Marching Across this Great Land to Make it Free

The following is the excerpt from Mr. Kim’s fifth report, covering activities of April 23 to May 1, 1972. Mr. Kim is now leading his Mobile Unit 2 of “One World Crusade” across the United States of America.

Before we left, an announcement was made, officially receiving three new family members, from a total of four during the Crusade (Gene Smith, David Zielke and Allen Campbell). Allen Campbell will join the mobile unit at a later date, after taking care of personal affairs pending.

Outside of Dallas, 100 miles from Austin, Texas, all had a few hours’ sleep after midnight, at a rest of the freeway. Nearly 15 people slept outside the bus, the rest inside. It was refreshing for all of us to sleep in the wonderful creation of our Father, in the midst of nature, the night sky full of sta.rs, the morning sun rising over the green hills.

We arrived at Austin center at 7:30 a.m., April 23, where John Doroski, State Representative, was waiting for us. Before our arrival, he began a literature campaign to all church ministers for the One World Crusade lectures, sent out news releases and printed a hundred posters for use in the city and on campus.

On April 23 a few witnessing teams went out in the afternoon to the suburb of the city and the university campus. Then we all started cleaning the center, which still needed lots of repair, the previous occupants being hippies. They damaged the property, leaving lots of roaches and filthy trash, too much for one man to fix. We again had one bathroom for 27 people, though we had larger accommodations, with two bedrooms, a living room and kitchen, than in the previous state.

Knowing that the state has many extremely fundamentalist Christians, I used one evening meeting as training for all members, though one of the contacts came over to the lecture, and gave some tools with which they can confront conservative Christians.

First, science and religion in relation to the Mosaic account and geologic research; second, various schools of Protestant Bible interpretation, and criticism on “The Late Great Planet Earth” by Hal Lindsay, whose work is being widely read among so many Christians, who are inclined to believe his interpretation of the Book of Revelation. Also, how to make the criticism based on our Principle message was presented, in order to clear the anxiety and uncertainty of the State Representative, and our mobile unit members, who are not well equipped to point out the folly of Lindsay’s book. This question was raised not only by John Doroski, before our arrival, but also by one of the older members in Los Angeles, who inquired about this book. Lindsay’s interpretation is extremely biased, based solely on the Second Coming of Christ in the clouds and with miracles, following extreme conservative and fundamentalist lines. We cannot interpret the Bible in that way only. My presentation may be helpful at least to maintain our Principle interpretation of the Bible, getting rid of some frustration and anxiety and uncertainty among the family. Since that time, that feeling is gone, at least partially, even if they have to confront fanatics and narrow-minded Baptists, living in the area called the “Bible Belt” in the South.

We discussed some strategy of our Crusade with John Doroski, based on his report that:

1) There are 43, 000 University students in Austin, very similar to the Berkeley campus, but

2) They are seeking truth; the campus is less spoiled than the Berkeley campus.

3) A few days ago they had an anti-war demonstration and trouble with the police. More demonstrations are planned by radicals on the campus, and the students are frustrated, looking somewhere for a solution to the problem.

4) John suggested that we concentrate on the campus for witnessing, and use rallies for God, which will be unusual, and so have impact.

5) Daily lectures will be held on campus in a classroom, with a strong propaganda campaign.

Along these lines, we concentrated our efforts in the State of Texas.

One World Crusade Mobile Unit 2

On April 24, there were two rallies (Rally for God, and anti-war rally) on campus at the same time, but the locations were close together, and each side was aware of what the other was doing.

The anti-war rally occupied the Main Mall of the University Administration Building, while our Rally for God was on the West Mall of the same building. They had a few hundred participants while ours had a few crowds, but more powerful voices, singing and speeches, which overwhelmed the other rally’ s crowd and meeting place. Fortunately the two speakers of our sound system worked very well, and every word could be heard among the people attending the anti-war rally. Even the Dean of the University came to us to lower the volume, having fear of trouble between the extreme opinions of the rallies, one for God, the other for the Devil. We ignored his advice, and further raised the volume to annoy the devil’s rally.

Perry Cordill’s voice, in speeches and singing, over-powered the crowd, and swallowed up the other rally’s atmosphere. John Doroski had set up a large booth in the rally area with excellent signs and posters, made by Jon Schuhart, which attracted many students during our rally. Especially the New Age songs brought a wonderful new atmosphere to the existing environment.

Up to the present, no other group even dared to challenge the Communist-inspired rallies or any radical movements in the past on this campus. Our several speakers emphasized that destructive behavior to solve the problem, like their rally, is not an answer, and to come to us to find the real solution, etc.

