Hak Ja Han
August 30, 2015
Cheongshim Peace World Center, Chung Pyung Korea
The main event to commemorate the third anniversary of True Father's ascension
True Mother began speaking after the audience joined her in singing a song titled, "Saranghae," to True Father.
Distinguished guests from home and abroad, beloved ambassadors for peace, from across the world, we miss True Father so much today. Heaven and humanity have long awaited the one central figure and Heaven has had to follow an inexpressibly sorrowful path for thousands of years in the course of providential history.
However, the endeavors of Heaven to send Jesus Christ through the people of Israel and complete the work of the providence two thousand years ago ended in despair and anguish. Therefore, Jesus Christ died on the cross, leaving behind the promise that he would come again.
Thenceforth, the two thousand year history of the providence centered on Christianity was supposed to have prepared us to receive the Lord at his the Second Advent. However, Christians were unaware of Heaven's internal providence.
This is because they did not genuinely understand God. That is why in the midst of Christian history, communism came to exist with its concept of atheism. How devastated must God have been as he looked upon such a situation!
Nevertheless, providential history has continued. Korea is now celebrating the seventieth anniversary of its liberation, but seventy years ago, it was unknown to the rest of the world and was in a most difficult situation. Yet, Heaven chose and established the people of Korea.
Thus, Korea became a nation that gave birth to the Lord at his Second Advent, the only begotten son and only begotten daughter of God. In any part of the world, it is difficult for a person who bears the responsibilities of a higher position to come down to the lowest position. How much more difficult, then, would it have been for the Lord, the Savior, the True Parents, who came as the King of Kings and the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, to do so? However, because Christianity with its prepared foundation failed to fulfill its responsibility, the course of True Parents has had to begin from the position of the servant of servant, the providential course of which you know very well. Even under such circumstances, True Parents lived through days in which they comforted Heaven and made the pledge to fulfill God's will, which is his dream and his hope, without fail.
In the 1970s, the global situation was such that the United States, the representative nation of the democratic world since after the Second World War, held sway over the world.
However, it too faced hardships. The United States, which claims to serve God and has even inscribed on its dollar bills the phrase, "In God we trust," came to be threatened by communism, and its situation became all the more dire due to such issues as the breakdown of the family, extreme individualism, youth problems, drug problems and ideological problems. However, no one was able to step forward and resolve the situation. At that time, True Father left Korea behind and went to the United States.
He said that he had come as a doctor because America was sick, and he had come as a fireman because it was as if America were on fire. These words aroused the leading class of the United States. They came to respect him. However, some politicians that could not look into the future became obstacles on his path. He still forgave them and awakened the United States, and in the end, he brought about the downfall of communism.
Father in South America
Not only that, but he also founded the Association for the AULA (Unity of Latin America) and inspired the South American nations, which were fast becoming communized. Ultimately, he saved those nations. In this way, a single individual accomplished things unknown to the rest of the world, which even nations with vast power and wealth could not achieve. This was possible because he was the True Parent. That is not all. He made many preparations in his concern for the future of the innumerable human beings and the future of the Earth. The providential work of human salvation would have been difficult even with the cooperation of Christianity with its two-thousand-year-old foundation and the cooperation of nations.
The audience viewed from the stage
Father's global efforts
At the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences in 1981, he advocated that one way to world peace was to build the International Peace Highway. After that, he toured through four cities in the United States in 2006 and afterward I carried out a speaking tour of 120 nations.
The highway would begin from the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, pass through Europe and Asia, the Korean peninsula, through Santiago in Chile, South America, to New York. Father spoke of building a tunnel under the Bering Strait in Alaska. He advocated the way by which the world could become one, by passing through those places and going through Moscow and the Japanese islands and arriving at the Korean Peninsula, and he opened the way to make it possible.
Based on this historic course, on this third anniversary of Father's ascension we have been able to complete the great course of the Peace Road in which 121 nations participated.
True Parents in Korea
Since the beginning of history, all the people who claimed that their nations were superpowers of the age were all self-centered. They only thought about benefiting their own nations.
However, because True Father and I are True Parents, we work to open the way of understanding by which everyone can become one. One hundred years ago, a great Indian poet, Tagore, praised Korea, saying that Korea was the "Lamp of the East."
Korea's economy of today is not this lamp of the East. A lamp refers to light, and the light is the truth. The truth is the word. Therefore, that phrase means that through True Parents' teachings, this nation, Korea, can stand high in relation to Asia and the world. Now, then, I want to ask all of you here today, What do you want to say to True Father? I want to tell him: Father, from now on, you have nothing to worry about. We will fulfill our responsibilities at all cost. Therefore, we hope and pray that you will now be free to go and come as you please, and to comfort God, our Heavenly Parent, who has been lonely until now, in the eternal garden of the original homeland.
Our obligation
This is the flag and the flower of the culture of heart, which we need to show the rest of the world as a responsibility we need to fulfill. I hope that you will bear this in mind and with the same level of determination that I have, do your very best.