1201 Woodmont Road, Gladwyne PA.
Two very stressful points are taken up by the Dean of the Universe in this significant Sermon, and these points are explained herein by FATHER Himself -- therefore, it is essential and more explicit to read His Words and to see the marvelous Work being accomplished through and by His marvelous Teachings and the application of same by the True and Faithful the Universe over!
Read, therefore, these wonderful words which give, in part, a slight sketch and a reflection of the honesty and integrity of His followers in seeking to express the perfection of American Citizenship, and also they give you increased knowledge as to the many sacrifices made for righteousness' sake that GOD'S Work and Mission might be accomplished even as it was predicted Sculpturally -- for GOD Almighty is truly here on earth and HE is ruling and reigning in complete majesty, dominion and authority, without the help of mankind!
Thank YOU, GOD Almighty!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks as follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are again; there I sit and stand; bringing about a better understanding among the children of men wheresoever you have been. The time that has been will not be again!
I would just like to say at this instance, since there has been much talking in reference to the paying of social security and paying of old age pensions, we do not believe in such, because in the Truth you will never grow old; that is, if you live exactly according to the Truth and let these Words and this Life abide in you!
I have on record before ME a brother, just about seventy-six - he said the Social Security has been trying to pay him sixty-five dollars a month, and sent him a couple of checks. He sent them back and went back, after they returned, and carried them to the office and refused to accept of them! The brother, as a Follower of Mine, living at the Circle Mission Church, Home and Training School, Incorporated of New York, having a position -- that is what I wanted to say about it. And he said he earns, I think it was, seventy-eight dollars per week -- and you would think to see him, you wouldn't think he is a very old man!
So I thought to call your attention to that. No doubt I will have further information concerning many more who have passed the ages of seventy-five and eighty, and on, who have been able to earn a livelihood; do not have any ache or pain; and living Soberly, Righteously and Godly otherwise!
For this cause I do not believe in having punctures in My Tires on My Cars! It is Wonderful! If you prepare for sickness you will get it! If you prepare for accidents and disappointments and failure, if you prepare for old age, you may need some old age assistance! But what said I concerning the mystery of what I AM telling you, through the mouth of Elihu?
If there be a messenger among you, one among a thousand, who has shown man his uprightness, his flesh shall be fresher than a child's. He shall return to the days of his youth!'
Of course, if you continue to live in the Adam consciousness -- in other words,
the Adamic state of consciousness will bring you misery, disappointment and failure!
People grow old in that state of consciousness; they sicken and they die! But
in the CHRIST Consciousness you can live forever! -- for I did say,
'If a man keep My Sayings he shall never see death!'
For this cause we mean to get some more authentic information from others of
some such experiences, so as to show the public at large conclusively, once and
forever, it is more blessed to live Honest and be True than to be dishonest and
untrue and try to get something for nothing. ("So true, LORD!" came
the instantaneous response.)
While they were speaking of the reading of that article in the Pittsburgh Courier, it is true: If I had not known I have not have known how it got to the paper; but I was called up and they told ME about it. I mean, the Pittsburgh Courier called up and called My attention to it; the same article, to some extent -- at least, the message and interview is in The New Day; but the Pittsburgh Courier stressed it vividly because it was News for any Newspaper! ("So true!" emphatically agreed the Assembly.)
This young man's mother has been at our place, I believe, since the opening of the Peace Center, Nazareth Mission's Home for the Aged, Church and Training School; shortly after that time, if not before. Someone said she was there before we had the Opening, which has been more than eight years. It is wonderful! Soon be nine years. And she has not had to lack for anything. And as I told her son, the twin to her only daughter -- I think she was her only daughter -- that we did not want to accept of it and would not accept of it. (Let us say that FATHER, at this point, is referring to a two hundred thousand dollar legacy due the lady in question, whose son recently visited FATHER to prevail upon HIM to allow the Church to accept of same, through his mother, for the benefit of the Good Work being accomplished universally by FATHER and which has so greatly benefited his mother when nothing else could. FATHER continues speaking as follows:) Of course, we give leave to the Church to move according to the Board of Trustees, and the like, but they do according to My Will; therefore, our Church would not accept of it especially; and while she had someone who could use it -- her two children -- although they were grown, grown up and married; but I considered more definitely it would have been more appropriate for them than for us! It is wonderful!
And we have others right here in the City, somewhere, that have had similar such experience and such experiences where legacies were left to them! After it had been all free and clear, the estate desired to turn it over to the ones to whom it was due and they refused it! From time to time the different ones have had such an experience; and then they have tried and desired to turn it over to our Church -- this Church here -- and it has been refused and has been sent back to the estate for them to do what they pleased with it!
So I AM saying that to say that these statements can be verified, for there are a-plenty of them have had the experience and have seen and known of several different ones that have had such an experience, offering us money of different estates that could have been given to us definitely and directly -- even to ME, if I would have accepted of it, and it has been refused -- and I AM none the worse! I think I have a-plenty to eat and I think I have at least one or two places to sleep very comfortably, if I desired to sleep. That is what they are for -- if I wished to sleep!
PEACE EVERYONE! To make it a little more explicit, as afore said, not only have nice places to sleep -- at least one or two -- but every house and every home and every hotel and all of the places under the Peace Mission Movement -- even the garages and stores and all of the public places, practically everyone, they have accommodations for ME to relax, better known as sleep, if I wish to sleep, any time and any and everywhere at all of the places all over this wide extended plane! Therefore, you might feel assured I do not need that which they desired to give. Although they were willing to do it and had it in their possession only for signing over, according to the information given, and I said I do not believe that our Church would accept of it because I knew they would not. They have never taken up a collection, never done any soliciting, and we do not expect to do any.
Just today sending our Church Discipline, By-Laws and Constitution and authorizing the organizing of another Church somewhere -- yet giving them to know they must not buy anything on credit, neither on the installment plan; they must pay CASH as they go and owe no man! They must own the property of the Church, but if perchance it is not purchased immediately but leased, it must be leased and paid by the Church and not by others that are unconcerned. Aren't you glad! ("So glad!" came the immediate response.)
And at all of the places in this and other countries they have accommodations for ME if I wish to go there or be at any of the places -- they have sleeping accommodations for ME if I desire to sleep -- if I did sleep -- but since I do not sleep, "GOD has an Eye that never sleeps nor slumbers" -- I AM privileged to be there or go there or here, and anywhere, and relax and rest, as though I would be asleep. It is Wonderful! Not only for ME but in other apartments there are accommodations for MOTHER and the Secretarial Staff -- My Cabinet.
Oh, it is just wonderful to let the whole world see and know, you do not lose anything by making the sacrifice of all that might would come to you, for Righteousness' sake! By this you gain an Hundredfold More in this present time, and in the world to come, Life Everlasting! You may multiply these Blessings by a Hundred, over and OVER again, for we gain an hundredfold more that what we could have gained or would have gained by accepting anything that we could have claimed under the circumstances. It is multiplied by a hundred more, over and over again! It is something to consider! ("Yes, so true, LORD!"declared the joyous Congregation.)
'No man has forsaken all of these things lest he gained an hundredfold more in this present time, and in the world to come, life everlasting!'
an hundredfold, an hundred times as much for every issue!
Therefore, be it known to you and unto all of the inhabitants of our present civilization, that the sacrifice of the would-have-been two hundred thousand dollars, instead of one it could be multiplied by an Hundred Times -- for that is the return we gain for the Church and for those who love GOD, by the sacrifice of that two hundred thousand dollars that was offered! I thank you.
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