"We Are as Much Consecrated and Converted into Americanism, According to the Constitution
and its Amendments and According to the Declaration Of Independence,
as We Are Converted to Religion under Christendom."

Excerpt from FATHER DIVINE'S Message Given at The Ball Park, Lehigh Avenue and Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
September 4, 1939 A.D.F.D.

 


Hilltop House Living Room at
The Mount of the House of the Lord

Hilltop House Living Room at The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

 

 

"The Constitution of this great country and its Amendments, with the Declaration of Independence, according to MY Conviction, are the `two-edged sword' that goes out of MY Mouth, as a protection for you all. Aren't you glad? We are as much consecrated and converted into Americanism, according to the Constitution and its Amendments and according to the Declaration of Independence, as we are converted to religion under Christendom. Aren't you glad? For we realize this country paved out the way for this great democracy to become to be a real Utopia, and it will be, for every American citizen will endeavor to be an American citizen characteristically, by living exactly according to these two great documents."

"I would like to say to MY hearers and friends, do not think I AM representing any political party. I AM absolutely non-partisan, but I AM `Americanated,' and I AM not only `Americanated,' but I AM a Real American Citizen since I Came to America. Aren't you glad? I live under the Constitution and its Amendments. I declare the Declaration of Independence. I stress it as the only important piece of legislation to be considered; then I declare, those who live according to it, will become to be American citizens, by a real national--in other words, by a real American conversion, and will be American citizens regardless of their partisan standard or status they have taken concerning their respective party in politics.

"If you are American citizens, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, express your citizenry with the spirit of sincerity, by living according to the Constitution and its Amendments and according to the Declaration of Independence. Send these thoughts down to your posterity, and cause them to be partakers of such a contagion, for every awakened Spirit or Consciousness that has been awakened in the hearts and lives of humanity, they are all contagious when they are awakened supernaturally and cause the peoples of the earth to be inspired by them and move volitionally.

"'GOD BLESS AMERICA,' as I said in that song as composed even though it is one of your patriotic songs, I have stressed it more than you. I teach it daily in our daily activities; but I AM telling the representatives and the executives in this democracy what to do. Put an end to all filibustering against the Anti-lynching Bill. Put an end to everything that tends to deprive men of their Constitutional rights, and live according to the Constitution by endorsing it, and by refusing to allow anything that is not according to the Constitution to be represented in Congress."