Magyar Egyház, 1961 (40. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1961-10-01 / 10. szám
10 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ CONFERENCE OF ELDERS This year’s Conference of Elders in the Eastern area will be held in the New York 82nd Street church on Sunday, October 29, beginning 2 P.M. “Reformation and the Office of Elder” will be the conference theme. Introductory addresses will be given by the Rev. Aladár Komjáthy in Hungarian and the Rev. Dr. Louis N. Nagy in English. Discussion will follow in both languages A Reformation Sunday program will be given at 5 o’clock. Dr. Elemér Bakó (Washington, D. C.) will be the main speaker. Zoltán Rozsnyai, founding conductor of the Philharmonia Hungarica will give an organ recital. The program will be followed by supper. All members and friends of our congregations are invited to attend. IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM BETHLEN YOUTH CONFERENCE IN DETROIT The 1961 Bethlen Youh Federation Conference was held in Detroit, Michigan during Labor Day week-end. This article is not so much to report to you but to share with you the experience of this conference. The conference convened Saturday, September 2. The thought-provoking message which Reverend Jesse Christman presentsd on “What kind of Acknowledgement” introduced the conference theme “In All Thy Ways Acknowledge Him,” Proverbs 3:6. He explained that in our personal and social life we acknowledge God in every decision we make if our awarethat decision. By drawing on the insight he gained as a member of the Detroit Industrial Mission and from having worked on the assembly line of a car company, Reverend Christman gave examples of the relationship of God and men at their jobs. The opening session closed with the showing of the movie “A Portrait of a City.” The focal point of the week-end was Sunday afternoon when we met in workshops to discuss how we, as youth, could acknowledge God in our church. We can manifest this acknowledgement in gaining strength through unity — the strength of a United Bethlen Youth Federation. To. attain this goal the following proness of God through Christ inspires gram was conceived: during the year all the local youth fellowships will be asked to discuss topics that will be related to the theme of next year’s conference; also, in an effort of unity all the local youth fellowships will in the name of BYF donate, at Christmas, money to the Bethlen Home. The new officers of the Bethlen Younth Federation are: The program of the conference was twofold: Study and Fellowship. The results of the former are presented in this article. The latter we experienced in the multifarious forms of spiritual enjoyment through the close bond of friendship. Because we have gained so much from this experience we want to urge you all to attend the next conference in Trenton. Christian Youth Fellowship of Detroit Lester D. Helmetzi, President (Duquesne) Susan Nagy, Vice President (Detroit) Julie Jacob, Secretary, 171 Hunter Ave., Trenton 10, N. J. Joseph Brindza, Treasurer (McKeesport) Albert Beke, Mamber at Large-East (Trenton) Pamela Szopo, Member at Large- West (Detroit) Polygamy Defended for Africa A US missions official said that Christian groups in West Africa should not bar church membership to men and women who practice polygamy for economic reasons. By doing so they are rapidly loosing potential converts to Islam, said the Rev. Chester L. Marcus, an American Negro minister who is racial and cultural relations co-secretary of the United Church of Christ USA Mr. Marcus, who recently returned from a year in Africa, said that Moslems, whose religion sanctions the age-old custom, have been proselytizing heavily in East Africa. He said that while polygamy is forbidden by the Christian Church, it is practiced in West Africa as a means of economic security. NIELS BOHR, Nobel Prize winner in physics from Denmark: “Knowledge is power. Unfortunately lack of knowledge does not mean lack of power.”-----------o----------AN INSCRIPTION bearing the name Pontius Pilate has been discovered by Italian archaeologists at the ruins of Caesarea, Jerusalem. The name was engraved on a stone slab measuring fifteen by twenty inches. It is the first archeological evidence of the name, previously known only from the Gospels and the work of the historian Josephus Flavius. DR. FRY CHALLENGES CRITICS WITHIN CHURCH Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, New York, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, has told a meeting in Chicago that people within the Church who “blacken its name” are seeking to compensate for their own spiritual emptiness. The Lutheran leader, who is also chairman of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, in an address to a meeting of United Lutheran Church Women, declared that “the Church, like Christians in it, must guard against being twisted into a mood of derogation, of which we have altogether too much. There are voices wtihin the Church which cry that the Church is mediocre, irrelevant, offering what nobody wants. They call it prim, prosaic and dull. From their description you might think that the Church is unstuck, falling to pieces. “Slick man, supercilious woman, superficial youth may pretend that the Church is irrelevant, but underneath the bluster and pretense, the glitter, wistfulness, cavernous hunger, they are secretly groping for an unknown God. All this is but a compensation for their own spiritual emptiness.” Asserting that those leaders who do not know God “often use religion as an instrument to gain their own ends,” Dr. Fry added: “It is no accident that tyrants and dictators begin by trying to cut off the people from God. You can’t treat people like dirt unless they believe they are dirt. So long as they believe themselves sons of God they will be men.” EPS, Geneva
