An Abundant Banquet Table,
Divine Fairmont Hotel, Jersey City, N.J.
It is strange indeed that when mankind obtains that which they apparently wanted most, that for which they yearned and prayed, they are either too blind to realize they have it, or they reject it for other reasons. This is the nature of mortality, and our Savior illustrates this in His analyzation of the basis upon which Justice Dineen made his decision in the Brown case.
The prayers of humanity have always been for the establishment of the Kingdom of GOD on earth, according to the Lord's Prayer given by Jesus; knowing that this would mean honesty and truth in the dealings of man with man and peace and tranquility. It cannot be disputed that FATHER DIVINE has brought this through His Teachings and influence over His followers, who exemplify in all of their activities the very highest standard of morality and perfection. For this apparently, HE is persecuted, where others such as the Catholic sisters with the same aspirations of holiness are respected.
This prejudice, however, will no longer be tolerated, for Almighty GOD, FATHER DIVINE, having been ignored when HE spoke in meekness, is now asserting His Majesty, Dominion and Authority, and the insignificance of man shall no longer hinder His Plan and Purpose!
RULER of CREATION, WE THANK THEE!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite for everyone. Good Manners, Good Behavior, all Success and all Prosperity in all of your endeavors if you are One with the Infinite!
I rise at this instant to say: "It is good to be here." I AM not just saying this because I apparently preside here, but because you can look and see distinctly, when this shall have enveloped the world just as I have it at this particular banquet table, there will be no more lacks, wants and limitations; there will be no more sickness, diseases, sorrow, misery and undesirable conditions; for this is just a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of the mystery of the Omnipotence and Omniscience of your GOD.
What HE has done for these of My immediate staff at this present banquet table, it is applicable and operative and expressive for one and for all. Just what GOD does for one, HE desires to do for all mankind, but they will not allow HIM to. Therefore, they live and grope in lacks, wants and limitations, whilst you are here in your FATHER'S House with bread a-plenty and to spare.
This is not a supposition. A secret investigation as is now going on, is justifiable. It is solicited that all mankind might realize, that which I have declared is explicit and they can see it distinctly; for it is My desire for all mankind to see and know definitely what GOD has actually done for you and among you. As I said many years ago, "Just as I have it here, I will have it all over the universe"; for
'As in Adam all die (yea all died), so shall in Jesus Christ ( in this Life), all be made alive.'
Those who bring themselves into subjection to this supernatural phenomenon and
live according to this Teaching by living Evangelically according to the Gospel,
I could have said the very Spirit of GOD'S Presence will cause them to be blessed
abundantly and come into possession of the selfsame blessings such as we are
enjoying daily: the abundance of the fullness of the Consciousness of Good, with
no space vacant of the fullness thereof.
This is not only economically from and for your economic existence or conditions, but it is an expression that envelopes the whole world of your present existence. It has to do with everything you do and everything you say, for the recognition of GOD is Omnipresent; and with this recognition in active service, you will find GOD'S Omnipresence will work just as effectively for you as it would and as it does where you may think it is a special place of worship, as special Shrine.
Shrines are wonderful! They express the exact blessings of GOD from the invisible and Infinite realm; but it is good and marvelous to know that the Shrine ship Degree of expression should be your portion in consciousness wheresoever you are. You should carry your Shrine along with you! By such a recognition you will be blessed wheresoever you are by the realization of GOD'S actual Presence with all of His Blessings and with a Name that is stamped in your consciousness upper mostly in your forehead; a Name above every other name, that at the Name of Whom you are representing, every knee must bow and every tongue must confess.
Therefore, this Shrine in itself is not a Shrine made by physical hands, but a Shrine of the Spirit established mentally and spiritually in your consciousness; and wheresoever you are, you will have this Shrine with you that will be your Refuge and Strength in the time of need, and will give you victory over all things undesirable, if you please. Oh, how glorious it is to live in such a recognition!
Truly might have Christendom with the spirit of sincerity, been calling for this Faith of which I have represented here.
'Oh, for a faith that will not shrink though oppressed by every foe A faith submissive, meek and sweet, my great Redeemer's throne.'
When you get this Faith of which I AM now speaking, there is where CHRIST is
actually reigning; for it is your great Redeemer's throne
'Where Christ alone is heard to speak, and where Jesus reigns alone.'
Aren't you glad? That is what I AM talking about! Then I say, seek diligently
to get this
'Faith that will not shrink, though oppressed by every foe; br That will not murmur nor complain on the brink of any earthly woe.'
And I AM talking about this Faith, as I afore said: submissive, meek and sweet,
your great Redeemer's throne. There is where CHRIST reigns, where CHRIST alone
is heard to speak and where Jesus reigns alone. Get the Faith within and remember:
'Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of His throne; the earth saw and trembled.'
Aren't you glad? With this Faith and this Righteousness and a Righteous Judgment
on the throne of His Righteousness, HE will reign as LORD of Lords and as KING
of Kings over each and every thing. It is plain for you to know even without
an inspiration or a slight reflection of a breath of the Spirit:
'Wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is.'
This Faith on which HE reigns, this Righteousness and the Righteous Judgment
of His Majesty on which HE reigns, has brought all of the material things under
such a jurisdiction into subjection to Him. Can you not see the mystery?
Therefore, this material home, this residence of Mine, is as all others should be, will be or would be, if you would allow them to be. Your home should be CHRIST'S Kingdom. I say, your home should be CHRIST'S Kingdom, for
'Wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is.'
Select and elect the CHRIST as LORD of Lords and KING of Kings to rule on the
throne of your mind in business, in profession, in labor and in trade and in
all of your activities. If you do, GOD is with you and GOD Himself is reigning
on the throne of your mind, and all things under your jurisdiction are GOD'S
actual Kingdom. That is what I AM talking about! For
'Wheresoever a king reigns, there is where his kingdom is.'
