An early photo of FATHER DIVINE with a group
Seated at FATHER's great Banquet Table in HIS New York City Headquarters, Monday evening, December 3, together with those of FATHER's immediate staff, were thirty or more of HIS Children who had just arrived from the West Coast. They had come across the continent with Mr. Ross Humble, in the same bus that had made a similar trip a few months before, bearing on its gleaming aluminum sides the inscription in blue, FATHER DIVINE'S PEACE MISSION- PACIFIC COAST DELEGATION, the overflow being carried in a Cadillac sedan that traveled with them.
While others from the West Coast and all parts of the world stood closely massed in the great dining hall, those who had been present in spirit for so long but had just arrived in body, poured out their praises and gratitude to FATHER for HIS care and HIS protection and for healing them of all their afflictions and diseases, giving them peace and joy, health and prosperity for all their adversities.
One of the brothers testified of his connection with an organization in the Longshoremen in San Francisco, and how FATHER had eliminated discrimination and prejudice, so that he and his fellow workmen are now sent to all parts of the San Francisco water front, regardless of race, creed or color. He thanked FATHER for this and many other blessings.
FATHER Personally responded to theses testimonies with Words of Spirit and
Life as follows:
PEACE EVERYONE: Everybody happy ?
("Yes FATHER!" was the enthusiastic response.) So AM I! It is indeed Wonderful! I AM happy to see the many faces and hear the many voices of cheer; not so much to ME or FOR ME as a Person, but to hear the voices of merry- making at the conscious realization of the blessings that are coming forth from the Infinite One, and to see the thousands and thousands of individuals the universe over, bringing their bodies into subjection, willing and ready to live Evangelically. That is why I AM happy, for if you live exactly according to the Life and the Teachings of CHRIST that was in that Body called Jesus, I AM sure you will be with ME, and if you are with ME to that degree I AM sure you are not against ME. Not only that, but I AM positive that as you live this Life, expressing it in words and in actions, the time cometh when you as well as I, in part, will be producers and reincarnators of the same.
To see the many that have come from all the way across the continent today, it is an outward expression of the true mystery of reincarnation and reproduction, giving you to know it is not confined nor bound, neither is it stationary or destinated, but it is something that goes on and on, reaching the masses wheresoever man is found. As it reaches them, if the hearts and minds are prepared to receive the Message, they too are partakers of it, and immediately they begin to reflect it. As you express it, and as you manifest it, they will reflect it and eventually they too, as well as you, will be reincarnators of it. That is why there are millions and millions the universe over, but in this assemblage here to-night we can say there are, no doubt, thousands gathered in and around this dining room and auditorium, bearing witness to what you have received, what I have done and what I AM doing.
If only for the sake of taking fear away from humanity, this Mission and this calling and this Message would be well worth `considering. Oh, it is such a privilege to live in this state of mind where all of your doubts and fears are taken away. Just think of it; heretofore you have been living in fear, fear of what man might say about you, fear of old age, fear of death and the "other place". You have been living in doubts and fears from your earliest existence and Jesus, the great Love Master, has left on record even before your existence as individuals, "fear not". Although Jesus left theses words on record as a Message to the true and the faithful, especially the Disciples, nevertheless they continued on in fear and in doubts, in sighs and in tears until something came to make that miraculous change.
But the time has truly come, and the Miraculous Changer has come to change even conditions and circumstances wheresoever they are undesirable, and to increase the desirable and multiply them. It is indeed Wonderful! Doubts and fears have kept you in that state of mind which is termed torment from your earliest existence, for fear is torment. Therefore if it were only for the sake of casting fear out of you, this Mission and this Message would be well worth its weight in gold.
Think of being free from the fear of death, free from the fear of the "other Place" that is not called Heaven! Free from the fear of old age, free from the fear of what man can do, would do, or would try to do to you!; free from the fear of poverty, of lacks, wants and limitations! This day, MY Work, if it were only for the purpose of casting out fear of poverty and the fear of lacks and wants, it would be worth your weight in gold.
I set before you a sample and an example that you might see and know there is a reality in this Life if you will but live it. Therefore bring your bodies into subjection and you will receive it. Now is not this a reality, just this slight sketch and this simple reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the mystery of what I AM actually doing? This slight sketch, I say, that we are expressing and manifesting in this auditorium and in this dining room daily, it is enough to let you see and know there is a reality. Hence if you will live according to the Life that has been shown you, and walk herein, you will be free from all doubts and fears, and free from all worries, trials and tribulations.
While one of the speakers was testifying, I thought for consideration, if it would be only to bring about this realization it would be well worth considering. The realization is itself, without the visibilization of it, is worth considering. To be positive of GOD's Presence, to be sure you are living in an age when GOD is dwelling with you, whether it is visible or invisible, such a conscious recognition and realization is sufficient to dispel all discord and all adverse and undesirable conditions. Your conscious convictions of the actual Presence of GOD is sufficient to dispel such conditions; nevertheless it brings it nearer to you as an individual when you realize the actual Personified expression of all GOD's Love and Mercy. It is indeed Wonderful!
