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Student and Alumni Associations
Seonghwa graduates led the Unification Church activities in the early days.
Organized on October 23, 1955, the middle school from and high-school departments of the Seonghwa Students' Association played a pivotal role in church work.
The Korean Seonghwa Alumni Association has full members (graduates of the Seonghwa Student Association) and associate members (who did not graduate).
They held their inaugural general assembly, attended by graduates of the 1st through 7th classes of the Seonghwa Association, from November 8 to 15, 1963. Thereafter, the general assembly was held annually. from
1. Why did I attach the name Seonghwa to our young people? We need hot-blooded youth, whose pure blood is inflamed in resonance with God's feelings, so I gave the name Seonghwa. Seonghwa means to harmonize by achieving a common purpose. Because they are harmonized, they are many, but still one.
They are the yeast in the loaf. In the family, perhaps there is a grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother, but there ought to be happy children as well. Only then can the home be filled with laughter. In this regard, Seonghwa youth bear great responsibility. From now on, you Seonghwa students need faith to become the standard-bearers who will liberate God.
If there is a person whose faith surpasses that with which God has fought for 6,000 years, God will entrust His work to that person, even if that person cannot accomplish the Will. (047-080, 1971/08/19)
2. Seong in Seonghwa means the completion of the ideal of creation. In other words, it means the completion of the entire cosmos.
Originally, the age for establishing the standard of completion was 16, the age at which the human ancestors fell. Accordingly, God hopes for the Seonghwa youth to accomplish everything while they are still teenagers.
Young adulthood is the time to position yourself perfectly for the future. I established my lifetime goal and standard of hope and resolved to achieve it, during adolescence. You too, as people who have inherited the tradition of God, need to take the direct route.
(021-083, 1968/10/27)
3. The descendants of the Fall are living in the realm of lamentation. You need to have faith that you will prepare a foundation of goodness within the realm of such lamentation and then go out and fight. To create greater goodness, you need to have faith, stamp out the bad environment, and fight on.
When you actively create goodness, the good environment will absorb the evil environment. In other words, a second creation will take place. No matter the environment that comes next, no matter the waves that rage, if there are enough people whose faith prevails, this country will not perish.
I, too, continue fighting with this faith. To re-create, you need to maintain the subject partner position. Because it is not pursuing the goal of recreation, the Seonghwa Students Association is not progressing enough. If you weaken on the way to advancement, you will succumb in the end.
After establishing the goal of re-creation, you have to keep marching forward. First, I must re-create myself. I, who create goodness and speak on behalf of goodness, must re-create myself.
I am the person who can both establish goodness and break it. I am the parent standing at the fork in the road. To satisfy our yearning for that which is better, I stand in the position of object partner in front of God. Let us become people who protect goodness and hate the evil of this world. (012-287, 1963/07/27)
4. The Unification Church has walked forward, but the path on the world stage has yet to be trod. Parents are heading toward the world stage. On my way, I do not yield to anyone, and I am not defeated by anyone. My courage to deal with any problem that comes my way is as strong as anyone's, and I have never lost a fight.
Unless you go forward with such a heart, you cannot win on the world level. Now, even though we have been victorious on the national level, we have a long way to go to achieve victory on the world level. You need to reflect on how you have spent the days of your youth.
We are living within the realm of the Will of God and the ideal of unity, but we must know how to criticize our position for the sake of making progress into the victorious world where Parents and God are heading.
Do not be small-minded and feel sorry for yourself when you are criticized. Instead, be of high caliber and develop through it. From now on, be the princes and princesses of heaven, whom the heavenly world approves. Prepare well in your youthful days to realize God's glorious kingdom. (024-088, 1969/07/06)
5. Until we have escaped from Satan's iron clutches, we need to march forward upholding the Will of God. Knowing that God is truly our Father, and we are truly His sons and daughters, we bear the responsibility to alleviate His bitter sorrow.
By resolving God's sorrow, we liberate God.
When an obstacle offends God in even the smallest way as He rules over all nations as a free God, we are responsible for eliminating it. Then we can attend God as the dignified Absolute Being who can rule over all nations in the heavenly kingdom of freedom and peace.
