Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

Father Divine’s Lecture in New York in 1942

Father Divine’s Lecture Given While at the Holy Communion Table of the Peace Center and Nazareth Missions’ Home For The Aged, Church and Training School, 13-17 West 128th Street, New York City, N. Y., Sunday Evening, August 23rd, 1942 A.D.F.D. ,7:30 P.M.

PEACE EVERYONE: At this particular instance I have arisen to say, this is not the last dinner and supper for today; we still have other suppers to serve; and even though we may have the last supper for today around twelve o’clock tonight and the next one around nine o’clock we do not mean to say it will be the last supper, for our suppers have just begun! We are taking it new in your FATHER’S Kingdom and it will be continued throughout all eternity; so those of our visiting guests who desire to, you may go and take part with the next supper at one hundred and twenty-sixth street near seventh avenue!.

It is a common phrase quite often used here in America, “Praise the bridge that carries you over safely!” “Despise not the day of small things and consider the blessings through which they come!”

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Invisible Philadelphia Community Through Voluntary Organizations

The Peace Mission Movement of Philadelphia.

Compiled and edited by Jean Barth Toll and Mildred S. Gilliam for The Atwater Kent Museum.

Copied by permission of the Atwater Kent Museum Publishers of. “Invisible Philadelphia Community Through Voluntary Organizations”, Copyright 1995.

The Reverend M. J. Divine, better known as Father Divine, founded the Peace Mission Movement to help human beings become conscious of God’s presence through obedience to the law of the spirit of life, and thus to create abundance and peace for all. The Peace Mission Movement has provided the necessities of life to countless thousand at a price unfortunate people could pay, and gratis to those who could not pay.

Father Divine had been engaged in feeding, clothing, and sheltering the underprivileged of Brooklyn, New York, and elsewhere since the late 1800s. He and the first Mother Divine bought a home in 1919 in Sayville, Long Island, New York, at 72 Macon Street where he housed, fed and clothed the needy gratis, without solicitation of any kind, and delivered sermons to the many who gathered around the abundant banquet table. He attracted people from all walks of life and many parts of the world who were hungry spiritually as well as physically.

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Crusader’s Songs

Crusader's Songs Album

1. Cheer, Cheer for Father Divine

2. Christian U.S.A.ders

3. Our Father Is Calling His Children Together

4. Highway of Holiness

5. I Am Building You Up

6. We Have One Eternal Christmas

7. Hark The Herald Angel Sing

8. I Am Not My Own

9. Lose Sight of Yourself

10. Unknown Title

11. Marching Up This Highway

12. Sailing, Sailing

13. Think and Live Supernaturally

14. We Are The Sons of God Our Father

15. What More Can I Do

16. We Love To Live This Christ Life

Concerning Mine and Yours

At this juncture, I wish to convey a story that was told as a parable concerning “Mine and Yours.” It is said to be a true story.

It is said, two men purchased a cow once. One claimed the head, the front part of the cow, and the other claimed the hind part of the cow. The one who claimed the hind part of the cow forced the man who claimed the front part of the cow to lead the cow around and feed the cow and graze the cow, and he would only come and milk the cow, and get the milk.

He said, “That is my part and I will not feed the hind part of the cow, for the hind part of the cow does not have to eat, so you will have to lead and feed and graze the cow from the front part and also give her water and everything like that.”

So the other fellow got tired of doing such, so he turned in and decided to get even with John, he said. So he killed his part; which was the front part, and the other man’s part died. This is a story as a fairy tale, but said to be true.

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Loosing the Shore Line

How marvelous it is with those who recognize GOD’S Actual Presence, those who will let loose or let go whichever, of the shore line.

Don’t try to have strings tied on to GOD in your thoughts, nor in our mind, but launch out in the Ocean Divine where the full tides flow and let the shore line go. There is no red tape about GOD. Aren’t you glad! Let the shore line go, I say. Free GOD in your consciousness. But as sure as you try mentally to bind ME from any angle expressible in your conception, you are binding yourselves individually, and even binding yourselves collectively, causing yourselves to become to be spiritless even as you see ME to be by trying to bind GOD in your mortal concept and try to have some strings attached to ME.

Launch out in the Ocean Divine, out where the full tides flow. Let loose the shore line. Let it go and don’t try to attach the shore line any more, for the ship cannot go out where the full tides flow unless you let go the shore line. But as the vibrations were high this morning or this early afternoon, whichever, I thought how marvelous it is to let go and let GOD, to launch out in the Ocean Divine, to stay out in the channel of the Spirit where your thoughts are filled with Praise and Thanksgiving, for this is the hope of your redemption!

FATHER DIVINE

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