FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE
The audience which had followed the spiritual trail all day long on Tuesday, January 3rd, cheered and greeted FATHEB and HIS party as they returned from the Banquet, which was held on the lower floor of the Elks Hall. There were testimonies from little children from the age of 9 years, thanking FATHER for HIS coming and
saving them.One little boy in particular thanked FATHER for redeeming him from stealing. He stated that he was so artful in stealing that he could steal in one's very presence, and never be suspected of guilt. He told how he carried a gun and had declared that the first boy that bothered him about his girl or anything else, he was going to kill him. He acknowledged he stole whiskey and drank it. He was clever enough to watch the combination of a safe and could work it perfectly, then take the money and hide it under the steps. It was alarming to hear the schemes and practices of this little fellow who looked with tender years like a little lamb rather than a boy familiar with the tactics and vices of the underworld. Surely the world appreciates the coming of FATHER DIVINE, for HE is advocating the Christ Life, which alone can and does transform the body by the renewing of the mind.
Thunderous shouts and cheers resounded as FATHER DIVINE rose to address them, speaking as follows:
PEACE EVERYBODY! Here I AM and there you are. Aren't you glad?("So glad FATHER," shouted the audience in unison.) I AM glad, as I AM always glad to see so many happy faces. I AM glad to see you expressing the light of this Infinite Love in your spirits and in your actions, and in your deeds I AM speaking. It is Wonderful! For this cause we can always rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It is not MY time just now to speak in Person, as the time has well expired and our desire is to close at, or around ten o'clock in all of our services, as we are always in some service same where. It is Wonderful! If we were to return to New York tonight, when I get there we will have a Banquet. It is Wonderful! And there they will expect ME to serve and also give some little talk or lecture, as they usually do, For this cause I will not take up your time as the time has well expired anyway.
I will further give you a little light, a little sketch of a reflection of MY thought concerning the mystery of the infiniteness of the Infinite One here and now, by a little composition in a song after which we will come to a conclusion. I wish to sing this little song:
"There are millions, there are millions, there are millions of blessings,
Every day they are multiplied by as many more;
There are millions, there are millions, there are millions of blessings,V Every day they are multiplied by as many more.
"There are billions, there are billions, there are billions of blessings,
Every day they are multiplied by as many more;
"There are billions, there are billions, there are billions of blessings,
Every day they are multiplied by as many more.
"There are trillions . . . etc.
"There are quadrillions . . . etc.
"There are quintillions . . . etc.
"There are sextillions . . . etc.
"There are septillions . . . etc.
There are octillions . . . etc.
"There are duodecillions . . . etc.
"There are decillions . . . etc."
It is Wonderful! In conclusion I would just like to say, that is a little composition by inspiration. It is Wonderful! We realize that there are millions and millions of blessings, and every day they are multiplied by as many more. And there are billions and from billions to trillions, and from trillions to quadrillions, and from quadrillions to quintillions, and from quintillions to sextillions, and from sextillions to septillions, and from septillions to octillions, and from octillions to duodecillions, and from duodecillions, then I say there are decillions of decillions of blessings, every day they are multiplied by as many more. They are for you, they are for ME, but you must believe it and receive it even also as I do. It is Wonderful! Then you will be able to rejoice and be exceedingly glad at the abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of good, and no space with you will be vacant of the fullness thereof.
A Psychological Point
Now marvel not at the gathering here tonight in this small auditorium, comparatively with the large auditoriums that carry from five to ten thousand. It is Wonderful! This is just a small auditorium, but I just wish to convey to you a sketch of a reflection of a percent of this psychological point of view. It is a mystery in this fullness that I carry. It is a psychological point. It is a psychological thought. It is Wonderful! I carry in MY Consciousness the abundance of the fullness of all good things, and I produce it wheresoever I go. If I come into your home, you will find there will be plenty there. Wheresoever I go I fill everything full with the abundance of good things, for I carry in MY Consciousness the fullness of every good desire and I produce it in actuality and bring it into reality and manifest it to the world.
This Message of Truth is Cleansing World
Now I will not take up more of your time, as the time has well expired and it is MY desire to always close our meetings around ten o'clock. We are on the road somewhere every day. It is Wonderful! Tomorrow we will be in Montclair, the next day we will be in New York City at the Star Casino, and on Friday we will be in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Palace,130 Rockaway Avenue, near Fulton Street. We are going every day and this is not merely for emotions or these demonstrations in expression, but it is going far beyond the bounds and barriers of your mortal versions. It is going in the homes — in the homes and lives of men and change them from immorality to true morality. It is changing them from vice of every kind and turning their homes into houses of prayer. It is Wonderful!
I wish to say to Philadelphia, we will stop at least a hundred people from selling liquor in your city tonight: that is what we will do! We are going forth to all of the towns and cities and we are cleaning up the slums. We are causing these houses to be the houses of prayer and praises unto GOD. We will clean up from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and then we are crossing the Pacific. We are going into China. We are going into Japan — going through and among the Japanese. We are going in Australia, yea, in Africa. We are in all of the countries of Europe, and this Life and this Message of Truth shall clean the whole world up and make this world the Kingdom of our GOD and HIS Christ forever and ever. I thank you.