The Way of the World September 1976

The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity SEPTEMBEBi 1976 VOLUME VIII NUMBER 9 The Way of the World

God's Work in America There are millions of people who know what's right, but they are looking for someone to lead them. At Washington Monument we have to show those people who is leading the cause of righteousness. We want to assemble the people at Washington Monument who will testify to the meaning and purpose of America, who can stand up and be counted as true Americans in God's sight. -Neil A. Salonen (page 20) The Unselfish Way of Life The selfish way of life made us unhappy. The unselfish way of life must make us happy. This is God's way of life. By doing this, we can resemble God. This is the way we can gain true, eternal happiness. -Ken Sudo (page 32) Making the World Habitable Everyone knows that nowadays to possess information is to possess power. But power is empty unless there is the will to exercise it, and when it comes to guiding or controlling the course of human settlements, there is a need for civic awareness, energy and tenacity to which we ordinary peace-loving citizens of the seventies are not accustomed. -Georges Fradier (page 58) What is Christianity? If you read the New Testament to discover the Man of Nazareth, you may dig up a most unusual definition of Christianity. What is Christianity? What is the unique message of Jesus? Let me put it bluntly. Jesus said: "Find God where nobody else bothers to look. Find God in unexpected places." -Rev. Royal Davis (page 69) contents 2 In This Issue 3 Meet Us At the Monument Vicki Tatz 20 God's Work in America Neil A. Salonen 32 The Unselfish Way of Life Ken Sudo 40 Our Present Responsibility Dan Fefferman 48 From one parent to another Reverend Sun Myung Moon 50 Collage 52 A Black Man Speaks George Whitfield 55 There's a New Age Coming Kevin Brabazon 58 Making the World Habitable Georges Fradier 64 Don't Blame it All on Overcrowding 69 What is Christianity? Rev. Royal G. Davis 74 Holy Theatre John O'Boyle 86 Poetry 91 International Leadership Seminar David Carlson 96 News and Reports

STAFF: Founder: Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Editor in Chief: George Edwards. Managing Editor: V1ck1 Tatz. Design: Roberta Wackier. Contributing Editor: Louise Strait. PHOTO CREDITS: New Future Photographies, 3. 5. 7. 9. 10. 12. 15, 19. 20, 22. 28. 33, 36, 37. 48, 53, 64-65. 73. 91. 92. 93. 95. Published monthly by the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. Incorporated, 6401 C!111111m Place, NW., Washington, D.C 20012 (202) 723-3747. Op1n,ons expressed 1n this magazine do not necessarily rellect the official views of HSA-UWC. Subscription: $12.00 per year (U.S.), $24.00 per year (Europe, Lahn America), $30.00 per year (Asia, Africa): single copy: $1.00, $2.00, or $2.50 by region. Original manuscripts are 1nv1ted and will be published at the d1scr�t1on of the editor. Please address all correspondence to the above address. in tliisissue Magazine deadlines being ments that appeared in the what they are, I had to prepare the Washington Post and the Washington copy for this issue days, even Star in September is preceded by weeks in advance of the event that the text of one in particular, a letter is the main feature of this month's "from one parent to :mother," ad­ activities of the Unification dressed by Revere.,d Moon to all Church-the God Bless America parents. Festival at the Washington Finding suitable housing is Monument on September 18th. So one problem people all over the this exciting event itself will have globe face in common. Georges to be reported in the next issue of Fradier, in an article reprinted The Way ofthe World. This month, I from the Unesco Courier, discusses have tried to capture some of the some of the issues raised at the flavor of the campaign that is now recent U . N. Conference on rapidly building to its climax. Human Settlements. A compan­ Several talks by leaders of the ion article, "Don't Blame it all on church give additional insight into Overcrowding," analyzes the pres­ the meaning and significance of ent trend of pointing out the ill this important event. Neil Salo­ effects of high density and recent nen, president of the Unification research which shows that "it ain't Church of America, was given the necessarily so." The prospects for responsibility by Reverend Moon urban living are much more hope­ of heading the Washington, D.C. ful than we may have thought. campaign. His talk gives a deep David Carlson reports on the insight into God's heart and what Fourth International Leadership we are trying to accomplish Seminar, in which 82 students through the Washington Monu­ from top universities in Japan par­ ment rally. Mr. Sudo gives us a ticipated this summer. The guide to living an unselfish way of three-week program, sponsored life, and applies it to the Church's by the International Cultural community service activities in the Foundation, gave the students an first phase of the campaign. Dan opportunity to visit American uni­ F efferman reminds us of an earlier versities, historic sites, and rally in 1963 in which Dr. Martin homes, and study the principles Luther King, Jr. spoke about a that can help them become leaders dream of freedom throughout the who c·'H transcend barriers of na­ land, only he went on to point out tionality, culture, race. that that dream belongs to all I hope to meet some of you at people, and freedom should ring the international reception for par­ out throughout the world. ents the night before Washington A collage of the dozen or so Monument. different newspaper advertise- V.T. 2 by VICKI TATZ

I ~ l ashington, D.C., Sept. nation of Reverend Moon's 8-ln rented office­ crusades. It is the offering we W meeting rooms around make to God, asking Him to for­ the city, at the headquarters in give this nation and continue to downtown Washington, D.C., in give us His blessings. our members' minds, the days tick all too swiftly by. There are 40-odd Opening H arts days left on the day when Presi­ Each day, throughout Wash­ dent Neil Salonen takes over the ington and the surrounding com­ leadership of the campaign in munities, the members are going Washington as new leaders are ap­ door to door, trying to reach the pointed for the final countdown. hearts of the people who open the Then there are 20 days left, 19, doors, to break down barriers, to 18 ... 10. No matter how intense open hearts to God's love. Some the campaign has been until now, sing "God Bless America" on the Reverend Moon has asked us to doorstep. Or they may lead off intensify our efforts. The televi­ with a question: "What kind of sion and radio commercials started world do you want for your chil­ on September 1. A series of bold dren?" "Do you think we can re­ newspaper ads began appearing ally establish one world?" September 5. The leaders are The whole campaign has grabbing a few hours of sleep when been carefully orchestrated. In a they can. This is the most serious talk to members, Reverend Moon time in the history of the L'nifica­ compared our preparations to tion Church in America, in fact in those for the Apollo 11 flight to the history of America. Will Amer­ the moon. Everything must be icans respond to God's call? coordinated, checked, double­ For three and a half years checked. Every effort must be Reverend Sun Myung Moon has made for victory. Whatever peo­ been carrying God's message to ple, money, literature are available America, visiting all 50 states in are being thrown into the battle. crusades that have aroused con­ There are many fronts in the troversy but have also rallied field of battle. Members are work­ thousands of young people to work ing in five states-New York, for God's cause. Reverend Moon Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary­ has been imploring America, ex­ land, and Virginia-but the horting America, warning America kingpin is Washington, D.C. to come back to God, to .make Many people will come to the America God's champio. as He in­ Washington Monument rally be­ tended this nation to be when it cause of the spectacular fireworks was created. The Washington display that is promised, or to see l\lonument rally will be the culmi- the international entertainment, 4 or because they're somewhat curi­ small map of his district, with the ous. But in their door-to-door can­ perimeter of main streets outlined. vassing, the members are seeking Within those boundaries, our the families who can respond to member will visit those homes Reverend Moon's message, who once to introduce himself and th l:' will want to come to the Monu­ festival, a second time to secure ment on September 18th because reservations on the buses we are they want to stand up for some­ providing from community pick­ thing, too, for righteousness, for up points, a third time to drop off responsibility, for God. tickets or just to talk and get to know each other more deeply. By Feeling Responsible this time they are not just casual Feeling responsibility is one street acquaintances, they are of the key elements in this cam- friends. They are friends who paign. Each "tribe" is assigned an share a common concern about the area of the city-two or three sub- future of America, a common urban towns or a section of the city. dream about mankind living as There are ten areas. Each is fur- brothers. ther ,~ivided by teams. Each indi- The exciting point in a day vidual on a team has his district. comes when you meet someone The tribe's area is marked off on who gets so excited he calls up all large wall maps in their office. his friends and neighbors and Each person carries. with him a urges them to go too. In Philadel­ Getting ready for a day of witnessing. Each member of a "tribe" is responsi­ ble for his own area in the door-to-door, heart-to-heart, campaign.

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5 phia, 2,000 people were pledged day. The prayer room was in con­ at a banquet for block leaders. In stant use. Israel, France, Indone­ Virginia, "catalyzers" distribute sia, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, tickets and literature to their Germany and \ merica were rep­ neighbors. They understand this resented on the tribe. is God's rally and 'they want to get all of God's people to come. "This God At Work sure sounds like something Uncle Seddick Boubaker, from Joe and Aunt Bessie and the France, told me about the woman Joneses down the street would he had met who had iced tea and sure like. How about if I give them cake on the table and who was a call?" When you meet someone waiting behind the door, opening like that after knocking on doors it immediately when he rang the all day long, it helps to make the bell. God had told her that morn­ day more meaningful. ing that someone would come that Each member maintains a day. careful record at the end of each Michael Jones was brimming day of contacts made, what the re­ over with his experiences with a sponse was, how many tickets and Christian youth leader. "Some of bus reservations were distributed. the members of her teen center The bulging blue binders are a had joined the Unification Church statistical record of what is essen­ but, she had to admit, they tially not a statistical campaign but seemed to be better Christians a human campaign. We can dis­ than ever. Just as she had finished tribute hundreds of thousands of reading a hand-out of Reverend leaflets and tickets but what Moon's 'Warning to America' that counts, what will determine suc­ had been left at her door, she re­ cess, is the quality of the contacts ceived a phone call from us. Now that have been made, the heart­ she has heard most of the Divine to-heart relationships. Every day Principle and is defending us. She when the team members gather even loaned some pots for our together in the evening to make house here and has come over for their reports and eat dinner, they dinner. She knows the Christian also share the highlights of their churches are falling apart and ad­ day. mires Reverend Moon for what he One evening I visited a tribe is trying to do. She says the Princi­ at the house in Wheaton, Mary­ ple made the Bible come alive and land, they use as their meeting/ she sees that our kids are Chris­ eating place. They removed their tian, that they're 'saved.' " shoes at the door, then scattered to Such experiences offset the the living room, den, dining room Grass-roots witnessing won friends, with their binders to write up their support for the aims of th6 God Bless America Festival. 6 7 apathy or negativity that lies be­ the Unification Church as the last hind some doors. But knowing hope for them and for their people that God is working with them is a still behind the Iron Curtain. Bul­ strong motivating force. "The garians, Rumanians, Estonians, Spirit is on the move," said Ukranians, Latvians, Czechoslo­ Michael Beard in Richmond, Vir­ vakians, Hungarians, Russiar s, ginia. "l\liracles are happening, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Cu­ Ii terally." bans, they can forget about their One evening they were sing­ religious differences with one ing and preaching in a park in another and with us, recognizing Richmond. The neighbors came that the common enemy is Com­ out and they had a V\: ty deep ex­ munism. One Vietnamese priest perience together, Beard said. said, "I've been looking for a The next day, he got a phone call: movement that could unite Chris­ "Listen, I had to call you. You had tians against Communism. In your a rally across the street from my group I can see hope." house. I hadn't been to church in A special effort was made to two years and my husband hadn't contact these people and invite been in eight years, but the spirit them to join with us in raising our of God came down on our family. voices against Communism on You can hear my kids singing September 18th. A special section spirituals, can't you? \,\'e haven't will be reserved-with a "Wel­ sung them for years. We all went to come Captive Nations" banner­ church together today. Both my and many are planning to come husband and I quit drinking. Both with their national flags and in na­ of us used crutches, too. I was able tive costume. They will also be to throw away my crutches. His providing some of the afternoon Spirit is working!" entertainment with their folk dances. Captive N,d~ons S p~ort Each tribe working in the There are many other ways of Washington area has two public re­ reaching out to the community, as lations representatives who meet there are many reasons people can with ministers and other commu­ unite around Reverend Moon's nity leaders to talk about our work. leadership. Those who have fled In some cases, ministers have Communist-controlled areas­ pledged their congregations to fill known as "Captive Nations"­ up one, two, or more buses. Or find in him the only voice of sup­ perhaps the PR contact can help port. Disillusioned in many cases arrange a performance of the by America's failure to take a firm gospel-singing New Voices of stand against the worldwide Freedom, the New Hope Singers spread of Communism, they see International, or the fo lk-rock 8 group Sunburst. performance of the New Voices of Freedom, a group organized by Musical Out-Reach James Anderson as a way to reach The New Hope Singers In­ the black community particularly. ternational gave an outdoor per­ Rev. P. James Preston, the host formance at the Potomac Garden minister, was enthralled by the in­ Old-Age Home one evening, typi- ternational character of the team that was present that evening­ Polish, Indian, Puerto Rican, Co­ lombian, Japanese, American­ and by the enthusiasm of the New Voices of Freedom. "Until they prove Reverend Moon has done something wrong, I'm with loon," he said. "As long as he's for God, I'm with Moon, What this world needs is unification. What this nation needs is to be united. Even Jesus was among his own and his own didn't know him." Rally'Round A very vivid way to attract at­ tention to the upcoming festival is Rev. James Preston the rallies being held in parks scat­ cal of many such experiences. tered all around Washington, as Neighbors also clustered around as many as a dozen a day when the the elderly audience listened en­ 70-member Go-World Brass Band thusiastically. When they con­ spli~s its forces. The parade cluded their program, one diminu­ through Georgetown on a busy tive lady hastened to the micro­ Saturday afternoon won television phone full of praise for this "won­ coverage of the colorful 6' X 8' derful, wonderful group. Let's banners, and members dressed in send our prayers to these people animal and colonial costumes because they are doing good and marching along with the Brass helping everyone in the world. Let Band. us breathe a pra ~ er that this world Members of the Unification will come to the altar of peace." Church from nations around the The Greater Little Zion Bap­ globe are arriving in Washington to tist. Church in Fairfax, Virginia, participate in the final weeks of was pretty nearly full on the the campaign. Many don't speak Thursday evening I attended a English at all, or very little. There 9 Daily rallies held at parks, the U.S. Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial and downtown, also included an anti-pornography demonstration. is still a job for them to do-­ of the Church marched right up to passing out flyers at the rallies. the pornographic book stores in They can at least say, "Please downtown Washingt11 n and de­ come." Dennis Orme, dynamic manded in a letter presented to the head of the English Family, was owners that the stores be closed immediately placed in charge of down. "In the sight of God, por­ the rally teams upon his arrival and nography is evil," Wesley Samuels himself helped to paint the huge proclaimed through a megaphone banners carried in the parade. outside a store that claims to be the Interspersed with the Band's largest adult book store in the renditions of marches and popular world. "Unless we stake a stand, tunes are loudspeaker invitations God will bring judgment. Pornog­ to the public to attend the Festi­ raphy destroys the family unit. val, "a day you will remember." As Let's clean up America and bring Kevin Pickard dances around play­ God's spirit back to America." ing his trumpet with flair and con­ Placards carried by members bore ducting the band at the same time, such messages as "Don't Let it's not easy to resist the spirit that America Become an X-Rated is created. "They're just great!" Country," "Porno Kills the Soul," say many of their listeners. "Send Some of Those Quarters to One rally was particularly im­ Hungry Children." The speakers pressive. The band and members emphasized that anti-obscenity JO laws are based on prevailing com­ before Washington, Philadelphia munity standards, therefore it is feels a strong obligation to fulfill its up to the citizens to raise the stan­ role as "elder brother." Members dards. report that people often ask for whole blocks of tickets for their "We're Coming" friends. People are calling in daily, While the main emphasis in "I can't miss it. I'm bringing my the campaign has been Washing­ whole family. How can I get tick­ ton, D. C. and the immediate vi­ ets?" cinity, Church members are In Virginia, Dr. William mobilizing support for the rally in Bergman is in charge. He brought five other areas. Mr. Ken Sudo is with him many members from the responsible for Maryland and Los Angeles region, who are now members there are concentrating working in Richmond, Norfolk, on door-to-door contacts in Balti­ and Petersburg. The teams work­ more's famed row house districts, ing in Virginia have been given a where the population is highly radio program every day in concentrated. Jonathan Slevin, Richmond and three times a week Mr. Sudo's assistant, reports that, in Norfolk, and Dr. Bergman gave "The black people in the ,.~ areas a televised talk before the love God and their reaction to our Richmond City Council. Other festival has been very positive. A local TV programs are scheduled. number of black ministers have taken tickets for their congrega­ :-ealing the Nation tions or pledged to fill up buses." Michael Beard describes After extensive driving around, 30 what's happening in Richmond: pick-up points were established "We march into a project singing, within the areas where members. preaching, praising God, and the are working. people swarn1 out. One night at a Rev. Reiner Vincenz, veteran park, we gave a deep sermon and campaigner from Reverend showed the film of Dr. King's 1963 Moon's Eight-City Tour and the rally. Then we began singing 'We International One World Crusade, Shall Overcome' and formed a heads the teams working in parade, marching in the streets. Philadelphia and Delaware. A People came off their porches to series of banquets for block lead­ join us and we stood in the middle ers, ministers, and other commu­ of the street singing 'We Shall nity leaders in Philadelphia is win­ Overcome.' We spoke about the ning wide support for the project Washington Monument rally as of bringing busloads of people to God's rally to heal the nation. Washington on September 18th. Then our members go door-to­ As the capitol of the United States door and the word spreads like 11 wildfire." people humble themselves and The Word is the key. Rever­ turn to Him. God's messenger, end Moon has been given the mis­ His prophet, is Reverend Moon. sion by God of bringing His Word Those who care about the future of to America for these troubled America and the future of God's times. Only He qrn heal America, work in the world will be there on but that can only happen if the September 18, rain or shine. D

