Magyar Egyház, 1960 (39. évfolyam, 1-9. szám)
1960-04-01 / 4. szám
1 10 A Cordial Invitation By now many of you have no doubt heard of the forthcoming women’s conference to be held on Sunday, June 12th at the Hungarian Reformed Center in Perth Amboy. Our planning meeting to discuss the possibility of having a conference was so well attended, wth the representatives of the various churches showing such enthusiasm, that if this can be used as a gauge our conference will indeed be successful one. . . . A smaller conference committee, resulting from the original planning meeting is busy working out the details of the conference. Our theme, as suggested by Dr. Harsanyi, “Women in the Church - Silent or Witnesses” ... is indeed a thought provoking one. Around this will be based the various workshop topics. Our plan is to start with registration from 2:00 to 2:50 that afternoon followed by A devotional service in the church at 3 P.M. with the women of the various congregations heading the entire service. Each individual will then have the opportunity of attending meetings in the language she is best able to understand since we have placed separate speakers and workshops in both the Hungarian and English languages. Our plan is to open the conference to both young and old and anyone (whether a member of our women’s organization or not) may participate. Although there will be a nominal registration fee this will be used only to cover the cost of the dinner to be served that evening and with the remainder going into the treasury of the organization which we hope will be one of the major outcome of this conference How does it sound thus far? A day such as this has great possibilities dependent upon what we put into it. . . So reserve the date of June 12th and jot down your ideas for where is an opportunity to exchange these thoughts with women from our sister congregations and a chance to gain both worthwhile knowledge as well as make new friends. Elizabeth T. Dudicli k k * EASTERN CLASSIS QUARTERLY CONFERENCE Sunday, May 22nd, 3 P.M. on Staten Island. Speaker: The Rt. Rev. Dr. Zoltán Beky, Bishop, “The Hungarian Reformed Church in America and Its Future.” Baptist Church Reopened in Madrid (Madrid) — Two Spanish Baptist pastors and a few church members have reopened the Third Baptist Church in Madrid with police permission. The building had been sealed by the authorities since September 1958. The pastor, the Rev. Jósé Nunez, received a suspended two months prison sentence last October for having removed seals after a previous closing as longago as 1956, but the present unsealing follows police consent. The Southern Baptist Convention in the United States, which is linked with the Baptist churches in Spain, owns the reopened property. EPS, Geneva MAGYAR EGYHÁZ American Hungarian Institute Day on May 22 in the Churches The Magyar Reformed Churches in America will join to raise the needed $20,000 to continue the newly established Hungarian studies program at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Sunday, May 22, has been designated as American Hungarian Institute Day. The question frequently asked of Professor A. J. Molnár, lecturer in Hungarian at Rutgers-The State University in New Brunswick, N. J., is “Why do people want to learn Hungarian language?” His students have given reasons ranging from professional advancement to love and marriage as having inspired them to study Hungarian. In September, 1959, a beginners course in Hungarian in the College of Arts and Sciences and also in the evening Extension Division got underway at Rutgers. One student in the college is planning to be foreign correspondent. He already studied French and German, and therefore he feels he would want to be a better reporter than the average by learning Hungarian. Moveover, Hungarian is an important language for the federal government. The National Defense Education Act of 1958 has designated Hungarian on its “second priority” list of languages. Fourteen students at Rutgers are becoming better acquainted with Hungarian language as well as history, literature, music and art. All funds for the support of this Hungarian program must come from sources outside the university. Through the American Hungarian Institute all the Magyar Reformed Churches will be able to support this Hungarian program at one of America’s oldest and most outstanding universities. Rutgers was founded in 1766. The Institute’s goals are first to endow a chair of Hungarian studies at Rutgers and then build a library and museum building near the university. •-----------oOo----------Christian Disunity in Israel Under Fire (Munich) — An officer of the International Hebrew Christian Alliance has called division among Christian missions in Israel “a sad story.” In a speech made at Munich, Germany, Pastor H. D. Leuner of London, European Secretary of the organisation, declared: “All the division and disunity of our churches finds expression in Israel.” He referred to “unfortunate confessionalism and disunity inside the thirty-five different Catholic missionary orders and the Protestant denominations.” According to Pastor Leuner Roman Catholics now have 38 mission schools in Israel and Protestants twelve. “The 300 to 400 Jewish Christians living in Israel must pay the price for the deplorable conditions existing in the Christian missions,” he said. * * * PROTESTANTS ASKED TO HOUSE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS VISITORS Protestants in the Munich area have been urged by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Bavaria to help accommodate the thousands of out-of-town Roman Catholics expected to attend the 37th Eucharistic Congress to be held there next August. Church officials recalling similar assistance received from Roman Catholics during the 1959 Kirchentag (Church Day) held in the city said it is “a self-understood duty for us to exercise the same Christian hospitality”.
