Hungarian Church Press, 1957 (9. évfolyam, 14-15. szám)

1957-12-31 / 15. szám

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NEW YEAR

CIRCULAR • OP THE PRESIDIUMS OF THE RIDXMLíED CHURCH DISTRICTS TO THE

CONGREGATIONS

The Presidiums of the four Reformed Church Districts addressed a circular to the congregations to be read by the past or 3 on the hév/ Tear’s divine services. The bishops* and general curators* circular greets the brethren with I. Tim® 2:1-2, then it rVpSs:- Recording to the apostolio admonition, it is now, first of all, the giving of thanks. Let us give thanks to God for having not only saved our lives among the lots of tribulations of The year 1957, but for having given us inner and outer increase in tranquillity. Let all of us give thanks to Him for having saved and maintained the safety and external tranquillity of our country and the peacofulness, menaced so many times,of the peoples in the world.- Let us implore our Lord that may be He who keeps us in faith, love,,, and hope further on. -All three of them is an equal gift for us and the same time

a great commandment. In the days of the coming on earth of our Lord Jesus Christ we have to look at Him with an ever more lively faith, Who had brought and is still bringing for us the remission of our sins, the peacefulness of our souls and the certain hope in the eternal life. The fruit of faith Í3 love to God, to each other and every man.. When turning to God's great love with gratitude lot us strive after an even more great and complete love» Do let us lovo God* s congregation, let us love the people whidh we have our earthly lot of and in the mean time let us love the happy future and tranquillity of the whole human progeny. The third gift is hope and its commandment. .Should encircle our lives no matter how many threatening shadows j we know well that Christians always look into the future with confidence casting hopes in God, This confident hope gives us force end enables us to be true in the work entrusted to us,- Hay God bestow a growing faith, an active love, and a living hope 011 you in the year to come. May God make our church joyful in service, and happy our nation in building up a new social order, and all the peoples in the competition for the better, the more nicer, and the truer for doing which the mankind has been given splendid opportunity by God - oomes to an end the How Year circular of the Presidiums of the four Church Districts,

CHINESE PROTESTANT GUESTS IN HUNGARY

On invitation of the Ecumenical Council of the Churches in Hungary - given to the leaders of the Three-Self Movement by the Hungarian Protestant delegation - a Chinese delegation arrived at Budapest on November 27th consisting of the Rt. Rev. Kwang Haun Ting, bishop of the Chekiang diocese of the Holy Catholic Church in China, Principal of the Nanking Union Theological Seminary, Rev, Huang pel-yitng. Associate General Secretary of the Central Conference of the Methodist ChurcKin China, Rev. Chen Chicn-hsun, Ministerial President of the Chinese Lutheran Church, and the Presbyterian Mr. Shen Tuh-yung, Redactor-in-chief of a nation-wide Protestant bi-weekly for youth in Chinese'"language

To meet the- Chinese Church delegation at the arrival there were pie sent the prominent personages of the member churches of the Ecumenical Council of the Churches in Hungary, the President and Deputy President of the State Office for