The Mount of the House of the Lord
FATHER DIVINE
"...I need not say, "Happy New Year!" for I have created such a Happiness by science and by the natural course of things until Happiness to the universe I extend! When you live exactly according to MY Teaching, Happiness will be produced and brought to fruition, and you as living creatures will become to be the PERSONIFICATION of this One Eternal Happy New Year! Aren't you glad! And as you Live it and Express it, to others you will Transmit it, and your very words and deeds and actions will be expressions of Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a Blessing with Thanksgiving, once and forever, for the Resurrection of your SAVIOR! We bring these great events together and cause you to recognize GOD'S PRESENCE and verify MY often rehearsed motto as a statement and as a declaration and yet as an answer to millions:
"The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the source of all supply, and it can and it will satisfy every good desire!"
Your desires are satisfied and they are bountifully supplied as you recognized GOD'S ACTUAL PRESENCE and realize HIS BIRTH in REALITY, in consciousness, and HIS RESURRECTION!
Therefore, I do not continue to say after the manner of men, "Christmas Greetings to you!" I have extended MYSELF as MY LIFE, to the children of men, as a RESURRECTED SAVIOR, as well as the BIRTH of HIM, so that you might have Christmas now, henceforth and forever; and your presents and blessings, as Christmas, will cease no never, for you will be living in GOD'S ACTUAL PRESENCE with such a Recognition! Then it will be no more just limited seasons' greetings.
May I WILL that the Universe arise into the recognition of GOD'S PRESENCE and recognize this great Christmas Gift to humanity, and may they recognize the Christmas as a standard of expression, not merely as a Memorial of the Birth of JESUS as a person but as a principle that has been birthed into being; and the children of men shall have universally imbibed the Spirit of HIM and Live in the PRESENCE of GOD once and forever, with Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite, having your Christmas Holidays all in ONE, Now, Henceforth and Forever, and your Happy New Year and your Easter Service!
Rev. M. J. Divine, Ms. D., D. D., December 21-22, 1944 A.D.F.D.
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