THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1937.
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DEATH from heart failure made Father Divine, the sixty-year-old Har- lem black who claims that 22,000,000 people of mixed colourings believe him to be God, famous throughout the United States. (They certainly run into millions.) Another death, from the same cause, slowed
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Lender of the British Divine worship is Mrs. Julia Hildreth Dodds, of Denbigh-street, London, A little white-haired woman with bright worried Stubbs Rd. eyes, she told me why there is a certain apathy among some of the one hundred and fifty English believers in the black God of Harlem.
Last December John Roine, a Finlander, came from New York to organise a meeting to preach the teachings of Father Divine. A week before the meeting, her husband, Charles Dodds,
Chongkong Telegraph. didn't feel so well. "Write to Father," said Mr.
MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1937.
Roine, "he'll see you're all right." Mr. Dodds wrote.
Five days later, with the meeting only three days off, he felt worse. Mr. Roine cabled Father
COMMON PROBLEMS In whatever other respects Hongkong's and Shanghai's pro- blems may be dissimilar, they have this much in common-a grent mass of the people living close to, if not actually below, the subsistence level, a state of affairs which carries with it a slum problem which also is common to both centres. In or blouses of his New York Hongkong and in Shanghai, the need of reform is appreciated. IN New York when I called a but the magnitude of the issues. taxi and told the driver to involved, to say nothing of the go. to Heaven, he took the direc
naturally cost, has hitherto delayed action. tion The time is coming, however, amiably than, a Londoner would
take the opposite injunction. when something will have to be
On the way (Heaven's Harlem done. Sir Andrew Caldecott, in address is 20, West 115th his final address to the Legisla. [Street} he told me of the other,
Divine for immediate action. The next day Charles Dodda "passed over." The Father made no acknowledgment of the requests. Mrs. Dodds continued to believe in the divinity of Father Divine, but many of her acquaintances are doubt- ful, as Father Divine promises life eternal to faithful followers.
Many of the still faithful hope soon that "God will show the way" for them to organise meetings here. Perhaps then you will be able to recognise them by little buttons bearing a coloured photograph of Father Divine, as are pinned on lapels
tive Council, made this remark: "If the sanitary and social ser- vices of this Colony are to be raised and developed to such a level and extent as that which sometimes, sec suggested, and not unreasonably suggested, in
the Press, extra revenue
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DIVINE sometimes replies by letter; more often by mental telepathy
Short, thick-set and. with typically negroid features, his arms are noticeably long, away slightly from side to side as he walks. He wears cheap rendy- made suits, flashy ties, a straw hat. His talks, sometimes last- ing for an hour, are confused but cheerful.
One of his eight stenogra- phers, usually his secretary Brother Lanib (ex-motor-car salesman
Matthews, from Boston, who handed over ณ Cadillac on his conversion). takes down the speeches which are afterwards printed in his newspapers.
He is fond of plugging a word: "Peace everyone! Here I AM and there I stand in the midst of the children of men Just As I Really AM. Now isn't that wonderful." (Angels shout, chant, scream "It is indeed wonderful, Father," and a huge- commodation for 1,500 followers, negress, her face distorted with owns two newspapers, one of a deadly skin disease, jumps up which sells 10,000 copies a, and flings her arms around in a week (3d. each), laundries, sightless ecstasy, knocking over restaurants, coal, grocery, bar- chairs) "to realise that here I. ber's, and cleaning-and-pressing AM, there I stand in the midst shops.
of the children of men just as I Heaven, Father Divine was out
The first day I called on really AM?
Four days later Justice Smith died of heart failure.
"In other words (777) here I of town on business-buying stand and there I AM in the The wit of his negro attorney 1,000 acres of country outside midst of the children of men got Divine out of jail within five New York for a further Exten- just as you stand. Now isn't weeks. "Father Divine sure is sion Heaven. His beliefs (if that wonderful? But out of all God now," said his followers.
you can make sense of them) our standing it has long since
lonely,
swarmed
The newspapers publicised the are taught in 156 mission houses ocen said, and I verify the same, By giving away somewhere ease, cynically--but that didn't spreading all over the States, after having done all to stand, around 3,000 meals every Sut matter. Here was a flesh-and- with four in Switzerland, many then STAND"...la the begin- day-served in shifts from early blood God who could work in Canada and Australia. morning until after midnight miracles. The hysterical, To become an "Angel-you-I stood, pressed so close by ning of the speech during which he was attracting such crowds curious, will
frightened, must renounce--to Godall ecstatic listeners that the sweat have to be found." His words that the traffic of this small feeble-minded,
village became unmanageable, Sayville,
to earthly goods. If your faith is from the man behind kept drop. were almost duplicated in the husbands grumbled that their
not strong enough for that, you ping down my neck. recent Budget speech delivered
can be a "Child," which micans After his speeches, or at the five-storey that you pay rent, for food and banqueting hall, Angels and to ratepayers in Shanghai by Divine," insurance companies Heaven Father Divine pro- all services. But "God" supplies Children jump up and confess Mr. II. E. Arnhold, when he de complained that this Father vides (at a price) sleeping ne- everything at cut-rates. clared: "Sooner or later.
Divine was, by his preachings against insurance, taking away
it
wives were "crazy for Father TO-DAY; in his
their livelihoods.
Where did Divine get the A CURE FOR THE DUMPS
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their sins. Father cured me from sniffing snuff; I thank you, Father." "He raised me from the dead."
