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...your fondest imagination I have brought into actuality the REALITY OF GOD ALMIGHTY-Therefore, I say, handle ME and feel ME and see that a spirit has not flesh and bones!" A New York City warrant for his arrest-he is in arrears on a judgment to one Mrs. Verinda Brown-restricts his Harlem Heaven visits to Sundays, when warrants cannot be served...
...years ago the earthly heaven of that earthly little black "god," the Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, was enriched by two new angels, Verinda and Thomas Brown. As working Negroes go-they were cook & butler in Forest Hills, L. I.-the Browns were well heeled. Soon after they visited Father Divine's heaven at Sayville, L. I., confirming their angelic state by taking the names Rebecca Grace and Onward Universe, they forked out their savings, nearly $1,000. Onward Universe liked the porkchop heaven so well that he stayed put, while Rebecca Grace worked to send Father...
...little black Father's well-heeled heavens an altercation had begun to sputter like a fish fry. What started it was a love feast ten long years ago. In 1929 Mrs. Verinda Brown had sat down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...
...Divine restaurants, a girl who had taken the name of "Humility Consolation," reported that all receipts were paid to Father Divine, that on many a night the clinking of coin could be heard in the black man's bedroom. Best documented affidavit was that of "Rebecca Grace" (Mrs. Verinda Brown), who with her husband gave the cause $5,317, of which $4,051 was paid direct to the Father. Affirmed Mrs. Brown in Lawyer Lesselbaum's language...
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