(Ed.
Note: This Letter is in reply to Communistic correspondence and literature
received by FATHER.)
764-772 Broad Street
Philadelphia 46, Pa.
August 4, 1953 A.D.F.D.
Citizens Emergency Defense Conference
150 Nassau St., Room 805
New York City 38
Attn: Clifford T. McAvoy, Chairman
Gentlemen:
I received a booklet entitled, "Thirteen Communists Speak to the Court", supposedly from your organization and a form letter enclosed soliciting MY aid and cooperation.
Please be advised, first of all, no doubt you have been misinformed concerning ME and the Peace Mission Movement over which I preside.
I do NOT represent races, creeds or colors. Therefore I AM NOT what you think or take ME to be. I AM NOT an N---o and I A M NOT representing any such thing as the N----- or C------ race; but I AM REPRESENTING THE TRUE AND THE LIVING GOD INFINITELY but as among men.
I AM a REAL, TRUE AMERICAN ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. I AM not interested in any foreign policies that are not Democratic and Evangelical One Hundred Percent, for Americanism, Christianity, Democracy, Brotherhood and Judaism are synonymous.
I do not know of any Peace Movement or Peace Gatherings that are not functioning upon these fundamental principles as above depicted, but most specifically the Constitution and its Amendments, the Old and the New Testaments, the Declaration of Independence and more stressful to be considered, the Sermon on the Mount, for there shall be no Lasting Peace until the Prince of Peace shall have been recognized and GOD shall be Preached and Lived in all of our Business, Profession, Labor and Trade and in all Institutions and Organizations or else they all shall be a failure.
Therefore, please do not at any time or by any means, send ME any more of your literature.
Thus, with the desire that all mankind may become to be real, true American citizens and thereby gain the privilege of becoming to be even as I AM, this leaves ME Well, Healthy, joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, joint, limb, vein and bone and even in every ATOM, fibre and cell of MY BODILY FORM.
Respectfully and Sincere, I AM
(signed) REV. M. J. DIVINE, Ms. D., D. D.
(Better known as FATHER DIVINE) REV. MJD:D
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