an interview with kevin pickard, director of Go-World Brass Band n the Washington Monument Lincoln Memorials, lwo Jima campaign, the job of the Go­ Monument and all the parks I World Brass Band is to make around the city. the campaign visible, to stir up At a lot of rallies there's a real commotion, energy, interest. A intimacy with the people. I broke band has inspirational power be­ down crying in front of one group cause of its diversity, its penetrat­ the other day. We touched hearts, ing element, its color, its connota­ just burned into each other. Many tions, and its mobility. We also nights we just start singing and support the rally speaker. We've dancing around and get everyone played in the park across from the involved, marching around with White House, at the Jefferson and us, clapping, putting the kids up 12 on our shoulders. Martial music has a long his­ We started out last spring with tory of inspiration, of straightening 14 of us doing blitz rallies around people's spines. Its rhythm has a New York City during the Yankee certain emotional appeal. It gives a Stadium campaign. We'd just stop feeling of nobility because it taps our van, hop out, perform, hop essential rhythmic simplicity plus back in, drive to the next stop. it has a penetrating, pervading Then we added more people (now quality. Before amplifiers, large we're 70) and were able to play brass bands were used to make a more complex pieces, more con­ big sound out in the open. So a cert band arrangements. Some of band is, first of all, an outdoor­ our members are highly skilled oriented thing. While an orchestra musicians. We have a pretty large is composed mostly of strings, repertoire now since we sight-read which don't have such diverse new music. The bulk of the music timbres, a wind orchestra has we play is marches or popular many different colorations, tunes, ragtime. instrument-wise. The main ele­ ment, though, is punctuation. D an interview with james anderson, director of The New Voices of Freedom ospel means good news. a pure heart can see. So many The reason we need gos­ people who don't have pure hearts G pel is that somewhere never can understand Reverend God's efforts were misunderstood Moon's motives. All he wants to do and the good news, interpreted by is God's will. We've sung this song evil men, became bad news. in many, many churches and the There is so much news ut today, people are absolutely turned by it. but it is not good news. This is the They look very objectively at the age when we really need gospel. Scripture which says, "Blessed are This is the age when, in prepara­ the pure in heart, fo r they shall see tion for the Messiah's second com­ God." ing, there has to be a medium that These are the kinds of mes­ can't be twisted. People can ac­ sages we can bring out, directly cept music because it's right from showing what Reverend Moon is the heart. doing and why all these people are Our purpose is to convey why responding. We , bring out mes­ Reverend Moon came co America sages that if faith can move moun­ and why he thinks we can build an tains then faith can change this ideal world. We try to project this world. People think faith means in one of our songs, "Pure Heart." just having faith in God, but the A pure heart is something that only Old Testament prophets were out 13 there trying to change people's about him being raised up like a thinking. They begged the people light on a hill by God. I'm sure his to repent but they also told them to dream that all men should live as build a temple, to work with their brothers was given to him by God. hands. We try to show that we We say that in order for everyone need faith and works. So we to overcome, there has to be a preach a lot. leader, someone who will stand We can also give our tes­ strong in the face of all kinds of timony in gospels. We can tell evil. Someone has to stand in the about our experiences with God forefront of overcoming. We relate and show that we are a God­ the Scriptures to Martin Luther centered group. In our music we King, to what we're doing today, make it very apparent. Many and to what Reverend Moon is preachers are really just in love teaching us. with us and I know it's because of We try to get 1ieople to think the way we're presenting the gos­ on a more universal level-beyond pel. their church, or their neighbor­ Another theme we stress is hood or their race. What we project overcoming. The Bible spe aks to the black community is the real­ constantly in Revelation about ity of black peole uniting with the blessed is he who overcomes. I Unification Church. They can see link that to Martin Luther King, we're O.K. so it's a bridge for them. • an interview with the director and soloist of Sunburst Frank Grow: Music groups all the members have to be spiritu­ from outside of our church are ally connected with God or else brought together for a variety of there's no energy. Sunburst is a reasons-co make money, through unique band in that we came to­ common musical taste or a com­ gether through God. mon musical vision. But the In one sense, our music is un­ people in Sunburst have come to­ definable. When people ask us gether because of the Church. We what kind of music we play, a new come from completely different term is emerging. I call it "God­ musical backgrounds. The only rock." It's not folk, it's not coun­ thing that holds us together some­ try, it's not gospel, it's not jazz, it's times is God. It is definitely not a combination of everything and our musical tastes. As we gain it's centered on God. unity as a band, our unity with God Sunburst is a musical micro­ deepens. We are only as good as cosm of our Church. We have our relationship with God at any white, black and yellow. We have given time. At any performance, all different backgrounds. The 14 only reason we were brought to­ But when I'm centered on God, gether is because of the Church, even if musically or technically it because we're all trying to build an isn't so good, God's spirit moves ideal world. the audienc~. It's very difficult to sit down Once we performed at a high and try to write a song with a self­ school. I was thinking, "When I go less motivation, or get into an in­ out to these kids I just really want strumental jam with a selfless to lay it to them. These kids have motivation, of trying to comple­ done so many wrong things. I re­ ment the whole. Art has usually ally have to be strong with them, been one man or a group of people and just tell them what to do and trying to express their own view of be firm." I thou ht that because I life, even in great art. was singing and putting out a lot of Patsy Johnson: God has been energy, it would be enough to wanting to express Himself move them. But my heart wasn't through music and the arts for a there and they didn't respond so long, long time .. Through experi­ much. So I repented to God and ence, I've seen that when I go out asked Him, "Heavenly Father, to an audience and think in a self­ what is it?" He told me, "You're ish way-"Will the audience like not loving the people the way I me?"-1 don't move the audience. want you to love them." So the 15 next time I went out with this feel­ I am praying for a deep unity ing of wanting to love the people in Sunburst at this time so that and even though I did everything when we perform at Washington the same, the second group of high Monument we can give witness to school students gave a whole dif­ God and to Reverend Moon. ferent response. ' Our challenge is to get to Frank Grow: Traditionally, people, to cut through the apathy artists have had a bad reputation for that most people live in. How can being selfish people, emotionally we excite young people, and old distraught. But if you just apply people, not just to have a good the Principle you understand that evening and listen to some nice art is actually a healing agent, songs and see some nice kids, but especially now, because people are how can we give them a high so depressed. A happy song, or spiritual experience where they're even a sad song in which you cry really excited about the unity of along with them, heals them. heart that they find to the extent That's where you have to begin, that they're willing to investigate with what the people want. There further, willing to get up out of are so many kinds of people in this their seats, to leave their houses, country, and so many kinds of to skip a Thursday night of bowl­ music. How are you going to pick ing or a Friday night poker game to one? The only way, I'm finding, is see exactly what we're saying. if you truly try to serve the people What can we do to relate to the guy and try to get a message across. who is only interested in his One way to purify your music is to girlfriend or whether he's going to understand your purpose. You get fired next week? have to realize why we are playing this song, why we are playing jazz, Patsy Johnson: When I pray why we are playing rock. about this, God keeps telling me An artist becomes his art and over and over again, the people are looking for sincerity. They want to his art is an expression of him. So be guided. They really want to be­ as we grow as individuals, our lieve that the world can change. music grows. As we purify our But too many things have hap­ hearts and as we are more able to pened in their lives. The only way offer our music to God, then God­ is to win their trust through sincer­ centered music comes through. ity. So we have to learn to deepen There is no formula because we are pioneering. It's like being at our hearts. If we're not sincere, they feel it. sea. As more and more sun shines through the clouds, we can see our Frank Grow: But we also have goal, our purpose. Then we can to stimulate them to do some­ chart our course and go forward. thing. • 16 an interview with brian saunders, director of New Hope Singers International ur goal is to be a really us deep emotional fulfillment, like true Christian choir so going to old-age homes and or­ 0 d at no matter where we phanages. We go there to give joy sing or for what purpose or to but I think we receive much more whom, we can truly inspire Chris- than we give. To see old people in tian people of all denominations, their later 70s, 80s, even 90s feel religious people and non-religious really stimulated by our perfor­ people, to really feel that religion mance and come up to us crying, is not only a deep part of man's kissing us and shaking our hands. eternal life but something they Or to go to orphanages and have must have, now, in their hearts, kids hold on to you, run up to you something they must live with. and pull on your leg. These are Because we ha, e many differ- very deep emotional experiences ent types and qualities of people for us, to feel these people loving in our audiences, I try to select to be loved and loving to feel clean music that is stimulating and joy and to have a wonderful time. music that many people know, We have much reason to think of from all parts of the world. For why we should try to stimulate example, our international folk others. songs are not folk songs that we We're almost three years old dug out from 15th century litera- now and we've traveled about ture but they are songs that the 400,000 miles. We've performed people presently sing as part of in the White House. We've done their folk culture. tons of community service work, A religious end can be like singing in Sunday services in achieved in many different ways. churches and at veterans' hospi­ For a religious experience, the first tals, old-age homes, orphanages. thing that must happen is that a We've sung at Buddhist temples, person's heart must be stimulated Shinto shrines, in seaside concerts or made more round or full. You and on boats and ocean ferries. must elevate their heart somehow; We've done many different types either give them great joy or make of performances. Our first perfor­ them think extremely seriously mance was at the Waldorf Astoria about a si ,uation, but you must re- Hotel and our second was at Car­ ally move their emotions very negie Hall, after two weeks of re­ deeply. Even a medley of interna- hearsal. That's when Reverend tional folk songs can be a profound l\loon had just organized the choir. experience if the motive is pure I've been with the choir since and it gives a clean, pure feeling. it was formed on September 15, We do many things that give 1973. I h ' been in music all my 17 life. I went to school at Ohio State I've always loved choirs and University, then I taught music ever since I was little I had dreams composition and music theory about conducting choirs. In junior there. I had studied choral com­ high school I would hitchhike position and conducting in Europe against my parents' wishes a few ac the Vienna Academy of Music. hundred miles on Saturday to hear I've sung with the Robert Shaw a college choir, then I would Chorale. critique them for the local paper. When I joined, there weren't So choirs are ingrained in my any members in my state, so I re­ blood. When I was ten years old I ally k lc God had led me co the sang in five choirs at the same Unification Church very clearly. time. So now I can pour my whole There was a team witnessing o,. heart into this mission and feel chat the Ohio State campus and I went it is God's desire. co hear them sing because I The purpose of chis group is thought they were such lousy sing­ co be a classical choir. Noc that it is ers. I went to one of their lec­ always supposed to sing a Bach A tures, joined and that was chat. minor mass every morning before About a year lacer I quit teaching breakfast and not that ic should and went co Belvedere for training. sing Handel's Messiah every day, I joined because I felc that I but it has a certain formality, even had had all the intellectual experi­ if we're singing songs from The ences I ever wanted co have. I was Sound ofMusic. It's a very free situ­ teaching at a young age and I was ation in that we can do all sorts of winning composition awards but music and feel chat ic is part of our my heart was craving for anything mission. I can go co a music store of significance. I was desperate co and feel free co look in any catalog, receive a heart experience. I had rock music, anything. Or when been looking around at all differ­ I'm arranging songs, I can do any­ ent religions, not just the Unifica­ thing. Our appeal is co everybody, tion Church, but ic was in the Uni­ not just to one kind of audience. fication Church chat I found my For the Washington Monu­ spirit most deepened and the ment rally I was thinking of doing a people most understanding. They whole medley of international folk were so considerate in crying co songs, from maybe 15 co 20 coun­ bring someone closer co God. tries, one after another during the They were inexperienced but afternoon entertainment. People humble, and ready to go the dif­ could really feel, "Yes, this is an ficult path. I like going difficult international festival. Here they paths; I always have. Life is very are in their international costumes full chat way, and I like to live a full and this is really an international life. experience." \Ve can introduce 18 In their six weeks in Washington, D. C., the three-year-old New Hope Singers International, composed of singers from 25 nations, performed at veterans hospitals, senior citizens' homes, hospitals, and public rallies, climaxing their stay with the G(Jd Bless America Festival on September 18. them to a more international way tion of America's bicentennial. of thi nking and get people out of And that makes my heart jump up themselves. We'll have authentic and down. I really feel that this is costumes too, cowboys, Indians, the most powerful message of this Eskimos, Japanese, Korean, bicentennial celebration. America European, an amazing spectacle. couldn't have anything that is just By our international spirit, American because America is from many people in Washington will all over. Here we come, represent­ understand that no country in the ing all part of the world, gathering world should exist just for itself; together to celebrate the 200th countries must exist for a higher birthday of this country that God purpose. I can't think of this rally has christened to be a shining bas­ as just bein ~ a bicentennial event, tion of hope for the free world. • but it is an international celebra- /9 by NEIL A. SALONEN od muse be the example President, Unification of unconditional faith, Church of America G the well-spring of eternal optimi m. Every time a sinner gets From a talk to members i11 ll'asn­ down on his knees and prays to ington, D.C. on August .8, 1976 God, "I'm going to change my ways," we may not believe him and his wife and family may ot belie,e him, hut God believes him. If God didn't believe him. how could He have any hope at all? When he ins again, God is hurt. And if he prays again and repents again, God believes him again. If he sins again, God is hurt again. This is the most fundamental un­ derstandin, of what it means to love with God's heart. In the face of thousands of year.s of faithlessness on the part of man, God still believes in man. God believes in each one of us, He loves us and He's hoping for us and He knows what we can !.,ecome. As zo we edge towards it step by step even begin to understand the po­ and generation by generation, God tential that exists within all of hu­ is forever believing and hoping. manity to create a heaven that's fa r But man has disappointed God greater than anything that God time and time again. If man can't could just hand over to us. We can respond to God, nothing can be create it out of our own potentiali­ accomplished. Man broke his ty. promise again and again. Yet it is In the beginning, even be­ man, not vaguely man somebody fore God created man He had a else but us and me who come back concept of what His partner to God and accuse Him for not would be like. It must have been fulfilling His promises to us. God who was the most excited at That's probably the most bitter the time of the creation of Adam moment of all for God, not only to and Eve. It must have been God be disappointed, but to be accused who had the greatest hope, be­ of being the responsible one, the cause it was God's joy that grew as guilty one, when what has hap­ they grew and it was God who pened was never God's desire or wanted to give everything to His intention. sons and daughters. But because Reverend Moon, too, is for­ they centered things on them­ ever telling us what can be, what selves and because they adopted a should be, if we fulfill our respon­ selfish way of life instead of a sibility. But not everything that he truly unselfish way of life, then all has said could be or should be the things that God wanted to came about. Whose responsibility give, He couldn't. And when He was that? That was our responsibil­ couldn't, man accused Him: What ity. kind of God are you? If you're so We are beginning to under­ good, why do we have this kind of stand that the limits that we're world? operating under and that we ac­ However much man has suf­ cept in our lives and in the influ­ fered since the time of the fall, we ence and possibilities of our must always remember that God movement, our nation, and our has suffered far more than us. If world are not limits which are in­ you've ever been in the position trinsic to those things but are limits of a physical or spiritual parent which are self-imposed, limits that then you've realized how much we've come to accept. It's only you can love someone you feel re­ when we challenge those limits sponsibility for, unconditionally that we can begin to understand and regardless of how much they the tremendous potential that's understand. If you have a little within one man. If there's so much baby that hits or bites you, you potential in one man, we can't don't get angry or consider it re- 2 / sponsible, because your love is far man. But painstakingly, never greater than all those things. failing, God continued and perse­ God's love for man was so great vered until He could raise man lit­ and God's need for love was tle by little. equally as great as man's. Since If you're the parent of age­ the fall, God has been looking for nius, it's easy to be proud or if you man, looking for love, and man have a very faithful child, you has been looking for God, for that know the joy of being a parent. same love. But because we're so But if you have a child who's de­ far apart, we couldn't even see it. linquent it's very difficult to un­ When we say The Word was in derstand what your responsibility the beginning, we mean the con­ is because you can't cut off the cept of man, and Adam and Eve relationship. You can't deny him. were reflections of that Word. You'll be the parent of that child They were the incarnation of that eternally. You're completely Word and when they fell away bound up with the fate of that from God, God's Word was lost to other individual and you'll keep 22 working despite the most difficult But that's not the nature of God. circumstances. If you have a re­ In the particular family I just tarded child you feel desperate mentioned, the parents were so because you can sense within that caught up that they sometimes child, unable to express itself, the said they felt guilty ignoring their spark of a human being. other children because they fo­ There's a book out about an cused everything on the one who autistic child who completely needed them most. But they were withdrew from the world. It's a fighting for his life. That's how beautiful story of parents who much God loves us, because would not let their child slip away. that's the love of a parent. If even Autistic children are usually very fallen parents love their children normal in the beginning but by so much, can't you imagine how the time they're one or two years God, the ideal parent, must love old, suddenly they stop respond­ us so much more. Even the most ing. If you go to a baby, the baby wonderful parents can recall mo­ always reaches up to be picked up men ts when there was just a but an autistic child just stands flicker of the wrong kind of anger there. You can pick it up or put it towards their child. But God down and it doesn't seem to make never once, from the beginning to much difference at all. But these the end, wavered in His love for parents fought with all the power each one of us. He suffered so of their love. They poured every­ much. thing into that child and they How much did it mean to never once gave up believing that God when Jesus was called? their child could b ~ a normal, When people fall in love, their fully functioning individual, and basic desire is to be together, to they won! In a most amazing case, just sit down somewhere and look extremely rare in me 'ical science, at each other, because it fulfills they won because they wouldn't something so basic in them. stop until they won. When I read When God found His son, His that story, it showed me just a lit­ first desire was to be with him, to tle bit of what God's love is like. go up on a mountaintop with him. We think it's easy to be God. But because God is the parent of You just have to reach out and all mankind, He saw His son as a love everybody. But is it so easy? channel through whom He could It's very easy in the Unification restore His word and His love to Church or any church to say to all mankind. someone, "Of course, God loves Therefore God had to sac­ me and I imagine He loves you, rifice 1he very love that He'd been but there are so many other peo­ searching for by sending His son ple. How can He love them all?" out into the world, and His son 2] experienced the same thing as this terrible list of requirements: God did. Jesus came with the "Please do many sacrifices and most sincere desire to help live under difficult circumstances. people, to restore God's Word and Travel around and eat in a strange to lead them to the very situation way and go ,,ut and do this rally or that they desired, but they that campaign and then if you do couldn't understand him or accept everything on the checklist I'll him; they felt threatened by him. open up my heaven and you can They pushed him away. walk in." That's not the nature of The life of the people who God, but sometimes we act as if have followed God throughout we felt that way. That's not right history has been a life of sacrifice, at all. God has been at the very not because God demands sac­ front. If we want examples of rifice but because God has lived a that, look at God's central figures, life of sacrifice. Following after His representatives. They have God simply means to take up re­ always been the ones at the very sponsibiliry with Him. God sac­ front of what had to be done. rificed Himself. God put man That's the pattern of God so that's first. God sent those people who the pattern we follow. It's not to could understand Him back out satisfy some demand but to catch into the world. I'm sure many of up to where God already is. If we you have been on teams where want to receive the love that you just wanted to stay together we've all been longing for, if we bur when a new instruction comes want to fulfill the promise of mak­ or a new campaign begins, the ing this th.: kingdom of heaven on group has to break up and go earth, and most important of all if someplace. I know you realize the we want to create a world which maturity of doing that, but some­ we will be proud to bring our chil­ thing inside is tugging at your dren into, not a world in which heartstrings, and you wish you we're afraid to send them to could remain together. That's the school, afraid to send them into same way God feels. He would the streets, if we want to be like like to have a small group just that then we're behind and we praising Him and giving sacrifices have to catch up to where God al­ to Him. It wouldn't be everything ready is. He expected but it's better than If we catch God now and go what He receives under most cir­ through these circumstances with cumstances. But instead He sends Him, there'll be a certain camara­ His people out. God has lived a derie. Are the richest times you life of sacrifice, so we must never remember the ones where you feel that God is different from us. had the most food and the best It's not that God made up place to live or was it the time 24 when you and your family went change, and if people change, through a difficult hardship to­ they have to change something so gether? That's the kind of mem­ fundamental that they can't even ory that will be the richest in hope to do it by themselves. heaven, not the joyous Easter ser­ They're going to have to renew vi ... es where the candles were just their relationship with God. right, however nice those were. However joyful God was It'll be the times when we just when Jesus was born, can you made it by the skin of our teeth. imagine how much He suffered When the war heroes came back when the people didn't accept from World War II and the Korean him, how frustrated He was. For War, were they forever telling you the past two thousand years God about the R & R they had or the has forever encouraged and sup­ times they had off? They usually ported us, even in our most told you the close calls they had or meagre efforts. how somehow in the most crucial That reminds me of a story. I moment somebo,ly was needed was raised in a Scandinavian and they stood up and the whole home; my parents were Finnish war changed because they di • and Norwegian. One Norwegian something. That's what they re­ story became famous when it was member and what fills their hearts turned into the television series with pride. That's what makes a called "I Remember Mama." total victory, because that's not They were always living hand­ just the victory of the army or the to-mouth but they didn't want victory of the nation, it's their vic­ their children to be upset so every tory. It's not just a feeling, it's the Friday when the family came truth. There's a certain sense of home and they counted out the accomplishment and joy that money for the different things comes with that. they had to pay, the parents would It would be nice if we were say, "Well, we'll make it this living in the kingdom of heaven week. If anything happens we can already, but that's not true. Look always draw some money out of around. It's very obvious what the our bank account. But we don't world is like. We know that, yet want to do that if we can help it." bdore we joined this church we The children always felt there was couldn't find the solution. The so­ some kind of cushion protecting lution is not some secret that just them. When the eldest daughter hasn't been revealed yet. The went out and got a job, the first solution is •o restore God's Word, thing she did with her paycheck not in sermons and books, but in was to give it to her mother and the hearts of men. If the world is say, "This is for the bank ac­ going to change, people have to count." The mother looked at her 25 and said, "There was never any explained that this was where we bank account." had to begin-that we had to train So God has never fully re­ ourselves. We couldn't expect any vealed to us the seriousness of the mystical success to come to us. situation because there wasn't any We learned we had to build our way, as children., that we could success step by step, laying a take responsibility to help. But foundation. now, God has rekindled the hope But it was real and it was that we can bring about not an pure, so it was accepted by God. improvement in mankind but a Our success grew as he traveled fundamental change, that we can across America, and the great vic­ restore God's Word to mankind. tory came with Madison Square But to do that we have to unite Garden. The membership began with the words of Jesus and die to to grow and God's blessing was ourselves in order to live in him. obvious. We generated some pub­ It's like swinging from one licity and Reverend Moon was no trapeze to another in a circus. longer the man nobody knew. He There's that moment when you became the man everybody had have to let go of what you are and heard of but nobody knew any­ fly through the air to what you thing about. Reverend Moon hope will be there and that's called taught us the pattern of success. the leap of faith, because that's the That same team he had formed point at which you just have to over two years of crusading throw everything in, there's no marched on to eight cities in 1974 turning back. There's no com­ and went on to Japan and Korea, promise and there's no way to be culminating in the great Yoido sure. Rally which drew 1. 2 million No matter how many dis­ people in Seoul. couragements Reverend Moon Now we are beginning again suffered in the last 30 years, when at the very bottom. There will not he came to America he put his be time in his life for Reverend foot down and said, "I come to Moon to crusade in every country, bring God's Word to America." so he has to set the pattern here, There were only about seven or to pour the effort of the entire eight centers in America then. He world into America and then gathered together the leaders and transfer the pattern everywhere. told them he would give a speak­ God's greatest desire is to shake ing tour, and he formed a team of this country. 70 pioneers. At that time, no one We're being trained to go out had ever heard of him before. as little Sun Myung Moons. The results weren't what we ex­ That's the interesting thing that's pected, and then Reverend Moon different about our movement 26 than, say, Billy Graham, who's people of other lands and create been crusading for many years. one world family under God. He calls what he does "bringing If a state leader goes out and people to the door," in order not wants to start a crusade after to cause divisions among Washington Monument, we may churches. He tries to convert say, "We have no money and no them to Christianity in general one's ever heard of you," but and he leaves them to the that's exactly the situation that churches to be followed up on. I Reverend Moon was in when he know some people who've been started his seven-city tour in 1972. saved by Billy Graham three or That's the pattern that he estab­ four times. I'm not saying that's lished. The purpose was to launch bad, I'm just saying it's obviously us into the future, that any one of not enough. It's much better than us could begin a crusade. We if they hadn't been saved at all, won't be successful in the begin­ but it's not enough. He h:.sn't ning just like that; we'll have to formed a movement, he hasn't build our success brick by brick, sent out state leaders, he doesn't but we can do it. If they persevere send out missionaries all over the with the same determination that world. The thing that impresses Reverend Moon had, they'll bring people so much is that Reverend victory. And when we're having Moon's movement is multiplying. Madison Square Gardens in SO Even when he's in New York, states and more than 100 coun­ there are still people speaking up tries, speaking God's words, then in Washingron or someplace else. the world will really change. So People have the feeling in the Washington campaign is America and soon around the meant to be the culmination of a world that we're everywhere. certain pattern, of a certain train­ So the purpose is for us to ing that we've received. fulfill the responsibility of going It is the end of one stage of out to other parts of this country Reverend Moon's ministry in and the world. After the America, but it is the beginning of Washington Monument cam­ something too. It is the beginning paign, if we can have a great suc­ of our ministry to our mission. cess, we will evangdize in each From there we have to march. Jlle state and when the foundation is have to go and carry out with that strong we will use it to launch a same determination and that same crusade throughout the world. success. If that pattern can be Then America will fulfill her multiplied, if there were just SO of promise to God, the promise that our members in America as con­ was made at the time of her bless­ troversial as Reverend Moon is ing. We're going to lift up the today, the country would be tear- 27 Mr. Kamiyama (at far end), regional coordinator for the five-state campaign, meets with Washington, D. C. leaders. ing its hair out and people would power of love. demand a full-length television But we must take the respon­ special explaining the Divine sibility to make sure that what we Principle. People would have to are doing in Washington and in know what was creating a new America is truth and is love. We race of people, people who are are the people to resurrect the uncompromising, who are not de­ family so we have to first resurrect pendent on the support of dig­ o 1rselves. We ·have to become the nitaries or big labor or a good shining examples. press, people whose power must What is the purpose of the come from someplace else. They Washington Monument cam­ can look everywhere and if their paign? One purpose is to serve as eyes are open what they will find the culmination of Reverend is that this power comes from Moon's ministry. It is also an of­ God. There's no power greater fering. America is strong because than that-the power of truth, the God has given her incredible 28 apart-many divorces and remar­ riages, many kids running away (a million and a half kids under 18 ran away last year). Even more shocking, 700 kids were beaten to death by their parents last year, There will not be time in his and that's just the ones that were life for Reverend Moon to reported. Who knows what hap­ crusade in every country, so pens that's never recorded. There's a shocking rise in al­ he has to set the pattem coholism, drug addiction, immor­ here, to pour the effort of ality. (Immorality isn't even con­ the entire world into sidered immorality any more; it's America and then transfer the new morality.) To be moral i the pattern everywhere. to be guilt-ridden, repressed, and God's greatest desire is to psychologically disturbed. We have to fan out across the shake this country. city and bear witness to what this movement has meant to our lives. You know there are many people in America who were raised in the right way. One reason we are so desperate to do something is that the yoringer generations seem to blessings and yet in this genera­ be getting further and further tion we feel that it is because away and we seem to have less America was lucky, and we don't and less in common. There are want to get dragged down by many people who are troubled people who are not so lucky. But deeply in their hearts and they're if America loses her relationship praying daily to God; they're iso­ with God, she will lose the bless­ lated because they don't find the ings that came with that relation­ leadership in the government , r ship. That is not just a theory. It is even in the churches. But their all too obvious that the extent to foundation is still intact and which we've been turning away they're waiting for someone to from God is the extent to which come and sound the alarm. They we have been losing those bless­ are ready to be called, to stand up ings. When the home was a Chris­ together for what is right. They tian home or a religious home, the can't do it by d mselves, and family unit was strong in America. there isn't anyone to lead them to When the homes became secular do it together, except us. then families began falling I don't think what Reverend 29 Mo,m is going to say at tinue to give His blessing. There Washington Monument is news to is no give and take. Not because many people in America. Those He's angry or vindictive, but be­ ideas are not unique to our cause there's no bas .. for Hirn, movement, although they aren't God is being pushed out of popular. But I do think chat by America. Another meaning of the corning together to affirm chose Washington Monument rally is to things, we are demonstrating that bring together people symboli­ Reverend Moon is providing the cally representing all of America. leadership to mobilize the people Two hundred thousand, two mil­ of chis countr-: to reach out to lion, whatever the number, they God. We are n ying, "Corne and will come together and give stand up for what you believe. thanks to God. If that offering is Come and stand up for God in really pure, if we create the right America, for the things we have to environment for that offering, do in the world. This is your then God can continue to give His chance. There isn't a candidate blessing to America, so that we you can vote for, there isn' t a can still be in a position to carry church you can go to, there isn't a out our mission. Five years from newspaper you can support, but now if Americ1 turns to God, but here's a rally. If you come, the nothing happens now, the country meaning will be very clear. This may h.,- e so declined that it will rally is not a compromise. The be a hollow shell. We have to save statements made are not going to America now while she still has be vague. We are going to say the strength to act for God the what God wants to say. If you way God needs her. America is come and stand up for that, then the champion for freedom around everyone in America and the world. If we don't save throughout the world will recog­ America soon, then America will nize that there are people who be­ just be another country on a long lieve those things. That will bring list of those that need to be rescued a tremendous rebirth of hope for from chaos and tribulation. people just like that all through­ Washington Monument will out America and the world. The be an offering. If we can make rally is a time for you to come and that offering pure, then we can stand up for what you believe." extend God's blessing into our That's the meaning of the coming century. All the leaders, Washington Monument rally. the president, the congressmen If there are no Americans should come out and make that who will give thanks to God for offering, but until they do we will the blessings He has given, then go in their place, not because we by the Principle He cannot con- are more worthy than they are, 30 but because somehow God could who is leading the cause of righ­ reach us at this time. It's not easy teousness. We want to assemble to do this campaign. We don't the people at Washington Monu­ have enough people, enough ment who will testify to the mean­ money, enough facilities. That is ing and purpose of America, who why God needs us because we are can stand up and be counted as the people who can still work in true Americans in God's sight. that situation. If everything were Nehemiah gathered the Hebrew easy, then God would not need people together and read them us. The reason God needs us is the book of laws to renew their that there is no one else to do this covenant with God. We too wi ll work. gather the people together and Our determination must be read them the book of laws and to somehow find a way for us to renew their covenant with God. If take the responsibility off of the people renew their covenant God's shoulders and carry it our­ and if they humble themselves selves. For 6,000 years the human and pray, then God will remain in race has left e, erything in God's America. So the purpose of the hands and blamed Him for their Washington Monument rally is to own shortcomings. Our responsi­ bring God's truth to America. bility now is to become the true We have no merit by our­ men and true women who can live selves, unless we humbly ask God up to God's standard and take re­ to use us despite all of our sponsibility for this world and shortcomings, to trust us despite welcome God into this world. In­ all our wrongdoings and to have stead of making God change the hith in us despite all of our incon­ world, we will change the world sistencies, and to help us love and welcome God into it. Then others the same way that we want America and men and women Him to love us. If we can do that, throughout the world will have we will have laid the cornerstone realized the kingdom of heaven. for the kingdom of heaven in The kindgom of heaven is the America and on earth. Wash­ place where God is the guest md ington Monument is the end of man is the host. America will be one stage but the beginning of our whatever we make it, or whatever real battle to establish the king­ we fail to make it, and we will all dom of heaven. Nothing is going live with the consequences. to stop us, nothing is going to stand There are millions of people in our way. If people wonder, who know what's right, but they when are we going to leave Wash­ are looking for someone to lead ington, the answer should be very them. At Washington Monument clear: We are never going to leave we have to show those people Washington. D 31 hy does a man feel so points, we can understand our es­ nice when he is told that sential desire is to be close to God W he is a deep person? If as much as possible, to be one with he is told: Oh, you are a shallow God, to resemble God. Even if person, he will be angry. But if he someone is an atheist, his essential is told that he is a deep person, he desire is to be one with God. No feels good. Why? Because God is one can deny that everyone is look­ deep. Therefore, if he is told that ing for God. Everyone wants to he is a deep person, unconsciously resemble God. This is the essen­ it is approval or being told that he tial nature of man.

