Where does the Unification Church stand today? What the Unification Church seeks for is not the church itself. We are looking for something higher than the Unification Church. Not something inferior to the Unification Church, but for a higher level, a superior dimension.

Then, what is a standard of a higher dimension? Rather than the Unification Church itself, the members need the ability to digest many organizations in this world, the bigger the better. They must learn there and develop the qualification to absorb things as their own nutrition. They should not be assimilated there, but be the ones to assimilate. These must be unified and presented transcending the 30 million people as the national characteristic of both North and South Korea. Otherwise, even if a nation is formed, the sovereignty of that nation will be faced with difficulties. Therefore, a people is necessary before the sovereignty of the state.

The Unification Church must first fight for its people rather than for the nation. It must fight for the people. However, the people are divided into North and South. If the people are divided, North and South Korea cannot become a power that can attain peaceful unification even if a sovereignty exists. It will only become a one-sided sovereignty. The most important thing is how to unify a spiritual standard for the people that can transcend North and South. I believe this is the future task for which the Unification Church should expend its efforts.

If this is not prepared, the term "homeland" cannot appear. Otherwise, even if the name of homeland did appear, it would be a wounded homeland. It would not be a homeland built with authority and conviction, but it would be a land bearing many wounds and disgrace. We must not welcome such a homeland.

Thus, the young people of Unification Church and those with aspirations should wish that the nation as desired by the church would prosper, rather than the development of the church, even if the church itself is destroyed. Even if the Unification Church disappears, the nation that it desires must prosper. The church must become a sacrifice for this. If both can prosper that would be good, but if that is not possible, the church must be sacrificed.

If all of you have the hope and desire, "May dawn come for the homeland," how then must dawn come for the homeland? We must have the heart to joyously welcome the dusk as the sun sets and the nighttime. Today, when we view the approaching Last Days worldwide, we must not feel gloom but be able to say, "The reality that must come is now here. Come, night. When the night comes, I will go running." Rather than evade the night, we must be able to say, "I am running towards the dark night in order to welcome the dawn and brilliant morn."

Because there is dusk in the evening, the dawn of early morn eventually comes; but during that course there is always the pitch-dark zero-hour of midnight. That is a time when all things have gone to sleep. A time when all things come to a halt. No one likes to move at this time. (1971 Oct. 9, Central Training Institute)

When we ask what this world needs today, it is not America that it needs, neither is it communism nor democracy, nor is it the Unification Church. What is needed is the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. If the Unification Church is to carry out this tremendous responsibility, the church must be sacrificed. As this is the invariable principle, God's situation is that he must send us to the way of sacrifice. If Rev. Moon is to shoulder that kind of responsibility, you must know that in order to implement his responsibility, he would not qualify as a teacher unless he slapped and ordered you to go.

It is God's Will to leave the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, even if the Unification Church is to disappear, and thus He seeks for a church that can build that kingdom. That is why it is impossible to do without taking this kind of a path. We must know that this is the final path and the best path; thus, we have no choice but to choose this path. Do you understand what I am saying? This is what all people desire, a sacred...that God desires... An organization or a church with such a responsibility, as it is a sacred obligation of a state, will become 100 per cent one with God by fulfilling this obligation. Do you understand what I mean? [Yes.]

If all of you bring several strands of hair to help build the Kingdom of Heaven, or bring sweat or money to supplement, bring your heads, your tears, whatever, to compensate for everything, then the kingdom will come. However, if you take everything, we will not be able to accomplish this. There will be no kingdom. As there is no nation... If you take everything, nothing will be left. (1976 May 16, Belvedere Training Center)

The world is in an inexpressible state of confusion and unresolved chaos. Only God knows how this can be controlled, and the Unification Church is working to unify the consequences centering on the direction that only God knows. This is not done for the will of the Unification Church. The Unification Church must also enter into the country of Unification Church, the world of Unification Church. It must enter into the desired country of God's Will, the world of God's Will. Thus, the Unification Church is not working for the sake of the church. It does so for the sake of the country and world that the Unification Church desires. (1972 Sept. 17, Taegu Church)