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FATHER Opposes the Electoral College

On June 6, 1945 ADFD, FATHER DIVINE wrote to Miss Anna M. Betz, Director of the Social Service Department of Harlem Hospital, New York City. He touched on several issues of importance, including modern religion and the need for Constitutional reform that will abolish the Electoral College and employ technology to institute direct democracy. Had the United States heeded this direction from GOD ALMIGHTY FATHER DIVINE, it would have been spared the disastrous presidencies of George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump and all the damage and division they have inflicted.

FATHER writes:

“Likewise with Government similar reforms in outmoded customs must be made. When the colonies became the United States of America, it was necessary, at that time of limited methods of communication, to delegate electorates and to have an electoral college that would cast the final votes. But now in this day when voting machines are in use in almost every poll and could be installed everywhere, even with transmission wires that could register every vote automatically in any central place in the United States, and with instantaneous communication available through radio, it is time we revised and modernized the equipment of government to facilitate a true democratic election.

“This is only one of the necessary reforms that must come and must be made in the mechanics of Government to insure justice and to keep pace with the advances of science. If we do not do so, this Government will become as ineffective in reaching the needs of the people as religions have become, because of the unwillingness of the leaders and teachers in the churches and the so-called representatives of GOD, to advance in the knowledge and understanding of the scientific development of creation according to the Plan and Purpose of GOD.”

There are at least 50,000 letters from FATHER DIVINE on file in FATHER DIVINE’s Library and Museum at Woodmont, which are being digitized and cataloged so that these precious, world-guiding Words of GOD will be preserved and accessible to others in perpetuity. The vast majority of these letters are file carbon copies. Below is a pdf of the file carbon copy of FATHER’s June 6, 1945 letter to Miss Betz.

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Historic FDIPMM Website Restored

Peace. You may have noticed that the historic Peace Mission website created in the 1990s and hosted for years by a small local provider at libertynet.org, has disappeared from the internet. It won’t be coming back at that address, which was sold by the owner of the company and no longer has anything to do with the Peace Mission.

We are working on a major new website appropriate to all the advances in web and multimedia technology that have been made over the decades, but like the old one, it is a very big job involving thousands of pages of material. The new website will not be available for at least one year.

In the meantime, the original material is archived here at http://peacemission.info/fdipmm. While it is seriously outdated in appearance and functionality and is difficult to map or navigate, it is full of important material and we wish to keep it available to readers. Click the link in this paragraph or the image below, which is also permanently duplicated in the sidebar to your right.

We Will Always Remember: June 19, 1960

In this clip, Mr. Joseph N. Pilgrim debuts his inspiration “We Will Always Remember the Day,” on June 29, 1960 at the Holy Communion Banquet at Woodmont. This song has since become a Peace Mission classic. It commemorates an event 10 days before; Secular Father’s Day is celebrated in the Peace Mission as “Crusaders’ Day,” set apart to honor the Brothers’ fraternal order, and on the day memorialized in this song, FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE delighted the assembly by appearing in Their Crusader and Rosebud uniforms.

Sweet Angel DIVINE: Images of our Holy MOTHER

A silent slideshow presentation of many images of MOTHER DIVINE, originally prepared for observances following Her Transcendence on March 4, 2017. The Holy Day commemorating the Event reminds us to “March Forth!” in aspiration of FATHER’s Mind and Spirit. MOTHER DIVINE is the Perfectly Victorious Christ-Like Sample and Example for all humanity.

“And MOTHER DIVINE, as She is known to be, shall be called Blessed by all nations of the earth. …So then I say… the Virginity and the Virtue of MOTHER DIVINE, it is to be revered and admired. Not only so, but to be visualized and reproduced and materialized; for that which She has brought to fruition is your privilege to be partakers of the same, for as She said, “Love is not confined nor bound to a personality, it is not confined nor bound to an individuality.” I am teaching and have taught MY Spotless Virgin Bride how to transcend personality and individuality and revel in the glorious liberty of the reality of GOD ALMIGHTY, with victory over all materialization and over all mortality. I often think of how some have said, “What is going to become of you all when FATHER DIVINE goes?” Since I am Omnipresent and Ever-Present, I have nowhere to go.”

~FATHER DIVINE, 29 March, 1951~

Woodmont on Channel 21 Public Access Television

Here’s a recent, well done short video produced for Radnor Stuido 21 Public Access TV by someone who attended the annual Woodmont Trek held last Saturday (February 16, 2019).

NOTE: the questions raised by the visitor at the beginning are not in fact, as he asserts, without answers. Firstly, Woodmont was not purchased by a single wealthy Follower and donated to FATHER DIVINE. Woodmont was purchased collectively by Palace Mission Church and has since then always been collective Church property. FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE held no significant Personal property. The Peace Mission was built as a democratic cooperative comprised of six Church organizations (each of which once had many Extensions). Today, three of those six Churches remain operational. As always, each of them is governed in all practical, administrative matters by a democratically elected Board of Officers and Trustees, which for each of the three include standard offices of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer. These Officers are elected by Church Members on an annual basis. The Churches’ operating budgets today are a legacy of past prudence, and when one considers the fact that the Peace Mission operated hundreds of successful businesses and owned or still owns prime real estate, there is really no “mystery” about funding. It was and remains true that the Peace Mission does not solicit or accept donations. Followers do not experience FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE as an absence, but as an Eternal Presence, and within a democratic economic cooperative governed by THEIR Mind and Spirit, there is no need for clergy or embodied spiritual leaders. The Peace Mission is egalitarian and does not recognize clergy. As it always was, the Peace Mission is truly a democracy under GOD, FATHER DIVINE. This Teaching has always proclaimed the EVER-PRESENCE and UNIVERSAL DIRECT ACCESSIBILITY of GOD, Who is the Source of All Guidance and the Answer to Every Problem.

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