is closer to God. When our desire is fulfilled, If you are told that you are a we feel happy. Man can be happy beautiful person, not only exter­ only when he resembles God. To nally but also internally, then I am be happy means to be one. God is sure you feel so nice. Even though eternal. If we can resemble God you know that you are not that and be one with God, our happi­ way, if someone says it, then you ness will be eternal. This is the feel so nice because beauty is the reason why we need God. Every­ nature of God, the attribute of one needs God. Not only religion­ God. This means you have been ists but doctors, lawyers, farmers, told that you have the nature of soldiers, diplomats, everyone God; you are close to God. needs God. Fathers need God, If someone says that you are a mothers need God, children need pure person, even though you God, brothers need God, sisters have lots of trouble, you smile be­ need God, friends need God, cause purity is the nature of God. everyone needs God. Everyone To be deep, to be beautiful, to be must resemble God. Everyone pure, to be high, to be wide, to be must be one wil11 God. This is the wise, to be clever, to love pure­ key to true happiness. ly-all these things are the nature Is there anyone who doesn't of God. If we understand these like to be happy? If someone says, 32 33 "No, no, no, I don't like to be For example, by taking food, he happy. I'm a terrible man. Every­ feels happy. "Oh, now I'm full so one dislikes me. I don't like any­ I'm happy. Thank you." It's very one. This is my way of life," he is true to some extent. By taking saying this in order to gain atten­ food or creations, we feel happy tion, to be loved. When a little boy because it's a blessing from God. or little girl is upset, when The third blessing was to have Mommy doesn't give some cookie dominion over creation, So if this and she desires to get it, then she blessing isn't accomplished we says: "I don't want the cookie. I cannot be happy. This is the don't like it." reason why we are looking for crea­ Everyone is looking for true tions. We are sure that it is a factor happiness. But how can you find of happiness because it comes true happiness? From the begin­ from God. ning of mankind, I am sure Adam Secondly, people evaluate and Eve wanted to be happy. A others by their cultural value. He's thousand years later, I am sure all a musician in a city. He's a state mankind was seeking happiness. politician. He's a famous doctor. Everyone tries throughout his People respect this kind of cultural whole life, from the cradle to the value, but inside him there might grave, to be happy. Babies try to be be terrible things. Sometimes he happy by being given milk. Old can cover his impurities. At the men try to be happy by being time of Jesus many elders or served or loved. Billions of people teachers had beautiful robes. Be­ have tried to find true happiness, cause of these beautiful robes, but no one has succeeded. people bowed to them and re­ Was it because of lack of ef­ spected them, but they were the fort? No. They tried and tried and ones who crucified Jesus, who de­ tried, shedding tears and sweat stroyed the destiny of mankind. from morning till night, and still People have no eyes to see true happiness has been beyond the true value of man, the true reach. The more we try, the more merning of life, the true way of true happiness goes somewhere. life. They enjoy being admired, Why? Not because of lack of effort but they are respected by people or lack of -. hedding tears, but for taking things, reputations, posi­ something must have been wrong. tions. They think reputations and We must find this point. Other­ positions are the standard of the wise, mankind cannot find true value of man, so rhey feel so happy happiness. Let's see how he has when th.·\ are given creations, tried to get happiness. things, r.,.~, utations, positions, or Fallen man thought that he power. could gain happiness by receiving. Is there anything that can last 34 forever among those things? Noth­ happiness? The answer will be ing can last forever. Then if these very simple because our experi­ creations are lost, his happiness ence must be turned upside­ will be lost. When his house is de­ down. Instead of receiving first, stroyed, his happiness will be lost. we must give first. By giving, we When his money is lost, his happi­ will receive afterwards. This is the ness will be lost. If his position is way to true happiness. It is very lost, his happiness will be lost. If simple but very essential. his reputation is lost, his happiness No one truly experimented will be lost. Happiness based on with this way of life. Someone these factors cannot last forever. It must start the unselfish way of life. cannot be true. Otherwise, mankind cannot find If a person thinks the family is true happiness an,f must remain in the basis of happiness, then still, if hell forever. Unless someone can the husband is lost, if the wife is start the unselfish way of life by lost, if their children are lost, hap­ giving first, no one can start the piness will disappear. If happiness kingdom of heaven. is based on something that cannot We thought that if we gave last fore, er, then the happiness it­ something, we would lose that. self will be lost. That's why we don't like to give. We thought we could be It's very true. I love this Bible so happy by receiving these kind of much and if I give this Bible to things. We tried to be happy by him, I'll lose it. I don't like to lose taking. We thought that by taking something I love: This is the es­ and by having we could be happy. sential nature of man. But because So we tried to take everything. man committed sin, someone The result of this attitude is must pay indemnity. Otherwise this world. By doing this, no one there is no restoration. Even could be happy. This is an histori­ though I don't like to give first, if I cal fact. This truth is bigger than give this book to him, if I give an experiment. Now we can un­ fruits and apples and oranges, derstand that this is not the way of what can I get? I can get invisible true happiness. By taking, no one gratitude. The gratitude cannot be can be happy. This is the result of seen but it does not perish. Then the experiments of mankind someday if he has some wonderful throughout history. This is a self­ foods, the first idea that will come ish, self-centered way of life. We to him is that he would like to give tried to take and found no one that food to me. Eventually I don't could be happy. This is not the lose anything at all. way of true happi ness. This is Principle. By giving, I What could be the true way of receive. By giving, I can feel the life? What could be the true way to joy of giving, and he will feel the JS joy of receiving. Then by him giv­ If there is a man of love, ing, he can experience the joy of whose heart is filled with love, but giving and I can experience the joy he never gives love to anyone, you of receiving. By giving, we will re­ don't feel that he is a man of love, ceive. By serving, we will be but you feel that he has no love. served. By giving, we can take. He feels that he is a man of love, This is the principle of true happi­ but he doesn't give any love to ness. We may think that if we give anyone, then all of us feel that he something, we will lose it, but it's has no love. It's strange but he's not true. For instance, Jesus had a always regretting that he has no lot of truth, but if he didn't give love. But if he gives out all the love truth to mankind, then no one he has so that he feels that he has would have heard Jesus' truth. By no love left, then how do you feel? giving truth, Jesus' truth in­ Do you feel that he has no love? creased. What if Jesus didn't like You feel he has lots of love. to give truth: "Oh, this is wonder­ By giving things, by giving ful truth. I want to keep it for my­ truth, by giving love, we never self." If I am a man of truth, if I lose things, truth and love. The have all the truth but don't give more you give, the more you own. this truth, then does this truth in­ The moment you give out, in a crease? But by giving this truth to sense, you own more than you everyone, my truth will increase. gave. Then you will be rich in 36 things, truth and love. God's way of life. Who could be the richest per­ God Himself gave the most son in this ·world? He is the orte precious thing He had to mankind, who gave most. He is the one who for the happ;ness of mankind. God gives the most precious thing he is the one who started the unself­ has for the sake of others. Who do ish way of life. This is the reason you think is the one who gave the why Jesus, who was one with God, most precious thing he had for the also lived the unselfish way of life. sake of the happiness of mankind? Jesus gave all he had. He lost ev­ It must be Jesus. erything on the cross. His robes Jesus gave all he had: his \\ere torn into pieces. He lost his things, his sweat, his tears, his tears, sweat, blood and life. But blood and his life. His life was when everything he had was lost, more precious than the universe in when he had nothing, this point the eyes of God. Millions of sin­ was the starting point of the resur­ ners cannot create the kingdom of rection of Jesus. The resurrection heaven, but sinless Jesus was the of Jesus was the beginning of one who could start the kingdom Christianity. of heaven. Jesus' life must have This is the spirit of Jesus. been more precious than all of fall­ When he gave ev.erything, when en mankind. This way of life he lost everything, he received wasn'tjustJesus' wa of life; it was eternal life. He was the start of 37 eternal life, and he could give that this meaning, since I am g1vmg eternal life to all of mankind who this talk, I am subject. You are re­ received him. ceiving so you are .lilQject. If you In this meaning, his original want to be subject, give first. He life was given to all mankind. who gives the most will be the sub­ Therefore, Jesus.could live in all ject. This is Principle. If we aren't Christians who received him. giving anything, no one is qual­ Jesus is alive now in this meaning. ified to be subject. The value of his life wasn't lost. By This is the way to true happi­ giving, he received and he gave ness. The selfish way of life made this again and mankind received us unhappy. Then the unselfish the eternal value of life. This is the way of life must make us happy. reason why no one can forget This is God's way of life. By doing Jesus. His unselfish way of life this, we can resemble God. This is made his life precious. By giving the way we can gain true, eternal the most precious thing he had, happiness. even though he lost that, he never We are living in Washington, lost anything. He received the D.C. What can we give to the greatest value of li fe. people of Washington? Everyone This is the d,.:pest way of wants to be loved, because love is life, and it came from God. God is life. In order to live, we must be the one who started the unselfish given love. In order to be given way of life. True happiness comes love, we must be loved. But we from resembling God. How can we can't give love. We are not giving resemble God? The answer is very love in many cases. Why? Because simple. We should live God's way love needs the foundation of beau­ of life-an unselfish way of life. ty. If some girl is very beautiful, Also, we must realize that everyone loves her because beauty there are subjects and objects. Ev­ is the foundation of love. The eryone wants to be subject be­ reason we can't love each other is cause everyone wants to be the very simple. It's because there is central person. This is the essen­ no beauty. The impurity of man's tial desire of man, because man is nature is the reason we cannot love as precious as God and has the each other. same nature as God, and God is The city of Washington is so the center of the universe. This is beautiful-big trees, green ev­ the reason man wants to be the erywhere; it's far more beautiful center of the world. But how do we than New York. But still, can peo­ become the center? The apswer is ple love each other? Why not? Be­ also simple-by giving. He who cause even though the trees are gives first will be subject, and he beautiful, man isn't beautiful. who receives will be the object. In This is the reason. Impurity is the 38 reason why people can't love each Even though we have a lot of other. Many prostitutes are com­ difficulties and impurities, as long ing to celebrate the bicentennial as God has chosen us, we must celebration. The Capitol is cor­ purify our insides first with prayer rupted. Ravens are now cawing and re('t!ntance, then be the mop over the capitol building, of this city, sacrificing ourselves, This impurity must be our time to sleep, our time to enjoy cleansed. Otherwise, no one can our life. By shedding tears, sweat love each other and the kingdom and even blood to make others of heaven can't come to the city of happy first, by gi \ ing all we have Washington, D. C. Who will first, by serving the city first, by cleanse the impurity of this city? In serving the community first, we order to cleanse something, you can receive true happiness. God must be pu1e. Otherwise, you can give true success in this cam­ cannot cleanse impurity. This is paign. By the purification of our very true. This is the reason God insides, by serving the communi­ called you. Even though we have ty, with tears and sweat and even lots of impurities, still there must our own blood, we can show the be something good in the eyes of true meaning of the spirit of Rev. God. He will cleanse us more than Moon. before, purify us, and He wants to His life was filled with sac­ send us to this city to cleanse its rifice. His entire life was torn into impurity, just like a mop, to pieces to make mankind happy. cleanse the dirtiness of this world. He showed the true way of life A mop is responsible for the impur­ with his body, with his sweat and ity of the floor, wiping up every­ with his blood. His way of life is thing. Even if it is worn out at the God's way of life .. His way of life end, when purity is there, every­ was Jesus' way of life. We must one can love each other. This is our show who Rev. Moon is by shed­ m1ss10n. ding tears and sweat and love. By Someone who is pure must be serving the community, we must sacrificed, in a sense. Otherwise, show our love. This is the true way the impurity of this world cannot of life, the way to true happiness. be cleansed. Jesus was the purest This is the true way to make this person in the world. When he was world happy, to make mankind sacrificed on the altar of mankind, happy, to change the direction of all mankind, even Satan, was mankind. shocked speechless. This is the We can now change the direc­ reason Satan ... ouldn't claim any­ tion of mankin,•. Someone must thing at all afterwards. If a beauti­ start this way of iife. This is the ful person if sacrificed, people will reason we want to start the unself­ be inspired and moved. ish way of life. • 39 our present · re5J!y~!!~~~ility

A sermon delivered in Washing­ ning that we hold certain truths to ton: D.C. on August 1, 1976, the sev­ be self-evident-that the Found­ enth anniversary ofthe founding ofthe ing Fathers had certain beliefs in Freedom leadership Foundation. common and that these were un­ Mr. Fefferman is secretary-general of challengeable beliefs. They were FLF. the assumptions upon which they were basing their philosophical n Reverend Moon's message statement which would then be a at Yankee Stadium he said justification for their radical step I that America has passed of declaring independence from through three great trials-the Great Britain. What they said was: Revolutionary War, the Civil War, All men are endowed by their and thirdly, the ideological strug­ Creator with certain inalienable gle between democracy and rights, that among these are life, Communism. liberty, and the pursuit of happi­ The Declaration of Indepen­ ness. And that to secure these dence states very clearly that rights, governments are instituted America is founded upon belief in among men, deriving their powers God for it says right in the begin- from the consent of tl,e governed. 40 Where Martin Luther King stood up on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said; "Let freedom ring from every mountain in America," Reverend Moon will say, "Let freedom ring throughout the world." Not just blacks and whites but even men and women regardless of their color under Communist control deserve freedom. The responsibility of America is to extend this gift of freedom as God's representatives.

