Young Christians Strive to Unify World with Love -- David SC Kim

Roger Clawson September 6, 1972 Chief Staff Writer, Billings Gazette, published in Billings, Montana.

A collection of young Christians has stopped in Billings on the way to Utopia.

With a quiet confidence, these young folks with the bright faces and happy songs say they have set out to unify the world in love.

They believe they can succeed today where Christ failed 2,000 years ago.

The time, they say, is ripe.

Sponsored by the Unification Church, the two dozen young adults are members of the “One World Crusade.”

The Movement is rooted deeply in Korea — possible· origin of one of the three wise men who followed the star of the East to the birthplace of Christ. A young boy and his father listen to “One World Crusaders” There, decades ago, a young Korean, began having “revelations.”

This young spiritualist Sun Myung Moon — spent 19 years in study of these revelations and then formulated the “principles of unification.”

With these principles, say the young crusaders, the world can be glued together.

Sun Myung Moon’s most apt pupil, David Kim, took his mentor’s torch in 1954, added an anti- Communist thrust, and founded the Unification Church.

The Church’s members now number in the hundreds of thousands in Asia and in the hundreds here in America.

With a pair of buses, the crusaders are carrying the Moon movement across the United States.

Their songs are of “joy, delight and true families.”

We live as brothers and sisters.” says Izilda Lima [Withers], a former Catholic.

They believe man is at a turning point in history.

“There are periods in time when God has worked more intensively,” Izilda said.

The crusaders believe this is one of those periods.