THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936.
Excursion Trip To A Negro Heaven
Father Divine Leads His Flock In "Arks" To The Promised Land
SIMPLE JOYS OF HARLEM'S CREED
This is the story of one of the most amazing pilgrim- ages of recent years. It is told just as it happened.
By C.V.R. THOMPSON
New York, Sept. 12. NOT a hundred miles from New York's Harlem is a thousand-acre farm, at first glance just like any other
farm.
But thousands of America's negroes--cooks, servants, butlers, bottle-washers, porters, lift-operators-think the brownish-greenish pastures of that farm are the Kingdom of Heaven.
Father Divine, old-jobman] from down south, who, born", all over again, announced he was God, and then decided he was "Dean of the Universe," is the proprietor of Heaven, purchased} by thousands of dollars contri- buted to his peace missions.
negro
There, in Kingston, New York, hej is building "mansions"--h eyes, anyway-to receive those ne~} groes who tire good enough to cha~; joy heaven upon earth.
Falier Diving. who 1143 been holding out the promised Iond to his) flock for a long time, decided 10 hold his first pilgrimage.
was told
At 3 a.m., Harlem
in every night-club, every store, every house, to begin to foregather.
Bo, In a frenzy of honest but Jysterical faith, we form into a procession. Every one has a ban- jo, ukulele, or guitar, and they're playing spirituals and hymns on these instruments of jazz.
They begin stamping dra the streels, waving banners, and shoul- ing, "Peace, peace. Fother Divine is God," until dawn..
By that time we are on the wai terfront. Four negro ticket-sellers hop about the pier crying:-
"Peace, peace," and "But your tickets, Tide by the Father's side to the promised land. One dollar a ficket."
Two "arks" are moored to the dock. They are really two old paddle steamers, bul Father Divine prefers to call them arks.
Lorry loads of water melons, cases of soda pop, huge baskels of chicken ure stowed aboard.
ABOUT THE "ARKS"
At six o'clock there is a hush among the crowd. Father Divine Is coming.
"Here comes the body,” chants the
"Peace, crowd.
brother, 'prace, peace. Peace is wonderful, Here comes the body."
well-
Father Divine, swarthy, fed, bald and beaming, gets out of his taxi-cab, and walks
115m
towards
"arks" with his bodyguard, Including his "white angel," whom they call Sister Fair Augel.
We pllo on board the "arks." We have a chance to sudy this strange gospeller, Father Divine, os he stands in a light grey suit, with honey-coloured tle and Ove- dollar gold piece fashioned into ile pin.
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He seems to like all the worship that Eves on around him. Ic smiles satisfedly as a negro falls on his knees In front of him. Father Divine and his "angels"
PLUMED HORSEMEN
lead the flock ushore. A troop of negro horsemen lenci Us toward "Heaven."
Behind marches "Heaven's band." Every known musical in- strument is Included. Behind the band march the female "angels,'
Suddenly there is a great cry of Joy. The promised tand lies be- fore us with its stately trees, fis while farmhouse, its neat barns, lis rolling, almost green, pastures. We pass through the pearly gates, which are renily white, and Father Divine stops us for a moment to cry, "l'ence, peace is wonderful!"
JUST LIKE A REAL WAR
Among the many Spanish women who have become nurses during the civli war, is the wife of the Socialiel statesman, Senor Quiroga who form- We all fall on our Inces and prayed a ministry last May. The picture shows Mrs. Quiroga reading to a wounded soldier in Madrid,
BACK TO EARTH
of
Then we have pled plates chicken and potatoes and a bottle of soda-pin But we must not smoke.
Tabaero and drinking forbidden.
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"All day long we gambol about the "prontard land," swim in its lake with Father Divine demons- trating strokes, all in the fields.
Nights falls 0721 the Promised Lund as we bid it goodbye to return 10 our "Arks" and And trouble awaiting us,
A husky
American legionnaire
had complained to the police about our flag bearing the words "Puther Divine Is God,"
The police want it, and search the "Ark" for it.
Weary, but jubilant,
Unfrocked Cleric Repents His Lapse
A CLERGYMAN, AGED
45, WAS FOUND GUILTY OF A MORAL LAPSE.
He was unfrocked
we arrive back in New York to disband after A final prayer meeting and get "ready to return to our jobs in kit-years ago,
chens, warehouses, and factories.
And so we come back to earth.
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three.
To-day he la Hiving in a Church anxious Army hostel, repentant,
to serve the Church again..
His sole income is 285. Od, per week; his room is shared with two. other men.
Now he has found an ally In the Rev. Herbert Williams, vicar of Teddington, Middlesex. "I met him through on advertise- ment," Mr. Williams sald.
JOB AS VERGER
"He had advertised for a job as a verger. I engaged him for three weeks while my own verger was on holiday.
"Itis care appealed to me, I belleve in him implicitly. I am sure if he were given a chance he could make good.
"He is a refined, well read man with a University education."
Mr. Williams said he had helped a great many clergymen who had lupsed. The most difficult to help were those who had taken to drink.
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ADVENTURE SHIP TO FIGHT PLAGUE
Relief Of
Rat-Infested
Island Planned
TRISTAN DA CUNHA, loneliest outpost of the British
Empire which is reported to be harassed by a rath plague, is to be relieved by Mr. Adrian Seligman, who is beginning a world-voyage in his barquentine Cap Pilar this month.
The island, 1,500 miles south-west of Capetown, is rarely visited by a ship more than once a year, and even then arrangements have to be made to send liners off their courses to take provisions or relieve the missionary.
