Take Your Burdens to the Lord

Our FATHER'S Message given in
Day Star Baptist Church, New York City, N.Y., Monday, May 23, 1932

(After singing the song, "Take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there", FATHER spoke as follows:)

Take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there. Aren't you glad? Now there are many verses to that song and I did not repeat the verses because I did not want to get it out of tune and I knew that if I repeated the verses, it would have further got out of adjustment, but the great point of view is that you can take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there.

Now as far as your heart is concerned, the song says, "Come, guilty sinner, in whose breast a thousand thoughts revolve." The Word says,

'I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.'

I was talking to some parties this morning quite early in proportion to the time I turned in last night, and I was saying to them that so often -- and I heard a party say it the other day -- it was hard for a preacher to confess his sins to GOD. Then I said to them,

'It is harder for GOD to save a god or gods than to save all the sinners in the world.'

It is hard for GOD to save even an ordinary preacher but when you come in contact with gods, why, it is harder to save gods and they are living in sin, living in materialism, living in mortality and living in debauchery of all kinds every day. They will not come to ME that they might have Life. They would rather die in their sins. But a heart and a mind like unto those that testified recently, those that think they are great sinners, those that think they are the least of the least and the worst of the worst; when you come like that, why, then you are a fit subject to make preparation for the Kingdom of GOD.

When you are self-righteous, when you are Holy -- CHRIST did not come to save anybody that was Holy anyway. Aren't you glad? And I AM sure He did not come to save gods, for GOD is saved always. HE didn't have to be saved. When a sinner -- when one feels as a wretch undone -- when one, I say, that feels as though he is a wretch undone, then he makes his mental and spiritual contact, when he is delivered from that sin, when he finds that CHRIST, the Heavenly Lamb, has taken all his sins away -- the sacrifice of a nobler Name and richer Blood than that of male cows, pigeons and goats that were offered up as a living sacrifice -- when he finds that out, then he can say, "How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ears! It soothes his sorrow, heals his wounds and dries away his tears." It breaks the power of cancerous sin and sets the prisoner free. Imputedly you see His Blood, better known in the spiritual realm of spiritual understanding as Love. His Love falls over them. Now aren't you glad? Now you feel good now, don't you? Now don't you feel nice? You feel just as though you can hardly sit on the seat. It is lovely, isn't it? Isn't it sweet? Oh, it is Wonderful!

So I just wanted to say that this mighty Love, this mighty Love, it is Wonderful! It is Wonderful! I was moved to say a word or two at that particular juncture when the speakers said about their hearts were so black that they did not want to bring ME their hearts. Well, I don't want you to bring ME your righteousness! I don't want your righteousness! Your righteousness can take care of itself. If it is gold, you can throw your pure gold ring or anything, you can throw it on the dump or any place and let it stay out there for years and it will be the same. Your righteousness, if you have the Righteousness of GOD, will take care of itself and it will also take care of you if you have the Righteousness of GOD. But if you are a sinner, GOD will then need you to cleanse you from your sins and free you from all condemnation.

For this cause and for this purpose came I into the world -- Aren't you glad? -- to stop you and free you from those things that you believe and your conscience told you were wrong. To set you free from the claim of condemnation; for if you are led by the Spirit of GOD as it is brought into expression through this ministry, you are freed from condemnation and I came to bring you into your conscious realization of the Presence of GOD and of His Majesty, His Divine Inspirations or Inspiration as being called inspirations whilst it is imparted to many. Then when you are led by this Inspiration, the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD, you will find that it will satisfy your every desire. You will find that it will free you from all condemnation and it will set the prisoner free, physically, mentally and spiritually. It will set you free in every way. It will free your conscience. It will free you in body from every kind of ailment and complaint. It will free you from all misery and from all woe. Aren't you glad?

This Word and this Truth and the Spirit of this Truth will set you free and free indeed and it will guide you into all Truth; for HE puts it through the mouth of the Apostle:

'There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in CHRIST JESUS, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit; for the Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS has made us free from the law of sin and death.'

Now aren't you glad? Do you not feel free? I know you feel FREE, for the Spirit of Life that is in CHRIST JESUS here has made you free and he that the Son sets free is free indeed. Sets you free, I say, free in every kind of way, every imaginable way, free from all barriers, free of lacks, free of wants, free from all limitations, free from all denominations, free from all races, free from all creeds, free from all colors and free from every abomination that spells condemnation. Then you are free indeed. Aren't you glad? You have never been free until you are freed from those conditions. As long as you think you are some abomination, some denomination, religious denomination, political denomination, social denomination, family denomination, or any kind of denomination, you are not free; for he that the Son sets free is free indeed. Free from every limitation, hence from all denomination and hence free from all the condemnation that denomination brings and you can walk and talk with GOD. Aren't you glad?

All denomination is not just religious denomination. The majority of you are intelligent people and realize that it is not just religious denomination but it is every denomination that brings division and limitation. Now that is what is the matter with this world. That is the lost chord that was lost until GOD condescended to put on a Body. CHRIST was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. They had barred Him out through creeds and denominations, divisions and all kinds of abominations; for

'where there is division there is strife";

therefore the CHRIST could not be brought to fruition in their lives. That is the only reason why you have not seen CHRIST before. Aren't you glad? He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. They could not see Him because they were not pure in heart!

The Word says,

'Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see GOD.'

I AM just purifying humanity's understanding now, which is the heart. I AM just beginning to purify your understanding, I say, which is your heart, so you can see GOD. Aren't you glad? Your understanding has been in a chaotic condition. It was a matter of impossibility to see GOD if you had a thousand eyes. If your eye be single your whole body is full of light, but if your eye be evil, your whole body is full of darkness. In that verse there in that quotation, "If your eye be evil", it could have said, if your eye be double or if your eyes be many. In short I could have said, if you have many eyes and look in many different directions, your whole body is full of darkness, but in short I said, "If your eye be evil." It is evil to see and to look in many different directions and not keep your eye on the bright and Morning Star, the Lily of the Valley, and not keep your eye single to see the oneThing and the one Thing alone, having a single eye instead of having thousands of different eyes. Your whole body now is full of darkness as the collective body of mankind. It is full of darkness.

But I have come to light up your understanding. I came to light up your Understanding and it is written in a composition of modern old times,

'The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin, but the light of the world is Jesus.'

Aren't you glad? I know you are glad because you realize that the Light has come and that is why humanity generally is rising and is shining for the Glory of GOD has risen upon them. Then I said,

'You that think your hearts are black, if you take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there, wheresoever you believe HE is, you will be free.'

Leave them there! Take your burdens to the LORD, I say, and leave them there! If you trust and do not doubt, HE will surely bring you out. Take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there. Aren't you glad? Leave them there! The song says,

'If this world from you withhold, of its silver and its gold, don't forget that GOD from Heaven answers prayer. Just remember from His Word how HE feeds the little bird. Just take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there.'

I know you feel lovely. I know you feel lovely, because this mighty Love is emanating from the Heart of GOD. Aren't you glad? I said this mighty Love; not only this mighty Love but this Almighty Love, this Omnipotent Love, this Love that transcends all limitations. It is Infinite. This Love, I say, that is emanating from the Heart of GOD. It is saturating your very body and your soul. It is making you new. It is making you over new right now. This mighty healing Love! Truly might have one said,

'There is a Fountain open in the House of David for all sin",

and it is this mighty Love. One writer said, "There is a fountain filled with blood", but transposedly I say, "There is a fountain filled with Love." This Mighty Love! It is drawn from Immanuel's Heart! It is drawn from GOD in man! GOD IMMANUEL'S HEART! Aren't you glad?

Remember that these words and poems and songs and praises, they have been praising figuratively. They were figurative when they said,

'There is a fountain filled with Blood.'

That was only a symbol of the Fountain that is filled with Love. In reality, when you read of the blood that saved you and sanctifies you, the interpretation of that blood is Life and Love; so I can say in reality, you all taste this Love, don't you? There is a Fountain filled with Love. It is drawn from Immanuel's Heart. "Sinners plunged beneath this flood, lose all your guilt and shame."

I don't care how black your sin may be if you have not sinned against the Holy Ghost. I want to say that there is a Lawyer that can plead your case and get you out of any sin you ever did if you did not sin against the Holy Ghost. Any sin you ever did! Your Counselor can plead your case and free you from all condemnation and set the prisoner free from every condemnation and from every sin that you have ever committed unless you have sinned against the Holy Ghost, and that is not in the Constitution; for there is a clause in the Constitution -- there is a clause in the Constitution of the Kingdom of GOD, I say, wherein that HE can free every person from all of their sins unless they have sinned against the Holy Ghost. Aren't you glad?

