"I Shall Demand the Enactment and Enforcement of the Lindbergh Law Upon Those Lynch-mob-violent Leaders
and Their Representatives

"I AM Calling the Senate's Attention Back to the Law They Made.
Wheresoever there is Lynch-mob Violence in Evidence and They Take a Man From One Place to the Other,
They Have Kidnapped Him Even If They Do Not Lynch Him!" — FATHER DIVINE

"Even If Those Who Are In Authority Are Nor According To MY Mind and Spirit I Shall Rule Them With Equity
and Shall Judge the People With the Spirit Of Righteousness, Equity and a Square Deal" — FATHER DIVINE

Our FATHER'S Message Given Whilst at the Holy Communion Table of the Circle Mission Church of Philadelphia
764-772 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday Afternoon December 13, 1943 A.D.F.D.  Time: 3:45 P. M.


This marvelous Message is a vital weapon of attack to be used against all those in government who directly or indirectly endorse and encourage lynch-mob violence and its horrible slaughter of innocent victims. The law which our Savior speaks of  and emphatically stresses herein should be passed by our law-making body at once that we might rid this country of such crime-committers!

Other points for consideration which stress Americanism in its truest form are dwelt upon by FATHER, the Dean of the Universe. Read His Words, O ye nations of the earth, and take heed to them, for they will lift you from the chaos and confusion of mortality to the height of Perfection and Constructive Living; for when HIS Righteous Government is lived universally, Perfection in reality shall be realized!

Thank YOU, Beautiful King!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which FATHER speaks a follows:)

FATHER DIVINE

FATHER DIVINE

Peace Everyone: Good health, good will and a good appetite! We have life, liberty and the reality of happiness throughby MY Work and Mission and by MY Presence with you! I have brought about that long sought for life, liberty and happiness as through our political system of government you and millions of others pursued it; but you did not find it in politics, you did not find it in the systems of men, for they are corrupt as a general matter of expression. You found it through and by the Living Way of Life as exemplified  by Jesus Christ!

The reproduction of that Life put forth into expression — not only the reproduction but the re-personification of the same, so that you would have Something to gaze upon, to you I came, to bring into your vision — not only into your mind's eye, in the sight of your mind's  eye, but in the sight of your physical eye the Presence of the Almighty GOD as eximplified among you all as Something to vision,  to have a chance to reproduce it and bring it forth into expression; for

"In the world you will have tribulations but in ME, Peace!"

This is not merely a quotation without meaning but it is a quotation carrying all of the Essence and Substance of it and the fulfillment of it  as you live it and express it and recognize GOD'S Presence as Something that is essential as a Sample and as an example. When you vision that or this Perfect Picture and harmonize with it sympathetically, the reaction of such a concentrated thought will bring results to your physical body and into your surroundings as well as that of your heart!

Religion Truly in the Heart Will Be Expressed Outwardly

Some believe in having religion in the heart, as they say, yet that kind of religion or salvation, whichever, as they depict it, it is not a reality in the heart, but they say it; for if it was in the heart it would be expressed without; for your physical and outward expression is but your mental and spiritual preconception! Your preconceived ideas and opinions as you preconceived them, if they get in the heart effectively and are truly your heart's conviction, your physical bodies will express them and verify that of which Jesus said,

"As a man thinketh in his heart , so is he!"

How marvelous it is to be a thinker! Then stress I once again for your consideration and to bring to you the pont of consideration to be considered:  Think on, beautiful thinkers! You have been thinking erroneously; you have been led erroneously and you have been subject to negative and undesirable conditions by your erroneous, malicious and unconstitutional — yea, and unevangelical leaders!

It is written,

"The leaders of the people have caused them to err and they that are led by them are destroyed!"


Today everyone that erroneously deviates — I mean deviates in an act of an expression of erroneousness — they immediately get results  of erroneous thinking and erroneous actions, even if I do not tell you. If I do not tell them , they get results. Aren't you glad !

