Now, if the Unification Church members of Korea eat barley rice, then Unification Church members of America will also want to eat barley rice. Even in the place they sleep, they do not even care for beds. If they are told that the Korean members sleep on the wooden floor, then they will abandon their beds to sleep on the cement floor. What was interesting was that when I toured all of the 49 states, I found that this is what the young people in America were doing. There is one member who graduated from a graduate school in California and speaks 11 languages fluently. I told him to be a driver. Next, even to the leaders of the church, I told them to provide service as drivers, and giving them many chores to do, I made them really suffer. Then, I told them to reserve a place for me at the first-class hotel. I told them, "Get a place in a nice hotel. Since I have come to America for your sake, this is what you should do." So, they made reservations at first-class hotels wherever I went. In the meanwhile, I told those who were following me, "As for you, sleep on the ground." I wanted to see how many days they would last... Similarly, I frequently make people go through difficult trials. Wherever I go, I always make them do this. Having done so, toward the end as much as possible I tell them, "You should also reserve a room at a good hotel." However, by that time, they would not do that even if I told them to do so. When I asked why they are like that, they replied that in the past when they woke up they had to look up to me, but if they were to sleep on the bed also, when they wake up they would have to look down on me. It's because they are taller. They said that they cannot do it because they cannot look down on me. I thought to myself, "Now they understand..." When I saw that I thought, "Ideology is such a powerful thing. I will not be resentful because I do not have any money. I will not complain that the world is difficult to live in." When I think about how in this foreign land such people can emerge even without meeting me, I realize how much effort God has been putting in. (48-117)
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