Aren't you glad there is a Counselor somewhere and somehow, here and now, willing and ready to free you from all sin and from all condemnation; for he that the Son sets free, is free indeed! Now we rejoice because we know that it is true and as I have been saying, with or without a Body, the Gospel of CHRIST, of it I AM not ashamed, for it is all Power in this Mighty Name. It brings Peace out of confusion, Health out of sickness and brings Life out of death; for they that are dead and are in the grave shall hear this Voice and they that hear shall live. It is Wonderful! Have you ever HEARD until you saw ME? "My sheep hear My Voice and a stranger they will not follow."

'Out of His Mouth goes a two-edged sword high on the mountain top." Jeremiah spoke of it, "And out of His Mouth came fire to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.'

Now aren't you glad? I know you feel good for this mighty Love is emanating from the Heart of GOD and is saturating your body and your soul and has filled you and thrilled you, therefore we will declare in the melody as in a transposed melody, "My soul has something that is new." You never were so happy before, were you? Such a mighty healing Love because this Love consumes everything adverse. Aren't you glad?

Therefore I say,

'Fear not little flock, it is your FATHER'S good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.'

Firstly, the Kingdom of GOD is not meat and drink; firstly the Kingdom of GOD is invisible. It cometh not with observation, but secondly the Kingdom of GOD is brought into materialization in your conscious realization and it will be no more imagination. It is Wonderful! It cometh not by observation, I say, and I said that it is firstly not meat and drink but it is righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost.

When you seek righteousness, when you seek peace, when you seek the Holy Ghost and shall have found it, then and there and here and now, you have made preparation for the materialization of your conscious realization. You are conscious that you have the Kingdom of GOD within. You are conscious that you have this righteousness, joy and peace in the Holy Ghost but as was in the beginning with the Word, that Word was with GOD firstly invisible and you found that this Word was GOD. After you found out that it was GOD, it came a little nearer to your conscious realization. It began to materialize itself and the Word was made flesh. The Kingdom of you are visible, the Kingdom shall also be visible; by HIM that liveth forever and forever. The Kingdom of GOD is not material until it has been made material or materialized by the Materializer and HE that materializes things.

I came to materialize the things that you thought not to be. Once upon a time you were invisible but today you are visible and because you are visible, the Kingdom shall also be visible; for it is written,

'As HE is, so are we in this present world.'

We are now materializing the things that we realize and bringing into conscious realization the materialization of things that have been hid from generations. That is where we are. The Kingdom of GOD on earth here and now, for it has been declared that the Kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdoms of our GOD and His CHRIST and HE shall reign forever and ever. Aren't you glad?

Now we are rejoicing because we know that these are facts and figures that are too stout to be denied and we do not care anything about what the mortal mind says. What can mortal man or mortal mind do? Aren't you glad? What do I care about what mortality says? What do I care about what it is trying to do? There is no power given except that which comes from the Body of GOD! Tell mortality wheresoever it is, there is NO POWER GIVEN EXCEPT THAT WHICH COMES FROM THE BODY OF GOD! It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful! GOD is reigning now! It is Wonderful! I SAY GOD IS REIGNING NOW! GOD IS REIGNING! The kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our GOD and HE shall reign forever and ever and EVER! The Mouth of the LORD hath spoken it! Aren't you glad?

Aren't you glad that you elected your GOD, your LORD and your KING! "HE rules the world with Truth and Grace and makes the Nations prove the Glory of His Righteousness and the wonders of His Love." I know you are happy because you have GOD on your side! Not only on your side but GOD is in you! Once upon a time HE dwelt with you but now HE is in you and you are in HIM. Wheresoever HE is, you are. Wheresoever you are, GOD is your GOD! GOD is your King! GOD is your FATHER and you never had another!

'Fear not little flock, it is your FATHER'S good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.'

Then I say, take your burdens to the LORD and leave them there. Don't carry any burdens that will cause you to go astray, but march into the City of this Eternal Day! We are marching, we are marching, we are marching, I say; here and now we are marching! Truly might you have heard the Voice crying out, "Swing wide, Golden Gates and let the victors in!" We don't have to get the victory, we have the victory. We don't have to put anything over, it is over now and we are over. We don't have to put anything over, I have put it over! I Have the victory! Aren't you glad? And you have the Victory in yourself, for faith is the Victory that overcometh, or, "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith." This faith has overcome every mortal version of the human mind.

Now you can declare in the language as verifying the language of the Prophet Isaiah in chapter 32:1 and 2:

'Behold a King shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment, and a man shall be as a hiding place.'

Reign too! Reign in Righteousness! And Princes shall rule in judgment and a man is as a hiding place and a covert from the winds and doctrines of men, hiding from the winds and doctrines of men and the spiritual tempests that blow. The winds of trials and tribulations! A man is as a hiding place from such things and will set the prisoner free. Aren't you glad? That is the reason I said,

'Rejoice in the LORD always and again I say rejoice! Make your moderation known unto all men, the LORD is at hand",

here and now and remember that there is no power given any man except that same power which proceeds from the BODY of GOD. It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful! >

Truly might have CHRIST in the Name called Jesus said,

'Come unto Me, all ye ends of the world and be saved.'

Aren't you glad? To realize the Omnipotence, the Omniscience, and the Omnipresence of GOD with all of the fulness of His attributes, here and now, in this Divine Omnipresent Life in which you all live, move and have your being, and you in which CHRIST and GOD lives, moves and has His Being. Then we should rejoice, for it is truly vice versa. In HIM you live, move and have your being and in you HE lives, moves and has His Being. The LORD has never told you to do anything that HE wouldn't do for you.

'Behold, I stand at the door and knock and if any man opens unto ME, I will come in and sup with him and the feast will be an everlasting one.'

Then if you will stand at the door and knock, GOD will open unto you and the feast will be an everlasting one. Then I say, you can rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of great Glory and the Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD will satisfy every good desire.

Now why did you push ME out like that? It is Wonderful! You must have thought I could swim! You push ME out into deep water and if I can't swim I have to swim anyway!

Just now I only rose to give a foundation to those speakers that thought their hearts were so black and give them a happy admittance into the Kingdom of GOD, and you pushed ME out into deep water and if I didn't know how to swim, I had to learn. Although I did say, launch out into the deep and let the shorelines go. Launch out into the deep, out into the Ocean Divine where the full tides flow. I told you to do that and you pushed ME out. As I say, whatsoever I tell anyone else to do, I mean to do that what I tell them to do, and if I told you to do it and you happened to push ME out into the deep anyway, why, it is good for ME!

Now I wish to say another word about what was sung about, "Lift Him up." I recall when that song was composed about twenty or thirty years ago and I transposed that song then, because along about that time they were trying to lift ME up illegally. Illegally then they were trying to lift ME up. Illegally, where now they are trying to lift ME up legally. Then they were trying to lift ME up by mob violence. Aren't you glad? Then I said I did not come to be lifted up from that version of that human mind as it was then. When Jesus said,

'Lift Him up";

JESUS CHRIST said in that body,

'I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.'

He was speaking concerning the crucifixion and death that He must suffer on the cross and that they would lift Him up on the cross and through the death and the suffering, supposedly, of the Body of Jesus, why, all men would be drawn unto Him. I transposed that song in those days and I said, "Do the Will", for I did not come to die this time. Aren't you glad? Then in the place of "Lift Him up", I replaced, "Do the Will, do the Will, while He speaks through eternity. And I, if I will do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me."

There is a phrase in that song; I don't personally know when it was composed but I transposed it. It says,

'Don't exalt the preacher, don't exalt the purse, but preach the Gospel message full and free, and I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.'

Now I said, "Don't exalt the preacher, don't exalt the purse, but preach the Gospel simply full and free, and I, if I do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me." It is not your FATHER'S Will that one of His little ones should perish and you have been taught to pray to,

'Let Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.'

I venture to say that those, My supposed opponents, better known as enemies, are convinced that I AM doing the Will of the LORD in My Home, here, there and everywhere, and I, if I do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me. It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful!

