The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-08-22
Making The Annual Rounds of News.
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thrift means future happiness.
Making The Annual Rounds of News
papers.
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1t is difficult to eradicate habit
among the public. The following let
ter finds its way into the newspapers
every year, ana has been doing SO for
a number OF years, always emanating
from the same place, to the best of
our INSTRUMENTATION, Indiana.
Letter by Christ-said to have been
Found.
a veteran of Marion, Ind, CLIPPED
an article containing letter from
the News-Tribune, said to have been
written by Christ, and sends it to this
paper with request that it be pub
lished. The history Of the letter j.
indeed interesting. lit was found, II
is stated, under stone at the foot
of a cross under which Christ was
crucified. On the stone was written,
Blessed is he who turns me over"
No one knew what this inscription
meant until one day when a child
turned the stone over and discovered
the letter, which the veteran believes
Christ Himself wrote. The letter
came into the possession of man
who had been converted, and who
kept the letter as a sacred memento
of the Savior. He never prospected
as it was Iplainly stated in the letter
that anyone who secured it should
have it published or he would have
bad luck. The man kept the fact that
he possessed the letter secret and
upon his death he gave it unto he
safe keeping of his son, and thus the
letter was kept i'm the family for hun
dredS OF years. Early settlers
brought it to this country. 1t was
kept secret by the family while they
lived in Virginia, but they never pros
pered, and ill luck continually follow
ed them, as their ancestor, until on
the death bed of their only daught 2r
the letter was turned over to a lady
by the name of Mrs. M. E. Townson,
who not wishing to disObey the Or
ders of Christ, at once had the piece
copied in the Tribune Of Rome Ga,
October s, 1891. The citizens of Dali
ton, Ga, copied the piece and Mrs.
Workman now living in Marion, Ind,
clipped the article and has had it IN
her possession for number of years.
She never had it published until re-
Gently, and stated that she had some
bad luck while she kept the article, !
and believed this misfortune all came
from the fact that she never gave it
out for publication.
\ In the letter was written the COM
mandments of Christ, signed by the
Angel Gabriel, ninety-nine years af-
ter the Saviors birth The letter
was printed in an Indiana paper, and
a home veteran clipped the article
Believing that he will have ill-luck
unless it. is published, for the fifth
time since its discovery, he has asked
the Indianian to favor him The let \
ter follows:
"Whosoever works on the Sabbath
Day shall be cursed. l command you
to 60 to church and keep the Lords
Day Holy without any manner of
work. You will not idle or mis-
spend your time in bedecking your
selves in superfiuities or costly alp !
parel and vain dressing, for | have
that day kept holy that your sins
may be forgiven you. You will not
break my commandments, but observe
and keep them, they being written
by my hand and spoken with my
mouth. You shall not only 60 to
church yourselves, but your man-ser-
want and your maidservant; and OBJ |
serve my words and learn my COM
You shall finish your |
labor every Saturday at siX-o'clock in |
the afternoon, at which hour the pre-
paration OF the Sabbath begins. |
advise you to fast five Fridays in the |
year, beginning ON Good Friday and
continuing the Five Fridays follow
ing in remembrance of the five bloody
wounds I received for you and all |
mankind, You shall diligently and
peaceably labor in your several voca- /
tions where it hath pleased God to
call-yo You shall love one another |
and cause them that are not baptized \
to come to church and receive that |
holy sacrament, that is to say bap-E
tism, and the Supper of the Lord, and
be made member thereof, and i'm so
doing, + will give you long life and
many blessings; your land shall re
plenish and bring forth abundant,
and | will comfort you in the great
est temptations, and surely he that
doth to the contrary shall be cursed.
them till I have destroyed them, but
ESPECIALLY on hardened and improfit-
able. Remember to keep holy the
Sabbath day. for the seventh day +
have taken a. resting day, to myself,
and he that hath a rcdpy of this let
ter written with my own hand, and
spoken with my own mouth, and
keepeth it without publishing it to-
others shall not prosper; but he that
publisheth it to others shall be bless
ed Of me, and If their sins be as many
as there are stars in the sky and If
they truly believe they shall be par
doned and they that believe not this,
my writing and my commandments, II
will send my plaques upon you and
consume you and your children, goods
and cattle and all other worldly en-
joyment that I have given you. Do
but once think OF what I- have suffer-
ed for you both i'm this world and i'm
that which is to come. whatsoever
shall have copy of this letter and
keepeth it in their house nothing
shall harm them, neither pestilenee,
lightning nor thunder and il any
woman be in birth and put her trust
in me shall be delivered Of her birth
You shall hear no more news of me
Ey the Holy Scriptures until the Day
Of Judgment All goodness shall Be-
in the house where copy of this let
ter shall be found"
Finished"