Magyar Egyház, 1968 (47. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1968-04-01 / 4. szám
10 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ MAGYAR CHURCH Tibor Toth: A Post Easter Meditation “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked to us by the way?” Luke 24:32 This is our need too, a burning heart, a heart that has been set on fire by the presence of the Living Risen Christ. Each of us should walk the Emmaus road with him. Let him touch these cold hearts of ours and set them aflame! In the light of our burning hearts, we will see some things clearly which perhaps we have not seen before. For one thing, when our hearts burn within us because of our fellowship with the Risen Christ, we in the Church at least, will rise up and demand justice for all. No thinking man, I am sure, would claim that there is justice for all in America. There is racial injustice. Immigrants have faced this. The Negro, the Indian, the Japanese, the Chinese wrestle with it continually. All alike run head on daily into racial antipathy, antagonism, hatred and discrimination. There is economic injustice. Labor does not understand capital. Capital does not understand labor. There is much that is un-Christian in both groups, and the tragedy is that there are many in both groups who call themselves followers of the Risen Christ. All over this great land of ours the skyscraper stands side by side with the slums, one the symbol of extreme wealth, the other the symbol of extreme poverty. Those of wealth cannot claim to have adopted the self-sacrificial way of Christ so long as there is hunger and deep need among their fellows all about them. And those in need cannot call themselves followers of the Prince of Peace so long as they riot and attempt to take by force and trickery and bloodshed whatever belongs to others. Only those who know the Risen Christ have the slightest chance of succeeding in working out a righteous program. As you walk the Emmaus road, as your heart burns within you, you will solve this pressing problem in your own area, with the other man in mind. Again, when our hearts burn within us, because the Risen Lord reigns there, we will rise up and conquer ourselves and live in purity and peace and joy. If you are defeated today in your inner life, I point you to the Emmauss road. If your heart is disquited and troubled, I point you to the Emmaus road. If the burdens of life weigh heavily on your heart, and if these burdens are too much for human endurance, let us walk together down the Emmaus rocul with the living Christ. He is the answer and the only answer to all our needs. W hen our hearts burn within us from the walk to Emmaus, we will become beacon lights which will light the pathivay for others. Only those who know the Risen Christ can witness for him. Only those who have been joined to him as a branch is joined to the vine can shed light and hope and peace, here and abroad. It is not the Christ of the tomb that we need to know. It is not the Christ of Palestinian days, not merely the Christ of theology, that we must know. It is the Risen Christ, the Living Christ, the Reigning Christ we need to know. Let us walk the Emmaus rocul today and tomorrow and all the tomorrows! REV. DEZSŐ ABRAHAM ELECTED NEW BISHOP The Committee on Elections of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America met on April 17th in Ligonier, Pa. to open the ballots for the office of bishop. As the result of the votes the Rev. Dezső Ábrahám, pastor of the Perth Amboy, N. J. congregation has become the bishop of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America for the next three years. The other elected officers of the Diocese are the following: Charles Kiss (Detroit) chief elder, Stephen Kovács (Trenton) ecclesiastical general secretary, Stephen A. Wargo (Roehling) lay general secretary, John Kontz (McKeesport) treasurer, Albert St. Miklossy (Perth Amboy) treasurer of the Mission Fund, Alex B. Eger (Perth Amboy) attorney, Stephen Szőke (Miami), Alexander Forró (Poughkeepsie), Tibor Dömötör (Akron) ecclesiastical members of tlie Judicial Commission, John Marincsak (Perth Amboy), Louis Yager (New York) and Charles Báné (Detroit) lay members of the Judicial Commission. The consecration of the new bishop will be in the Perth Amboy church on Sunday, June 16, 4:30 p.m. The other officers of the Diocese will be sworn in at the same time.