"According to your faith so be it unto thee!;"


and as you have faith in that which is imperfect you produce the imperfect and undesirable results because it is undesirable and imperfect by nature; but when you think and harmonize with the Perfect, Perfect results will perfect thinking and perfect actions bring, and you will be partakers of the Perfect Expression and you yourself will automatically express them!

Let Your Light Shine

Then I say, live in this recognition and build upon this Foundation; for the leaders of the people have caused them to err. If you realize in Adam all die, realize also, in Jesus Christ all are made alive. This is not a supposition, this a declaration;  this is a recognition, not only a declaration; but for you in this dispensation it is a prediction. If you live in Christ, you will be made alive, you will have victory over undesirable conditions by copying after the Desirable One; for the Desirable will dispel the undesirable as the light dispels darkness. The light gets darkness out of the way, and all you have to do is to let your light be displayed; darkness will get out of the way! Can you not see the mystery?

Your fight against that which is erroneous by producing that which is Positive, that which is true — and that which is Accurate and Perfect — the undesirable is eradicated by.

Then I say, live in this recognition if you wish to. If you desire to live in the way of erroneousness, that is your privilege to do so, for the wages of sin is death, and there are plenty of them dying — plenty of them dying; and you can die too if that is the way you choose!

But oh, how glorious it is to live in this recognition, to build upon a Foundation where you are protected from all hurt, from all harm and from all danger!  By living according to the Fundamentals of the Lifegiver and the Wayshower to Salvation you will not have an occasion to fret nor worry for GOD Himself is with you!

FATHER DIVINE

 

Endorsement of Lynching in the Senate

In speaking of the Senator claiming to be a representative of government and a lawmaker of our great government under the Constitution and its Amendments, and yet ignoring all laws of GOD and man and undermining both the Law of GOD and the law of man and endorsing lynching — as I said some five or six years ago or more, that those who filibuster in the Senate against the Anti-lynching Bill, they are lynch-mob-violent leaders! I suffered this to come out explicitly verbatim so you could see and know definitely, what I have told you is the Truth!

Lynch-mob-violent leaders! Not only ignoring the Law of GOD, the Ten Commandments upon which our government is founded, which should be lived by every subject under this democracy, but ignoring the Constitution and its Amendments that he and they have been sworn in by the Bible to protect! That has gone a little to far — we mean to put a stop to it!

We do not believe in capital punishment, but such punishment  as would be due and endorsed and exercised in the states of the Union shall be meted out to those who are representatives of mob violence in the way of lynching! Not only so, but I AM calling the Senate's  attention back to the law they made. They did not know they made it whereby I would demand the enforcement of it and the endorsement of it and the fulfillment of it by government to defend the defenseless people; but I will demand the enactment of the Lindbergh Law. Wheresoever there is a lynch-mob violence in evidence and they take a man from one place to the other, they have kidnapped him even if they do not lynch him! They have been ignoring that law and I shall demand the enactment and enforcement  of that law upon those lynch-mob-violent leaders and their representatives; and those who have spoken maliciously intimidatingly and created dissension and the endorsement of lynch-mob violence in the Senate, I demand of them to consider the Lindbergh Law; and those who are lynched in their respective states shall be considered as victims of theirs if they endorse lynching! They do not say, "You go and lynch the man," but if you endorse the lynching in your state and under your domain, why, there and then you shall be held responsible as one who has become a victim of the Lindbergh Law and subject to punishment according to the enactment of it as it was enacted in the Constitution, in keeping with the Constitution as it was said, and under the statute books of our government! So it is well worth considering.

 

 

 

 

FATHER DIVINE

Lynch-mob Leaders Will Pay the Penalty

But I AM calling the attention of those lynch-mob-violent leaders to the fact that they themselves must realize and consider  they must Pay the Penalty for such outbreaks of violence in their respective communities and in and under their jurisdiction among their constituents because when they endorse and encourage mob violence they are not only ignoring the Law of GOD but they are ignoring the Constitution and its Amendments and they are actually undermining  the Foundation of our government!

