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 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,

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.

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 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to do so and paid the $1000. The answer is one word, and it appears only FOUR times in the Bible.

I labor hard by day, by night,
To fallen man I give great light.
Thousands of people, young and old,
Will by my great light behold.

No right or wrong can I conceive,
The Scriptures I cannot not believe.
Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.

No feat of death doth trouble me,
Real happiness I’ll never see.
To heaven I shall never go, or to hell 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 ?

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