An old, old man gets up and says that from 80, Father has, made him a baby again.... now. Once again, preaching on the sub-teeth are growing...he shows
IT has been said hat the best cure
for pessimism le a dose of history, Ject of Zacchaeus, the tux-gatherer, and equally so it may be said that the he explained that in modern days he his withered gums. best dose for the dumps is a dose of would be known as the Income-tax colector. Then he proceeded:"As
MacNeil
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must be realised by the whole community that the Settlement, in common with other municip- money for these feasts? With alities, cannot obtain the ser- irritating insistence his followers vices and amenities which mod- would say "it comes from God, crn conditions demand without Father is God." or, less formal: "What Jesus did with loaves and footing the bill." Mr. Arnhold
fishes, Father can do with humour. went on the point out that the chicken,
ham, spaghetti and Musing on economic
an influenza bed the you and I know from experience, it GREATEST help as a business conditions of the coffee."
other day, it occurred to me that few not often we get a colector of Inun "Faithful Mary," a fat, jolly, organiser is Divine's wife Settlement, and the standing of Father Divine was charged personalities of my own youth so taxes up a tree. We have one up a
This humour at once and shrewd old negress who was a large section of the commu.with being a public nuisance, bubbled over with humour as the tree this time."
late John inte from Justice Smith, in a decision that evangelst. One recalls, for instance/aught the audience, and made the pronounced an "Inebriate' tuber-
the popular nity, are very different
appeal of his message easy and those which prevail in cities of was afterwards overruled, on mission took place in winter, in a
irt his mission Clydebank. The natural.
cular" a few ye rs ago by city the grounds that he had allowed time of much industrial trouble and
police physicians. Western countries, and he add-prejudice to enter into it, sen-physical distress.
Addressing a large meeting in Medical attention is against fed that many Britons in Shang- tenced Father Divine to one address at onec caught
His very first Dundee, he was disturbed in the the teaching of Divine, and his audience, course of his peroration by a tall Manhattan Hospital state that hai may not realise that, were year's imprisonment and fined and tickled their
"My subject to-night is," he said, marching right down the hall, much many cases of cancer, tuber-
young man leaving the meeting, they residing in cities in Eng-[him 500 dollars.
"David in the dumps, and my text to MacNell's confusion. He stopped culosis and other diseases who land having approximately the
the well-known words of David in the In his address and waited until the were reporting weekly for treat- Psalm, 'Out of the depths have I silence could be felt, then he shout- same population as the Interna- tional Settlement, they would be that not all rich men are phil-n' iten what it is to be in the dumps. for other two moments, that grass-Angels, the thropy, for the simple reason proceeded, "Noo, men and women, ye that grasshopper would only sit doon this. Living
cried unto thee Oh Lord, and he ed out at the top of his voice: "ment have dropped off, through ns Children or paying a municipal rate as high anthropists. It therefore fol- Everything is wrang and nothing hopper with the new 15s suit on his
diseased share ns 64 per cent. and possibly laws that if the work is to be with yerselves. Ye're sae far doon address much sooner.
richt. Ye dinna ken what to dac back, I would get through with my
dormitories with the health. higher, in contrast with the pro-effectively
When they die, they are. done — and apart in the depths that some of ye here The remark convulsed the audience buried in Poor Law graveyards posed Shanghai rate of 16 per from the actual victims of the doon an out, that ye may even have and silenced the interrupter,
-unmourned, for they must cent. In passing, it may be lack of organised social services,
of pitchin' yerselves into the: The last touch of humour I heard have been sinners or they would mentioned that the meeting the effects produced on the gen- with a flourish of the hand years ago,
(Great lence.) Then from him was in Edinburgh, a few not have died.'
when he adressed the which Mr. Arnhold was address-eral public health by the spread continued, "Weel friends, don't doe it. Sabbath Day Observance Association Divine? To promote peace on The exact mission of Father Ing approved an increase in of disease must be borne in mind There's enough rubbish there He quoted an illustration from the. for 50 rates from 14 to 16 per cent, funds will somehow have to
church in his native village when a earth between all nations and. boy. A now but succeeded in getting its be found. This raises the ques-conducted an evangelistic meeting to gregation rose losing
On another occasion 'he bad just day by the une was given out that | rnces. More than that, and the minister, and the con-belief that everything belongs to operation deferred until the betion of future taxation, any in- the city when questions were invited
verse was completed an old Father Diving (God) Is vague, ginning of next year. In the crease in which at this juncture from the audience, One young man, maki, teated near the front, with subject to individuaj renderings,
hoping matter of social services, Hong-would undoubtedly be most un-rose and said, "Mr. MacNeil, could abruptly out of her seat, and march To smoke, take alcohol,
to corner him with a poser, some temper closed her book, turned kong unquestionably has much popular. But the day will come you tell us who was Cain's wife.”
ed down the aisle with head erect, any entertainment outside of lecway to make up. The task when the betterment of social Quick as the shot from a gun came
the feather in her hat swaying with Heaven, to have children or give is at present largely left to conditions and the raising of the the retort, "Mrs. Cain, of course," the passion in her breast as she made your love to any one other than..
God is a sin. charitable bodies, and, as Sir standard of living of the masses sided, he hastened to add, "Now, my
Then, when the laughter had sub-angrily for the door.
After telling the incident, MacNeil in this Colony will have to be young friend, I am an older man than explained that every time that tune his word that he came to earth, Father. Divine's Angels accept Andrew Caldecott said in his last faced. The finding of the best you are, and if you would take my was given out afterwards in the Council speech, there are limits ways and means constitutes the advice, I would like to tell that the same church it was known as "Katy ready-made as his suit, some six to the field of privato philan- 'real problem.
less you and I have to do with other Grey's retreat"
years ago. men's wives, the 'better."
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