The editor of “The Daily Texan” attended the entire rally for one hour and a half, and collected all materials for a news article. Also many people dropped by the “Day of Hope” booth.

At the evening meeting held in the Journalism room, University of Texas, 18 people attended. Thus the first public lecture began in Austin, Texas. All contents of the lectures are recorded on cassettes for the State Representative as study material.

On April 25 we were very pleased to know that our Rally for God, challenging the anti-war rally, was picked up by a reporter of the “Daily Texan” and that this paper is widely-circulated, not only to the 43,000 students and citizens of Austin, but state of Texas as well, free of charge.

We had rallies two times today on both campuses — University of Texas in Austin and St. Edward’s College (Catholic). Jon Schuhart was re-enforcing rally organization with new ideas on selection of songs, contents of speeches and new signs and posters, which are very effective. We agreed that each speaker should prepare themselves with clear themes in each short speech, resulting in a summary of our message.

We received for the first time $500 from Washington, D.C. for our Mobile Unit expenses, for emergency.

So far, we could manage financially, having some sale of literature, special donations from members, and sale of flowers, but when we do more witnessing activity, there is no time for fund-raising, resulting in a financial problem in carrying out the mobile unit mission.

In the evening meeting, 28 new people attended. Part I was summarized by the two lectures in 3 hours, planning Part II and conclusion for tomorrow night. For the first time each member could reach the ratio of 1 to 1 attendance in new contacts, with 28 people attending. Two young men stayed overnight at the center right after hearing lectures. One is a drug-addict counselor in the U.S. Army: the other is from Houston, visiting a girlfriend when contacted by one of our members.

On April 26, another Rally for God was held on campus, with more distinguished signs and posters — the rally itself was more systematic and better organized than ever. Strong witnessing on campus continued all day. One of our members, Betsy O’Brien, was interviewed by a reporter from a local radio station at the rally. He told her that the rally scene would be on the air at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. but because of our meeting we missed it. At 1:30 p.m. near the center, the bus had a minor accident with a car, when our driver turned improperly. Unfortunately we have no collision insurance, only liability.

On April 27 the reporter of the “Austin Statesman” put an article in on our Rally, introducing my comment on the anti-war rally and our view on the war in brief. The reporter pointed out two parallel events, in the two contradicting rallies on campus Capital building the coming Saturday. Thus the public silently endorsed and admired, expecting someone to challenge the radical destructive youth demonstration.

All day it rained very hard. Regardless of the heavy rains, our crusaders attended our rally on the campus, showing our determination to the students, later witnessing m the student union.

In the evening meeting, only three people came to hear lecture. Summary of the main three chapters of Part I was presented, following with a question and answer period with refreshments. 8 candidates for the second lecture group were notified to prepare their lecture for May 1, the 18th anniversary of HSA-UWC, Seoul, Korea, having the privilege of free time to prepare.

On April 28 we expected our confrontation with the anti-war demonstration on the campus, after getting information from the Dean of the University that we should change our rally time, as the anti-war demonstrators were requesting a rally at the same time on the West Mall, our regular rally place, where our booth was installed and our members every day witness. John Doroski rejected the Dean’s suggestion, meaning that there will be two rallies at the same time, at the same place. Since we, all Heavenly soldiers, were prepared to fight, we wanted to challenge our enemy in spirit and body.

Unfortunately no one of the opposite camp showed up on the scene, and we found out that a few of them came for the rally earlier, but soon dispersed. Observing everything in case of trouble, I saw all our members worked very hard in witnessing and preaching to the students on the campus and I thank Father for their total dedication, devotion and their fighting spirit. I have to admit that I, as commander, am very proud of each of the sons and daughters of our True Parents in our One World Crusade.

In the evening lecture we held another big battle, in truth and in spirit. 14 new people came to lecture, most of them extreme fundamentalists, young student Christians who believe in the Second Coming of Jesus with the same body and in the clouds, and with miracles and wonders---they must have been very shocked during the lecture meeting, an hour and half summary of Part I, with Perry presenting the Doctrine of Second Coming. He stated that 1920 was the birth of the Second Coming of Christ, and that he had personally met him, and that in 1960 the Marriage of the Lamb in the Book of Revelation had been fulfilled, introducing the dawn of a New Age, and so forth. One fellow in the audience must have almost had a heart attack, but they could not beat our presentation solely by their Bible interpretation. Most of them never came back to the meeting after they heard all of it. It was quite a proclamation.

