Tárogató, 1949-1950 (12. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1949-09-01 / 3. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 GRANT ME THE BIBLE’S GUIDANCE A Young Person’s Prayer On the journey of life, grant that I be wise enough to seek the deeper wisdom of the Holy Bible. Let it lift my eyes from the darkened borders of sin and pain to the upper levels of faith and consecration. Through the rise and fall of empires teach me its eternal truth that “righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.” Let it reveal unto me the glory of goodness and the beauty of the unselfish spirit. In it may I find a spur to my weakness, a trumpet call for my flagging will, a cleansing rebuke to my sins. Calm and empower me through its poetry. Enlarge the purpose for which I live through its vision of a new and better age. In it let me find Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In His name. Amen. KEEPING UP THE PRESSURE Roman Catholic editors who have been meeting in Denver, Colorado,. at the annual meeting of The Catholic Press Association, passed a resolution calling on the United States to welcome Spain into the family of peace-loving nations. The text of the resolution is as follows: “Whereas our government has recognized the principle of international law that no nation shall interfere in the internal affairs of any other nation, nor dictate to any nation its form of government; and whereas the Soviet government has tried to impose its will upon the people of Spain, and whereas our foreign policy has abetted and is abetting the foreign policy of Russia vis-a-vis Spain, we recommend that our governmen express our disapproval of Soviet policy by welcoming the Spanish state into the comity and friendship of peaceloving nations.” This is a cleaverly phrased resolution. It is designed to throw on the Communists the whole blame for the unwillingness of the United Nations to admit Spain into the organization of peaceloving peoples. It is perfectly true that Russia opposes the admission of Spain into the United Nations, but there are a lot of others who oppose it, too. They oppose it because the Franco Government and the Roman Catholic Church act towards the non-Roman Catholics in Spain in a manner little different from the way the Communists treat the non- Communists in Russia. In the current issue of the The Christian Advocate, official organ of the Methodist Church in the United States, Stanley I. Stuber, chairman of the Com-' mission on Religious Freedom of The Baptist World Alliance, tells of his recent official visit to Spain. Here is what he experienced at Madrid: “When I went to preach in the Baptist Church of Madrid, I discovered that the Church was permitted to have no outward sign that it was a Protestant place of worship, that it was ‘protected’ at each service by a uniformed soldier, that several persons had lost their jobs after joining the Church. It was impressed upon me strongly, especially as I viewed the famous cathedral in comparison with our little Protestant chapels, that in Spain the Protestant faith is an alien religion, living at the very mercy of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the Franco dictatorship.” Dr. Stuber quotes in support of his eye witness evidence an editorial in The New York Herald-Tribune: “As a dictatorship in a Catholic country, it (Spain) applies the same kind of restrictions, though in milder form, upon thought, speech and worship, as those against which Catholics protest when they are applied to a dictatorship of the proletariat.” The writer reminds his readers that as late as April 29th, 1949, the British Government protested to Franco against the closing of six Protestant chapels in Spain. Foreign Secretary Bevin reported the facts to the House of Commons. The Spanish Government promised to i OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
