“When the Whole World Loves ME Just as You Do There Will Be No More Prospect
of Race Riots, Panics, Famines and Depressions!” —FATHER DIVINE

Out FATHER’S Sermon Given Whilst at the Holy Communion Table
of the Peace Center Church, Inc, of New Jersey
122-126 Howard Street, Newark, New Jersey
Saturday Evening, June 16, 1945 A.D.F.D., Time 8:20 P. M.

 

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How good it is for men universally to have the blessed privilege to gain the knowledge that GOD Almighty is here in their midst in a precious Holy Bodily Form! Millions already have this conscious recognition and realization and have gained not only joy and freedom spiritually but have gained the Abundance of the Fullness of every Good and Desirable thing physically and materially!

In this vital sermon our Beloved Savior brings forth many beautiful thoughts for consideration on the significance of loving GOD wholeheartedly and the blessings to be gained universally thereby!

Thank YOU Precious Redeemer!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is recorded the inspirational composition sung shortly before FATHER arose to speak.)


We want the whole world to love YOU,
Love YOU just as we do.
We want the whole world to love YOU,
Honor and serve YOU, be faithful and true.
We want the whole world to love YOU,
Love YOU just as we do.
We want the whole world to love YOU,
Love YOU just as we do!

 

(FATHER speaks as follows:)

Peace Everyone: That second number, second to the last number that was sung, “I want the whole world to love YOU just as we do,” even if it is only as you do and if it is not as you say you do, but as you actually do, it would be a great step towards bringing about the desirable results in business, profession, labor, society and in trade. Aren’t you glad! (“So glad!” came the response.)

You heard someone say a little while ago that they want everybody to pray. Our custom or system of praying may be just as effective but it may not be according to the ordinary custom. That little composition in itself, “I want the whole world to love YOU just as we do.” since prayer is the hearts sincere desire unuttered or unexpressed, since you have expressed it by the uttering of your words, we know your prayer has actually been heard! Eventually the whole world will love ME just a s you say you do; and when this is fulfilled, even if it is just as you actually do and not as much as you say you do, it will stop the whole world from stealing, it will stop the whole world from killing; it will stop the whole world from committing adultery; it will stop the whole world from murdering and undermining the people; it will stop the whole world from being dishonest and incompetent in any way whatsoever; it will change the whole world overnight if the whole world will love ME as you say you do!

 

What it Means

Therefore, this is not merely a fable, neither a song to be sung for the music but it is a living reality to those who understand it. When the whole world loves ME as you do you will be able to trust God and realize, if you had a million dollars in your home and if your million dollars were all in pennies, you could leave the doors open and not anyone would take a penny. That is what I AM talking about! What It really means for the whole world to love ME according to your prayer!

As I say, “Prayer is the hearts sincere desire, unuttered and unexpressed!” At this time you uttered it, though you may not been thinking it was a prayer. You may not have been thinking you were praying but you were praying with a desire that the whole world would become to be even as you are, where you would be free from fear; would not be afraid of anyone harming you; you would not be afraid of anyone cheating you out of your money; you would not be afraid of anything; because if the whole world would love ME just as you do, and no better, it would change the whole world over night and there would never be a prospect of another warfare and bloodshed! Not only so, there would never be poverty, lacks, wants or limitations, there would no longer be breadlines, there would no longer be depressions, for if the whole world would love ME just as you do, I would solve all the national economic problems and even the international economic problems and would adjust matters satisfactorily for them! The whole world would have the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good and no space would be vacant of the fullness thereof!

 

A Wonderful World

What a wonderful world it will be when your prayers are universally answered and fulfilled! When the whole world loves ME just as you do there will be no more prospect of race riots, there will be no more prospect of confusion in the land, there will be no more prospect of panics, famines and depressions but there will be the prospect of the Abundance of the Fullness of all good things for all of the children of men! This is a Sample and this is an Example! A little shows what a whole lot means!

If those of you MY immediate followers, hearers and friends, can live in the abundance and have a-full and a- plenty, while others are starving for the lack of Love and the lack of obedience to GOD, it shows you by this example  your own experience  that the whole world can be lifted above the sod! I mean, above the prospect of going down under the sod! Can you not see the mystery? Above all doubts and fears, where Christ has declared,

“If a man keep MY Sayings he shall never see death!”

If you live thus accordingly it would be a matter of impossibility for you to die or a matter of impossibility for you to be sickened or sick and afflicted as some have been!

“In perfect peace I will keep thee whose mind is stayed on ME!”

Aren’t you glad! (“So glad!” came the reply.)

Therefore your prayer in the song, as the song is fulfilled and as the prayer is heard and answered, if the whole world loves ME as you do, they will do as you do! They will go back and pay all their back bills! They will do no ill to any man! They will adjust matters satisfactorily and they will right their wrongs! Matters not how many wrongs they have committed they will adjust matters satisfactorily and right their wrongs in the Name of GOD!

 

When the Song Prayer is Answered

Oh, how glorious it will be when your prayer  in other words, your song as a prayer or yet as a composition and an inspiration  shall have been fulfilled, as a prayer, in an answer to your request and the words you uttered volitionally! Oh, how glorious it will be! All over this wide extended plane there will be no more panics and famines and no longer will there be slum conditions in your city, but the abundance of comfort and convenience and we will have a perfect sanitation Mentally and Spiritually, Socially and Physically! I thank you.

While I AM standing I would like to say, we have visiting guests as usual. Of course we must be traveling to our next place of worship, but if any of our visiting guests desire to speak they are welcome to do so by moving volitionally even as we do if they care to. If they do not care to move as we do, an introduction will be given according to custom if they will give us the necessary information. I thank you.

(As it seemed that none of the visitors present felt moved to speak, FATHER arose once more to speak as follows.)

Peace everyone: Those of us who have dined will arise, take the back seats and the back stand, as the time is quite well expired. We will not have time at this instance and at this table to serve the salad and desert. For this cause we are asking those of us who have dined to arise, take the back seats and stand and those who have not dined to take our seats and reset the table and eat and eat and eat!

Thank YOU, FATHER Dear!

 


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