Contrary to his usual gentle approach, Perry used the direct approach to the audience that night. With all our academic, Biblical and theological preparation to meet conservative Christians, the situation led us to our victory in the battle. For a short period of time I had to say something to the congregation when they had a hot argument in the question and answer session.

On April 29, during the morning session after prayer meeting, Dennis Hunter (Army drug counselor, SP 4), a new contact, staying for a few days at the center, recounted a dream revelation the previous night:

1) David Kim is fighting against Satan and protecting all members in the army.

2) Susan Hughes, lecturer, said to him very strongly, with a shouting voice, that he had to pay the indemnity price.

3) An old gentleman appeared to him, telling him that the One World Crusade is the work of God,

not work of Satan.

4) David Kim directly was instructing him what to do; Dennis is one of the heavenly army.

Everybody enjoyed his testimony, and we confirmed that the reason God gave him #3 was that he was present at last night’s big blow between extreme fundamentalists and our Principle message. Hunter has been receiving revelations for a long time, and a few days ago God told him to go to the University of Texas from the Army camp, Fort Hood, 40 miles north of Austin. Olivia Kerns met him at the first of our rallies and he came to the center that day to know more about our movement, thus receiving everything from God. He accepted our message and this morning became a permanent member. He will come and stay the week-end at the center. Thus God has already prepared a wonderful young man for our Principle; he is 24 years old, a college graduate in psychology. We all welcomed him as one of our Heavenly family.

The continuous battle developed in front of the State Capitol building in the afternoon, in comparison with the spiritual battle at the regular lecture presentation. One o’clock sharp our rally was pre-planned at the eastern entrance to the Capitol building while at the same time all anti-war rally parade was to begin from the University of Texas campus. We moved our headquarters to the south entrance as soon as we found out that their speakers forum was placed down away from the building itself, 500 feet southwest of our new location.

We were ready to confront any situation. In addition, the security force of the Capitol building was aware of our presence, plainclothes security members were aware of the possibility of confrontation, together with 50 gas-mask-equipped National Guard who were stationed inside the Capitol building, to meet any violence by the radical demonstrators.

One o’clock sharp, our 27 Heavenly troops started to march around the Capitol building three times, singing New Age songs, with banners, placards, and holding posters. We then set up our rally headquarters on the southern steps exclusively to reject any anti-war demonstrators trying to forcibly occupy our position.

While waiting for the anti-war demonstrators to reach the Capitol from campus, six songs were sung, and our six speakers overwhelmed the entire area, even reaching Congress in a venue bordering the Capitol grounds. Standers-by were paying special attention to our activity, a religious event unusual in the state of Texas. Nearly 40 minutes after we began, a crowd of 360 demonstrators, escorted by police cars, appeared far down Congress Ave., carrying all kinds of banners with radical and Communist propaganda, and flags with radical symbols. As soon as they entered the compound gate, instead of coming up to our rally position, they directly went to the speaker’s platform set up on the lower lawn. Since we were close in location we could see each other and hear one another’s’ talks through the loudspeakers.

Our speakers got excited, more enthusiastic, and more aggressive as soon as the radical speakers started talking, criticizing what the radicals were doing, saying why we have wars, where do we find the solution to war and other problems, etc. The two parallel rallies were underway simultaneously for nearly one hour.

Even the security guards worried about an incident between the two rallies because of our aggressiveness and domineering power, and challenging spirit in the speeches, particularly in respect to order and law, referring to the pioneer spirit of American founding fathers, and spiritual awakening-presented by Beverly Lee, Bob Heater and Perry. John Doroski’s speech was excellent and powerful, intellectually appealing to the crowd. We attracted many cameras and news men and even some anti-war demonstrators were interested in what we were saying and doing. As their rally dispersed, several hundred stopped and listened to us at the lower steps of our rally position.

Our rally continued for two hours, with a 10 minute break. Our members worked hard to win in the spiritual and physical war. Finally the anti-war demonstration quit, before our rally ended. Of course we all planned to stay until the devil’s demonstration was over, but they quit before 3 o’clock and when we saw they had gone, we stopped, though our members wanted to continue. Our sound system was our great weapon to beat the enemy in this confrontation.

10 news reporters and TV cameramen, unidentified, came to our rally and recorded the rally scene. Unfortunately our two camera women left early for another assignment, missing the historical crowd at our rally, and unfortunately my camera ran out of film before that time, so no members of our unit caught that scene, but all must have been spiritually tape-recorded by Heavenly tape-recorder anyway.

