Hungarian Church Press, 1968 (20. évfolyam, 2. szám)
1968-06-01 / 2. szám
HCP Vol XX Special ífumber 1968 No 2- 121 -(07902) against the persecution of the Jews., The number of real life-savers, in those days, was small; we tarried in the state of numbness and uncritical, acquiescence, This repentance has to be revived, again and again, apd we have the duty to proclaim that there is no place for anti-Semitism in the church, We must be cleansed, agpin and again, from the sin of anti-Semitisms As to the problem of our G/psy population, the public opinion before the Liberation of the country was that Gypsies were sub-human beingso There was no church protest against this opinion* We rfe glad to note the important measures that the socialist state has since taken to improve the lot of the Gypsies* Costly financial projects ha-ve been launched to settle the Gypsies and to raise their cultural leve]., Today,under our constitution, racial discrimination is crime. Newspaper articles, documentary fime in the television and lectures are trying to uproot the weeds cf racism which, in spots, are still in evidence, and it is cur task to speak very plainly about this issue, giving no quarter to any racial discrimination.. Mention must be made of the significant fact that, since the Liberation, a large number of students coming frem the former colonies have been studying at our universities and other schools of higher learning. We, too, have to see to it that these coloured brothers of ours find a real home and a fraternal atmosphere in this country during the years of their studio,'. In general, we have to do our best to spread the conviction both among our parish pastors and our parishioners that rac'.-i is a denial of the teaching and person of our Lord Jesus Christ and spot and blemish on what is his body, the Christian church. Even if persecutions and lynchirgs practised by stirred-up mobs elsewhere (America) are unthinkable in this country, and also absent is the kind of vicious racial pride which marks the attitude at “he white population in South Africa, ni hence the racial problem is not es acute here as in the said places of the v/arM, we, too, have the duty to see clearly in this matter and to promote the right Christian attitude to this problem in our congregations. The problem of the races also carries the warning to all Christians; vestra res agiturp 3) The active ministry of faith* Christians should not be content with merely diagnosing the disease and not doing anything about it0 It is not enough to say that mankind is incurably ill and then to turn our* bade on the sick person being resigned to his fate. We have to follow the example of the Good Samaritan and do the utmost of our saving love, A more diagnosis is not enough; the ropy is needed! Our Reformers tell us that faith is, on the one handj fiducia, unshakable trust, even in the most hopeless situations, in God who has the might to do even what is impossible, arc. cn the other hand, activity* Luther*s definition of faith has its bearing on our attitude to this problem; faith is a living, active, mighty thing, always engaged in doing good. It does not ask what to do and. before being asked to do something, it has already done it* It is always in action (ist immer im Tun),97) \
