Those Who had gathered at the New Paltz Extension Saturday evening felt abundantly blessed when FATHER, in HIS Wonderful condescension, spoke on several occasions, bringing out much information for the consideration and benefit of one and all!
In order that the different merchants, business men, professionals and others who are in business and represent the various fields of life, who are interested in gaining the support, cooperation and endorsement of the followers of FATHER DIVINE—they all should adhere to this Message and live and do accordingly, that they might be abundantly blessed thereby, in business, profession, labor and trade—politically, socially, financially, morally and otherwise!
This does not merely apply to those of the outside world but it means the followers and coworkers alike,—then all will know how to deal with one another and all will prosper in their endeavors, whatsoever they may be endeavoring! Read this very instructive Message, for your own benefit!
(The foregoing statements come from the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)
Peace, Everyone! At this particular time— in other words, at this instance MY thought ran throughout the universe, on the material plane, for the common good of all mankind and for the purpose of paving out the way for you, that MY Spirit might lead you and guide you all the way! Not only spiritually, but economically, socially and in profession, business. labor and trade, that MY Spirit might be your Leader and be your Guide; if you will allow It to It will!
For this cause I have arisen to say: throughout this country and different places, not only in this country, but in other countries where MY followers, coworkers and friends are as readers and representatives of The New Day, . . . I advise, you should purchase from those who advertise in The New Day!
I just happened to be looking over a copy of The New Day just then, and I saw many advertisements from the different business men in California—I could say, the different places of business represented; as they represent us, we are representing them, by conveying the Message and carrying their name from place to place, yea, from shore to shore and from land to land!
Then I say, all of MY followers, c0-workers and friends should make themselves (though they be millions) as a committee of one in whatsoever city or vicinity you live in, in the act of getting the merchants and all business men and professionals to give you ads for the purpose of giving you a chance to know definitely where you should go, when you want such business done as they are representing. For the professionals, you should know the professionals who are worthy of your patronage! For the business men likewise—you should know those who are in business, worthy of your patronage! For the politicians—you should know the politicians, politically, who are worthy of your endorsement!
You should seek them out through this method I have ordained and set apart, whereby you can reach the masses in all communities, by making yourselves (though you be millions) a committee of one in each community, as though you are one and yet be millions—each one get ads for The New Day and get as much information as you can, to see how these men of business, profession, labor and trade stand! To see whether they are standing for Righteousness, Truth and Justice, or whether they are standing for the extreme reverse—the corruption and folly of the world!
If they are standing for Righteousness, Truth and Justice, the majority of them will give you an ad! When they advertise in these pages, you will know where you should spend your money. If there is anything in their respective business, profession, labor or trade that you need, you should endorse them, even as they indirectly or directly endorse you and ME! Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore, you are doing a Work for yourselves; not only in the United States, but in all communities you are making ready for a way whereby you will know definitely, just where to go!
Now in Newburgh, in Highland and in all of the divers communities around, you should call on the different business men and different professionals, lawyers, doctors and every professional person who would ordinarily advertise and see if they will advertise in The New Day, so you can know who is in harmony and who are they who are worthy of your endorsement and of your patronage!
By so doing , we will comb the country and all other countries with a fine tooth comb, and we will pick out those who are Just and Honest and are willing to see the Work go on, and we help them carry their work or business and profession on, by they endorsing us! Of course, it will cause us to endorse them!
Now again I say, if there is anything you need to buy as advertised in The New Day, if you can get it for as little as you can elsewhere, give those who advertise your patronage! Cooperate with them! You will be helping them to carry the Good Work on, by causing them to get the benefit of their ads, or what they pay for the ad,s and get the benefit thereof; and yet you will be causing yourselves, as a Blessing, to express your appreciation to those who are expressing the appreciation of MY Activities.
Then I say, you should do this in all communities! Every community where MY followers are, you should specialize in doing this, so you can know where you can call on someone for such as you may need; the ones who are worthy of your money; especially merchandise, such as groceries, meats and vegetables and all of those things! Something we eat, drink and wear, . . . all of those things are usually advertised in newspapers!
Then, you should make it a speciality, in tying to meet all business men and all professionals, to see if they will give you a chance to give them your patronage. If they do not give you an ad, if they are accustomed to advertising, it is an open expression in the act of refusing to give you an ad, that they do not appreciate MY Work and MY Activities! Therefore you should not give them your patronage!
But how glorious it will be, when the universe over knows ME, and all stand whole-heartedly for Righteousness, Truth and Justice, and become to be partakers of it and endorsers of it! So long as they sell merchandise or whatever they are selling, for as little as you can get the same for elsewhere, if they are of ME, if they are true, they will give you the same merchandise or the same class of work as a dentist or any other professional work that you could get elsewhere, for less than what y0u could get the same for elsewhere, and you would heartily, willingly and volitionally endorse them, by giving them your patronage!
