Magyar Egyház, 1975 (54. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1975-06-01 / 6-7. szám
8 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ ly come to a fuller appreciation and love of ourselves. We are important, especially in God’s sight. And in order to experience the abundant life God intended for us, we must take the responsibility of our own mental, spiritual and physical growth and awareness, and ACT. We must listen to our “inner thermometer”, i.e. conscience, God’s leading, as well as discover and use avenues of growth found in outside groups such as creativity groups, Women’s Lib; and seek other sources for meeting our needs of mental growth and awareness, cultural pursuits, communication, relaxation, health and beauty, etc. After we develop such an appreciation of ourselves and a response to our own personal needs of growth can we be free to respond more completely in love to others around us, whether it be our husbands, children, church, the world, and to our God. Life has so much to offer us, but we seem to have neglected ourselves, our needs of personal development and have not been truly growing in a communion with the world and with God. Jesus Christ came to give us life—and give it more abundantly. Let us begin on this journey of discovering for ourselves what this abundant life really is that the Lord has in store for all who desire it. During the business meeting which followed, the following members were elected officers: President, Mrs. Lorraine Magyar, Jr. of Perth Amboy; Vice- President, Mrs. Margaret Connor of Trenton; English Secretary, Mrs. Helen Nemish of Carteret; Hungarian Secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Lovász, Staten Island; Treasurer, Mrs. Helen Nagy, Roebling; Chaplain, Mrs. Susan Torok, Perth Amboy. The meeting was followed by a fellowship supper hosted by the Roebling women. We are truly grateful to our Lord for granting us such rewarding opportunities of growth and fellowship. Next year’s conference will be hosted by the Perth Amboy Magyar Reformed Church. God be with us til we meet again... Yours in Christ, Mrs. Susan Torok, Perth Amboy Out-going President of United Church Women ☆ ☆ CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. PATTEN. Mr. Speaker, the cause of human rights and religious freedom are close to the hearts of all Americans, especially in this Bicentennial period, for our forebears have taken to arms to realize their human rights and religious freedoms. Today, many churches in the world are still deprived of their rights and the faithful are suffering various degrees of persecution. One of these Countries is Romania, where especially the minority churches, Protestant Reformed, Roman Catholic, and Unitarian, are special targets for oppression. On June 1-3, 1975, the Bishop’s Council and the General Assembly of the Hungarian Reformed Church of America passed a resolution in this regard. The present bishop of the church is a man of outstanding intellect and character and a close personal friend of mine, as he had been, until recently, the pastor of Magyar Reformed Church of Perth Amboy, N. J., in my district. Bishop Desmond Abraham’s signature under the resolution lends complete credence to the allegations. The other signer is the bishop emeritus of the church, another oldtime friend of mine, the Right Reverend Zoltán Beky, D.D., who is at the present serving as the national president of the American Hungarian Federation, the national organization of American Hungarian churches, fraternal associations and societies since 1907, and as president of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America, a fraternal insurance company. Bishop Beky’s work on behalf of the American Hungarian community and also in the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the World Council of Churches has provided him with a national and international reputation in church circles, and his signature under the resolution will necessitate serious discussion of the charges by national and international church bodies. Bishop Beky is planning to carry the resolution ill person to Geneva to the General Secretary of both international church bodies mentioned above. I include in the RECORD the text of the resolution of the Hungarian Reformed Church in America: RESOLUTION The Commissioners of the General Assembly of the Hungarian Reformed Church of America were shocked to receive information about a new wave of persecution of Hungarians in Transylvania by the Romanian Government, especially the 1.2 million members of the Hungarian Reformed Church, The General Assembly therefore requests that the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the President and the Secretary of State and the Congress of the United States should immediately undertake steps aiming at stopping this new wave of oppression and investigate the facts. We have news of medieval-type methods used and also of the confiscation of historical church archives and records by the Romanian Government. The intention is to eradicate the historical traces of the presence of Hungarians and Protestantism in Transylvania, amounting to cultural genocide.
