"The Queen of Sheba, When She Saw and Heard and Listened, She Said, The Half Has Never Been Told."

Speech by Mr. J. E. Mitchell, Managing Editor, The St. Louis Argus.

The Mount of the House of the Lord

"FATHER DIVINE, and to these good people here, I don't know how to invoke PEACE as does FATHER DIVINE. (At this point FATHER says, Just say Peace,' and Mr. Mitchell laughs and continues speaking.) But this has been a very peaceful forty minutes I have spent under the roof of this building. I have enjoyed every minute here. I don't know when I have been surrounded with so much of the spirit that one can feel; and FATHER DIVINE said something about beware how we entertain strangers, for some have entertained angels thereby.

"And it has been a great pleasure for me to have been here and to see what YOU are doing. And I feel like the visitor that visited Solomon, we call the Queen of Sheba, when she saw and heard and listened, she said, The half has never been told.' And I kind of feel like that. I am a newspaper man by trade or profession. I think when I go back I will call on my pen to say as much as we have heard of FATHER DIVINE and HIS followers and what HE is doing here. I think I will be perfectly within the rights of Truth and Justice to say that the half has never yet been told.

"As I sat here and saw the bounty of food that passed this table, you know at the time when everybody is talking about they can't get anything to eat, I thought about truly as was mentioned about the occasion when the CHRIST fed the five thousand, and the story says that they gathered many baskets after everybody had been fed. And when I look at this table, it looks like I don't miss the food.

"I am glad to have been here and I had an engagement to get a train at four o'clock. I wasn't so sure, but this might be even better. There is a story that says, I believe it says that it is better to go into Righteousness without one arm and one leg than to miss. So had I missed it, if I should miss my train today, I still believe and feel that I am wonderfully blessed. And I am going to ask the FATHER and the followers to excuse me and I am coming back to this town, and I thank YOU very much."

Circle Mission Church - May 28, 1945 A.D.F.D.