God Gives Rights its responsibility to provide for the The Declaration of Indepen­ rights of the people, then the dence emphasizes that the gift of people have the right to take mat­ liberty, the right of freedom, is ters into their own hands, as free endowed on men by God. That's men who have rights given to a very important concept. If you them by God, as free men who in ion't believe that God has given covenant with God, in reliance on you certain inalienable rights, by divine providence, are fulfilling what authority can you claim any their portion of responsibility fo rights at all? Otherwise, the rights set up a just world order. This is of men are transitory; they can why the Declaration of Indepen­ change according to cir­ dence closes wi '1 the phrase, cumstances and they are relative "With firm relian-.e on divine to the cultural environment. They providence, we mutually pledge don't have any absolute, eternal to each other our lives and our sa­ and unchanging standard. But cred honor." when you say that God has en­ So from the beginning, dowed man with inalienable American ideology was centered rights, you set up an absolute, upon God, upon a firm belief that eternal and unchanging standard. our rights and liberties come from You say that all men, regardless of God. Yet at the same time as the their nationality, race, creed, or Declaration of Independence was color are given the right of liberty being written in 1776, the school by God. This is an important basis of materialism was beginning to of the American philosophy. flourish in Europe, and it was hav­ Coupled with this is the idea ing its effect in America, too. that governments derive their People were beginning to chal­ power from the consent of the lenge the idea that God had set up governed, that a government can­ a certain order. They began to not long endure if it's in opposi­ analyze things strictly in material­ tion or antagonism to the people. istic terms, saying that all of our If the government totally fails in ideas about God actually came 41 from the material world. The driver would have to be paid for school of deism taught that al­ by another drop of blood shed be­ though God exists, He created the tween brothers in the Civil War, world once, set up certain laws nevertheless, the judgments of and principles, but He doesn't God are good and just altogether. have any direct,relationship at all He was a man who was very much and isn't personally involved in it. aware of his role and the role of The idea that there is a personal America as God's nation. God who loves us was already Yet while Abraham Lincoln being challenged back in 1776, was proclaiming that these dead not only in Europe but in Ameri­ shall not have died in vain, but ca, too. The roots of the ideologi­ this nation under God shall re­ cal struggle go way back to the ceive a new birth of freedom, and beginnings, to our first great chal­ governm "•1 t of the people, by the lenge. people and for the people will not perish from the earth, the Com­ Judgment Came munist Manifesto had already In the second stage of her been written in Europe. It pro­ providence, America faced the re­ claimed that God does not exist, ality that it was not living up to that the institutions of our society the principles that it had set forth exist only for the purpose of main­ in the Declaration, which stated taining the position of the ruling that all men were endowed by class, that all of our ideas about their Creator with certain inalien­ morality and religion are just an able rights. But it was very plain opiate to keep the masses under that many men and women in the impression that they are not America didn't have those rights really being oppressed. For the at all. A whole race of people was true liberation of man certain subject to the inhumanity of slav­ kinds of bourgeois freedoms ery. This could no longer be toler­ would have to be taken away­ ated by God and the judgment of including freedom of religion, the Civil War came upon our na­ freedom of assembly, and free­ tion. dom of the press-and a proleta­ President Lincoln believed rian dictatorship would enforce its the Civil War to be a type of own morality by any means neces­ judgment or chastisement from sary. God because of the evil of slavery. His second Inaugural Address, Revolution Against God which is engraved on the stones of This revolution against God the Lincoln Memorial, stated that and against the values of our if every drop of blood which was Judeo-Christian tradition began taken by the whip of the slave- roughly at the time of our second 42 great crisis, the Civil War. Over America and exacerbating the the next hundred years, the Unit­ tensions by making unreasonable ed States grew into the most pow­ demands upon the state and blam­ erful nation in the world, while ing everything upon some so­ the Communist movement seized called ruling class, the racis · , sovereignty in the Soviet Union white, male chauvinist ruling and began to spread to the point class. where it now controls more than Now our ideological struggle one-third of the world's people. has reached the final stage. In ad­ Moreover, Cain-type thinking and dition to the ideological struggle Cain-type behavior began to infil­ within the people of America, or trate America, not so much di­ among the people of the world, rectly by Communist agents but there is also a direct confrontation because of evil spiritual influ­ between the two most powerful ences which were beginning to af­ nations of the world, the United fect our country. The corruption States and the Soviet Union. of business, the exploitation of These two ideological powers also laborers by business, the con­ have tre Pendous military might tinued discrimination against which could destroy the world's blacks by whites, racial hatred and population many times over. So bigotry, strife between different the third great trial has come to national groups, immorality, adul­ America. This time it is not so tery, pornography-these things much a trial of just one nation, but began to eat away at the moral of America's relationship to the foundations of America. With the whole world. influx of Marxist thought into American culture, the resentment Satanic Imitation of the people could easily be We have to realize that al­ mobilized against the rulin•! class. though Communism is a Cain­ Even though there may be type ideology, not every aspect of 20, 30, 100 different Communist it is evil. In fact, it wouldn't have groups, not all controlled by Mos­ so much appeal if it didn't have a cow, they are all mobilizing the lot of goodness and truth in it. It's hatred of the masses against the a very subtle, satanic imitation of ruling classes in America. They God's ideal which completely dis­ are also mobilizing the resent­ torts the meaning of freedom and ment of the people, the Cain-type lures men into a slavery in which feelings of the people, against Satan, not God, is the ruler, in God and against America's true which Mammon (the god of purpose. They are antagonizing money) or economics is the sole relations between the races by determinant of man's future in zeroing in on the weaknesses of life. Marx, Lenin, all of the Marx- 43 ist scholars proclaim that man's could hardly relate to the six mil­ will has nothing to do with what lion people killed by Hitler. One his future is. What determines a hundred million is just beyond my man's life is strictly the economic comprehension. I can't imagine conditions in which he lives, the it. I don't know what 100 million need to survive, the need to pro­ people look like. But I know what vide for himself, the need to this group looks like; I know what struggle to overcome economic each individual looks like. When problems. In order to liberate man you think of one human being, you need to establish an economic how valuable and precious he is, state where socialism provides for then you can realize what a terri­ all of the people. You create a ble abomination took place. It state which becomes god and do happened not only in Russia, but away with the God of Israel, the in China as well. They are now God of Jesus, the God of the revealing that there was a mass United States of America. In this famine in China when peop le way, Satan would come to power here thought that everyone had and rule the world. enough to eat. The Great Leap When a Communist regime Forward in the early 1960's was a takes power there's total control total failure and wrecked the of news and people are not al­ economy of the country. It's pos­ lowed to come in and out freely, sible that millions of people so we don't have very good facts starved to death during the a1 ·, out what life in Communist famine. countries is really like, what the real horrors have been. The best Disregard For Life estimates of scholars are that be­ Look at what's happening in tween 60 and 100 million people Cambodia today. After the Com­ have died as a direct result of munists took over, they marched Communism. This includes all the people out of the cities. people who died prematurely in Phnom Penh, a city of more than slave labor camps, people who 1 million, now has only 50,000 died as a result of enforced people living in it. Young and old, famines, people who died during the sick, were just marched out. the Cultural Revolution in China. Thousands of people were seen Not every death was intentionally dying along the roadsides. It was created by the Communist re­ their belief that bourgeois society gime, but the effect of their poli­ had so corrupted and weakened cies was that these people died the people that these weaker unnaturally, prematurely. people would have to die in order One hundred million people to make way for the wave of the doesn't mean anything to me. I future who would survive and 44 build a new Cambodia. This total people who have been imprisoned disregard for the absolute value of for political reasons, not because human life was based on the idea they are thieves but because they that the ends justify the r,,eans. disagreed with the state or be­ It could happen elsewhere as cause they taught their children well. It could happen in Korea. It religion too vehemently, or be­ could happen in America. cause they made some ,¼,.~monstra­ But the real abomination is tions. the life that people are forced to lead. It's not being able to teach America's Responsibility your children reli ,i.; ious values When we think about the without endangering your own re­ freedoms that we have in Ameri­ lationship with them. In the ca, we have to remember most of Soviet Union and every Com­ all that these freedoms are a gift of munist country, children have to God. It's essential that we bring take courses in scientific atheism to the American people the im­ and dialectical materialism. If a portant understanding that free­ child goes to school and says, "My dom does not come alone. Free­ mother taught me that God is the dom comes with responsibility. Creator of the universe," the chil­ Because freedom is a gift from dren and the parents are actually God, we must fulfill our respon­ separated. The children are taken sibilities to Go j on the individual to a state school where they are level, on the national level, and_ raised under the principles of on the international level. atheism. America doesn't exist for Ameri­ It's not only that either. The ca's purpose alone. America was press is totally controlle.t. People created by God as a microcosm of in the Soviet Union didn't hear a world united in love, where all that Americans had landed on the nations and races could live to­ m, ·on until several years later. gether in mutual respect, har­ The Chinese still haven't been mony, and unity. told to my knowledge. Anything America can not base its that happens in the Western world policies on what's good for its own that we know about the people in short-term national interests. It the Communist countries may not has to remember that our national know about. They're completely interests are inseparable from the blinded from seeing both sides of interests of the world, because the the truth. They only receive the world is shrinking. We are living news that the state wants them to in a global village, and we can't receive. escape this responsibility. We In the Soviet Union today have to clean up the problems there may be up to one million that we're facing now-of drug 45 abuse, immorality, pornography, be a Communist because these and the root of pornography which philosophies are absolutely dia­ is adultery and fornication. One of metrical and not any of the dialec­ the greatest problems that we're tics of the logicians can reconcile facing today is racism in America. them. The Christian believes that Those forces which are seeking to at the heart of the universe is a establish a Marxist order in Amer­ loving Father, but the Marxist be­ id are exacerbating the racial lieves that only economic condi­ struggle and using it as one of tions will determine man's fate. their primary means of mobilizing He also dealt with the question of the hatred of the masses. Leninism, the doctrine that the We have to be the ones to leaders of the revolution must show the true meaning of Ameri­ seize power by any means neces­ ca, to show America a pattern of sary and enforce the so-called pro­ racial harmony and unity. I think letarian consciousness on the it's significant that the greatest people whether they want it or event thus far ever held at the not. That is absolutely in diamet­ Washington Monument was the rical opposition to the Christian rally held by Dr. Martin Luther spirit. He made it very plain that King, Jr. more than a decade ago. his movement and what he rep­ At that time, Dr. King rep­ resented was not based on Marx­ resented a great hope to the black ism, was not based on hatred, was people and really to all conscien­ not based on resentment, but was tious people in America, that based on the positive ideology of America could overcome the prob­ Christian love. lems of discrimination and r·1 cial We are now faced with a very hatred. serious problem, because our movement not only has to take Positive Ideology the message that Dr. Martin His message was one that Luther Ki ll,. preached and make was centered upon God. He com­ it a reality 1--n America, it also has pletely rejected the Communist to take that message up to a new doctrine that hatred and struggle level. Where Martin Luther King are the only way to make prog­ stood up on the steps of the Lin­ ress. He preached non-violence coln Memorial and said, "Let and Christian love. In an essay freedom ring from every moun­ which Dr. King wrote for his book tain in America," Reverend Sun Strength to Love, he specifically Myung Moon will say, "Let free­ dealt with the question: Can a dom ring throughout the true Christian be a Communist? world"-in the Kremlin, in His answer was emphatic: No! He Communist China, in Cambodia, stated that a true Christian cannot in North Korea, everywhere that 46 men are oppressed by the atheis­ know that this group is the only tic ideology of Communism, let group that can save America and freedom ring. save the world. There is no other But in order to make that a group that has the vision. I've reality, America must unite, cen­ been active in the anti­ tered on God. If we're going to Communist struggle for seven make the voice of God known to years and I've met virtually all of the people of the world, then our the major leaders of th ~ anti­ nation must be beyond the ac­ Communt,t movement in cusation of Satan. We must over­ America today, young and old come the problem of racial bigot­ alike. It's a dying movement. ry. Here in the Washington I remember very well when Monument campaign, this is the Vietnam was falling and I had essential point: To lead the hundreds of friends in Vietnam. I people to understand that we can remember seeing the headlines in realize the vision of Martin The New York Times and not being Luther King and bring it to a new able to stop myself from crying stage, to a stage that teaches b.ecause there was nothing we worldwide freedom. Freedom could do. I was so depressed I al­ comes from God. Not just blacks most couldn't go on. Then I had and whites but even men and the occasion to call Barrytown to women regardless of their color talk to someone in the office and under Communist control deserve in the background was a chorus of freedom. The responsibility of prnple singing holy songs. I America is to extend this gift of realized that the only hope that freedom as God's representative God had was right there in Bar­ through .,,anifesting a positive rytown, that our movement could Christian movement in the same be trained to be His representa­ spirit as Martin Luther King­ tives to take the message to the non-violent, with a new hope and American people so that in the fu­ vision for the future that can in­ ture no tragedy like that would spire all people. ever happen again. The time is very critical. Movement For Victory Whether or not we can do it is not Reverend Moon's message at determined yet. But I know thllt Washington Monument will be a we are the only ones who have the strong one-proclaiming Ameri­ possibility of accomplishing it. ca's responsibility to God to lead When we reali1e that responsibil­ the movement for ideological vic­ ity we have to work hard, we have tory over Communism. It's a be­ to pray hard, to allow God to ginning of the movement for speak through us and represent America to fulfill its mission. I Him. • 47 from one parent to another 48 The following letter appeared as part of a series of full-page advertisements in the Washington Star and Washington Post before the God Bless America Festival at Washington Monument. A collage of other ads appears on the following pages. Dear Parent,

I think you should know that I am a parent myself. Very much so. My wife Hak-ja Han and I have been blessed with nine beautiful children ranging in age from two months to fifteen years. Just like you, we have our share of joys and heartaches in bringing up a family. I have been accused by some of breaking up families. This is untrue; and nothing is further from my desire. As a father (and one of eight children myself), I have a deep, abiding respect for the unity of the family. The loving family is God's ideal and the very essence of al/ lasting civilizations. Nevertheless, in my work with the Unification Church my own family has been separated many times. When I first left Korea for America my wife and I were unable to see any of our children for almost a year. If you have ever been separated from your own children, I understand how you feel. Harmonious families are a central goal of our Church. In my talks with the wonderful young people who have joined the Church, I try to prepare them to be good husbands and wives and good fathers and mothers. Also, I want them to continue to be loving sons and daughters to their own par­ ents. I know how much parents need their children's love. I hope, dear parent, you will be with us on September 18th. Please hear \\ hat I have to say-not only as a disciple of God, bu r as an active parent.

Sincerely,

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

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51 nybody who has turned on his T.V. or radio, or opened a his newspaper has heard something al out the Unification Church and its founder, Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Most people have also heard some of the "bad ra•,~ " against Rev. Moon and the Unification Church. For example, there is the tale that the youn..: people who fol­ low him have been "brain~·ashed." There is also a rumor that the CIA funds the Unifit:ation Church. I assert unequivocally that these allegations are absolutely fa lse. I have followed Rev. Moon for two years and I know that these rumors have usually been spread by people who fear or resent the bla~k idea of a yellow man from Korea coming to this country and attract­ ing the young people to his teach- man ing. For black Americans, they are no strangers to the sting of such speaks harsh and biased attacks from the media and the powers. Therefore, by black people have not believed the GEORGE WHITFIELD wild things that we have heard and have not leaped to attack Rev. Moon. So I would like to take this time to relate ffi\" experiences as a young black man who follows and admires the teachings of Rev. Moon. Moon's Message Essentially, Rev. Moon's message is that God has an ideal and purpose that is expressed 52 through man. l\ten and women were created in the direct image of God and are intended to be the sons and daughters of God. Because they were God's children men and women were to take responsibility as co-creators and become perfecr!y one with the heart of God. Then they were to establish a family centered on God and assume dominion O\ er the universe. Dwelling in absolute joy, mankind would reflect goodness, beauty and glory to God, their father. This is God's ideal; it's called the kingdom of heaven on earth. However, the overwhelming reality is that God's ideal has yet to be reali1ed. Man has fallen away from his Father; the world has be­ George Needham Whitfield, a lay come a living hell of selfish desire. minister, has been a follower of Rev. Originally, since man would be Moon for two years. He is a graduate one with God, he would follow the of the University of Michigan. Whit­ core of his being, his spiritual es­ field is also the vice president for sence. Contrastingly, because of Afro-American relations for the Com­ evil, men are strangers to God and mittee fonned to stage the God Bless His spirit. Therefore, we pursue America Festival and other events. the flesh or material gratifications which lead to evil. Man's grief is deep but because God is man's Father, His grief is deeper still. What then should God do? To correct this dreadful situation God must send His representative, the Messiah, God's son from His own lineage. The mission of the Mes­ siah is to end the world of evil by restoring fallen man back to his position of son-ship to God. What should fallen man do? Unite. In order to receive the Son of God, there must be a foundation hearts of the oppressed people. of unity and love centered on God. These words make the Christian The words (mind) and deeds ideas of brotherhood and racial (body) of man must become one. harmony impossible to practice. Then there must be heartistic Then specifically, what has unity of people of different races Rev. Moon taught us? He has and colors. All must live as true taught us that only the Universal brothers and sisters under one Father, God, and His limitless love God. and truth can transcend racial bar­ riers. God sees man from the A Personal Story deepest level of His love and com­ In the summer of 1974 I first passion as a Universal Parent. came to know the Unification When white, black and yellow Church. For one year or so I had men stand before God we stand as been on a spiritual journey. I brothers equal in His eyesight. wanted to find the answer to the So despite what others might age-old questions: "Does God tell us, the black man is a child of exist?" and "What is the purpose God and has every right to walk of life?" More immediately, as a the earth in Godly dignity, black man, I wanted to know the strength and beaut .. In Rev. solution to racism. Moon's teaching the standard of I asked: "To achieve racial value is God's love, the standard of peace is it necessary to destroy merit is how we reflect God's love ou,rselves through hatred and bit­ in our own hearts. terness?" Throughout my life I These are great teachings and had heard the tired old racial profound truth, but can they be panacea that we must learn to live practiced in the everyday world? together. Yet realistically I knew The answer is yes. Perhaps this is that without a deep union with why Rev. Moon has achieved so God's heart, this would be impos­ much for God, for he can inspire sible to practice. people co put their faith in action·. I further knew that the great He has taught us to achieve a vi­ difference between blacks and brant, personal relationship with whites not only in color, but in ex­ the living God. perience and ways of feeling has This can be achieved through been the justification for one prayer, self-discipline and con­ group to deny the humanity of stant effort. But above all it takes another group and then pr• Leed to an attitude of Christ-like self­ selfishly oppress and exploit them. sacrifice. Through this way we can ! ·he tragic results of this are overcome racism and hatred and feelings of inferiority, resentment melt the resentment that they and hatred which burn and scar the have created. • 54 The author is a member of the International One World Crusade now touring Europe.

wo thousand years ago people with ideals walked T the streets of Rome. Five hundred years ago people with similar ideals inspired the whole world in the Renaissance. Italy was truly great. What made Italy great? The answer is simple-GOD. God could bless Italy when Italy worked for Him. This means, when Italian people truly loved and cared for their brothers. The Roman Empire, of course, was created by their military. But this was normal in Roman times. The Roman army was actually just and merciful by contemporary stan­ dards. The real inspiration of Rome was in their ideals. The motto of Rome was Piety, Fidelity, Mercy and Justice. The Romans cried to bring these ideals to others. Most of their territory was won, not by attacking other na­ tions, but actually by defending themselves or others from aggres­ sive enemies. The Romans were humanitarian; they loved their brother. Rome was also founded on a strong family unit that was very religio ~s. In such an envi­ ronment, love could develop. Romans were also very joyful people, with many games and sports and a great love of human relationships. The quality of life in 55 Rome was very high compared to covered that his friend had much of history before and after. changed much. His body was bent The Renaissance was also an and his hands crippled from doing idealistic time. People really the hardest labor to earn the most searched for truth and beauty­ money. He could not hold a paint­ not just looking for it but seeking brush properly anymore. But all to express it in the greatest way this time his friend had told him possible. No other nation could nothing about this, because he did equal the quality of Italian art. not want to worry him. He worked The Renaissance was also a hu­ hard for many years, watching his manitarian period. The most in­ body being destroyed by the hard fluential philosophy was a Platonic labor and realizing that no longer one based on a pure and ideal kind could he realize his g 1.11. So he put of love. People lived for their ide­ everything into helping his friend als. A beautiful story comes from become the greatest, most perfect this period of Italian history. It is artist possible. His artist friend the story of the praying hands, cried when he saw him, but the statues of which can be found all one who had worked was not up­ over the world, reminding us of set. He could fulfill his ideal in the spirit of true sacrifice. another. Two devoted friends with The purpose of this story is to much talent wanted to become explain the spirit and heart of Italy. great artists, but they had no This spirit of sacrifice and service money to learn. To become a mas­ is a characteristic of Italian peo­ ter artist required long and expen­ ple-no less today than in the glo­ sive trainin~, so they made an rious Renaissance. This was why agreement. They would draw God could bless Italy. straws and the winner would go to Since that time Italy has gm1e train and the other would work to through much humiliation and dif­ support him. When the first was ficulty, but their positive attitude trained, then he w,,uld support his towards man has given them per­ friend's training through his art. severance. The Italian people are The friends parted and the one just as joyful today as the Romans. studying went to his place of study, They love their brother no less receiving every penny that his than the Renaissance Italians. friend could send for several years. What then is the problem today? His friend did not even have The problem is selfishness. enough money to visit him, be­ We do not yet have a clear cause he sent everything. ideal that we can work for to­ When the artist returned after gether. Italy was great only when several years, overjoyed that he the people were working together. could now help his friend, he dis- When we cause conflict in order to 56 promote our own ideal, our ideal sively directed towards gammg becomes unrealizable. Somehow knowledge and techniques. The we have to learn how to love one most essential part of our nature is another in the right way. We have almost completely ignored. This is to find a common ideal thatwe can our heart and personality. Our work for together. We have to ex­ heart is not perfect from the be­ press the spirit of sacrifice and ser­ ginning. Our ability to express vice again. We have to live for love, like our ability to express others. We can do this. creativity in art or music, needs We stand today at a point of education. This should normally history when man can go in two take place in the family, developed opposite directions. One is to­ and assisted in schools. However, wards selfishness and destruction; with the increasing number of fam­ the other is towards love and the ily problems-the generation gap, ideal. We have all the necessary broken homes, juyenile delin­ elements to build an ideal world. quency-most people are missing All we need now is the heart of the essential education of heart. love to realize it. Schools are not providing it, and in We have the technology to ir­ society we are feeling the results of rigate deserts, cultivate jungles this lacking element: more and and feed all the hungry people. We more social disorder, 11,oral break­ have the medicine to cure all the down, unrest and people seeking major diseases. We have the comfort in material things. means to construct an ideal soci­ What can we do to solve such ety. What then are we lacking? problems? The answer is simple. The answer is simple-LOVE. We can find a way to educate the True love. hearts of men and we can work, If all people really loved and serving others, to provide them cared for their brother, the ideal with the necessary elements of could be established overnight. love and concern to change their Even pollution-the vast accumu­ hearts. With the cooperation of lation of our abuse of natural re­ even a few people the world could sources-cou Id be quickly re­ be changed very quickly. After all, stored if we had the heart for it. If the basic desire of each person society worked together to solve whether young or old, rich or poor, such problems, the problems educated or uneducated, is to re­ could be easily sohed. Conflict is ceive true love and understanding. not the answer. What we need is If we can provide this we can lead true love. the world back to reality (sanity). Even in our education system We stand on the threshold of a we fi r,d many problems. Our edu­ new age today. Whether we realize cation seems to be almost exclu- it or not depends on us. • 57 by GEORGES FRADIER

