Amerikai Magyar Reformátusok Lapja, 1932 (33. évfolyam, 1-53. szám)
1932-02-20 / 8. szám
AMERIKAI MAGYAR REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 7 AZ IFJÚSÁG KÖRÉBŐL. DO GOOD! The “Christian” who does not do good is not a Christian by any means; he has merely stolen the name. You cannot be a Christian and not do good in some way, for Christianity is dynamic. Christianity calls for action. Christianity finds its outlet and success in good works. You have only to give a glance to the thousands of churches, hospitals, clinics, nurseries, schools and asscoiations of charity through which good is done. Be a Christian in reality and do good. Take John Wesely’s motto of life and make it your own: “Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.” Remember, your Master spent his whole life doing good. No person can excuse himself of doing good. Even those who have physical defects can be of vital value to humanity. We all possess some defects. Longfellow once said: “I do not believe that any man can be perfectly well who has a brain and a heart.” The perfect man is yet to be found. Should our defects discourage us and hinder us from achieving our aim in life? Never! Most of our great men were troubled by severe physical or mental handicaps and they attained glory just the same. Perhaps you do not know that Demosthenes stuttered, that Pope was a hunchback, that Caesar, Napoleon and Dostoyevsky were epileptic, that Carlyle was dyspeptic, that Steinmetz was dwarfed and deformed, that Johnson Was partially blind and scrofulous, that Alfred the Great was the victim of a life long internal disease, that Keats and Francis Thompson had tuberculosis, that Byron had a clubfoot, that Gibbon had a hydrocele, that Lamb was troubled with insanity, that Milton was blind, that Charles Darwin was neuropathic, that Pasteur, one of the most conspicuous scientists that ever lived, made his most valuable discovery after a stroke of apoplexy ? On with our work in spite of our handicaps! J. Sathmary. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR’S 51st ANNIVERSARY! “Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other” — words that seem to have no meaning to us now, for when we open our evening papers, headlines such as “Chinese bombing settlements”, “Japanese drive repulsed”, stare us in the face. As we turn the dials on our radios we hear, “Arms parley moves slowly”, meaning that the Peace Conference in Geneva has not reached anything new or hopeful. It is only a year and a half ago that another delegation met on the Old Continent, not in Geneva, but in Berlin. At the Geneva Conference there are 55 nations represented. At the conference in Berlin 42 nations were represented. There isn’t a great difference in the number of nations present at the different conferences, but what a vast difference in spirit! “The Path of Peace Proclaim — Through Jesus’ Precious Name”, had found a way to the hearts of all the youth taking part at the Christian Endeavor Conference in Berlin. All C. E. members learned that Christ must be King — that they must be brothers. They had all been fed by hands that were nail-pierced, they all sat at His feet, and they all found peace with Him. It was at this Conference that youth learned: With Him as Guide everything is possible. Forty-two nations had become one. Forty-two different tongues had repeated the Lord’s Prayer, and it wasn’t a Babel, but it was One Voice — Thy Kingdom Come! To starry-eyed Christian Endeavorers the words “Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other” are not merely words — but something that is possible. Christian Endeavor is celebrating its 51st birthday this month. We, as Christian Endeavorers, all want to join in the celebration; we all want to bring our gifts to be laid at the feet of our Captain. When Dr. Francis E. Clark organized the first C. E. Society, it was with the aim of bringing God’s Kingdom upon the earth. Through the years C. E. has surely succeeded in going toward its goal, but it has not been enough! Youth, who at the Berlin Conference had held hands with other nations, had waved another nation’s flag as a token of brotherhood, must, now in this world, so full of strife and struggle, and wars, take up the cry — “We are brothers, and as to interracial or social injustice, lawlessness, selfish nationalism and every attack on disarmament,
