Calvin Synod Herald, 1978 (78. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1978-03-01 / 3-4. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 7 The loss is ours, and it is a bitter loss. But surely he, now at the throne of Heaven with his Saviour, whom he loved and served so well, has not suffered a loss. When God calls a servant who has been faithful in serving his God — I do not despair of his well-being. His faith has secured for him a place in the mansions of Heaven. For this purpose Jesus Christ died for us all. This is the faith we need for the sorrow of this hour. It is the faith that can be ours through our Saviour, who promised: “If it were not so, I would have told you.” How much easier it is to walk in the valley of the shadow since Jesus has passed therein. How great the confidence in which we lay our dead away, knowing that they have now passed a threshold over which the Master Himself has crossed. What reassurance and hope is ours as we face the fact of our own death to know that Christ and those whom we have loved long since and lost awhile have gone on to prepare a place for us. Thus, the poet has taught us to sing: More homelike seems the vast unknown. Since they have entered there; To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare; They cannot be where God is not, On any sea or shore; Whate’er betides, Thy love abides, Our God. forever more. Tibor Toth ORGAN DEDICATION Service and Concert Faith United Church of Christ Hammond, Indiana Rt. Rev. Bishop Arpad L. Beretz, Pastor February 26, 1978 at 3:00 p.m. Organ Recital Rigaudon The Fifers The Trophy Rondo for the flute stop Toccata and Fugue in D Minor Soprano Solo “The Lord Is Mv Strength” Oboe Solo “Air and Rondo” Contralto Solo “The Goodness of God” Guitar Solo “He” Piano Solos "Ostinato” “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2” Organ Recital Scherzo (First Symphony) The Soul of the Lake Carillon-Sortie Donald Austin, Organist Andre Campra Francois Dandrieu Francois Couperin Johann Christian Rinck Johann Sebastian Bach Jillinda Molnár Newsom Bruno Huhn Dennis L. Clauss George Frideric Handel Deboran Mitseff Duke C. P. E. Bach Cynthia Fagyas |ack Richards Ruth Bancsi Bela Bartók Franz Liszt Donald Austin Louis Vierne Sigfrid Karg-Elert Henri Mulet The Choir Anthem - “How Excellent Thy Name” 1 loward Tht Benediction Hanson The Organ-Piano Postlude - “Finlandia” |ean Sibelius Rose Ella Palfi, Organ — Ruth Bancsi, Piano HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES - WARC Princeton — Messages on a human rights theme were recently sent to South Africa and Romania by the North American and Caribbean Area Council (NACAC) of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Delegates to this year’s Council meeting held at Princeton Theological Seminary, January 4-6, in a message to the South African churches expressed the hope that the “rights to equal development, equal dignity and opportunity as persons, equal political responsibility and duty to the common good, and the right to share equitably in the natural resources of the lands we each inhabit can be universally acknowledged.” They also pledged their prayers and support to their South African fellow Christians, and made a 500-dollar contribution to the construction of a new Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa. In sending greetings to the (Hungarian speaking) Reformed Church in Romania, the NACAC stated its strong conviction that “ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities should have both the right and the opportunity to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion and to use their own language.” The Area Council also passed a resolution on “Human Rights — Helsinki, Belgrade and Beyond,” calling on the governments of the U.S.A. and Canada to take leadership in exploring ways in which governments in the Western hemisphere can be encouraged to call an international conference on human rights “on the model of Helsinki and Belgrade.” The NACAC also sent a message of congratulations to Amnesty International on having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In other business the delegates, representing 17 Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregational churches in Canada, the U.S.A. and the Caribbean: — heard reports of the WARC Centennial Consultation, St. Andrews, Scotland, in August 1977, — heard three major addresses: 1. “What it means to be Reformed and why bother to ask” — Prof. John H. Leith, professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.), 2. “The Alliance today” — Dr. James I. McCord, president of Princeton Theological Seminary and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 3. “Human rights, national sovereignty and Christian interdependence” — Dr. Geddcs W. Hanson, assistant professor of practical theology at Princeton Seminary and a member of the WARC executive committee, — elected Professor Hugh Koops of New Brunswick Theological Seminary as chairman; the Honorable J. Littleton Wills of the Guyana Congregational Union as vice-chairman. Named as chairman of its three permanent committees were: the Rev. William R. Philippe — Civil and Religious Liberty; the Rev. Allen O. Miller — Theology; the Rev. Stanley Wood — Cooperation and Witness, — learned that the Roman Catholic/Presbyterian-Reformed Consultation, which has been underway for ten years, is entering its third major round of deliberations with consideration of the theme “Ethics and the Search for Christian Unity.” Topics to he discussed include human rights and economic justice, and an ecumenical response to abortion. — adopted a recently published volume, A Christian Declaration oj Human Rights, developed by its Theological Committee, and commended it to member churches for study. RPS. Febr. ’78.