Georges Fradier is acting director of Unesco's Division of Human Set­ tlements and Socio-Cultural Envi­ ronment. Tlris article is reprintedfrom The l'nesco Courier, June 1976. Tire authors iews are not necessari~v those ofthe Unification Church but are presented t,, show varying ways in which mankind is striving/or a better world. 58 esires create_ ~heir own quality of the environment ought space: a musician sees a to mean. D concert hall; a pilot Most people are not so de­ dreams of a clear sky and a bal­ manding, even if they consider, lerina of a spotlight; the aspiring not unreasonably, that they too de­ teacher visualizes a school in keep­ serve their share of ordre and ing with his ambitions. beaute. They are housed, whether The quest for happiness al­ well or badly, they have a job and most always carries with it an ideal play their part in production and landscape, village, house, garden society. On the subject of their or city. Rare are the human beings place of work, their small towns, who can find an environment factories, suburbs, shops, offices, which reflects this ideal, and still their "machines for living," that is, rarer are those who are able to live their residences, they are far from in it. reticent. Those who have either All of these, they complain, money or power or both are quite mean inequality and exploitation, happy to he privileged; they enjoy almost invariably segregation aqd their spacious apartments in the sometimes alienation, with men best ~iarts of town, their country and women working solely in order houses and seaside villas. to live and living in a place only But as nothing in this world is because they work there. They are perfect, the best parts of town are dependent on the tyranny of in­ sometimes too close to other less dustry, exposed to various kinds of desirable ones and are beset by pollution, fragmented like the drawbacks; mechanized agricul­ times they live in. ture and development spoil the Now some are beginning to beauty of the fields; beaches may question the political and econom­ be polluted by oil or the hotel ic structures of the system which is trade. The struggle to preserve responsible for the lives they are values is a hard one, and it is be­ forced to lead, but more often they coming increasingly difficult to simply accept them without irr - reign over one's environment agining that there could be an al­ while recalling the famous lines ternative. Some people are used to from Baudelaire's L'Invitation au living where they were born; Voyage: others, who form the majority, are La, tout n'est qu' ordre et beaute, resigned to living where they can; luxe, ca/me et volupte.' few believe there is any choice. It Yet this is precisely what the seems that for centuries most human beings have ceased to 1 There- , all is order and beauty, choose their environment. Abundance, peace and pleasure. Even so, those who work, 59 drive, eat and sleep in an environ­ areas of spontaneous settlement ment which may be dilapidated or known variously as bidonvi/les, pleasant, dull or dangerous, but is gourbivilles, Jave/las, squatters' en­ nonetheless a recognized, legal campments, bustees or barriadas, and permanent dwelling-place, probably numbers two thousand are the fortunate ones; for there million today. At least one-third are people who do not have regular and in many cases a half of the w6rk or "decent" housing or in­ inhabitants of the great cities of deed any sort of job or shelter at Asia, Latin America and Africa live all. in huts without light, situated in These are the people who are shameful fringe areas without pitied for being undernourished, water or sanitation, and places of inadequately clothed and poorly almost comparable squalor can be educated, and accused of having found in North America and Eu­ too many children. They are de­ rope. scribed as living on the margin of When we talk about improv­ world economy and progn:ss­ ing human , ettlements like this, enormous margins growing ever we see that their occupants are wider on the supposedly proud seeking to protect themselves pages of history. from cold, heat, hunger, disease The population of rural and and dirt; in short they are strug­ urban slums, together with that of gling to exist. What they want is an

60 environment which will not harm single them out, and merely indi­ either their lives or their dignity; cated them collectively as "they." and the latter consideration is "They" built expressways, cre­ sometimes more important to ated or transposed industries, re­ these people than co the relatively grouped and redistributed land; by privileged. It explains co a certain a stroke of the pen "they" in­ extent why people migrate to creased land prices tenfold, de­ cities. molished sound houses and To sum up, the occupants of erected high-rise office blocks; human settlements can be divided and all these were so many events into three main categories: those to be endured, for both town and who can select the best possible country were governed by fate. environment; those who are Today, however, fate, that housed without having much far-off galaxy in charge of planning choice; and chose who inhabit and development, is emerging fringe areas. It is true that all from its anonymity. The promot­ human beings have the same fun­ ers, economises, civil servants, en­ damental needs; but it is only true gineers and town planners are ac­ in theory. If these three ca:egories quiring an identity and thus losing have any practical problems in some of the magic powers which common, they are chose of free­ admittedly not all of them were so dom, the right to speak, and the anxious to possess in the first right to act. place. Now they are coming for­ Members of the ruling classes ward as technicians of goodwill. automatically possess these rights. They are by no means infalli­ The essential thing is co belong, ble, this they concede, and do so either directly or at second-hand, more frequently now chat their de­ and money is less important than cisions are being challenged; for friendship with those who count. they are beginning to see the pub­ But even if people from the same lic manifesting its rebellion on all milieu have no communication sides. Those concerned are de­ difficulties, this still does not solve manding co be informed of urban all problems. For instance there is planning and development proj­ hardly a city in the world capable ects, so that they can have a ch ince of controlling its own growth; to discuss, modify or reject chem. when centres decay and suburbs This movement is almost sprawl, all the inhabitants suffer universal, and is seen particularly together. in efforts to prevent destruction, For the majority, communica­ protect areas threatened by pollu­ tion with the authorities is dif­ tion, whether visual, chemical, ficult, and indeed until recently nuclear or military, and to preserve people did not even know how to ancient pares of towns and with 61 them ways of life. most efficient channels for partici­ Some observers deplore the pation. movement as representing a nega­ They have also realized that tive attitude aimed only at ob­ this new form of democracy, per­ structing development or delaying haps the only one capable of re­ worthwhile projects and making vitalizing political life in more than them too expensive. In fact the one country, requires first and de.sire to protect countrysides, riv­ foremost a complete knowledge of ers or human settlements is never the facts; and that it is their job to negative; it is proof of a definite make these facts known to the choice. people concerned. The rejection of so-called re­ Everyone knows that nowa­ newal schemes which kill urban days to possess information is to life and drive out local inhabitants possess power. But power is empty is not negative; it represents a per­ unless there is the will to exercise fectly lucid judgment on the kind it, and when it comes to guiding or of town planning which has, unfor­ controlling the course of human tunately, been leaving its traces all settlements, there is a need for over our planet for the last thlfty civic awareness, energy and tenac­ years. ity to which we ordinary peace­ Yet it is just those citizens who loving citizens of the seventies are only become militant in a crisis not accustomed. situation who would much prefer The sub-privileged, sub-rural participation to confrontation. In­ and sub-proletarian in their sub­ stead of opposing projects which urbanization are also beset with have been made known to them at problems, albeit different ones, of the last minute, they would be freedom and participation. When quite happy to take part in discus­ peasants who own no land make sions of plans which concern them their way towards the cities, escap­ if they could first have the chance ing from isolation, they are exercis­ of approving the objectives and ing a choice: they are leaving one knowing the facts. kind of poverty for another which Those in charge of develop­ may be more squalid but is not ment and administration have ev­ quite as hopeless. erything to gain by obtaining co­ To them the city represents operation from local inhabitants an infinity of opportunities, a hori­ rather than imposing ready-made zon of liberty. There is no need to solutions on them supposedly for ask them to take part in reconstruct­ their own good. This fact has been ing the environment; they will dig, appreciated by many town plan­ shape, build and try to renovate ners and architects, and it is they come what may; that is what they who are today seeking out the have come for. As for a dialogue 62 with officialdom, they would be quite willing, but too often the dialogue turns sour and official­ dom listens to them with deaf and authoritarian ears. Sometiqi.es ar­ chitects work with them, acting as their interpreters or advocates; and they understand. It is the authorities, finally, who are now being invited to play their part in the efforts being made by society's fringe-dwellers. The invitation is being issued with growing urgency, whether in the name of justice, solidarity, or even quite simply of realistic common sense, as is being done by the Vancouver (Canada) from 31 May Secretary-General of the Un ited to 11 June 1976. Nations Conference on Human In other words, government's Settlements, Enrique Penalosa. It are being asked to gain control does no good to say that govern­ over the land in order to entrust it ment must provide housing if in to those who need it, and to ensure fact government cannot pro­ essential services such as transport vide .... and sanitation. Apart from this, le r "The hou ,es of the poor will them collaborate with those who be built by the poor, as they always are doing the building. have been. The great majority of These then are the objectives all dwellings in the world today of free participation in the de­ were built by the people who lived velopment of human settlements: in them. Beyond the provision of on one hand to give a rudimentary land, the role of government in the habitat the status it deserves actual construction in poor coun­ ("Sub-standard is still better than tries will be catalytic ...." (Speech sub-human" as Penalosa has also at the American University, Wash­ said) and on the other to create the ington, D.C., l0November 1975.) social conditions necessary for an These principles, still con­ acceptable environment. sidered in some quarters as revolu­ At all events. however, men tionary, were debated at Habitat, and women will enjoy a more har­ the United Nations Conference on monious and dignified relation­ Human Settlements which ship with their environment when brought together over 3,000 dele­ they realize that they bear the re­ gates from 140 governments in sponsibility for it. • 63 don't blame it all on oveF cr~wding -=-=------=----=..;.~ ities are full of crime, squalor, violence, alien­ C ated people .... There­ fore, living so packed together must be bad for people. Right? Al­ though this has been a common assumption in recent years, some psychologists and sociologists are beginning to disagree. Since 51 percent of the population of the globe will be city dwellers by the year 2000, according to a recent United Nations forecast (com­ pared to 39 percent now), what happens to people under crowded conditions is a question of increas-

Materialquotedfrom Crowding and Behavior by Jonathan Freedman is used by permission of the publisher, The Viking Press, Inc. Copyright © 1975 by Jonathan Freedman. 64 ing importance in the effort to room or less. Despite the fact that create a better world. 49 percent of the inhabitants of Actually, living in cities and in Hong Kong have less than four close proximity to other people is square yards of living space per not new in human history, but capita, the bonds of traditional dates back to the earliest begin­ Chinese culture have held fast. A nings of man's history. Archaeolo­ study on the effects of crowding in gists have discovered caves in Hong Kong noted, "In Hong which the population density was Kong, evidence for any density­ probably greater than a modern related pathology is lacking. In home. spite of the fact that few other If crowding proves not to be cities in the world approach its detrimental, then man will have to level of population concentration, search in a different direction fo r the degree of social disorder or of the cause of the problems that crime in Hong Kong is relatively seem to beset people in cities to­ low." day. A case in point: in India, a The mistake that has often nation more noted for passivity been made is to base conclusions than neurotic aggressiveness, 70 about the effects of crowding on percent of all families live in one humans on research done with 65 animals. It is quite true that over­ effects of crowded conditions on crowding has very observable rats may quite simply be due to the negative effects on animals. The interruption of their normal rat example of the lemmings in Nor­ routine-not being able to build a way is often cited. When the nest and protect it from other ani­ number of these rodents grows too mals. The competition for space or large for their normal habitat to food could be the cause of the support, they go on the move in negative effects rather than the large masses and many of them mere presence of other animals in end up falling or jumping over large numbers. cliffs into the sea. This seemingly Even if it could be proven that "suicidal" activity has been said to animals react in negative fashion to be a result of extreme overcrowd­ overcrowded conditions, it is not ing, but the lemmings may simply always possible or wise to base be searching for food, with the conclusions about human behavior "suicides" the accidental result of on experiments done with ani­ intense competition. mals. Man is simply more adapta­ But it is also true that en­ ble, more complex in his social re­ closed colonies of rats, provided lationships, and is, in short, more with all the food and other mate­ than just another even though rials and conditions for survival, higher form of animal. still drop sharply in population While it is not possible to do once their number reaches a cer­ such neat experiments with men tain point. Increased aggressive­ to determine the effects of crowd­ ness and a breakdown of normal ing as one can with animals, still social behavior are also results of some research has been done. overcrowding on animals. One Jonathan Freedman in his recent explanation that has been ad­ book Crowding and Behavior (Vi­ \'anced to explain these phenome­ king Press, 1975), discusses the na is the concept of territory-that work he and his c,,iieagues have animals want and need a certain done. In a study of population amount of space around them, and density and crime in American that they will attack interlopers. cities, they found some relation­ Howe\'er, this effect is not true for ship, but, he points out, "this fig­ all animals and in fact many ani­ ure alone means little because mals seek contact with others of density tends to be associated their kind. Other factors such as strongly with other factors, such as the availability of food and the poverty, educational level, and need to protect their mate or their ethnici ry. . . . When other social young also play an important part factors are equated, the relation­ in animal behavior. ship between density and crime It is quite plausible that the disappears entirely." 66 Freedman cites another study close surroundings, since in­ which investigated the relation­ creased aggression is widely as­ ship between density and such in­ sumed to be a result of high densi­ dicators of pathology as alcohol­ ty. Surprisingly to the inves­ ism, suicide and homicide. Again, tigators, the results were mixed. with other factors controlled, All-male groups responded either "they found no negative relation­ negatively or positively. So did ships between density or house­ all-female groups, and mixed hold crowding and any of the three groups. So it could not be said that measures of pathology." crowding produces generally nega­ Summarizing the evidence tive results. The diversity of re­ Freedman states, "There are a sults merely emphasized the com­ great many reasons why people plexity of the factors involved and commit crimes, many factors in the need for a principle to encom­ modern, complex society that pass the diverse results. cause crime, but there is no evi­ Freedman proposes that dence that crowding is one of crowding "by itself has neither them." good effects nor bad effects on Other experiments have people but rather serves to intensif1, placed small groups of people in the individual's typical reactions to the confined spaces to study the ef­ situation." If someone likes having fects on them psychologically and people around him, he won't react physically. The subjects were to crowding. If someone else is asked to perform tasks that were generally aggressive towards other either hindered or improved by people, he will be that way when stress. If crowding produced he's in a crowded situation. The stress, then it should interfere with effect of crowding is to make ei­ one kind of task and improve re­ ther reaction stronger, analogous sults on the other. This turned out to turning up the volume on a hi-fi not to be the case at all . Freedman set. Whether you mind or not de­ states, "People can exist under pends on whether or not you like very crowded conditions for a con­ the music. siderable amount of time without When we consider the United breaking down. There is no get­ Nations forecast about increasing ting around this essential finding. concentration of the world's popu­ This is powerful evidence against lation in cities, these studies cast a the notion that human beings have much brighter light on the future an instinctive need for territory." than the apocalyptic view that man They did more studies to de­ is doomed to increasing crime, vio­ termine the effects of crowding on lence and social breakdown be­ aggressive tendencies and how cause of population density. There people feel about each other in are real problems to be dealt with 67 as a result of population growth­ There are two approaches to pollu tion, transportation, housing, dealing with the challenge of mak­ energy, social services. More re­ ing cities desirable places to live. search and planning needs to be The city planners and urban soci­ done in these areas to solve them, ologists stress the changes that can but density itself is not a contribut­ be made in the design of struc­ ing factor to the degeneration of tures, encouragement of neigh­ the standard of living. borhoods, and provision of public But the real hope of these facilities that will help break down findings is that it places increased the individual's sense of isolation emphasis on the quality of human amidst the throngs around him and relationships as affecting our way provide him with the social in­ of life. If the people with whom teractions he needs to make life you come in close contact are lov­ interesting and enjoyable. These ing, pleasant to be with, creative aspects are all necessary parts of people, you won't mind having planning for the future. them a little closer. But an even more basic How do these findings affect change is needed. Providing facili­ urban planning for the future? ties such as a social/utility room in Let's apply Freedman's hypothe­ apartment buildings is only part of sis: "When the social situation is the picture. A spiritual revival is bad, when people feel cut off, de­ needed to re-awaken people to fensive, afraid, and suspicious, their sense of belongingness, of re­ high population density will ag­ sponsibility for each other. One gravate the already bad situa­ can think, "No one would take tion .... On the other hand, if the care of me if I were sick, so why situation can be structured so that should I help Mrs. O'Brien down people do not feel this sense of the hall who has the flu but has isolation, if they feel friendly and three young children to look af­ open in the first place, if they get ter?" Or, one can walk down the to know and trust their neighbors, hall and knock on Mrs. O'Brien's the high density should intensify door and offer to take her kids to these positive feelings. A high-rise the park for a few hours. This kind building which has good esprit de of attitude--one of serving, sac­ corps, in which people know each rificing for others, caring-can other and work together, can pro­ mean the difference between a vide a healthy, vital environment high-rise hell or a pleasurable in which to live .... The problem place to live, regardless of how is to design buildings ... that foster closely packed your neighbors are. positive reactions which will then Urban problems are not insoluble be intensified by the high densi­ but it will take more than money to ty." deal with them. • 68 WHATIS CHRISTIANITY? by REV. ROYAL G. DAVIS

