Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
114 are conspicuos defenders of this principle. Our gathering here today is itself an evidence and a victory of Religious Liberty. We meet to testify our loyalty to a form of Faith which has been much misunderstood. And whose followers have suffered every degree of reproach and persecution with the advance of human knowledge. With every gain of social and political liberty, our position has been easier, and our cause has been more successful. We have no fear of the modern spirit. We have no fear of progress, of science, or of popular education. Indeed we believe that our interpretation of the Chistian faith, is more fully in sympathy with the new aera, and better qualified than any other form of religion, to express the deepest things, and holiest faith of this XIX-th — yes, and of the XX-th century. Therefore we join the international Conference in no narrow spirit of sectarian bigotry, but becouse we believe that our Unitarian fellowship, whether in London, Boston or in Buda-Pesth is working with all the highest spiritual forces of this wonderful aera. We believe that all the earnest things of the age are working toward a deeper apprehension of the divine Unity, toward a better knowledge of the human Christ, toward a sincerer love for all mankind, toward higher ideals of human life, and human Society. We believe that man’s increasing power over the forces of Nature, his incrasing knowledge of Nature’s secrets, — far from abolishing religion, is making the whole Universe radiant with God. Our Unitarian faith, is in the things of the spirit like a free nation in the sphere of History, it bears no burden from the Past, but receives from former ages, inspiration, truth, and beauty, that it may accept with gladder heart the perpetual Revelation which God gives to his chosen ones of Every Time.
