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BARUCHHABA@aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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.


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