We all lay down on the lawn of the Capitol until cold drinks arrived to soothe the throats of the heavenly troops, after two hours straight to challenge nearly 360 radicals (27 vs 360), with peaceful means and with genuine truth. We heard that the guest speaker for the anti-war rally, who is running for governor, was evidently unable to speak strongly because of intentional interference through our sound system.

So far we are sure that one of the TV stations, channel 42 (color) put our rally on at both 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news, as our neighbor generously reported, but because of our regular meeting and having no TV available, we missed the scene.

We all felt a great sense of victory over Satan at Austin, Texas, and particularly we felt that we avenged the evil which is infiltrating American campuses by destructive radicals and Communist conspirators, to destroy the system of democracy in the land of America, God’s blessed nation. Even if it is small scale in strategy, the- formula for victory is the same. We all had a sense of accomplishment, and became more confident in our work and in our Crusade.

We, 27, stayed longer on the Capitol grounds, but since our evening lecture was waiting for us we had to leave for the center after the serious battle of the afternoon.

In the evening meeting, 8 new came and heard the Part II lectures, presented by Joy and Perry. Joy completed her Part II lecture series, a most difficult part to sort out. She made an excellent presentation of Part II. Afterwards, one of the Bahia members was very much interested; Munsell Eckland, who stayed at the center for a few days, wanted to join our Mobile Unit, but I discouraged him, recommending that he stay at Austin and attend the University, and work with John Doroski.

On April 30 we had a pledge service at 5 a.m. Nora Ervin’s parents visited the center from Houston. I felt sick and had a fever, not feeling well all day and four new people came to lecture. They are all good prospects.

I made a deal that if more than 5 of the new lecturers are ready to present one of the Part I lectures, we will stay one more day, celebrating the 18th anniversary of the Unification Church in Seoul, Korea; otherwise we would leave for the State of Arkansas.

On May 1, at 8:30 a.m. we had a brief ceremony combined with a pledge service, commemorating the 18th anniversary. 6 candidates for the second group were ready to present Part I three chapters — Creation, Fall of Man, and Mission of Christ. Only 3 lecturers were picked up — Gaynell Frizzell, Bob Heater and Olivia Kerns. Three rods of bamboo were presented to the three senior lectures by David Kim on this meaningful day, for use in Principle lecturers, just as Moses used the rod as a pointer, supporter, protector when he led the people of Israel from Egypt to the land of Canaan.

We enjoyed king-size hamburgers which were bought as our Master’s gift to all of us on this anniversary. The afternoon and evening were spent by each of us in free time, and we plan to leave tomorrow for Arkansas.

We brought nearly 8 young men and women to the Austin center during our crusade — two people became permanent members, and 6 more heard the conclusion, and are in the process of making decisions to join the center. They are of good quality, and are intelligent people. Before we left, our team officially dedicated a new song composed by Jon Schuhart to the State Representative, titled “We are the True Men and Women of the World.”

Every single day during our Crusade we held a Rally for God on campus, announcing that One World Crusade is here in Austin awakening Texans by unprecedented means, Well-organized and well-trainee in rallies. Through the continuous rallies, news media was attracted, observing American youth with pioneer spirit, trying to do something for the nation.

Our confrontation with the radical anti-American demonstration gave great hope and new direction to the rest of America, young as well as old. Through our booth and rallies on campus the Crusade became openly known. Channel 42 covered us at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. on News Highlights, and some state-wide radio stations picked up an interview with one of our members.

Articles in the newspapers covered us well, along with all the work of John Doroski before our arrival. In general we utilized quite effectively the news media in the short period of time we were in Texas.

Concerning public relations, Leslie Elliott visited the local police department on April 26, had an interview with Chief R.A. Bob Miles, one of four police chiefs, explaining our positive new ideology, leaving him with a good impression of our work.

On April 27, John Doroski and Leslie visited the Governor’s office. Because the Governor is out campaigning for re-election, they had an interview with Mr. Dan S. Petty, Executive Assistant for the Governor. They explained about our movement and he questioned them about how we differ from other groups, challenging them for 40 minutes. However they became very good friends and Leslie left some leaflets from the Freedom Leadership Foundation, and other tracts.

More flexible operations within the crusade are increasing according to the degree of their adjustment, the discipline of daily life, organization of witnessing, and lecture presentations by the second group of lecturers. More private free time, individual teaching and witnessing sessions in small groups, and weekly evaluation on the work, more opportunities for each of the members to freely express their opinions and feelings are being provided gradually within the Crusade. More individual responsibility is being given in the operation of the Crusade instead of monopoly by a few key leaders.

As far as the future work in Texas is concerned, I dare to say that a good prospect is ahead of us.