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

1958-01-15 / 1-2. szám

HCHP I.15,-11,1,1958, Vol.X/l-2- 3 -3

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The second area: nursing the/attitude to work. The church has for her peculiar mission to produce and attend moral values in general. In our

special circumstances the attitude to work is highly accentuated. Our Bible obliges us to consider the v/ell-done work referring to honour, for it is written "that if any would not work, neither should he eat". Now the work does not make the working peopled aubsistance only but the fellowship; the nation is being built by that and the foundations of future are going to be laid down. To have the value and honour of the work acknowledged is of paramount importance in the common opinion,

The third territory is the vádest and deepest one in the same time which affeots even the roots of the individual and family life; the servioe of peacemaking. Our motherland needs first of all external and internal peace' to be able to build up a better and more righteous social order tp the ideal of which pertains the communal farm to live for each other's sake. This task does not merely affect us Hungarians but it belongs to the whole world. In the great tension of a divided world every benevolent man's highest mission is to help in defeating the phantom of war and to make the forces of peace victorious. In this groat international struggling for peace - we may perhaps unostentatiously say - to have taken upon us our own share since the birth of the peace~movement. Henceforth we shall never consider with some conceited ecclesiastical superiority a second rate affair the lifeand-death question of mankind which is the same time also the affair of life and death of our beloved Hungarian people. The world is converted into a unique, huge neighbourhood for the human race and everybody is interested in everybody's lot.

In such circumstances to watch and defend the peace of humanity is a first class mission for the churchmen, I beg to be permitted to mention that in our opinion the service of the inside neace belongs to this peacemaking, be are aware of touching a very delicate question now, And we should not want to surpass the limit of our competency with an inch* We see in all clearness a that the executive power responsible for the people must not cherish illusions and venture, that harmful, short-sighted and blind individuals risk our new form of life in building with a lot of sacrifice. We knew that a responsible government is to find the balance of the administration of justice and fergivness exerted in proper place.

In our view there is now the possibility to make both ends meet and to give a chance for ' seduced people to take up work again. We v/holehartedly wish - all the factors of the executive power of our People's Republic wisdom and love.- 7fe beg to be permitted, Mister President and Honourable Presidential Counoil to tender our unpretentious s rvices in behalf of our motherland,our people building up socialism ,and mankind longing for peace.

EXCERPTS OP BISHOP GYŐRI'S ANNUAL REPORT- delivered on the General Meeting of the Transdanubian Church District held on December the 6th 1957 -- I am rendering account of two years in this report of mine considering the situation and events not only in our ov.n Church District but in the entire Reformed Church in Hungary either. Since God, disposing of us entirely up to Him, saw good to put this highly responsible and heavy yoke but pleasant in Christ on cy shoulders and praying soul, I have been exercising myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men, (The nets 24:16) I especially feel the extraordinary importance, responsibility and difficulty since the ministerial pves-