The Eighth Tribe, 1980 (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1980-12-01 / 12. szám
December, 1980 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 5 If this be our condition, then we are already dead and need only to be buried. Let us pray that we too might find the hope that filled the hearts and minds of those whom we remember and honor today. But above all they had Love. Love that had strength and power. Love that was experienced by living the words of Jesus: My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Because Jesus bore our burdens even unto the cross, so we, too, bear each other’s burdens by putting on His yoke, for His yoke is Love. And this yoke of love is easy and its burden is light. And now this love has become Diamond and Golden. A love that transcends self, time and eternity. A love that labors not for the things of the temporal world alone but for the friuts of the world which is to come. This is no “pie in the sky, bye and by” philosophy, but rather the sure and certain hope gained by doing the works of God in love. And so it is that faith, hope and love abide but the greatest of these is love. ☆ ☆ ...........AND THERE WAS ONE LESS............. There is a unique group of people, who have one thing in common — they were born in the first quarter of this century here in the United States, and by the infinite wisdom of God were taken back or were sent back to Hungary for some reason by their parents in their youth. After receiving some schooling in Hungary, they returned to this country. Here they become active in church life — some became ministers, lay-ministers and presbyters. Some of them played leading roles in the American Hungarian Reformed Churches and the Presbyter’s Association. One who belonged in this unique group was Rt. Rev. Bishop Árpád Beretz, having spent ten years of his life in Hungary. His passing has saddened all of us. He had become not just a minister, but in serving his people, reached higher goals. He became the first bishop of the Calvin Synod, a Conference of Hungarian Reformed Churches in the United Church of Christ. Bishop Beretz received his Ministerial Degree at Sárospatak, one of the oldest Reformed Seminaries in Hungary. This editor and Rev. Beretz had been friends for close to thirty years. Together with Sándor Csik (S. Norwalk, Conn.) and others, they organized a Nationwide Youth Organization in the 1940’s, after World War II, from which grew out the present Calvin Synod Youth Conference. At our last meeting a few years ago here in Ligopier, neither of us thought that it was to be our last farewell. I’m deeply sorry that our common dream— the Eighth Tribe Foundation’s Hungarian Cultural Institute—did not become a reality in his lifetime. . . . ‘Farewell old friend!’ In behalf of the Eighth Tribe Family we extend our sympathy to the Beretz Family. BISHOP ARPAD L. BERETZ 1914 - 1980 Bishop Arpad L. Beretz, age 65, Pastor of the Faith United Church of Christ, Hammond, Ind., passed away Sunday, October 19, 1980, at Bronson Hospital, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Survivors: wife, Helen (nee Kosa;) two daughters, the Rev. Margaret Beretz and husband, the Rev. Donald D. Kelley, co-Pastors of St. John’s United Church in Chesterton, Indiana, Julianna Beretz and husband, Thomas J. Hathaway of Cranbury, N.J.; one granddaughter, Susanna Clare Hathaway of Cranbury, N.J.; mother, Mrs. Anna Berecz of Statford, Conn.; one brother, Louis (Ida) Berecz of Trumbull, Conn. Cremation took place in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Private interment at the convenience of the family in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Memorial services were held October 26 in the Faith United Church of Christ, with the Rev. Donald G. Capp and other clergy from the Calvin Synod officiating. Bishop Beretz had been a resident of Hammond for the past 20 years; was responsible for the building of the new church, educational building, and parsonage. He completed his seminary studies at Sárospatak, Hungary, and did graduate work at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; he was active on a local, state, national, and international level as a delegate to General Synod’s World Council of Churches; he was elected the first bishop of the Calvin Synod. Before coming to Hammond he was pastor of the United Church of Christ in Wallingford, Connecticut for 14 years. TÉRJ MAGADHOZ, DRÁGA SION Translated by Arpad L. Beretz, 1976 Rise, O Zion, stand, strong and brave, God is able still to save; Everlasting Arms enfold thee, Still thy God and Hope to be. Whom He loves He doth chastise, God cannot do otherwise; Zion, fear not degradation, End unbounded tribulation. Storm and wave may terrify thee, O’er immeasurable sea; And thy heart may fear within thee, That the deep thy grave will be. E’en though He be fast asleep, Hope and trust in Him still keep; Zion, still remember His deeds, He reigns o’er tempestuous seas. E’en though chain and fetter bind thee, And thy pain is agony; Still to Him cleave tenaciously, Keep thy faith unyieldingly. Be Always exceeding glad, His people are never sad; Zion, doubt not His compassion, God reveals His heav’nly mansion. Angels sing in exaltation, Songs of joy and hymns of praise; He who died in subjugation, Triumphs now o’er angry waves. Home at last victorious, Free of death inglorious; Zion, in His habitation, Fear, no more, expatriation.