It is true, as was said,

'The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and when Shiloh comes, the gathering of the people shall be unto Him";

and I, if I will do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me, for wheresoever the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together! Wheresoever it is, they shall be gathered. Marvel not that I say unto them that they will come unto Me. Aren't you glad? Now that is not in some way different than what you should be. You are even also as I AM if you will only let it be. Every fertile egg has a chicken in it. If it is not a vegetarian egg it has a chicken in it, but this egg must go through incubating or setting and go through some kind of process and have the right even temperature and have the right process to form and develop the chick. It may get chilled after the chick begins to form. It may not be exactly a rotten egg but it may be chilled and the chick will not hatch out.

I heard churches say before I came out to the public, out into the ecclesiastical world as I stand today expressedly, when from 1914 up until last year sometime I stayed in quietness -- I heard them say that the churches have grown cold; said that were chilled; they had grown cold; then how can they hatch out any Sons of GOD? When the eggs are chilled, how can they hatch out the Sons of GOD? They cannot hatch even if they be good eggs, if they get chilled; they cannot get hatched. But I came on the scene to warm up the churches, and if they will warm up to ME, I will warm up to them. Aren't you glad? The chicks as it seems to be now, are not any more as Jerusalem was in A.D. 33 and 32 when it was declared, "Oh, Jerusalem, oh, Jerusalem, how oft would I have hovered thee as a hen hovers her brood but ye would not!" I feel and I say that the churches have been cold. They are coming unto ME that I may warm them up; that I may incubate them; that I may hover them as a hen hovers her brood; that they may

'offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness as in the days of old, and as in former years.'

Do you not see the eggs beginning to be hovered? The eggs are beginning to be hovered now under the Will of GOD in this great Incubator of Life, these wings of Love. They are beginning to be hovered and I see the eggs beginning to develop and beginning to form into the chick. Aren't you glad? Some beginning to pick their way through! Through the shells of mortal limitations! I see that mortality is being swallowed up into immortality. The egg is coming to conscious life; conscious expression of the Life of GOD as the mother chick. It will soon be in the likeness of the FATHER-MOTHER-GOD. Now aren't you glad? Truly might have one said,

'Behold, what manner of Love the FATHER hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of GOD, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.'

You begin to see now! You begin to see them beginning to come out. They are proclaiming the Name of GOD, the Life of CHRIST. They are beginning to be hovered under the Spirit of Life, the wings of My Love, to be hatched out like unto the Father and Mother chick, GOD your Heavenly FATHER!

'How great and marvelous are Thy Works, oh, GOD, for Great and Holy is Thy Name!'

Aren't you glad?

I know you never tasted of such a Love. It is emanating and it is saturating. It makes you feel new. It makes you feel new! It gets all in your sinews and your joints and you say, "I yield, I yield! I cannot hold it any longer for I know HE is risen in my soul!" Now aren't you glad? You can taste a little taste of this Love can't you? This mighty healing Love that transcends all limitations; yea, it transcends gravitation. The gravitation of the earth has no power over this Love for it is incorruptible, undefiled and fadeth not away. Aren't you glad?

Take these thoughts in, dear ones, and if you can sing that song and remember what I say, it will be Wonderful! Just remember, if you will, "Do the Will"; that is applicable to you as well as I; and

'If I will do the Will of the LORD, I will draw all men unto Me.'

Now aren't you glad? You know you are happy! You never had such a happiness before, did you? Aren't you glad that you can part with the mortal world and have been filled with the Love of GOD instead of the world! Now GOD has taken away the first that HE may establish the second and that you can be a burning light; for as I said, I came to warm up the churches and incubate them, or, in other words, hover them as a hen hovers her brood. >

It is written,

'Our GOD is a consuming fire",

and not only that, but,

'GOD makes His ministering spirits Angels, and His ministers flames of fire.'

Here and now and here and there in this Omnipresent Life, I AM gathering the good wheat in the garner and the chaff I AM burning up with unquenchable fire. We are getting this Glorious Church which is called the Kingdom. Some of the writers saw it and caught the reflection, seeing it as

'A Glorious Church without spot or wrinkle.'

Aren't you glad? They saw this! They saw this! They saw these being purged of all fleshly affections, of worldly pleasures, and everything like that; all lusts and passions, and saw them coming up through great tribulation, washing their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. If they could only have seen it as it is, they could have said, "It is a glorious Kingdom of GOD." It is a glorious Kingdom of GOD without spot or wrinkle. It is without spot and it is without wrinkle because all materialism has been purged out. All of it has been purged out and all of those passions, fancies, tendencies and mortal pleasures; lusts and pleasures of the world that the Churches have striven so hard to get you not to do, in their way, but could not do it. Aren't you glad?

You know, so many times the preacher would tell you to stay away from the bar rooms and speakeasies and all such as that, but they could not keep you away, could they? But I have something that can keep you away! You don't care to go, do you? It satisfies your every desire and it sets you free from all wants. Then and there and here and now, you can declare, even as the Psalmist did when GOD spoke through the mouth called David and in the name called David,

'The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.'

You don't want a thing because you are satisfied in GOD! Hallelujah to the Lamb! You are satisfied in GOD! Hallelujah to the Lamb! Aren't you satisfied? CHRIST is rich and all you need and your every hunger, your Savior satisfies, doesn't HE? Satisfies you in all the fulness and takes away all lacks and wants. Aren't you glad?

You can be free of all undesirable conditions, of dissatisfying thoughts and tendencies, absolutely free! You don't even feel like going to the movies tonight, do you? It is Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful! You don't feel like going to the Coney Island tonight, do you? I have Something and I AM Something that satisfies your every desire. Truly might the Apostle have said,

'Show us the Father and it sufficeth us.'

As the song in this last time said,

'I shall be satisfied when I see Him, satisfied when I see Him face to face, and tell the story, saved by Grace, I shall be satisfied.'

Now aren't you glad? This Mighty Holy Name! The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD, your Heavenly FATHER, with the conviction of your observation of both It and HIM, it has satisfied your every desire. It has set the prisoner free from all limitations, from lacks and wants; even from all adverse conditions and even from all gravitation. With the Spirit of the Consciousness you can ascend from place to place, and eventually your body will receive that ascending Spirit. I thank you.

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The Testimony of Brother Walter Lanyon

"What Went Ye Out for to See - A Man ?"

Can you imagine the excitement that reigned in the little town of Samaria when the woman returned from the well and said:

"Come and see a man, which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ ?"

"Come ! see a man who is doing the works of the Master; is healing the sick, opening the eyes of the blind, supplying food, shelter and raiment freely; has no new creed, no new system, or church to found. Yes, all this right here in our present day; in this materialistic age; right on the very doorstep of the hub of the universe - New York."

And so they came in great waves; came to see, to hear and to partake. A thousand gradations of human thought rushed in to "have a look." A thousand gradations of human thought rushed away to place its interpretation on what it had experienced.

Hundreds daily sat down to a banquet that would have caused the average Continental chef endless planning and trouble. Banquets followed one after the other without the slightest stir or confusion. The only confusion that existed in the household was that which was brought there by the onlookers. Miracle followed miracle, and all wondered.

"Everyman" had on a thousand robes - he was playing every part. There was the little "Everyman" who at once understood everything that Father said, and spent the time setting everybody right. There was the cunning "Everyman" who lay low and watched, and checked against everything to see if she could explain that it would have happened anyway. She was protecting the weak sisters and brothers, who might be misled. There must have been some such a person at the arm of Jesus when he was feeding the multitudes, peeping down his sleeves to see if there were not flour and water, hidden there out of which he made the bread he was giving the hungry.

There was "Everyman" who had proved the power for herself, and knew Whereof she spoke, who went out to see what it was all about; hadn't she been able to demonstrate the power .... hadn't she been able to always make the "street-car" be at the corner the moment she arrived ?

Aren't we funny ? Surely you are going to say yes ! to that ? We are eternally looking for the way out of the human dilemma, and the moment anything comes along that looks as though it were a possible way of escape, we immediately want to make it conform to the laws of the human mind. We are all the same in this respect. We are "Everyman," and it is not with any malice or criticism that I list the various specimens that followed the exciting invitation, "Come and see a man." Most of us go out with exactly that idea in mind - we "Come to see the MAN."

How very disappointing. The man may look like anything. He may belong to any race - he may not conform to any of the idea., you have had in mind. I suppose a Chinaman would like to see a Confucius, and Hindu would be looking for a Buddha, and so on. When we go out to see a MAN We usually see a MAN, and we disobey the teaching of the Master "What went ye out for to see? A man?"

