Magyar Egyház, 1967 (46. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1967-08-01 / 8-9. szám
MAGYAR EGYHÁZ 9 CONGRESS CONSIDERS BILL TO PROMOTE BILINGUAL EDUCATION (ACNS). — Congress is now considering a number of proposals to promote bilingual education in the United States. If any of these bills become law. bilingual education in the public schools for children who have a mother tongue other than English may soon become a reality. At least 35 separate bills in the House of Representatives and one in the Senate recognize the harm that comes to the individual child and the loss to the nation that Results when the mother tongue is neglected. Most of the House bills apply to all languages, but the Senate bill. S. 428, introduced by Senator Yarborough of Texas and co-sponsored by a number of other Senators, would benefit only speakers of Spanish. There are indications, however, that the latter bill, presently before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, may be broadened to cover all languages if enough public interest is shown in the other languages. The idea of providing bilingual schooling in order to increase the learning power of children who do not yet know English well, and in order to pressure our nation’s priceless language resources is srongly supported by many teacher organizations, including the National Education Association. , Dr. Bruce Gaarder, Chief of the Modern Foreign I Language Section of the U. S. Office of Education, has 1 pointed out that besides English there are more than I fifty important languages spoken in the United States and our need for them in government, in the universities, and in business is so great that we spend many millions every year to develop speakers and scholars in these languages. Yet we do almost nothing to preserve and develop language competence in the millions of our children who speak them as mother tongue. It is not too late for interested citizens to write their Senators and Representatives and give their views on the importance of making bilingual schooling available. WHEN THE CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, the old State Street Presbyterian Church, JacksonviRe, 111., was torn down recently, a galvanized sheet iron box was discovered under the rubble. Among the items found in it, which had been placed there in 1885, was a new Bible published by the American Bible Society in 1863. It bore a $1.25 price mark. Today the ABS sells whole Bibles for as low as 95(5 each ad “Good News for Modern Man,” the New Testament in Today’s English Version, cost only 25(5. Hungarian Protestantism Yesterday and Today OUR CHURCH BEFORE 1945, THE CHURCH AFTER 1945, THE CHURCH IN SOCIALISM Ml Four lectures by DR. KÁLMÁN UJSZÁSZY (Sárospatak, Hungary) Order from Editorial Office, Magyar Egyház, 175 Pershing Avenue, Carteret, N. J. 07008 for $1 and 10<i postage. THE SECOND HELVETIC CONFESSION RENDERED IN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SECTION XVII God’s Catholic church and her only Head. 1. Since when has the church existed? Since God willed fr m the beginning that men be saved and know the truth, the church has always existed and will exist to the end of the world. 2. What is the church? The church is the congregation of those believers, called and gathered together from the world a) who truly know and worship by the Word and the Holy Spirit the true God who is revealed in the Christ, b) who obtain through faith all the free gifts of Christ, c) who live under the same Lord and same laws and share in all good things. 3. Why does the apostle call the believing members of the church saints? Because these are sanctified by the blood of the Son of God. Therefore we say in the Apostles’ Creed: “I believe the Catholic Church, the communion of saints.” 4. How many churches are there? There is only one church because a) there is only one God and one Mediator between God and men, Jesus the Messiah, b) there is only one Shepherd and Head for the flock, c) there is only one Spirit, one salvation, one faith and one covenant. 5. Why do we call the one church universal or catholic? Because the one church can be found all ever the world and it is not limited either to a place or time. 6. Why do we reject the standpoint of the Roman Church? Because it says that the Roman Church is the only universal or Catholic Church. 7. By what reason can we talk about two main divisions of the church? By the reason that some believers belong to the militant church and some to the triumphant church. 8. What do we mean by the militant church? We mean the church here on earth, whose members are constantly fighting against the flesh, the world and its prince, the devil, sin and death. 9. What do we mean by the triumphant church? We mean the communion of those believers who are already in heaven, rejoicing before the Lord, having conquered all their enemies. (To be continued) Stephen Kovács THE EARLIEST ASSOCIATION of any size or permanence organized to distribute Bibles was probably the Canstein Bible Institute, formed in Germany about 1710. The Institute printed Luther’s Bible and by 1722 also issued Scriptures in Bohemian and Polish. The British and Foreign Bible Society, the “mother” of the American Bible Society, was organized in London in 1804, and the ABS was formed 12 years later. MORE THAN HALF of all the Protestant hospitals in India are working on family planning with the help of the Christian Medical Association’s Family Planning Project.
