PEACE, FATHER DEAR; PEACE, MOTHER DEAR; FATHER Dear, today when the graduates were honored it came to my mind what that young boy was here from Poland; he was the son of the Polish Ambassador to the U. N., I understand; and at the time he was here and he went to Pinebrook with YOU and back, something was said one morning concerning a reference YOU had made to the Scripture, and he asked me what YOU meant. So I told him what the reference was, of the story, and I asked him, had he ever read the Bible? And he said, "What is the Bible?;And I said, "Well, the Bible is the history of man's search for the one True and Living./GOD." And FATHER, he sort of smiled a little bit, but he said he had never read it, and I said to him, FATHER, considering I could have gotten a bible from YOU I said, "if I got a Bible for you, would you read it?" and he shook his heard and said no. He spoke perfect English.
And I thought, FATHER, about what YOU have done for us! YOU have given us, FATHER, the history of the causes and the results of every ill that has befallen man. YOU have given us the Key to Eternal Life in a Book, FATHER, that we can read and understand with our hearts and minds if we will just live by the precepts that YOU have put in this Scripture! And then, FATHER, because that was not enough, YOU came in YOUR OWN HOLY, beautiful BODY the WORD PERSONIFIED the Ark of the Covenant MADE FLESH the TEMPLE of the LIVING GOD so BEAUTIFUL and HOLY, that we can see! And then, FATHER, YOU brought YOUR HOLY CHURCH and gave Her a Beautiful VIRGIN BODY, FATHER, so that the fulfillment of the ENTIRE SCRIPTURE, from GENESIS to REVELATION, is before our eyes and if we will just touch it in our hearts!
FATHER, I thought of that tonight while we were enjoying the lovely little celebration and the touching celebration for the graduates what YOU are doing, FATHER! YOU have lighted a flame in the world that can never be extinguished., and the Light of YOUR Love, FATHER, has gone through every nation! Wherever man is found they have felt and seen the REALITY of YOU HOLINESS and the LIGHT OF of the TRUTH and no can put out that Light! No barrier can be erected against it! (Thunderous applause sanctions this.) And FATHER, I love YOU for what YOU are doing, little by litter; setting a sample and an Example just in this little Bible Class of the graduates the first class graduating. FATHER, it is so beautiful, because the Spark will catch fire throughout the world! And the desire that we have to do YOUR HOLY WILL, men can't stop that same desire being being kindled in the HEARTS of other's throughout the world! ("So, true came the sanction.)
And FATHER, I love YOU for EVERYTHING YOU DO! I love YOU for YOURSELF, because YOU are so HOLY, so IMMACULATE, so PURE! YOU are a SAMPLE, and EXAMPLE for us in EVERYTHING YOU DO and SAY and FATHER, EVERYTHING YOU DO and SAY, to me, is BEAUTIFUL and HOLY! And FATHER Dear, I just want to express my appreciation for this first graduating class. Thank YOU, my LOVE!
PEACE, FATHER Dear and PEACE, MOTHER Darling; PEACE, EVERYONE: I just rise, FATHER to express my Love and Gratitude to YOU and to our Darling Sweet MOTHER, our Beautiful Sample and Example that YOU have given to us and it has made us so happy! It means so much! There are no words that I can find to express how much I thank YOU and how grateful and how grateful I am for this day; for allowing me to live to see all the Beauty and Holiness and the Glory of GOD exemplified before us, LORD: I thank YOU!
This is really HOLY! It is beautiful! It is something that I just can't express, FATHER; it seems as if we are in an Upper Room! We are lifted lifted much HIGHER than we have ever known ourselves to be, because it is beautiful! I don't imagine that we know how blessed we are! It is really wonderful, FATHER! I thank YOU for this Glory that shines on us today, LORD, GOD ALMIGHTY. and it is all because of YOU! ----the Blessing of the BODY of GOD on EARTH among men! (Thunderous applause sanctions this.)
FATHER, I thank YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD, for this glorious opportunity to be standing in the Presence of YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD, and that Dear, Beautiful BRIDE, the LAMB'S Wife, the QUEEN the One YOU have brought in this day to lead us on to PERFECTION, FATHER a PERFECT, HOLY CHURCH, WITHOUT A SPOT OR WRINKLE! ("So true! Sanctioned the Assembly.)
FATHER, there are no words to thank YOU enough for bringing us this Holy, sweet, Beautiful VIRTUOUS and HOLYNESS PERSONIFIED in the BODY of MOTHER DIVINE! I love YOU GOD ALMIGHTY, with all the heart there is in this body! I thank YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD, to strive and continue to strive to be as PERFECT as She! I want to be, FATHER! I thank YOU to be! And in my heart, FATHER, I feel we all wish to be, but we cannot be unless we be more self- denied and make a real, whole-hearted sacrifice unto YOU, that YOU might cause us to be because it will never happen without YOUR Help! YOU are the ONLY ONE Who can bring us UP to this mark, to this great High Calling! YOU are the Only who can set up the Holy Highway that we might travel! Help us to travel on, FATHER Dear in YOUR Mind and Spirit, that we might be fit subjects, fit children, real children, that we might be worthy to call YOU, FATHER and to call Her MOTHER! Make us worthy, LORD
I thank YOU, FATHER Darling, I thank YOU, MOTHER Dear, for this glorious, blessed night of Holiness and Beauty shining brighter and brighter, and may we go on and on with YOU throughout eternity! I thank YOU, FATHER Dear!