When you can believe daily in the materialization and the personification of the undesirable expression, you must needs believe sincerely and daily and persistently in the reality of the Personification of the Perfect Picture. Such a conscious recognition and realization must be produced in the consciousness of the people to bring about the neutralization of their negative preconceived ideas and opinions. You have been conscious of the negative in the fullest measure. You have brought it to your conscious recognition and realization and you have actually materialized it in your imagination.
Therefore, it was and still is essential that you should do as much for the positive as you have for the negative. You have produced the negative and brought it into materialization, by mentally and spiritually through, your imaginations, personifying it. By personifying the negative with all of its characteristics, you have brought such expressions and all of the negative negation in your physical bodily forms.
Produce and bring into your system- your physical bodies and your experience- the positive, the same as you have heretofore the negative. Visualizing that which is contrary, that which is unreal, that which has never been, and making it be, apparently, by your conscious conviction of such a negative expression; by such a negative conception, by such negative thinking and by such negative actions, you have brought such in your experiences. The positive is just as operative and it is just as productive and can be brought into materialization universally, as much as the negative.
Practically every person you see on the street, he has some day, somewhere, somehow, by some words, ways, deeds or actions, called someone the "other fellow". Why does he marvel at you because you have called the positive into expression ? It is indeed Wonderful! Calling the negative into expression, causing it to be a reality in your experience, causing it to be personified and materialized universally; why not realize the positive can be universally personified equivalently? But it is a reality that there are those of you under the sound of MY Voice that are just as devout and sincere and true as those of the advocators of negation and the negative have been to their views.
You can hear men and women calling their own children "natural born other fellows". Now, if they would have said, "You are a mental born or spiritual born "other fellow", you could have got rid of him justifiably. But by saying he was a natural born "other fellow", if you try to do away with him, you will go to the electric chair. You can throw the mental and spiritual "other fellow" out, but you should not or cannot throw the personal or natural born "other fellow" out. If you do, you cannot do it justifiably. You may do it, but you will do it condemnably.
So, that is the thought of it Dear Ones. Hence, the production of negation and of negative thinking, these or those conditions, whichever, have grown to fruition, but the positive has been sown in the hearts and minds of men and especially in the United States of America, where you are privileged to serve GOD to the dictates of your own conscience. Naturally, America was the place to bring to fruition that seed idea of salvation that you might see your Redeemer.
PEACE EVERYBODY! Now remember, that word is not confined nor bound to a Person nor a personal appearance as an individual; it is a Fundamental that is reincarnatable, it is personifiable even though it has been Personified, and yet it universalizable. Therefore, I say, when this shall have been accomplished in the consciousness of humanity universally, they all will realize the Personification of GOD as a practical course in true and real psychology. You will bring the Fundamental to fruition as you live it, move it and keep it. When you are moved by your own individual volunteer volition and when you are governed by your own highest intuition, you will bring this Fundamental to fruition in your own individual experiences.
This is the mystery, and that is why the Apostle said, verifying these sayings before I Personally said them in this dispensation,
'To whom GOD will make known what is the riches of the mystery of his glory among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory.'
This was the great rich mystery at that age and at that time that had to be made
known, but still a greater in expression in accord with the same I AM calling
your attention to at this time. This greater mystery which is according to the
same is the Personification of that identical impersonal CHRIST that has been
in you as invisible. That is the way GOD is making it known, by personifying
HIMSELF in the hearts and lives of men and causing you to see HIM as HE IS.
Now, that is a glorious privilege, isn't it to be living in this age when the Personification of that identical mental and spiritual conception shall have been brought to fruition universally and all of humanity will see HIM as HE IS, when HE comes out from this Standard of Expression universally and remains here the same? Now isn't that Wonderful? Just think of it! While the Spirit of GOD's Presence is moving out upon the face of the deep as it was in the beginning of the creation- it may be a different interpretation from the deep as man has theorized it or interpreted the mystery; however, the Spirit of GOD is moving out upon the face of the deep. The same Spirit is acting; the same Spirit is working; it is bringing to fruition HIS identical purpose and causing humanity to realize, "The LORD reigneth".
