Bethlen Naptár, 1958 (Ligonier)
Highlights in Hungarian Life…
BETHLEN NAPTÁR 239 various employments, in finding lodgings to the homeless. The Hungarian Relief Fund has collected about £ 50,000. According to its charter it should devote most of the money for helping Hungarians at home but the pressing need in this country has made it necessary to use some of the money for giving aid to refugees in the United Kingdom. Within the Hungarian Reformed Church, the Lay-President of the Council of Elders, Mr. L. Csűrös together with the treasurer and the elders has given untiring help in meeting personal problems. He has devoted all his spare time to caring for the refugees. His main concern is to find suitable employment to skilled workers. In many hundred cases he assisted them successfully. The main activities of the Church cover holding of regular services, bible meetings, preparation for confirmation, social gatherings. The organist of the Church is M. J. Baracsi, who is also organizing the work of a choir and is the leader of the Folk Dancing Group in London. Free courses in English are run by Rev. T. J. Coulter, Miss M. Harsányi, Miss M. Kaffka and Mr. A. Tárczy. Mr. A. Tárczy, one of the elders, is also active in fostering understanding between the Hungarian refugees and their English hosts or employers in collaboration with the British-Hungarian Cultural Fellowship. The work is gigantic, the responsibility is tremendous. The burden is often hard to bear but we have the sure and satisfying conviction that our work is carried on with God’s loving care manifested in the ready assistance of our fellow Christians in Great Britain. The great burden is lightened by His mercy and our failing strength is constantly being re-newed by His power in prayer. We may be physically exhausted but our heart is at rest in Him. The work of the Church, here as everywhere, is rooted in His will, we seek no human satisfaction but strive to serve His glory. YOU PRAISE ME Dicsérsz, kedves . . . You praise me, dearest one, for being good ! Perhaps I am, who knows, it may be true, But thank me not . . . the source of every good That’s in me rises from your heart and you. Or possibly the earth is credited With every fruit and bloom it brings to birth? How could it even bear a blade of grass, If sunbeams were not shining on the earth? Alexander Petőfi.