A sermon delivered August I, 1976 in produce all those sacred buildings Washington, D.C. on one street? As you well know, there are a fyou walk down Washington's variety of ways to define what 16th St. from Silver Spring to Christianity is. For example, there I the White House you will pass is a credal definition. A Christian is by over 30 churches of almost someone who holds a certain set of every conceivable variety-a regu­ beliefs. People will tell you they lar cafeteria line of religious faiths, are Christian because they accept practices, ceremonies and tradi­ the Apostles Creed, or the Nicean tions. This is Church St., U.S.A., Creed, or the Westminster Con­ and if you have never taken such a fession or the Baltimore Cate­ long stroll it's a rather unusual chism. Sunday morning experience. Then there is the liturgical Many questions will pop into your explanation. A Christian is one hea as you go from the Syrian who attends Mass, or gets baptized Orthodox to the Greek Catholic to all over, takes the Holy Sacrament the black Methodist to the Unitar­ of the Eucharist, goes to the Wed­ ian to the Swedenborgian to the nesday night prayer meeting, says Episcopal Churches. You may the rosary, can speak in tongues, or wonder, what is unique about recites the Lord's Prayer. Christianity? What is distinctive? In the third place there is a What is there about it which would moral interpretation of Christian- 69 ity. Being a Christian means obey­ put it, "Pope Paul VI is my guru." ing the Ten Commandments, fol­ All five of these standard def­ lowing the Golden Rule, applying initions of Christianity have con­ the law of love, practicing the siderable merit and far be it from brotherhood of man. A man's faith me to minimize their usefulness. is demonstrated by his works, said But none of them gets to the heart St. James and Benjamin Franklin of the matter. They are not false and Thomas Jefferson. but inadequate, not irrelevant but Fourthly, there is what can be a little too superficial. Christianity called the bookish interpretation is doctrine, yes; ritual, yes; ethics, of Christianity. A person is a Chris­ yes; book-related, yes; leader­ tian, we are told, if he accepts the ship-oriented, yes. But more, King James Bible from cover to much more. cover, or studies Science & Health Almost everybody agrees that with Key to the Scriptures, or reads if you want to discover what Chris­ the Book of Common Prayer every tianity is all about you should look Sunday, or believes that God has at the life of Jesus of Nazareth. revealed His Word in the Book of Unfortunately, most people read Mormon, or subscribes to the the Gospels not as they are but Watchtower magazine. Being a rather in the light of their precon­ Christian, they tell us, has some­ ceptions. When you do that it is thing to do with a book. comparatively easy to find the Vat­ There's one more common ican Jesus, the Baptist Jesus, the definition which has lots to do with Christian Scientist Jesus, the 30 or more churches on 16th St. Jehovah's Witness Jesus. But what Let's call it "follow the leader." if you look without any biases., According to most churchgoers a without any desire to see what you Christian is someone who submits want to see? to the authority of a recognized If you read the New Testa­ guide. Christians of various kinds ment to discover the Man of Naza­ say, "I follow Martin Luther, I fol­ reth, you may dig up a most un­ low Billy Graham, I follow John usual definition of Christianity. Wesley or John Calvin or Joseph What is Christianity? What is the Smith." People are Christian, they unique message of Jesus? Let me say, because they accept the guid­ put it bluntly. Jesus said: "Find ance of the Bishop of Rome, the God where nobody else bothers to Ecumenical Patriarch of Constan­ look. Find God in unexpected tinople, !\lather Eddy, Jean Dix­ places." on, Edgar Cayce, Dr. Norman Now let's look at the proofs Vincent Peale, the Archbishop of for this rather unconventional Canterbury or somebody else. As statement. If you had asked a Jew one of the avant garde Catholics of Jesus' day where to find God he 70 would have told you to visit the may not demonstrate the unusual magnificent temple of Solomon, definition of Christianity given by especially on a High Holy Day. Jesus. Here's a second. Jerusalem God is there, right there. That's was a tourist city in Jesus' day. His house. That's where He lives. People flocked there as they now As all the 1st century Jews of Jesus' fly to Paris or the Riviera or the day would have said, Solomon's Pyramids. In a tourist city one of temple is the dwelling place of the the worst nuisances are the little \1ost High. Like his fellow Jews, kids with their hands out. They Jesus went to the temple. He gather at your hotel, they flock to prayed there, offered sacrifice, the entrance of the cathedral, they took part in the impressive cere­ wait for you at the gate of the fa ­ monies. But when it was all over, mous old palace. As it is now, so it and he was asked what he thought was then in "tourist traps" like of the place, he said, "Consider Jerusalem. the lilies of the field how they Over in the thrift shop on 14th grow .... Solomon in all his glory St. you can find a book for sale was not arra ved like one of these!" with a title something like "Little Suppose someone were to Boys and Other Beasts." Through visit Washington from Des most of history that's been the Moines, Iowa, or Butte, Montana. grownup's attitude toward kids. He sees everything a tourist is Even today we have Dennis the supposed to view. When he gets Menace. back home, some neighbor asks But what did Jesus do? When him what impressed him about the a crowd of disciples had gathered nation's capital. Was it the White around him, he grabbed one of House, the Shrine of the Immacu­ those little street kids who proba­ late Conception, National Cathe­ bly had his hand out, put his arms dral, the Supreme Court Building? around him and said, Look at him, He replies, "You should have seen this is a sign of the kingdom of the loveliness of the dandelions in heaven. If you cannot see God in Lafayette Park!" That was exactly this dirtv-faced, dirty-pawed little the reaction of Jesus. After view­ beggar, you cannot understand the ing the marble splendor and gor­ kingdom of God! Dennis the geous ceremonial of Solomon's 1\-tenace is God's little angel. temple, he praised the beauty of In Jesus' day as in ours there the ordinary wayside flowers. He were very respectable human ex­ could find God where nobody else emplars of God's favor-the rabbi bothered to look. who stays up all night studying According to a proverb, one Scripture, the rich matron who swallow does not prove that sum­ gives generously to every charity, mer has come, ~o one example the high priest who presides at the 71 most important religious services. Smythe, not Smith), but he was But Jesus's example was surpris­ too busy to help a Ii ttle girl because ingly different. He held up an or­ he was making the final arrange­ dinary street urchin and said, "Be­ ments for a $25 a plate lobster and hold, of such is the kingdom of steak dinner on behalf of a Korean heaven." He could see-as most of Christian who was in jail because us fail to see-that God reveals he read a statement advocating the Himself in unlikely people. overthrow of the Park Chung Hee Let me give one more illustra­ government. Dr. Smythe walked tion. Again the example is so famil­ by on the other side of the street. iar we ignore its original shock ap­ The little girl kept crying. Then peal. One day Jessus was asked along came one of those "brain­ what it was like to practice reli­ washed" Moonies-you know the gion. Do you recall his story? He ones you read about in The En­ told the parable of the good Samar­ quirer and True Confessions. She saw itan. Jesus spoke in the vernacular the little girl, took her to the park in terms of an ordinary life situa­ and brought her back two hours tion. He was not talking about an­ later. Of course, the point of this cient and dead squabbles using Parable of the Good Samaritan is stilted Elizabethan language, so that God shows up in the most un­ let me retell the story as if he were likely places. telling it now. Jesus said we could find God Once upon a time there was a in unusual places, unlikely peo­ little girl, age 6, who wanted to go ple, and not least important, in to Rock Creek Park but there was strange times. At one of their festi­ no one to go with her, so she sat on vals, Jews always keep a chair the doorstep feeling sad. Down empty in case the Messiah unex­ the street walked the Cardinal pectedly shows up as a guest. Archbishop who preached last That's one of many signs of a truly Sunday at St. Matthews Cathedral great religion. Ordinarily men be­ on the blessed children, but he lieve that God was very real in the walked past the little girl because distant past or He will be in the he was on his way to a meeting of distant future. When was God the Confraternity of Christian close to men? we ask. We are told Doctrine where he was to read a that He appeared face to face with learned paper on why Catholics Moses, actually spoke to Jesus an.! should not go to a mass in Latin was very real to men and women of conducted in Maryland by a priest the medieval age of faith. A who was defying his bishop and Roman Catholic historian once en­ canon law. The little girl just sat titled a book "The 13th, Greatest and cried. Next came Rev. Dr. of Centuries" because God was re­ A. Washburn-Smythe (please ally present at that time in a way 72 He has not been since. Let me mention in passing a corollary be­ lief: God is not very real here in the way He is real in Israel or India or Tibet. There is a common notion that God is clearly apparent in some distant time or place in a manner far different from His presence here and now. Again, Jesus disagrees com­ pletely. For him there are no spa­ tial or temporal limitations on God's presence. Peter and John are no worse off than Abraham or Moses. Repeatedly Jesus insists on the Now-ness of God. God is here, right here, all around us, among us and within us. There is nothing antique about the reality of God. When Jesus declare. I, "Ye have heard of old but I say," this indicated his faith in the Now­ God, the Now revelation of God's will, the Now commandment. To me, part of the greatness of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's mes­ sage is his emphasis on Now. Our age-not just some distant past­ have-Now! is the time in which the Kingdom So far I have talked about can be manifested. We do not have Jesus' view of the kingdom of God to return to the age of Aquinas or on earth. Let me conclude with a Luther as many have said and al­ practical application. Our brothers most no one can believe. There is and sisters are going around this no way to turn back the clock to metropolitan area knocking on the 13th century or the 16th. We doors. They will run into prob­ are here, now, for good or ill. Ac­ lems, yes, face criticism, yes, but cording to Rev. Moon, the pres­ they will come face to face with ent-our present-is important in God-in unexpected places, in God's timetable. The past is unusual people, and in our time, beyond our control; the future is today. But that is what Christianity beyond our grasp. For us, it's means, finding God where nobody either now or never! This is all we else expects Him to show up. D 73 HOLY THEATRE religion or philosophy at­ tempts to define man in re­ A lation to himself, his com­ munity, and the forces of the uni­ verse, such chat they are. An actor comm1anicates a selective display of man relating to these forces, his community and himself for an au- · dience. This communion of por­ trayal-reaction-interaction cal led theater is inherently religious, the "Theater· of Invisible-.'.\lade-Visi­ bie." But if all theater is religious, it is not necessarily holy. In the few instances of historv in which a "holy theater" oc­ curred, the "communal moving" of theater extended its influence beyond the mom,:nt of the "play­ ing" into the commu nity life. Fora period, the insight of the drama became a viable, central instru­ ment of purgation as well as didac­ ticism. The invisible was made byjohn visible and "dwelt amongst th~m." In Thf Empty Spare, Peter Brook assures us that everyone " ... all over the world will answer o'tioyle positively from their own experi­ ence that they have seen th,: face John ()'Boyle holds a masters de­ of the invisible through an experi­ gree in dimting and pla_y-w:riting and ence on the stage that transcended i5 president ofthe D. C. Striders Track their experience in life." How­ Club in Washington, D.C. ever, onlv in certain brief periods 7-1- of the history of theater has this instance theater provides insight "vision" been sustained long and growth for all involved. This is enough to become a period of holy the religious impact of theater. theater. The roots of theater lie buried in religious ritual and for a long Roots of Creativity time the two were inseparable. Man's creative impulse goes Man has long sought to understand back to the very roots of his and cope with the world about spiritual beginning. His creation him. Exploration of physical na­ took direction in the implements ture and laws Ie,t to his logical sci­ useful for his physical exis­ entific understanding. Exploration tence-weapons, tools, and so of the spiritual laws, of invisible forth-and in the expression of his nature, led to his religious and spiritual existence-his religion philosophical understanding. and art at this point being one. In "Playing" is an instrument of all of man's creative efforts, espe­ self-expression and discovery, as cially in his religious-artistic crea­ "een in a child, for it frees one from tion, he makes things in the image the normal dimensions of the of himself. A section of bone or a physical and allows him to emo­ piece of rock is altered from one tionally explore his world of imag­ physical shape to another, and in ination and desire. Adult playing is the process, it takes on an image of an extension of this exploration as its creator's spirit. It may be whim­ well as an attempt to create order sical or serious, but in some way it and control in the world. When a becomes an expression of a facet of community expresses this adult its creator's feeling tempered by "play" together it becomes a rite. his reason. However, in man's re­ When some of the participants of ligion (the creation of his own the rite become spectators to it, spirit), " ... as theologians have the- germ of theater cracks the seed long known and anthropologists and begins to take root. have recently discovered, man does not make God in his image. Rituals Important Rather, he makes himself in the The concerns of early man image of his God." were rudimentary. \n individual The theater, being a creation could not survive the elements of of man, is a reflection of his spirit the harsh world about him; in the process of being created in strength lay in the community or the image of his God. At times the tribe. The tribe was concerned ethos of the theater communion with self-preservation through may not be explicitly theistic, but adequate food supply, birth rate, in all periods of "holy theater" it and strength in battle. Early rites has been. In this most profound dealt with the "regions beyond 75 experience" that threatened ated, and probably in Roman cul­ these. Knowledge was gained ture as well. It has really been only through exploration of creative in­ since the Renaissance that art and tuitive impulse. But where logic religion gained such an artificial left off and there was no defined separation as occurs in most peo­ path, rudimentary' religion in the ple's minds today. But early form of superstition took over. religion/art was still a community Lest we smile at this statement and a community prop­ "primitivism" one need only con­ erty. sider a farmer whose crops re­ peatedly are bad. The primitive The Greek Idea farmer would accuse "bad spirits" As the civilization of Greece as the cause, or feel the gods were emerged from the "barbarians" angry at him. The modern farmer, which surrounded it, an amazingly after exhausting his knowledge of sophisticated culture devel­ hybrid seeds, planting cycles, fer­ oped-even by present stan­ tilizers, sprays, and drainage, dards-and the first chapter of would attribute the land with "bad "holy theater" was opened. The luck," and his attendance at original Hellenes were a tribe par­ church and prayer might increase ticularly adept at conquering substantially. others. Through their feats they Early man discovered a force gained prestige and attracted sur­ of good and evil in nature. The rounding tribes to follow and im­ good was the mana, the vital, posi­ itate them. They all began to call tive force in all things. The evil themselves by the common name. force was the tabu: the forbidden, Over a period of time these tribes the most threatening, the thing learned a common language and feared. The tabu seemed to be intermixed. The cohesive factor more dominant when compared to came not so much from the com­ the mana. So the rituals had a dou­ mon pedigree but rather that they ble task-not only to appeal to the all aspired to an ideal of what a true good forces but not to violate or Hellene should be. offend the evil. The festivals of the com­ Up to this point theater and munities took on a profound sig­ ritual were one. There was no de­ nificance, for they gave visible ex­ lineation between art and religion pression to the ideals of the city­ for a long time following. The idea state. They were times of a crea­ of art for art's sake may have held tive, religious experience among some ground during the decline of the whole community, and the im­ the Hellenic civilization when the pact is hard to visualize now. If essence had atrophied and only man "creates himself in the image the form remained to be vener- of his gods," then religion should 76 be creative, fulfilled in creativity supposed truths, the drama sought and self-disco ·ery, and most pro­ truth through symbols, allegories, foundly fulfilled in communal and myths. And when the best creativity. minds seek for the truth, the result At its height the Greek thea­ is apt to be beautiful. ter provided a forum for this com­ munal discovery, and the Greek Decline of Drama society was free enough that the When the idealism of the Hel­ exploration could form a con­ lenic culture eroded, the city­ tinuum with daily living. The reli­ states began to de, ~ine. The form gious-artistic expression was one of the theater endured through the of human intelligence, reason, and dictatorships, the wars, and the order. When tragedy evolved defeats, but the essence of the through the consecutive "creative creative ceremony was lost and the leaps" of Thespis and Aeschylus, a first "holy theater" ended. matrix for a much more profound The play will "hold a mirror and sophisticated "communal up to nature," even if the image is moving" took form. Using myth shallow. Roman drama faced a de­ and allegory, man could study his caying cultural ethos and competi­ plight in relation to the gods. tion with visceral spectaculars was Strong vestiges of rituals were great. The theater that did exist retained in the use of masks, satirized the evolving Christian rhythmic movement, and music. rites of baptism, Eucharist, and so Because the gods of the Greeks forth. And Christians were physi­ were not dogmatically defined, cally abused in plays and "specu­ the treatment could be more crea­ la." At one point fifty were cruci­ tive. Murray, in Five Stages of Greek fied during a play whose script Religion, states, the "image carved called for it. by man was not the god, but only a Also, the actor lost the social symbol, to help towards conceiv­ respect of the society and attained ing the god ... not the reality but even lower status as Christianity only a symbol, to help towards came to power. There was a gulf creating the reality." between theater and the church Aristotle felt that through the for a thousand years. This was un­ "pity and fear" of the tragedy, the fortunate for both, for drama all corporate consciousness of the au­ but died out and haJ to be almost dience was purged and purified. In completely recreated, and the the process the entire community Church let what later proved to be was challenged, educated and ele­ an effective didactic tool lie fallow. vated (though Aristotle only noted While the Church fathers at­ change, not positi\ e or negative). tempted to suppress theater and Rather than dictating edicts and the mimes, they concocted one of 77 the most elaborate "sacred dra­ Arimathea at the entombment. mas" ever-the mass. Authorities The congregation can be Hebrews on the subject all offer theories on listening to the prophecies of ,h e to what degree the mass is a ritual .Messiah, the crowd witnessing the or drama, or whether the two are Crucifixion, the Gentiles to whom mutually exclusive. If this is not the word was given after it had the instigation of the next phase of been rejected by the Hebrews, "holy theater," at least it is a very and the elect mystically incorpo­ powerful precursor. Pope Gregory rated into the body of Christ." presaged Peter Brook's modern Mass was a drama in its ex­ definition of "holy theater" as ln­ perience during the "dark ages." visi ble-Made-Visible when he Beyond any value of relative stated, "in the Mass one thing is aesthetics or appreciation, it had a made of visible and invisible." profound affirmative effect on the Amalari us more succinctly defined community who shared in it and mass as "an elaborate drama with understood its symbolism. Only definite roles assigned to partici­ later were these things obscured as pants and a plot whose ultimate the "mysteries of the mass" truly significance is nothing less than a became mysteries. The extent of renewal of the whole plan of re­ the theatricality attained is in evi­ demption." dence from the many critical church documents which con­ The Mass as Drama demn " ... the theatrical manner­ 0. Hardison, Jr. writes, in isms and stage music ... the vocal Christian Rite and Christian Drama imitations of agonies of the dying in the Middle Ages: and the suffering ... the priests "Some events of the Mass are who contort the whole body with interpreted as moral lessons and histrionic gestures." In this case some as re-enactments of Old Tes­ the church vestments would then tament practices; some refer to the become sacred costumes, and the life of Christ and some have es­ patent, the chalice, the candles, chatological significance. Not in­ and so forth, would become sacred frequently, a single event bears props. If one cannot accept the two or more interpretations simul­ mass as a sacred drama, it should taneously. By the same token, the still be noted that "the celebration roles of the participants are fluid. of Mass contains all elements At times the celebrant is the High necessary to secular performances. Priest of the Temple sacrificing The Mass is the general case for the holocaust on the Day of Christian culture-the archetype. Atonement, at other times he is Individual dramas are shaped in its Christ, and at one point he is Nic­ mold." odemus assisting Joseph of The extension of the "sym- 78 bolic drama" of the mass into the mass is the absolute presence, for liturgical drama of the Quem quaeri­ the whole spectrum of history is tis became the "bridge whereby allowed to occur almost simul­ medieval culture made the transi­ taneously in its strucure. The mass tion from ritual to representational remained constant throughout the drama", says Hardison. Most schol­ year, though the connotation ars attribute this point as the be­ changed according to the season. ginning of modern theater. It was Christmas was a time of joy, pas­ also the genesis of a second period sion week a time of sorrow, and of "holy theater," more durable Easter Sunday a day of celebration than the first, which flared and and uplift. waned through the miracles and During the passion week moralities and shone most brightly "time" became linear as the Last in Elizabethan theater, especially Supper and other historical events Shakespear<'s. of major proportion coincided with regular liturgical services of the Rebirth Themes church, producing a representa­ The Easter liturgy was an tional ceremony. There were equally valid ritual expression of many symbolic acts which fol­ the same events as the mass; how­ lowed the historical pattern of lent ever, Easter had a common prece­ and these were most dramatically dent with the spring renewal cer­ performed during the final days. emonies, so the themes of life and On Maundy Thursday the altar rebirth were much more em­ lights were extinguished, the bells phasized. When early Christianity were used for the last time until encountered the Greek culture it Easter, the altar was stripped, the ad ~pted many of the elements to cross covered or removed, and the itself. It is interesting to see the church was washed in preparation. "year-king" at the very core of On Good Friday the church stood Christian worship, and despite the desolate; the altar was bare, the theological implications, no one images shrouded, the clergy can deny the "year-king" myth as dressed in black. Death is a uni­ very ancient and universal. In versal and deeply felt phenome­ Christianity this was refine,) to non and the impact must have quite a sophisticated ritual. No been great. longer did a living yearly sacrifice The Church amplified this ha e to be made, for "Christ died ritual of resurrectjon with its rites for our sins," and by celebrating of baptism. Baptism was allowed this event, the spring renewal was during only two seasons: Easter bloodlessly and mystically accom­ and Pentecost, with Easter being plished. far more emphasized. There was a The element of time in the large proportion of adult baptisms 79 at that time, and the initiation and fined it as "ocular proof" of the ceremony were far more complex miracle on which the entire fabric than today. Normally it took a of Christianity depends. minimum of three years to be bap­ tized. The rites of baptism took Sacred History place at a vigil mass Saturday night By the tenth century the which usually ran into Sunday Quem quaeritis was liturgically in­ morning. dependent. Its function was to The dramatic baptism rite present facts in as comprehensible only more strongly underlined the a manner as possible. It was sacred drama of Easter Sunday, as the history. In its freedom from cere­ catechumans became living wit­ mony, it could include more his­ nesses and expressions of the con­ tory than the original and intro­ gregational purgation and cleans­ duce more representational ele­ ing through the Resurrection. On ments such as costumes and realis­ Easter Sunday the theme of steril­ tic stage props. More than likely, ity and death in the church was the professional mimes were reversed, and the neophytes be­ brought in to lend their dramatic came infants "reborn from the talent to the effort. emboldened womb." This must The resurrection-Quem quaer­ have been a tremendous commu­ itis was the turning point of history. nity ceremony. Rather than embellishing it, addi­ The Quem quaeritus appeared tional historic episodes were al.out this time (religious dramas added-all the way back to Adam performed in the Church, usually and Eve, and all the way forward to at Easter, which depicted the the end of the world and final angel appearing to Mary at the judgment. In this way the cycle tomb, hence the term, which form evolved, which reflects the translates as "Where you going?") somewhat "cyclic nature" of the Later developments and changes mass. Beyond historical amplifica­ of the liturgy, particularly in the tion, there was historical improvi­ displacement of the vigil se­ sation. Where minor instances quence, left a vacuum which was were not known, liberal, often filled by an expansion of the Quem anachronistic elements were in­ quaeritus. The Quem quaeritus troduced. This produced a verisi­ epitomized the event of the resur­ militude much more immediate rection, a mythical event. It cele­ than the ceremonial forms. Dia­ brates rebirth, not the more logue became a continuum and not dramatic death of the passion, and a recitation. In these develop­ displays the transition from guilt to ments a fidelity to source was the innocence and from separatism to prime concern and a conscious communalism. St. Augustine de- aesthetic effect was a minor con- 80 cern. Religion and art had not yet meeting place of God and man," separated. says Anne Righter in Shakespeare As the Protestants gained and the Idea of the Play. The com­ power and churches in England, munity was both the actors and the they looked on the cycles as a audience; their involvement with "Catholic device" and mo, ed the play was immediate. There them out of the churches. At first was a passionate identification they did not move too far, for they with the characters, especially were presented on the church with Jesus. There is an account of steps. The community sharing of how the soldier who spears Jesus the dramas increased as a vernacu­ on the cross became so engrossed lar tradition began, and towns­ in his role that he pushed the prop people replaced the clergy in more spear through the false bladder of and more roles. blood into the side of the actor. Scholars can identify few di­ About a half dozen actors died in rect links between the Latin and this way. vernacular dramas. The vernacular Though violent at times, the seems to have branched off and audience did seem to achieve ac­ the two existed side by side for tual communion with the actor. quite a while. It is felt that the The identity of the audience with vernacular dramas must have had a their own part in the play was un­ liturgical root, for they were too questionable; at times they were complex to spring full-blown into all of mankind, at times a specific existence. But perhaps there was group. Through these plays the once again a great creative leap by community learned the Bible a now anonymous author strongly stories in a manner totally reflec­ influenced by the Latin dramas. tive of their own community. Good The vernacular drama was con­ and evil were defined and de­ sciously constructed in a represen­ lineated, and their position in the tational mode. When the cycles full scope of history gave them a developed and were often re­ universal reference. peated, they began to take on al­ The presentation and per­ most the flavor of "Christian folk sonification of good, evil-the vir­ drama." tues and vices in the cycles-led to a new form of drama, the morality. Mystery Cycles Again, this may have been another As in church, "time" in the "great creative leap." The moral­ mystery cycles was the eternal ity was more "protestant" in its present. The cycles "never lost form, so it fared well in the emerg­ touch with the sacramental charac­ ing society. The sacramental qual­ terof its origin, but created a world ity of the cycle was lost and the which participated in eternity, a morality became more of an ex- 81 tended sermon, a fictional por­ relation had developed into an trayal of doctrine. The perspective apogee of communication. of the audience changed radically. Characters could directly address In the mystery the illusion and include the spectator, could was in one's own life and the real­ expose inner feelings through the ity was in the drama. In the moral­ soliloquy, or could retreat into the ity the opposite was true. A barrier world o~ representation. The au­ non-existent in the mystery cycle dience watched from three sides divided the play world from the and shared the same daylight; yet place where the audience stood. in the world versus illusion, they As the scope narrowed in Tudor could accept the imaginary envi­ morality to one particular stage of ronment of the play as reality. life or one particular sin, the drama Shakespeare declared "all the began to lose universal identity for world a stage, and all the men and the audience. Moralities became women merely players." He more concerned with the secular backed up his idea by calling his world, and their shape was often theater "the Globe." directed by commercial motiva­ It was a most idealistic and tion. The hat that was passed often expansive time in history. England came back fuller when grotesques ruled the seas and the "new and monkeys were involved; but world" had been discovered, new most especially when evil was ideas were being postulated and cleverly displayed. the life focus of the Renaissance The new audience relation was riding the full swing. Shake­ was confusing at first. They felt speare's plays presented a broad like strangers with no part to play. range of subjects, taught history, There is an account of a , •lay called and presented and challenged Thrie Estaits in which most of the kings as divinely appointed fig­ actors preen, strut, and prate, ures. He delved into the appear­ seeming co be a little miffed that ance of things versus their reality, the audience has intruded. A few the false versus the true. of the kinder hearts among the The theater was once again a characters clue the audience in on central focus in the common man's what is going on as the play pro­ life, acting as an instrument of gresses. The "theater of aliena­ secular and spiritual learning in the tion" seems to have an early pre­ richest sense, as a purgative, as an cursor. instrument for communal moving and defining. Shakespeare was An Apogee of Communication also adept at exposing evil in some By the time of the Elizabe­ of his finest characterizations: than theater, most explicitly in Richard III, Henry VI, Iago, Shy­ Shakespeare's, the actor/audience lock. This was a refinement of the 82 appearance of evil in morality sive change takes place .... It plays posing as virtue at first. must show how these elements, After a while illusion and real­ surging about confusedly and in ity were indistinguishable. The reciprocal conflict, are begetting a whole world was "theatricalized" new form of humanity in which all as baroque forms smothered the things will return to place, in Elizabethan and the significance which woman will once again and role of the theater diminished. stand face to face with man, as man Even before the Puritans clo 'ed stands face to face with society and down the theaters, the u r.ique au­ society the Idea." dience/actor communion of His countryman, Richard Shakespeare's time was dispersed. Wagner, created the first serious The rem"ining ties were sheared contender of "holy theater" since in 1642. Shakespeare. Wagner instilled Since that time, despite some music at the core of the theater as noble experiments and grand fail­ the communicant of emotion and ures, another period of "holy the­ intuition, and he abandoned ater" has failed to materialize. Christian forms in a return to Ger­ There have been "holy perfor­ manic myth. Francis Fergusson mances" and on occasion "holy writes, "In the myth, human rela­ productions" perhaps, but these tions almost completely lose their have failed to ignite a sustaining conventional form, which is intel­ "community-enlightening-purg­ ligible only to abstract reason; they ing-growing" such as previously show what is eternally human and defined. What often evolves in­ eternally comprehensible in life stead is theorizing, sometimes and show it in that concrete form, beautiful theorizing, but theater exclusive of all imitation, which occurs on stage in the audience/ac­ gives all true myths their indi­ tor relationship, and not in vidual character." abstract. Friedrich Hebbel, with the Modern Efforts experience of Goethe and Schiller In England and America indi­ behind him, wrote in his preface to vidual plays have been produced Maria Magdalena, " ... the function in the last fifty years which may of drama, as the summit of all art, have had a profound religious im­ is to clarify the existing state of the pact. But :1 cohesive theater has world and man in its relationship to yet to evolve frqm this. Elliot'~ the Idea, that is, to the moral Murder in the Cathedral, often re­ center which conditions all things, ferred to as the "first great mod­ and which we must accept as exist­ ern, religious drama," shows its ing .... The drama is possible only protagonist preparing for martyr­ when in this state of affairs a deci- dom. However, he leaves little in- 83 sight for "we the living" if immola­ perience in acting in a German tion is not our path to sainthood, prison camp it seems to jump out and the play merely has a strange at first as something to think of, for purgative and emotional power. he labeled it " ... a great religious Christopher Fry concocted dramas experience." But even Genet later which could loosely be considered views it as a very select experience "religious," but his intellect often for a very select group of people in stumbles into the pathway of his a very select circumstance. emotion and blocks it. In Mac­ Passing note should be given Leish's J.B., the drama shows a to Russian theater. It seems at central figure who by the end of present that the actor and theater the play is resolved not so much to in Russia have a position and re­ his God but more just "to con­ spect bequeathed in almost no tinue." Wilder's The Skin of Our other society. Because of the drab­ Teeth is most affirmative that we ness and repression of the state, will continue somehow, but the the people go to the theater "to path is not clearly drawn. He live;" in many cases it is one of the seems to say with a smile the same few chances for emotional release thing MacLeish says with a grunt. and "feeling." But the genre of the The modem French theater new dramatists is restricted so that for a while took a number of passes "new blood" is not being pumped at holy theater, perhaps as a result in, and the society is closed so that of the strong Catholic culture. whatever a person gains or learns Copeau's presentation of Obey's in the theater has little chance to Noah was apparently moving and expand outside of it. In some ways reverent. Some thought it simplis­ the Russian "circumstance" is tic and falsely naive. Copeau was more ripe than any other country accused of creating a religious the­ in the world for a "holy theater," ater for a select few. But Noah but the "essence" has not yet been seems to be a legitimate allegory able to flourish. with roots in the medieval cycles. It is interesting to include Unfortunately, the disease of Brecht's theater at this point. dying Western civilization-cyni­ Brecht's theory of alienation is an cism and disbelief-invaded acceptable extension of Marxism France after the Second World into art, and Brecht created a pro­ War, and though Godot may still nounced style that is still greatly be expected in some quarters, he respected. He proposed replacing does not show. "sympathetic understanding with The Absurdist movement as­ alienation as a cathartic or purga­ sures us he never will, which has tive device." Brecht's dramaturgy produced a sort of "anti-holy" the­ is excellent, especially when he ater. When Sartre talks of his ex- has the sense to violate his own 84 philosophies, and because of this, many people more cruel and his theater works well. Yet despite aFenating than anything the the­ its East German state support, ater can concoct. The vivid vio­ Brecht's theater does not hold the lence and the news stories on tele­ impact in its own society a "holy vision, and the movie camera, theater" should. It is much more have supplanted most theatrical intriguing to West Germans and attempts at realism and cruelty. foreigners. Football has become the tri­ The experiments go on. Peter weekly purgative, and though Brook feels that new approaches to there are still fading calls for revo­ the classics, to Shakespeare, is one lutionary theater, the Marxist possible path-but only if the pro­ maxims have proven inept. The duction is reinterpreted for its con­ strands of the rope are entwined temporary audience lest it "looks and frazzled, yet our capabilities, lively and colourful, there is music our desire, and our needs are wait­ and everyone is all dressed up, just ing to be respliced. as they are supposed to be in the Ugo Betti states, " ... that best of classical theater... and in theater today... which is history in our hearts we find it excruciatingly the making . . . is in every respect boring." His search for the "holy truly theater, that is, actual collab­ theater" goes on, as does Grotow­ oration between speakers and lis­ ski' s. teners in the common effort to Grotowski has stripped his formulate the dialogue of our theater of all extraneous elements epoch and to give expression to its to get to the core of his actor's aspirations. Religion and the the­ spirit, and therein of theatrical ex­ ater has assumed in the conscience pression. Artaud's vision of "the­ of many, a new importance pre­ ater of cruelty" is perhaps best en­ cisely at a time when large areas of capsulated in a group called "The disbelief, or at least indifference, Living Theater" who seem to seem to spread both in the indi­ have entwined their own ethos and vidual soul and into the world." It life-style with a theatrical expres­ seems more than coincidence that sion. For a fee, an audience can in the times of holy theater there watch. People come away deeply has been a close creative alliance moved or deeply bored, often between the two. A religious re­ both. The group has not yet solved newal in our world associated with a sticky problem of the theater of a rebirth or restructuring of liturgy cruelty-what to do after "the may prepare the way for new forms moment of the- «rr"'""' " of a "holy theater" which are celebrational and proclamatory. History in the Making But will there be a third com- The world has become for ing? • 85 poetry

