Magyar Egyház, 1980 (59. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)

1980-05-01 / 5. szám

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9. oldal

SUNDAY SCHOOL

BICENTENNIAL

1780—1980

The Sunday School movement arrived at its 200th anniversary in 1980. It was in 1780 when Robert Raikes, of Gloucester, England, started to gather the children of the street and teach them in a Sunday School. There were many who had to learn reading and writing, too, but the basic idea was to teach them Bible stories. This movement spread in England and Scotland, soon in Europe and arrived

Robert Raikes

into the New World, America. Today, Sunday School is in almost every country where Christians live.

The Sunday School is an important part of the Christian Church and we are grateful for its contributions and great accomplishments. Let us remember in our churches that Sunday School should receive a proper place and emphasis in our modern church life. For Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of all children today and forever.

Let us remember to cultivate Christian education in every congregation, and extend the work of Sunday School to include young people and adults. Let each church re-eximane the religious needs of children today and see that they will respond to the care and compassion as they did in years before.

Parent teach your children to be faithful members of our church, participate in the life and work of the congregation and let the children observe by the good example of their mother and father, that to belong to the church is a vital part of our everyday life.

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ALBRECHT DÜRER was born in a poor Hungarian family, the second of eighteen children. His father was an engraver whose income barely met the unceasing needs of his large family. There was no money for art lessons for the talented boy. Albrecht left home at an early age, hoping to earn his own living and enough extra to study art. But the going was very hard.

On his travels he met an older man, Gustav, whose ambition, too, was to become a great artist. They decided to cast their lots sharing a room, earning where and when and how they could, working at drawing and painting between times.

But it was not long before Gustav could see that it was not working out. Their part-time earnings brought them scarcely enough to live on and neither one was making headway. He suggested to Albrecht another plan.

“I am older than you, ” he said. “I shall work full time, while you study. When your works are selling, I will paint.”

Albrecht argued that since he was the younger, he should be the one to work, but Gustav would not hear of it. “I have watched the neighbor building barns and things. I will become a carpenter,” the older man said. “I will be a good carpenter-as good a carpenter as you are an artist!” he boasted jokingly.

“Not for long, dear friend,” Albrecht hugged him fervently. “I will skimp on expense, and I will study hard. I will succeed soon, and then you will study-and you will succeed soon after that!”

So the two men went to work—Albrecht studying and working as a man obsessed, while Gustav labored hard at his chosen trade, earning as much money as he was able, so that Albrecht might have the materials he needed for his painting. It was not easy, and the weeks and months passed slowly.

Then one day Albrecht came home to their little room, filled with great excitement. He had made his first sale it brought enough money to care for them both for some time. Now his friend would be free to take up again the painting he loved.

“You can forget your barns and throw away your