NEGRO “HEAVEN”
OPPOSITE THE PRESIDENT’S ESTATE. FATHER DIVINE’S LATEST PURCHASE. NEW YORK, July 29. It is announced today that 20 followers of Father Divine, famous American negro evangelist, purchased a 500-acre estate directly-across the Hudson River from President Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate. It is understood that they plan to establish a “Heaven” on the estate.
Father Divine, who claims thousands of negro followers all over the United States, has his headquarters, or chief “heaven,” in New York City. There are subsidiary “heavens” in most of the large cities of the country. Although from time to time there have been one or two white disciples of Father Divine, the movement is essentially negro, Father Divine himself is considered to be “God,” and his followers graduate in rank up to “Angelhood” or “Angelship,” The basis of the movement is a form of hysterical, syncopated Christianity.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380730.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
143NEGRO “HEAVEN” Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1938, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in