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High-Decibel Hymnfests. The only property that Father Divine ever held in his own name was an eight-room house in Sayville, Long Island, where he settled in 1919 to minister to his growing congregation. During one highdecibel hymnfest there in 1931, the cops moved in and arrested Father Divine and 80 worshipers, some of them white. God Himself pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the noisy singing, and Judge Lewis J. Smith sentenced him to jail. Four days later, when Judge Smith fell dead at 50 of a heart attack, Father Divine sighed, "I hated...
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