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According to researcher Marie W. Dallum, in her book Daddy Grace, Bishop Grace also claimed that by the power of the Holy Ghost he could raise the dead. One such person who claimed that he did was his younger sister Jeannie (Eugenia), who reportedly died and was raised again by Grace. She would accompany Grace in his missionary tours and testify to the fact.

With nothing more than light brown skin, an accent, and two inch long fingernails, Sweet Daddy became a very formidable and controlling cult leader. Establishing the United House of Prayer for all People (UHOP) first in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sweet Daddy very quickly sunk his two inch fingernails into the minds and pockets of his followers.

Sweet Daddy became very wealthy by the time he opened his second location of the UHOP in North Carolina, from there a building boom ensued. Sweet Daddy is the architect of the Black Church Franchise model that we see today, in which all of the locations remain under the control of one CEO Pastor. His first scam was convincing his worshipers to pay him $1 for a baptism in a free pond. Later he eliminated the need for the pond and simply sprayed the new converts with a fire hose. All of his followers were expected to place their offerings in his hand – some even made miniature churches made entirely of money to present to him as gifts.

Pimp Grace lived in Style, and traveled in style. He was always chauffeur-driven and accompanied by bodyguards, assistants, United House of Prayer elders, staff and secretaries.

According to a recent Wiki - Grace collected up to 42 very large and expensive mansion homes, filled with expensive furniture, works of art and amenities in various states across the USA, as well as a 25-room mansion in Havana, Cuba that he purchased in 1936. He also accrued several income properties across the USA. One such notable purchase was of the The Eldorado, an iconic twin-towered apartment complex facing Central Park in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City in 1953. Grace culminated his real estate purchases with a massive palatial 85-room home in the historic Berkeley Square, an exclusive part of the West Adams, Los Angeles,California, area for the very wealthiest African Americans in 1958. In a time of legal housing discrimination in pre-1950s USA, much of Bishop Grace's purchases were no less than revolutionary, and were appreciated as such by his largely African-American followers.

The purchase of trophy properties was not limited to large parsonages, landmark apartment complexes and swanky hotels. Grace also extended his property acquisition campaign to his religious rivals as well, evicting Father Divine from his International Peace Mission Movement Harlem headquarters after he had bought it from under him in 1938. Detroit's James F. Jones (minister), known as Prophet Jones, lost his signature 54-room Arden Park-East Boston Historic District parsonage, as well as the headquarters cathedral building of the sect he had founded, the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, to Bishop Grace in 1957.

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His most famous saying and perhaps the clear evidence of his false teaching could be found in the following quote.

"Salvation is by Grace only. Grace has given God a vacation, and since He is on vacation, don't worry about Him. If you sin against God, Grace can save you, but if you sin against Grace, God cannot save you." At the Church in Newport News, Virginia, someone asked Daddy Grace if he is God? He said: “No! I wouldn’t be God.”

Despite the high level of praise and worship Sweet Daddy received, his body remains in the same grave it was lowered into and has never been seen again.