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Richest and most inexplicable cultist in the U. S. is Major J. ("Father") Divine, "God" to many a blackamoor and moody white in New York's Harlem and elsewhere. Slick little Father Divine lives well, maintains a Rolls-Royce, flies about in an airplane, provides abundant low-price meals to his followers. But he keeps no books, has never paid an income tax. Leaving it to his followers to assert blandly, that he "manifests" money out of nothing, the black "God" has seemed to take poker-faced delight in evading questions about his income. Since he has a good...
...take the flag back to the boat. Later, on the premises of the "Promised Land" where Father Divine was watching a few of his followers swim in a pool whose outhouses were marked for SISTERS and BROTHERS, the police .asked for the flag, got only the little cultist's soft reply: "I am bringing peace to everyone, even if they don't want...
...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...
...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...