The House of the Lord, rear view, Woodmont, Gladwyne PA.
Many songs were heard, which were sung by the audience in unison, and some came forth as inspirational Compositions sung individually to the LORD. They were all beautiful and enjoyable, but the one which seemed the most appealing to all and commanded the unified cooperation of the entire assembly was the one which also was used by the LORD as the subject of the Message
'Now we are gathered around the Body, the beautiful Body of GOD.'
Like a flash of Lightning FATHER arose, and with dynamic fervor and power HE spoke the Words of Wisdom, Life, Health and Happiness. With His Infinite Mind FATHER beheld the multitudes of people throughout the Earth, and discerned their suffering conditions. HE beheld with His Mental and Spiritual Eye, the afflictions, the trouble, the conflicts and the general unrest of the people throughout the World, and with compassion in His Voice, and Love -- Infinite Love abounding in His Heart for all humanity, HE appealed to the people all over this wide extended Plane, for their sakes, to accept the Message of Salvation, that they might be lifted above the surface of mortality and soar into the Sunlight of Heaven, where they are lost to the world of misery and woe.
Whosoever from the Churches, from the various organizations, from the Political Field, from the Scientific and other Worlds of Expression will answer the Universal Call sent out by the Love-Master FATHER DIVINE, they shall automatically make their Contact with the LORD, and thereby they will be "touching the Hem of CHRIST'S Garment," Mentally and Spiritually, and as it was with the woman Nineteen Hundred Years ago, so also will it be with everyone who will look through the veil of mortality and discern the Beautiful Body of GOD; they shall rejoice in telling the story of how they have been made whole, and unitedly with the millions who are already singing the Songs of Praises to GOD and the Lamb and telling the Story of Redemption, they shall mingle their voices with the Redeemed Host of GOD, who have washed their robes and made them white in the Precious Life of the Lamb, FATHER DIVINE.
We offer Adoration and ascribe Praises to Thy Matchless Name, Thou Adorable One, FATHER DIVINE, for there is none like unto THEE.
FATHER speaks as follows at the conclusion of the Song:
'Now we are gathered around the Body, the Beautiful, the Beautiful Body,
Now we are gathered around the Body, the Beautiful Body of GOD.'
PEACE EVERYONE! ("Peace, FATHER Dear!" returned the jubilant Assembly.) Here we all are, and there I AM; there I sit and here you stand, with Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite for everybody. We have Good Manners and Good Behavior. We have all Knowledge and all Understanding. We have all Gifts and all Talents, and they are all for our service. That is wonderful!
I have arisen at this particular juncture to say, while you were singing, "We have gathered around the Body," I thought of the Message in the Scripture which reads as follows:
'For this cause many are sickly among you, and some sleep, not discerning the Body of CHRIST.'
This particular thought I stress this afternoon for you consideration, that you
might observe the significance of the Recognition of the Perfect Picture -- the
Body -- even if it is not the Reality, it is good for you to observe it.
Oh, it is a privilege to realize the thing you vividly visualize, you can and will materialize. For this cause I say, it is essential for you to vividly visualize the Perfect Picture until you materialize it. If it is not real, then make it a reality as a Living Factor in your hearts and in your lives.
Oh, it is a privilege, I say, to have an Ideal and such an Idea to conceive that you might reproduce the conception of the Perfect Expression, that you might become to be the Personification of it -- not only so, but if there be a question in the minds of My Hearers and even to those who may read of ME distantly and hear of ME off-handedly, if you hear of ME antagonistically, if you are in trouble, if you are sick, if you are afflicted, vividly visualize the Perfect Picture, the Body as it has been depicted, and you will be abundantly Blessed, for the Spirit has declared it.
Tell all of the peoples of the earth even, wheresoever I AM heard of, if I AM heard of in a slanderous and in an antagonistic and conflicting way, tell them I say, "Concentrate on ME harmoniously," if you are afflicted, if you are sick or if you are diseased, "By My Stripes you will be Healed." Tell them I say, it is written:
'By His Stripes ye are healed.'
