The Words of Sun Myung Moon from 2012 |
HDH-True Mother in Kyoto
NOTE: These notes are taken from a Peace TV video clip. They
cannot be published as definitive texts and should never be used in
the future as an "official" publication of True Father's
words. However, they do provide a good idea of the "spirit"
of the message. - Rev. Katsumi Kambashi "When you have
food and you can't digest it all, you need to give it to
others without leaving them. You shouldn't give it while
crying. You should be happy in giving, so that others will
be able to be happier than yourself. The food would be
gone but the more you give, the more you go up. The
receiver must put the giver to the upper position.'
"I
like to pioneer."
"Here is the person
named Yong Myung Moon, who became Sun Myung Moon. He has
been working hard. When I reached my 70's, I felt my legs
become heavier."
"When I came back home, I
found Hoon Mo Nim (Father's mother) singing 'Higher
Ground.' She didn't know Jesus."
A Japanese
sister sang ”幸せって何だろう
(What is Happiness?)" and Father sang
it together and interpreted the lyrics as well.
When
Rev. Kamiyama was called for singing, Father asked him in
Japanese "Are you over 70? Are you 80 now?" He
replied "I am 71 years old," and sang "엄마야
누나야."
"The most important thing (in singing) is to
correct wrong pronunciations (of the lyrics) and
ill-fitted feelings to the songs you like to sing. When
you are ready to sing a suitable song, tears flow with a
runny nose, and you can't continue to sing because you are
so moved. Reaching the stage where you are moved enough to
go crazy, you can put the environment in order and give a
great influence to it."
After Rev. Man Oong Jo sang a song, he asked Father
if he can talk about Father's granduncle Rev. Yun Guk
Moon. Father said him to do so and the following are
excerpts of his report and Father's words.
"Father
has two granduncles. One of them Rev. Yun Guk Moon worked
to win Korean independence from Japan, and Father has
dedicated himself and his whole life to restore God's
fatherland. When Father talks about his family, he often
hesitates to do so (since it seems that he just boasts of
it), and so when we found the articles of Rev. Yun Guk
Moon, we thought we ourselves must testify Father's
family. When I saw Father speaking about his childhood
missing his family and hometown, I thought that it was our
mission to release his 한
and all emotions. It was really fortunate
that Rev. Yun Guk Moon left a record of his life, which he
made when he was 78 years old. (Showing the record by his
handwriting) As Father said, this was well written by
excellent handwriting. This can be a testimony to what
Father has told us about his granduncle until
now."
"Among my ancestors, there are many
people who held the title of 스승
(master or teacher)."
"In
1910, Rev. Yun Guk Moon joined the Presbyterian Church in
Korea. He taught Chinese literature, and then from the
ages of 35 to 36 for two years, he taught at private
elementary schools in Jeong Ju."
"He made
all those schools and gathered children of beggars who
hadn't studied before."
"From 37 to 41
for five years, he studied at the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary in Pyeong Yang, which is the most famous
institute in Korean Christian history. Famous Christian
leaders in Korea are all alumni of this seminary. I
believe that Rev. Yun Guk Moon, by absorbing new knowledge
and Christian theology at the institute, became determined
to win the independence of Korea. He then worked as a
pastor at three churches in Jeong Ju. According to Father,
it was seven, not three."
"I (as a child)
visited them all in order to know what kind of person my
granduncle was. I investigated them."
"In
1919, Rev. Yun Gok Moon joined the Samil Independence
Movement(March 1st - 3.1.), where he mobilized around
10,000 people who respected and trusted him and his words,
such as the people in the region and the teachers and
students of Osan Private High School in Jeong Ju (정주
오산 사립 고등학교)
he had founded with others. He was one of the people who
signed the document which was later sent to the Paris
Peace Conference in 1919. During the Samil Independence
Movement, he was surrounded and captured by 120 policemen.
He was sent to Seoul and tortured there. We can imagine
how hard it was by recalling the torture given to Father.
He was sentenced to be in jail for two years but later he
was released due to the special pardon for royal marriage.
From his age of 44 to 50 for six years, he served as the
pastor for three churches in his hometown.
Two years after the Samil Independence Movement, he
sent 70,000 Won to the Korean interim government in
Shanghai through Rev. Suk Che Kim who was in Manchuria at
the time. 70,000 Won in those days is roughly 7 million
Won now. According to Father, Rev. Yun Guk Moon didn't
only give the money, but also provided 8000 Won for Rev.
Kim for his expenses. We need to understand that he
donated so much money as the representative of the Moon
family. Father says that his mother always sang 'Higher
Ground' and his whole family were Christians.
Though
he was released from the jail, he was always followed by
the police who considered him as the person at the first
rank on the blacklist. After realizing the date and the
place of his alleged re-arrest, he escaped to
Chungcheongbuk-do and hid for three years there. Later he
moved to Kangwong-do.
Right after Korea gained her
independence on Aug. 15, 1945, he went back to his
hometown where he found the communists' strong control. He
told his wife, children and relatives that he couldn't
work as a pastor there, and left his hometown on Jan. 17,
1946. Like Father, who put one leg on the north side and
the other on the south side and pledged to unify the South
and North Korea, Rev. Yun Guk Moon pledged in front of
Heaven 'I am heading for the South now but in my lifetime
I will definitely defeat communism and raise the
people.'
His handwriting is full of vigor and it
doesn't seem to be written by a person of 78, through
which we can imagine his high-spirited final life."