On one occasion a ship devinted from her route with supplies but could not land them owing to the heavy weather and the anxious; people on shore had to watch her steaming away with them.
Mr. Seligman is not bound to any heavy and it was essential to take | schedule" and is determined not to some professional sallóra,
the islanders. It the disappoint weather is too rough to land when his vessel arrives he will wait until conditions permit it.
"I have room for two extra men, but they must be able to put up £100. I should like a marine biologist to come. There will be excellent oppor- tunities for this work and I cannot Apparently the islanders have rụn imagine any young selentist being out of rat poison and other equip-able to make a world-voyage more ment for dealing with this pest which cheaply. resulted from a shipwreck some years
ago.
CAN TAKE 50 TONS STORES
Cap Pilar will carry a big supply and Mr. Selleman has informed the Colonial Office that he will gladly carry any other cargo they may de- cide to send to deal with the plague.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel has approached the Post Once on the question of a special mail for the island, and Mr, Seligman has ugreed to carry this.
Should occasion arise, Cap Pilar will be able to take 50 tons of stores to Triestan
The British freighter formula, which called at the island on her way to Durban, reported the rat plague, and it has been stated that the island-
ers may find it necessary to settle
cisewhere.
There is now an opportunity for
two more adventurous young men to Join Cap Pilar.
Mr. Seligman said:
"Originally I advertised for young men to join the crew and pay £100 cach towards expenses, for the two yeurs voyage. I had over 300 ap- plications. All those have selected are excellent fellows, but I found that some could not pay £100.
"Nevertheless they had such exeel- lent qualifications that I could not leave them behind.
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CREW "A FINE LOT"
"The rest of the crew are now in St. Malo and they are all working together very happily and enthusins- tically. They are a fine lot. Co- mander Joseph Stenhouse, D.S.O., who commanded the Aurora which relieved Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914
of the Te
Antarcile EXTvery 11, and of a
search ship
"Q" ship during the war, bas caug over voluntarily to assist us and is enormously popular with everyone. We are very proud to have such a distinguished man with us.”
Cap Pilor salls to London carly next month to take in stores before beginning her 30,000 mile journey.
LINCOLN LOST
LAST LAWSUIT
Springfeld, 111, Sept. 20. Recently discovered court records here have disclosed that Abraham Lincoln lost his last case (18 Pracusing lawyer,
The records were uncovered in the clerk's room of the federal bull- ding during an inventory of federal records that was being taken recently.
They show that Lincoln's last law case was led on June 22, 1880. In that cuse Lincoln and his partner, "A large number of other splendid in an ejectment proceeding.
Herndon, defended William Ellsworth
men with no money asked to come, but I had to keep within a reasonable. The sult asking for the ejectment estimate of expenditure. If this were of Ellsworth from his premises waa a profit-making voyage the question won by the plaintiff, the court hold- would not arise. The cost is verying that in addition to paying dam- ages of one cent, Ellsworth also re-
inquish the land involved.
Colman Wed
“WILL BE ANY DAY NOW”
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Hollywood, Sept. 10. DONALD COLMAN, famous screen lover, supposedly Hollywood's No. 1 woman-hater, has astonished the film colony by announcing that he will wed "any day now."
. But who his bride will be he is keeping a close accret. Rumour is now busy linking his name with several women. Ruth Chatterton has been one of Colman's nearest friends. And at the moment Ruth is not married. But a name most coupled with his is that of Elizabeth, Allan-but she is happily married to
a London lawyer.
But it is most likely, one of Col- man's intimate friends told me to- day, that the famous star will marry someone quite outside the sphere of the cinema.
For many years, after his first and unhappy marriage crashed, Colman lived alone with only a valet-in a mountain shack outside Hollywood. His women friends were few--and
they were no more than friends.
A study of the records for the period between 1855 and 1000 showed that Lincoln had a total of 69 law cases on Ble during that period.
The records are believed to be the
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They are copies of originals which were sent to Chicago and later destroyed in the Chleago fire of 1871, according to court attaches.
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Originally filed in the circuit court, the cases wero transferred to the district court in 1011, when it was established, and consequently federal property.
Will
Chaplin
Paulette's
are
Direct New Film
Hollywood, Sept. 15.
Charlie Chaplin is to direct a film called "Regency," based on
But now the old constraint has the English novel by D. L. Murray. His flancee, Miss Paulotto
gone. With that happy smile which
is well known on the screen, he says:
"I want to marry and have children.
It may happen any day now,"
CLEVER?
Sir Samuel Brighouse, eighty-
Goddard, will take the leading part.
but not act in it himself.
Mr. Chaplin says that ho will direct and produce the film,
Production will begin when Paulette Goddard's Brst solo pleture, known as "Production No. Six," is completed.
By buying a scenario in England Mr. Chaplin is setting a precedent for himself, as his Invariable custom has been to write his own scripts, or, in earlier days, just to make them up as he went along. Mr. Chaplin, in an interview, showed that he is maintaining his re-
year-old coroner, to Dr. W. Valen-putation as a philosopher.
Une, police surgeon, at a Newton-le- "A few years ago everyone went jigging on the floors of night clubs, Willows (Lancashiro) inquest after with a venous look on their faces," he declared, st studying the doctor's writing:
"That has been supplanted by an expremion of serious endeavour. "There is moro sobriety, more naturalness, more simplicity and writing denotes a clever man you maturity And the young people-they are well alive to the situation.
"If it is true that illegible hand-
must be one of the cleverest men in England.
This is a much more serious generation than the last one. Children know they face o harder future than their parents did."-Router.
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