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The Importance of Reading FATHER’s Words

MOTHER DIVINE Reading The New Day (Tarrytown, NY)

“Here we all are again, and yet it is the very same time, since time and Eternity has no end… I have arisen to say it is good to be here, and it occurred to ME as it occurs to ME quite often, WORDS I SPEAK, THEY ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE.

“If you as co-workers, followers and friends, as being termed children, would but take cognizance of MY WORD and READ and READ and READ, just as I say, MY WORDS are SPIRIT and LIFE. They can be reproduced if you want some for yourselves and can go forth in your likeness and in your personality or individuality, in your expression and deemed as yours to those who do not know them.

“But the WORDS I Speak, they are SPIRIT and LIFE, and long since you did say by a… prayer you prayed: ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ You have daily BREAD given, and if you will but read them, read it and perceive the idea concerning every Mystery and conceive the SPIRIT of MY PRESENCE with the conscious sincere conviction, I will reproduce the SPIRIT and the MEANING of such within and you will see and know definitely the WORDS I Speak, they are SPIRIT and LIFE for the children of men.

“I think of it quite often: because of MY daily giving you daily bread, it may cause you to be a little slothful and unconcerned about reading the WORD, but I LIVE BY MY WORDS! I DELIGHT IN HEARING MY WORD READ! IT GIVES LIFE, IT GIVES COURAGE AND ZEAL AND DETERMINATION, and it keeps you in the CONSCIOUS RECOGNITION and the REALIZATION of MY ACTUAL PRESENCE!

“As said the Message of nineteen hundred years ago, ‘This do in remembrance of ME until I return.’

“The returning to you again will not prevent nor prohibit you from doing and continuing in the FAITH that was once delivered to the SAINTS.”

FATHER DIVINE
15 November 1941

MOTHER DIVINE Shall Be Called Blessed By All Nations

MOTHER DIVINE, late 1960s.

“And MOTHER DIVINE, as She is known to be, shall be called Blessed by all nations of the earth. …So then I say… the Virginity and the Virtue of MOTHER DIVINE, it is to be revered and admired. Not only so, but to be visualized and reproduced and materialized; for that which She has brought to fruition is your privilege to be partakers of the same, for as She said, “Love is not confined nor bound to a personality, it is not confined nor bound to an individuality.” I am teaching and have taught MY Spotless Virgin Bride how to transcend personality and individuality and revel in the glorious liberty of the reality of GOD ALMIGHTY, with victory over all materialization and over all mortality. I often think of how some have said, “What is going to become of you all when FATHER DIVINE goes?” Since I am Omnipresent and Ever-Present, I have nowhere to go.”

— FATHER DIVINE, 29 March, 1951

If You Can Get Something Good in the Heart It Will Produce and Manifest in Your Whole Physical System

Excerpt of Father Divine’s Remarks made at 1887-1889 Madison Avenue, New York City, N.Y. July 11, 1939

Remarks by Archbishop William H. Francis.

The Reaction Will Give Blessings

When you get this Love in your heart, when it is once established in reality in your heart from the depths of your soul, to you, God, the reaction of such a real conviction will give desirable blessings such as you may be seeking whensoever you concentrate in that direction. Can you not see the mystery?

Then I say, it is a privilege to know, by reiteration you produce and bring into outer expression and into conscious consideration and realization that which you are reiterating:

“I feel mighty happy when I love the Lord!”

Then you feel happy when you love everybody, for it puts a ban on discord and puts a ban on prejudice, it puts a ban on every expression that would motivate the act of violence or any destructive enactment within yourself. It cause the Christ within to express and be resurrected, that you might know definitely, Christ is Risen!

You do not know Christ is risen, only theoretically, until He has risen within you. But when He has risen within you, you can say for sure, “I know that my redeemer liveth for he liveth in my soul.”

I need not say more. I had arisen merely especially to say, we have visiting friends with us and as usual we are pleased to have any stranger or visitor, regardless to your religious affiliation, regardless to your political or social affiliation. The Spirit of my presence in these, my true and faithful, is endeavoring to be, and it is really hospitable, hence you can be entertained at all times.

Now I would like to say, we also have the special honor this morning or this afternoon, whichever, of having the Archbishop Francis with us and one of his staff in the priesthood. We appreciate their presence and always do. We hope that he will have something to say as he usually does. I am sure he will if he cares to, because he knows we are accustomed to allowing everybody to speak according to the dictates of their own conscience without criticism.

