"You All Should Rejoice and Be Glad and Observe the Sample and the Example of the Virginity of God Personified
and the Holiness of Jesus in Person!"

Editor's Note: Here is an excerpt from the Sermon that FATHER DIVINE gave on April 29, 1951 at the Nazareth Mission Church in Philadelphia. HE stressed the fact that people all over the world can reproduce in their bodies all of the exquisite qualities of CHRIST, just as HE and His Radiant Bride have reproduced in Their Bodies Bodies without smudges or filth or degenerated minds. This reproducing is achieved by meditating on the Holiness and Virginity of CHRIST, and letting His Purity seep into the Soul, as a sponge absorbs water.

The Mount of the House of the Lord

FATHER DIVINE:

"For this cause, you all should rejoice and be glad and observe the Sample and the Example of the Virginity of GOD Personified and the Holiness of Jesus in Person! By this, you can observe the Church that was spoken of without Spot or Wrinkle the Church that would be Pure and spotless. . . .

"This Spotless, Virtuous Marriage was for the purpose of reproducing, reincarnating and re-personifying the Righteousness of GOD as Personified in the Body of MOTHER DIVINE! For this cause, the twenty ninth day of April has been set apart by Proclamation as a National, International, Interracial and Universal Holiday, commemorating the Marriage of CHRIST to His Spotless, Virgin Bride the Marriage of CHRIST to His Church!

"The time that has been will be no more, for the children of men all over this wide extended plane, they are awakening into the Righteousness of the Truth as exemplified among you, so that you might be able to observe what GOD has actually done for you.

"Look at the Cleanliness exemplified among those of you, My adherents! Look at the Purity materialized and Personified in My Spotless, Virgin Bride!

"Behold the Purity, Virginity and Holiness I have exemplified and Behold, it is now Personified Virginity, Purity, Honesty, Competence and Truth! If you vision it vividly, that is exactly what I will reproduce among you, to give you the Victory over every difficulty, over every trial and every tribulation! . . .

"Then I say, vision the Glory of GOD as materialized. You will be able to reproduce the Reality of the materiality of that which you have observed. Can you not see the mystery?

"So then I say, live in this recognition, and lo, I will be with you, producing and reproducing the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, and finding no space vacant of the Fullness thereof, for the very Spirit of My Presence is Creative in itself, and operative, and will operate automatically by the Spirit of the Consciousness of it. I thank you!.

"At this point, FATHER gave everyone present the opportunity to publicly signify their satisfaction with and love for MOTHER DIVINE by saying:

"Peace, Everyone! While you all behold the Beauty and the Virginity materialized and Personified, I want you to deny or verify the fact if you are satisfied.

"Whereupon, thunderous applause reverberated in the Banquet Hall as the multitude displayed their approval of MOTHER, and many were overcome with gratitude by the Purity and Virtue emanating from the Holy Lamb and His Shining Bride! FATHER continued.

"Then, if you desire to continue or visualize and reproduce, reproducing is in the making if you continue to visualize My Spotless, Virgin Bride, as you have heard ME declare in the conclusion of all of My letters of correspondence My Attributes so depicted and so explicitly propounded these are My Attributes reproduced and Personified, so that you all might realize that which I have declared, and be partakers of the same, from shore to shore and from land to land, and the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space will be vacant of the Fullness thereof; and all will eventually live in Peaceful and quiet resting places, for I have contagionized the atmosphere in which we are living!

New Day, May 5, 1951, pp. 7-8