Fraternity-Testvériség, 1966 (44. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1966-01-01 / 1. szám

FRATERNITY

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA Edited by the Officers of the Federation

Published monthly, with the exception of the summer months, when the June-July and August-September issues are combined Subscription for non-members in U. S. A. & Canada $2, elsewhere $3 a year

Office of Publication: Expert Printing, 4627 Irvine St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15207 Editorial Office: 3216 New Mexico Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20016

Volume XLIV JANUARY 1966 Number 1

THE YEAR OF THE BIBLE

During 1965 Christianity has lost ground!

If this were a statement about a commercial product at a board of directors in any of America’s big companies, the heavy fist of the president would pound the desk and the big man

himself would demand: “It’s got to stop!’’

Minutes later, the wheels would begin to roll. Advertising executives would begin pouring out persuasive copy . . . marketing experts would dig into the details of faulty distribution . . . sales personnel would begin putting on the pressure in

cities, towns and hamlets throughout the nation . . . and thousands of dollars would be put on the line to stop the competition.

All this for a bar of soap to wash our hands or a breakfast cereal to fill our stomachs.

But what about the cleansing of our souls and the filling

of our hearts?

What company president right now is pounding his desk and demanding: “We will not allow atheism to make inroads with its product of propaganda literature!”

Yet the fact is that at this very moment, communism is

pouring one and a half billion dollars every year into propaganda literature with atheism as its main selling point. And who is the prime target? Newly literate people all over the

world — people whose freshly generated love of the written word gives credence to the thoughts behind these words.

After World War II, Christians numbered one-third of the world’s population, It is predicted that by the end of this century, the fraction will have shrunk to about one-fifth,