I have returned in five days after traveling all over the southern half of the Korean peninsula. After passing through Dae-Chun, Chun-Ju, Kwangju, Ma-San and then going through Taegu to go to Sam-Chuk, and next, passing through Jae-Chun and Chun-Chun, I have returned home.

What I felt during my tour this time around was that now is the time we must engage ourselves in the fight. When I look at how our young men and women in the countryside have tremendous determination, I am convinced that the fight in this period will bring great victory. However, what made me painful was how our members traveled on foot for hundreds of li to the places that I was supposed to visit. People in the outside world don't come because they don't have the desire to do so, even though they can afford to come in a car. Yet our young men and women walk hundreds of li to come. When I went to Kwangju, there were people there who said that they had walked day and night for two, three days from Mok-Po or Mu-An to come there. When I saw these phenomena, I was reassured that the will and the purpose that our church is trying to accomplish will surely come to pass.

Those who ignore their own individual difficulties to overcome any kind of tribulation and have an impact for the sake of one purpose and one era are not those who have lots of experiences in society. Moreover, they are not people who are preoccupied with their own individual situations, and not those who have a certain individual mentality or knowledge. When I saw how a young man around twenty years of age made a firm determination to put his life at stake for the sake of the providence, I was so deeply moved. There are many members who are like this. In general, they have a more intrepid spirit than the young men at the headquarters here. In comparison to the members in the vicinities of Seoul and Kyung-Gi province centered around the headquarters, and in comparison to those of you gathered here, they have such an intrepid spirit in respect to their earnest heart toward God and loyalty toward the providence that you cannot match them. I felt that if you do not fulfill your responsibility, then they will step over you and complete that responsibility. (11-179)