Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
113 wrong, and in a new world they began a new aera for ail mankind. Gittemen, betwen their history and your own there is a remarkable parallel. Allusion has been made to the sorrows and calamities, which have visited your high souled people. Your Fathers suffered much. Midway between Europe and Asia, on the battle-ground where these ancient enemies joined mortal combat, they endured with heroic and sublime devotion, the wounds from both sides, to which their position exposed them. But often in the Providence of History, as in the lives of individuals, we see the principle of compensation. These calamities, these conflicts, these wounds — my friends — separate Hungary, as no other European people is separated from the burden of the Past. What the Ocean did for my ancestors — was done for you of Hungary by the engulfing deluge, by the measureless catastrophe, of conquest. A fallen dynasty, a desolated but indomitable people, and finally a new birth in a new age, under new conditions. Thus has Modern Hungary emerged! She has arisen free, untrammelled, immortally young! She takes her place among the nations, her forehead glorious with liberty and hope, and the dawn of a yet brighter future breaking,upon her way. But another nation is represented here. It has been a great pleasure to hear from our English brethren today. England, America and Hungary, each has written a resplendent page in the. History of Religious Liberty. In each, the cquse of Freedom of Conscience has lum its martyrs and its victories. At our exposition in Chicago, over the grand Arch of Columbus, an inscription was written to the effect that Religious toleration is the greatest achievement of the last four centuries. England, Hungary and America 8
