Peace Father Dear, Peace Mother Dear:
We thank You and appreciate You for the continuance of Your dear Presence in our midst, and the evidences we have before our very eyes that You, Father Dear, are truly on the main line with us Your Children in Australia. Firstly, I want to thank and praise again for the proposal that Australia and New Zealand become the 49th State of the United States. I am sending a copy of a New Day containing the proposal to our Prime Minister. He has just returned from a visit to England and America and was only away forty-five days but spoke at length over the air one night this week and his tone is very grave. So I believe. I did not hear him, as I do not stop to listen to the wireless; but Father dear, we all know that You are here and everything must of necessity change, even as we, Your children, are changing day by day from mortality to the Christ Consciousness, beholding the Lamb in all meekness and lowliness of heart; for truly we ourselves can do nothing and are nothing without You our Sweet, Sweet Savior. Thank and Praise You, dear Father, for Your dear inspirations and messages of wisdom and perpetual help. And to think of a nation redeemed- One Nation indivisible- living in Your Mind and Spirit, all dissolved into One-oh, thank You, Father dear and Mother dear, for the vision.
Now, I want to thank You, Father dear, that we are all preparing for the Dedication of "Peace", 15 Kent Avenue, Elwood, next Saturday, September 9th, 1950 A.D.F.D. and we desire to keep before us the deep realization that the Spiritual and Democratic Blessings for the good of all people is of the greatest importance.
Therefore, we look forward to Your Precious Blessing on this Unified effort to establish the work of the Peace Mission and its Churches more than ever in Australia -for truly the work is going on in leaps and bounds and Your Arms of Love are reaching out in so many ways to bless the people and cause them to thank You, GOD, for everything.
We had a beautiful praise night at Elwood last Wednesday and we took a spool that we are sending on to You, dear Father and Mother. Then last Thursday we had the privilege of unifying with the Unity Mission Church at the first banquet at Fitzroy. We, the Circle Mission Church, all attended and it was a great blessing to all -we do thank and praise You for this extended Arm of Your Love to humanity.
The Dedication next Saturday, the 9th of September, will be for the whole day - all are welcome to inspect at any hour and the praises will continue all day. The first Banquet will be served at 6 P.M., Father dear and Mother dear presiding. May Your Holy Will be done and all. peoples receive the richest Blessing from the Recognition that You are truly present in our Oneness and in their greater Realization that all this is being brought about since You are on earth in Your Holy Immaculate Body.
Peace and Love, Father and Mother dear.
In all meekness and simplicity, Yours humbly, Eternal Love, Pres.
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764-772 Broad Street Philadelphia 46, PA.,
September 10, 1950 A.D.F.D.
Miss Eternal Love, President,
Circle Mission Church, Home and Training School, Inc.
Australia, The Patch, Victoria, Australia
My dear Miss Love;
I have just received your letter of the 1st instant informing ME that you are sending to your Prime Minister a copy of The NEW DAY which carries MY Proposal that Australia and New Zealand become the forty-ninth State of the United States and I AM responding to endorse your act, for the message of Truth I AM conveying is the Salvation of the nations, as well as individuals, as they heed MY Words of Wisdom.
In taking a retrospective look into the international strife and upheaval on this globe (during the last decade especially) one can see how it all could have been avoided if the various leaders of the people and heads of government would have taken cognizance of the different proposals I have made from time to time in an effort to evade the oncoming tides of inhuman and even barbaric warfare.
On September 20, 1938 A.D.F.D. I sent cables to Chancellor Hitler, Prime Minister
Chamberlain, Premier Daladier, President Benes and President Roosevelt, suggesting
to them firstly (and then sending the message around the world on MY Peace
Stamp):
"Why not propose purchase of coveted Czechoslovakian territory, with Sudetens helping to pay for annexation, substituting co-operation and Peace for terrible inhuman warfare consequences?" FATHER DIVINE
On this same Peace Stamp I endorsed the word of the late President Roosevelt when he said,
"It is my conviction that all people under the threat of war to-day pray that peace may be made before, rather than after war."
