Sun Myung Moon
January 31, 1974
Excerpt
After the 1973 Day of Hope campaign, members of the Unification Church and One World Crusade met at the Sheraton-Lanham Hotel near Washington, D.C. for a conference. Reverend Moon selected seven new International One World Crusade units who will organize the Day of Hope campaigns in 32 cities, from February 15 to April 20, 1974. Reverend Moon will be speaking on "The New Future of Christianity."
In the early days of the Unification Church in Korea, I would take members to every mountain, field, creek, and river, in order to completely know the country; we would meet in the very tip of North Korea and walk to the very tip of South Korea. The purpose was to train the members. We sacrificed food and sleep for one goal- the salvation of the world.
Once in Japan, three of our members were assigned to make friends with the then Prime Minister Mr. Kishi. Every day, rain or shine, the three girls visited his office. When they knew his schedule in advance, they went ahead to prepare for him, smiling and waiting. As time went by, the initial hostility of Mr. Kishi and his staff began to melt. Such sacrificial service as these girls gave exists nowhere else. The first time one of the girls talked to him personally, she said, "Your staff treated me so badly. But I love you and have come to serve you. I ask God to forgive them. Our members are in the streets, witnessing and selling flowers to help save Japan from an ungodly ideology so we can bring heaven here. I have come to you to get your advice. You are a great leader. Can't you give us leadership?" He was struck; his conscience was hurt. He had never seen such patriotism. He began telling his friends, "There are some very strange, very different young people. Have you met them?" And everybody tried to figure out who he was talking about.
In America the youth are undisciplined. We need world citizens. People from other lands have come to America for the benefit of America. The nations of Germany and Japan used to be enemies of America. When international members come to America, I tell them, "Work for America more than you work for your own country." In three years we can create a heavenly tradition in America growing like a volcano.
I know that you sometimes feel lonely. You need that training. You need to sustain that loneliness and overcome misery. You must think, God called me to stand up as His champion. To you, everyone should appear as your own family member. If you leave your parents, brothers, sisters, and children, you must serve everybody as your parents, brothers, sisters, and children. I assure you that if you give this service in the name of God, someone will love you as mother, father, child, brother, and sister. If that does not happen, don't worry. God knows you.
Conviction is the most powerful force. There can be no negative thinking. In the Unification Church nothing is impossible. You can always do 100 times more than the impossible thing.
Always compare your faith with the greatest things. When you see a mountain, think, my faith is bigger than that mountain. When you see the ocean, think, my faith is deeper than that ocean. When you see the sky, always think, my faith is bigger than the sky. I know that God is a living reality. Many miracles have shown it to me. Don't be burdened by your work. Be bubbling and full of enthusiasm. Then all kinds of miracles will happen.