What is different between 20th century Unificationists and us right now?

Foreground, left edge to right edge: Jack Corley, regional president, Eastern Europe; Teresa Rischl, CARP-USA national president; Michael Balcomb, chairman, Europe Regional Group; Prof. Yeon Ah Moon; Shin Chul Moon, Shin Heung Moon and Dieter Schmidt, regional president, Central Europe; at the joyous thirtieth anniversary of the Berlin rally

Transcript of an impromptu talk by Shin Chul Moon (Hyo Jin Moon and Yeon Ah Choi Moon’s oldest son) in Germany, commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the Berlin Rally. He attended the celebration with his brother, Shin Heung Moon.

I wasn’t scheduled to speak but I had something I wanted to say to you all.

After hearing all of your experiences at the Berlin Wall, I felt touched. Something came up. I felt that maybe God nudged me. I’m sorry. I’ll be taking some more of your time. I have spent seventeen years by the side of True Mother and I have had the privilege to participate in many events. Something they would commonly say is that our church has made many vast improvements and jumps and we are constantly improving, but in recent years after the passing of True Father many of our Unificationists have left and so have some of the True Children. It’s really bleak. I thought, what is so different from the twentieth century, back in the 20th century, the Unificationists then and us right now? I would say that True Father not being here is big but True Mother, she stepped up and she filled the vacuum created by True Father not being here very well. So, I don’t think the problem lies there. The problem must lie in us, the people

that followed. I thought, what might be so different? We speak the same language.

We are not a different race. We live on the same earth and as those back in the twentieth century. What is so different about us? I decided it’s probably that we are not as crazy as the people in the 20th century were, the Unificationists.

Probably all of you had the privilege to meet True Father and True Mother at least once in your lifetime, but back then travel was more expensive and many people didn’t have the privilege to meet them. Yet they would wake up, get ready for the day and preach about somebody they had never met in their lives. That’s crazy; that’s so amazing. I find that amazing.

What are we? What is the state, the status quo of the current Unificationist movement? I think that we all say we are dreaming of world peace, for Cheon Il Guk to be established before True Mother passes away. We all want that, but I think that’s the problem. We are only dreaming and if you dream for a thousand years, you will never establish anything. You have to act, but compared to those in the 20th century, we’re not… I don’t know. I don’t feel it. I listen to stories from the twentieth century and it just seems like something so far-fetched.

The current Unification Movement, a lot of the second gen are leaving and they’re… taken by Satan, let’s say. It seems so bleak. We have to act up.

True Mother can’t carry us on her back any longer. She is already over seventy. How much longer do we have with her? We have to establish something in the next five years, ten years, but do you really think we can establish vision 2020 when we can’t even keep our second-gen from leaving? You have to understand. We have to start from the inside. No matter how hard we try to establish something, if we are breaking apart internally, we can’t do anything. We have to become more centered on True Mother.

You have to understand that she really does love you. A lot of the second gen will be able to feel her love as the founders of our church did; they would battle on the front line like True Father. I know you guys don’t have the privilege to be around True Mother as much, but that’s not an excuse. If we fail to achieve world peace and to create Cheon Il Guk before True Mother passes, our movement becomes just another mark in history like Jesus.

There is no 100%! I mean, we can fail. The movement might not happen if we don’t try hard enough. We can’t just sit around. True Mother can’t create Cheon Il Guk on her own. That’s what happened with Jesus. He tried so hard but the people didn’t follow. If we don’t follow we can’t achieve anything. I just wanted you guys to know that.

This is my first time talking in front of so many people. [Applause] I think this is what God would want to say to you right now. I can’t say that for sure, but this is my first time talking in front of so many people there is no way I could talk so fluently. So, please, everyone, we have to achieve Cheon Il Guk soon, together.