Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

To Bring About Righteousness in Government, a General Cleanup Needed

Excerpt from FATHER DIVINE’S Message Given Whilst at The Righteous Government Meeting, Krumville Extension-The Promised Land, New York, Saturday evening June 8, 1940 A.D.F.D., Time: Midnight.

One of the grocery stores operated by followers

…I Came to get GOD in all government and even in every ordinance! That is the mystery!

It is for this cause I AM here tonight. It is for this cause we assemble from time to time in our Righteous Government meetings, to bring about Righteousness as in Jesus, in all government and even in every ordinance. That is what it is for. Then when we assemble here and elsewhere I do not blame you for not being egotistic and self-exalted, but I do consider you will leave space and place for our visiting friends and others to talk on government and governmental affairs–I mean if it is nothing but how you want the government, the city or county government to see that the highways are straightened out and made more comfortable and more safe for traffic.

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The Redeemed Life as Taught by Father Divine

Message Given By FATHER DIVINE At Unity Baptist Church Brooklyn, N.Y. 1931 A.D.F.D.

Last night when we were in Hackensack, several ladies and gentlemen, as they might be called, started to confess their sins, and there were several present that began to laugh. They thought it was quite strange. But that little song I just sang is a composition for your consideration. If you cast those men out of your lives and confess your sins, and live a pure and a spotless life, you will be free from your sins.

Now it is more than seven d-v-ls in some people. It is wonderful! Some of you have more than seven to get rid of. It is wonderful! But if you throw them out, you will be free from your sins. I don’t care anything of what you have been; if you have not sinned against the Holy Ghost, if you confess and forsake your sins you shall have mercy; and you do not need to care anything about what anybody thinks about you, or anything about what anybody says about you, for if GOD is for, who can be against you?

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The Condescension of God

As Revealed by Father Divine in an Interview with Dr. Lewi Pethrus,  Pastor and Editor from Stockholm, Sweden.

FATHER DIVINES’S Interview at His New York City Headquarters 20 West 115th Street, New York City, Wednesday Morning. December 2, 1936 A.D.F.D., Time:11:15 A.M.

“Come ye, and let us go up to the Mountain of The LORD,
to The House of The GOD of Jacob;
and He will teach us of His Ways, and we will walk in His Paths.” -Isaiah 2:3

“Behold, The TABERNACLE of GOD is with men,
and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS People,
and GOD HIMSELF shall be with them, and be their GOD.” -Revelation 21:3.

“Hence, for the purpose of visualization and concentration, GOD, through His Condescension, made His WORD a visible observable TABERNACLE, a BODY of FLESH, that you might observe The ALMIGHTY!” — FATHER DIVINE.

For more than fifty years they have been coming from all parts of the Earth to see Him, to hear Him, and learn of His Ways: priests, ministers, rabbis, swamis, monks, sheiks, metaphysicians, philosophers, educators, scholars, writers – even agnostics and atheists!

And because He is so deeply dedicated to His Work, FATHER DIVINE takes time to see everyone who desires an audience; and even sacrifices the hours and days He might spend at recreation and relaxation to answer, Personally, the thousands of letters He receives weekly from His millions of Followers, Friends, and Well-wishers.

One of the most interesting and enlightening interviews ever granted by FATHER DIVINE -especially from a layman’s viewpoint – was that given to Dr. Lewi Pethrus, Pastor of Philadelphia Church in Stockholm, Sweden’s largest; and Editor of a daily newspaper in the same city, the Stockholm-Tidningen.

At the time, America was battling a major depression. In Europe, Adolph Hitler was sowing the seeds for a World War. In New York City, FATHER DIVINE was healing the sick, injecting Hope to the downtrodden, imparting Wisdom to the ignorant, and feeding thousands of unemployed daily — without cost or obligation!

Dr. Pethrus was accompanied by another minister who did not take part in the fascinating discussion that is hereinafter recorded verbatim. Thank YOU, FATHER!

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What is God?

FATHER DIVINE’S Letter Dated July 5th, 1956 A. D. F.D.

My dear Mrs. Lane,

Your letter of the 11th ultimo is received with clipping attached.

It is wonderful to see how MY Spirit is moving in the hearts and minds of men to establish just laws in government. I have long declared that as it is on MY immediate Staff, so shall it be in government, from land to land and from shore to shore.

The amalgamation of the peoples of the world is the only solution to world Peace and Prosperity. It is the key to the physical health and safety of the people individually and collectively. It is the power that will keep the planes in the Air, the ships on the Sea and the trains on the tracks. It is the spirit of Democracy that will create International Good Will that will promote science and invention which will secure men in their stand for the Brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God.

Now relative to your question concerning the Universal Mind Substance and the Spiritualization of material things and the materialization of Spiritual things, biblical history informs you that

‘In the beginning the earth was void and without form and darkness was upon the face of the waters. And GOD said, Let there be light and there was light.’
God in the invisible realm of expression, was, and is, the Universal Mind Substance – the invisible, intangible, infinite Power, of the Holy Ghost; in other words, Spirit and Mind. Then I say, out of nothing GOD created His Creation, and by the same Power can many worlds be created for you can create the kind of world your thoughts can produce.
In the beginning of Creation God did not have a Body, but since that time, the very WORD of Creation has become Flesh, and the children of this Dispensation can Behold the Perfection of Life in the Personified God-head Bodily Form.

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