FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
breaking down segregation.
And as I was going down this year, through the South, I saw in many parts those things that are being corrected, those things that they are being reminded of, that FATHER DIVINE has been reminding them of, and I was very grateful for it and I thanked HIM many times as I came along, because those things, we know what the meaning of "Dean" is, and we know what it stands for; and I think so many times of what Brother Titus said: "The range-iness of HIM!" --and he knew HIM and understood HIM and manifested HIM through these many years, so that I am happy--happy that many of those things that you have heard FATHER DIVINE express here, are being manifested elsewhere!
"I talked with governors--the Governor of Mississippi, the Governor of South Carolina, the Governor of Georgia, and I know what they are thinking about and I know of some of those things that FATHER DIVINE has expressed, so that they might be changed and brought about, are changing! And I am glad to hear expressed, these things, and I realize that the world is getting better because these things have been said and these things have been put out into expression; and until that is done they cannot be put into action!--and that Democracy and Christianity, they are becoming to realize, are very much the one and the same thing! (FATHER exclaims, It is true! to which Mrs. Titus replies:) YOU understand!
"And so I thought of YOU possibly, every day where I went through those dense conditions and where I spoke to thousands of people in my talks; I had occasion to bring out many of those things! Some of those expressions, I don't even like to use them and I did not, through the South, and they talked of those things--of many things. To me, man was made in the Image and Likeness of GOD. Humanity, man, had nothing to do with the other part of it! And as I was able to put those things in expression, it was very helpful, even through the darkest part of Mississippi; and to the Governor of Mississippi himself, in fact, I expressed some of the things that FATHER DIVINE has said, and I know what I am talking about!
"And so I would like to say in closing, thank YOU, FATHER!--and I would
like to give the poem that I know FATHER DIVINE
loved: "Alone in the Field
With GOD!"
If we could only learn, as Mr. Titus used to say, to see the good in everyone
and the little-ness of ourselves, how much better the world would be!"
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