If there are Seonghwa students or young people who have such faith, they are truly great. In the future, the world will advance in a new direction through such young people.
If you truly become like this, however wretched your appearance may be, it is not ugly. Infinite hope dwells with you, and your appearance is the basis for God's hope and happiness. (047-080, 1971/08/19)
6. Our young people must not despair, saying that they do not have anything of value. Instead, you must live with the belief that you will create that which has greater value.
When we live such a life, we come to cherish a second hope, and we advance toward that hope. You must have faith that you will go out and re-create young people, who are like rotting tree branches, and that you will put the environment in order.
Among Seonghwa students, some may have come here after overcoming opposition from their surroundings. You ended up here after passing through various circumstances, but from now on, you need to do nothing apart from achieving God's ideal of creation, a better and worthier environment. (012-287, 1963/07/27)
7. The trustworthy person who can take responsibility for God's Will and resolve this age is not passive, but a prime mover.
Because we came out and went through the ages of planning, preparation, and practice, the Unification Church set its standard at a certain level. Therefore, the Unification Church family members are not passive; rather, they have the position of prime movers.
Nonetheless, even in that case, you cannot lead on the individual level without laying the foundation of victory on the individual level. Furthermore, you cannot lead on the levels of the family, tribe, people, nation, and world.
Therefore, Seonghwa graduates must understand this age from the providential perspective. Maintaining the age, you have to establish a victorious foundation on the individual level. Now is the age when we need to place people on the victorious tribal level after they connect their tribe with the people.
(013-111, 1963/11/08)
8. some people have left the church after graduating as Seonghwa students. They are like the congregation in the wilderness with Moses going to Canaan, people who murmured, complained, and opposed him.
They said they could not go on and drove him away. You need to lay the victorious foundation after fighting a spiritual battle in the internal world of your thoughts. You have to pledge your life from that position and constantly prepare to embody goodness itself.
By doing so, winning a great victory, you fight on the final stage of practice, the world stage, and secure the highest and most glorious position.
(013-122, 1963/11/08)
9. The owner of history does not complain and fret. A person who merely complains and frets is disliked by God, friends, and even their family. No one likes a person who complains.
You ought to change your complaining mind and be grateful, with a heart burning with desire and overflowing with hope for a new tomorrow. You must think that you were born for the sake of the country and the world.
Have a mind that wants to share all you have, wants to give all you are wearing, and wants to share all you are eating. Even if all you have to eat is boiled millet and gruel, you must want to give more to others.
The person who has such a mindset while feeling sorrow for those who are unable to give, who prays and plans for action, is the owner of that country.
Therefore, when you study, you are not studying for your own sake, and when you were born, you were not born for your own sake. You were born for the sake of the world and the sake of history. (033-289, 1970/08/21)
10. We need to broaden our narrow hearts. We need to make it broader and broader. We need to liberate God, liberate Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and liberate all the millions of saints in the spirit world. Furthermore, we need to accomplish the unification of North and South Korea with our hands.
The mission of setting the direction for this confused world, which has been divided into left and right, and changing it into the United Kingdom of heaven on earth, lies on the shoulders of you young people.
When you go to bed as such a person, and when you wake up in the morning as such a person, you will realize that the important duty you have shouldered is weighing you down.
Resolve that you will not become a defeated or foolish person and collapse on the way. Determine that you will work your way up through it all and contribute something to this task so that you leave a legacy of something for God and your descendants that has become brighter and worthier through you.
This is the mission of the young people of the Unification Church in this age.
(059-289, 1972/07/27)
11. Young people try to be victorious under any circumstances. They are like losers. As young people standing on the side of heaven, you must bring about the development of the Republic of Korea. Leave a legacy of historic achievements in each field of society. You must renovate those fields.
That is the position you are in. You are all young people.
Most young people in today's world, especially college students, behave in a self-centered way regarding how they can establish a successful career in their country and how they can create a happy life for themselves.
However, the young people of the Unification Church should not do that. Rather than thinking only about their happiness, they ought to consider the needs of the people and the needs of the world, based on a higher ethical viewpoint.
