Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

Excerpt – Father Divine in the South around 1908

I call your attention to the time of the great panic in the South and in all parts of this Country, around 1908 or 1909. Around about that time and right on, some people in the Southern States, women especially, were working earning one dollar a week, having to pay for lodging, and they did not live on the premises. It happened to be that there was a young lady I met, in going through the South and there were many others, but especially this one, that was earning one dollar a week. I said to this young lady as in the same case with many others. “You tell your Madam you can not work for less than two dollars, no way—just start at that.” She told her the next day and she said, “ You know you will get one dollar a week now, and when you work four weeks you will have four dollars,” and she was not even staying on the premises, but was staying with some of her friends and had to walk home. She would not pay her any more, so I said, “All right.” I put this identical lady, and many other young ladies and men and women in Agency work. I Personally did it! That was just before the great move in the South came up, just before the great migration from the South began, and I put this lady to work in Agency work. She began to earn from eight to ten dollars a day. I said, “I will bring you out,” and for many others I did it in the same way.

I remember a man, a healthy, strong, robust man, working for fifteen cents a day—working in the field cutting corn, or pulling fodder, or something like that. “They said he could only earn fifteen cents a day and he worked hard. I said, “Well I will stop you.” As a first step, I got him in more public work, like in a Mill. I placed quite a few of them in the Lumber Mills. They began getting eighty and ninety cents a day. He was a foreman and a good worker, and earned ninety cents a day. They said they would give him ninety-five cents a day—five cents more, as he was a great worker “All right,” I said, ”but tell them to give you more.” They would not give him more, so I put this very man, and many others on the Agency list, and they went out and did work in that same City, and he began to earn from six to eight dollars a day. He did not earn as much as the young ladies, apparently they were better salesmen. However, I had a way there, that no man knew but MYSELF. Through working silently, apparently, and not establishing MYSELF as a Person. I made many, independent from that angle and from that point of view, and great is the Spirit in the midst of you, to accomplish anything that I teach it to do. It is indeed Wonderful!

Father Divine
Monday, March 5, 1934 N.D. 6/26/82

The Earth’s Vocabularies With All Civilization’s Philosophies Are Inadequate To Explain The Significance Of God’s Actual Presence Among These People

Our Father’s Message given at Auditorium Rockland Palace 155th street & 8th avenue, New York City, N.Y. on Sunday, March 3, 1940 at 11:35 PM.

Father-DivinePEACE, EVERYONE!

Here we all are again, there I sit and stand, here I go and there I come and here I shall remain! Aren’t you glad? Realizing this is not mortality, matter, neither is it personality, neither is it individuality but a living reality that has been made real, tangible and practical and shall be recognized and established universally!

I have long since declared by composition as a motto for humanity’s consideration as I Am present everywhere, I have declared–

“I will preach Christ in words but more so in Deeds and in actions, and I will put My Spirit in them and cause them to walk in My Statutes.”

As a man, AbrahAm had many seeds, did he not? His seeds were as the stars of Heaven. The transmission of the Impersonal being reinculcated and reincarnated, reproduced and repersonified, it is just as expressive. Aren’t you glad? That which is expressive it is expressive, for it is incorruptible and undefiled, it remains the same.

Conquering Own Will, Greater Than Taking a city

Then I say it is a privilege to realize, as AbrahAm conquered his own will, he was greater than one who had taken or would take a city. Conquering his own will, he brought all others in the same category into subjection to the same supernatural Presence by which his will was conquered. Can you not see the mystery? For it was an Impersonal victory! Although it was observed individually, it was a principle as a standard, Impersonal and expressive and operative for as many as would receive Him, and as with Abraham, so with the unfoldment of this mystery today; that which is good, that which is desirable, that which is incorruptible, that which cannot fade away will remain throughout all Eternity! Hence in the preaching of Christ in words, you may observe a person, but when I preach in deeds and in actions and transmit My Spirit to the children of Men and cause them to imbibe Me and reproduce Me, there and then you will know that it is something more than mortal to command!

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Mother Divine Explains How the Imbalance Humanity is Experiencing for the Necessities of Life is Due to His Lack of Virtue

Mother Divine: Peace, Father Dear, Lamb of GOD that taketh away the sins of the world, Peace to the holy congregation! I stand before you today on the sacred grounds of Woodmont before the Holy Sanctuary of the Sacrificed Body of GOD to lift up the CHRIST Standard in the minds of, not only those of you present, but in the minds of all creation. All humanity must consider the CHRIST Standard; we must, as human beings consider our physiological and our spiritual beginnings.

