The Unity Mission Church
PEACE, EVERYONE: Here we all are again, there I sit and stand. In the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose I AM calling all nations and all people in one! By this we are enjoying that for which our Constitution of the United States was drafted, that we might have a more perfect union! Aren't you glad!
I believe you all can plainly see the results of Unity, for it is written,
'Together we stand but divided we fall!'I hope all of our fellow citizens, hearers and friends will take cognizance of this Message in the Actuated Words of Expression I AM conveying to the children of men, although it may be apparently insignificant, but I do take cognizance of the Message and the lesson of the woodpecker hen. Aren't you glad! I AM taking cognizance of the little bird, for the story says, 'Live not for yourself alone!' That Message she gave years and years ago in the story as an illustrated story.
It was said that it is a fairy tale, some say, and some say it is an actual fact; while we may not have any Scripture proof of it, but the story goes:
'Once when the good Saint Peter
Lived in the world below,
He walked about his preaching,
Just as he did, you know.
He came to the door of a cottage
In traveling around the earth,
Where a little woman was baking cakes
In the ashes on the hearth.
And being faint with fasting,(FATHER demonstrates)
For the day was almost done,
He asked her from her store of cakes
To give him a single one.
Therefore, she kneaded another,
But still a smaller one,(FATHER again demonstrates)
But it looked when she turned it over
As large as the first she had done.
So she took a tiny scrap of dough,
And rolled and rolled it flat,
And baked it thin as a wafer,
But she would not part with that.
She said, 'My cakes do seem so small
When I eat of them myself,
They are yet too large to give away!'
So she put it upon the shelf.
The good Saint Peter grew angry
For he was hungry and faint,
And was sure such a woman
Was enough to try a saint!
So he said, 'You shall build as the birds do,(FATHER demonstrates by knocking on the Table)
By getting your scanty food,
By boring and boring and boring
All day in the hard dry wood!'
Up she went through the chimney,
Never speaking a word,
And out of the top flew a woodpecker,
For she was changed to a bird!
The scalloped cap she wore on her head,So that little Message she teaches, I AM proud to be her Student! Aren't you glad! The story goes,
And that was left the same,
With all the rest of her clothes burned
As black as the coal in the flame!
So this is the lesson she teaches,
'Live not for yourself alone!' --
'Every country schoolboySo this is the Lesson she teaches -- she teaches the school boy, you know --
Has seen her in the woods,
Where she lives until this very day,
Boring and boring for food!'
'Live not for yourself alone,So it is a Lesson well worth considering!
Lest some day you may need pity
For something to be your own!'
So, I say may we all take cognizance, not so much of what you may see ME to be but take cognizance of the outward demonstration and what the Spirit is actually doing through these, for it is a lesson well worth considering and I think if all will but take cognizance of whatsoever is revealed that is Good, and ignore that which we do not desire to consider as such, but believe all things and hold fast to that which is Good, you will be blest and you will have success and it will not be long until we shall have brought an End to the prospect of warfare and bloodshed among the nations!
We cannot stress these thoughts too vividly -- I mean, the thoughts of peace, of brotherhood and of unity -- because others are stressing the thoughts of warfare and bloodshed, and in almost every generation we are having warfare and bloodshed nowadays. And as we live this Christian life as exemplified, and the summation of a real life transmitted, reincarnated and personified, we find that we are living Americanism, Christianity, Judaism, Brotherhood and Democracy as synonymous, for all of these as lived and put into expression, they are unified together as e pluribus unum! So let us live it and express it and we will get away from hating a person because of the national origin or abstractional origin or any such an expression but learn to love one another and unite as universal brothers, as we are, and there will be no more doubts or fears and no more wants and cares, for this is the expression as a sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the abundance that will follow unity, tranquility and brotherly love put into practice! I thank you.
The New Day: December 20, 1947 A.D.F.D. Pg 12
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