The looms of human conversation, imagination, exaggeration, ran back and forth - words, words, words - repeated, enlarged, stretched beyond all recognition, flew back and forth, weaving a flimsy fabric of fantasy, as a great army of talkers started in the age-old habit of building the Tower of Babel. All talking the same language at first, but presently no two of them speaking in the same tongue. And the only note of harmony that kept breaking through the whole mass of human talk was the startling and glorious word of the Father," It is WONDERFUL."

And so the Tower fell, and great was the fall thereof.

"I AM the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord."

But it seemed at first as though "The zeal of thine house has eaten me up." The confusion and excitement of having seen a sign or having heard of someone who had seen sign, ate up the "omer of Manna", and one was left alone in the desert of confusion; alone in a wilderness of opinions and beliefs.

And only the glorious word remained, "It is WONDERFUL."

The first great wave broke on the sands , and left behind it a rare collection of things from the deep.

"There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walketh not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

And the first and glorious word Sounded a hundred per cent like Jesus' words: "Blessings, blessings, blessings, so many you cannot count them, to you, to me, to everybody ; To all those who have misunderstood and misinterpreted the Words Spoken here. It is wonderful . Nothing has happened but my Love has allowed."

Day after day the Father sat and dispensed the glorious knowledge of the Kingdom as Here and Now, and spoke of the power of the I AM, and time after time he explained that the I AM was Universal and Infinite, and that all had the right to enjoy it.

"It is not necessary that you see Me personally, for I AM here, I AM there, I AM everywhere. I AM a present help. I do not give absent treatments, for I A M everywhere.

You do not need to follow Me personally, but if you are going to go away from here, claiming that God is everywhere, and then follow after another Man or teaching, I say it is better for you to follow Me."

Regardless of how many times Father made it plain that the I AM was Universal - here, there and everywhere, it seemed to be necessary to make this explanation every time the I AM was mentioned, or else "Everyman" took offense and reiterated the age-old saying, "He made himself as God."

Why should He not make himself as God, if He were made by God and moulded out of the substance of God, in the image and likeness of God ? Is there anything strange in that? Yes, there is the strange hypnotism of the human thought that is struggling to free itself, and at the same time trying to lug into the new heaven all its former baggage.

"Only believe and thou shalt be saved" is entirely too simple. The wise "Everyman" cannot bow to such simplicity.

And so the tales of "Everyman" ran wild.

When Father therefore said : " I will keep your souls, and even if your bodies leave Me I shall hold your souls and you will have to return to Me, "Everyman" got afraid - he heard something personal and imagined that he was being held against his will. He did not stop for a moment to realize that the Voice through the Ages had spoken the same words. Your Soul has always been with God, and your body has been wandering through the desert of human thinking. What is so strange about the fact that that which is born of Spirit is Spirit, and dwells eternally with the Spirit, and what is so strange in the statement, and the promise that the Prodigal Everyman" shall return to his Father's house?

The great power of keeping the personal separate from the Impersonal was not used, and "Everyman" actually imagined that Father wanted to hold them against their will. Had they stopped for one moment to ask themselves WHY ? they would have seen how ridiculous this piece of imagination was. Father Divine, who asked nothing of any man, and gave all, could fill any place he entered with people who were willing and ready to follow after the glorious Impersonal teaching of the Christ. He had no need to hold on to a few souls. Isn't it wonderful when you think of it. He asked nothing of anybody and gave all. Doesn't it sound like the wonderful way of Jesus. He asked nothing and offered all.

"Everyman" came with the story that all their life they had wanted to have the time to learn of this glorious truth, but the question of earning a daily living was always in the way, and Father so graciously and beautifully said to these, "Come, eat and drink without price." Just what they had they wanted? But was this what they had wanted? Yes, with reservations. No sooner had they entered into this new order of things than the discipline and order that was necessary began to bother them. "I think it should be done this way or that way or some other way from what it is being done." Aren't we funny? You and I ? Did we ever hear the word "Patience must have her perfect work " - yes, we have heard it, but before it has time to work we are going to help it along with a few personal ideas. And so "Everyman" began to find all sorts of faults and conditions that he would change.

One little "Everyman," who had no-one or nothing to be separated from, complained that Father was separating people ! that he advocated leaving all relations, etc. "Let the dead bury their dead, follow thou Me," is but the slightest request of the Master, whom this little "Everyman" believed in emphatically. It was but a reiteration of the teaching of Jesus, when he said that a man having seen the Light would leave, family, houses, lands, all and follow after that Light. Yet somehow that did not count - Jesus was after all an historical character, and his teaching was to be taken with reservations.

Yes, '"Everyman" is in reality afraid of the very thing he is seeking, because it begins to set aside all the cherished beliefs of his existence. Yet why is it we reiterate the words of Jesus over and over: "' The works that I do ye shall do also and even greater." Do you begin to see that he who travels alone travels far ? Isn't it wonderful ?

People who went to Father's and enjoyed free board and room for months, came away saying that he had placed a curse upon them, and that he was breaking up homes and families, and this was especially strange since these very persons had neither home nor family to be broken up. When the human mind cannot have its way, it will try anything to get into the limelight again. But all the time Father smiled pleasantly and said, "Bless them." What a blessing it must have been!

Hundreds of people partook of the wonderful banquets at Father's freely, partook of the instructions freely, partook of lodging freely, and then imagined that they were being coerced into following after Father. And all the time Father gave freely, and showed them that which he said he would show, "the miracle of the loaves and the fishes." And those that had eyes saw and understood, and knew that at last the Truth had come within the vision of our day.

The very people who glory in the stories of Daniel in the Lion's Den, and the disciples in prison, were the first to broadcast, with "childlike" simplicity and hidden wiseness, Father Divine is in jail, I can not understand it." Yet these very souls imagine that they would have been the faithful attendants, waiting outside the prison-house to serve the disciples. Do you suppose there was any more worldly honour attached to going to jail then, than now ?

"Nothing has happened but my love allows," said Father, as he submitted to the human law, in order that he could give a further concrete proof of the power to those who needed a further sign.

The proof was given, and in spite of all the efforts of the human mind, the doors sprang open and another legend had become a fact. Isn't it wonderful.

"Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee Light."

A little"Everyman, who was especially fond of saying "All things are possible to God," came to me saying"Yes, but how could Father produce money - it would not be lawful." And then with the wisdom of human ages twinkling in his eye, he added: "You see, there would be the serial number of the notes to be taken care of." You see there would always be serial numbers to be taken care of for that human state of consciousness, and yet he kept on repeating, "Yes, all things are possible to God " - but evidently there were some things that were not possible. Do you hear, do you see ? You who READ this line? "I have a way you know not of." Has man, then, found something that God cannot do ? You answer for yourself.

When the old King in the Bible was told that he must be born again, he answered the same thing: "Yes, but what about the serial number" only he said, "Impossible, I cannot go through that re-borning process." And so we find something else that God cannot do - and if we do not watch out, we will find that God cannot do anything, except what we can conceive of as possible for him to do. Isn't it wonderful ?

The very idea of being born again would upset all the human laws about birth. Yea, that is just what the coming into contact with the Divine Law does, it upsets the human law and its way of thinking. Aren't you glad ? "I shall overturn and overturn and overturn until He comes whose place it is to rule." What are you going to do about it ? I think you had better be glad that there is something that can upset the old false standards and beliefs.

And so a lot of funny little souls who are like chameleons, in that they take on others thoughts, imagined they had been hurt by Father Divine, and people who had not been invited, or asked to come to his home, seemed to think they had missed the chance of going, and should accordingly be recompensed for having decided to go. And a great law was shown forth, and many were caught in the trap of not only accepting evil as real, but also assisting in passing on that which had been merely hear-say. It must have been difficult, after trying with such faithfulness to make evil real, to say in prayer "there is no evil." Watch - Watch - Watch"

"Untouched in any way by all the talk," Father's work grew by leaps and bounds. New impetus having been given to it by the glorious proof of the Power. The weak sisters had fallen by the way, and made the ground ready for the souls that were prepared for the meat. Many a babe on a milk diet found the meat too strong, and retired to cut his teeth on something less solid. Isn't it wonderful ?

"They laid every charge against him," sounds like Scriptural language, but it is twentieth century journalism. "Everyman" came after a lifetime of mis-thinking - stumbling and falling on the way, seeking only the loaves and fishes, and when he found none, went stumbling away again, charging his broken-down condition to the teachings of Father.

