"... If You Can but Have the Faith and Count All You Have Gained and All You Claim
but Lost for the Gain of the Christ, You Will Gain and Will Be Restored to Health..."
---FATHER DIVINE

FATHER DIVINE

Health Sickness and Disease

1. Re: The practicality of Righteousness. Cleanliness is next to Godliness. "Cleanliness should be established in you from an economic point of view, from a scientific point of view, and from a physical, healthful point of view that you might have health, happiness, vigor and courage; that you might live..."
   Message - Given July 4, 1938; 2:22 p.m.
2. Give to Every Person What Is Due Him and Express GOD'S Independence; Those Who Are of GOD and Live the Life Will Not Be Sick.
   'Then sickness and diseases will not come in this world of which I AM now speaking, when you shall have transcended the mortal versions of those laws, rules and regulations of men, the law of health, that they are making for you and all who live in the mortal state of consciousness."
   Message - Given May 6, 1940; 3:15 p.m.
3. The Property Improvement Tax Exemption Bill Is for the Uplift of Humanity and for Moral Betterment Generally.
   '...It is saving the lives of millions from pneumonia and tuberculosis, and other contagious and incurable diseases, through and by improving your property and having better living conditions..."
   Message - Given June 1, 1938; After midnight.
4. FATHER DIVINE Grants Interview to Mrs. E. K. Benjamin, seeking Healing. "You should abstain from all things that are detrimental to the physical body...from the things you have been eating that are detrimental..."
   New Day, Jan. 10, 1948; P. 20 Interview - Given Dec. 21, 1947; 6:06 p.m.
5. FATHER DIVINE Causes the People To Be Blessed By Abstaining from Intoxicants, Drugs and Smoking
6. Seeing and Hearing.
7. You Cannot Die Unless You Give Up the Ghost.
8. A Lady Seeking Healing And Work 'I work with the doctors because I AM all skill and I AM all scientific ability and I work in them and through them to reach the conditions of the people."
   New Day, Feb. 28, 1948; P. 10 Interview - Given Feb. 15, 1948; 7:05 p.m.
9. The miracle of good health is greater than that of the cure of disease.
   New Day, June 18, 1955; P.5-6 Office Talk - Given Aug. 7, 1946; 1:33 p.m.
10. Subjects: Healing; Misfortunes of her son. "So if you can but have the faith and count all you have gained and all you claim but lost for gain of the Christ, you will gain and will be restored to health, though you may not get the revenge of your son in the way you would like to get it."
    New Day, Feb. 28, 1948; P. 11 Interview - Given To a lady from Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1948; 6:05 p.m.
11. "...Love for GOD would help...It is possible to eliminate almost any ailment or complaint, because love is truly the panacea for every ill!"
    New Day, Feb. 28, 1948; P. 14 Interview - Given to a lady seeking healing. Feb. 12, 1948; 11:55 p.m.
12. The Miracle of Good Health is Greater than That of Cure of Disease
13. Re: Old Age. "You will never think about getting old, unless you think about how old you are. New Day, Feb. 16, 1963; P. 5 Message - Given June 24, 1940; 3:16 A. M.
14. FATHER'S Words Of Wisdom To Convalescents.
    'So confess your sins, every one of you, and forsake them, and get out from under that curse ...wherewith you have been cursed, and then abstain from the thing that would agitate such a condition, that would conflict it and annoy the condition!"
    New Day, Mar. 18, 1950; P. 16 Words of Wisdom - Given Mar. 11, 1950; 4:00 p.m.
15. Mental condition of their son.
    'Since physical science has failed and the psychiatrist cannot accomplish your endeavors, it is good at this time to relax your conscious mentality and cease to worry and trust GOD implicitly, wholeheartedly and sincerely by making your mental and spiritual contact even as you have made your physical or personal contact."
    New Day, Mar. 18, 1950; P. 24-25 Interview - Given Mar. 12, 1950; 6:25 p.m.
16. The Time Is near at Hand When There Will Not Be a Contagious Germ of Disease in the Atmosphere of the Land.
    New Day, Aug. 31 and Sept.7, 1937; P. 7-8 Message - Given Sept. 12, 1940; 3:10 p.m.
17. Re: Heredity and environment
    'So long as you express the characteristics, the disposition, the spirit and the mind of your ancestors, and you as descendants continue to represent them, their infirmities will be upon you..."
    New Day, July 7, 1938; P. 44-47 Message - Given June 22, 1938; 12:55 a.m.
18. The Five Physical Senses Are The Omniscience of the Almighty In the Sub-consciousness of Men, Teaching and Telling Them What To Do.

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