"Away down in Texas, and in the Furthest Parts of the South, They Shall Eat and Drink Together;
These Words Came out of God's Mouth!

"Racism Shall Be Wiped Out." ---FATHER DIVINE

Our FATHER'S Sermon Given at the Holy Communion Table of the Circle Mission Church, Home and Training School, 764-772 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Sunday Night and Monday Morning, December 23-24, 1951 A.D.F.D., Time 3:00 A.M.



 

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

SONG

'Away down in Texas, and in the furthest parts of the South,
They shall eat and drink together;
These Words came out of GOD'S Mouth!
There will be no more race riots and lynching,
There will be no more division and strife,
When they recognize GOD'S Body, they will value each other's life!
FATHER will make them love each other so much
With or without an Anti-lynching Bill,
They will know they are Brothers, and not desire to kill!
'Away down in Texas, and in the furthest parts of the South,
They will enact the Bill of Rights in every community,
Racism shall be wiped out!'

 

(FATHER speaks as follows:)

 

 

PEACE EVERYONE! While listening to the testimony of the last speaker and reiterating, yea, rehearsing that little composition and thinking along those lines, I thought how marvelous it is to realize, racism shall eventually be wiped out!

I AM happy to hear our visiting guest say that things are getting better for them. We realize they are, for the LIFE, as being termed, the BLOOD, has paid it all! Aren't you glad? ("So glad, LORD!" exclaimed the happy throng.) But while thinking along that line, I thought of how we still have work to do to universally establish this WORK effectively until it shall be from shore to shore and from land to land just as it is under My Personal Jurisdiction and where I AM Personally.

I was thinking about by radio news and also by the press we hear of how Communism is going rampant through the land in some of the countries how they have striven to envelop the world. We look upon it as inhuman, as it was said that a few of our fliers have been imprisoned under the Communistic government how they have striven to force them to confess as being spies. But I also thought of how one of our very worthy and faithful and devout and spiritually awakened followers, having gone on a trip to Florida just recently, his employer made reservation for him, so I was informed, at the hotel where they were to be. His employer went down by airplane and he chauffeured through to meet them in Florida; and I AM informed that he was not allowed to live in the same hotel! But I AM here to say: the airplanes will not stay in the air, the trains will not stay on the track; the ships will not stay on the ocean where prejudice, selfishness, racism, barbarism exist! I shall bring an abolition to such, from shore to shore and from land to land! Every nation, every language, every tongue and every people shall be emancipated the same as we are under My Personal Jurisdiction!

We call attention to the fact that those of our representatives, yea, our boys under the government of the United States, fighting to keep this nation free from barbarism, from savagery, from inhumanity and all such as have been the experience of those in Korea, yet there are those who seem to consider that they will continue to keep it up in this country. And I mentioned that point of those young men that have been captured in and under the jurisdiction of the Communist government, that how they are holding them because they are Americans and desire to treat them with the cruelest savagery and inhumanity to force them to confess to that which is not supposed to be true, and yet, there are those here in America would keep up savagery, inhumanity and brutality the same as those in the barbaric countries!

But I AM happy to present to our visiting guests and others, a slight sketch and a reflection of a percent of a fraction of a grain of what I AM actually doing and what I shall do and have right here on this earth plane from shore to shore and from land to land! The composition as you have heard it long since by inspiration declared:

'Away down in Texas, and in the furthest parts of the South,
They shall eat and drink together;
These Words came out of GOD'S Mouth!
There will be no more race riots and lynching.'


Aren't you glad? ("So glad, Almighty GOD!"shouted the assembly.

'There will be no more division and strife,
When they recognize GOD'S Body;
Racism shall be wiped out!'


Those compositions that are left on record and are for the remembrance of what has been predicted and what we are endeavoring to carry out to the letter; for this cause, be not weary of well doing, for ye shall reap in due season if you faint not!

You find that they do not want it to be! They have striven in every way to eliminate and prevent Civil Rights and even Democracy itself in expression, but I AM carrying it on and I shall not be discouraged until I have it all over this wide extended plane from shore to shore and from land to land as at My right and as at My left Hand!

Then I say, be of good courage and fear not, for this Truth shall conquer every foe! This Truth shall prove victorious and a conqueror over all your enemies if you will but lift up this standard and fret not yourselves because of the workers of iniquity, for they shall be cut off!

Then I say, live in this recognition and build upon this Foundation. I just thought to comment on those points of view for a few seconds in pointing out the different compositions in our declaration and in our predictions to let you see and know, whatsoever is going on, that is the things that are being accomplished in the way of Democracy, Brotherhood and Christianity, yea, and Americanism and Judaism as synonymous. It is the very work that we started and we do not mean to stop until it is finished.

Then, another little composition by inspiration coming forth from a declaration and prediction:

'We shall have the same rights, not only equal, but the same!'


You know you have heard quite a bit about having the Equal Rights, but I say, we shall have the SAME RIGHTS, for that system of so-called equal rights, it has been just as far from the SAME RIGHTS, as the East is from the West! But

'We shall have the same rights, not only equal, but the same!
Side by side we shall ride in the SAME CAR, BUS and TRAIN!'


This, we declared many years ago and I presented My Body as a Living Sacrifice thirty-two times in the hands of lynch-mobs to redeem mankind in this world from inhumanity, from vice and from crime! Then I declared:

'We shall have the same rights, Not only equal, but the same!'


A good many people did not even know that which is deemed or had been called Equal Rights, was not the same rights! There was division, there was strife and inequality! As long as there is division or strife and inequality, it is not the SAME RIGHTS! Even our Bill of Rights has been used selfishly and discriminatorily and not democratically and evangelically!

For this cause I sing with you all:

'We shall have the same rights, not only equal, but the same! Side by side we shall ride in the same car, bus and Train!'


Everyone shall live eventually in peaceful and quiet resting places where no man will be able to make you ashamed, for I have brought an end to localization! Localities and vicinities have no barriers for ME! Aren't you glad? ("So glad, FATHER Dear!" shouted the happy throng.) And they will have no barriers for you! If every American citizen will live Soberly, Righteously and Godly and be decent and orderly and respectable, I will give you the same rights all others have to live in any vicinity and in any district and locality as others do, and give you the same rights to life, liberty and the reality of Happiness, the same as we have it here jurisdictionally.

Not only so, but we will bring an end to that Line of Demarcation a Complete Abolition to the Line of Demarcation, for as we said in that little composition:

'Blot out that Mason and Dixon Line, it only breeds vice and crime!'


Therefore, we shall continue to eradicate and eradicate and erase and erase and dispel until it has no longer an existence only in the minds of men!

So then I say, live this Life of Democracy, Americanism, Christianity, Judaism as synonymous and unite, unite, unite and let there be no division among you and we shall have the same rights and the same privileges as all other citizens universally. Even I will bring an end to that which is commonly called the previous condition of servitude that has robbed thousands and millions out of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! I will give them their right of their franchise and will give them access for expression and bring an abolition, yea, an obliteration of that which is commonly known as the previous condition of servitude. It shall have no longer an existence among this people! The mouth of GOD has declared it! We shall have the same rights!

(As FATHER took His seat, the audience sang the foregoing composition as follows:)

'We shall have the same rights, not only equal but the same!
Side by side, we shall ride in the same car, bus and train!
We shall play in the same parks, study our lessons in the same school,
There shall be the same equal rights, for you, and you, and you!
Forevermore, we shall have the same rights, we shall dine face to face.
Eternally there shall never be known a creed, color or race!
We shall live together and worship GOD in the same pew,
There shall be the same equal rights, for you, and you, and you!'

 


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