Hungarian Church Press, 1949 (1. évfolyam, 4-13. szám)

1949-08-26 / 10. szám

So need we be astonished that these spiritual leaders faced real proletárism with even greater indifference, and that the Church, apart from some noteworthy exceptions, reális ed only much later under the judgement of God its guilty omiss ions in this respect. The influence of the social and worldly ideology of the middle-class weighed so heavily upon our ministers, that they could not get rid of their prejudiced . and ignorant aversion against the ideas and novements of • socialism* hot even those pastors or theological students meant an exception in this respect, v/ho having been abroad have not put up with mere theoratical studies, but gripped by the wind of evangelical revivals brought home also the spirit of mission. They failed to see that a spiritual.and evangelical work must go hand in hand with a Christian sense of responsibility for the hopeless situation» of the industrial and agricultural proletarians, and that the mighty problems connected with proletarianism cannot be settled with mere charity work and mere spiritual and "religious'1 effects.- In this respect nothing is more characteristic, than the fact that even our most zealous missionary workers until these last years did not see the obvious and deep connection between the movement of sects and the social dissatisfaction of the agricultural proletariat. They did not sense the truth, that the eyes of the Church cannot be open to the first and quite closed to the second.

All this, together with many other morals worth taking in, I think will, shine forth out of this book detailed and convincing for the attentive and unpartial reader.

I am praying to God to help the readers of this book also in this way to get more engrossed in the love of our Hungarian Reformed Church, and in the recognition and work of the new, but really eternal way and task of the Church#

Ho 10. -5-EIGHTY YOtWG REFORMED MINISTERS ORDAIMED Hí KOLOZSVÁR

In the general assembly of the Reformed diocese of Transylvania and Nagyvárad /Roumania/ eighty young ministers were ordained in the city church of Kolozsvár. Bishops Aladár Arday and John Yásárhelyi, chief secretary of tlie diocese Stephan Debreceni and Lesső László dean performed the services At the conference following tKe celebration bishop John Vásárhelyi, Dezső László and Stephan Tőkés were the speakers.