When they endorse mob violence, I say, they are ignoring the Constitution and its Amendments. They have broken all of the Laws of GOD concerning killing and not killing and they have gone to the Constitution of our government and  endorsed the lawless mob violence of men without any law, to undermine the Constitution that declares by the enactment, "every man should be tried by a jury trial"; matters not what the penalty may be, matters not what the crime may be, they should be tried by a jury. And when they ignore the very Constitution under which they are living and have been sworn in by the Bible to protect and safeguard, such ones should get things meted out to them just such as the penalty should have been for men that commit offenses subject to capital punishment!

Now men should get the penalty of the law; and the penalty should be a penalty that would not take the life of the person for a crime, as we do not believe in capital punishment, for it is a violation of the New Testament, as well also of the Old Testament; but they should have to pay the penalty that one who commits a crime should have to pay according to the Law of GOD and according to the New Testament!

We do not find where Jesus  told anyone to kill another man by the law or without the law, but his punishment should be according to the punishment of one who has committed a crime worthy of capital punishment when they, the mob  violent leaders, as representatives of the government, endorse lynching and encourage violence that causes the death of many; they should have the penalty meted out to them according to the Law of GOD and according to what would be rightfully  due them as one who had committed a crime worthy of capital punishment.

Everyone Shall Receive the Reward of His Deeds

It is a wonderful thought! The time cometh and is near at hand, for I AM impregnating the hearts and minds of the children of men with the spirit of MY Mind and with this understanding to redeem humanity! They shall enact MY Laws in government; they shall recognize them as the Fundamentals of our Document; for I produce and present to the world the sample and the example of a real Democracy and the spirit and the Meaning of our Documents of our government. Therefore, they shall see and know it is a just law,. yet unwritten; but  it shall be written! Aren't you glad! And Every man shall get his reward  according as his works may be; in other words, according to the measure of his deeds and of the crimes he has committed So it means something.

Then I call your attention once again to the Lindbergh Law, all ye lynch-mob-violent leaders and those who are representatives  of those who represent mob violence! The Lindbergh Law shall be enacted and according to the evidence, you shall get your recompense, which is your reward according as your works have been! I know they don't like it, but if they cannot stand and do not wish to sit down and hear it, it shall be worked out. It may not sound possible but it shall be.

It has long since been declared concerning ME, HE Whom you say I AM,

"GOD shall judge the world with equity,"


and the people shall be judged accordingly! Then I say, realize that all of these people under the jurisdiction of our respective dominion, do not think unjust officials with their unjust minds shall continue to judge them.

"He shall judge the people with equity!"


Hence against the will of those who are representatives of government I AM passing laws and enforcing laws, rules and regulations that are in opposition to the unjust officials, that are in opposition to the unjust customs of men.

FATHER DIVINE

 

 

Holding People In Economic Slavery Since Emancipation

That is why this Senator of whom I Am now speaking is so intense against the law of today known as the Fair Play Employment System. They are intense against it because they have been having people in economic slavery ever since the Emancipation! Though they have been emancipated physically, as being termed freed since the days of Abraham Lincoln, yet in the Southern States among those Southern Representatives of business and of trade they have kept the underprivileged until now in economic slavery! Through the economic enslavement they have been physically enslaved and obliged to serve physically for less than enough to live on. Therefore, when the Fair Play Law came out, naturally  they did not want it; but owing to the pressure that has been brought to bear, Equality must have access in government and shall be expressed over and above every tendency of self in the ones who express it. Aren't you glad!

MY Spirit and Mind shall have its way. Even if they do not want it to be, it shall have its way. It shall go forth conquering and to conquer. Even if those who are not in authority are not according to MY Mind and Spirit I shall rule them with equity and shall judge the people with the Spirit of Righteousness, Equity and a Square Deal for one and for all, over and above their will and what they may try to do!

