International Peace Mission Movement
Peace, everyone. Seven of us were pleased to sit for an interview with this web-based show last night. There were some accidental issues with audio quality (particularly in the last 16 minutes), but we are pleased with the conversation and glad to “meet” the Host, who emphasizes the importance and true spirit of unity and cooperation, so we felt right at home for an hour and 17 minutes. FATHER (and the Host), brought out some very good points and we are happy to share the program with you here.
In the NEW DAY excerpt below and the extended interview audio file below it, Miss Holy Love Dove tells of her experiences coming to FATHER DIVINE in the early 1930s, including an integrated bus trip across country and how FATHER’s Mind and Spirit met all obstacles along the way. Long before the Freedom Riders of the 1950s or the counter-cultural “Peace” buses of the 1960s, Members of the Peace Mission Movement were traveling across the continent in integrated red, white and blue buses emblazoned with FATHER’s Name and “PEACE! Out of One Blood God Made All People.” Among the many topics discussed by Miss Dove in the extended interview are her experiences as a so-called “disabled” person. After coming to FATHER in the early 30s, Miss Dove was a lifelong Follower, Rosebud and Personal Secretary to FATHER DIVINE. Her testimony is a very valuable historical treasure.
(Interview conducted by Dr. Leonard Primiano in 1996).
FATHER DIVINE speaks on themes including Americanism as the amalgamation of all nations, saying “We are happy to demonstrate and to portray the Mystery of the Indivisibility of America” and asserting that “The time is not far distant when Uncle Sam shall bring an end to that line of demarcation, and the immigration barriers, all tariffs and immigration barriers shall come down, and the peoples of the earth shall be free eventually to unite in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, where there will be no more warfare and no more bloodshed. …This is democracy in action.”
Given Dec. 14, 1949 at 8:30pm in the Crystal Dining Room of the Divine Lorraine Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. Peace Mission CD 19-26, track 1.
In this document, MOTHER DIVINE explains why FATHER DIVINE’s Peace Mission Movement celebrates “American Christmas” on December 19.
Merry Always!