Hungarian Church Press, 1950 (2. évfolyam, 4-13. szám)
1950-07-15 / 12-13. szám
HUNGÁRIÁN CHURCH PRESS Published by the Reformed Church, the Lutheran Church and the Federation of Free Churches (Baptists, Methodists, Brethren etc.) of Hungary Editor: DB. IMRE KÁDÁR Publisher: Bishop LAJOS VETŐ D. D. Budapest, XIV., Ab»nyi-a. U. (Lutheran Church) II. Volume, No 12/13. July 15,1950 Contents: Tho Yiay of our Church, by Bishop Albert Bereczky, • * * • • 1 Message of the Hungarian .Ecumenic Committee to the World' Council of Churohes in Geneva ...... New organization of "Missionaiy" Work in the Hungarian Reformed Church, ....7 Bereavement in the Reformed Church,.............................. .... 8 Hungarian Christianity in the New Hungarian State-Ihe Pamphlet of Bishop Bereczky in English . .... 9 A Hungarian Church delegation in Czechoslovakia . • • . » 9 The installation of the new lutheran bishop * «■ « 9 Prof.A.Hakkai: We remember with thanksgiving, 13 THE WAY OF OUR CHURCH By Bishop Albert Bereczky Wo have had serious reasons for years to warn, to apprise the churches, - first of fell our own Reformed Church, - of the danger which migirc inclose them should they remain blind to the world-shaping new power of Socialism. Y/e have been proclaiming openly for the last five years - and, in view of the inevitable end, even during the siniu-l blindness of the war years, as openly as we could, - that God pronounced His sentence over all our old ways and that tbi3 judgment of God was worst provoked and boat doservad by that Christianitjjp which was like light turned into blindness and salt that last its savour, not merely in the last decades but in about the last two Centuries of the Hungarian people. Our heart often trembled when, in looking forward to the inevitable, wo asked: will not be this judgment like a fire which might consume our people and first of all the church that had become unfaithful to her vocation? Yet God's sentence has been a merciful sentence. In judging US, Cod has given us pardon. But let us keep to our ground: God judged the old church -- that is, us! - but He has spared the entire organization of our church and has given His people - that is, again uo, - a new opportunity to return to tile buried wells that wc, being renewed by Ms word, might serve the life and future of the Hungarian people /Read Jeremiah 2:13.'/. If the church repents sincerely her past; if she is deeply and sincerely grateful for God's mercy of not only sparing the uiter framevfork of our church, but al3o of being ready to fill them again with tile energies of the Gospel so that we might really serve our people: - than she cannot be blind to that gigantic social transformation in which she lives and serves. 2hen she openes her eyes and her mind to
