Sending the new couples out as missionaries
God has placed us here because He believes in us, not because we are worthy.
Therefore, whether we take this path or not will determine our destiny. Our members living in all parts of South Korea are going hungry, even as we speak.
Therefore, you too must overcome all obstacles in your path. The good spirits in the spirit world are observing our situation with sorrow.
You can become the owners only when you have the heart of a parent and the body of a servant. Ownership is what God is bequeathing to you.
You can attain it only when you shed warm tears, sweat, and blood with the Father’s heart. To become true leaders, you first need to learn from a true teacher. Don’t cry for yourselves. You should shed many tears in different parts of the country. Whether you can have good children or not will be determined by the extent to which you offer your loyalty for the sake of God’s will.
I dare to cause the families in Adam’s position to experience difficulties to enable the families in Noah’s position and in Jacob’s position to overcome difficulties unconsciously, so that other families also might be able to do so by following suit.
That’s why I am sending you out to different parts of Korea. I need families willing to fight, to sweat blood.
After their forty-day separation period
You will now begin giving birth to your children. You need to pray to have children who can be connected in heart with Heavenly Father.
Furthermore, you must pray so that you can give birth to children who can become chief priests of the heart. I hope you will give birth to children with a standard of heart that represents heaven and earth.
When I give the Blessing, I take responsibility. The forty days correspond to a four-thousand-year indemnity condition. Your married life starts from today. It has been a time of indolence until now.
From today, when the forty days conclude, you need to make a new start. Glory is not something to be sought for yourselves. Shed tears for three or four years.
Following Adam’s era and Jesus’ era, we are living in the returning Lord’s era.
Therefore, I am telling you not to defile Heaven’s lineage. The greatest of all sins is the act of staining the heavenly lineage.
Father’s tour of Korea
I have returned from a five-day visit to every part of South Korea. I passed through Daejeon, Jeonju, and Gwangju. Making my way through Masan to Daegu, I visited Samcheok, after which I visited Chuncheon, passing through Jecheon on the way.
What I came to feel during the tour is that now is the moment for us to fight. I noticed that our young brothers and sisters in the provinces are strongly determined, which tells me that during this time, we will emerge as victors in this great fight. What rained to me, though, was that our members walked hundreds of li, to come to see me when they heard of my coming to visit them.
People of the world have so much money that they can afford to travel anywhere, yet they don’t come to see me; whereas our Unification Church young people walked hundreds of li to do so.
When I went to Gwangju, I heard that our members came from as far away as Mokpo or Mu-an, and that they had had to walk for two or three days, night, and day. In light of this, I thought to myself, Whatever goals we may set, our church will surely achieve them.
These people, who have thrown themselves into this work for the extraordinary will of God without a moment’s hesitation, with total disregard for their difficulties, and who have overcome all their suffering and made progress, have no worldly experience.
Moreover, they are not tied down by their circumstances, and they don’t have any self-centered consciousness or views. When I see young people of about twenty working hard, determined to devote their lives to the providence, without really knowing themselves yet, I cannot help feeling proud of them. I saw many such members among us.
On the whole, they have more spirit than the young members in the headquarters.
If I compare them with the members in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, which the headquarters oversees—that is, with those of you here—I can even say that they have more spirit than you when it comes to their earnest yearning for God and their loyalty in following His will. If you were to fail in fulfilling your responsibilities, I feel they could step over you and fulfill them in your place.
At the end of the tour, I found that my voice had become hoarse because I gave lectures for three or four hours or even more wherever I visited, and I talked all night with members I was meeting for the first time.
There was a problem on one of those visits. I was scheduled to arrive at Samcheok at 9 pm, but the car broke down on the way, and we finally arrived at 4:40 the next morning. You can imagine how long the Samcheok members had waited for me.
They were exhausted by the time I arrived. We held our meeting in the early morning, and because the place was on the East Sea, there were patrols in the area, and we couldn’t even talk for long. After about an hour, I left for Chuncheon by way of Wonju and came back to meet you here this morning.
What do you think I thought and prayed about while I was doing this? This year, our young members have gone out to witness, as I instructed. They have made God’s will their common mission and are striving to fulfill it.
They have had many difficulties. I worried about them and prayed, “I offer this prayer to transfer the burden of their difficulties onto me, so please take that into consideration.” I also slept outdoors for a night.
You are brothers and sisters to the members in the provinces. You have the same bloodline. If any one of us weren’t here, it would not be good. Even when you meet a member for the first time, you feel you have the same heart.
That is what Unification Church members wish for. We call ourselves “family members,” which could easily be misunderstood by the outside world. We are, in fact, family members in every sense of the word.
Witnessing during the summer of 1961
I am considering sending Seoul members to the districts where they would encounter the most hardship. I want you to be proud, not of how much you enlighten people, but of how you cried, trembled, went hungry, were pushed against the rocks, and prayed. Go out witnessing now and experience material deprivation, suffering caused by other people, and suffering from the heart.
You should return having been trained in feeling sympathy even for bad people. Don’t take much money with you when you go this summer. Unificationists must raise walls coated with their blood, sweat, and tears.
It is the process of building a house. You have to march ahead, searching for the different places where blessings can be given. I would like to bless the simple house that you built. Don’t look for support for building a church.
Itinerant missionaries, 102 in number, are mobilized during these forty days of witnessing, including regional leaders, district leaders, general itinerant workers, and special itinerant workers. Each of these 102 people touring for forty days would amount to 4,080 days.
“With a parental heart and a servant’s body, let’s become a bleeding, sweating, crying offering that goes out to the place of the high priest and takes responsibility for sins and that goes to the place of the son or daughter who judges Satan in the place of the Father.” This is our motto, our basic approach.
1961 is the first of three years during which we have to make an all-out effort to advance. We must establish a base in every local district. I am planning to expand this to every small village next year.
I want to walk through the mountains and rivers of this land in my bare feet, wearing my only suit of clothes. The revival group is sent out to show that kind of heart, the heart of parents looking for their children.
Sun Myung Moon