Americanism Is Not Above Evangelism But a Way Through Which it Might Have a Way Of Expression
Without Prohibitation! --- FATHER DIVINE

Excerpts - Sept. 21, 1939; 11:30 pm

FATHER DIVINE'S Thoughts on Americanism

The Mount of the House of the Lord

The Mount of the House of the Lord

 

 

I have declared to the nations of the earth, I have lifted up a standard for humanity, I have emphasized the Life and the Teaching of JESUS that you all and others who might hear of ME might live and be Evangelical. But remember, your Evangelism comes under the heading of true Americanism! Americanism is not above Evangelism but Americanism is a way through which Evangelism might have a way of expression without prohibitation! You see the mystery? For you are privileged through the Constitution and its Amendments to serve GOD to the dictates of your own conscience and by serving according to same you have been privileged to develop from your innermost self, this inner man, true Evangelism, for it is coming from the unction within, the Holy One, One who can and One who actually has redeemed!

Then the Constitution and its Amendments give you the privilege politically and legally to concentrate in such a direction that will give you a chance to produce and bring to fruition your highest and sincerest conscious, religious conviction, and when this is done, you have given birth mentally and spiritually to that one and only Infinite Son, the Redeemer and the Savior of all mankind! To you as an individual and as individuals then, CHRIST is the same as it reads concerning Him:

'HE was crucified, dead and buried, but the third day HE arose from the dead.'

CHRIST in you and in your life and in your consideration will rise from lacks and wants and limitations and with HIM you will arise and have victory over undesirable conditions, for with HIM you suffered in His suffering and in His crucifixion. You have arisen in Him and in HIS Likeness you should lean together. You see the mystery? Then you have the victory over barriers and over limitations.

But the Constitution with its Amendments has given you the privilege politically, therefore, through your concentrated thoughts and through the sincere and contrite hearts you diligently sought GOD without being molested sufficiently politically or legally to prohibit you from receiving that which you were seeking. Can you not see the mystery? Then with the Constitution you can stand and the Constitution can stand with you as your protection, and you can stress it vividly in cooperation until others get it through the spirit of Righteousness, Truth and Justice, until the legalization of your religious conviction will be a living reality, recognized universally, made real, tangible and practical and lifted as a standard for all humanity.

This is it! From this little center here in Sayville, the Declaration of Independence has been strengthened and has been made a living reality, whilst, heretofore, it was merely considered documentally among the nations of the earth. They did not know anything about the reality of independence, for the majority of them went about to solicit aid, to borrow and to beg, stressing the dependence of the mortal version to express lacks and wants and limitations. That is what you were stressing, the extreme reverse to that of independence. You were stressing and reflecting the dependency of the dependents. Can you not see the mystery?

But when your gears of thinking are reversed completely and you think altogether differently and become to be new creatures characteristically, you are filled with MY Spirit and you have the victory. By your conscious religious conviction you can declare your actual, personal, individual independence, and can express your real citizenry effectively, but you could not nor cannot do it until then. But these, MY Followers, you all who have lived exactly according to MY Teaching, you have expressed and stressed your real independence. Even as the country declared it as a nation, even so stress I continually the individual independence of everybody at least, the independence of GOD for each and all of you. You get it by living and expressing GOD'S Love, GOD'S Mercy, GOD'S Characteristics and GOD'S Disposition, GOD'S Ways and GOD'S Actions and taking on GOD'S Nature and Characteristics completely and becoming to be new creatures.

The reality of Americanism can then and only then be considered, when you can express your real independence, when you can express your real democracy and the spirit and the nature of it effectively in words, in deeds and in actions and in all of your peaceful assemblages. Wheresoever you assemble together, when you can express unselfishly your real spirit of democracy, you have the key and the reality of the spirit of this international or political democracy, by which you must enter into a real democracy some day, somewhere and somehow before they will express a real citizenry according to a real democracy, that will develop universally into a real Utopia as I have it under My Personal Jurisdiction, the Personal House of GOD once and forever! I thank you!