THE PRICE winged wings on an open sky ... how long will I open eyes and chance to see this land I love with every breath? the light burns deep within my soul and even though the storms may come, it can't but linger there and grow­ with hope. if only for those who've come before me and fought and died for this same flame, I must continue up this hill .. . I must continue up this hill .. . winged wings on an open sky ... I hope that I may one day die with no regret; before I'd ever wake to find myself alive and under chains- wishing I had done more to stay a free one.

-Janet Cook

86

DID YOU LOOK?

Did you look in his eyes? Diamonds sparkled like all the galaxies of heaven. He was my brother. I thought he was just another person With eyes, nose, mouth, etc. I had ignored him for many years, Just looking at his teeth. I looked at him like a horse- A physical object which moved And responded to certain stimuli. Did you look at your brother that way too? I guess we all did from time to time. I did not know any other way to look at him. When he smiled, I thought he was happy. When he frowned, I figured I would get out of the way for a little while. I don't know what was special about this day. It looked pretty ordinary to me. But we never know-God does not tell us everything He is doing. I looked this morning and saw something I never saw before. Gentleness in his mouth, Friendliness in the wrinkles around his eyes, Also pain.

88 Thoughtfulness on his forehead, Happiness in his cheeks And suffering. Why did I not see this before? Then I plunged the whole way, I looked in his eyes! I caught my breath for a moment. And then I saw a thousand galaxies. He was looking at me too.

-Kevin Brabazon

MEN OF GALILEE Oh, men of Galilee, why do you stand Looking up into Heaven? Do you not know He will come in the way you saw Him go? With tears of sorrow, Deep scars and blood He shed for Heaven. Oh, men of Galilee Did you not learn? This man He loved you so. And now you say He is not a man­ Just a spirit coming on the clouds. Oh, men of Galilee Why do you say he is a spirit? Are you afraid to pay the price like him? -Kevin Brabazon

89 OUR MISSIONARY LIFE

Go and find all the good people of this earth And tell of the arrival of my New Coming. Turn the hearts of the strong and the wicked, The poor and the afflicted The mercy-givers and the people of good cheer. Soon shall you know, that all is not forsaken. 'God Bless You': My mercy will be replenished, Nor shall I be quick to judge. But tarry not, for each moment is gone and will never return, Whether you and your world shall live, I give to you as your mission and promise to me. I shall not be vain, yet my wrath is indeed most terrible. I am given a pledge for your honor: To be upheld and ne'er transgressed. Love with all your might, the Lord your God For of this world, I grow quickened, All who fall shall perish. Risk not your life for mere triflings Your life is for all eternity, The life of my first chosen. Give unto all, all that I give to you, And you shall inherit my blessing.

-Robert Liu

90 • • - •:~: :~ cc ,:~ Arr Ja INTERNATIONAL _LEAD~RSHIP SEMINA I- • ':·

Professor Gen ltasaka of Harvard University lectures to /LS students.

international lea~ership seminar by DAVID CARLSON

cural Foundation. The part1c1- ighty-two Japanese partici­ pants, students from the top uni­ pants in the Fourth Interna­ versities in Japan, had come to E tional Leadership Seminar take part in an exciting schedule were welcomed to America at John designed to stimulate the growth F. Kennedy Airport on July 28th of those qualities essential to ma­ for a three-week visit sponsored by ture, constructive international the American International Cul- leadership. 91 Students and hosts relax with hot dogs at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Under the theme of "New demic part of the Seminar, which Ideas for Democracy and Christi­ began with an official opening anity," the participants had an op­ ceremony. Mr. David S.C. Kim, portunity to study universal prin­ director of the Training Center, ciples of life and to share together addressed the students, represent­ many experiences, including high­ ing Reverend Sun Myung Moon, lights of America's bicentennial the founder of the International program featuring visits to the sites Cultural Foundation. Mr. Ken of the important events in the birth Sudo presented the Divine Princi­ and development of America. ple, in which he spoke deeply The Seminar began on July about the nature of God, the na­ 28th with sight-seeing in New ture of man, and the meaning of York City and a welcoming dinner history. and reception in the evening. Bar­ The students went to New rytown International Training York City for two days of sight­ Center was the scene of the aca- seeing highlighted by visits to 92 Japanese students visit Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Columbia University and the amusement park and a stop at United Nations. At Columbia West Point Military Academy University, Professor Hans Bielen­ rounded out their trip to New stein, chairman of the East Asian York. The students received a very Languages and Cultures Depart­ deep impression of West Point, ment, compared American univer­ where they were able to observe a sities and students with those of formation of cadets and a flag other countries, and spoke about ceremony, complete with the fir­ his own experiences teaching at ing of a cannon. Columbia. At the United Nations, On returning to Barrytown, the students were given a guided the students listened to some very tour and then were addressed by thought-provoking lectures on the the minister from the permanent theory of Victory Over Com­ mission of Japan to the United Na­ munism, given by Mr. Takeshi tions on current world affairs. Furuta. A trip to the Great Adventure Traveling to Boston, the stu- 93 dents visited the State House, the come very close through sharing Christian Science Monitor, Har­ many wonderful experiences to­ vard University, and the Massa­ gether. chusetts Institute of Technology. To give the students an op­ They were addressed by Professor portunity to experience the envi­ Gen ltasaka of Yen Ching Institute ronment of an American home, at Harvard and by Professor Koichi families in the surrounding towns Masubuchi at MIT, speaking of Red Hook and Kingston were about American life and the ex­ contacted and asked if they would periences of Japanese students in like to invite two students for one America. evening. The response to this was The next series of lectures at very good. Some families drove to Barrytown, given by Professor Barrytown to pick up their student Kenji Nomura, was on Unification guests and other students were Thought and concerned itself with driven to their hosts by the ILS ethics and the theory of man. The staff. All of the students who vis­ students then left for Philadelphia ited area families had a very enjoy­ and Washington, D.C. These cit­ able evening. ies were a source of enjoyment for On August 20, the students everyone as they visited the Lib­ again went to New York City for a erty Bell, Constitution Hall, Ar­ farewell party and evening of en­ lington National Cemetery, tertainment. Certificates of com­ Mount Vernon, the Capitol, the pletion were presented to the stu­ Smithsonian Institution, the dents. Washington Monument, and the By the end of the 21 days, Lincoln Memorial. In Washing­ which came all too soon, we had ton, the students were hosted by again experienced that the heart the Freedom Leadership Founda­ speaks a common language, no tion at a reception-dinner. Neil A. matter who you are. We had shared Salonen, president of FLF, and many things together and it was Dan Fefferman, secretary­ with regret that we saidsayonara to general, spoke on the significance our friends at Kennedy Airport. of the International Leadership All of us believe that universal Seminar. Reed Irvine, director of peace and understanding can and Accuracy in Media, was a guest will be brought about by those speaker. leaders who can transcend their Returning to Barrytown, the own national, religious, and cul­ students received a review of the tural barriers. We hope the Semi­ Unification philosophy presented nar contributed to this goal. • by Mr. Koryo Ota and settled in to deepening their relationships with the American staff, which had be- The students visit the U.S. Capitol. 94 95 news & reports International One World Choir Performs in Europe · r he International One World unification through their music Choir, consisting of 30 young and song. people from 12 different nations of The choir was formed in En­ the world, were well received in gland in June 1975, when young many of the major European ca- people from 25 nations came to­ thedrals during their recent Euro- gether to form the International pean tour with the International One World Crusade, European One World Crusade. The choir is Team, to crusade the message of sponsored by the Internatio al the God-centered family and Cultural Foundation, under whose community in an increasingly auspices they perform with an aim materialistic society. The Interna­ to bring a message of peace and tional Cultural Foundation then The International One World Crusade was invited to sing during the Sunday Midday Mass in St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.

96 arranged for the choir to be able to cert in Munich, where the choir sing in a variety of places, from was able to perform pieces from h1,spitals and old-age homes to fac- Beethoven, Schubert, and many tories and schools. Showing a liv- traditional German songs. ing example of the unity they sing Upon this foundation of train­ about, the choir lives in communi- ing, the choir travelled with the ty and is self-supporting, having to Crusade to France, and in Paris the overcome the many barriers of Ian- International Cultural Foundation guage and culture. They come arranged for them to sing in many from such diverse countries as churches and hospitals, as well as Uruguay, Guyana, Jamaica, Rho- give concerts in Paris, Lyon and desia, the United States and most Bordeaux. Perhaps the highlight of the European nations. The of their stay in France was the op­ choir performed in numerous con- portunity to sing in the three major certs in Bath, Glasgow and Lon- cathedrals, Notre Dame, Sacre don, before moving on to Ger- Coeur and lnvalides. These great many, where they underwent cathedrals, which have hosted training in the classics, The peak many of the greatest choirs in of their stay in Germany was a con- Europe's long history, provided At the Pope's request, they also sang for a meeting of cardinals from all over Europe.

97 magnificent acoustics for the people, and provide light accom­ fresh, meaningful songs and paniment to the deeper songs of hymns, many of which were writ- the choir's repertoire. ten by members of the Crusade When the choir moved on to themselves. The performances Italy they were quickly received also aimed at a unity among the with warmth by the Italian people churches, the young people hav- after their successes in France. ing come from many religious Shortly after their arrival they ac­ backgrounds to sing of their belief companied the Easter Sunday in one God for all mankind. Mass service in the famous Duo mo Also in France, a folk-group Cathedral of Milan. The congrega­ was formed comprising four of the tion pressed forward to the altar choir members from different na- rail after the service and asked to tions, to sing the traditional and hear more songs, and the usual re­ modern folk-ballads of the differ- serve of a Catholic Mass was dis­ ent European nations. With gui- pensed with when members of the tars, recorders and light percussion congregation burst out in ap­ instruments, the folk-group was plause. The next step could only able to reach a different level of be the Vatican, and sure enough in The choir prepares for a recorded broadcast by Radio Vatican.

98 Rome the choir was received three lidda~ Mass in St. Peter's Cathe- times to sing in Vatican City. dral, after the Pope gave his The first performance was for weekly blessing to the people from a recorded broadcast by Radio Vat- his wi ndow. This could only be ican, tl• e most powerful ra ,iio sea- succeeded by a personal audience tion in the world, and in fact the with the Pope, which took place first radio station in history, for chat three days later when the choir was where Marconi discovered and sang at the Pope's personal re­ developed radio. The recording quest, to a meeting of cardinals was later given to the choir and is from all over Europe. The choir being made into a long-playing al- sang "Aimons Dieu Notre Pere" bum. This was t/'l e second perfor- ("We love God our Father"), a mance sponsored by the lnterna- Fre 1ch rendition of a traditional tional Cultural Foundation for Korean song, "Sarangay." Radio Vatican, who also broadcast Following this unexpected the famous "Little Angels" folk- performance, the choir could not singing troupe from Korea. expect to go any higher in the di- From there, the choir was in- rection that it was going, and so a vited to sing during the Sunday change took place. The choir was In France, they performed in Notre Dame Cathedral.

99 increased in number from 30 to 44, work. and divided in two parts for their Whatever may be in store for return to Germany. In this way one the International One World section of the choir will be able to Choir, if their second year is as perform, while the other section is exciting as their first they should able to support the whole choir and have a very interesting future! do more crusading and missionary

