoned and if ne
believes not this writing and my Com
mandmentS, l will send nly plaques
uncn him. and consume borI him and
his children and his cattle; and whom
soever shall have a copy OF this letter,
written with ny own hand, and keeps
it ir their houses, nothin.s shall hurt
them: neither nestilence, lightning
nor thunder shall dc them any hurt;
and # W2M,;: be with child and in
la, Or, and :. copy of this letter hc
a,.oUi her, ;inI :.rc firmly puts her
trust in it. she shall safely be deliv-
cred of her birth. You shall have no
news of NE but by the Holy Spirit
till the day Of Judgment.
All goodness and prosperity shall
be in the house where q copy Of this
letter shall be found"