Since this advice and desire was ignored, I again made an effort to curb the tidal wave of destruction and devastation that was rising, when I sent telegrams to President Roosevelt, Vice President Garner and U.S. Senate, Honorable Bankhead, House of Representatives, Secretary of State Hull and Secretary of War Woodring in December 9, 1939 A.D. F.D.:
"Why not unite the three Americas as a national and Let there be THE UNITED COUNTRIES OF AMERICA even as this is the United States of America; if not I propose that the United States purchase Central and South America, and make all the Americas one Democracy." - FATHER DIVINE
This proposal was considered irrational and preposterous by some, but the total cost of the war that resulted when they failed to harmonize with MY Views, has been estimated to be far greater than the price of Central and South America would have been; for the lives alone that were lost in World War II could not be calculated in, dollars and cents.
Even though they again refused to apply MY Suggestions as a solution to world conflicts and strife I still persisted in MY Endeavors to establish Peace universally, and in another Peace Stamp I declared on January 12, 1944 A.D. F.D., when the war was in swing:
"For Victory let all the allies unite consolidatedly and every American citizen buy bonds unlimitedly for Victory and a Just and Lasting Peace; and for reconstruction, mass production, rescuing the perishing and to care for the dying.
"The axis will unconditionally surrender by sending an ambassage desiring
conditions of Peace." (See St. Luke 14::31,32)
REV. M. J. DIVINE
I requested the American citizens to buy bonds unlimitedly in accordance with the 31st verse of the l4th Chapter of St. Luke:
"Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?'
Then in fulfilment of the 32nd verse I sent a V-letter to Premier Hirohito, appealing to him to surrender. St. Luke 14:32 states:
"Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace."
"Why not propose at the international conference of nations, the unification of all the mutual and allied sovereignties of the universe and let the united countries of the world be one big universal Allied sovereignty? By the unity of spirit, mind, aim and of purpose, let all of the allied sovereignties unite consolidatedly and the four freedoms will be made a reality." - FATHER DIVINE
If Hirohito had considered MY Proposal and Warning he would have spared much death, disaster and destruction.
In every instance and on every issue MY Thoughts have been for the safeguarding of innocent people and for the promotion of Peace and Good Will among men; but continually they have been rejected and cast aside by those who could apply them for the benefit of humanity generally and bring great relief and freedom from bloodshed and warfare, strife and confusion, destruction and annihilation.
Thus, even in Peace times, when the Light of Liberty has been allowed to glow a little and shed some of its rays in the gloom of a darkened world, I have striven to instill the Spirit of Hope, of Progressiveness, of Advancement, of Success, Prosperity and Peace by stressing the necessity of harmonization, co-operation and unification on the Home Front, as well as abroad.
Therefore to conquer the poverty, the oppression and depressing and sorrowful aftermath consequences that follow the wake of warfare and hostility I issued still another Stamp, emphasizing the growing need and the great essentiality of unification on the Home Front, and petitioning the inhabitants of the United States especially, to unify whole-heartedly and unrestrainedly and win the conflicts of prejudice, bigotry, segregation and discrimination within our own borders, that the lives of those who so nobly fought and died in that horrible war and the sacrifices made by those who remained might not have been in vain.
For these Righteous causes I sent the Message forth on October 23, 1945 A.D. F.D.
"For Reconversion, Reconstruction and Mass Production for Universal Unity and Tranquility; for the Peace we must now win, Unite Consolidatedly again, and Buy Bonds Unlimitedly - the Victory of Peace to win. By the Unity of Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose we have won the Victory Universally and shall win it from every angle expressible.
"To bring an abolition to the possibility of inflation, depressions, panics and famines, let us UNITE on the Home Front and let there be no division and we will have a perfect Union that is called for by our Constitution, and the Universal Brotherhood of man will be made a living reality." - FATHER DIVINE
To further secure the rights of the minority and extend prosperity to all, I appealed to the Honorable Sam Rayburn to assist in promoting the virtues of more forceful Price Control regulations. MY Appeal to him was released to the world at large on a Peace Stamp, which quotes MY Message to him verbatim, proceeding as follows:
July 1, 1946 A.D.F.D.
