Subject: FATHER DIVINE, The Forerunner of Public Housing.
"Three-fourths of the crime committed in a city comes from the slums. And disease and pestilence and death strikes oftener there, than anywhere else. And so, fifteen years before this government was alive and aware of the danger of the slums, FATHER DIVINE had already taken HIS Followers from the slums! And HE has done it by the united effort of all of you, hasn't HE? As one man has said, `I can take my finger and hit you with it and I'll break it; but if I take my fist I'll knock you down!' (FATHER says, `That's true!' Mr. Norris indicates FATHER, saying:) That is what HE had done! HE has knocked Poor Housing down by having HIS FIST ROLLED UP with all you Followers and STRIKING at it!
"Yes, I was at Woodmont! I stood at its highest point and it is the highest point in Montgomery County! And I saw the sloping lands. I saw the farms and saw the small dwellings on the riverside. I saw the river that feeds the mills. It is a panorama of beauty! And I stood there at the highest point with my head almost in the clouds. I could not help but indulging in some of the vanity of the eagle. I thought of his majesty when he spreads his wings and flies miles above the earth and says to himself, `I'm the king of the air!'
"And then I thought as I stood there, that I have a King when it comes to GRACE, when it comes to CHARITY, when it comes to GOODNESS, when it comes to GODLINESS! I have a KING--a KING ON EARTH--FATHER DIVINE! Aren't you glad! And so am I!"