Matters not how a person may be (Aren't you glad!) it is immaterial to ME if they are malicious; it is immaterial to ME if they are prejudiced; it is immaterial to ME of they are absolutely erroneous; if they fill the office of the executive, that office shall express equity and a square deal for the people! I shall transmit MY Law and MY Mind to such a person and equity and square dealing shall be executed among them and through them over and above the power to act in opposition. That is what is is all about! I know they rebel against it, but that is the reason millions today are being slaughtered at the hand of those who call themselves representatives of government — all because they are at variance to the Truth!

Leaders Are Killing Their Own by War

Just think of the millions being killed, all on account of some selfish limited few minority groups of those who are called representatives of the respective governments of our civilization! They get together and bring about war and bloodshed and then continue to promulgate it and advocate it and push it on — destroying your sons and daughters, just for what? All because of prejudice, division and strife; all because of graft and greed; all for the greedy gain of filthy lucre, and for the greedy gain of possession, dominion and authority! Therefore, through aggression they attempt to destroy the nation, if possible, to come into possession of the nation's respective inheritance, and yet they do not get it and will continue to kill their own!

Why is it Hitler is not killed? He has caused millions to be killed of every nation, and yet he stays out of the way, and they endorse him staying out of the way! Why is it they don't get him and do the same thing to him? — the instigator of war and bloodshed that has caused all of our civilized world to be at war; such as instituted by individual  representatives of government under this Constitution and under these amendments; such as those who endorse lynch-mob violence; those who endorse segregation and discrimination, they are the representatives of Hitler and his isms and they must stand and bear the penalty; not only individually but nationally, for such outrages!

We, as American people, endorse those who do endorse vice and crime by wholesale. We are guilty as a nation, and those of the subjects of this democracy who live under the jurisdiction of this Government who will endorse such men as them, shall pay the penalty. They must pay the penalty for the crimes that those who have been  elected to office and representatives of government commit! Can you not see the mystery? They commit the crime but the individuals commit the offense. Can you not see the mystery?

A Hater Is a Murderer

It is written,

"He that hates his brother without a cause is a murderer already."


If you hate a man because of his national origin you are a murderer already and your seed idea transmitted to others will cause them to commit the crime — commit the act, whichever; but you have committed the crime. You have hated your brother without a cause because he is of some national origin different from yours!

Then such propaganda and such thought conveyances, one to the other, to dislike and hate your fellow brother, you are the ones that are the committers of the crimes; and those that attempt to commit the acts of those crimes they may be found guilty of committing the act, but GOD knows you are the committers of the crime at the start! And the nation under whose government such officials are ruling and controlling the people, they must pay the penalty for such crimes that the representatives of government have committed! Can you not see the mystery? Then you may wonder why thousands and thousands are killed; all because of division and strife and confusion!

If this nation were united together as E Pluribus Unum, not an American citizen would be destroyed in the great onslaught of inhuman warfare! Not a one would have been destroyed, neither would one be destroyed; not one of them! But because the American people and the representatives of government continue, even until now, to endorse segregation and discrimination and promulgate and propagate, increase and multiply prejudice, strife and division, they must pay the penalty for such; for it is Hitler in expression if not in person! Can you not see the mystery? It is the same thing.

 

All the Nations Are Losing, Not Gaining

Therefore, all of the nations are losing; not any of them are gaining. They may think they are winning, but even though they win, they lose. Every last one of them, they are losing! They are losing, even those of whom they may call the aristocrats! They are losing, even those of whom you may call the blue-bloods! They are losing those of whom they may call the sons and daughters of the officials of government! The diplomats they are losing themselves as well as others, all because of the endorsement and cooperation with those who do endorse segregation, discrimination and prejudice that caused the war to begin! That is what I AM  talking about! Therefore, if they gain  they cannot gain. Even though gain they lose after all!

