We were called to attend Father’s speech at Madison Square Garden (September 18, 1974). When our team arrived, we couldn’t go inside. After a while some people got up and left, so we were finally able to go in. The victory of True Father was not the fact that the hall was packed. It was something different. When I saw my beloved Father, the Messiah, I was shocked. He was investing everything and people were sleeping. People walked out in the middle of his speaking. I saw someone carrying on a conversation with the spiritual world. I was shocked by the audience. Some people were listening besides our members. The atmosphere was so terrible, though, people couldn’t hear or receive his words. His victory, in my opinion, was that he invested everything, gave everything and persevered no matter what people did.
From 40 Years in America, p. 100.