"Peace, Everyone
Speaker Hon. Sam Rayburn Joint Session of Congress House of Representatives Washington, D. C. A greater Memorial by Congress to our late President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, would be the passage of an extension of forceful OPA regulations of price control according to the request of our present President Harry S. Truman. - FATHER DIVINE"
"His Excellency, Mr. Trygve Lie Sec. Gen. of the United Nations Flushing Manors, Lake Success, N. Y. Telegram: The UN, Dec. 9 1946 A.D.F.D. I repeat My Proposal:
"I Propose that the UN accept of Philadelphia as the capital of the United Countries of the World, as this is the cradle of Democracy."Let us establish the foundation of the universal Brotherhood of man and make this the country seat of the United Sovereignties of the World."
(Signed) REV. M. J. DIVINE
(Better known as FATHER DIVINE)."
An exhibit in the Piladelphia Visitors Center.
MY Proposal this time was not complied with as a great financier donated the land for the Headquarters in New York City, Nevertheless, I AM undaunted in MY Determination to bring about the Perfection of Democracy as it should be exemplified, and I have, thru MY Spirit, made Philadelphia the Country Seat of the United Sovereignties of the World. The people are automatically flocking here. They are coming in great delegations from far and near. Many national Conventions are being held here in this City of Brotherly Love, for the masses are drawn to behold the Great Work of Righteousness that has been lifted and established for the whole world to copy after.
This time I AM fulfilling MY Own Proposal. I AM uniting the people together and establishing the Foundation of the Universal Brotherhood of Man right here in this Noble City -the City of Brotherly Love, of which I AM making a living reality.
Whatsoever I have ever Proposed is Right and is for the Good of mankind universally. Therefore, I have not left it for others to do this time. I have done it MYSELF. This is the Great Country Seat of the World, officially or unofficially recognized as accomplished.
This Standard I have lifted is breaking down every false concept. It is casting Out every foe of Righteousness and dispelling all that is in opposition to Democracy and our Constitution. Not merely where I AM Personally functioning are these things being done, but even in far away Australia MY Spirit is giving the under- privileged a fair and square chance; yea, it is giving them the same Rights.
"To the President of the United States of today: 
"I appeal to you and every representative and senator in accord - for the salvation of yourselves and your subjects here and at large, you had better make laws immediately to bring an end to segregation and discrimination and to bring an end to the rights of states that are unconstitutional, to have their sovereign rights.
"I appeal to the Federal Government and its representatives to cross the borders of all. sovereign states and break every state law that is unconstitutional and that will endorse murder, vice And crime such as those of many of the states of the Union. The time is out for that.
REV. M. J. DIVINE, Ms.D.D.
(Better known as FATHER DIVINE)
Action in this matter has not been legally taken in any great measure, but extremely noticeable is the change in attitude of many; for MY Spirit is actually changing the tides of governmental affairs by changing the hearts and minds of men firstly. MY Spirit got in when the door was shut locked and barred. MY Spirit transcended limitations and barriers and now in some of the deepest parts of the South the boundaries of division, discrimination and segregation are being eradicated. Many Ministers of the Gospel, Representatives of the Cloth and others have testified to the disappearance of hostility, animosity, prejudice and racial hatred where it had heretofore existed in abundance.
When the under-privileged have been denied many of their Constitutional Rights and Privileges they are now coming into possession of them. In some instances their right of franchise has been recently granted them. Greater freedom and less discrimination is in. evidence in many places that were steeped in prejudice.
With or without the Anti-Lynching Bill MY Spirit is eradicating the spirit of murder, of vice and crime. MY Spirit is contagionizing the atmosphere, with Love and Brotherhood by which this nation shall have its new Birth of Freedom under GOD. This Birth of Freedom is truly the starting point of a Glorious Universal Utopian Government which shall spread and spread until it eventually encompasses the entire globe and dominates completely all erroneousness of division and strife.
Once and forever, the Banner of Righteousness, of Freedom, of Peace and Love shall wave over the peoples of the earth as MY Spirit Triumphs Victoriously over all oppositions and rules in the affairs of men universally.
In subsequent Peace Stamps and Messages I have made proclamations, declarations and predictions. I proclaimed the Twenty-ninth Day of April an International, Universal, Interracial, Holiday, commemorating the Marriage of Christ to HIS Creation, yea God to His Spotless Church - HIS Spotless Virgin Bride-to universalize Democracy, Americanism, Christianity and Judaism, as synonymous, and to bring about the universal Brotherhood of man and the propagation of Virtue, Honesty and Truth.
