MOTHER and FATHER DIVINE in Sayville, Long Island, New York
The Bride, the Lamb's Wife, was predestined before the foundation of the world to be Married to the Lamb.
She is the symbol of the Church Universal and of how the Church is United to Christ in Holy Wedlock.
She is, therefore, bought with a price and is not Her own.
She has laid all on the Altar and is Eternally a living sacrifice to GOD, heart, mind and body.
She professes Her love for GOD in simple obedience to HIS every wish, desire or command.
She cherishes HIM in Her heart, knowing HE is every breath She breaths and Her very life substance.
She respects HIM for HIS great condescension to make Her One with HIM that She might be saved from mortality's destruction.
She is at all times consecrated to HIM and the Cause HE came, never taking thought for Herself but living for HIM.
She loves HIS every expression and emotion and never finds fault with anything HE may say or do.
She is imbued and permeated with HIS Holy Mind and Spirit and stays lifted above chaos, confusion, doubts, fears and cares.
She is GOD'S Helpmate in that She is with HIM in everything HE may say or do.
She offers unto HIM a heart that is eternally filled with thanksgiving and praise.
She never listens to idle gossip or allows her mind to be filled with thoughts of mortality, but
She uses her mental energy on things that are constructive and good for her spiritual development and advancement.
She expresses her queenly attributes by being at all times serene and unmoved by existing circumstances.
She universalizes her every thought, idea and opinion; desiring in her heart that everyone partake of the selfsame blessings without reserve.
She walks circumspectly in the Laws and Commandments that the Lamb, GOD, FATHER DIVINE, has laid down, for
She is the Sample and Example to the world and
"As with an individual, so with an organization, and with an organization, so with a community; and as with a community, so with a state; and as with a state so with a nation; and as with a nation, so with all nations combined."
Herein lies her responsibility to GOD and to man.
She at all times holds the Lamb in deep reverence, knowing HE is Almighty GOD, her Maker and Creator.
She finds a resting place in the knowledge of her complete nothingness and the Lamb;s Allness.
She ceaselessly strives to fulfil The Marriage Vows She solemnly promised to keep on that Holy Day when the Lamb took her unto HIMSELF that
She might remain as she is, a virgin, spotless, pure and clean clothed in the robe of Righteousness.\\
O Holy Lamb, I Humbly thank THEE!
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