July 2010 – Page 2

Excerpt from Father Divine’s message given at the banquet table 1887-1889 Madison Avenue New York City, N.Y. on Saturday, July 6, 1940 A.D.F.D at 3:20 p.m.

At this particular instance I have arisen to say, as you see the outward expression of the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, so can it be with every one of you even as it is here with us!

Peace and happiness where there once was anger and cursing

I was just thinking a moment ago of this Peace, Love and Happiness and yet Tranquility, with Passiveness and Quietness and Assurance. These wonderful blessings I have made a living reality – even where those of you once upon a time would be sitting at your tables where you would be dining, eating and taking food for the sustenance of your body, and for the benefit of your soul – at times a good many of you would be cursing and swearing. You would be in all sorts of rages of anger and excitement and confusion. But from those conditions you are completely emancipated! Now you are living in Peace, and Quietness, and Blessed Assurance. Aren’t you glad! Whilst thinking on that, by your conscious conviction through and by what you are actually observing from the physical , yea, from a personal point of view, make the comparison of this dining room table with your former tables and the tables of thousands of others who are called American citizens. Not only those who are of the underworld, disrespectable and malicious and low-charactered people, but those among you who you have considered yourselves to be self-respecting, law-abiding and even law-making citizens, you have not enjoyed the Peace, Unity and Tranquility and the outward expression of Harmony systematically exhibited as you all are enjoying in these different audiences and dining rooms where I preside! Just look over this vast audience, the Spirit of the Omnipotent One controlling everyone, bringing you and others with whom you come in contact into subjection to Righteousness, Truth and Justice and into subjection to Love and Kindness and Tranquility, where the very Spirit of Peace abides and is in evidence in our daily experience, in our diverse audiences and in our dining rooms wheresoever I am presiding! [Read more…]

Father’s sermon given whilst at the holy communion table at the Kingston Mansion 67 Chapel street Kingston, New York on Sunday evening August 31, 1952 A.D.F.D. at 9:08 pm.

Peace everyone: At this instance I have arisen to say, it is good to be here! Of course, the majority of you know for what purpose we are assembled here tonight; therefore, it is not necessary especially, to go into the details of what we are actually doing here; for when I am personally absent I am Present and operative and expressive, if you are conscious of it. And when I am Personally Present, as I am as a Person, I may refrain from speaking; I may refrain from action and allow my Spirit in others to speak, as I will speak more effectively at times, in Actions and in Deeds than what I could say in Words!

But we are happy to be here and to see this large assembly, not only here at this place at this instant, but in all parts of the world, where they recognize the different assemblages that have been established with the selfsame conviction and the belief in God, to the extent that they recognize God’s presence all over this wide extended plane! A day being set apart on the twenty-ninth of April as a day of Recognition and for the Realization of Millions, of my Marriage to my Spotless Virgin Bride, One of Whom sits here by my side! I know it sounds somewhat strange to the children of men to speak of a Spotless Virgin Bride, One Who is incorruptible mentally and Spiritually and absolutely untouched and undefiled, but this, the Day, has been set apart as a Review of that Memorial Day of the Sixth Anniversary of my Marriage to this, my Spotless Virgin Bride, for the purpose of bringing about Universal Brotherhood, Democracy, Americanism, Christianity and Judaism as Synonymous!

We shall not be discouraged until we shall have accomplished this Universally, for it is as contagious as that which was once called Hitler’s contagion of Destruction, of warfare and of bloodshed!

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