Calvin Synod Herald, 1985 (85. évfolyam, 1-5. szám)

1985-04-01 / 2. szám

CALVIN SYNOD HERALD

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REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA

IÁM YOUR CHURCH BUDGET

Through me, families are launched in marriage, persons are baptized, the young are trained in Christian character.

I provide a Church School and youth activities for your children.

I provide music to enrich your worship, and preaching and pastoral services to help you live more nobly.

I heat and cool your church building and keep it in repair for your comfort and use. I do your custodial work.

I reach out to your community and country, preaching, teaching, healing in Christ’s name.

I help to train ministers in the seminaries, and I provide assistance to those who retired after years of faithful service to God through the Church.

It is through me that the sick find spir-I’m too busy

Who isn’t busy? People that come to church are usually very hard working people, not lazy people with nothing better to do. If you are too busy for God, then you are too busy!

I work on Sundays

I know what that is like, so do I. Since that is what stands in your way, I’ll see you at 7:00 p. m. Thursday Prayer Servvice or 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday or 7:30 p.m. on Thursday for Bible Study.

The Sermons are too long

Compared to what? My sermons average 15 minutes. You will spend more time watching TV commercials (designed to take, not give) in one night than that. Most people will spend that long on their teeth each week. Which is more important, TV commercials or your relationship to God?

I watch church on TV

That’s fine if you are a shut in. But does your TV shake your hand and ask “How are vou?” Does it sing at you or with you? Does it answer your questions or its own? Does it know your name? Will it visit you? Does it love you? Do you really sing along and worship with it? TV cannot replace people.

I don’t like the minister

That’s okay... you don’t come to worship him... but God. Have you talked with him about the problem? Are you expecting perfection? Have you made some suggestions? Why aren’t you worshiping at another church then?

itual strength, the troubled and the discouraged are steadied.

I go out into the wide world, preaching the Gospel in every language. I carry the World to people of every race, color, and clan.

I am your budget. Believe in me: support me, that I may carry on in your name. With your help I make possible all of these services. As the budget, lam You at work.

But Ido need your help. Ido need your support. Without your pledges to undergird me, I am helpless. Your pledges are my foundation, my supporting walls.

I am your money, your prayer, your concern translated into action. I can do only what you, through pledges, make it possible for me to do.

First United Methodist Church, Upland, California

I can worship God anywhere

How true? All of nature is His sanctuary. But when was the last time you truly worshipped Him... praying honestly, getting a practical word from God out of the Bible, returning to your family ready to serve God and man? You can worship anywhere, Do You? Most need a little structure and context.

I don’t like to get dressed up

That’s fine. Ever notice how many others here don’t either. No one really cares. If they do it is their problem and not yours. Are you saying to God, “God I won’t worship you because Joe doesn’t like my shoes”?

I don’t like organized religion

Neither do I! I’m inviting you to worship not join an organization... to receive Christ, not church membership.

There are too many hypocrites in the church

Yes there are! But is there a better place for them to go to get straightened out? Aren’t there hypocrites at work and school — have you stopped going there too? Isn’t getting to know God as important as an education or even a job? Will you say one day to God, “I didn’t worship you because Joe did, but never lived it”?

It would be hypocritical of me to go to church

Only if you are perfect. Jesus came to help the sick not the healthy. By not going to church you are saying the same thing as not going to the hospital... “I’m ok, nothing is wrong with me”. By going to church you are admitting your need of God’s help. Hypocrites belong in church. (Chimes — Toledo)

Compared to the size of the population of the country, a more than fair number of Hungarian-born scientists won the Nobel prize; only one of them — Albert Szent-Györgyi — for work done in Hungary. György Hevesy, who was born in Hungary was awarded the Nobel prize as a citizen of Sweden, and the Hungarian origin of the others is also beyond doubt. They all have or had an excellent command of the Hungarian language, which is an occasion of joy whenever they visit their country of origin, which they do more and more frequently, seeing old friends and making new ones which is to the benefit of Hungarian intellectual life.

Andrew Schally (Nobel prize for Medicine, 1977). The American scientist, the son of Hungarian parents, often visits Hungary where he also maintains close relations with a number of research centers. The wife of Paul Dirac, who obtained the Nobel prize for Physics in 1933, is also Hungarian, she is a sister of Eugene Wigner.

Robert Bárány M. D. 1876—1936, was given the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1914 for work on the physiology and pathology of the organ of equilibrium.

György Békésy, a physicist, 1899—1972 was awarded the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1961 for exploring the mechanism of hearing.

Dennis (Dénes) Gábor, an engineer, (1900— 1979) was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1971 for the development of holography.

Albert Szent-Györgyi, a biochemist, born in 1893, was awarded the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1937 for the isolation of Vitamin C.

Eugene (Jenő) Wigner, a physicist, born in 1902, was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1961 for the development of the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles.

György Hevesy, a chemical engineer, (1885 — 1966), was awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1943, for working out the technology of tracing radioactive isotopes.

Though no one is entitled to question the decisions of the Nobel Price Committee one cannot help wondering why the names of two more world-famous Hungarian scientists, those of John von Neumann, the mathematician and founder of the theory of computers, and Leo Szilárd, the physicist, father of the theory of chainreactions are missing from the

hst- E. Z.

DEBRECEN COLLEGE CHOIR

At the International Choir Festival held in Middlesbrough, England, the Debrecen College Choir of the Reformed Church in Hungary was given the first prize in the category of the mixed youth choirs. Hungarian experts also attach great value to the accomplishment of the 245-year-old choir. The Debrecen College Choir was nominated to compete at the international festival by the National Council of Hungarian Choirs. ,Hrp,

Reasons for not coming to church

NOBEL PRIZE...