Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

The Happiness of Springtime

 

Peace Mission Devotional Song “You are the Happiness of Springtime” performed by the International Rosebud Choir, featuring Miss E. Ferne.

FATHER SPEAKS ON SPRINGTIDE THEMES:

It is marvelous when the people can get the significance of what it is all about!  Lots of people may merely be awakened in the vibrations, as I AM the Resurrection, but yet they may not get the significance of MY Message.

The Dispensation, the Time and the Season were praying to ME!  The Dispensation, the Time and the Season — it may have been an echo, or echoed through mortality’s version — but the Dispensation, the Time and the Season, as I explained it, the Time had come that generally it was as the sap rising in the spring.  It was calling for ME — the Dispensation, the Time and the Season, and not merely mortality.  So that is the idea!  The time warranted it; which is the same as I say, the Time will come and now is, no doubt, when it will be or would be necessary for amendments to be made to our Righteous Government Platform for improvement on it; some things to be repealed, and the like; but as time and season and necessity warrant it.

Necessity has been calling for ME!  With or without a Person Necessity, not mortality; I AM not studying about mortality; Necessity has been calling for ME!  Naturally the spring calls for the sap to rise in the earth in vegetation and even in man and beast.  They may not say a thing, but Necessity, the time and the season of the year and the Time and Season of the Ages — the Dispensation and the Necessity — they have been calling for ME!  It is Wonderful!

At times it may work through the hand of Nature.  At times an appeal may be made through the Cosmic Forces of Nature.  Through the nature of humanity and different manners of expression they speak to GOD — those things are calling.  It is Wonderful!

Mortality has been groping in darkness and misunderstanding, beseeching and begging in groveling attitude towards GOD in the mortal versionated concept and idea concerning the Mystery, but I AM coming and answering and fulfilling the scripture!  So the Mystery will be revealed when the scales of misunderstanding and the mortal version shall have been lifted from humanity and GOD reveals HIS Secrets to HIS Servants, the Prophets!  I thank you.

Spoken 8 July 1943 ADFD; The New Day 31 July 1971 ADFD.

 

You prayed for it to come!  You prayed vividly, conscientiously and sincerely, but oh, how glorious it is to realize, that which you once merely surmised, you have now come into possession of it!  It came not with observation!  As the sap rises in the spring, even so have I come in the hearts and lives and business and affairs of the children of men and have been enthroned therein — upon the Righteous minds of men!

Righteousness, I said, is the foundation of the Kingdom of GOD!  Can you not see the Mystery?  When righteousness is established in one and in all, they are there and then prepared for the coming and for the establishment of the Kingdom of GOD!

The New Day 20 September 1947 ADFD, pp. 11-12

“I AM Omnipresent & Ever-Present & So Is My Spotless Virgin Bride”

 

 

After the song “International Peace,” FATHER DIVINE speaks on themes including “The Bride’s Virginity and Holiness are a power for good for believers,” “MY Spirit is everywhere,” and “I Am Omnipresent and Ever-Present, and so is MY Spotless Virgin Bride.” Given at Circle Mission Church, Philadelphia, on Feb. 18, 1955 at 7:34pm. Peace Mission CD 4-7, Track 4.
 

Americanism is the Amalgamation of All Nations, Languages, Tongues & People

What is Americanism, or, in other words America? It is the amalgamation of all nations, languages, tongues and people! We, the American people, as we consider ourselves to be, consist of all nations from the different languages, tongues and peoples, and we recognize the amalgamation to be the summation of humanity as a sample and as an example. Therefore, I consider America being the amalgamation of all nations!

Hand-lettered Peace Mission Sign. Tempera, 22×28. c.1940.

It brings us back to the original quotation of the Scripture, according to the King James Version of the Bible:

Out of one blood GOD formed all nations of men for to dwell upon the face of the whole, earth.

I do not feel that we are in our right place segregated and isolated; but, to the extreme reverse, when we are amalgamated and unified together, as was by the Creator in the creation, according to the historians – GOD formed all nations of men to dwell upon the face of the whole earth out of the one blood and according to same, I see that we must bring all peoples back together and bring an abolition to all division and segregation among the nations!

There are many of the African descendants and abstractions of the African nationalities seem to think that amalgamation is not the real thing, or not the great essential; but to bring an end to all divisibility we must unite together individually, severally, collectively, nationally, and, thence internationally, for,

As with an individual, so with a nation; and as with a nation, so with all nations!

I AM looking forward to see the time that all of the nations or nationalities universally will be so consolidatedly united and amalgamated there will be no sense or trace of division among them characteristically, politically, socially and otherwise!

It is a privilege to realize that this is the hope of the redemption of the nations to unify and bring an end to all divisibility!

There are some of all nations and all tribes and all people that are somewhat inclined to be selfish, in MY Opinion, with a tendency to care for self especially, and refuse to recognize their fellow brother that seems to be another. But how marvelous it will be when we will be able to amalgamate universally and internationally and bring an end to all divisibility among the nations, as well as among individuals!

So Americanism, Christianity, Democracy, Judaism and, as you say, Africanism, as a part of the great universal scheme of things, will eventually be established, whether it may be in the name of Africanism, Americanism or Christianity, or what not it will be the selfsame unified brotherhood of man established and all peoples will eventually realize they are all one family brotherhood, representing one family!

So that is what we look forward to and expect to see that this is established throughout the universe, and there will be no more warfare and bloodshed, but the distribution and the advancement of knowledge and understanding, skill and ability and increase for the benefit of all peoples universally! That is MY Plan and Purpose.

FATHER DIVINE
October 10, 1951 A.D.F.D.

FATHER Speaks on the Mystery of the Indivisibility of America

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.

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