One little "Everyman" told me she had established a Retreat, where the broken-down souls that had been hurt and torn by Father could find refuge and peace - yes, a place where the driftwood that had been broken on the sea of life might float in. I wonder what will be done with some of the funny little shells and bits that float on the tide from One beach to another ?

I suppose Jesus was blamed for the murder of all the babies that Herod caused to be destroyed, since the announcement of his birth was the cause of their death ? Isn't it wonderful. You and "Everyman " - are beginning to see a little, to recognize the falseness of the character with which we have been associated. We profess the Christ and go into ecstasies over His miracles, and yet we are so often caught trying to "slip up on Him," as it were.

Beloved ! you can "slip up on Him" any time, and you will not find Him wanting - the glorious Impersonal Power that has come to us again has come through the avenue that was most fit and ready to express it. It is wonderful ?

The sport of the human mind is to make a Jesus and then crucify him. And the strange part about those who partake in the crucifixion is that they always come away from their ignoble work exclaiming that they are the ones that have been hurt.

One "Everyman," who ran about saying that she "had given up everything to go to Father's, and now she had nothing," had asked me to pray for her, three months before, in order that she would not be dispossessed of her apartment.

Another "Everyman," who ran about exploiting Father at one time, later ran about saying in her most sanctimonious tones: "I hope no one is going to ask me about Father Divine " - letting those who heard draw their own conclusions.

The Romans had finally had their holiday, and after the noise and smoke of human opinion had cleared away, they found that the "sacrifice" had escaped them, and that the glorious echo of the Voice was still in evidence, and the undying word, "It is WONDERFUL," still echoing in the land.

And so the command, "What went ye out for to see, a man or a principle ?" was again asked and the answer of the masses was "A principle." And those who have been looking for a principle, have found a principle that is again showing forth the works that it came to show forth, and making it gloriously possible for us to enter into the New Day of realization. Kipling has said it was the, disciples and followers of Jesus that crucified him, and not the mad mob as was supposed And so it is - but what must be the feeling of those who imagined they were destroying a Messiah, to find that He had moved "untouched" through their hands ? And what must have been the amazement to find that He was still blessing them and breaking the bread for them. It is wonderful !

"What went ye out to see, a man or principle ?"

The glorious revelations of Father that have attracted even greater and greater masses of people than before, are put in the simple impersonal language that a child could understand, but the "Everyman" who wishes to distort their meaning will find the same old human equation in evidence.

Father is teaching the Here and Now of the Spiritual Universe. He is teaching the possibility of instantaneously entering into the Heritage of the Son of the Living God. He is teaching the blessings unlimited. He is teaching the one-ness of Jesus-Christ, the word made flesh. He is teaching the abundance and fullness of all that is needful - without price. He is teaching. It Is Wonderful.

"The abundance of the fullness of the consciousness of Good - no space is vacant of the fullness thereof."

"You must live in accordance with the teachings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John."

"You must call no man your Father."

"You must be willing to accept your good here and now, as a reality and as a natural part of your universe."

"You must enter into the joys of the Sons of God."

"You must claim your right and press your claim as the Son of the Living God."

"You must be glad, for you are in a NEW DAY."

"Must accept the Presence of the Living God, and know that He lives, breathes, moves and has His being in you."

It is wonderful ! wonderful ! wonderful ! And so are the glorious possibilities of your contacting Him, Here, There, Everywhere; at every place and every time. "Ask and ye shall receive" has again been made true - you will learn the glorious "open sesame" of "Thank you, Father," because you are arriving at the point where you are transcending the human argument and reason, and are able to accept the inspired word of God as True. All you can do, then, is to say" Thank you, Father," because before you even voice the idea, the answer is - and by the glorious revelation that we are now receiving we can prove this for ourselves. It is wonderful that "Everyman" is beginning to go out to see the Principle, and he is coming home filled and thrilled with the fulfillment of the Promises. It is wonderful ! wonderful ! wonderful !

The new way is opening before you - you are beginning to accept the words of the Master as True and without reservations. You are beginning to step out on the Promises of God. It is wonderful. "Be still and know" sets aside the human thinking, and makes you free to receive the laws which no human mind has yet stated - the laws of attainment and accomplishment which are unconditioned and free. Such is the gift that Father Divine has brought to us in the only Impersonal way since Jesus brought it. It is wonderful ! wonderful ! wonderful !

One "Everyman" asked another, "Well, if He does not want money, nor followers, and is not seeking to build a new movement, nor a church, what does He want ?" And the other answered: "He wants you to know your God-given heritage and He wants you to accept His glorious offer of Freedom, for He has said "You are not another but the same one - What I AM you are." Could anything be more glorious, more free or more Wonderful?

(The quoted Italics are the words of Father Divine, in whom I recognize a Door of Revelation. When he said to me : "No man should call me Father who sees me as a man" I knew that I had found a thoroughfare which would lead somewhere other than to unfulfilled Promises.--W.C.L.)

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Father Divine indicates that a Universalist Faith is Coming

Father Divine speaks:

Someone brought up this morning the subject of the Pope's recent appeal for one religion and one church and his demand that the Protestant churches return to the Church of Rome. FATHER said, 'It has been brought to MY notice to do that, and there are some that believe it can be done- -a universal religion and a universal language to be taught in all of the schools, and there are some that believe if I will do certain things and establish it legally, there will be a universal language taught in all the schools that will be a real language wheresoever you may be, and all will learn this language which will be set apart as an international language and there will be an international religion. It has been spoken of and it has been put before ME for consideration, and naturally someone will speak of it and someone will desire to bring it about, but it cannot be Catholic or Mohammedan, or could it be especially Christendom or any special religion, for it will cover the whole universe--an international religion and an international language and an international people.

"That is a step towards bringing all into the unity of spirit and mind and body as one. The cancellation of these things has been accomplished by the Spirit from a spiritual point of view and under MY Personal jurisdiction there is one language, there is one people, there is one religion, from a spiritual point of view, but it is being thought upon to be recognized and legalized. As I said years back, I AM working cancellation, I AM canceling the nationalities though they be many, and I have and AM canceling the races, though they be supposedly five; I have canceled them down to the two races and from the two races to the one race which was and it is the human race. And now I AM canceling the human race and recreating in the cancellation of the human race, the angelic race.

"Then there will be no more human race, nor the Adamic nature that has existed in the bodies of the children of men, but the angelic nature, the Divine nature transmuted from the individual expression or individual expressions of GOD to individuals in the form of man. And it thereby reflects and manifests the angelic nature, bringing them into subjection to the Divine Mind, and hence we will have the angelic race reproduced from and materialized from the spiritual realm of the unseen and the visibilization and materialization of this expression in the flesh. And here and now we have begun to unfold and it will be brought before the international courts to be recognized and enforced from a legal standpoint of view. They will find it after awhile, the same as when MY Message was transmuted through Mr. Lanyon nearly a year ago, and through his fame and through MY Name in him, the message of the Kingdom of GOD here and now and of this universal brotherhood of man and Fatherhood of GOD is being conveyed to the Orthodox Church and the Catholics. They accepted that, many of them, but through the lack of perfect love and in spirit and also in authority, they rose up with spirit of revolt and with the spirit of violence through lack of love but caught a glimpse of their liberty, their freedom, their rights to be free, and they stood to free themselves from the king as I have conveyed the message of deliverance through the name of Mr. Lanyon and by the fame of the Spirit of the CHRIST Consciousness. And in Spain they rose up to dethrone the king to drive him out as soon as I conveyed MY Message through the fame of Mr. Lanyon and through the name of the CHRIST Consciousness and they rose up to dethrone the king and drive him out. And as MY Spirit turned in a different direction towards Italy, even before the body arrived, the Spirit had arrived in Italy to dethrone the Pope."

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Our Father Speaks on the Importance of PRESENCE

FATHER'S Message given in
the Auditorium of the
Philadelphia Hotel
764-772 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
July 15, 1942 A.D.F.D.

This beautiful Message stresses the vast importance of recognizing GOD'S Actual Presence daily and hourly and getting rid of the old doctrine which has been taught and preached for centuries that GOD is absent from the children of men and that HE rules and reigns in a Kingdom far beyond the sun, moon and stars.

