Reformátusok Lapja, 1950 (50. évfolyam, 8-24. szám)
1950-06-15 / 12. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK FOUNDED IN 1900 HUNGARIAN REFORMED RELIGIOUS PAPER L. EGYHÁZI ÉS VALLÁSOS NÉPLÁP LAPJA 1950. junius 15. To the members of General Synod Reformátusok Lapja brings its GOOD WISHES AND MOST RESPECTFUL ú i ß H TII NI ú § On August 15th, REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA will be 50 years old. It is the oldest of all Hungarian periodicals in America. Only a daily newspaper is older with almost a full decade. But by far it is the oldest religious paper in the Hungarian language, ever published outside of Hungary. Still, it was not the first thing which Hungarians in America hurried to establish. Something more immediately needed had the priority. That was the Church. Our Church work started 60 years ago Sixty years ago, right in this month of June, (1890) the General Synod in Lebanon, Pa., took this memorable action, of most momentous historical importance: Members of the Board of National Missions, discussing the business of this paper, in the meeting of their Hungarian Committee ‘RESOLVED, that the Board of Home Missions of the General Synod be hereby instructed to correspond with Reformed Pastors in Hungary with the view of their settling among Hungarians in this country.” That was the beginning. Some details of this interesting story you will find on the inside pages of this issue, which we thought fitting and proper to dedicate to the General Synod, just exactly to express the gratitude of our Hungarian constituency toward our Church. On the English pages of this special issue we try to introduce to you this Hungarian church life and work, even if this can only very insufficiently be done on a few pages. We wanted to do this on the pages of this paper, which in the past fifty years of its exis- tance was often guided and even subsidized by the Board of Home Missions, later National Missions, of the Church and is now recommended to be taken over by the Church itself to be its third denominational paper. We felt it our duty and great privilege also to introduce to you this medium of preaching the Kingdom of God which tries to revive the old missionary spirit of the Reformers, so sadly extinct in the Reformed Church of Hungary by the vicissitudes of lost centuries. We pray to GoS that this effort of our paper may find favour with you and that you would grant the proposed promotion in the same spirit as our Lord promised us: “Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” We also bring our supplications before the throne of God praying for the outpouring of His Holy Spirit upon the deliberations of the General Council and for His blessings up "n its actions and resolutions!
