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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1937.

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The

BLACK GOD of

HARLEM

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

down the fervour of his English followers.

Leader of the British Divine worship is Mrs. Julla Hildreth Dodds, of Denbigh-street, London. A little white-haired woman with bright worried Stubbs Rd. "yes, 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.

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY; Art 20, 1037.

COMMON PROBLEMS

Last December Jahn 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, didn't feel so well. "Write to Father," said Mr. Roine, "he'll see you're all right." Mr. Dodds wrote.

Five days later, with the meeting only three Mr. Roine cabled Father days off, he felt worse. Divine for immediate action. The next day The Father made Charles Dodils "passed over." 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.

TN New York when I called a

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taxi and told the driver to go, to Heaven, he took the direc naturally as tion amiably than, a Londoner would take the opposite injunction.

On the way (Heaven's Harlem address is 20, West 116th Street) he told me of the other, fame producing, death.

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farba athari thought, (xi) ma By Front in prakash. But,

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aften so, if the Truth, ta lex-

DIVINE sometimes replies by letter; more often by mental telepathy.

Where did Divine get the A CURE FOR THE DUMPS

money for these feasts? With

Short, thick-set and with typically negroid features, his arms are noticeably long, sway slightly from side to side as he walks. He wears, cheap ready- made suits, flashy ties, a straw hat. His talks, sometimes last- ing for an hour, are confused but cheerful.

Lamb

One of his eight stenogri- phers, usually his secretary Brother

(ex-motor-car salesman Matthews, from Boston, who handed over a Cadillac on his conversion). takes down the speeches which are afterwards printed in his newspapers.

their sins. Father cured me from sniffing snuff; I thank you,. Father." "He raised me from the dead."

In whatever other respects Hongkong's and Shanghai's, pro- blems may be dissimilar, they

He is fond of plugging a word: have this much in common-a

Many of the still faithful hope soon that

Peace everyone! Here I AM great mass of the people living "God will show the way" for them to organise

and there I stand in the midst close to, if not actually below, meetings here. Perhaps then

of the children of men Just As I Really AM. Now isn't that the subsistence level, a state of you will be able to recognise

wonderful." "(Angels shout, adfairs which carries with it a them by little buttons bearing a

chant, sercam "It is indeed slum problem which also is coloured photograph of Father Divine, as are pinned on lapels

wonderful, Father," and a huge common to both centres. In or blouses of his New York

commodation for 1,500 followers, negress, her face distorted with Hongkong and in Shanghai, the "Children."

owns two newspapers, one of a deadly skin disease, jumps up need of reform is appreciated,

which sells 10,000 copies a and flings her arms around in a week (3d. each), laundries, sightless ecstasy, knocking over but the magnitude of the issues

restaurants, coal, grocery, bar- chairs) "to realise that here. I involved, to say nothing of the

ber's, and cleaning-and-pressing AM, there I stand in the midst cost, has hitherto delayed action.

shops.

of the children of men just as I The time is coming, however,

The first day I called on really AM? when something will have to be

Four days Inter Justice Smith Heaven, Father Divine was out "In other words (???) here I done. Sir Andrew Caldecott, in

died of heart failure.

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 his final address to the Legisla-

got Diving out of jail within five New York for a further Exten- just as you stand. Now isn't tive Council, made this remark:

In 1931, Father Divine's head- weeks. "Father Divine sure is sion Heaven. His beliefs (if that wonderful? But out of all "If the sanitary and social ser-

you can make sense of them) our standing it has long since vices of this Colony are to bellice Heaven was in Sayville, God now." said his followers,

The newspapers publicised the are taught in 156 mission houses peen said, and I verify the same, Long Island. raised and developed to such a By giving away somewhere case, cynically--but that didn't spreading all over the States, after having done all to stand, level and extent as that which around 3,000 meals every Sun matter. Here was a flesh-and- with four in Switzerland, many then STAND"...is the begin- somelinies sec suggested,and-day-served-in-shifts from carlyblood God who could work in Canada and Australia.

ning_of_the_speech during which The hysterical, To become an "Angel" you I stood, pressed so close by not unreasonably suggested, in morning until after midnight-miracles.

he was attracting such crowds curious, lonely, frightened, must renounce-to Godall ecstatic listeners that the sweat the Press, extra revenue will

that the traffic of this small feeble-minded, swarmed to earthly goods. If your faith is from the man behind kept drop- have to be found." His words village became unmanageable, Sayville.

not strong enough for that, you ping down my neck. were almost duplicated in the husbands grumbled that their

can be a "Child," which means

After his speeches, or at the recent Budget speech delivered wives were "crazy for Father TO-DAY, in his five-storey that you pay rent, for food and banqueting hall, Angels and companies Heaven Father Divine pro- all services. But "God" supplies Children jump up and confess to ratepayers in Shanghai by Divine," insurance

this Father vides (at a price) sleeping ae- everything at cut-rates. Mr. H. E. Arnhold, when he de complained that clared: "Sooner or later, it Divine was, by his preachings must be realised by the whole against insurance, taking away

their livelihoods. community that the Settlement,

An old, old man gets up and says that from 80, Father has In common with other municip-

made him a baby again.. alities, cannot obtain, the ser- irritating insistence his followers

Once again, preaching on the sub- teeth are growing...he shows vices and amenities which mon-would say "it comes from God, IT has been said hat the best cure

for pessimism is a dose of history,ject of Zacchaeus, the tax-gatherer, Father is God," or, less formal: ern conditions demand without

"What Jesus did with loaves and 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 footing the bill." Mr. Arnhold

with humour,

colector. Then he proceeded: "As] (REATEST help as a business fishes, Father can went on the point out that the chicken, ham, spaghetti and Musing on an influenza bed the you and I know from experience, it's

organiser is Divine's wife other day, It occurred to me that few not often we get a colector of Income- economic conditions of the coffee."