In this present world dilemma the Presence of GOD is sorely needed by every nation, language, tongue and people, and vainly their prayers are sent to an imaginary GOD in an imaginary heaven. But oh, how glorious it is to realize that GOD Almighty is on earth among men in a beautiful Holy Body and millions and millions have been made cognizant of this great news and glad tidings. Millions are daily being lifted from lacks, wants and limitations; their bodies healed; their minds cleansed; their souls renewed, by calling on the Precious Holy Name of FATHER DIVINE, the Redeemer and the Savior of the universe!

Men and women of the political, social, religious, industrial, professional and all other worlds of expression are coming from far and near, telling of the marvelous things that have been accomplished for them, simply by calling on that Holy Name -- rejoicing as they declare to the world at large that they have found GOD Almighty! Thus it was on this occasion that as usual a large number of visiting friends were present and accepted of the invitation extended them to speak. Several of their speeches are transcribed herein for your benefit and enjoyment.

Thank YOU, FATHER Dear!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is recorded the song sung by the audience just before FATHER arose to speak.)

'I know the LORD has come, I know the LORD has come.
Glory, Glory Hallelujah! I know the LORD has come!'

FATHER speaks as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! That little composition is much in harmony and in keeping with the Mission of Jesus of nineteen hundred years ago. Nineteen hundred years it has been a living reality to those who can perceive it and sincerely believe it. Aren't you glad!

It is written:

'They shall call His Name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, GOD with us!'

That was the Mission of the coming of CHRIST in the Person of Jesus: to bring into the realization of the children of men GOD'S Actual Presence, so that they might realize GOD is no longer in that imaginary heaven according to the suppositions of men, but GOD Himself is with them.

Now this is not strange. Because of the Mission of CHRIST you should not feel as though it is strange in this Gospel country and Bible land, for you have been taught from your early existence, GOD is Ever Present, but not so distinctly and so vividly as the teaching of the present day, bearing witness to GOD'S Presence with and without a Person.

Then I say, when you sing those assertions, you have the witness in yourself. If you sing it sincerely, if you sing it in all sincerity GOD has truly come to you for what said Malachi concerning the mystery?

'The LORD Whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His Temple!'

That recognition, that realization would solve every problem; it would adjust matters satisfactorily for you if you could but know once and forever, GOD is actually Present!

I retrace your thoughts back, those of you who have heard and know ME, to one of My original Compositions as a motto for your consideration, in keeping with that particular quotation:

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD
is the Source of all supply and it will satisfy every Good Desire!'

As the light shines more and more and you observe the Truth concerning the mystery by what you are presently experiencing, you can say with ME, ". . . it is the SOURCE of all supply; it can, it will and it actually does satisfy every Good Desire!"

As the light dispels darkness, even so GOD'S Presence dispels and eradicates undesirable conditions. For this cause it is essential to keep GOD in consciousness according to the Scripture in the fulfillment of that prediction, and have your religious conviction according to the standard of that particular composition.

The LORD has truly come and is with men and always has been but they did not know it. But since calling your attention to the original composition and prediction of the coming of CHRIST:

'They shall call His Name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, GOD with us!'

If the preachers of the Gospel and representatives of the cloth could have, and would have taught this simple Truth since nineteen hundred years ago, GOD would have been REAL among you! GOD would not have placed by preaching and by teaching, some place in the sky geographically, neither far away from the children of men, and would not have given the "other fellow" a chance to come in. But because men teach the absence of GOD and preach the absence of GOD and not the Presence of GOD, the absence of GOD has been made real to the children of men, for GOD hides His Face from them. They live in misery, they live in sin, they live in disappointment and they live in failure because they disrecognize GOD'S Actual Presence to adjust matters satisfactorily for them.

But this Truth to you is real! It is real according to your conviction because you realize and have seen the actual demonstration of GOD'S Actual Presence in evidence in your experience, therefore, it is a reality; it is made Real, Tangible and Practical, for the Word has been made FLESH and dwells among you and you are convinced in reality GOD has been made Tangible and Practical!

To the average religious person GOD is not more than a supposition, but to those of you whose minds have been lifted, GOD to you is a REALITY and you recognize GOD'S Presence even if you do not see HIM. By believing it so vividly, GOD was obliged to materialize it and reproduce it and Personify it so that you might realize the Truth concerning the mystery!

The earth was real even though void, but to the conscious mentality that is, it would not have been real to the conscious mentality of men when that consciousness would have come, had it not been made material; tangibilated, materialized and personified!

I would not be real as a Person to you if you did not know the Truth concerning the mystery, if I had not brought this Message and explained it so explicitly.

The earth was mentally and spiritually real in GOD'S Recognition and Realization, but in the conscious mentality that was to come the earth would not have been real to them, because it was essential for GOD to materialize the earth and cause the earth to be Tangible as matter, as something that could be discerned and made a reality, because the conscious mentality does not observe realities saving as they are tangibilated, materialized and consciously realized.

But oh, how glorious it was to observe the mystery in the making yea, in the creation, making ready, in a way of speaking, for the making of the things that were very desirable. GOD said,

'Let dry land appear!'

It seems like I AM obliged to take you back to the beginning of the creation to bring GOD into your conscious recognition and into your realization, for the children of men do not realize GOD unless you bring them back where HE was in the beginning, as in your personal religious experience. Many times a good many of you are obliged to go back to Conviction's Wharf. Aren't you glad! When I take you back down there where your dungeons shook, why, then you are getting right for the making of the contact with your religious career and travel on from there to here. Aren't you glad! Going back to Conviction's Wharf in your religious and spiritual infancy, when your dungeons shook and your chains fell off in the old-fashioned way of getting religion!

There was a great spiritual awakening in the original system of the common custom of getting converted, as being termed getting religion. A great change in those days took place and you felt good. It was something more than mortal to command and you actually felt as though it was a mighty Hand that had reached low and lifted you; a good many of you felt it. It was a Supernatural Touch according to your conviction and according to the original and former teaching of the religion under which you had been christened. Aren't you glad!

But that is the mystery; because under whatsoever religious conviction or religious creed you are christened, you speak mentally and spiritually after that respective religious conviction, and you get an answer to your sincere prayer according to that birth under which you have been mentally and spiritually born, to that degree. Therefore, it is a blessing to observe the mystery. But bringing you into a more perfect manner of expression, it is a glorious privilege to realize GOD is actually Present; GOD is no longer merely a supposition.

You have imagined many things. Those things you once imagined were not real in reality, saving as they were made tangible and practical and you left that world of imagination in consideration and brought it into your conscious religious conviction by the realization of something better in evidence in your experience. GOD healed your physical body. GOD clothed you and fed you when you were hungry. Then it was bringing that religious conviction into a more recognized state of consciousness where you could realize GOD was not merely surmised, GOD was not just a supposition but a Living Reality!

So, live in this Recognition and lo, I will be with you; and as you think, so will it be, for

'According to your faith so be it unto thee!'

I did not arise at this instance to speak at length, I merely arose especially to give our visiting friends a chance to speak. I delight in meeting and having visiting friends of those who are Christians and those who are non-Christians to participate in these meetings. You are welcome to come if you care to come, and you are welcome to speak and sing and be led by the Spirit within if you are so led to do it. Therefore, those of our visiting friends as ministers of the Gospel, teachers and preachers of religion and professors and teachers and lecturers of social service and other works of righteousness, you are welcome to speak. Anything you wish to say as giving cooperative information such as you have according to your conviction, you are welcome to speak; but do not feel as though you must necessarily speak according to ours. You are welcome to be governed by your highest intuition and we should be governed by ours.

Let this Spirit and this Mind be in you that was also in CHRIST JESUS, and the development and the unfoldment of that particular Mind of which I AM now speaking will eventually be brought to fruition within you as well as in others, for it is written,

'Be ye therefore perfect even as your FATHER which is in heaven is perfect!'

It is your privilege to do it. Now I need not say more at this particular instance, but I AM refraining from speaking to give our visiting friends a chance to speak. If they desire an introduction according to custom, we are pleased to introduce you whensoever you give us the necessary information. I thank you.

(As a card was passed up to FATHER, our loving Savior arose again to say:)

PEACE EVERYONE! We have with us the Reverend Doctor Griffin. If Doctor Griffin would like to have a word to say he is welcome to come forward to the platform and speak, if he is led to do so. I thank you.