You have a right to investigate! You have a right to see if there are any other competitors who can and will give you the same merchandise, for as little as what these advertisers will give you the same.
There are some advertisers, it is true, who may give you an ad in order to get your business, and attempt to charge you more for the same merchandise or for the same professional service they may give you than what others would charge, in order to get back that and even more than what they have paid for the ad! Such individuals are unjust and untrue, and false and deceiving; they would undermine you , if they could!
I know there is a man in the City who advertises, and I have kept a record of him! He has attempted to charge more for his professional services, than what others would charge for the same service! Why, such an individual is a deceiver! You would not give such a man you patronage, whether it is business or as professional service, or if it is in the act of selling and buying merchandise!
Take these thoughts to consideration and work cooperatively together with those who are Honest in all of their activities and in all of their endeavors. If they are Honest in their endeavors and Honest in their efforts and acts and deeds, why then, you cooperate with them, as far as it is possible! Hence, you will buy the merchandise where you can get it for as little and less than what you can get the same merchandise for elsewhere; but if those merchants are advertisers in The New Day, you all should heartily cooperate with them!
We want to know who we should buy merchandise from in every community! We want to know who is worthy of our patronage; therefore seek it and find it out, just who is worthy! See if they are worthy; see if they will receive ME; that they might receive You, or see if they will receive You, that they might receive ME, either one!
That is the way we will do a Work, in clearing up a whole lot of misunderstanding and misdirecting of our energy, or ambition, and our finances; for we mean to spend our money as representatives of the Peace Mission Movement, in the direction that will be constructive for Righteousness, Truth and Justice! That is what we mean to do!
Now take these thoughts to consideration! Hereafter, here in this community and in all communities where any one of MY followers may be, or where a group, or where thousands of them may be, you should see to it that you test out every merchant, every professional and all business men in all walks of life, and see if they will endorse the Truth enough to advertise with you; and if they do, why, then you will know where to spend your money and where to get those of your friends and MY coworkers and even others as friends and neighbors and those who may come among us from time to time, to spend their money. That is what we want to do!
We want to lift up a standard and we want to be of some real constructive service to all humanity! We are not after getting something for nothing! We are not after trying to get more than what is due us, but we are after working cooperatively together with the business men, labor, trade, profession, and with the merchants, in the act of bringing about a moral betterment generally; and all of the people will benefit thereby, and GOD On Earth among men will be a blessing to all of them!
As I often say, if you, yourselves, those of you who are in business, cannot sell merchandise for less than what others sell the same merchandise for, do not handle that merchandise! You are to be a Blessing to the general public! You are to sell everything for less than what others can sell it! You are to give more service for five dollars a day than what others would give! You are to require such as you should require and such as you should get, but yet you should not steal, by stealing on the job; refusing to give service according to what is required, and for the purpose for which you are hired. You are to be Honest, Competent and True, and give much more than what anyone else would give, for you should be a blessing to them in MY NAME, by MY NAME being a blessing to you! Hence, I, through you, will bless them in the act of your doings. Can you not see the mystery?
And in all business, profession, labor or trade, in all of your activities, you should be a blessing to the general public and to each and every individual with whom you come in contact—the same as selling gas! If you can sell gas for one penny less on the gallon than what the consumer can buy the same gasoline for elsewhere, MY NAME, MY PRESENCE in the community, will be worth a penny to every consumer, to every consumer, for every gallon of gas he uses!
Now if he uses ten or fifteen thousand gallons of gas per month, why, I am that much benefit to him! Can you not see the mystery? But I have gone a few steps further, because gasoline is sold by MY followers for three cents less than what they can buy the same gas for elsewhere! At that, why I AM benefitting the general public, the consumer, three cents on the gallon, because of MY PRESENCE. Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore, I AM a blessing to the people, and as with ME Personally, so with all of the merchants; why, any of them should do the same, even as these MY followers in ME are doing! Can you not see the mystery? If they cannot sell merchandise, even though they advertise, for as little as you can buy the same for elsewhere, you should not purchase your merchandise from such persons, for they should not have merchandise that they cannot sell for as little as you can buy the same for elsewhere, neither should MY immediate followers sell anything that they cannot sell for less than what others can sell the same merchandise for!
Now these thoughts should be considered; but in all of your consideration, you should make yourselves a committee of one,—each and everyone, in the act of finding out if the merchants, professionals and others will advertise! If they do advertise, see if they will advertise in The New Day, so you will know just who to spend your money with; because we desire to spend it in the different communities in which we live. Not only in this one, but in all of the millions of communities throughout the universe, our business and our work should cooperate with the business and works of others, that they might be blessed by us! Can you not see the mystery?
