Walter Lanyon wrote a first-hand account of Father Divine's movement for 'The Rally', published at 9 Percy Street, London W.1, England, which carried it in its June 1934 issue. Lanyon frames it as a

Before writing his June 1934 report for the London paper 'The Rally', Walter Lanyon visited Father Divine's Kingdoms in New York in person and checked the movement's claims for himself. He states in

The California Eagle, the Black newspaper published in Los Angeles, reprinted Walter Lanyon's first-hand report on Father Divine in full, under his byline and under the standing headings 'FATHER DIVIN

Neville recounts meeting Father Divine twice in New York, describing him as a small bald man whose presence in Harlem was worth a thousand policemen, defending him against the unpleasant obituaries af

Neville tells of a long weekend spent at the Long Island home of his artist friend Tom, where the Filipino butler-cook, sent by Father Divine and renamed 'Real Gladness' — which he reversed to 'Gladne