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

1958-01-15 / 1-2. szám

HCHP 1.15,-11*1,1958, Vol.X/l-2— 22 —

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Keeping in mind all these I say. I am trying to make you intelligible ray detej>mination by two aspects.

On the unfamiliar way we are walkingsp^h ^go sp el out of the common which we have been living on I received an/tmusualxire; There is no merit of mine in it, And God mercifully safeguarded me that I should never consider anything prey. Xou have to reflect well upon the way on which God directed me toward the bishop’s service from before the Liberation - through ny articles in the Református JÍJvö (Reformed paper before the Liberation) preparing us for the events, then after the Liberation in the Foreign Ministry, in the office of the President of the Republic and parallel with all these in the Philadelphia Deaconess Institute and Bethesda Hospital. Fancy my special situation come and go an the borders of Last and est freely in the sharpest of the tension and to live on the sensations and experiences of the international conferences of various forms and qualities. I do not think to exaggerate saying that there is nobody in the'country who might have had a better chance far gathering more experiences. Our people now needs these experiences but where, I do not know.

There will be utterances saying that I have not come back for the sake of a comfortable position, a splendid post. Right Reverend General Assembly!

I simply plun^ into darkness. I have not been appointed to a definite post, I might have one having asked far it, I deliberately did not ask for, Evan now I am occupying the job at the Institute far Cultural Relations in capacity of cen>missioner having only a temporary nomination from the Revolutionary ‘.Yorkers’ and Peasants’ government. I have not made myself firm anywhere. And if one is going to say that I have accepted a splendid position and not the burdensome church’s service, he would only resume the aotivity, the quality of which I have above characterized. But the ohurch that does not live for her own sake is able to understand one of her servants who thinks to have to serve the church through the entire oomrnunity for which community the church is here herself. That is one point.

The other one,that the serious deficiency of ray service in this place came of the fact that I could hardly occupy with the congregations of the church district »keeping »carrying the common affairs of the church distriot, the Convent and the social organs. Last night I ran through my official diary and registered that in the spring of 1950 I liad still lived so that in a fortnight I was preaching the Word in all the congregations of a senior ate That was less and less possible later on. Xou know the lot of harm coming oi that. It would be ever more 80 . . in the future, for the affairs I have willingly to deal with, not of pastime but well aware of the tasks and pledge, are also mare.

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The third one,/however, is not ny decision anymore but that of yours. Might the church seem to be in any woeful 'Condition there are men whom God has trained to be real leaders who ore able to continue what God had comma need in us, by us and among us. In order to do good better than we had dene. One must find them. I willingly share with yoü in looking for them.

On this very day when doing such an announcement to the general assembly of the church district I warmly remember of four mén. All of them are honorary Doctors: The Bishop Ting, the Matropolitan Nikolaj, the Professor Hromika and Karl Barth. Of the latter, because he stood by us and fought valiantly nevertheless the lot of misunderstandings, for us in the by no means propitious atmosphere of the Swiss circumstances concerning this point of view, I very gratefully thank all the four brethren of ours for the love, confidenoe, loyalty and oneness.