Calvin Synod Herald, 1986 (86. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1986-02-01 / 1. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD — 7 — REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA were all in the church: but not a single one of them came from the State of Ohio. All of them came from other states of the Nation. And the trend is"indeed similar in all our congregations all over America. One of the greatest psychoanalysts in the world today is our own Dr. Lipot Szondi. He is 94 years old and still working as head of his world-famous Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland. Though more than half of his lifetime he spent in foreign lands, he still remained a proud Hungarian. His theory of psychoanalysis is the prevailing theory all over the world. According to him two equally powerful principles rule and govern our lives: inheritance and environment. (The force “Must” and the force of “Choice”.) The first is in our blood from our fore-fathers, the second comes from the place, where we grow up. We, American Hungarian Reformed, are the mixture of the two. We cannot be compared to the Anglo-Saxon Presbyterians, neither can we to the homeland Hungarian Reformed. We differ from both. Everyone commits a grave mistake, who tries to force us to live and act as the former; so does the one, who tries to force us to live and act as the latter. We are journeying on a different road. Lajos Zilahy wrote a great novel: “The Spirit has expired!” It is about an American Hungarian, who retured to the homeland. The judgement of all concludes: in him the Hungarian Spirit has expired! They were wrong and so was the novelist himself. The spirit has lived in him, deeply rooted in his blood by inheritance; but the American enviroment in which he lived so long, made him different. Our distinct road of journeying in our Dispersion made us all dissimilar qualitatively as well as quantitatively. Whith ever less and less number and considerably less material posessions we are expected to produce as the Anglo-Saxon Presbyterians in our own churches in the land of our new enviroment: at the same time with our blessed inheritance in our blood — so far removed from our homeland — we are still expected to create as the Hungarian Reformed at home. How much more spiritual energy is needed for this double task? I like to conclude this article with the lines of our immortal Hungarian fellow Calvinist poet, Endre Ady, who in 1909 sent these words back to Hungary from Paris, from the place of his own, new environment: “ This Ark of Covenant, my heart, I send and bid a militant good day. My kinsmen, many rumbling millions, although you may deny me, still, oh, still I must belong to you. Our bond of union came from destiny and not from virtue, worth, or sin, and not from want and even lessfrom greed Within us great, exalted powers wait to be awakened into life; a lovely nation lies concealed in us... I must be yours, and it is all the same whether you want or want me not. One is our sun upon the glorious sky, but, oh, at times the racks of evil may conceal me from the light. ” (Ady: Ark of Covenant) American Hungarian Foundation The William Penn Association, a legal reserve fraternal and insurance group, celebrating its contennial in 1986, has pledged a $60,000 gift for the Capital Fund to build Hungarian Heritage Center (museum, library and archives). The Association’s Board, at its recent meeting in Pittsburgh, voted to fund a room in the Center with its gift. The Association was founded in Hazelton, PA, by 13 Hungarian immigrant miners and others in 1886. Hungarian Language Instruction will resume in September. 1986, at Rutgers. The State University in New Brunswick, NJ. A grant from the American Hungarian Foundation wilt support the program announced by Professor William Derbyshire of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The American Hungarian Foundation is pleased to be a partner again with the University’s Hungarian Studies program. Earlier, the Foundation supported the University’s program of Hungarian courses in language, literature and history. • A SUPER DEGREE. Aside from the traditional classifications of academic excellence. cum laude magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, which are earned but not awarded officially, there exists in the Hungarian educational system an unusual acknowledgement of scholastic achievement, awarded to those with an extraordinary academic record. The distinction PROMOTION SUB AUSPICIIS REI PUBLIC A E POPULÁRIS is awarded upon the recommendation of an academic faculty, by the Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Hungarian People 's Republic in an elaborate ceremony fully televised and covered by the press. The award includes a scroll and a gold ring with inscription. Southern Baptist Mount Counterattack Against Mormons. Southern Baptists have begun to counterattack against a Mormon invasion of the mission turf, denouncing Mormon teachings as doctrines tainted with “satanic error.” The evangelical-minded 13.7-millionmember Southern Baptist Convention is alarmed by the successful mission efforts of the fast-growing 4.6-million-member Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), now building temples in two Baptist heartland cities, Atlanta and Dallas. “Do you know that 40% of the converts to Mormonism are from Baptist backgrounds,” asked Dr. Edmund Poole, of Dallas’ First Baptist Church. “Two hundred and thirty-one every single day are converts to Mormonism from Baptist backgrounds.” My first Valentine I was nearly nine years old when mother gave me a valentine; Suggesting that I give it to a little pal of mine. It was a day in February, the weather was fair and cool. When Ipassed it to a girl while on our way to school. Walking in silence by my side with a mittened hand in mine, I kept blushing all the while as she read that valentine. Though years have come and gone, / remember how I couldn't speak when she tiptoed up to me, and kissed me on the cheek. I've seen a lot of valentines, andfew compare as a rule with one I gave to a girl while on my way to school. At times I see in memory, a pal that once was mine. Remember when as with a blush, I gave away my first valentine. P. F. Freeman PANORAMA
