Magyar Egyház, 1978 (57. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1978-01-01 / 1-2. szám
10 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ REV. MATHIAS DAROCZY 1897 ■ 1978 “In my Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” —John 14:2 With mingled emotions and a rich harvest of memories, we meet to honor Mathias Daroczy, whose passing fills our hearts with profound feelings of sorrow. His passing is mourned by the members of his immediate family, to whom we extend the prayerful and loving sympathy of Christian fellowship. His passing is also mourned hy his brothers in the Christian ministry and a host of friends, who cherished the warmth and sincerity of his friendship. It is hard for each of us to appreciate that never again in this mortal life will we have his inspiring presence with us. He would wish our words of tribute to he brief and simple. We have known a loyal, dedicated servant of God, we have known a good man and we have enriched ourselves in his love and friendship. His memory is a treasure to last throughout our lives. Long ago, in his early boyhood our beloved friend turned his face, his heart, his whole life toward God, the Father. In his innermost heart he heard the Master’s call: Come, follow me! And he responded by enrolling in Bloomfield College and Seminary to prepare for the Christian ministry. It was there that I first met him, he an upper classman, I a freshman. I will ever remember a superb quality which was particularly his, brotherliness. He ever found delight in the aspirations and confidence of the younger students, who looked up to him as a helping brother. After his graduation and ordination he served pastorates in Yonkers, Wharton, Pocahontas, Sharon and 30 years at the West Side Church in Cleveland from whence he retired and came to Florida six years ago. He served in various offices of his Classis and Synod and for many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. • * » Mathias Daroczy was a faithful minister and servant of God who left the world richer. Like Jesus, His Divine Master, whom he followed daily, “he went about doing good.” Yes, the world is richer because he lived, worked and died in the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. The loss is ours, and it is a bitter loss. But surely he, now at the throne of Heaven with his Saviour, whom he loved and served so well, has not suffered a loss. When God calls a servant who has been faithful in serving his God — I do not despair of his wellbeing. His faith has secured for him a place in the mansions of Heaven. For this purpose Jesus Christ died for us all. This is the faith we need for the sorrow of this hour. It is the faith that can be ours through our Saviour, who promised: “If it were not so, I would have told you.” How much easier it is to walk in the valley of the shadow since Jesus has passed therein. How great the confidence in which we lay our dead away, knowing that they have now passed a threshhold over which the Master Himself has crossed. What reassurance and hope is ours as we face the fact of our own death to know that Christ and those whom we have loved long since and lost awhile have gone on to prepare a place for us. Thus the poet has taught us to sing: More homelike seems the vast unknown, Since they have entered there; To follow them were not so hard, Wherever they may fare; They cannot be where God is not, On any sea or shore; Whate’er betides, Thy love abides, Our God, forever more. Tibor Toth * * * Rev. Mathias Daroczy was horn on January 26, 1897 in Hungary. He died in Clearwater, Florida on January 15, 1978. He is survived by his wife, Helen; his daughters, M rs. Helen J. Király, Mrs. Aurelia A. Brown, Mrs. Barbara K. Zinser; five grandchildren; a brother and two sisters in Hungary. Funeral services were held on January 18, 1978 in Largo, Florida with the following ministers officiating: Rt. Rev. Dr. Francis Újlaki, Rev. Tibor Toth, Rev. Daniel Bodor, Rev. Louis Becske, Rev. J. Kun, and Rev. Arnold. # * * (Excerpts from the Eulogy and Meditation of Faith and Comfort given by Rev. Toth). ☆ ☆
