Great Construction

Responding to the Challenge from the Yomiuri Newspapers

     For some reason or another, recently the Yomiuri Newspapers, including the local editions, have frequently challenged World Messianity. Whatever the occasion, for a large newspaper like Yomiuri to show concern for and target World Messianity is the height of honor.
     Sayings such as “the nail sticking out is hammered down,” and “a great tree gets the strong wind” have been around for a long time, but because there is a danger to the roots of a tree if the wind is too strong, it cannot but be helped that some kind of windbreakers or walls are created.
     Still, there is the danger that depending upon the person such methods may produce reverse effects. Because once one comes to be in the sights of a large newspaper there is no telling what form retaliation may take in the future, there are people who eagerly recommend that it is better to take the punches and be still. We ourselves do believe that most of the time that response is the most reasonable, but when attention is again given to the matter, the following comes to mind. That is, when those in stronger positions harm those in weaker positions, the weaker may swallow the harm fearing future consequences, but what happens is that attacks by the stronger increase, resulting in oppression. As in the saying, “honest people make themselves look foolish,” those in the right, the good people always suffer, having to continually suffer from the preposterous. Thus, I believe that to reform social ills, someone should rise to confront the stronger and fight to protect justice.
     As a newly-born new religion, we are quite weak, so from the viewpoint of the Yomiuri, we are nothing more than a David challenging a Goliath, but whether opponents may be many or few, we intend to fight for justice. That is because our true purpose is to expand what is right and reduce that which is wrong in a contemporary society which is overflowing with evil. We look forward to a world that has been made good from evil, which results in the reduction of human sufferings where may be enjoyed eternal peace. Of course, seen from a human perspective, far from being difficult, such a goal may seem to have no possibility of reality, not an unreasonable assumption. But such a goal will not be accomplished with human power. When the proper time comes, the Lord of the economy of heaven and earth will wield great divine power unprecedented in humanity’s history. We who know and thoroughly understand this are certain of the possibility of this realization. This is what we mean by the realization of paradise on earth free of disease, poverty, and conflict.

Hikari, Issue 32, page 1, October 22, 1949
translated by cynndd

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“Yomiurishi no Chōsen ni Kotau,” which appeared originally on the front page of the newspaper Hikari, Issue 32, October 22, 1949, was never anthologized while Meishu-sama was alive,. Nor has it, as far as is known, has not appeared in translation.