Bethlen Almanac 1998 (Ligonier)

The Bethlen Home

Calvin Synod Meetings, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, May 12-15, 1998.

their overwhelming response made the workers’ strike barely more than a ripple in everyday life of our wards.

On some other occasion, we will write a portrait of Gabriel Bethlen (1580-1629) - Prince of Transylvania, Elected King of Hungary in the first decades of the XVII-th century. His rule marked the golden age of his realm. He was ages ahead of those times with his unconditional belief in the freedom of conscience. His Calvinist persuasion was on the scholarly level, while his innermost circle of friends included the Jesuit Roman Catholic translator of the Bible.

Our Home was most aptly named after him. Scores of cultural centers and humanitarian institutions bear his name until this day wherever Hungarians live in the world. His reader-worn Great Bible governed his words, his actions in every aspect of life: in politics, in diplomacy, in personal conduct, in war and peace alike.

Here, at the Bethlen Home, the same Divine Document conveys to us the Founder and Cornerstone of our Faith: the Ford Jesus Christ.

My dear readers, pay careful attention to this: “Everyone, who has seen me, has seen God,” said Jesus. As the Eternal Son of the Father, he was equal with God. He was not a born servant. He deliberately, with overwhelming reason and everlasting purpose assumed the form of a ser-32