Our Leader's three lectures in Britain were a great success

These were months of great activity and wonder for the British Family. Weeks of campaigning were followed by the visit of Father and Mother and many members were able to meet Father for the first time. Truly we had much to wonder at.

When Our Master spoke in London, well over 300 people listened with great interest. The parable of the vineyard was brought vividly to mind as the Heavenly Father’s great power flowed through Our Leader. The beauty of truth was so apparent that most felt any other logic impossible. So the days merged into one another with historic events highlighting each day. For the first time Our Father spent Sunday with us. From 5.30 in the morning he spoke to the Family until 11. It was a great Sunday for us all.

February saw preparations in hand for the hire of the hall, printing, advertising, campaigning.

March witnessed our most successful show-550 persons including the Mayor Alderman Sparrow applauded our show at the Civic Hall Guildford which raised over 250 pound for the Association. February and March saw successful workshops and several new members joined the Family.

Our Father and Mother’s visit was a great inspiration to us all and Our Father organized the Family into a

team for witnessing together with ten new centres. These he has financed for two months and also our Father donated over 5,700 pounds towards a new London Center. Naturally, this was a wonderful gift and surprise for us. To enable us to advance in such a manner the Family went into a forty day witnessing campaign beginning the day Our Father left for Germany. His three lectures were a great success. They were advertised at the Tube Stations and in the National Press in the London Times, which has incidentally an overseas airmail circulation of 30,000. Col. Pak gave a wonderful translation, and the Unified Family Singers set the occasion by singing before the meeting which was held in Friends Meeting House, London. One member had a vision of George Fox and other early Quakers kneeling with their faces to the ground. George Fox said he was too sinful to look directly at Out Father and he envied us. Then he said that during his life he couldn’t stand church bells but today he wished that every church bell in London would ring to announce the New Messiah’s first public speaking in London. It was a very moving experience for us all.

Father and Mother left for Germany on 23rd March and a party of 11 members went to Germany for further training with Our Leader returning on the 31st March to the UK having heard Mr. Young Hwi Kim lecture on the Divine Principle. We in Britain have been greatly blessed by our Father’s great devotion, love, dynamic activity, patience and courage and all those other great qualities of purity and wisdom and truth that radiate from them. We would like to thank all our brothers in Korea for having protected and loved Our True Parents for so long enabling them to visit us in Europe. Thank you Father.

Deepest Love,

In the Name of Our True Parents,

Dennis and Doris Orme