It is a privilege, My Beloved Ones, to have Someone who has borne Stripes for
you. Through criticisms, through accusations, through slanders and condemnations,
by these the Believers, or those who will contact ME harmoniously, they will
be Healed of all such kinds of ills and undesirable conditions by the concentrated
thought on the Perfect Picture.
There are many things I could say along this line, but as I have arisen to stress the significance of the Recognition of the Body of GOD, but if you sincerely believe it to be, if you see it to be, to you it is a Reality, and none can defeat it. Aren't you glad? ("So glad!" came the responsive reply from the multitude.)
The thing you vividly visualize, you tend to materialize. That is a Living Reality. When you shall have "tangibilated" it, when you shall have materialized it and personified it, to you it is a Reality and to all other materialists. Aren't you glad? I AM making a reality out of the imaginations of the children of men, their Religious and fanatical and radical imaginations concerning HIM Who liveth forever.
Why is it I AM making a Reality out of it? It is because it was essential that the Reality of the imaginations would come forth into expression for the Redemption of all humanity. When you say:
"Now we have gathered around the Body" -- this does not necessarily mean around My Personal Tabernacle as a Person you have gathered, and yet you are the Personification-- the Fulfillers of it in a measure, but the significance of the Message in the Composition as you sung it, it is the reality of it. You have gathered in your mental and Spiritual concept around the Body of GOD. Although you may be in Europe, Asia and Africa, all of you have mentally and Spiritually gathered around the Body scientifically and you observe IT as a Living Reality.
For this cause I say it is a reality to those who have "tangibilated" It, to those of you who have Personified It and materialized It, to you it is a reality, that others might realize it even as you realize it. Upon this Foundation, if you will stand as I said, you will realize no longer need you to be sickly, no longer need you to be afflicted, no longer need you to sleep the sleep of death, for you shall have continually, or continued, whichever, to observe the Body of CHRIST of which is the Redemption of mankind on the Material Plane.
I said the Body of CHRIST is the Redemption of mankind on the Material Plane, from those undesirable conditions and miseries and sufferings they have been undergoing. That is why HE said:
'For this cause many are sickly among you and some sleep not discerning the Body of CHRIST,'
but because you discern the Body of CHRIST, the very physical bodies of yours
are cleansed from all sickness and from all sin, from diseases and from all those
undesirable things and your bodies are renovated and re-made again. Then we retrace
our thoughts back to the prediction of the Spirit as was given by the Prophets
and handed down through the Prophetic Age,
'By His Stripes ye are Healed.'
Believe ME, or believe ME not, it is absolutely immaterial to ME, that every
person or persons under the Sound of My Voice, tell them to tell their friends,
relatives and kin, each and everyone with whom they are concerned, to make the
Contact with ME harmoniously, by believing sincerely, and the slanders and persecutions
and prosecutions as Stripes for the Redemption of this people will HEAL them.
By My Stripes, ye shall be HEALED. I can see today there are those in the different Religions, the different churches and church connections in suffering conditions. From this day hence, they will make their Mental and Spiritual Contact by calling on My Name harmoniously believing, and they will receive their HEALING. This is not a supposition. This is a Declaration. This is not an Affirmation I say, it is a Declaration.
It is no longer necessary to make an Affirmation concerning such a thing, for it has long since been confirmed, verified and endorsed by all mankind: "He who calls on the Name of GOD, shall be DELIVERED."
'Call on ME in the day of trouble," as said the identical, direct quotation, "And I will DELIVER you.'
You can see the Deliverance of the nations of the earth coming forth into expression
by the Recognition and the Realization of GOD'S Actuated Presence, because they
are now realizing the Personification of GOD as a Living Reality, the Body of
GOD, the Sample and the Example, by which they must copy after; then I say it
matters not what your troubles, afflictions or diseases may be, it matters where
you are, it matters not who you may be, or whether you have ever seen ME or not,
I say, if you are there and I AM here, if you think on ME harmoniously;
'Call on ME in the day of trouble, I will Deliver thee.'
"By His Stripes ye are HEALED," therefore, rejoice and I AM exceedingly
glad to have the Stripes that I have had; for the stripes that I have had, are
the stripes for the REDEMPTION of mankind, that they all might be HEALED of all
their ills, if they will merely call on ME.
