FATHER DIVINE’S MESSAGE
GIVEN WHILE AT THE BANQUET TABLE
1887-1889 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11th, 1941 A.D.F.D
TIME ─ 5:17 P.M.
The real emancipation that only the Emancipator HIMSELF, FATHER DIVINE, can bring, is most noticeable when one looks back into his own past and sees how he was bound in chains of darkness through traditions and doctrines of men, or observes the gradual emancipation which the freedom of expression brings another.
A very inspiring testimony of praise and thanksgiving from a nurse who lives in the South, held the interest of the assembly on this occasion as she told of several experiences, the last of which was the miraculous healing of a friend whom she expected to find dead, but Who, to the contrary, through contacting FATHER had been resurrected and had resumed activity. Among other things she related, she told of her happiness in FATHER’S Principle of equality, or words to that effect, as she had been made to feel a superiority over other children in her infancy, and added that she now realized she was no better than anyone else.
As equality has such a great bearing on the Brotherhood of Man advocated by FATHER, in this beautiful Message which followed her remarks HE speaks of the Bill of Rights and HIS appeal to all American citizens through their representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives, which is made in the patriotic songs with which HE has inspired the youth of the Peace Mission Movement. [Read more…]