Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

Racism Shall Be Wiped Out

For years and years Father Divine has spoken against racism in all forms and advocated what is summed up in a few paragraphs of one of HIS Sermons recently reprinted on page 1 of the June 1st 1963 issue of The New Day and given by Him in the year 1951.

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 lynchings, – There will be no more division and strife – When they recognize God’s body…. Racism shall be wiped out …..

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.”

Abolishing Segregation

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 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 in its entirety 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 all 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.”

Father Divine

The significance of the body of God being with you

PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will, a Good Appetite; Good Manners, Good Behavior, All Success and All Prosperity; All Wisdom, All Knowledge and All Understanding around and among those who are around the Body of GOD!

At this particular instance I have arisen to say, when we sing these or those compositions as advanced convictions of millions, it is uplifting. It takes you out of that state of consciousness where you live in doubts and fears and are conscious of the absence of GOD; but it helps you to believe and to know definitely you are in the Presence of GOD. But when you sing those songs that are not advancing and are not uplifting, when you sing those songs that are not convincing to yourself and to others of GOD’S Actual Presence, naturally, you do not feel as you do when you sing melodies of Thanksgiving and praises that are declarations of GOD’S Actual Presence.

It is a different world in which we live, to those who are living in that consciousness, yea, in that state of consciousness where they must go somewhere; where they observe GOD far beyond the blue ether, which is to say, far beyond the sky, far beyond the sun, the moon and all of the stars. When they think GOD is up there, they are serving GOD suppositionally and superstitiously and they are not serving GOD in the Conscious Conviction and Realization of GOD’S Actual Presence as you are, in the Presence of the Body of GOD! You are conscious of GOD’S Presence and the Consciousness of GOD’S Presence, it is the Solver of every problem and the Adjuster of all matters and will adjust matters satisfactorily for all humanity eventually! [Read more…]

Your faith in God is priceless! Your faith should be more valuable than pure gold just about the size of New York City!

Sermon given at the Holy Communion Table of the Circle Mission Church, Home and Training School
764-772 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA., Monday Morning, Sept. 22, 1952 A.D.F.D., Time — 4:50 A.M.

PEACE EVERYONE! Many years ago I said, I will preach CHRIST in Words, but more so in deeds and in actions!” I often said, hereafter I shall preach more explicitly in deeds and in actions than what I have preached and AM preaching in Words.

Just a little while ago, when that Message was being read from the pages of The Light as published in August 7, 1934, I thought of how marvelous it was, yes, how marvelous it is the Message that was given then can remain and it shall remain over and above every opposition of men, for GOD is Greater, Bigger and Better than all of the opposing forces, both of the visible and invisible world.

I thought how marvelous it was at it is, even though we do not think or commit to memory these soul-stirring, yea, soul-redeeming Messages; at times you lose complete sight of those things that I have said, yet when you read back and see what I said at that time, more than eighteen years ago, it is enough said in those Words to redeem the world!

Many may ignore this Truth, but the only hope of your redemption and the redemption of all of those who may even so much as desire to ignore it, the only hope and the only Salvation is the recognition of what I AM telling them! It says, “The Light”. This is a bound volume of “The Light” and “The Divine Light” combined. “The Light” in its original name, it gives light to the world! As it is, so it was; “The Divine Light”, as published by My Spirit and My Presence, bearing witness of what I have been and still AM telling you: GOD is a Free Gift to the world! Both “The Light”, and also as it was, so it is for free distribution!

As I explained,

“GOD so loved the world, HE gave His only begotten Son!”

You cannot lose by giving freely, for so freely as you receive, so freely you should give; and on the other hand, so freely as you give, so freely shall you receive. As these periodicals were for free distribution and not for the purpose of profiteering or for the purpose of any monetary returns for what we were doing, yet a good many may say, “FATHER DIVINE is extremely wealthy and has unlimited resources.” They speak of the material and monetary expressions of what they can see around, not knowing that in this particular Message as I gave it, if you believe it, it is worth your city’s weight in gold. It is the Key to all of the hidden treasures of the universe! It will unlock every barred and shut door! Aren’t you glad!

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The golden rule with arbitration will solve every problem

PEACE, EVERYONE!

Good health, good will and a good appetite so you can eat aplenty; good manners, good behavior, all success and all prosperity so you may be happy! All success, I say, and prosperity, so you may be happy continually!

At this particular instance I have arisen to say, it is good to be here in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose! As you stand susceptive to that of which I AM expressing, you can see, reflect and manifest the reflection of it. It is an abstract expression of the Universal Brotherhood of Man and the Conscious Realization of the Fatherhood of GOD. For this cause you rejoice. You are filled with enthusiasm such as others are not.

In the great time of the crises and the conflicts with the nations of the world, with men and their respective neighbors and others living in confusion, malice and strife, those of you who adhere to MY Teaching, you are filled with enthusiasm, with joy and happiness and hospitality for everybody.

For this cause I AM here tonight, to further the advancement of this Righteous Government of which we represent, that shall eventually be universally established and internationally legalized–in other words, internationally recognized and established in the hearts and lives of the children of men as the Fundamental of Salvation, the Hope and the Redemption of them! [Read more…]

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