The Mount of the House of the Lord
"Then I say, we are having an international discussion, an actuated discussion. In actions we are discussing RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH and JUSTICE, and bringing these qualities into legality and into our daily activities and in our surroundings. For this cause, the Message was read a little while ago as published in 'The New Day,' in reference to the dedication of one of our newly and most recently erected buildings in High Falls. This building was built very recently. A couple of weeks ago we had the dedication of it as an opening of the building, dedicating our work and our Activities there in that particular building, of RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH and JUSTICE, in the same manner of expression as we are expressing in all of our Activities.
"The garage in High Falls on the Rondout Creek, was built on the very same site where another old dilapidated building stood. This old building was a disgrace to all of the community of High Falls Village. It stood right on the corner. The Followers of Mine purchased this property, having a very nice building dwelling house next door, just about one hundred feet or one hundred and twenty-five feet away from the corner, but this building stood right on the corner; the most dilapidated and condemned building standing on the corner in our village as a disgrace to the community. As is the experience or condition of thousands of other places throughout the country, there are those of the old dilapidated houses standing, they are a liability. They are, or in other words, they should be heavily taxed.
"All unoccupied buildings that are allowed to run down, and all idle land, should be heavily taxed, while those who put their talent to an exchange, according to the Gospel, and will turn their land, their property and cause it to be of real service to man and to the community generally, such property should be tax exempt, in a great measure.
"According to My Personal conviction, such as to others I AM transmitting, I AM exemplifying and demonstrating to all humanity and all governments, a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of the Government we will have all over this wide extended plane, when GOD alone shall have been elected and reigns.
"In speaking of our actuated discussion, we are daily discussing RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH and JUSTICE and other expressions of Righteousness in our daily activities. 'Actions speak louder than words.' I have told the communities in all of Ulster County, wheresoever I AM represented, that I will not tolerate being molested or embarrassed, but I will set a Sample and an Example for them to copy after. We are cleaning up our communities. In our communities where My Peace Mission is represented, we are cleansing the communities of the undesirable surroundings, and we find our county is also cooperating with us.
"In most of the places where My Followers have purchased real property and function, they are widening out and enlarging and straightening the highways. Where they did not have altogether asphalt roads, they have macadam roads. They have some roads they are fixing up the roads and highways in cooperation with My Activities; therefore, My PRESENCE and My Activities are a blessing for all of the communities; but as I mentioned this garage, it was an out-standing figure as a disgrace to the community. The old garage that stood on the very same site where the new garage is built, with modern improvements of a real apartment above the garage for accommodation, fully equipped in the most modern manner of expression, that which has not yet been actually connected, it will be, for it is on its way.
"Then I say, I AM showing others just what they should do, and when this is established, men will see definitely, My Method, My Plan and My Activities, mean more than life to humanity, and more and more and more than life to all of the communities, because I AM not telling My Followers to buy properties and take the places and carry them away to some other country or state. I AM showing them and others how they can be of real practical service to the communities, by investing their monies in these different communities, in real property, substantiating their wealth in that particular community by attaching it to real property in the way of improving and in the way of developing such property for the common good of all humanity generally.
"As I aforesaid, the highways are being improved and they are making a better community in which to live, and through which to travel. You can enjoy going on the highways when you strike those communities where they have improved them in practically every place...We are, as I aforesaid, not asking for tax exemption for real property as it has been, unless the assessors have assessed the property for more than its assessed value should be; but we are demanding an exemption for improvements and for any development that might be developed in real property."
Taken from The New Day, July 7, 1938 A.D.F.D. Pages, 20, 21, 23.