Aren't you glad? It is for this cause, as GOD reigns here on the throne of this
Mind in business, in profession, in labor and in trade; and in all of My Personal
mental and spiritual activities GOD alone reigns; therefore His Kingdom has truly
come, for His Dominion now is put forth into expression, reckoned and considered
by millions as being the supernatural, invisible Kingdom that was coming.
Now the nations of the earth are stirred even to the extent in the judge's decision the other day; he used an assertion that must be reckoned in the reconsideration of such a decision, "Because of His peculiar relationship between Himself and His followers, it is assumed that she must have given Him the money," or words to that effect, Assuming Something! A Supposition and not going by facts and figures!
But as the speaker said a little while ago, you do not find followers so devout to their leaders as you all are to ME. Your devoutness to ME has caused persecution even by Judge Dineen, in the name of prosecuting the case "because of the peculiarity of His followers towards Him," which was to say, "they devote so much attention to Him. They trust Him implicitly, sincerely, conscientiously and whole-heartedly! It must be something to it" as though to say. Can you not see the mystery?
But if every leader, every preacher and all of the peoples of the earth in their respective leadership, would lead honestly, soberly and Godly, and deal justly between man and man, their followers and members would also love them! This would not be strange. It should not have been strange to Judge Dineen. Why? Because he himself has studied the Gospel. He himself has a brother that is a priest. He himself, being of the Catholic faith, of a most devout religion of all civilization as a sectarian organization, he knows that the Catholic sisters if the brothers or the priests do not he knows that they (the sisters) sacrifice their lives and live holy and soberly and Godly, consecrated whole-heartedly to their respective religious conviction.
Then if this be true, why not give someone else a chance to be as devout to their religion as he or theirs of which he is connected or to which he is connected?
Then I say, this is something to consider the "peculiarity" of the followers because they are devout to ME. It is a little peculiar because the brothers in My following will not drink liquor, will not indulge in the opposite sex and will not do all of those vices and crimes such as others have been doing, and such as they did before I came not any more than the Catholic sisters, the nuns will do!
Now, members of the Catholic Church, some of them may not be so devout as the sisters; but the sisters are samples and examples for others, and I have often stressed it, although I do not require My followers to shave off their hair and such as that especially; but cut off from all mortal tendencies, fancies and pleasures, and all other self-indulgences such as the Catholic sisters deny themselves of, and be as holy in the street as the Catholic sisters are in the nunnery; be holy wheresoever you are, and live it and express it by reproducing and by concentrating on the holy virginity of Mary, as reproduced in the holy sisters of the Catholic Church.
But then My followers as sisters, are not the only ones who are endeavoring to live holy. Those who are called brothers or men, they endeavor to live as holy and as wholesome lives as those of the sisters or the nuns and even as Mother Superior.
Why is it they do not want you to live so? If they are right, they should rejoice because you do live it. They are right in their confession and in their profession in the act of self-denial and consecration, but you can live it here and now wheresoever you go, and can produce it and bring it to fruition on the outside of the church as well as on the inside.
Truly might have the Apostle said on one occasion: "Men and brethren . . .", I speak after the manner of him to those who do not know as men and brethren, they have the same chance to live a Holy Life even as the sisters in the Catholic Church have a chance to live it; for GOD will keep you even on the outside and among wicked people. GOD will keep you from the evil in the fulfillment of the prayer of Jesus when He prayed the FATHER to keep them from the evil. This is what I AM doing! I AM keeping them from evil! He said:
'I pray not that Thou shall take them out of the world.'
I do not have to take them out of the world to keep them from the evil, for the
FATHER-SHIP Degree can do it! Jesus said:
'My FATHER is greater then I . . . I can of Mine own self do nothing.'
Jesus was a wonderful blessing and so is the Vicar of CHRIST in this dispensation
a wonderful blessing for the people, those who will live soberly, righteously
and Godly according to His Teaching. But the substitute will not do! Jesus said
Himself:
'I pray not that Thou shall take them out of the world, but that Thou shall keep them from the evil.'
Jesus could not keep them from the evil, but the FATHERSHIP Degree of expression
as a Principle and as a Standard that has been lifted, can and will keep them
from the evil personally, mentally or spiritually. It matters not whether it
is personal or mental or spiritual, the FATHER-SHIP Degree of expression of which
I AM stressing, will keep them from the evil. I do not have to take them out
of the world!
But such a beautiful sample and example that has actually been exemplified in that of the Catholic sisters who are living pure and wholesome lives in this present world, according to as much information as has been given to the outside world. They deny themselves of all self-indulgence from every angle expressible. They live soberly, righteously and Godly. Why not copy after such a wholesome example and endeavor to bring such a life to fruition within you? These My followers have done it!
They did it by the SPIRIT of My Presence, by reckoning My Presence as being with them. Therefore they deny themselves of their indulgences and endeavor to live soberly, righteously and Godly. It is a wonderful privilege to be under such an influence that will even stop every one of you from smoking a cigarette, and any other little no-harm habit as vices that are not considered detrimental or felonious the SPIRIT of My Presence will keep you from those tendencies and lift you above the desire to indulge in them. Can you not see the mystery?
Then I say, who can be a critic of this Truth that I have lifted, and especially this standard that I have lifted among this people? Who can be a criterion against or to this Fundamental as exemplified among us so vividly? Then as you heard the little song sung as they sang it with the spirit of sincerity:
'Everybody needs FATHER to help them on their way.'
But if it was only for this, this is our daily expression, our daily activity,
our daily life we are living. Now, if anyone can present a better one, present
it and I may copy after the fashion. I thank you.
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