| Show I A It I Is h I evident that t superstition on Is IR not nott yet et t dead dd Only a Salt ait Lake woman well educated and Intelligent ramo Caine to this Oils office and ad very ery II earnestly the Newer Nev NeV to do tin her th J Javor favor avor of publishing a R clipping from ft a which she he presented The Te chipping lipping was found tn to t contain I ft letter written supposedly IU I by b our Savior arid and contaIning at ft the to close clo an Imprecation tho letter fall fail fallo upon pon those IhMe who have to o publish U it I and ald a promise of ot blessings to o those thol who ho would uld keep a copy of 01 the tho letter etter In th their lr homes Tho Thu To lady IB with anxiety In her countenance re rented 11 that ever ocr she he obtained that lipping troubles have hae multiplied for tOI forler her ler She aho now nou believed that this tut duo due uc to her hr neglect to publish the tho letter hatter It If f she sho ho could have hae It I published she ho wild said she hI he believed her hOI luok luck would turn The letter leter somo sonie lomo time ago a 1 was wai ra I y clr ulal d by the th press and the tho story was a told In the Nos at Rt tire the time to that story the tho letter letor w WI was I 6 by our Savior under a stone Ilon at t the foot tot of ot the cross There Thore It II wait ius WI found by b a a child who gave gae It to one onet ot of t the tho followers of r the th It I WI kept In II his hI family for tor 1000 1009 10 years I Ind and nd misfortune attended alend 11 It I always At Atla uM la t It I clime came to 10 America and of ot course ClIM found Its 11 way wa a Into the newspapers Tire The letter rinds reads Whosoever works work on the ta day ay shall emil b b be cursed I command you OU to too togo 10 go o to church and ad keep lep holy Io the I Ir dR day ay without any manner 1 of ot work work You Tou Hall hali hol not no I Idle or misspend your our tine time timen In n bedecking yourselves Ie In up i if ot of f costly apparel and ad vain dressing for far forI farI I hue have ordered It I a day of ot rest t i 1 have hae ave that day kept holy hoy that your sins Mn may be forgiven you ou 1 You will wi not break brak my ray comm nl but observe oLeMe and Ind keep kop them they Ihy being written by my hand and Ind spoken from tom my mouth You shall Ihal not nol only pv r t to 0 church hurch hurh yourselves mel but almo l o your ur man servant anti and maid servant Oh Ob Observe serve re my words and mind learnt learn my com corn You shall 1111 finish your nUt work vork every IVer Saturday at iL ml 6 In the tho afternoon ut itt It which hour the tho preparation for tor the tho Sabbath begins I advise p you 01 to fast fait five OVo In the tl year YlI beginning on lend Ool FrIday y and continuing tho the Fri Fridays lays days following In remembrance of the tIre I flee bloody blood wounds I received for tor you 01 and mankind You shan Ihan love ono another arid cause th Ih hr hl ht are arc lre not nol baptized to conic como to cud receive re hl the tho holy truly Is I to any a baptism arid abut then the r of ot tho thin Lord I rU and runni be Inc nindo n a thereof and in so II Cr do 10 doing tb ing InRI nit I T will wi give JhA you nl iii long Ion I life lio and Ind many tl Your land Shrill shall hlll be b l ld rend bring br ni forth abundance unit un I Iwi will wi I comfort you yell yOI h I lii th thu j Jr tl l temptation tion thon lon and amid surely he ire hI that to the contrary shrill be cursed I r will wi s of ot tire the tle heart on omi them 1111 and especially on humid hard hardened ened and impenitent HU ho I that hath bath given hn to 10 tIre the th poor 1001 shall find flati Ont It I profitable l nu to keep holy the day a top for the seventh day dayI ha haI self I have taken lam 1 a n day to iny I Iii And he h that h h a I copy COl of o this lot let lott t Ut written by I my In own hand and apok spoken pk er en from my own and nd It er I without publishing It tt to t others ethe shall not but hut he that It to 0 others other shall rhall lIe be by me and It If their 11 bo be As 1 is many nn as n tho star Attire at n t night and If It they the truly belIeve that Ihn they thoy shall hall bo be 10 pardoned anti and they tire the that believe bole not nt this tin writing arl my com l t I I I will nut 1 nave have my I tO prague upon import you ou and you 1 will wil be 11 consumed CO I au nl with wih your nur children goods golla and nd nil all ni oth othi other othier er worldly enjoyments that I have hav given Iven you Do D but once think or of what I r have Buttered for you olIt If you ou do It I will wi be hi h will well wel for or you 01 In thIs world anti In the world which Is II to 10 come rome Whosoever hoer shall have R mu I copy of this letter and ke Ip keep p It I In their house troth noth nothIng Ing log shall Ihal hurt thorn thol neither pestilence lightnIng or thunder and anit If It any worn wor an Rn be In lii II birth and An put her hll trust truel In m mo me site she shall bo be delivered of at her child You shall hear no 10 more mort trouts of ot me Inc mI through the th Holy Italy Scripture until th the tin Iny of 01 Judgment All Al goodness and prosperity be he hI In the tire house where shall be found n I cony of nt this letter leter Finished That the th whole tiring thing Is Ice I forgery nn ne n enlightened person plon can eRn That Tha That I It t was written by hy some fome pious fraud fraul who probably thought hn he was serving nerving Oo cloth hy by y frightening people Into Sabbath ob oh fasting etc Is II no so Ia clear that tha tnt bo he who wIre runs ruin can rend It I Tho The letter leter talks alks about Saturday and aird Friday Frida am God Friday The Th Jews nt at the tho time if of our cur Lord Ird mud did eld not know the tho days dl o ohe of he the thO week by hy those names Imm nor did they hn have uiva a Good Friday How does docs 1 I It happen that a n letter l tH strict said to tn bo be written 1910 J years ago lias the modern I lish lh name nam for one of ot the days of 01 tho tire calendar elendar Whore Where Whorl Is 18 tho tile original document foum under the flit rock Specimens of wrItIng front from the time trl of nf this alleged litter letter letor are nIl extant o In books fount found fountIn In II in tho thio ruins of ot Pompeii and ni I which cities were des ties destroyed trod troyed In the tho year 97 9 A D These books consist cnn lt of or sheets of nt papyrus glued together and rolled roiled rold The ThO writ writIng writing Ing run runs across the tho volume It I U Is I without division of or words or sentences Were tho the alleged RI original document In existence It I could easily b tie M compared with other ancient documents anti and nn tho the exposed Hut But there never was fraud 1 such a n document The Tho To letter Is I n mc It clumsy forgery forger and Ind nd nothing else elA We e pay this attention to It I because It Is II not miot Improbable that It will wi bo be launched again upon the press pr s Like Ilke th the chain prayer It should bo be exposed TIre hl pub public lie lic should be warned against taking any Rny notice natle of rif Its In Imprecations ann prom promises tace It I has hall nothing to tn do with wih any good or bail bRI luck hick Th The way oy to have good god luck Is iii to honor fattier father and mother mather and keep klep tho the command commandments commandments ments of at God clod Our OUI Savior has ha given glen the te rule rulo for tor sarah good luck when He lIe said sahl Seek Kook yo ye first the kingdom 0 Gd and an ills His HI righteousness and all ni these things shall bo ho b added unto tinto you ou The TIte more mero reading or publishing of o a I a letter leter has hax hl no effect whatever wha any more mare tI than the tho mechanical repetition of ot written that haa has l become the tho custom among some Christians |