You must have a higher and broader view of happiness, and you have to practice that view. You need to have such a central sense of mission.
(025-079, 1969/09/30)
The National Collegiate Association
At the Second Special Workshop for College Students and Young People, held on January 9, 1966, True Parents said, “From now on, you must take great interest in college campuses and invest your efforts to enlighten and bring together college students who are wandering around without any idea of where they ought to go.”
Motivated by these words, the young people attending the workshop all resolved to become standard-bearers in the Divine Principle movement on college campuses. In this manner, the National Collegiate Association for the
Research of Principles was inaugurated on January 10, 1966. After being registered as a club in colleges across Korea, CARP took the lead in teaching the Unification Principle and conducting Victory Over Communism activities.
12. Our mission is to unite the two camps, democracy and communism. To do so, we need to deploy at least one person to each of the 2,400 townships across the nation. If we are going to deploy people in teams of three, we need more than 7,000 people, and they ought to be college graduates or higher.
Originally, we were going to do this focusing on Ehwa Woman's University and Yonsei University. But after that broke down we had to change our direction. Accordingly, we focused on middle school and high school students.
The first three years of the first seven-year course was the period in which we had to show people that they needed to work together with Unification Church members. Under the current circumstances, South Korea has no way to block communist infiltration of the lower classes. Accordingly, we distributed the Divine Principle to people in rural areas and followed this up with practical guidance and education.
In each township, trinities had to take charge of leadership guidance, daily life guidance, and education. If college students who are sent out for one year to these locations take responsibility for providing secondary education, they will experience life in the rural communities and come to love their country.
To bring the true teaching of self-sacrifice for the sake of the people to university campuses, we need to have young people who have borne the responsibility of conducting matters for village development.
This is the purpose of establishing the National Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles. (016-144, 1966/01/10)
13. The rise or fall of a nation depends on the young people of that nation. We are conducting national university student training for the sake of the spiritual formation of those students.
We have to prepare the proper environment for the students to sprout and grow. They must be able to adapt to that environment.
Any ancestor who stood on the front line of historical progress was a happy person. What will be done about the future that comes after you and me? If my descendants and I can march forward sharing one coherent goal, we will be on a blessed path. In history, you can advance further when you are facing in the right direction.
Today numerous people who have one goal are living in this world. This is the same as many plants facing the light of the sun. God has continued to weave history by establishing the stalk of a sprout and forming the horizontal environment.
Even now, God continuously searches for the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, and world that can become that sprout. Korea needs to be this sprout but to do so, it has to undergo hardships.
The sprout experiences every trial that the different branches experience, and it must overcome them to make progress. Likewise, we must overcome the trials we face in the world. (017-208, 1966/12/21)
14. Unification believers must become gushing springs of water. This is the opposite of a waterfall.
Spring water wants to flow to the place where its purity is not defiled. Even wild animals visit the spring to drink. Pure spring water runs through a giant rock. Mountains that have no springs cannot become famous.
Everyone desires to drink that water. You college students especially need to become like a spring that can clean up the corruption in the Republic of Korea. For spring water to hold value for the life of human beings, it truly must keep its purity. I hope that you will all become springs of water. (017-209, 1966/12/21)
15. The question is, how many core members of CARP are there? In this regard, I decided to establish and manage centers to carry out social activities on college campuses. We need to establish a center at every university.
By taking this approach, we will gain results. In this manner, through CARP, we should strengthen the relationships of the Seonghwa students in the centers. By their junior or senior year, college students can be leaders and give Divine Principle lectures.
They will enroll in every course of university study and teach others about our principles. If we strengthen our organization like this, we will see rapid development in a short period.
I also plan to station college graduates in all parts of Korea. University students need to play a leading role in society and the church. They must take ownership of the church as they fulfill their responsibilities.
You need to understand the atmosphere of the church and create an atmosphere where young people can become the standard of hope in the church.
(022-063, 1969/01/19)
16. In the future, we are going to make CARP our core organization. Accordingly, we will deploy its members who have made the absolute resolution to carry out their work. I believe that if we strengthen our activities in this way, our church will grow and CARP will grow remarkably in a short time.