The following are reports and observations from selected representatives who now reside in over 120 nations all over the globe. A Special Birthday In El Salvador I want to relate a brief experi­ should be special somehow." I ence I had on my birthday. It walked on and as I approached the wasn't a particularly outstanding main area of town I began to notice day. I mean it didn't start out that the many beggars sitting under the way. About 4:30 p.m. a friend in­ eaves and awnings. It wasn't par­ vited me to a movie, "Three Days ticularly different; they always of the Condor." When the film abound. But as I saw them hud­ ended we went to a coffee shop dled here and there to keep dry my and had a cup of tea. It had begun heart was somehow touched. I to rain a bit. She decided she wanted to cry because I thought wanted to go to church that night what a sad fate. It wasn't so much and asked if I'd come with her. I because of any thought I had; I just didn't feel the inclination so I took felt a desire to cry. The rain sort of her to the church and left her at the created a tearful environment and door. From there it was only a few I imagined that heaven was weep­ blocks to the center of town. I de­ ing. Save for the beggars there cided to walk in the rain and think were very few people on the a bit. The colored neon signs street. glowed against the cloudy dark­ I was inspired with the idea ness and the pavement glistened that what would make my day spe­ with the drizzle drops. It had been cial would be to share it with hot that day so the rain was a wel­ someone. I decided to buy a bag of come refreshment. doughnuts and give them out to As I walked I thought, "This the beggars. I ran around looking is my 30th birthday; I'm beginning for a pastry shop which might be my 31st year of life. This day open but none was found. "How JOO frustrating," I thought. my gift with a rather quiet kind of Then I saw two women with politeness. She had nothing to lose five children huddled under the being herself. I mean there was no eaves of a Catholic book store. phony acting nice. She just took it One of the women looked young and said thank you and didn't even (30) and the other not much older, open the box. I asked her some maybe 45. I asked them what cir­ very frank questions and told her cumstances brought them to be on that I would help her in the coming the street like this and they told weeks if she wanted help. I told me their sad and tragic stories. I her all she had to do was give me a couldn't help it, I had to do some­ call (her five percent). She said she thing at least for them. I went would then said, "You must be a down the street to a place like saint." I said "No, it is you who is Kentucky Fried Chic!: en and the saint. I have some way to keep bought enough for the seven of myself alive but you must bear the them. Two of the children were shame of society." She began to asleep when I got back but the cry and then caught herself and smell of the chicken awa l.. ened smiled. It was the first time she them. had smiled I guess in a long, long The older woman accepted time. It came from within. Costa Rica: On August 1st we walked ten of damage and putting hundreds miles to Cartago with a great deal out of work. Seventy-four years of the Catholic population as a ago the same company also suf­ condition of indemnity for a new fered greatly in a blaze. They say start for the year in Costa Rica. the owner is a very good man and The Costa Ricans do it as a prom­ that the relations between the ise of faith and as conditions for the owner and workers are like that of return of health to relatives. The a family. Many of the employees church of the patron saint of Costa are part-owners. Perhaps the fire Rica, the Virgin of Los Angeles, is was Heavenly Father's effort to hit in Cartago and she has been a the hearts of the Costa Rican mediator between the Costa Ri­ people to separate them from Sa­ cans and Heavenly Father. Be­ tan. cause of her many miracles this Virgin was given the title of na­ tional patron saint. Tonga: On the 31st of July a big blaze Our princess got married on destroyed one of the biggest de­ the 20th, 21st and 22nd of this partment stores in Costa Rica, month. That is, a Christian, Euro­ costing thousands of dollars worth pean wed,iing on the 20th, a great JOI Feast of Consummation (of all overseas, and as far as the old­ things!) on the 21st, and a tradi­ world America goes, my experi­ tional Tongan wedding ceremony ence hasn't changed. But now a on the 22nd. The whole country new and hopeful America is rising went haywire for a week. There out of the stagnation of the old. isn't a pig left in Tonga after all the Thank God, that He is showing feasts that took place and all the the way through the guidance of gifts that were given. All the upper the Unification Church. class white and Tongan population Even though I was very swept were invited (about 4,000). up in the wave of self-criticism moving through America-to the Niger: extent that I went overseas, seek­ ing to become anything but an Rain falls outside while the American-now I can see there are sun stubbornly shines. On every no people who can do the job that other street corner muddy pools Americans are doing around the will provide swimming lakes for world. That is, the real internal dozens of kids. Houses will crum­ Americans, those with their hearts ble and fall; most of Niamey's centered on God. Yes, let us make people live in mud-block houses. a clear distinction between those Electricity will almost certainly be who sit in opulence on the ac­ cut off for from a few minutes to a complishments of our forefa­ few hours, but only a little less thers-the external Americans than half the people will be af­ who are the disgust of the fected. Still, rain is welcome in world-and the internal Ameri­ this land; its severe drought of the cans whose love for God is the not too distant past is a bitter center of their lives, who eagerly memory. There has been fine seek to accomplish the mission weather this year for the crops that that God gave Americans in the will feed over four million people, world. and millions of cows, sheep and Let's prove the "internal" camels. Americans' dedication to God in the forthcoming Washington A Letter Home Monument rally. Dear Brothers and Sisters, I want to convey the feelings Ethiopia: of an American who has spent the I am very grateful for the op­ greater part of his life overseas. portunity to be in Ethiopia. It has I've spent years in Europe, in the made me more appreciative of Far East, Africa, etc. At first, be­ God's long enduring history and fore the Family, I was embarrassed suffering. Ethiopia is a country by my countrymen's behavior bearing the burden of centuries 102 yet with little insight. This ancient history is coming to a bewildered Christian nation has grown moss and uneasy end, there is a great over its churches which Ii terally hope. This week as we shared the were built underground. In '°me Principle with native and foreign­ ways their light could not reach to ers in this ancient land, I felt in­ the people turning and toiling the deed a living hope. I felt Father land above. Yet now, though this smile. Visiting a "Seer" As in most places, our com- made when they fell he would munity has a number of spiritually draw some symbols on the sand. gifted people who do healing or After tossing the stick several see the future, etc. They all ask a times and writing many symbols small money-gift(SO cents to a do!- he started to interpret them. As is Jar) which they call a "purifying his habit, I'm told, he started by offering" (indemnity). As you can telling me my health is fine. Then imagine, many of these people he described a woman who could don't actually have any gift or else be my mother and said she thinks are very inaccurate and unclear in and worries a lot about me. Then their predictions. he said my mother was going to Anyway, I was interested in send a package and that came true them since they might be able to the next day. He told me mostly bear witness to the truth. I found \ ery general things like, "I'm like out that such a "seer" lives just a chief among my people and I two houses away from us and that came with a very good goal which I this fellow has many, many clients. haven't yet attained but if I wait, We decided to go pay him a visit soon I'll realize it. And, I came to together. I gave him about a dollar spend a short time here but I will for the indemnity and he finally stay a long time." smoothed a place in the sand and Well, I still don't know if that told me to place my hand there fellow is authentic or not but I while thinking of the question I prayed that Heavenly Father could had. I wasn't ready \\ ith a clear at least use the situation. Word ,1uestion so I just thought of our gets around about little events like mission here. that so the next day I was cold that He had four sticks, each people were talking about my about five inches long, that he meeting with the seer and many tossed in the air. To my disap- were impressed, both with what pointment they didn't become he said and also by the fact that I snakes when they landed. Instead, took a serious interest in that sort depending upon the pattern they of thing. 103 North Africa's Quiet Life Here, it's a quiet life, except There are small farms, bushes and when the neighborhood donkeys trees. The trees are a dense mass are quarreling. There are birds in of thorns. All of them are. With the trees, cows in the back yard, water so scarce the trees protect goats in the front yard, and sheep the precious essence running in in-between. The whole feeling is their veins. The thorns are horrid. different. The people live in mud My bicycle tires will testify to that. houses with straw roofs, or in I was told that the same type of houses that are completely made scraggly, twisted thorn tree was of straw. They are primarily blacks used to make the crown of thorns here from any of five different that Jesus wore. tribes (and languages). They live As I walked along the dike I simple lives for the most part. tried to place myself here with the Some have jobs somewhere. Most same state of mind I once had just try to live. walking along a small Iowa Even so there is an immense riverbed many years ago. I tried kindness and hospitality, a social not to think that this is Africa, and ritual rivaling any I have ever that this is a strange land, and all of heard of. People who have little if the other misconceptions one has anything will bring me into their in a "foreign" place. It really homes and extend their hands. caught me something. There are naturally exceptions, Walking along one finds many but compared to the cold harsh­ interesting things. There were ness in the big city it is like a birds and even an eagle watching breath of fresh air. Sure, the peo­ me. The little lizards and squirrels ple are leary of me, a white man or would scurry away into their holes. ''toubop," and are even more leary There are big lizards that sleep because I am one of those horrible quite contentedly in the sun. It is Americans they hear so much fun to try to sneak up on them. about, but still there is a connec­ They are about six feet long, so tion. I brought the bicycle down so they have a difficult time running I would have a way to go to and fast, but if you go against the wind from town and that has caused all very slowly you can startle them sorts of disturbance ... a bicycle­ and they will run away as fast as ri ding "toubop"? they can peddle. They look like a Today I went for a walk on the boat that is going real fast skipping dike. The l\1orego, which is the across the waves because of their flood plain, is now just beginning big legs and flopping tail behind to fill up. It is like a green swatch them. across an otherwise barren area. I am afraid I didn't do any 104 good in the public relations de­ partment though. Being white, I always seem to upset any situation I stumble across. I decided to climb a particularly inviting tree that leaned way out over the riverbed. While I was arranging myself in my perch I happened to be noticed by what I think was a teenage girl and a young boy. I say where the women from the village I think because they were a long half a mile away did their laundry. ways off yet. They had been A wave of surprise greeted me at quietly strolling along the riverbed the well. At first I wasn't sure if apparently fishing or something. they were going to all run away or Then suddenly the older of the run at me and attack me. It's two noticed me and ran over to the strange enough to have a man out other. They sort of stared for sev­ touring around the bush on laun­ eral moments as if they were trying dry day but a "toubop" on a bicy­ to be sure that what they saw was cle? I knew I would start a riot if I real, and then they finally ,tecided tried to take their picture so I and took to their heels, heading in l'Ositioned myself as conspicu­ the other direction. They then ously as possible in the other direc­ situated themselves about 200 tion, took the picture and ex­ yards further away. I couldn't re­ changed a polite salutation in their ally tell what they were doing. Fi­ language and proceeded to pedal nally I decided to continue my back into the bush from which I walk and I climbed down from my came. It's no wonder they think roost. When they saw me starting white people are crazy. in their direction (though I must Many such things have hap­ have been a good third of a mile pened here and it always is some­ away) they dropped everything how enlightening for those on both and took off running and kept run­ sides. I know I have learned to ning until I couldn't see them really love these black people. So anymore. much so that I am really ashamed That sort of thing happens all at the tradition which has caused the time. I went for a ride on my so many of the abuses and misun­ bicycle and saw an unusual tree I derstandings and then the sub­ wanted to photograph. I left the sequent strangling of a rich and track and headed across the bush deep culture. They have survived, dodging thorn bushes and sand th, ,ugh they bear the scars which holes. When I finally arrived at the swings the pendulum back the tree I realized it was also a .well other way in their bitterness. 105 Homesick for the Kingdom I spent a very enjoyable In- dependence Day at the residence speaking with Southern or Brook­ of the U.S. ambassador to Chad. lyn or Boston accents. I only knew All American citizens were invited a few Americans but that gave me a there for a grand picnic. We ate chance to meet some more. In hamburgers and hot dogs and general, the event reminded me of Boston-style baked beans and coca how much I love America and I cola and all sorts of cakes and pas- guess it made me a bit more tries donated by the wives of U.S. homesick than usual. But, anyway, personnel. The residence itself is homesickness for America could very luxurious and the whole never become a real problem for event was like being in the U.S. for me because my homesickness for a day. It was so strange to be sur- the kingdom of heaven is so very rounded by so many white people much stronger. Ghana's Interior Our trip was very interesting the size of the bus but crammed and cheap. The country up north with almost the same number of is very different from the coast. people). From Bolgatango to Po The large city gives way to small we took a teo-tro, something like a villages consisting of round mud small pick-up truck with a tent on huts with thatched roofs. They are top. This should have carried us to tan in color and grouped in small Ouago, but at Po the driver clusters of five or six. As it's now couldn't pay the duty on his kola the rainy season (winter) every­ nuts so he said we all had to wait thing is very green. It's so beauti­ until the next morning when he'd ful-tall trees towering over a have the money. So there we were forest of huge leafed plants. Many in the middle of the road with no birds of different types dart place to go. Luckily it was at a through the trees. Occasionally a police checkpoint so as each car graceful arc of birds will go by in a drove up we asked if they would "V" formation. You get a real sense take us. Finally two very nice of the infinite creativity of God in ladies and a man gave us a ride. We all the variety of creation. arrived about 10 p.m. Our trip up to Ouagadougou, the capital of Upper Volta, took two days. First we travelled by bus Gabon: to Tamale, 12 hours from Accra. My spiritual son, his younger We stayed over and the next morn­ brother, and I took a trip of about ing took a bush wagon (one-third 120 kilometres to visit his wife. It's 106 the custom here to send the wife African-style hotel-no running away for three months after she's water, cots for beds, rats under­ had a baby-for purification pur­ foot, goats clambering all night on poses. They believe a woman who the roof, but at least it was a place has given birth is impure and must to rest, and the owner really tried be isolated with her new child for hard to serve us. three months-where she doesn't We made it across on the firs t do any work, but her family serves boat the next morning but it was her. Actually it seems a very good already 10, and found her around custom-from a Principled point 11. We certainly threw the family of view, that she is impure, as the into a tizzy. As is often the case child certainly isn't sinless. when we go visiting, we were the Secondly, those first three first white people to visit their months are perhaps the most cru­ house, and they worried that we cial ones for the mother and child weren't well enough served-that to establish the needed bond of the chairs weren't nice, that we trust and love, for the child to con­ wouldn't like the food, or that we tinue to develop. If that bond is were bored. But their worries not established during this time, passed as they saw how relaxed many difficulties occur. It's a time and happy we were just to be there when the mother must be free to and share a part of their life with relax with her new child and learn them. to give love to it, etc. We brought medicines, and I So, his wife was in a little vil­ had a somewhat heart-breaking lage about five hours' drive from session, cleaning up sores on the Libreville. We left early Saturday children's heads and feet, caused afternoon, hoping to reach the vil­ by a nasty little baby mosquito, lage by night. But we got a flat tire which bites and causes unbearable on the road and ended up missing itching. Plus they had chiggers in the last ferryboat of the night, their feet. Here, it's like a tick that which was needed to get us across bores into the ski I and then lives the river to reach her village. there, off your blood. And one lit­ (They are in the process of build­ tle girl had this evil-smelling pus ing a bridge, but until it's finished, coming out of both her ears. I all traffic leaving Libreville for cleaned it up, but it kept coming anywhere else in Gabon must cross and I really had nothing to give the river by ferryboat, and some­ her. Apparently she's always be'- n times people have to wait in line all a strange child, never talking, and day to get across.) I fear she's deaf or that there's We secured the car and our some brain damage. She had the belongings and went searching for smell of death around her. a place to sleep, ending up in an That session was heart- 107 breaking because I couldn't really Some of her experiences helped do anything to cure them. Their me to understand such experi­ problem is poverty and igno­ ences as mentioned above, how rance-too poor to buy shoes to the African often seems cold­ prevent the chiggers and other hearted and insensitive in the face parasites from entering the feet, of infants dying or ugly debilitat­ ignorant in the ways of cleanliness ing diseases, and other human suf­ and nutrition and proper health fering. It made me realize again habits. And it was sad, too, be­ what a rich spiritual heritage we cause my spiritual son kept saying have acquired as Americans or not to use so much alcohol and Westerners raised in a caring, bandaids, that it didn't matter Christian society, where suffering anyway. is minimized by advanced tech­ My mother sent me a book, nology, but where suffering is also Return to Laughter, about an an­ treated in a more sensitive, under­ thropologist's experiences with standing way. It's hard to explain, another African tribe, in Nigeria. but it's definitely an advancement ,1ue to Christianity. The Silent Majority Even in such a modern city as who see, feel and know the vast Abidjan, 70 percent of those who differences of wealth more than live in the outskirts are still using any of us continue co look at us dug-out wells, campfires as stoves, with so much hope and respect. candles, cardboard houses and the It's astonishing how much admira­ street as their toilet, and yet how tion they have for America. How I many who live in such wretched wish those in America had the conditions would even dare to same. These people here are really complain? Amazing, but true, they the silent majority. Forgiving Hearts One thing I have come to hearts. notice is that suffering deepens The culture of the Camerou­ the heart. All the African countries nians is one of giving and helping have had their share of suffering each other out. The relationships and hardship, especially those between family members and along the coastal regions which friends are close and deep. They experienced the slave trade. But serve and sacrifice for each other. somehow, beyond the bitter Their mental attitude is optimistic memories, they are able to forgive and hopeful. They want to strive and accept us with relatively open for higher ideals and development 108 of their country. However, the university and only ten percent of economic and educational systems those who apply are accepted. hold them back. The first because Those who have had that educa­ the country is poor and secondly, tional advanta•!~ can see the value the opportunities for higher educa­ and greatness of the Divine Prin­ tion are limited. There is only one ciple. Ivory Coast: The Gambia: Truly, Heavenly Father's In our situation we have to be heart must be so heavy at this the example of new world citizens time. How I wish I really under­ with new standards of morality and stood it properly. How I wish I ethics. This is truly judgment day could comfort it, but how insuffi­ and it's no longer enough to be cient is my faith. Sometimes in lukewarm, partly good and partly recognizing this I feel as though I bad. This is the most difficult can't even face Him in prayer, that thing for the people here to real­ I have no right even to take His ize. They need liberation from precious time. How much He con­ concern over food and other con­ tinually gives and how little we cerns and to be lifted up to their truly appreciate. My heart is burn­ Father. They rationalize away evil ing with a desire to know God, to so easily. truly attain a position of a child to bridge the 6000 year history of Asia: separation between us. We have just acquired an of­ And yet, sometimes, I must fice. Actually two. You really turn my tears into my pillow rather wouldn't believe the prices! But than face him. How little I give what can you do? We spent so and yet how willing Father is to mucq time looking. pour His heart into us. I have so The major reason for taking many rips yet to mend. the office was that there was tele­ What Heavenly Father re­ phone facility-a good facility vealed about feeling desperate has with only one other person using spoken to us lately in a very beauti­ the phone. Most offices-really I ful way. How simple it all is, really; was amazed-have 6 or 7 or 10 it's just a matter of taking the step, people, in small offices, all using of having a plea to move spirit the same phone. \ nd they are all world. We must match Heavenly squashed into small cubicles- Father's confidence in us with our 4'x 4' are the smallest, to a little faith in Him. At this point the bad larger. The commercial building in can bloom. The petals are begin­ which we are located has literally ning to open. hundr-c"d s or thousands of such 109 small offices. I couldn't believe was like that, only I never saw that the sight as the agent took me period. A small example. A secre­ around looking for a space. tary makes a mistake and forgets to I'm becoming really quite fas­ put in the address because she cinated at the running of this cou ldn't read someone's code country-its development and marks. In any office I ever worked comparison to what I know from in, in that situation, you automati­ my earlier years. In most ways I cally take out the paper and start would say, yes, it really is a de­ again-so that it is correct. Never veloping country. It has lots of mind the work, but it must be cor­ problems, but lots of area for ad­ rect. But here she is telling her vancement. You can start a busi­ boss that there's no space. Also, ness, almost any business, easily, typographical errors are quite and make it succeed. If you are common on legal papers! Strange, smart, you can become quite rich, huh? it seems to me. But then there are It's also a funny combination lots of troubles at that point! I of not trusting anyone, and on the imagine it is something like the other hand, trusting just like a U.S.A. must have been 100 or so child with so much. It's no wonder years ago, or perhaps like the early that almost everyone in business. 1900's. has had the experience of being At first I think the way they go cheated. When I become a little about doing things is really strange more acquainted with the situation and backwards. But then I realize I would like to write about it. I also that at first I also did things like would like to study the develop­ that. And probably in America it ment of civilization. New Zealand: Ginseng Cures The emphasis in the New The New Zealand Family Zealand mission is on selling, be­ has been learning the reality of cause we have very high economic Divine Principle in actual situa­ goals to meet, but witnessing is tions by working in teams with being done in Auckland, resulting high goals to attain. Only through in the blessing of one new the depth of our prayer and our brother. dedication to the mission are we The centre of the mission blessed. It is new for New moved from Wellington to Auck­ Zealanders to begin to struggle for land when national director Grant existence, but through this we are Bracefield left the headquarters able to learn a deeper heart and church in Wellington to spend full feel a deeper connection to the time on the Auckland front line. rest of the world. 110 The most significant de­ velopment that is taking place in the mission here is the greater de­ velopment of ginseng sales. We have been importing II Hwa Gin­ seng Tea for more than two years now. Prior to this, ginseng was vir­ tually unheard of in New Zealand except amongst the Chinese community. Very soon we discov­ ered that there was a demand for ginseng here, so step by step we built up the importing and whole­ saling business. A year ago our family mem­ bers began to sell ginseng tea door to door. With little understanding other than that "ginseng tea was very good for our health," and that Ginseng root. "ginseng was created by God for By this time, we had amassed all of our health problems," family a good deal of information about members began to slowly con­ the efficacy of ginseng. We knew vince people to consider its value. what it was, and we also had seen Rumours quickly spread. what ginseng had actually done, <, inseng rapidly became known i.e. practical results. New Zea­ for its miracle-producing cap ~city. land also has its own few miracle Ginseng was loved and hated, cure tales now, of the same spirit praised and rejected-but always as a thousand years ago. very much talked about by abso­ We planned to sell ginseng lutely everyone. tea and extract in courses: We \\ ent from door to ,~oor 3 months-stamina, pre­ throughout Auckland, Wellingt1 n operation energy build-up, reduc­ and Chris•church, and later on, in tion of stress and tension, etc. the beginning of this year, 6 months-Anemia, lowering through Hamilton, Otorohanga high blood pressure, regulating and New Plymouth, Wanganui. body weight, anti-histamatic ac­ Recently our family was hon­ tion. oured for some months with the 12 months-arthritis, rheu­ presence of three Japanese matism, lung condition, heart blessed brothers, who had all sold conditions, cancer. ginseng tea in Japan. They told us Extract Course ( 12 months) of how it was done over there. -especially pure and strong 111 course for the same ailments as 12 mitted themselves to courses and months' tea-but for deeper who were just beginning on them. sicknesses or complications, e.g. On the last Wednesday of every angina, rheumatics. month we have a meeting which We began selling these all of those people who are drink­ courses in April in Auckland. The ing our ginseng tea courses are in­ first results were terrible. Some vited to attend. Many old people members sold nothing for very who have no one to turn to have many days, and became very un­ met our members and through happy. However, we managed to being inspired by them have secure a working business system, begun to drink ginseng tea for and members who before joining their health. Often they live on the family were often very philo­ their own and are a bit isolated. At sophical and spiritual learned how the Ginseng Evenings they meet to apply themselves practically. old people just like themselves; Just prior to Yankee Stadium for some of them, that evening we met our goal. Our motto was gives them spiritual food, rich "Let's go over" and we did. We enough to strengthen them for the were very proud of that. entire month. Since Yankee Stadium, we We have had two such meet­ have been struggling for a higher ings so far. Th, first had 11 at­ level of unity; some of our results tending; the second, 26. We have have been very high, some very altogether about 200 people tak­ low. We were attacked through ing courses. We have already one the media, but all this negativiry cancer patient who is having an was the best advertising. The amazing recovery due to ginseng, news of ginseng fanned by the hot several heart patients, ulcer pa­ winds of these accusations spread tients and arthritis patients. This like wildfire. Now everyone is building up a living testimony knows about ginseng and knows as to the efficacy of ginseng in of its relationship to our church. New Zealand. When we stand on a person's Curing people through gin­ doorstep we have already been seng tea gives us a deep feeling of heralded and can more easily in­ our responsibility for people, be­ troduce ginseng and our spirit to cause those people who take gin­ the people. seng from us are so desperate that But the most significant they commit themselves into our thing that was to come out of this care completely. Although they was the beginning of the "Gin­ are like our grandparents, they are seng Evenings." These started as also like little children to us, a result of the negativity, to pro­ needing our guidance and direc­ tect those people who had com- tion. 112 Whatis GodS famrlte color?

''Before you are black, white or :,:ettow.you are brothers andsisters underone common Parent, God:' -&"\-ercod ,\loon

God has no favorite colors And it is the celehration of this speak vn Goers plan for One We are all the x1me ir, His"'-"" spiritual commonality thi,t w,ll World Under God" It is this spintual commo,-iality bring us tog,,ther oo Saturda11 Com• and celebrate v.ith which la.,s the found,lion for Septcmb<>r llith. around tlie us this exoting and ~,fuJ ... uruly among races and nations- W;,shing100 Monument Hc'Te, reaffirmation of broth.. hood. . -~ ow only hope for k-.sting pe.ace. Rewwnd Sun Myung Moon will A,,God .,..,,.,L

~ 11 I I • , · For Information call 466-4260 or write to: God ll""'5 America r-,sti\-al, 1365 Connecticut Ave. NW. Washington, D.C. 20036 In the golden age of Asia Korea was one of its lamp bearers, And that lamp is waiting To be lighted once again For the illumination in the East. - Rabindranath Tagore