Father presented the following address at the opening ceremony for Song Hwa University in Chonan, Korea on November 3, 1989. In it, he explains the University’s purpose.
I would like to express my appreciation to all our honored guests for attending this dedication ceremony of Song Hwa University. I congratulate President Yoon Se Won, the teaching staff, parents, students and all those who put their effort and hard work into building this university and making today’s ceremony possible.
Song Hwa University was established in Chonan land in Chung Chong Do province. “Chung Chong Do” means human beings should have loyal hearts toward heaven and live purely. In this place mankind can attend and comfort heaven’s heart.
“Chonan” means “three-way junction.” Our church members often sing a folk song containing these words. We can view the birth of Song Hwa University as the realization of our long cherished desire. Just as the song expresses, Song Hwa University will expand infinitely toward the world.
My understanding of a university’s purpose is to teach the utmost truth. What is this truth? First, you have to know heaven and God, the center of heaven, deeply. Second, you have to understand the center of the world, mankind, in depth. Third, the ideal world of God and man must be established. When we think about such big and important goals, especially how to relate to each other, we can conclude that love is the only key. Therefore, I have decided the goal of education here is to “love heaven, love people and love country.” I have taught that true education practices these goals and have formed professors’ and students’ associations around the world.
Right now Korea, as well as the whole world, is in a state of confusion due to the decline of individual moral values. To help solve this worldwide dilemma, I have advocated to world scholars absolute values centered on love. I have also proclaimed the headwing ideology to correct the wrongs of left and right. Through this type of education, the world is being directed toward the new goal of a world with God centered values.
Professors associated with PWP A and ICUS over the last ten years, as well as students in CARP, requested that a world university be built in our homeland of Korea to fulfill this educational ideology. Therefore, I have been trying very hard to establish a university for more than 10 years. After much suffering, we have now obtained permission from the Korean government to expand to a four year university.
Now Song Hwa University, established with the educational goal to “love heaven, love people, love country,” will become a world level university to thoroughly educate its students in how to remedy the evils of the democratic world, to critique and overcome the fallacies in communist ideology and to cultivate world level leaders.
Thus, our homeland of Korea will produce world leaders who can realize a world of unity and peace, creating Heaven on earth. In addition, the unification of our homeland centering on Godism will digest the cultural differences of East and West, rich and poor, and North and South. Centering on love, we will build one peaceful world family.
You all now stand in the forefront of this great goal with hope and determination. I pray that with such national encouragement and support, Song Hwa University will leap into the world.
May God bless your families. Thank you.