Word: cultist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of Harlem Negroes and by hundreds of whites throughout the U. S. Rev. Major J. Divine is regarded as nothing less than God. Other observers think of small, dusky "Father" Divine, born George Baker somewhere in the South, as an amiable cultist who does genuinely useful welfare work with large sums of money whose source remains as obscure as the biography of Father Divine himself. In the interest of religious history, smallish, baldish Dr. Robert Ernest Hume, professor of the History of Religions at Union Theological Seminary, set out one Sunday last month to get the Divine record straight...
Fanatics. Eighteen disciples of Major Divine, Negro religious cultist whom disciples call "God," could not cease their ecstasy after his New York City "Garden of Eating" sessions. Yelping "It's wonderful," they hippety-hopped out of doors where police arrested them. When Psychiatrists Lauretta Bender & Zuleika Yarrel examined the prisoners, they found that 16 were mad. Considered possibly sane was a woman who refused to accept a widow's pension because "God will provide...
...Those whose stakes in California are greatest hold themselves personally responsible to their class throughout the nation to smash Upton Sinclair. They hate him as a muckraker. They hate him as a Socialist. They hate him as an I. W. W. sympathizer. They hate him as a "free love" cultist. They hate him as a Single Taxer. They hate him as an atheist. And last week they hated him most of all because he was bent on becoming a confiscationalist. How It Started. More than a year ago Upton Sinclair sat down in his study to write a pamphlet called...
...friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because he was hurt. He is not an atheist; he is disgusted by commercialized religion. He is "not a "free-love"' cultist; he is an ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark him for the archetype of old-fashioned Socialist. Yet the Socialists have outgrown him and Grade A radicals believe that...
While their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang...