Calvin Synod Herald, 1992 (92. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1992-05-01 / 3. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD- 7 -REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA Youth Conference of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America and Calvin Synod Conference, United Church of Christ They are in the midst of making final preparations for the 1992 Youth Conference. The dates of the Conference are August 9 through 15. The location will be the same as last year, the Laurelville Mennonite Church Center in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, near Ligonier. The leaders request your assistance and cooperation. Encourage ALL your youth to attend the Conference. Start planning now! The Hungarian Reformed Federation of America will pay $20 towards the camp fee for any young person who is a member of the Federation. Those attending Camp should notify their local Federation Branch Manager, who in turn will notify the Home Office. The $20 will be reimbursed directly to the individual by the Federation. If you have any questions or need further clarification about the Camp, feel free to call or write to the Camp Directors, the Rev. William Nyerges or Miss Priscilla Hunyady, 50 North Washington Avenue, Colonia, NJ 07067, (210) 381-6413. r Sundays of Remembrance May and June bring great Sundays of Remembrance. 2nd in May is Mother’s Day, 3rd in June Father’s Day; 5th in May Memorial Sunday; 4th in May Ascension and first in June is Pentecost (the birthday of the Church). Home, Nation and Church! Happy Trinity! Read concerning Home — Heidelberg Catechism 104; regarding Nation — Und Helvetic Confession XXX; and Church - H. Cat. 49 & 54. (Being Calvinists, we should have a copy of both. If not, ask your pastor to give you one in English translation). For additional inspiration, here we print some poetic classics regarding the above three; Tribute To A Mother Mother of five children! The priest in me blesses you: And in the night these tercets flow towards you heart As a hymn, as homage. You were one of the charming stations. Your sculptor-womb formed five passengers, That there might be five new cries of Joy in Life. The virginal beauty of your graceful form Was not the chief thought of the Lord. The earth also bears roses and the common radish, And blackbirds in springtime — but in autumn she gives New seed, and that is the essential thing in life. The kisses of spring serve only to awaken the embryo. Perhaps mused in wonder at your beauty. But they knew that God had created you To give the earth five new suffering beings. To be one who should sigh like a psalm And ask at night for the fine linen Of holy-women and the shroud. Maternity, like the breath of the Holy Spirit Has made you holy on the cross of suffering, Your sculptor-bosom had to suffer. In order that the pagan altar might become Christian. Woman, if I did not lift my head among the stars To search there for God, I should bow it before you. Stooping before your little feet in dust. r From “Gareth and Lynette” (In “Idylls of the King”) Man am I grown, a man’s work must I do. Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King — Else, wherefore born? Alfred Tennyson Memorial Day by Annette Wynne Is it enough to think to-day Of all our brave, then put away The thought until a year has sped? Is this full honor for our dead? Is it enough to sing a song And deck a grave; and all year long Forget the brave who died that we Might keep our great land proud and free? Full service needs a greater toll — That we who live give heart and soul To keep the land they died to save, And be ourselves, in turn, the brave!
