Hungarian Church Press, 1958 (10. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)

1958-01-15 / 1-2. szám

HCHP le 15,-Hol,1958, Vol-X/Í-2- 14 -14

casting as the agency of a military headquarters. Colonel Bell gave also orders in his announcements,* who, whore, in which geographical, circumstances and with what kind of weapons should fights _

You have to know that ±n those events not only a political structure was at stake» The existence of a whole people was put to the venture» We were on the possible brink of a sweeping civil war and a closely menacing war in Central Europe. Those men who at the end of October and in the early days of November realized that the Imre Na^s? activity dragged the nation into a final catastrophe and made their minds up to stop the nearing of the horrible danger radically, those men asking the help of the Soviet Union knew well what a heavy decision ~chey made. They even realized.; either that or the final annihilation ! The events commenced on November the 4th involved shooting pains for the Soviet Union and for us either, but at the price of_ these sorrowness the lifg of the Hungarian people escaped. The possibility of a war in Central Europe , in the Continent or even of a world war was chocked. That happened in the world.

And what happened in the Church ?

Yihat is it thai: resembles counter-revolution so much in the church and brought grist to mill of the counter-revolution ? The rebellion against the gospel we received,,

Look; it is not in itself dangerous for the church when Vis ser ?t Hooft, László Pap, László Ravasz uphold a view in political, respect which according to the common parlance might be called reaction. '.That was the point where their attitude become a danger for the church ? when those symptoms which showed chances to turn to the Word and the self-scrutiny in the church and in which people looked for the message leading to the new chapter, the showing way of the church’s polity, were conquered with various incantations for themselves and made bad of what was good by nature^ As I have mentioned that the counter-revolution was a counter-revolution nevertheless that the bull: of the participants were not counterrevolutioniste I tell likewise that the so-called Movement of Renewal became a rebellion against the message given to church, an attempt to turn back the way given to church, and to put the church to the yoke of the counter-revolution - nevertheless that the mass of _the_ participants did not want that.

0 foolish Galatians i Things like those are not unknown in the history of the people of God. In the flood of the revelation which the life of the congregation of the Old Testament was in, people, leaders, congregations may show perturbation and make attempt to swerve back fron the right way. Galatia that had received the gospel as if Christ had benn crucified and riser before their very eyes, was incantated, and relapsed into the bygonea They rebelled, they incited rebellion against things, where we were mercifully carried on by the Lord, and all these in the pretence of some ecclesiastical policy and polity as well as world political wisdom !

If the counter arovolutloEi voix nob such a horrible tragedy one might write a set of operetta, plays of several parts of it Hen who attached and criticized some leaders and boards of the church for years for they had allowed to make headway to too many political considerations in their theological activity and church’s polity, men who withstood for years under this pretext to everything which was good in the Reformed church, men who were not inclined and able - as theologians who are bound to take notes of things — to admit certain political