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This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from
a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would give $1,000.00 to anyone who could
write a puzzle that he could not solve. Ha failed to do so and paid the
$1,000.00. Please e-mail me your answer. If you already know the answer don't
give it away.

Adam, God made out of dust,
But thought it best to make me first.

So I was made before man
To answer God's holy plan.

A living being I became
And Adam gave to me my new name.

I from his presence then withdrew
And more of Adam never knew.

I did my maker's law obey,
And never 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.

Son when from me the soul fled,
I was the same when first made.

And without hands, or feet, or soul,
I travel on from pole to pole.

I labor hard by day and by night,
To fallen man I have great might.

Thousands of people, young and old,
Will by my death grant light behold.

No right  or wrong can I conceive,
The scriptures I cannot believe.

Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.

No fear of death doth trouble me,
For real happiness I'll never see.

To heaven I shall never go,
Nor to hell below.

Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bible with all speed.

For my name is written there,
I do honestly declare.