Magyar Egyház, 1968 (47. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1968-10-01 / 10. szám
10 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ Spirit abides to live with him. It teaches the transformation of human life for time and eternity. This is the essence. Most of us merely play with this great Christian teachings. We believe them and yet we don’t really believe them. Just how truly and how deeply do we accept and live by the words of Jesus Christ? What do you want from life? Minimum level or the maximum? The difference behveen the two is in the depth, vitality, and power of your belief. “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” Let us become believers, delving deeply into the power of faith until we come up with changed lives, lives of such vitality that they will flow out to change the life of the world. Thank God that we do not have to depend on our own strength alone. We can pray for help to believe and defeat our doubts. We can pray that our belief may grow until we are true believers and the great things of life become possible to us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The renovated sanctuary of our Miami, Fla. Church The Ninth HUNGARIAN PROTESTANT BALL will be held for the benefit of the Scholarship Fund Friday, November 15th, at 9:00 p.m. in the HOTEL STATLER HILTON Georgian Ballroom Seventh Avenue and 33rd St., New York City. For further information, tickets and table reservations please write or call HUNGARIAN PROTESTANT BALL, 229 East 82nd St., New York, N.Y. 100286 Telephone: (212) RE 4-8144. MISSION SUNDAY November 3 has been designated as Mission Sunday in our congregations. Pulpit exchanges are planned by several churches. An offering envelope is enclosed to this issue of Magyar Egyház for the support of the Church’s Mission Fund. Take your contribution to church on November 3. If you send it directly to Mr. St. Miklossy, indicate your church membership for proper credit. FALL CONFERENCES Elders and ministers of Hungarian Reformed Churches in North America gathered to their customary conferences the first week in September in Ligonier’s Bethlen Home. John Nemesnyik presided at the elders’ meeting, the Rev. Stephen Csutoros at the ministerial conference. Among the speakers to the elders Dr. George C s i a reflected upon the loyalty of our fathers reminding this generation that “the seal on our religious freedom is the blood of our martyrs.” The Rev. Aaron Elek spoke on “The Crisis of Our Reformed Piety” pointing out that unless we return to the Lord and His service there can be no spiritual renewal. The elders expressed their wish concerning the continuation of the services of the Orphanage; they also recommended the support of the Bethlen Freedom Press. The following new officers of the Presbyters’ Association were elected: Alexander Csik (So. Norwalk) president, John Marincsak (Perth Amboy), Andrew S z u c s (Cleveland), Alexander Dombrady (Detroit) , John Orosz (Pittsburgh) vice-presidents, Stephen Lipoczky (So. Norwalk) secretary, Charles Kiss (Detroit) treasurer, Charles Bone (Detroit) auditor, the Rev. Zoltán Kovács, press secretary. The ministerial meeting was preceded by an evening on the poet Endre Ady by the Rev. László Vatai. The group was led in bible study (based on the Uppsala study booklet) by pastors Zoltán Király, Andrew Harto and Stephen Kovács. Personal glimpses and report on the World Council's Uppsala General Assembly were given by Synod President Dr. John Butosi, former bishop Louis Nagy, and Pastors Andrew Hamza and Arpad Beretz. The Rev. Francis Vitéz spoke about Gedeon Acs, the pastor of Louis Kossuth. The Rev. Stephen Csutoros, in the president’s report, reflected upon the problems contemporary social issues are causing in our Hungarian Reformed congregations. Serving a two-year term, the present officers will continue for another year. THE CZECH CRISIS In connection with the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet and other satellite troops in late August, we print— at this time without comment—two items: the statement of the officers of the World Council of Churches on this matter and Professor Dr. Joseph Hromadka’s Open Letter to the ambassador of the Soviet Union in Prague concerning the “occupation” of his country. The texts are official releases by the World Council of Churches and the Reformed and Presbyterian Press Service, respectively. An Open Letter by Professor J. L. Hromadka to the Ambassador of the Soviet Union in Prague August 22nd, 1968 Your Excellency, In 1958 in the Sverdlov Hall of the Moscow Kremlin, I was awarded the Lenin Prize of International Friendship and Peace. In our country, there are only a very few people who are as devoted to the people of the Soviet Union as I