That is why you can see the Spirit of GOD's Presence, HIS Name and His Mind on the hearts and lives of practically all mankind. In the different organizations they are calling for you and they are calling for this Fundamental. Apparently they are calling for ME, while with or without our Personal Presence they are seeking this Fundamental of Whom you say I AM. This Fundamental shall rule over all the inhabitants of the earth. It is ruling on the throne of the minds of men here and now. That is why I AM called to the different organizations and institutions, for they must accept of this Fundamental as their only hope of redemption. It is indeed Wonderful! Graft and greed in all of the different organizations and institutions must recognize this Fundamental that will deal justly, and they must accept of the Fundamental with or without a Person, or else they all will be failures. And they must come up to this Fundamental and seek it. If they do not, they all will be weighed in the balance and found wanting.
Jot these thoughts down in your vocabularies. Tell all of the different organizations, the different institutions and every society of our present civilization, unless they accept of the Fundamentals that I AM advocating, we will not cooperate with them; we will withdraw from them. Truly might have the speaker said in reference to the organization of the Longshoremen on the Pacific Coast, which is just one organization among millions, apparently, we must see that they deal justly, honestly and be truthful and do that which is just and right to each and every individual, or else we will withdraw from them.
Those of us that are connected with any organization, I don't care if it would be a government, if it will not or would not deal justly and judge the people with equity, we will withdraw from them, for CHRIST is the foundation of a righteous and a just judgment and also a righteous and a just government. It is indeed Wonderful! A government that is justice in itself and yet righteousness and truth, being the habitation thereof! Hence, if you will participate and continue to cooperate with that which is unrighteous, untruthful and unjust, you yourselves will be failures. That is why we are sponsoring this Great Cause, and every organization that is actually organized for the purpose of bringing about Justice, Righteousness and Truth.
That is why we have endorsed the Fundamentals of the United States of America as we have, because the Fundamentals are supposed to be founded upon Righteousness, upon Justice and Truth. It is indeed Wonderful! For this cause we will lift up this Standard as a Standard for all humanity and all of the different organizations that will nor cooperate with, nor stand for that which is Righteous, that which is Just, and that which is True, we will withdraw from them and cease to endorse any activities that will not deal justly.
We cannot stress those thoughts too vividly for we know, according to your training and teaching from all of the different religions, GOD is Justice, GOD is Righteous and GOD must have a Righteous Government. Hence, any government that will not stand for that which is just and Right and True, naturally we know it cannot stand. And if you are standing for unrighteousness and that which is not true, I will not stand for you. That is the mystery and that is why I say, those of you that are standing for Righteousness, Justice and Truth, you must stand for it, and stand for it ALONE and refuse to stand for that which is not accordingly and that which is not dealing according to the Fundamentals. It is indeed Wonderful!
I say, because the time is near at hand when GOD alone shall reign, and GOD alone shall reign in Righteousness and in Truth. If you are not in and on the Righteous side, you yourselves will be failures. You will be shut out of this great Movement for this is GOD's Government. This is GOD's Country. Did you hear ME say some time ago, I endorsed the Fundamentals of the United States of America? When a check is made out to you with your name on it, when you endorse it, why it is your money, is it not? I endorsed the Fundamentals of the United States of America and the Government has inscribed the inscription on the coins, "In GOD we Trust", which is applicable to all parts and all of the wealth of the Government. It is indeed Wonderful! "In GOD we Trust". If Uncle Sam is trusting it in GOD's Hands, when it shall have been endorsed by HIM then where is it going?
Yes, this is GOD'S Country. Even the song says, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty". It is indeed Wonderful! It is the Land of the free; the Home of the brave. When they shall have been born of GOD and recognized HIS Ever Presence. they will enjoy the greatness of this Great Country. It is indeed Wonderful!. It is only a slight fraction of a sketch of a sketch of a reflection of a grain of a percent of a percent of a fraction of that which I have shown to the children of men and what shall be seen in the future to come. But many of the people have wondered and marveled at the mystery of the different demonstrations of the limitlessness of GOD's Blessings to HIS Children. If what I have demonstrated is marvelous, how much greater will it be when the fullness is manifested universally!
This is just to let you see and know,
'The earth's is the LORD's and the fullness thereof'
but especially this Country. As I aforesaid, it has been proven conclusively
the Country belongs to GOD; hence you all can live in this Country with peace,
with hope, with faith and with charity, realizing, "The time that has been
will be no more". Behold I make all things new, old things have passed away.
All you must needs do is to keep your mind stayed on the Fundamental and live
Evangelically continually and, "Lo, I will be with you". I thank you.
PEACE EVERYBODY! Pardon ME for belating you. This Country belongs to GOD, but we deal according to our custom, which is according to the Fundamentals which I have given. That is why it does belong to GOD, because GOD is Righteousness, Justice and Truth, and will do to you and to others as HE would have them do to HIM.
I would just like to say at this juncture, as we are getting ready to pass on, if there is anyone that has not dined, if you would have something, you can come forward and take the places of those of us that move out and pass on and pass out. We will pass on and pass out and move on quietly. If there is anyone else cares to have something to eat, you are welcome to do so. Thank you.
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