If any others would like to speak, they are welcome to speak as well as he, but I am sure we all would be pleased to hear from the Archbishop Francis this afternoon. I thank you. I thank you. I thank you.

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Excerpt of an interview Granted to Dr. Peter Love by Archbishop William Henry (Father) Francis

At the Church of Christ on the Mount, Woodstock, New York on May 27, 1975 between 1:15 and 4:00 p.m.

Comment: A brief conversation had taken place outside the parish entrance, and now seated in the Archbishop’s Study, the following conversation took place, recorded in part. The whole interview can be seen in the issue of The New Day, August 25, 1979. Pages 17-18.

Father Francis asks Dr. Peter Love, “And do you know how I got to know Father Divine? I’ve never told any individual. I happen to have known Jack Lait. Jack Lait was the managing editor of all of the Hearst publications. You know William Randolph Hearst.

Dr. P. Love: Yes.

Father Francis: I knew him too – I’m ashamed of it. I knew his wife very well.

Dr. P. Love: Yes.

Father Francis: Jack Lait, I knew him in Chicago, then I came to New York – he came to New York to be the head of the whole Hearst syndicate. He heard I had been to one of Father Divine’s Meetings and he came to see me one night. I remember the room that I was in and how he misbehaved that night – Jack Lait – and he offered me a sum in five figures if I would write an expose of the Father Divine Movement for the Hearst papers. And Father Victor was with me and Father Victor is still alive in California – we correspond – and we’d often talk about Father Divine now with us, and I said, “Vicky, let’s go and find out about Father Divine. Let’s find out.” We went to the Police Department in Harlem – I said, “Let’s be perfectly fair,” I said, “five figures is a lot of money,” (to Father Victor) I said, “we could use it for a good cause.” And the Police Department, the head of the Police Department told me – this was in 1929 or thereabouts – he said, “You know, since Father Divine Movement has gotten under way our work has been reduced by one-half.” I said, “Well, that wouldn’t sound nice in Hearst’s paper, would it?” We went to the Board of Education and a woman said, “Father Divine is a nuisance, and infernal nuisance!” Why? She said, “Because He insists on all of His children having the equal to a high school education and consequently we have had to put on extra teachers.” “Oh?” And one thing after another. That’s how it all started, through a negative thing, through the Hearst people offering to pay me this vast sum of money. I went to see lack Lait and I said, “Jack, you are playing with fire. Playing with fire!” And that’s how it started.

Comment: After telling another incident, Father Francis continued saying:

Father Francis: These are the little multiple incidents that came in the life, you see. And I often told them publicly, I say, “Answer it if you can. Tell me, if you can, whether He is God or not. If you say HE is not, it isn’t a negative thought, you haven’t found out yet.

Dr. P. Love: Yes.

Father Francis: I said, “But is He doing God’s Work?” That’s the important thing.

Dr. P. Love: Yes.

Father Francis: And I could prove in a thousand ways that He has, you see.

Dr. P. Love: Yes.

Father Francis: That’s the thing that counts. Because I often think over the good of a wonderful Movement like that, you see, but I’m just one of the people on the outside that’s willing to…

Dr. P. Love: You are very much on the inside.

Father Francis: Well…

Dr. P. Love: You are very, very much on the inside.

(Father Francis did not finish his thought because he was interrupted and went to turn on the lights in the Church)

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Jesus Did Not Want To Send Them Away Hungry, Did He?

…In the time of all of the depressions and panics and famines, the Spirit of my presence automatically attracted and drew the necessary food and supplies to fit every desire.

But you must live it. You must be unselfish and unbiased and you must feed the people and do unto others as you would have them do to you. That is the way Jesus did when he fed the five thousand. He did not want to send them away hungry, did He? The same Spirit is speaking today and is just as operative and expressive, but it may appear in a different way. You do not have to sit on the ground here. God has blessed you so you don’t have to sit on the ground now as those did at that time – I mean those who were fed of the five thousand men, besides the women and children. They sat on the ground. But you have been blessed to have comfortable seats, have you not? They had fishes and loaves, but you have chicken and duck, and you usually have turkey, guinea and geese and everything else you desire to eat. You have been blessed in these advanced days of our present civilization.

Therefore, I say, let this Mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus and whatsoever you do be conscientious and be it, do it in all sincerity and God Himself will be with you.

Father Divine

Excerpt from Father Divine’s message given at Pinebrook Hotel, Pine Brook, NJ on May 19 and 20, 1945 at 1:25 a.m.

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