Since I am now thinking of advancing in this direction, you need to know the plan and make resolutions in new fields. We need to organize CARP worldwide and host international meetings, not only in Korea but also in other countries including Japan and the United States.
I plan to train key members of CARP as global personnel who will work as core members in every country. (022-065, 1969/01/19)
17. We have now reached the stage at which people who were curious about me, arguing my pros and cons and criticizing me in various ways, are now praising us and attending the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (ICUS).
When people at universities studying philosophy or researching religion or ideologies begin to promote us, people studying natural science or social science naturally will follow them.
Soon CARP will develop. We will connect with professors who take an interest in our church. I also formed and deployed the CARP mobile team to build connections with them.
That is why I am saying that our American state and city leaders should form active relationships with these professors through ICUS as if the professors were their grandfather or grandmother, father, mother, or uncle.
As a result, those people will recommend students with whom we can organize CARP as a formal campus club. (089-270, 1976/12/04)
18. Full-time CARP members must be able to launch a whirlwind of activities on university campuses.
Young, studious men and women, their passion filled with vitality, must explode to excavate deep valleys of love based on the values of heavenly law. By so doing, they will pave the way that can reach the world.
Heaven is worried about the power of communism, the collapse of churches, and the corruption of youth.
We need to take hold of the young men and women who are walking down the path of corruption. We need to take hold of the Christian churches whose faith is breaking down.
And we need to stand against the power of communism, which is trying to burrow into the crumbling edifice of Christian theology.
(121-180, 1982/10/24)
19. I have high hopes for the work of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles on university campuses. We must connect revivals and Victory Over Communism campaigns with CARP.
The question is how CARP can work together on college campuses with organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) or Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), rather than smaller interdenominational organizations that are limited to one campus.
I also plan to focus CARP activities to connect with the college students who join our church through our revivals. In the future, CARP activities will not be limited to the confines of college campuses.
If you are a university student, it means you graduated from middle school and high school, so you must have a former school, and there is also the school where you are currently registered. You are not the only one in that school; you have comrades friends and classmates studying the same subjects.
You need to develop a means by which you can connect personally with your fellow alumni, school friends, and classmates. (022-054, 1969/01/19)
20. Government authorities of the Republic of Korea have officially authorized the term “Victory Over Communism” that we use for our anti-communist activities.
This is analogous to Jacob being named Israel after his victory wrestling with the angel at the Forest of the Jabbok River. In this regard, I believe that the victory through which we can accomplish the Will has already been proclaimed.
On this foundation of the vertical standard of victory having already been achieved, we need an organization that can bring victory horizontally. Christianity alone cannot do this. We need to restore the world through the principle of unity.
To achieve this, we need to base ourselves on an academic and philosophical foundation.
If we examine these activities in detail, our anti-communism movement is the philosophical work connected with academic circles, our external witnessing activity is the work connected with the church, and CARP is the work carried out in connection with students. (017-341, 1967/04/30)
21. I am saying that through our Victory Over Communism campaign, we need to anticipate and block the route of the people who uphold communist ideology and are trying to infiltrate universities. From this perspective, we need to understand the importance of the work that CARP must do.
The ultimate victory or defeat of the Unification Principle will be decided based on worldwide academia. Therefore, to present the Unification Principle to the world, we first need to introduce it to professors who are authorities in philosophy or theology.
We will spread the Unification Principle by getting these professors to present it to academia around the world. Before this can occur, we have to build our foundation both internally and externally. (022-058, 1969/01/19)
22. Communists carry out their work through laborers, farmers, and labor unions. They also manipulate students and professors. Until now, this is the method by which communism has been corroding the world.
After rallying professors and students on university campuses and instigating laborers and farmers, they stir up chaos using crowds of demonstrators. As a defense against that, CARP needs to educate professors.
For this purpose, I founded the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA) long ago, and since then, it has continually carried out its work. PWPA and CARP need to unite and march forward. (113-213, 1981/05/05)
23. The Japanese and American CARP chapters are fighting communists on the front line. In Korea, we could fight communists, but since they work underground, we do not know who they are. We can work only through educational materials, unable to engage in life-and-death confrontations out in the open.
