Book: God comes to America: Father Divine and The Peace Mission Movement
by Kenneth E. Burnham “At last a study that takes seriousely one of the most controvercial, important, and neglected religious leaders of the twentieth century – Father Divine, whom thousands believed to be God incarnate. Based on rare source materials, this readable account traces Father Divine’s career, spells out his theological position and economic message, [...]
Book: Promised Land: Father Divine’s Interracial Communities in Ulster County, New York
The author, Carleton Mabee, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. A retired Professor of History at SUNY, New Paltz, Mabee is the author of several books related to the mid-Hudson region. He lives in Ulster County, in Gardiner. Author Mabee found himself fascinated by the Divine movement from the time he was a student at Columbia University [...]
My actual work and mission among these people
I would like to say to our visiting friends, hearers, and even followers who have not heard and known.. Do not know, whichever.. MY Actual Work and Mission among this people; I recall when men in this part of the country, New York City, in Baltimore, Maryland, Philadelphia and Washington… the northeastern part of this [...]
Refuse to hear, taste, see or feel anything that is undesirable
I like the secretaries to hear anything that is good. As I often say to MOTHER, I like for Her and everybody— but especially I wouldn’t like for you to think, see or hear anything distasteful or undesirable, for that is what makes a person ugly; but to always be at a place in consciousness [...]
The Lily-buds’ Creeds
The Lily-buds Creeds Commandments We will live every day without speaking a critical thought of any human being. We will always think of others and not of ourselves. We will let these bodies be a living sacrifice continually. We will always keep this mind of Christ in us. We will always be desirable. We will [...]
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