FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
at The Unity Mission Church,
Philadelphia, PA.
The Marriage of FATHER DIVINE consummated HIS Work of legalizing the Life of CHRIST. HIS Mind and Spirit could now go forth to universalize this Life of Honesty and Virtue as it was personified in MOTHER, practiced by HIS followers and nurtured in the Peace Mission Churches. Therefore, though FATHER'S Personal emergence on the public scene had initiated a new dispensation, designated by the addition of the letters F.D. (FATHER DIVINE) after the customary A.D. on the Gregorian (Christian) calendar, the year 1946 heralded the beginning of the new era from a calendar point of view, and is the Year One.
The emergence of a whole new technology which has made possible the exploration of space and revolutionized mankind's way of life, bringing about far reaching social changes and the emergence of the Third World nations, bears witness that since the first use of atomic energy in 1945, humanity is indeed living in a new dispensation. since the first use of atomic energy in 1945, humanity is indeed living in a new dispensation.
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