Father Divine was charged bubbled over with humour as the tree this time." This humour at once and shrewd old negress who was We have one up a "Faithful Mary," a fat, jolly, personalities of my own youth so taxes up a tree. Settlement, and the standing of

John MacNeil the popular caught the audience, and made the pronounced an "incbriate tuber- a large section of the commu.with being a public nuisance. late

Justice Smith, in a decision that evangelist. One recalls, for instance, appeal of his message

cular" a few years ago by city nity, are very different from

mission in Clydebank. The natural. was afterwards overruled, mission took place in winter, in a

police physicians. those which prevail in cities of the grounds that he had allowed time of much industrial trouble and Addressing a large meeting in Western countries, and he add-prejudice to enter into it, sen-physical distress. His very Arst Dundee, he was disturbed in the the tenching of Divine, and ed that many Britons in Shang-fenced Father Divine to one address at once caught his audience, course of its peroration by a tall Manhattan Hospital state that hai may not realise that, were year's imprisonment and fined and tickled their imagination.

"My subject to-night is," he said, marching right down the hall, much many cases of cancer, tuber-. "David in the dumps, and my text to MacNeil's confusion. He stopped culosis and other diseases who they residing in cities in Eng-him 500 dollars.

the well-known words of David in the, in his address and waited until the land having approximately the

Psalm, 'Out of the depths have I silence could be felt, then he shout. were reporting weekly for treat- same population as the Interna-thropy, for the simple reason proceeded, "Noo, men and wonen, ye that grasshopper would only sit doon this. Living as

cried unto thee Oh Lord, and he ed out at the top of his voice: ment have dropped off, through Children or tional Settlement, they would be that not all rich men are phil-ken what it is to be in the dumps, for other two moments, that grass Angels, the diseased share paying a municipal rate as high anthropists. It therefore fol- Everything is wrong and nothing hopper with the new 159 suit on

richt. Ye dinna ken what to due back, I would get through with my dormitories with the health.

When they die, they are as 64 per cent. and possibly lows that if the work is to be with yerselves. Ye're sac far doon address much sooner." higher, in contrast with the pro- Jeffectively done- and apart in the depths that some: of ye here The remark convulsed the audience buried in Poor Law graveyards

before me at this moment area und silenced the interrupler.

unmourned, for they must posed Shanghai rate of 16 per from the actual victims of the doon an' oot, that ye may even have

The last touch of humour I heard have been sinners or they would cent. In passing, it may be lack of organised social services, thought of pitchin yerselves into the

Clyde (Great silence.)

Then from him was in Edinburgh, a few not have died. mentioned that the meeting the effects produced on the gen-MacNell, with a flourish of the hand years ago. when he adressed "the The exact mission of Father which Mr. Arnhold was address-eral public health by the spread continued, "Weel friends, don't dae it, Sabbath Day Observance Association Divine? To promote pence on

There's enough rubbish ing approved an increase in of disease must be borne in mind already."

ปร rates from 14 to 16 per cent.. —funds will. somehow have to but succeeded in getting its be found. This raises the ques-conducted an evangelistic meeting in On another occasion he had just [operation deferred until the be- tion of future tuxation, any in- the city when questions were invited ginning of next year. In the crease in which at this juncture from the audience. One young man hoping to corner him with a poser, matter of social services, Hong-would undoubtedly be most un-rose and said, "Mr. MacNeil, could

ed down the piste with hehd erect, any entertainment outside of kong unquestionably has much popular. But the day will come you tell us who was Cain's wife." the feather in her hat swaying with Heaven, to have children or give leeway to make up. The task when the betterment of social Quick as the shot from a gun caine the passion in her breast as she made your love to any one other than the retort, "Mrs. Cula, of course." is at present largely left to conditions and the raising of the Then, when the laughter had sub-

angry for the door.

God is a sin. charitable bodles, and, as Sir standard of living of the masses sided, he hastened to add, "Now, my After telling the incident, MacNeil

Father Divine's Angels accept Andrew Caldecott said in his lastech Colony will have to be young friend, 3 um an older man than explained that every time that tune his word that he came to earth, faced: The finding of the best advice. I would like to tell that the same.church it was known as "Kaly ready-made as his suit, some six

are, if you would take my was given out in the Council speech, there are limits ways and moans constitutes the less you and I have to do with other Gray's retreat." to the field of private philan... real problem.

do

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men's wives, the belier."

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young man leaving the meeting.

his

there He quoted an illustration from thes

As soon as the

new

Medical attention is against

church in his native village when a earth between all nations and boy. A new tune was given out that races. More than that, and the

region rose to sing, day by the minister, and the con-belief that everything belongs to first verac was completed mold Father Divine (God) is vague, maid, seated near the front, with subject to individual renderings. some temper closed her book, turned To smoke, take alcohol, ΟΥ abruptly out of her seat, and march-

W.K..

years ago.

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