From a statesmanship point of view, political point of view and diplomatic point of view, there are those who are or should have been qualified diplomatically, politically and from a statesmanship point of view — should have wisdom, knowledge and understanding and skill and ability to serve our nation effectively. There are those losing, as well as the insignificant person; even the loss of our Chief Executive's sons and representatives!

Can you not see how inconsistent war and bloodshed is? This inconsistency of war is as inconsistent as it is for a person to get mad with another just because he belongs to some other race, creed or color, without speaking  to the person! It is erroneous.

Fighting Hitler with Hitlerism

Then I say, Americans, stand together! Americans, unite in one! Americans, unite! Unite! Unite! You must unite in one! Do away with segregation; do away with discrimination; do away with racialism, for these are Hitlerism in disguise! They will bring forth Hitler in persons as you and others imbibe the nature and characteristics of him. If not in harmony  with him directly in the beginning, consciously, you are in harmony with him psychologically and unconsciously; and you may be fighting against him, yet you are with him by nature and by characteristics and by disposition. You try to have the same power he has, try to use the same technique and you try to use the same system, and you try to use it on your own subjects in violation to our Constitution! It is a hard saying but yet it is true.

All of these things war and bloodshed will cause you to do; cause you to consciously or unconsciously violate your own oath of office; cause you to consciously or unconsciously undermine the Foundation of our government — your own Constitution —  in pretense or in thinking you are defending it! Cause you to undermine it and work against it when you are not privileged, or try to prohibit others from living Constitutionally. When you try to prohibit anyone from living according to the Constitution from every angle expressible you are undermining the Foundation of your own Constitution of which you have been sworn in by the Bible to protect. Can you not see the mystery?

Then I say, Americans stand together! Americans, unite in one and do away with all division among you and all strife and confusion from every angle expressible, and from now, henceforth and forever, all ye Americans, eradicate all other isms and dispel both it and them now, once and forever, saving Americanism according to our Constitution and according to our Bill of Rights. Do away with everything that is not in keeping and not in harmony with our Constitution and our Bill of Rights — those thing that are not in harmony with our Declaration of Independence. When you do away with those things and live Constitutionally whole-heartedly, the very Spirit of MY Presence will awaken within you and you will express a citizenry second to none! You will be a sample and an example for all other Americans!

Redress of Grievances Demanded

I need not say more; but these thoughts I thought to call your attention to, to let you see and know what you are doing and what those who are making laws in violation to the Constitution; those who make laws that abridge the right of religious freedom and the exercise thereof from any angle expressible; those laws that are made by men are in violation to the Constitution. Therefore, we demand universally a redress of grievances for such laws that have been made in violation to such regulations of our government that has given birth to a freedom that no man can give them!

Our Constitution has given access for the birth of this freedom that Abraham Lincoln could not give them; the Freedom of the Press, the Freedom of Religious Worship and the Freedom of Speech and the Freedom to Serve GOD in any way you wish to. If you wish to serve GOD in whatsoever way, to work out your own souls salvation and to give yourself and others with whom you are concerned their real emancipation, you have a right to serve GOD in any way you wish to!

Now let us live in this Recognition! Let us build upon this Foundation and be not shaken, but from now henceforth for the duration, and then in the post-war days, do away with every racial concept concerning yourself and others! Do away with sectarianism! Do away with racialism! Do away with partisanism! And unite, unite together, and recognize coalition in every business, trade and profession and in every activity and in every organization. Our Chief Executive enacted coalition in his executive staff as an abstract expression of MY Spirit and MY Version of bringing an abolition to partisanism, to recognize a Real Democracy of E Pluribus Unum for which you all have prayed and for which you are seeking today, to bring about that Universal Brotherhood of man and the Recognition and the Realization of that Fatherhood of GOD; for GOD alone is your FATHER and you never had another; but you were ignorant enough to think you had another; but I came  to tell you better! I thank you.



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