PEACE, FATHER Dear; PEACE, MOTHER; PEACE, EVERYONE. FATHER Dear, I want to thank YOU for trying to read the Bible through! I feel that I would not have read as much as I did read if it had not been for YOU and MOTHER because nobody else in this world could have made me read the Bible, FATHER! I feel that I enjoy it more now than I did when I was reading it! It might sound funny but it's true! I appreciate it more, I would say, now that I had read it all, or most of it.
And, FATHER Dear, I was thinking how people go to seminaries and they study the Bible because it is going to be their profession or they are they are going to earn a living at it afterwards not because they really want to know it for the good of their hearts and for their soul, but because they feel they are going to lead the people; it is going to be a profession for them; they are going to make a name for themselves; they are going to get up in the world! But FATHER, we have read this Bible because through YOUR Inspirations YOU have given us the desire, and watching MOTHER, it's sort of hard to back out. You feel you will just struggle on because She is reading it too and it gives you a little more interest!
Also, FATHER Dear I feel that YOU said we would read the Bible through, word for word. So many people in YOUR Place would feel well, maybe they would doubt or maybe it would cause them to learn more about religion but FATHER, I feel all of us have gained a stronger Faith! (Thunderous applause sanctions this.) And I feel that in reading it, like so often people say we don't read the Bible, but now I mean, if they thought they could have done it before, I don't know what they think now; I mean, that we have read the Bible, I think we have gained more Love for YOU! We have got a stronger Conviction! And as we read about the people of old, how they struggle and how they pursued after GOD and how they were tortured and the things they had to go through and when you think of the little things we think are hard that we have to go through, it seems like nothing, compared to the things they went through!
And so many things that we have heard maybe real or preached, they add their versions to them; but when we read it for ourselves, then we can make our own version and decide what we think it means, and we don't have to go by that anyone else thinks. FATHER'S Spirit is sufficient to give you your own independence! And the freedom that YOU have given us FATHER, reading it and formulating our own opinions of things, has just given us a deeper Love for YOU and a greater Faith in YOUR Teachings that we may be Living Epistles and Missionaries, even though YOU don't need any. FATHER ! (Merriment resounds. Then Miss . Continues:) But I am sure each one of us could be a light to YOUR Name and spread YOUR Gospel around, if it is only in the House, to help some soul, FATHER, that would be lost! I thank YOU, FATHER! I thank YOU, MOTHER!
PEACE, FATHER Dear; PEACE, MOTHER Dear and PEACE, EVERYONE; I thank YOU, FATHER and MOTHER Dear, to offer my congratulations to those who completed the Bible Course with MOTHER, and especially to congratulate MOTHER for the beautiful job that She did in encouraging every one, from the Office Cabinet Staff down to the Followers in Australia and all over the world influencing them to want to study the Bible and the Creeds and everything that YOU have gold us that was good and beautiful to think on; and we have gotten a deep inspiration, FATHER, just being around MOTHER and the class and hearing them tell each other the Bible stories over and over again, and seeing the enjoyment that they have received out of knowing what goes before and after the stories that YOU have told us over and over again, FATHER!
I know in the studying that I have done, FATHER, I have appreciated so much, coming across the words YOU have used over and over for years in YOUR Messages and it has meant so much to me, to know that I do know know those thing can be verified and substantiated; that the critics can come and they can see that we do know and we understand everything YOU say, FATHER, and it can be proved from every angle expressible of ministers! (Loud applause sanctions this.)
FATHER, I appreciate seeing how everyone has unified in reading the Bible together. Not like everyone has picked a little verse to read, or has or has taken a little section of the Bible, but they go together and they read it in unison, with the unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose! And it has been beautiful to see how everyone is on ONE ACCORD and enjoying the Blessings that YOU have bestowed on them because of the unification in studying the Bible, and it has been more than just an ordinary study! It has been part of our life! We live it and we breathe it we see it, we feel it, we eat it! Everyday we find an inspiration something to live on and we and we don't seek anything out of these walls, FATHER. We find complete enjoyment!(Loud applause sanctions this.)
I look back ant this evening and how everyone has rejoiced. It has been Holy, and it has been enjoyable! We have everything in the Peace Mission, from every angle expressible! We have all the entertainment, the enjoyment, all the religion, all of the Holiness, the Beauty and the Virtue! You couldn't ask for anything that we don't have here, FATHER, and I really appreciate it!
(Thunderous applause sanctions this.)
I KNOW YOU ARE GOD ALMIGHTY and I LOVE YOU, and I ADORE, MOTHER and all Her Ways! Being with YOU and MOTHER at all time, FATHER, in the building presently, where YOU are Personally, and around the Service where YOU Personally serve the people YOUR IMMACULATE WAYS and YOUR HOLINESS, YOUR GENEROSITY! the way YOU SERVE OTHERS and how YOU UNSELFISHLY GIVE OF YOURSELF, and how UNSELFISHLY MOTHER GIVES OF HERSELF DAY AFTER DAY you couldn't help but want to live this Life! If you didn't want to live it before, you surely would want to now! (Thunderous) again rings out in sanction of this.)
And FATHER, I thank YOU not just to do better I just thank YOU for everything! It just couldn't be any better as far as I am concerned, because I truly enjoy everything YOU do and say! I enjoy everything Mother does and says! She is a Perfect Example from every angle expressible! If you just meet her walking through the hall, MOTHER is a PERFECT EXAMPLE! She has a kind word and a smile; She has uplifting thoughts for you, and is really a Blessing! And when we are in YOUR Presence personally, FATHER, we have the Spirit of what YOU and MOTHER have done for us, and we appreciate that Holy Spirit that Ever Presence dwelling with us in our hearts and in our minds! ("So true!" came the sanction from the Assembly.)
FATHER, I love YOU and I love MOTHER. With all my heart, soul, mind and strength! I thank YOU!
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