Magyar Egyház, 1978 (57. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1978-09-01 / 9-10. szám
MAGYAR EGYHÁZ 9 THE PRESBYTER’S CONFERENCE EDMUND VIG The regular date for the National Presbyter’s Conference is the Labor Day weekend. This year we had doubts and fears, for the Children’s Home of the Bethlen Home, Inc. in Ligonier, Penna, was closed, and no one really knew how the attendance would be. Thanks to the effort of the out-going president, Mr. Joseph Revesz, from Munhall (Homestead Church), Penna., and the president of the Ministerial Association, Rev. Paul Kovács, the plans were carried out and on September 3rd and 4th the conference was held. Rev. Bela Szabó, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, preached in the little chapel on the Mount. The Rev. D. Trombitás, pastor of the Hollywood Church and Dr. Jolin Butosi, Bishop of the Calvin Synod, were among the speakers. The new officers of the Presbyter’s Association are: President: Mr. Edmund Vig, Allen Park, Michigan Vice-President: Western District — Mr. Ernest Torok, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Vice-President: Eastern District -—- Mr. Alexander Hody, Somerset, New Jersey Vice-President: Central District — Mr. John S. Toth, Munhall, Penna. Vice-President: Lakeside District — Mr. Michael Vince, Buffalo, New York Secretary: Mr. John Beke, Crosswicks, New Jersey Treasurer: Ms. Priscilla Hunyady, Colonia, N. J. Trustee: Mr. Andrew Faragó, Allen Park, Michigan Trustee: Mr. John Marincsak, Edison, New Jersey The new leaders have a considerable task to reorganize the Presbyter’s Association. The attendance was very low, even from neighboring churches people did not come, while a few travelled hundreds of miles to attend. ☆ ☆ SIR JOHN BOWRING, (1792-1872) THE HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE The English philologist, Sir John Bowring, spoke many languages. Hungarian was one of them. He translated many Hungarian poems into English and issued a literary chrestomathy. In its foreword he wrote the following: The Hungarian language goes far back. It developed in a very peculiar manner and its structure reaches back to times, when most of the now spoken European languages did not even exist. It is a language which developed steadily and firmly in itself, and in which there are logic and mathematics with the adaptability and malleability of strength and chords. The Englishman should be proud that his language indicates an epic of human history. One can show forth its origin: and alien layers can be distinguished in it, which gathered together during the contacts with different nations. Whereas the Hungarian language is like a rubble-stone, consisting of only one piece, on which the storms of time left not a scratch. It’s not a calendar that adjusts to the changes of the ages. It needs no one, it doesn’t borrow, does no huckstering, and doesn’t give or take from anyone. This language is the oldest and most glorious monument of national sovereignty and mental independence. What scholars cannot solve, they ignore. In philogy it’s the same way as in archeology. The floors of the old Egyptian temples, which were made out of only one rock, can’t be explained. No one knows where they came from, or from which mountain the wondrous mass was taken. How they were transported and lifted to the top of the temples. The genuineness of the Hungarian language is a phenomenon much more wondrous than this. He who solves it shall be analyzing the Divine secret; in fact the first thesis of this secret: Tn the beginning there was Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’.
