Magyar Egyház, 1963 (42. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1963-03-01 / 3. szám
12 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ being attempted over large territories of the world, had themselves decided otherwise, their decision would equally have been approved by the people. THE EARLIER AND DARKER guilt lies on those men, able, influential, cunning, each defending his own interests or the interests of his own class who played upon the weakness of the croxvd, supplying them with slogans, xuith xvords and allusions which they knew to be inflammable. This is to say, though nothing can save the reputation of the croud xuho called out for the death of Jesus, we must be equally insistent that that cry xuhich we now know to be largely an animal cry, did not originate with the common people, but was engineered, managed, wrought up into a flame by a few overshadowing figures in the background who saw in the triumph of Christ’s ideas consequences vihich those simple men were not competent even to understand. The part the crowd, the onlookers played must also be condemned. Then, as today, the terrible battle of man and God with sin and death was just a spectacle, — a sight to behold. There were, of course, a fexu who felt and understood and learned something in that dreadful hour. But the crowd, the general public, were only onlookers. THIS IS THE CHARACTERISTIC attitude of the croxvd. People in the mass feel that they have no responsibility. But can it be true that the onlookers are just neutrals? Is there not a moral responsibility involved in being an onlooker? What do you think of the Roman populace that thronged the Colosseum for its bloody pagan spectacles? Well let’s bring it xip to date. What about the audience at a prize fight, or a vulgar shoxv or a suggestive play? Can yoxi blame it all on the fighters, the actors, the promotors? In real life no one can escape responsibility by becoming an onlooker. Everyone is a participant and has a part to play. As we stand at the foot of the cross, let us remember: we too share the burden of guilt and shame!-----------o----------IMPORTANT HUNGARIAN DOCUMENT FOUND (Reformed and Presbyterian Press Service)— An important document of the Hungarian Reformation has just come to light. The Catechism composed by Peter Melius Juhasz which was published in Debrecen in 1562 has up till now been known only from a single incomplete copy, with two pages missing. The missing portion can now be supplied from another incomplete copy reposing in the British Museum. The Hungarian National Museum has, at the request of the Reformed Theological Academy in Budapest, obtained a photostat of the two missing pages which enable a complete picture of the whole work to be formed.-----------o--------— Alliance European Committee To Meet In Debrecen The European Area Administrative Committee of the World Presbyterian Alliance will meet in Debrecen, Hungary, from May 3 to 6, 1963. Members of the committee will take part in the celebration of the Heidelberg Catechism quartocentenary arranged for that time. (R.P.P.S.) BE MERCIFUL EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IS MERCIFUL We, the Hungarian Reformed Church of America, join in sharing with these our brethren in need overseas—victims of bitter warfare, of political upheaval, of shattering earthquakes, of typhoons and floods, famine an ddisease. CHURCH WORLD SÍRVICE Nkstsorea! Council of I lie Chwdhes of Christ in the US. A. 4?S S?m:-!skäe Ossv« < ttew YmU 2? York Coming together to offer our gifts in One Great Hour of Sharing, we see our gift multiplied in usefulness—almost miraculously. Added to the gifts of others, our offering becomes life-sustaining food for the famished and undernourished; medicine and care for sufferers from injury and disease; food, clothing and blankets for victims of disaster, and shelter for the homeless and dispossessed. To our brethren overseas striving to wrest a living from the soil, our gift provides tools and a teacher of improved agricultural methods; to the refugee struggling to sustain himself and his family it offers instruction in new skills: to widows, self-support through handicraft projects; to displaced youth, vocational training. In these efforts to help our brethren help themselves, our churches—aided by our gifts in One Great Hour of Sharing—work with sister churches around the world. “Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Through One Great Hour of Sharing, our churches support the aims and objectives of the Freedom from Hunger campaign of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. “One Great Hour of Sharing” gifts should be sent by every congregation to the treasurer of the Mission Fund of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, Mr. Albert St. Miklossy, 23 Evergreen Ave., Fords, N. J. The Mission Fund will turn over the aggregate amount to Church World Service.
