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Father Divine learned that in Los Angeles his onetime "St. John the Revelator," John Wuest Hunt, had been indicted with three other Divinites on Mann Act charges, based upon testimony by 17-year-old Delight Jewett (TIME, April 12). Seeking rest, the little black "God" headed north to his Promised Land. There, dying of heart and kidney ailments in a Catholic hospital, lay the only follower who had been told nothing of his troubles—his placid, greying wife, Mother Penninah Divine. She had been visited daily by Faithful Mary, was now alone. Father Divine visited her briefly. At week's end in the Promised Land, a $30,000 frame "heaven" caught fire, spilled 15 half-clad black angels into the chilly night, burned to the ground.