(At this instance Reverend Griffin, Assistant Pastor of the Umbria Baptist Church, came forward and spoke as follows:)

Beloved: It is a wonderful pleasure for me to have the privilege for the first time, meeting FATHER DIVINE, at which time I was seeing HIM in New York on the street and I was not able to get close by HIM because HE was in a parade. The greatest of all was when I heard such Gospel that HE was preaching. There is no other Gospel under the sun that can stop it! That is the onliest Gospel there was in the world! Any time the Truth is told it is Gospel. It is really surprising to me for some things that HE did say, because you hear things that are not actually the truth, but when I came and heard it for my own self, then I can witness that as preaching the Gospel.

HE is worth every word that can be said about HIM! I could have sat and listened to HIM for all night; and I believe HE preaches the same Gospel I preach. I tell the people that they must be born again. They must be born again!

I could say more but I am so filled from the very, very fine way I was introduced to you until I hardly know what to say; but I wish it would be that I could come back some other time and explain myself to you just the way I do feel.

I know, this thing -- you know, religion, you can't tell it all at once anyway. It takes some time to tell it. But I can say I want to live so GOD can use me at all times; and when we live so righteous that GOD can use us, then you can never lose anything!

If I should speak no more ever in your presence, you love FATHER DIVINE! I believe myself, HE is wonderful; I always longed to see HIM Personally. Many miracles have been done by your FATHER DIVINE; many miracles have been done, and whether you know it or not, but the majority of the world is trying to get what HE got. No longer than today, I don't know why, I did not know I was going to be here tonight. There was a "w---" gentleman talking to me. He said to me, he said, "What do you think of FATHER DIVINE?" What do I think of FATHER DIVINE? I said, "Well, I think HE is about the wonderfullest Man' that ever was." He said, "I think so myself." He said, "If the whole world could get what HE has," he said, "what would the world be?" He said, "It would be a heaven right here, wouldn't it?" And so he said it is so strange until I put my hand on my head and I said, "I believe you are right." And on and on we talked.

And tonight my main reason for being down in this vicinity is because there is a quartette I used to sing with in Norfolk, Virginia, that happened to be at the Tindley's Temple, and I came down to hear them sing. I used to broadcast with them over station WTAR, and by getting here I saw this car and I knew I had seen this car in the parade in New York. I said, "Oh, my Lord, the One that I have been wanting to see here a long time is here now and I will go over." And I thank you for this little space you have allowed me to speak. I could say more. May GOD bless you and may you ever pray that I may be blessed too, that HE can get the glory out of my life and that I may ever be the man GOD wants to use in this glorious day. I thank you!

As Reverend Griffin concluded, FATHER arose to speak again as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are, in the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose to contagionize others with this which we are now experiencing, for we are going on!

If any of our other visiting friends in our midst desire to have a word to say, you are welcome to do so. Do not feel obligated to speak as we speak, neither as the last speaker, Doctor Griffin, but feel free to speak according to your own religious conviction. If it happens to be Mine, it is all right; if it does not happen to be Mine, why, it is all right too. Paul said:

'Let every man be persuaded by his own opinion.'

I say in this modern age:

'Let each person be governed by his highest intuition and move volitionally. Be conscientious and sincere and he will bring forth the CHRIST within to fruition that will give him the victory!'

Remember, Paul said on one occasion:

'The Law of the Spirit of Life that was in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death.'

The same Law will free you because it is impersonal. Aren't you glad! To each and everybody it is applicable. You can apply it to your life. By bringing your body into subjection it will give you the selfsame emancipation that Paul was speaking of when he said:

The Law of the Spirit of Life in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death!'

Now, I say, be governed by your highest intuition and be not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST! Some people are ashamed to speak, only in their own congregations, but I rejoice and much appreciate the last speaker because he is not ashamed of the Gospel of CHRIST. I believe he realizes this is a Power because this shall sweep the universe. It shall envelop the world, and all nations, languages, tongues and people shall eventually be universal believers! I mean, and I believe the same thing just like you and I believe in the Actual Presence of GOD, that shall satisfy every good desire! I thank you.

(At this point another gentleman arose volitionally to speak as follows:)

Peace: I want to say that I traveled from coast to coast, and since I have been here I have tried to get up and speak in some of FATHER'S places. Now I want to say here that I see that FATHER DIVINE is the onliest Real GOD there is. You can say what you want to say. I have been right there in Youngstown, Ohio, in the Baptist Church, and they charge you ten cents when you go inside the church and then watch over you while you go out. But this is no gambling den. There is no gambling den in FATHER'S place, but every church you go to, it is a gambling den!

I do believe that FATHER DIVINE is GOD Almighty. I don't understand very much but as far as I can see, HE is GOD. I believe HE is GOD and I am going to follow HIM!

It was after this speech that FATHER arose to speak once more as follows:

PEACE EVERYONE! This is not a systematized and an organized class meeting as we usually have in our Methodist Churches, but I move, I speak volitionally to endorse the last speaker; and at times we move volitionally in the actuated words of expression, doing just what others may do by custom, but when the Spirit does it, it is just the same as if it was done by custom.

Class leaders lead the class and instruct the speakers. I have arisen to endorse the speaker in his religious conviction, in his determination to live the Life and keep the Faith and do that which is Just and Right in the act of serving GOD according to his own religious conviction.

If there are any other visiting friends desire to have a word to say you are welcome to do so. If you contact ME harmoniously the reaction of the harmonious touch will bring you your desired results. I thank you.

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A Message for American Thanksgiving

Praise the LORD, Hallelujah, praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, Hallelujah, praise the LORD!
When you believed ME, then you received it,
For I have brought you the Victory!
Oh, once you were sickly, now you are healthy,
For I have brought your health to thee.
When you believed ME, then you received it,
For I have brought you the Victory!
Oh, once you were dead, but now you are living,
For I have brought your life to thee.
When you believed ME, then you received it,

For I have brought you the Victory!

Our Father's Message Given

February 3, 1934 A.D.F.D
(Taken from World Echo)

PEACE, EVERYONE!

Good Health, Good Will and Good Appetite! These desirable attributes to you I bring, the same as I have been doing. It is indeed wonderful! That little song was composed many years ago, but I renewed the declaration in this particular expression, affirming the affirmation that has been made concerning the deliverance and healing of this child, "When you believed ME, then you received it, for I have brought you the Victory!"

While sitting thinking, MY Thought ran to the great significance of speaking and thinking GOD into action. It is indeed wonderful! When you think GOD into action, HE will come into display automatically! It is indeed wonderful! Thinking vividly and believing equivalently, the very Same Spirit and Mind of your thinking according to your thoughts, with faith and unshaken confidence, will bring into outer expression the desirable qualities of HIM of Whom you are thinking. It is indeed wonderful!

Then I say, your thoughts and words have been materialized. Remember, everything that you see and hear was created by the thinking or by the thoughts of GOD! You cannot think them into existence, for they are existing, but by your rightful thinking on the positive condition, it will tend to bring into materialization that which you are thinking. Aren't you glad! When you believed ME, though you were sickly, you have been made healthy! When you were weakly, you have been made strong by your Faith in HIM that liveth forever! Concentrating upon the strength of the strong, you tend to produce it and bring it into your experiences by vividly and enthusiastically thinking or concentrating upon it. It is indeed wonderful!

It is such a privilege, dear ones, to know that there is a difference between matter and true spirituality, although the two may be the same. When true spirituality shall have been brought into materialization, it may apparently be the same as matter in materiality. It is indeed wonderful! There is a difference between Spirit and matter, I say. Although the Spirit may be materialized and brought into outer expression, you, by your thinking on the Spirit in materialization, you can receive a blessing, and by thinking of the flesh in materialization, you can receive a cursing! It is indeed wonderful!

Just take for consideration: now you her the Name, FATHER, being rehearsed and repeated daily. One may be speaking of a father in mortality and you may be speaking of the FATHERSHIP Degree of Spiritual understanding that is brought into expression in true spirituality and into materialization in the very same likeness. One may be going from door to door begging bread, and the FATHERSHIP Degree of expression having been brought into materialization, can be feeding thousands and thousands daily! Do you not see the difference between visualizing the negative and the positive, although the two may apparently be the same? It is wonderful!

The very name, father, a man may call that very identical name spelled with the same identical letters with which you spell the Name, FATHER, when you are speaking concerning ME, and yet that person or persons they are calling father or fathers, may be living in mortal consciousness and that mortal consciousness or concept will bring into outer expression the characteristics of itself.

