CHAPTER 8.

ATHLYI SENT ABROAD.

1. And it came to pass that the word of the Lord came to Athlyi saying

get thee into foreign countries and provide stars of the Law and of the

gospel of the twentieth century.

2. Go the way of the Atlantic and return by way of the Pacific, and

Athlyi obeyed the Lord.

3. And when he was in the Strait of Magellan, the Lord spake to him

saying:

4. My holy house of Athlyi let her be of two wings, the Church to the

right and a green pasture to the left.

5. Let the Church teach and the green pasture to provide for the people;

let the house of Athlyi be the director thereof, and I, the Lord, shall

dwell in the house of Athlyi and give light to her wings, then shall the

inhabitants of the earth know that I am the Lord God of Ethiopia.

6. Let there be but one church or denomination upon the law and the

gospel commanded for the salvation of Ethiopia’s generations.

7. In entering the inner door of the Church let the people bow with

reverence to the holy dictuary.

8. Suffer no one to preach upon or in the dictuary save a teacher of the

law and a believer in the gospel commanded to the children of Ethiopia.

9. Let the people take interest in the apostles, but he that boost not

the green pasture to provide for the people is not worthy of

compensation.

10. Let the people give to the green pasture for their own good and for

the welfare of their generations.

11. Oh, Athlians, love ye one another, forget not the assembling of

yourselves together that no corruption gather between thee, for thou art

the light and guide unto salvation; let all the children of Ethiopia

follow thee.

12. May the Lord God of Ethiopia watch between us whil’st we are absent

one from another. May he endow us with unity of spirit and anxious

hearts to again assemble for the rise of falling humanity through the

guidance of the house of Athlyi and in the name of one God, his Law and

the Holy Ghost for ever and ever—Amen.

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