Oh, it is a privilege. Now you need not come to ME Personally. You need not come near ME Personally. You need not speak to ME Personally. You need not see ME Personally. You need not hear ME Personally, all you must needs do is to Contact ME harmoniously, and
'Call on ME in the day of trouble and I will DELIVER you.'
Aren't you glad? ("So glad!" exclaimed the multitude.)
These are facts and figures too stout to be denied, for these are the Words of GOD:
'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away,'
My Words stand firm forever. I verify the same among you. No matter what your
complaints may be; it matters not what your friends' complaints may be, if they
are on the Other Side of this Globe, if they have conscious life and human intellect
as the Light of Civilization gives, allow yourselves to convey the Message and
allow them to believe sincerely and Mentally and Spiritually Contact ME, My Stripes,
My Persecutions, My Accusations, My Trials and Tribulations will HEAL them. I
shall HEAL them from now on as never before.
I glory in the Tribulations, Trials, Accusations and Persecutions, for these are the Stripes thereof, by which the Nations are HEALED, and all of the people shall see it, for I shall REVEAL it.
I need not say more at this particular juncture, for everyone who harmoniously Contacts ME, and will not doubt ME; Contacts ME sincerely and Relax their conscious mentality; Stills himself or herself and who will not think antagonistically nor conflictingly, if you have repented of it, and if you have not sinned against the Holy Ghost, your sins will be forgiven, and you will be Healed Mentally, Spiritually and physically, for by My Persecutions, Prosecutions and by My Trials and Tribulations as Stripes which I have received, will be your Healing Balm, for your Salvation. I thank you.
(The Audience appropriately sang at the conclusion of this very beautiful Message, the following Healing Song):
'FATHER is the Healing Balm, FATHER is the Healing Balm,
FATHER is the Healing Balm for your mind, your body and soul.'
One in the Audience rushed up at the conclusion of the Message, just as the song
begun, evidently to express her gratitude to FATHER for the Blessing of such
a significant Message and Lesson as she had listened to, and was apprehended
rather suddenly and much to her surprise. Because of her unawareness of the new
rule, and because of the fact that there may have been others unfamiliar with
this new Adoption, FATHER again arose, and clearly explained to the satisfaction
of the accosted individual and others, the reason for their non-permittance to
speak to HIM, while serving the Daily Communion.
PEACE EVERYONE: ("Peace, FATHER Dear!" responded the great Assembly coming to a complete silence.) Just before we continue with the Song of which is very appropriate for the occasion, I would just like to say for the consideration of the people, both the Believers and the non-believers, it has been made a custom for not anyone to come to ME to speak to ME while I AM serving Communion; therefore, I wish to say to those who desire to speak to ME at any time, especially in these Dining Rooms and in the Auditorium when I AM in service, it has been so set apart that I would not communicate with anyone at the time of our regular Service; so do not feel embarrassed if for any cause you are prohibited from coming to speak to ME at any time, especially when I AM serving My Communion.
This Banquet Table is a Table set apart for practical actual service, that I might serve according to the Gospel, that I might girdle Myself and sit down with them and serve them, even as I AM being served, that they might receive the Blessing according to their version; therefore, since they believe it, to them it is true. Then I say, all of our meals -- all that we eat and drink, especially at these Sacred Banquet Tables where I AM officiating, they are as sacred as any Communion at any Church in our great City; so I request as I have requested, please do not consider persistently trying to interfere with ME nor disturb our Service when our Services are going on.
I AM giving My Service Absolutely Gratis to the world as a Free Gift to mankind, but accept of My Message as I so freely give it and you will be Blessed the same as if you were to touch ME. It is not necessary to come near ME Personally. I said in My Message, even if you do not see ME, if you do not hear ME, if you do not come near ME, if you do not touch ME, you would be Blessed if you make your Mental and Spiritual Contact, Contacting ME harmoniously; through My Stripes you will be HEALED of all of your ailments and complaints or whatsoever they may be. I thank you.
Now we will further hear the melody as brought forth as a Composition affirming and endorsing the Message I had given.
'FATHER is the Healing Balm for your mind, your body and soul.'
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