Many other miraculous things happened throughout South Korea that summer. Two teenage girls went together to a small town. They felt very fortunate to quickly find a place to stay with a Christian woman.

"These are such nice girls," thought the lady. "Perhaps I can get them to join my church."

Before long, the girls told her the reason for their visit. "We would like to teach you about a new revelation. God is telling us that it is time for all Christians to unite. The Lord of the 2nd Advent is coming now, and we must all work together. May we share this revelation with you? It is called the Divine Principle?"

The woman's face suddenly changed, and she didn't look so pleasant anymore. "Is this the Unification Church?" she asked.

"Yes, it is," they answered. "It is very inspiring. May we explain the teachings to you?"

Unfortunately, the woman had heard bad things about the church. This was her chance to find out for herself what it was really all about, but her mind was closed.

"No thanks," she said emphatically. "I want nothing to do with it, and I don't want you staying in my house anymore either."

It was a terrible blow to the girls, but it was only the beginning. This happened three times. At each house, the girls were told to leave when it was learned who they were. Besides that, two young men followed them around and made fun of them all day and told people not to listen to them.

Then, one day, Teacher came in his jeep, along with Mrs. Choi and Mr. Eu. He comforted them and reminded them about the importance of suffering, but inside, his heart wept for them. How could people treat these nice girls in such a terrible way?

After he left, the people who treated the girls so cruelly experienced suffering themselves. The two guys were put in jail for some crime they had committed and the others seemed to have more accidents and illnesses than usual.

Soon thereafter, the girls found someone who became their friend and gave them a place to stay. They were able to teach many villagers, and those who believed were healed of their illnesses. The girls became known as the "miracle girls."

There was a high school boy sent to another village who had never been away from home before. He couldn't find a way to earn money so he just fasted a lot.

He couldn't find a place to hold lectures so he stood outside and taught the Principle in a very loud voice to anyone who would listen. One day, after a small group had gathered around him, someone started shouting at him, "Shi-ku-lup! A-i-shu!" ("Noisy! Ach!" It really means "Shut Up".)

But the boy did not shut up. He kept on lecturing. There was more heckling and jeering. He taught louder. Finally, the heckler rushed up to him with a stick and started to beat him. He only taught louder.

That night, his body was bruised and sore, but several people had been so impressed by his courage and deep heart, they had asked to hear more.

The next day he was trying to witness door to door, and at one house the woman suddenly acted possessed. "Get out! Get out right now!" she screamed. She pushed him out the door as she continued to scream. He held on to her arm and kept on telling her about the Principle. She pushed him across the yard and out the gate, and only then did he let go of her arm. But he kept lecturing loudly outside her gate.

As people walked by, they looked at him fearfully. "I think he's gone mad," they said to each other. And they hurried on. A few began to notice what he was saying and stopped to listen. Whenothers asked what was going on, they were told, "This boy still smells his mother's milk (this means "he's still wet behind the ears"). He seems a bit crazy, but he is teaching great things."

Within a few days, many of the people from that town were coming to hear his lectures, and soon a new church center was started.

Another young man had been in the church only three months when he was sent to a village. He hardly knew the lectures at all, but he got the whole congregation of a Holiness Church to join.

Of course, the Holiness minister was very upset when he found his church empty. He came storming over to see what was going on. He rudely interrupted the meeting and accused the lecturer and argued with him. Afterward, he told the people terrible things about the young man. By the end of the 40 days, half of the members did go back to his church, but half of them stayed to start a Unification Church in their village.

In still another village, a young girl who had only finished 6th grade, lectured the Divine Principle so well that the pastor of the village church resigned. He saw that she knew more than he did and felt unworthy to be a pastor any longer.

Two middle school girls (maybe 13 or 14 years old) went to the chief of police in their assigned town.

"We would like to hold meetings to share with the people some inspiring spiritual messages," they explained.

After discussing it awhile, he was so impressed by their sincerity, he decided to help them. "You have my permission to hold meetings," he told them. "In fact, why don't you talk to the head of the village about a place to meet? Tell him I sent you."

They did just that and ended up making friends with him, as well. He gave them permission to use a room in one of the buildings.

Soon, they had a thriving study group meeting every night.

Some of the older members were assigned to Seoul. They chose six parks and sent three women to each park to preach and witness. Whenever these women found interested people, they sent them to a lecture hall where the men lectured the Divine Principle day and night.

Sometimes, people heard the lectures in Seoul, and when they went home to their villages, they were amazed to find posters announcing the Divine Principle lectures in their own village.

"What a surprise," they exclaimed. "I thought it was just in the big city that these kind of things were going on. Maybe I should check it out here, too."

They went to the meeting place and listened. "These are the same lectures, alright," they realized. Afterwards, they introduced themselves to the lecturer.

"I heard this teaching in Seoul, but I live here," they explained. "Do you mind if I attend your meetings?" Soon, many of them were helping to witness and bring more members.

Lt. Col. Han and Maj. Han worked in Seoul, and they were not allowed to leave their jobs for such a long time. Therefore, every day, they went to work as usual. Then, instead of going home, they went to their assigned village and witnessed and lectured until late at night. Then they traveled back to Seoul and were back at their desks the next morning. It was a grueling schedule.

During these days, Father was busier than anyone. Always getting up before 5, he prayed his usual long hours, often hiking to the mountains to do so. He also traveled over 1800 miles in his jeep to visit all the members. Often the jeep was overloaded with people, and always it was hot and bumpy. But nothing could stop him.

He could think only of the members and their suffering. He saw that many of them looked sick from overwork and lack of sleep and food. Whenever he saw the older women preaching in the park or the middle school girls being ridiculed, he could never contain his tears. He decided to share their hardships by eating only barley and humble vegetables himself and sleeping outside on the ground many nights.

By September 1, everyone returned. As they shared their experiences, they realized that, despite the hardships and rejections, the 40 Day Condition of the Summer of 60 was a success beyond their wildest imagination. For so many years, they had been persecuted, but now a great flood of new members had joined and new groups had been established all over South Korea. There had not been as much opposition this time, and in many instances, the police had even helped the Unification Church members.

The fact that the holy wedding had taken place was surely the reason for this great change.

"This is a very definite sign of the new age," they all agreed with great hope for the future.