Father’s Speech During Leaders Conference On March 5, 1994 At East Garden, Tarrytown, New York
HAVING heard of reports coming out of Russia, I am sure you will all agree that its young people, born under the former communist regime are pure. They are ready and near God. They have no problem taking up the responsibility to save the world. If I spent in liberated Russia the same amount of money that I spent here in America over the last so many years, what would the result be? Compare the fruit of Unification Church members’ efforts here with what the former communist youth will do in an equal number of years.
When I go to Russia, the people in power would like to let me use rooms in the Kremlin palace. In South America, which is mostly Catholic and generally much more exclusive, I have established a wider, deeper foundation. You can imagine, if you were God, that there is such a thing as limit. If you were God, knowing what I have done in this country, would you say, “Son, you have done enough”? I hope it is not difficult to judge.
AMERICA IS INDEBTED
We are very close to each other heartistically by now, but that is not the key to God’s attachment. God seeks nothing short of saving the entire world. He does not think, “Oh, I have been with him for ten years. I feel so close to him that I cannot let him go.” No one sitting here knows how much I invested for the sake of America. Not a single soul will ever understand fully. America owes a mountain of debt to one individual, Rev. Moon.
You are indebted to me. I shed many heartbreaking tears and much sweat. Out of ignorance, people sue me, accusing me of wrongdoing. I have to persevere, because I know how much God persevered.
One thing I cannot do, and one thing God cannot do, is to give up on America. It is too big a stake for mankind. If I forsake America and leave for Korea, God will follow me without any lingering feeling.
Is there a remnant of goodness? Even now, although it appears to be much too late, if you redetermine yourselves we can once more begin the work God intended for the sake of this country.
Because of the fall, things are upside down, and we must turn them around. The wrong side has been up, and the right side has been down. The wrong people have been going first, but if you about face, those who are in the back are now at the front.
Turning things upside down would mean, for instance, well-to-do Americans going to Africa and serving people there. To be turned upside down does not mean physically moving to Africa but giving up your knowledge, your pride, your enjoyments in order to serve. God has been doing this for millennia. Unless we do that, we are not God’s children. I invested everything for the sake of America. My one purpose was to turn America right side up. I began from the most miserable position and worked my way up.
It was not the missionaries who made the foundation in the dispensation of America. I came here and laid that foundation. I could not use their foundation, because they were centering on themselves. There were four missionaries, each one going in one of four different directions. I nullified all these. There was nothing I could use. Nothing could be salvaged.
The typical response of each of the four missionaries was: “Father, you do not even speak English.
This is a highly developed country. Without speaking a word of English, you will get nowhere.” That is what they thought. With a few thousand dollars of my own, I paid for the contract to use the Lincoln Center [in 1972]. People laughed at me and wondered how I could even think of doing that.
I started with Takeru Kamiyama, who at that time did not speak one word of English. I said, “In three years I will make you a leader; they all will follow you.” In the Madison Square Garden campaign (1974) and the Yankee Stadium and Washington Monument campaigns (1976], the driving force was Mr. Kamiyama, who is Japanese, not American. If you had maintained the enthusiasm, energy and commitment of the campaign era, much of the difficult work of laying the American foundation would have been achieved.
When I first came to America, I did not speak or understand English as I do now, but in a mere three years I established that level of achievement. Is it boasting to say this, or is this the way it actually happened? Was it the American church or you personally who helped me do that? It was my initiative. There were many comments along the lines of, “Father, you do not understand America.” People just never thought I could do it.
How CAN WE ELIMINATE INDIVIDUALISM?
I was ready to go anywhere. Prison was something that could not be escaped. If you do not achieve God’s expectation, the only way you can indemnify it is go to prison.
I know the enemy, Satan. If there is no room for God to come into America or into its government, it is because of Satan’s work. My mission is to fight Satan and accomplish the will of God.
You who are leaders in America know certain areas very well, but you do not know the overall dispensation of God. Do you think that it was because I am less capable than you that I went to prison so many times? It is not that. God expects me to regain the sovereignty which Satan took out of God’s hand. Have you sought to snatch away Satan’s power and return it to God, and in so doing glorify God and become His and my greatest follower?
America, this most blessed nation in the whole world, will drop to last place if it fails God. Individualism has no place in Godism. How can we eliminate individualism without placing America at risk of being reduced to the last country to fulfill God’s will? Do you think the ideal country can be built on the foundation of individual-ism? Can God’s brilliant castle be founded on individualism? No. Nothing short of Godism will work.
