The Unity Mission Church and Home Inc.,
Auditorium
FATHER DIVINE:
Peace, Everyone: According to MY usual salutation, I say, Peace, Good Health, Good Will, Good Appetite, Good Manners, Good Behavior, All Success, All Prosperity! Life, Liberty and the Reality of Happiness! When I speak these WORDS into your hearing, if you will but imbibe the Spirit and the Meaning of them, you will be partakers of these Attributes and Qualities of Good as depicted and described, and it will not be merely a salutation you are making if you happen to use the words I have spoken in the conclusion of MY letters of correspondence, for you will have good health, good will and a good appetite and you will be well, healthy, joyful, peaceful, lively, loving, successful, prosperous and happy!
This is not a supposition, but it is our conscious recognition and realization, for these blessings we have come into possession of and they are for each and every person as they by nature are impersonal, because they are the attributes and qualities, yea, the virtues of the holy One!
I AM happy to see our visiting ministers, both the great in stature and small. Aren't you glad! I was very happy to see him late this afternoon when I was busy in MY Office--Reverend Morris, the first young minister shorter than I AM! Aren't you glad! I AM happy to have him come and look us over! I was also happy to hear the professors and others were coming, as it takes us all to make the kind of world in which we shall live! Aren't you glad! And as you have heard, it is by the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose we can Unite together and there will be no division among us! We are also happy to have those of MY Assistant Pastors here tonight from two of our churches, Reverend Smith and Reverend Selfless. We are happy to have all of you, for together we stand, but divided we would fall, I do not say we will fall, but I say, we would fall if we be divided!
For this cause we are not going to be divisible! Of course, I would like very much to hear from our visiting ministers, not only those whom we have heard, but we would like to hear from those we have not heard from. We are willing to refrain from speaking as I have long since declared and I re-declare the same:
'I will preach CHRIST in WORDS, but more so in deeds and in actions and I will put MY Spirit in the people and cause them to walk in MY Statutes.'
I believe we can speak at times more profoundly in the actuated words of expression
when we put it forth by Love, Unity and Tranquility! For this cause I AM refraining
from speaking so if either one of our visiting ministers would like to have a
word to say--more than what they have said, we will be happy to hear from them.
The time seems to be quite well expired, no doubt, for a good many of our visiting
friends, but we will endeavor to be patient-able--have a little patience--and
if they desire to have a few words to say, we will wait until we shall hear from
them. I thank you.
The New Day: December 17, 1947 A.D.F.D. Pg 8.
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