The Archive · 1939

"Father Divine" Buys House in Yonkers

Select New York Residential Area May Get "Paradise"

New York, May 1.

Residents of the select Yonkers section of this city were stunned today when learning that "Father Divine,".famous Negro prophet and preacher, had purchased a luxurious estate in the district.

The residents intend to do their utmost in preventing Father Divine from creating a "Paradise" in a quarter inhabited exclusively by the [elite of New York Society.

Several years ago Father Divine had bought an estate near President Roosevelt's private residence near New York where he received each Gay thousands of his fellow-Negroes uring great demonstrations of joy and religious ceremonies.—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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