Korean Report by Pastor J. McCabe - Report on the Unification Church which Pastor McCabe visited South Korea at David San Chul Kim's invitation. [David San Chul Kim was the Unification Church's Missionary in Great Britain at the time.]

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‘I by Pastor J . lYlc_Cabt

Air Force, and a number of business M ANY of you will remember men who are all members of tlie f meeting Mr. San Chui Kim, group. Speeches or welcome from who studied at Swansea University various members were delivered, and I as a United Nations student, and Mr. Kim made the speech of t·he attended the Ammanford Assembly evening in English. Others welcomed of the Church, -later coming to the me in Korean, andJ spoke on behalf Penygroes Conventiort’ in August or the Apostolic Church .in the I955. He sent an invitation for a Motherland and Australia. representative of the Church to go The group of Christians ·10 whom and visit the group of Christians to I have come are_ nol Pentecostal or whom he “-as attached and the invita- Apostolic as we know it, and yet the tion wa;o passed on to the . Austra- Spirit of the Lord is manifest among lian .~fosio_nary Advisory Board: At · them, as some have visions, others our Quadrennial Council at. Easter have tongues and interpret.ations, ·J was chosen to make the journey of while a spirit of prophecy is ..-xer- 8,000 miles from Headquarters in cis<!d by others in private. !>o far I !’ I Melbourne, Australia, to Seoul in have seen 110 manif~tation of the Korea. · · . … Gifts of the Spirit in the gatherings. I arrived here on June 22nd after The fervour and sinccrit)’ of the I a three days journey by. air. As won:hip, the soul stirring preaching there had been an accident on the of Mr. Moon, a born orator who runway our. plane was redirected to stirs his congregation to re<ponse a U.S.A. military drome near Seoul, both in praying and preaching is the capital. A tropi_cal · rain stonn wonderful Almost without excep- that beggars · description made it tion the members are there because impossible for the …,.-cleome planned they longed for something deeper. to take place. Howevtr, a number The meeting place is an old hall in or friends with Mr. San Chui Kim an out of the way spot. l remember came to the plane and met me. On going to the old hall at 104, Renfrew the following Tuesday-I· was warmly Street, Glasgow, in the early. days; .welcomed at a· representative party, I -recollect halls that were out of the .when the leaders of the group, Mr. way in Mussclburgh, Porth and Moon and Mr. Yoo, together with Ebbw Vale, but I reckon the Seoul others arranged a Korean welcome hall is the most inacce.ssible I have and meal in honour or their Western been in. To this hall come between v15ttor. Among the members who · 300 and . 400 people. There are no attended were two college professors, seats as in other churches; everyone two doctors of medicine; s<everai sits on the Roor. Half an hour teachers and lecturers, an ex-Minister before the service is due to begin we of Labour, a colonel of the Korean have a tin1e of singing, and the place ’

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• is packed. Many parts of Seoul are 400 on · Sundays. Their doctrines bomb damaged and there is not are divergent from ours en several sufficient mone}• to repair the city. points. I am studying their prin- The result is 1ha1 accommodation is ciples, and though I have been here at a premium, and the group here is for eighteen days I have only given glad to have their hall. It is a •hive one address, due to having met with of spiritua! activity. Mr. Yoo, the a slight accident when returning lecturer, gives lectures on the “ Prin• from the welcome party. I have ciples,” as they tenn their beliefs, for now recovered and hope to give f i four to five hours e.-u:h day. He other talks on our teaching. One covers their doctrine in two lec.tun.-s, thing is evident- the condition for and this he does three times a week salvation is receiving Christ through I I 10 enquirers ,.ho number as many as faith in Him. Satan is a real foe thirty to forty, and sometimes as few who has to be fought and overcome. a.s five or six. At the end of each They do not baptise in water or • half year an examination is · held. break Bread on the Lord’s Day a.s One hundred and thirteen from four we do. 1 · solicit the prayers of all different cemres .sat ,he examination your readers and the Apostolic on _Sunday, Isl July. Of these friends in Great Britain that the 1wef!1y-eight passed with 80°/4 or ·Lord’s purpose may be wrought out more marks. Seventeen diplomas between our groups in Australia, and eleven certificates were pre• Great Britain and Korea. sented . 10 successful students who The people here arc very kind and ranged from High School students 10 gracious and che personal stories of older people about fifty years or age, · how they were led to come 10 the and including a professor from a church are wonderful. Like the college and a medical doctor. This Apostolic C hurch in Great Britain week a lady doctor and a Congress- they are sacrificing to make the man (British equal i, an .M.P.)’ building of a meeting place possible. attended the lectures. · There · arc difficulties, but God There are eight centres stretching specialises in the . impossible, so over the three hundred miles from remember 10 pray. K orea is a land Seoul to Pusan in the south, and the of inflation and is in the dollar area. total membership is variously quoted It will be costly to support workers . at 600 10 l,201l. There are always . but surely our God is able to provide about 300 at the Seoul service on the necessary means when he has ·· ,;,.

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