Then I say, it is a blessing to visualize the perfect picture and that is why I stress so vividly and enthusiastically the great essential of visualizing the Spirit and not observing the BODY. It is not for MY Sake, dear ones, but for your sakes, for nothing less than CHRIST and nothing more than GOD in the visible expression and the materialization of Bodily Form, can save you from the storm! I do not fear, but humanly speaking, it could have been said, for fear that you might observe ME as a Person and observe someone else that is living in mortal consciousness that would lead you to degradation, for this cause I Came and for this purpose I stand, stressing the great significance of observing the Spirit and not any man!

Although within Myself I may realize, even as you say you do, you have declared the actuality and visible expression of MY Personal activities to be nothing less than the Personification of the Infinite ONE! Nevertheless, for your highest good I have stressed the great significance of visualizing the Perfect Picture and stressing the Spirit in particular. I say it and stress it, not for MY Sake or because of your being misled by following ME as a Person, but to show you and to teach you a lesson, that you might be governed by the Spirit and not follow any other person! Aren't you glad!

By your sincere Faith in ME, as though it was ME, it did heal you of all of your diseases! It has brought you the Victory over adverse conditions! It has given you consolation in the time of trouble! It has bound up the brokenhearted! It has given the weary rest, and you have declared, "It is Manna to the hungry soul, and to the weary, rest!" Now don't say it unless you mean it! ("We mean it, Lord!" shouted the adoring masses.) It is indeed wonderful! If you continue to say it and say it in your mind and in your throat, after a while it g e t s down in your lungs and after a while it gets in your heart, then you are fixed! You can make out pretty well until it gets in the heart! You know it is true! That is the changing place. That is where something else starts! Now don't say it unless you do mean it! You keep on saying it and after a while you will Feel it, and if it gets in your heart in real good fashion, you will be it!

But I AM rejoicing to see practically every one of you having been physically healed of some ailment! Where nothing else could help, it was Love that found you, and this Love is so fascinating, it attracts your attention and calls you from the world of sin and causes your minds to turn to HIM that liveth forever within and not accept of any other one, but to willingly lean on the Everlasting Arms!

Then I say, when you believed ME, then you received it, for I have brought you the Victory! CHRIST, in the Name of Faith, is the Victory for each and every individual. If you will but have it in the express Name of Faith, it will manifest itself in you as the Victory! Aren't you glad! This little child, is an open and outward expression manifested, that each and every person might see, yea, that even the most material might see and understand, GOD is not a GOD afar off, but GOD is a GOD at hand! Through this recognition you can see sighs and tears and sickness and diseases, adverse and undesirable conditions disappearing! You can see all of the afflictions that are in your systems being eradicated and negation dispelling at the recognition of GOD'S Presence by living Evangelical. It is indeed wonderful!

Now don't you love ME? ("Yes, we love You, God Almighty!" shouted the assembly.) Well, if you don't want it to be true, don't keep saying it, for it gets in your heart. That is where something else starts!

These limitless blessings are flowing free for everyone! Live in this recognition and as you can plainly see, it is being made manifest on the material plane. Look at this beautiful dining room with all comforts and conveniences and each and every desirable blessing imaginable, where you could not have even the thought of coming into possession of these limitless blessings just a year or so ago! It is wonderful! I have made manifest these mysteries to this degree, which is only a slight sketch of a reflection of a percent of a percent of a percent of a percent of a fraction of a grain of what I will do this year!

Just look at this beautiful extension of our assemblies, as being termed an extension of the Kingdom, and the comforts and conveniences and all accommodations, and just think of how easy it is for you! Think of living in these beautiful places with all of the Joy and Peace and Happiness, with Love, Success and Prosperity and every desirable blessing so freely given by your great Creator! Now if you don't mean it, don't say it! Don't sanction it unless you mean it, for if you continue to sanction it, after a while you will mean it!

But it is beautiful, is it not, to observe the opening of these beautiful assemblies and the limitless blessings flowing so freely-- of food and of raiment, of houses and shelter and each and every desirable blessing? You can plainly see that if it were only for the material side of life, it would be worth while, would it not? ("Yes, it would!" came the sanction.) Then I say, when you believed ME, then you received it, for I have brought you the Victory! Victory over sorrow! Victory over trouble and all adverse and undesirable conditions, for GOD is the Eradicator and the Dispeller of all such, but the Expresser and Manifester of the desirable, the positive, the pure and the true! You don't need to think for yourselves, humanly speaking, but by relaxing your conscious mentalities by willingly submitting or presenting yourselves as living sacrifices, it will work automatically. The very Spirit of GOD'S Presence will work automatically and you will not have to try to make it work! It is wonderful!

When someone said they called on MY Name and received a blessing, the thought came forth within MY consideration, brought forth within as a little composition, though I did not unfold it openly, the SPIRIT of MY Mind and MY Name are sufficient to heal all of your diseases, for the Name of GOD is Infinite and when you have some faith in the Name of HIM in Whom you trust, it will materially manifest the thing that you are desiring, if you have faith in the actual materialization of this Name! The majority of the people do not get answers to their prayers on the material plane, for they do not have faith in the materialization of this great Name. They may get an answer on the psychic plane, but they may never get there to enjoy the blessings!

If you only recognize GOD and HIS Blessings from a spiritual point of view, you can only receive same from that angle, but by the recognition of the actual materialization of the Spirit of the Presence of GOD, things are materialized for one and for all! Openly you can see it! Just look at these beautiful material things which all came through and by this great Name, by the conscious conviction and actual realization of the natural materialization of HIM that liveth forever and forever! Every desirable blessing for the spirit, soul and body, I can and will bring into materialization and manifest both it and them on the material plane! I cannot make this too stressful, for that is the outward expression of the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven! It must come to the material state of expression to be made manifest on earth!

If I would allow these limitless blessings to stay in the invisible, only on the spiritual or psychic planes, it would be a matter of impossibility for the Kingdom of GOD to come! But every desirable blessing imaginable from the mental or psychic and spiritual planes, I have called them down into materialization! For this purpose and for this cause I came! It is wonderful!

GOD is the MASTER of Omnipotency and the Controller of mankind's destiny! Not only in and on the psychic and spiritual planes, but on the material plane upon which we live! Do you not see that it is a wonderful blessing? ("Yes, God Almighty!" came the response.) Truly might one have said, "Joy to the world, for the Lord has come! Let Earth receive her KING!" GOD is calling the Spiritual things down to the material plane, for HE alone shall have Dominion over them! Aren't you glad!

Those may be hard sayings to the mortal mind or minds of men that are not willing to surrender to HIM, but I have come to make it plain; that is the only way the Kingdom was to come, through and by individuals recognizing the actual materialization of GOD' S Own Son, materializing Himself and materializing everything else, bringing it out of the invisible into the visible and bringing it out of the spiritual into the natural, as it may be termed. You know you used to love GOD in Heaven, did you not? You thought you did! But all of your love has been withdrawn from the invisible state of expression and it has been placed on the material plane through which your blessings come.

These may be hard sayings, but yet they are true. Don't you feel better now? That is why so many in mortal consciousness, visualizing and living in the invisible spiritual realm, they become as spooks and almost like ghosts, walking around here on earth! You can plainly see it! The people that live in that spiritual state of expression and do not recognize the actual materialization of the great Creator, you can see them get pale and all out of life! They come to be just like an unwatered garden! Now notice it for yourselves. You see them going around in the spirit world all the time, never getting out of the spiritual world and they dry up!

A merry heart doeth good, for it is a medicine,
but a broken spirit dries the bones.

And you are broken spirited when part of your spirit has gone into the invisible and a part of it is here! You have broken it, sending some of it to one place and some to another! But we are so glad

HE was in the world and the world was made by HIM,
but the world knew HIM not.
But as many as received HIM,
to them gave HE power to become the Sons of GOD.

For

The word was made flesh and dwelt among us,
and we beheld his glory.

It is a great blessing to know, Spiritual things can be made fleshly and fleshly things can be made Spiritual! For this cause we are rejoicing, and that is why we have brought with us the Kingdom of Heaven, manifesting it into materialization on the material plane, and here we are, eating and drinking material things right here in the Kingdom of Heaven! Now why fret or worry? Old things have passed away; behold, I make all things new! And if you will live in this recognition, as I AM, so can you be, and sighing and sorrows will pass away, for you will be happy day by day. I thank you.

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