Then we shall have a Righteous Government, for we are bringing into actuality the reality of the U. S., of the US, the United States. If you put the 'A' on it, why, then it may be termed America, but the U. S. should be the expression in reality, in all of us, united together. If after the manner of the State Constitution, why, still we may say U. S., the United States—all of the states united together!
We may not call it the U. S. in speaking of ourselves individually or as persons; we may say, in the unity of Spirit ,of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose! We may call it the Universal Brother, the Universal Brotherhood of man. But in states, speaking 'stately' or politically, we say U. S. meaning the United States as the states together are supposed to be united, brought into the unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose! All of the states in the Union should be E Pluribus Unum! If they are not, it is something short, and it still is something short in this great country of ours, for there are those who call themselves American citizens who endorse laws, rules and regulation that are to the extreme reverse in some states, to what they are in some of the other states! Therefore, the states are not in reality U. S.; they are not in reality US; they are not united! They are not United States!
If they were United States, they would be as I AM, stressing the significance of you, MY followers, being E Pluribus Unum, the Universal Brotherhood of man and the conscious realization of the Fatherhood of GOD! Then I say for this cause, in each and every community and in this one, make it a specialty in finding out how the people react towards the Spirit of Righteousness, of Truth and of Justice, and how they desire to have us among them,—then deal with them accordingly! Which is to say, in the act of endorsing them or boycotting them! That is what I AM talking about!
Now, you all have been to the polls on several occasions! As an abstract expression, you have been seeking wisdom, whether you were conscious of it or not; you may not have been conscious of what you were doing! Well now, deal with such as the board inspectors and other representatives, as they have dealt with you!
They are telling you in the act of their doing, whether they are willing for you to establish Righteousness, or whether they are opposers of it! If they endorse you willingly and will not try to prohibit you from registering and voting, it is an open expression that they are with Righteousness, Truth and Justice; but everyone who opposes you, deal with such individuals and their colleagues accordingly, in the act of purchasing merchandise and cooperating and endorsing them in their activities or in their business.
Professionals, such as lawyers, doctors and other representatives, you may meet them on the same ground! You may need them some day—may need one of them! You want to know which lawyer to call upon, you want to know which doctor to call upon. If you need any, you want to know which ones to call upon and which ones to pay your money to. Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore, test them out in all business, profession, labor and trade in your divers communities, here and elsewhere, to see whether they are worthy of your support and your patronage! By so doing you will know definitely, just the way you should go, whenever you need such as they may be representing. Can you not see the mystery?
Now, this is not merely a Message to a few tonight, but as was with Jesus when He went up on the mountain and was there transfigured, on the mountain of transfiguration, He only carried Peter, James and John, of His immediate disciples; but He wrote history and spoke to millions of His spiritual and professional descendants,—even to you He was speaking, although He spoke on the mountain!
I convey the same this evening! I AM speaking to each and all living creatures, especially MY followers; I AM speaking to all of them who will come after you, even those who will come after ME from now on! I AM speaking to them! . . . for this Message will be handed down to them! They must do even as I have required you, and those in other communities as well as in this one and in all of the divers communities, theyr should do even as I AM telling you this evening!
Hence, you will sieve out and comb out with a fine tooth comb, everyone who is worthy of your support and endorsement and your patronage, whether it is in business, profession, labor or trade. Hence you will know definitely what way you should go, when the time comes for you to need such a person or such ones as may be represented in your respective community!
Matters not what the profession or business or trade may be, if you need any such persons or any such merchants, seek them out and find them out, so you will know definitely the way you should go and where you should spend your money; and you will not be bewildered! You will know definitely when you need any of them, just who to call upon.
If a physician, why, you may need a physician at some time, and you want to know who is the one worthy of your endorsement as a patient of his, or as a representative having a patient. You want to know who is the one whom you should endorse and give your money to. That is the mystery! Therefore, find out all of the business men, professionals and all, throughout the community. This is a good way to find them out, by seeking to get ads from them!
See the reaction of their personal appearance and countenances and the words they speak and the words they say concerning you and ME, when you call on them; then deal with them accordingly, and tell all of your friends and neighbors and others, and especially MY followers and others with whom you may come in contact hereafter, just how these men stand, and whether they are the ones who need your support and whether you should actually endorse them or not!
But those who are actually advertising in this community and in all of the communities, specialize in trying to buy from those who advertise; give them your patronage, if they can and will sell the merchandise, such as may be needed or used by you, for as little as you can get the same for elsewhere!
I encourage the merchants to see to it that they sell merchandise for as little as you can buy the same for elsewhere, and I encourage you to buy from such merchants! From the different professionals—lawyers, doctors, or any other professional—deal with such professionals even accordingly, and I will be with you, all the way and you will be blessed by MY PRESENCE, for you will be a blessing to them! I, through you, in MY NAME. I thank you!
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