| This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia, that he would pay anyone $1000.00 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to do so and paid the $1000.00. |
Adam, God made out of dust But thought it best to make me first So I was made before man To answer God's most holy plan A living being I became And Adam gave to me my name I from his presence then withdrew And more of Adam never knew I did my Maker's law obey Nor ever went from it astray Thousands of miles I go in fear But seldom on earth appear For purpose wise which God did see He put a living soul in me A soul from me God did claim And took from me the soul again So when from me the soul had fled I was the same as when first made And without hands, or feet, or soul, I travel on from pole to pole I labor hard by day, by night To fallen man I give great light Thousands of people, young and old Will by my death great light behold No right or wrong can I conceive The Scripture I cannot believe Although my name therein is found They are to me an empty sound No fear of death doth trouble me Real happiness I'll never see To heaven I shall never go Nor to hell, down deep below Now when these lines you slowly read Go search your Bible with all speed For that my name is written there I do honestly to you declare. |
Who Am I? |
