Who Am I?

 

This riddle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone $1,000.00 who could write a riddle he could not solve.

 

He failed to do so and paid the $ 1,000.00 prize. The answer appears only four times in the Bible.

 

Adam; God made out of dust,

But thought it was 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 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 proclaim,

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 feet 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 your speed.

For that my name is written there,

I do honestly to you declare….

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