Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)

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Miss Lucia Tagart made us the honour, now the third time, with her visit. She is in the service of Unitarianism and she is doing a really good missionary work chiefly among the young men, with the aid of enthusiastic ladies like:

Mrs Rutt whose grand father was the editor of Priestley’s works. She came with Miss Tagart to see the Hungarin Unitarians, for whom she feels a deep simpathy.

The R ev. Thomas Hunter former Librarian of the Dr. Williams’s Library and one of the best friends of a Jong series of Manchester College Hungarian students in his enthusiastic letter wrote :

Dear Mr. Boros: I have received a printed invitation to the Unitarian Conference at Buda-Pest next September, and whilst it would give me great pleasure to see again my old Hungarian friends, advanced age and increasing infirmities forbid me undertaking such a long journey. I hope you will have a pleasant and useful meeting. Though retired from active life I am still an interested spectator of (what is going on in the world around me and retain a fresh sympathy f orevery event and every movement which promises an advance in human welfare and liberty. The world is still young in energy and hope and never surely were there so many aids to the cause of truth and rightiousness. I could wish that my country occupied a higher moral position than it does at present, and consider that affairs in Armenia, Egypt and South Africa are a sad reflection on English statesmanship. Let us hope that your rulers are wiser, and that the prudence of the East of Europe will counteract the follies of the West. I have read the reports of your millenial „national Anniversary at B.-Pest, and rejoice that your Country makes a glorious past the ground and hope of a still brighter future.

Please give my kindest regards to Peterfi, Kovács, Benczédi and the other worthy men whom I knew in London years ago and who now fill honourable positions in your historic Church. I always read your communications to the Inquirer with special interest and I am pleased that in this way you retain some connexion with England. Since I came to live in this remote part of the country I have ceased to know the Hungarian students who have come over; and the removal of the College to Oxford has also to my regret pre-