This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone $1,000 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to do so and paid the $1,000. The answer is one word and it appears only four times in the Bible. Can you figure this one out?

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—
Adam gave me my name.
I from his presence then withdrew
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my Maker's law obey
Nor ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear
But seldom on the 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 that 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 traveled on from pole to pole.
I labored hard by day, by night
To fallen men I gave 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 there is found.
They are to me an empty sound.
No feat or death doth trouble me.
Real happiness I'll never see.
To Heaven I shall never go
Or 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?

—M. Doss