I declared, "This is GOD'S ADMINISTRATION and all nations, this whole generation and even our present civilization shall have a new birth of freedom under God, for I declare that Americanism, Brotherhood, Democracy, Christianity and Judaism are synonymous."
I predicted that, "Hereafter, all nations shall be guided by the pendulum of equilibrium which I have started swinging in the defense of humanity generally and for the preservation of Peace universally." I have affirmed that, "By intuition and by scientific geographic inspiration I AM moving in all nations and I AM bringing all people together I have broken that line of demarcation, but it is only being shown gradually in the present different demonstrations."
Then I further declared our Chief Executive to be a Minister of God to thee for Good, for I inspired him to permit them to make the H- Bomb. "Now the axis or any other aggressor nation that would desire to rise in opposition to this one; with the right concept of common sense, they would know they would be subject to total destruction if they would rise in opposition to this nation."
In reviewing My many proposals, declarations, affirmations arid proclamations one can note with an eye of discernment that they have been for the Preservation of Peace among men and the establishment of Brotherhood on earth. I have not confined MY Righteous Desires to the welfare of this nation alone, but for the deliverance of humanity generally I make MY Proposals.
For this cause, I have recently suggested that Australia and New Zealand become the forty-ninth state of the United States. Such a union would not only stave off the threat of war from the aggressor nations but would induce a mutual relationship between this country as a whole and that of Australia and New Zealand that would be beneficial to all concerned; for united we stand but divided we fall. Certainly, unification with a prosperous and free country would be far more appealing and advantageous than to be captured by an aggressor nation and be under the domain of warlords and greedy rulers.
Therefore, I appeal to those in authority to take into consideration the present rising threat of the war mongers as they reveal their evil intents in their ruthless actions.
In Korea now, the war is raging. The fires that were kindled by greed and hatred have burst into flame. And I suggest, for the freedom of Peace-loving people, that we quench this fire with Unification at home and abroad. Let us put out this holocaust-this merciless slaughtering- with Brotherhood and Democracy applied according to the Gospel; and let us be united against the enemies of this present civilization, and root out all tyranny, strife and un-evangelical, undemocratic and uncivilized undercurrents that threaten the stability of our future freedom and peace.
I AM glad, indeed, to hear of the unification of the Churches there in Australia-the Circle Mission Church and the Unity Mission Church and others for these Churches are samples and examples MY Spirit has erected in the midst of confusion to bring about Brotherhood and Peace. I AM glad to know of the Dedication of the newly acquired property there in Australia, consecrating it to Democracy, Americanism and true Evangelism to pioneer in the fields of Unity and Peace and to establish them in reality; for Charity begins at home and spreads abroad.
Thus as you unify, unify, unify in heart and mind and be as one man at Jerusalem, nothing will be restrained from you to do that which you have imagined to do.
Respectfully and Sincere, I AM
REV. M. J. DIVINE, Ms. D., D.D.
(Better known as FATHER DIVINE)
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May 6, 1950 A.D.F.D. 
, Joint Session
of Congress,
The House of Representatives and The United States Senate.
To: The Vice-President, President of the Senate, Honorable Alben W. Barkley And: The Speaker of the House, Honorable Sam Rayburn
Honorable Sirs:
I have authentic Information that Australia desires to unite with the United States and be one of the states of the Union. Therefore, I propose the following:
I propose: that the United States accept and admit Australia and New Zealand to the union, and any other Country which desires to unite to the United States, for I did propose at the United Conference Of Nations that they should unite all of the allied sovereignties of the world and let there be one big united sovereignty. Now I propose the unification of Australia, and New Zealand. To the United States. For they desire to unite with the. United States of America and be, one of the states of the Union, and let us all have. One language and one speech. For it is written. "And the LORD said,
Behold the people is one, and they have all one language: and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do!"
(Genesis, 11:6)
REV. M. J. DIVINE, Ms D, D.D.
(Better known as FATHER DIVINE)
(This letter also sent to President Harry S. Truman)
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