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At East Garden on April 5, Father appeals to the third-year UTS graduates and other leaders to take responsibility for America.
The day before Father left America for Korea, Father met with third-year UTS graduates and other leaders at East Garden. He began speaking at 8:30 pm on April 4 and spoke until 2:30 am. He asked that everyone remain at East Garden and pray in repentance, and then he began speaking again in the morning and continued his talk right up to the point where he had to leave for the airport.
If North and South Korea are united, don't you think the whole world will come into unity also? When a condition of indemnity is fulfilled, Satan cannot claim dominion anymore. I have laid indemnity conditions all over the world for the purpose of uniting North and South Korea. When these conditions are truly fulfilled, then the homeland, in reality, can be restored.
I have told Hyo Jin and his brothers to take responsibility for this country in my place. No matter how old you are, you are the younger brothers and sisters to them. Now you must absolutely follow the True Parents' children. Then you will come to stand on their level, the level of the elder son. If you can stand in that place, I will have faith in you. Last night you prayed in repentance. So from now, you are in the elder brother's position for America, in the position to lead this country. The spirit world is ready to help you, so be strong and have confidence. You must raise up the image that our church has in the eyes of the American people. If the Unification Church members come up to a higher and higher level, then every day Satan's world will go down lower and lower and lower, as if a big machine were pressing it down, making it flat!
Looking back, you can see there is not really very much that you did well so far. We will try to erase that shame by working hard in this coming year. In just one year, we will work so hard that we will offset all the things that we didn't do right in the past.
The reason why I fought so hard in this country, even going to Danbury, was because I had hope in you -- the state leaders and CARP leaders and UTS graduates. For you, I went to Danbury. You are the leadership; you are God's remaining hope. This is your time now. You are in charge instead of me. You are small Sun Myung Moons. Remember to be confident. I established the indemnity condition, so now you are in the position to love your own second generation. I have never been able to love my own relatives, because the time was not right. But now we can do That! You can go to your home towns and educate your own people.
If we become lax in our unity, Satan will attack, especially the three-year students. The graduates' most important duty now is to witness to the second generation, for those are the ones who will save this nation. So all three-year graduates from now should try to establish a campus ministry. Stand up and be strong. You can do the same as Rev. Moon! You must want this for America even more than I do.
All members who work in businesses must also witness. Through the business world you can actually create heaven on earth. Everything should be integrated. Business people can witness to business people. Scholars can witness to scholars. Journalists can witness to journalists. Now you are beginning to understand that we all have the same objective. You must never think, "Oh, I don't like to work in a spiritual mission; I want to work in a business because I can keep certain hours and get certain pay." You must have no thought like that. Witnessing is our basic way of life, and it is the way we should live now and in the future. We have to grow straight from our root. You should make up your mind and say, "This year, Father, I am planning to witness to this many people," and fulfill that goal.
Imagine, all of a sudden, a dazzling new world springing up. You can see that, can't you? A brand new world is coming out of nowhere, one so different than the one we saw in the past. After a long cosmic winter, the springtime is coming, and the new sprouts are starting to come out. That is us.
This summer we expect 2,500 Korean professors to visit America and go through a tour of our movement. Back in Korea, they will be working in the villages, towns, and counties for the unification of the North and South. This is the first time in history that professors have taken such responsibility on this level. They will love and guide the people of their native communities and teach them about Godism, the counterproposal to communism. Scholars are trained to get the essence of a concept very quickly, so these professors are very quick to grasp Unification Thought. Imagine if American professors could respond in this way. Would America live or die?
Now, after listening to me all night and this morning, do you feel the world is coming to the end or the beginning? Don't you feel a new world is in the making? Things are happening; they are all falling into place. The more progress is made, the more blessings will come back to God. So upon whom will He bestow those blessings? On you, on all of us. This means that God is entrusting you to take the responsibility for America -- not anybody else but you, the Unification Church members. You will literally become the leaders of America. You and your families, with the blessed root, will set the tradition.
Beyond that point, we won't need a religious life. Our daily life will be our religious life. People won't have spiritual experiences only in church, but in the workplace, in the factories, wherever. Every area will experience a spiritual revival.
You may have wondered why I made foundations in so many diverse areas of life during these last 15 years -- in fishing, in media, in business. That's because in the future there will be no such separate category as religion. Our places of worship will be the restaurants, the factories, the docks and wharves, the schools. Work itself will be a prayer. We won't have to close our eyes to pray; we will work and pray! That's what happening now.
Father ends the conference at the last moment before he has to leave for Korea.
I'm almost 70 years old. Any person that age should go back to his native land. Saints have always been buried in their native land. Naturally you want to go to your homeland, too. So if you belong to True Parents' lineage, you have to know their language. You have to learn to speak Korean by 1990 -- that's only two years from now. Don't waste time! I know how fast time goes. Once a time period is lost, you can never get it back. You can't live your lifetime again.
If you don't understand the language, you will be defeated. It's really a practical matter. But don't think about learning Korean in a university. That is the slow way. To learn it fluently, the best thing is to get a job in Korea doing menial labor. Then in three years you will understand everything. When you know how to talk their way, the people will help you. Can you do it?