Founded on Judaic-Christian Culture

As Americans we are founded on the Judaic-Christian culture and that Judaic-Christian culture lifts high the Holy Scriptures. This is the foundation upon which our society has been built; this is the culture that we have been born into, and because we are born into it, we automatically know that there is one true and living GOD.  We know that GOD is the Supreme Power of the universe. HE is the Intelligence that created and formed, with His Power, all creation and this Power is moving in the earth today. As subjects of this Creator, we are bound by the Laws by which HE created us and being the highest form of His Creation, we are distinctive in that we have been given a mind to think; this is what sets us apart from all other animals. We are biologically animals, but if we claim our inheritance as Children of GOD, as human beings we are superior to any other animal. Because we have this power to think and have not chosen of our own free will to let our mind be in accord with that Supreme Mind, the Intelligence of the Universe, we have fallen from our first estate, and today we see man lower than the beasts, lower than the animals that GOD has created, and man must consider where he made his mistake and be willing to make the changes to correct that mistake. It is because man has failed to realize that it was a fall in consciousness that caused the separation from GOD. We will just consider the Holy Scripture, Genesis chapter 1, verse 27:

“So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; Male and female created he them.”

Chapter 2, verse 7:

“And the LORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”

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No Obscenity, No Vulgarity, No Profanity

Excerpt from Father Divine’s message given at the banquet table 1887-1889 Madison Avenue New York City, N.Y. on Saturday, July 6, 1940 A.D.F.D at 3:20 p.m.

Father-Divine

At this particular instance I have arisen to say, as you see the outward expression of the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose, so can it be with every one of you even as it is here with us!

Peace and happiness where there once was anger and cursing

I was just thinking a moment ago of this Peace, Love and Happiness and yet Tranquility, with Passiveness and Quietness and Assurance. These wonderful blessings I have made a living reality – even where those of you once upon a time would be sitting at your tables where you would be dining, eating and taking food for the sustenance of your body, and for the benefit of your soul – at times a good many of you would be cursing and swearing. You would be in all sorts of rages of anger and excitement and confusion. But from those conditions you are completely emancipated! Now you are living in Peace, and Quietness, and Blessed Assurance. Aren’t you glad! Whilst thinking on that, by your conscious conviction through and by what you are actually observing from the physical , yea, from a personal point of view, make the comparison of this dining room table with your former tables and the tables of thousands of others who are called American citizens. Not only those who are of the underworld, disrespectable and malicious and low-charactered people, but those among you who you have considered yourselves to be self-respecting, law-abiding and even law-making citizens, you have not enjoyed the Peace, Unity and Tranquility and the outward expression of Harmony systematically exhibited as you all are enjoying in these different audiences and dining rooms where I preside! Just look over this vast audience, the Spirit of the Omnipotent One controlling everyone, bringing you and others with whom you come in contact into subjection to Righteousness, Truth and Justice and into subjection to Love and Kindness and Tranquility, where the very Spirit of Peace abides and is in evidence in our daily experience, in our diverse audiences and in our dining rooms wheresoever I am presiding! [Read more…]

All Shall Live The Abundant Life

Father’s sermon given whilst at the holy communion table at the Kingston Mansion 67 Chapel street Kingston, New York on Sunday evening August 31, 1952 A.D.F.D. at 9:08 pm.

Father-Divine-PinebrookPeace everyone: At this instance I have arisen to say, it is good to be here! Of course, the majority of you know for what purpose we are assembled here tonight; therefore, it is not necessary especially, to go into the details of what we are actually doing here; for when I am personally absent  I am Present and operative and expressive, if you are conscious of it. And when I am Personally Present, as I am as a Person, I may refrain from speaking; I may refrain from action and allow my Spirit in others to speak, as I will speak more effectively at times, in Actions and in Deeds than what I could say in Words!

But we are happy to be here and to see this large assembly, not only here at this place at this instant, but in all parts of the world, where they recognize the different assemblages that have been established with the selfsame conviction and the belief in God, to the extent that they recognize God’s presence all over this wide extended plane! A day being set apart on the twenty-ninth of April as a day of Recognition and for the Realization of Millions, of my Marriage to my Spotless Virgin Bride, One of Whom sits here by my side! I know it sounds somewhat strange to the children of men to speak of a Spotless Virgin Bride, One Who is incorruptible mentally and Spiritually and absolutely untouched and undefiled, but this, the Day, has been set apart as a Review of that Memorial Day of the Sixth Anniversary of my Marriage to this, my Spotless Virgin Bride, for the purpose of bringing about Universal Brotherhood, Democracy, Americanism, Christianity and Judaism as Synonymous!

We shall not be discouraged until we shall have accomplished this Universally, for it is as contagious as that which was once called Hitler’s contagion of Destruction, of warfare and of bloodshed!

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