However, in Jap, we have openly engaged in life-and-death confrontations and posted the news of our victories. In the United States, CARP began this work in 1979, and by late 1980 it had blocked all kinds of communist trends that were already sweeping across American campuses.
We achieved the same victory we won in Japan. There was even an instance where five CARP members went to the place where hundreds of communist students were demonstrating and completely subjugated them.
The American chapter of CARP has achieved the same result as that achieved in Japan. That is why communist leaders on American campuses are telling students not to associate with CARP members. (113-213, 1981/05/05)
24. In Japan, Christian organizations like YMCA and YWCA carry out little or no activity. Therefore, it took us a long time to get over the hurdles to create an organization to educate people. Do you know how discouraged we were in carrying out this work when the school authorities and the teachers opposed us?
Everyone was deceived by the communists' words. You do not know the extent of those discouraging circumstances. I have heard reports and have seen firsthand how miserable that is. We need to create a circle of political influence and subjugate the communist base in the social sector.
I fought for Japan. My fight for Japan began at the important Japanese universities. You do not know how much the Japanese communists fear me. They are saying, “If the Unification Church and CARP did not exist, Japan would certainly have been communized and Bolshevized.
But because of the Unification Church, we are struggling.” That was the result of our activities. (104-080, 1979/04/01) 25. We need to ignite the spirit of young Americans. I called our members to restore morality on university campuses through the activities of CARP and to carry out door-to-door witnessing through the home church.
We need to influence the young people of American families to become young people like you. On campuses, we need to educate the students to become like you.
Then, after we have created an environment in which the United States does not oppose me but supports me, we can deal with communism. I need to pass on the tradition of anti-communism work, which I have carried out until now in Korea, to Japan, the United States, and even the Soviet Union.
We must understand the campus activities that CARP must conduct and the traditions of home church activities that must be established in the United States. Using these, we must solve the problem of communism and the corruption of young people. Based on the family foundation, we need to educate thoroughly with the Divine Principle. (104-259, 1979/05/27)
26. You need to become the young people who follow the providence of heaven without hesitation, committing silently to this path, just as I did. If this atmosphere spreads to university campuses through you and becomes a trend, it will be a beacon of hope on Korea's university campuses. The Japanese CARP chapters are ahead of the Korean chapters. And now the American chapters are on the move.
We will bring the young people of CARP together in Berlin to demonstrate against the Berlin Wall. We will bring together many young people to tear down the Wall with their hands.
If you do not dare to do that, you are not the young people who can safeguard the Republic of Korea, and you are not CARP members of the Unification family who can safeguard the world. We have to advance boldly and strongly toward that goal. (121-183, 1982/10/24)
27. If we cannot move the professors and students to university campuses, the Republic of Korea will have no way to survive, nor will the countries of Western Europe. We are holding a CARP world assembly in Berlin, where the communist powers and the citizens are opposing us.
After holding three such assemblies, we are going to destroy the Berlin Wall. We are carrying out a movement that motivates university students to expose the problems of communism to expel it. If we sit still and do nothing, there is not even a slight chance that this will happen. Someone needs to shed blood and sweat.
Someone needs to carry out this work even after being hit by a bullet and shedding blood. Otherwise, South Korea and North Korea cannot be unified.
(167-273, 1987/07/21)
28. We need to gather and educate leftists on university campuses. When you look at today's world, many communist governments have disappeared, but democratic governments are also toppling. The force of communism motivated a counteractive force within democracy, which activated a degree of self-awareness.
The belief that the democratic world will flourish because communism is collapsing is mistaken. On the contrary, after communism disappears, the breakdown of the democratic world will take place more rapidly.
The left-wing structure is falling into a state of chaos, and the democratic world is also falling into a state of chaos, so the time has come when we need to educate both sides.
That being the case, if we were to ask ourselves if university professors can provide this education, the answer would be “no.” They have no instructive materials to teach how to defend against chaos.
We are the ones who must provide this defensive education. That is why I believe this is not the time to curtail the activities of the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles on college campuses. (241-054, 1992/12/19)
Sun Myung Moon