You have to change quickly. That is what I have been prod-ding you to do. Can you endure whatever difficulty such a transformation requires?
YOU NEED TO REPENT
America has to do one thing quickly and seriously, and that is repent. That is the word for America. Americans need to repent and be re-educated. Twenty million Africans are starving. I have stood in the forefront of the cause to save the starving people in Africa and the rest of the Third World. The advanced countries are not thinking about that. America is not even dreaming about it. However, God is concerned about it, so how can we say we do not want to do it? I bought the big ranch in Texas with the goal of helping America fulfill its portion of responsibility to God. The heaven that I understand is quite different from the so-called heaven you yearn for. So who has to learn from whom?
You have been going the wrong way, but when you reach a crossroads, you have a once-in-a-lifetime chance of going in the right direction, God’s direction. That is where you are today. Recognize that you are the fallen generation and try to under-stand that you must begin anew and receive a new education. By the time you are reeducated, I may no longer be here. I may not choose to return to America even for a visit unless America comes closer to my expectation. We need elite Unification Church members.
Our main areas of activity are the education of women through the Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP) and the education of high school and college students. The confusion and moral misery that America faces are because mothers did not fulfill their role properly; therefore, mothers must restore the children.
In the new era of True Parents, Eve, Cain and Abel must become one. What God lost must be restored. Men do not actually have a position of great responsibility in this time of restoration. They deceive more than they create. Women should know better than men. Women will be in the limelight until the year 2000. That is the formula course. The Unification Church must show the world the way it should go during the coming six years.
YOU NEED TO BE REEDUCATED
Those who exert the right influence over college campuses will be recognized by God as rightful leaders of the world. The first generation opposed the Unification Church and sacrificed the second generation as well. Many of the conditions necessary for God to work have now been fulfilled. The one remaining condition is proper education. Those who realize that proper education is indispensable, raise your hands. America does not know which way to go.
I expect all leaders who have never been through forty-day training to go and arm themselves with the truth of God. After completing that training, you should follow Rev. Chang Seong Ahn’s example and lecture at least eight or ten hours a day.
Are you related to me? If so, when some significant event happens, the spirit world teaches you about it, one way or another without my telling you. That should be very normal. If you do not experience that, you should pray hard, because you have to know things before you can lead. The spirit world can I teach you; your responsibility is to be able to receive it. From the beginning of the Completed Testament era, the spirit world and the physical world are becoming one.
We have a big hope-the biggest ever-of preventing America from perishing. We must organize effective teaching channels. Do not just hold a rally and forget everything until another rally comes. You have to educate people substantially. Pave the way for people to become leaders in society. Newspapers in each state can report on these activities and provide guidance. Encourage young people to attend the University of Bridgeport. When you have raised up good leaders in each region or each nation, encourage them to go to the University of Bridgeport, where they will learn a great deal.
GAME FARMS AND FEEDING THE HUNGRY
I already gave instructions for the Texas ranch. We are planning to breed game birds and develop horticulture. Exports of exotic plants and animals can be an excellent way of raising funds. I also envision a game farm where rich, influential people-who can hopefully be inspired to work for the benefit of the world’s peoples-can come for an exciting time of hunting and fishing the game we stock.
In Africa so many people are starving partly because of ignorance and shortsightedness. Ponds can be stocked with edible fish; people can hunt game animals. Mothers and children who live near a lake or ocean can go fishing and thus get the protein they need. With the proper soil and climate, agriculture is no problem. With very little education, people can harvest enough to sustain their life. White people did not teach Africans such things because they did not want them to be independent; they wanted to keep people dependent.
I heard that a pair of ostriches was priced at $35,000, and one of their eggs costs $1000. Experts estimated that this price will hold for the next seven years. I sent a person to Africa to do re-search. The climate at our ranch in Texas is the same as the climate in parts of Africa, so I envision ostrich breeding on the ranch. Seven days after being laid, an ostrich egg can withstand heat and cold; so we can bring them here, incubate them and raise birds. Even in Africa one egg costs as much as $100. Compared to $1000 in the United States, it is still very cheap. A pair of ostriches in Africa sells for $4000, here $35,000. Exotic birds sell for a high price here in America. Ostrich skin is very delicate; a jacket of ostrich skin is worth $3000 to $4000. The meat of an ostrich is like tender chicken, very palatable; it tastes good and is also good for the health. I also investigated alligator farms. There are many opportunities to raise funds, precious funds for our activities. You can do it yourself. In Kodiak we are making fish powder, which is an excellent protein source. The American government is fascinated by the idea.
