Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-04-25

Ichurch yourself. but also your
man servant and maid servant.
Observe my words and learn my
commandments.
Finish On Saturday
You shall finish your work
every Saturday at 6 o'clock in
the afternoon at which hour the
preparation for the Sabbath be-
gins. advise you to fast five
days in the year beginning on
Good Friday and continuing for
five days following in rememb-
rance of the five bloody wounds
l 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 Sup
per 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
in abundance, and l will comfort
you in the greatest emptation,
and surely he that doeth con-
trary shall be cursed.
will also send hardness of
the heart on them and especially
On hardened and unpenitent I'M
believers. He that hath given to
the poor shall find it profitable.
Remember to keep the Sabbath
day for the seventh day I have
taken as a resting day unto my
self.
Shall Not Prosper
And he that hath a copy of
this letter written by my hand
and spoken by my mouth and
kecpeth it without publishing il
to others shall not prosper, but
he that publisheth it to others
shall be blessed by Me and if
their sins be as many as stars
by night and if they truly be-
lieve, 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
land all other worldly enjoy
ImcntS that l have given you. Dc
but once think of what l have
suffered for you, if you do i
will be well for you in thi!
world and in the world to come
Until The Judgment
| Whosocver shall have a copy
of this letter and keep it in thei,
house nothing shall hurt them
neither pestilence, thunder mol
lightning and if any woman bc
in the birth and put her trust ir
Me she shall be delivered of hel
child. You shall hear no more
news Of Nc except through the
Holy Scripture until the day o.
Judgment. All goodness anC
prosperity shall be in the house
where copy of this letter shall
be found. Finished.
The story goes that the LITTLE
child who found it passed it tc
one who became a convert tc
the Christian published. HI
kept if, however. as n sacred
momcnto of Christ and it pass
ed down 10 different genera
tiions of his family for moro
than 100 years.
Suffer MisfOrtuncs
! During this period the family
suffered repeated miSfortunes
moved TO different countries un-
I'll finally one of them came 10
America bringing the letter with
them. They settled in Virginia.
then moved further South still
followed by misfortune when
finally the last number. a dau-
Ghtcr, approached her death
bed and called q ncighbor. a
Mrs. Thompson, giving her the
letter and relating its history for
more than 100 years. The
Thompson woman began the at
tempt to publish it and il first
appeared in the Rome. Ca. Tri-
bune on October 81. 1891. II
then appeared in the Dalton.
Ga, Citizen and Mrs. Workman,
iEow living in Marion. Ind, clip
ped it and kept il in her posses
sion for many years without an
Effort to have it published. She
was followed by misfortune
which she attributed to her neg
Icct in not trying TO have the
letter published.