Father Divine

International Peace Mission Movement

My actual work and mission among these people

I would like to say to our visiting friends, hearers, and even followers who have not heard and known.. Do not know, whichever.. MY Actual Work and Mission among this people; I recall when men in this part of the country, New York City, in Baltimore, Maryland, Philadelphia and Washington… the northeastern part of this country, about thirty, forty and fifty years ago… they used to go around soliciting, begging and stealing on the streets; and I recall I rose up in such enthusiasm and such emotional expression, some thought, no doubt, I was somewhat unbalanced in mind.

Reverend M.J. Divine

I said, “I AM going south and prove to the world the Gospel

can be preached without money and without price!”

Every representative in the ecclesiastical world, even to the “stump-knockers,” “Bible-beaters” and street corner preachers, they all claimed that you were obliged to go around begging and stealing, in a way of speaking, to carry the Gospel.

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Interview by Mother Divine in 1982

Address by MOTHER DIVINE To The Sociology Students From The University of Pennsylvania Given at the Divine Tracy Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Thursday, October 18, 1982 A.D. 37 F.D. Time 3 P.M.

Dr. Kephart, Professor of Social Studies at the University of Pennsylvania had been using a chapter on FATHER DIVINE in his book entitled “Extraordinary Groups” for his Social Studies class and desired that MOTHER DIVINE speak to the students Herself. MOTHER acceded to his request and spoke to a group of some thirty of these students. Many of the things She said were to correct or clarify what Dr. Kephart had written. Her Address is transcribed herewith.

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The Jockeys And The Cowboys

If men live upon the face of the earth, those who live and walk around here with GOD’S breath shall obey GOD – -and they shall hear MY voice. Aren’t you glad! This is not a supposition, it is a declaration of the Infinite Spirit and the Omnipotence (of GOD). It is a declaration of the Universal Mind Substance in which and of which you know is speaking.

As I mentioned the jockeys, as I mentioned the cowboys, they do not say to a wild horse, or a wild cow: “Can I harness you?” If a cowboy can do such a thing in the animal kingdom, what about GOD among the animalistic creation in the likeness of man, if you please! When GOD said, “Let there be light and there was light,” when GOD said, “Let dry land appear and dry land appeared, “ it was not a question – – only a request; as the question request was made, there it was, and dry land appeared.

I know these are hard sayings, but yet as I said about the jockeys and about the cowboys, if the cowboys can go in the wild forest and can catch and harness the wild horses and the wild cows, how about GOD harnessing the minds of the people, harnessing all of His creation and bringing them into subjection?

FATHER DIVINE

New Day 10/10/59; p9, c2

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