By thousands of Harlem Negroes and by hundreds of whites throughout the U. S. Rev. Major J. Divine is regarded as nothing less than God. Other observers think of small, dusky "Father" Divine, born George Baker somewhere in the South, as an amiable cultist who does genuinely useful welfare work with large sums of money whose source remains as obscure as the biography of Father Divine himself. In the interest of religious history, smallish, baldish Dr. Robert Ernest Hume, professor of the History of Religions at Union Theological Seminary, set out one Sunday...
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