Do not waste your golden youth. Do not spend it aimlessly. Invent things, try things. Have the biggest hope in the world, you deserve it.
WITNESS TO YOUNG PEOPLE
When people get blessed and form a family, they become buried under daily chores. It is a problem. Even after people are blessed, I expect them to live in a dormitory, so they can focus on doing precious work. Many countries have tried this, and we are more successful this way.
In Korea, we used to have people living in haksa, which are like dormitories, and it was very successful. Once people get married and live together, pretty soon a baby arrives and the parents are very busy feeding the children. They are reduced from messiah to provider, and we do not want that.
Centering on WFWP, reach out to college campuses and high schools. Getting a job and developing skills or expertise is very important; yet to save a human life is much, much more important. Therefore, direct many college and high school graduates towards the goal of saving human lives.
Nora Spurgin [president of WFWP in America] should be the key person in this movement. Her husband should be a good provider. If you create a good impression and give exciting lectures, you will be welcomed on any campus. Do not lose heart. You can make a smashing success wherever you go.
There are 33,000 college campuses in America, and we will establish centers at 3300 campuses. You can teach people Divine Principle through video tapes. Those who find it difficult to witness can talk to people at the front gate of the campus and easily witness to 120 people.
No matter where you belong within the church organization, when there is a general instruction it supersedes others and everyone must join the specific mission. I will give all-out support to create CARP video centers, through which witnessing can be conducted.
FOUR-COUPLE LEADERSHIP TEAMS
I want to bring some more people from Korea, partly because of your inexperience and partly because we do not have enough members to do everything that is needed. I plan to bring Koreans who are experienced in doing similar activities in Korea-merely for the sake of helping you, not to be in your way.
I envision leadership teams consisting of a Korean leader, a Japanese woman leader, an American woman leader, and the local leader. Each one will take responsibility in a different area.
In the future, I will assign husband and wife teams and place much emphasis on these four position foundations. The four leaders from four nationalities will represent Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve. By going through this in three generations, you will gain all the qualifications for entering heaven. As I have mentioned many times before, when couples from four different countries live harmoniously under the same roof, they are ready to enter heaven. This is very practical training you must go through while you are still in the flesh.
By lottery, with spirit world helping, the right person will come into the right position. Once the positions are determined, you should obey the eldest. Even the brothers and sisters from the same family fight; this is today’s reality. However, if couples from four different nationalities work together and never fight, they establish a godly tradition that everyone can look up to.
Do you know how much money you can save by four families running one kitchen? It is an enormous amount. Our purpose is to save starving people. No one should starve on this earth. They are the sons and daughters of God, so we must save them.
When we succeed in creating even a trial pattern of international cooperation, people will pay attention to us, and everyone will want to join the Unification Church. Just getting along together will be impressive, let alone accomplishing some project.
FAREWELL
I will show you a movie with hitherto unrevealed scenes of Diamond Mountain in North Korea. After the movie, we will have dinner, then I will bid you good night. I will give Sunday service tomorrow at Belvedere. Those who can should attend, so I can say a few words before my departure and your departure.
In Japan, members have already written a letter of resignation, in case they cannot fulfill their appointed mission satisfactorily. That is how determined they are to do their mission. Here in America you should be determined to become successful.
Pray, too, for 50,000 people to attend the upcoming workshops on Cheju Island. Five thousand people, sixteen plane-loads, will attend each session. Every three days sixteen airplanes will land on Cheju Island, dropping off 5,000 people and picking up another 5,000. Jesus taught 5,000 people on the mountain at one time; on Cheju Island 10,000 people will come in and out every three days.
Mobilize a thousand people on each campus where Mother is speaking. WFWP should bring young people, exemplifying mother-son cooperation. Also on this tour, Mother and the children will cooperate to give the proclamation in one hundred locations.
When American women work to educate university and high school students, America will be saved. The men are in the arch-angel position. They do not have partnership or property. Women need to organize, reclaim people and belongings from Satan, and pass on the heavenly inheritance to your children. That is your mission.