I never thought that the future of America would be this serious and miserable

Sun Myung Moon April 25, 1994 Unification Theological Seminary, Lecture Hall II Translator Peter Kim Excerpts

Rev. Moon speaking to students in Lecture Hall II as Peter Kim translates

When I first founded this school, I came here every day. I founded it for the purpose of saving America, but I worry whether or not it has reached that state yet. Twenty years ago, I never thought that the future of America would be this serious and miserable. You all probably know that this nation cannot be saved by the power of men.

The only way is to revive Christianity, but in the conventional way or tradition, it cannot be done. Young people today have been contaminated by communism, the pursuit for physical and material pleasures, and secular humanism, and they are heading toward physical destruction. For this reason, we must not try to bring the solution with human power or with man and money alone.

You will hit a dead end if you boast the power of human beings; it does not last in history. This principle applies also to money. You cannot save the world with just man’s power, money or with the attitude that you can solve all problems with gold. People are going the opposite way; they do not live for the cause of the nation or dignity of the nation, but their own selfish cause and glory.

Although it has been twenty years since the founding of UTS, the graduates are far from being prepared to save the nation. The fundamental mission of theology is how to employ absolute faith to generate the power that can transcend the power of individual men, and use it for the sake of saving the nation. More than the individual, you must think about the nation and the whole. You have to be trained spiritually to go in the opposite direction as the secular world, which asserts that the way of money is the supreme way and advocates secular humanism. When I see the graduates of UTS, I am greatly disheartened to see them become secularized.

The graduates of UTS also have an arrogant attitude that they are part of the elite and educated group. You must become exemplary, and you must pioneer and overcome the difficulties in the front-lines. If you think that because you are college graduates you do not have to do this kind of dirty work, then you are making grave mistakes. The Unification Church should have gone down below the ground, but on the contrary, it has tried to rise upward.

They are to go back down and turn the whole thing upside down, but instead, they went to the top. Many of them deviated because they thought that the Unification Church way is not in line with their own path. They thought that they can save this nation in a glorious manner, but the path that opened before them was just the opposite.

I have ushered in a great transition on the world level during the time that I have spent in America, proclaiming True Parents and the Completed Testament Age. You must know that the night has passed and the new morning has dawned upon us. Although the Unification Church has been persecuted, such a history of tribulation has passed behind us. I have ordered the Japanese movement to send good first class students, but they sent third and fourth rate students here. The leaders do not send their top leaders. Since it is the seminary of the Unification Church, it must prepare for the future of the Unification Church, but

they did not do this.

The students did not make any necessary preparation here, and they failed to accumulate the ammunition and energy, which, having been pressurized, can explode upon graduation and propel them forward in their providential mission; all they did was just study. After the graduation, you are to prepare for the mission of pioneering churches. The mistake they made is to have the conventional mentality of the outside world, which led them to focus on their family. When you graduate, you might not want to pioneer because you are too proud of being a graduate of the seminary. In order to revive Christianity, there must be those who sacrifice. There must be people who are different from the people of the past in quality and quantity. The reason that I come here after one year and four months is because I do not have much hope for this place.

Many of those before me here will fade away. Many of the UTS graduates have been ruining this nation and the Unification Church. There is not one professor here who is truly united with me and my vision for this place. They have not tried to establish a solid foundation in ideology to save the nation and the world.

In the future, for UTS to have a fresh beginning, there must be a revival in life of faith initiated by the students, and there must take place a new restructuring to create a better spiritual and study atmosphere. There must be help from the spirit world. If you do not have the support of the spirit world like at the time of God’s creation, you will not be able to do anything. Spiritual power does not come through words, but through practice. Those who pray a lot and exert themselves tremendously appear differently to me.

Since you have been through the seminary, you should focus on collecting the true assets of the spiritual world. Those who graduate from here and still betray God, Father, and the church are the worst.

You should never use UTS as a steppingstone for your success. I have founded this institution for the sake of saving America and reviving Christianity. In the last days, Christianity will become secularized because they cannot become connected to the pinnacle and form an intimate relationship with God, so if you want to prevent this from happening to you, you must mobilize the spiritual power and become absolutely impeccable in your theories and beliefs, and experience. You have to fill in all the blank spots.

God has an opinion about how America is doing. Our view must never be different from God’s view. When the present situation of America deviates from the will of God, then it will decline. But, what you plan to do after you graduate from here must be absolutely the same as what I and God want; yet do these two visions match? What do you think? Should you adjust your view to God’s, or should God adjust His view to fit yours? Are you doing this? Have you become the absolute object of True Parents and God? You have not been. The path that I am taking is not perfect or most ideal; God’s expectation is even higher than this.

Because I have to deal with this world in the midway position, I must make compromises in regard to the path that I take, and go the round about way. So, who is going to pay indemnity for the resulting gap and discrepancy? It is I and the members of my direct lineage. So, if you cannot even reach my standard, then your future will be completely buried. Do not think that your being here is a blessing. Th.is may become a fearful condition of great indemnity before God. I do not think that you have met my expectations; I do not think that you are prepared enough to go out and become the leaders of this movement. Nations fall because their young generation fail.

Society and nation must become the extensions of family. There is always a center in a family, a society, or a nation. The parents in the family must become the center and the rest must become objects. They must become united. Communism and Satan try to reverse this order to destroy it. The dispensation of restoration is the dispensation of restoration through indemnity, which is dispensation of recreation. How does it then take place? God first creates an environment, and then establishes order of subject and object in it. This is the formula. So, why are there men and women? It is because of this set of principles of creation. Everything is in pairs. This is the actual situation of the existing world. Even in UTS, there must be subject and object relationship.

America can resurrect if the three thousand colleges and high schools can be united centering on True Parents. Because we have risen to the perfection stage, Satan cannot touch us. You must be responsible for the three thousand college campus tours. How many are you willing to cover? You should at least do three times the number that True Children have done. Among them, the one who did the most spoke in 22 campuses. Seminary members are to take responsibility for the tours. WFWP and CARP will coordinate the tours, and True Children will do one every fifty campuses. Mother and children must cooperate. YFWP (Youth Federation For World Peace) is being formed right now for this purpose. We are to cope with the situation centering on God.