FATHER DIVINE’S BROADCAST MESSAGE at Philadelphia Ball Park, Lehigh and Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday, September 4, 1939 A.D.F.D., Time: 10:30 P.M.
As the moment arrived for the broadcast of Father’s Message to the world over Philadelphia Radio Station WCAU by the Columbia Broadcasting System, the voices of the multitudes which had gathered for this great occasion, rang out loud and clear as they sang in unison, “God has blessed America,” the theme song spontaneously selected at this time.
The Station’s announcer, after a few words of explanation, introduced Hon. Harry S. McDevitt, Supreme Court Judge and leading citizen of Philadelphia, who, with the following city officials and press representatives, invited Father to the City of Brotherly Love to give its citizens his great Message of redemption: Magistrate Edward henry; Magistrate Joseph H. Rainey; Mr. Ray Fabiani; Mr. L. H. Joly, Editor of the “Afro-American;” Mr. Ralph Jones, Editor of the Philadelphia Independent; Mr. John A. McGinnis; Mr. A. L. Austin, Director in Chief of the Sesqui–Centennial; and Mr. Robert N. C. Nix, Esq., former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania.
Judge McDevitt in turn introduced Father to the radio audience, and the sincerity of the tribute he paid Father and his appreciation of his mighty Works in salvaging humanity, show the high esteem in which our beloved savior is held by the leading citizens of Philadelphia.
Thank you, Father, for the light you are bringing to all mankind.