Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
í 59 from the local congregations. This was a step in advance. Securing greater interest in missionary work on the part of our churches, and making them conscious of duty to a common cause, And this step has been the Establishment of advisory committies in London and in Lancashire and Cheshire to advice congregations, who consult them, as to the antecedents and qualifications of ministers whom they think of inviting to their pulpits; and also, to recommend or otherwise, ministers desirous of entering into ministerial duties in our Church. A New Reformation has come over our Churches meanwhile, laying hold of them more and more. God living and breathing in human souls today as much as ever He did in Palestine of old, God in personal contact with each one of us, dwelling in us and speaking directly to us in our consciousnes, God, the author not only of a past revelation of Himself, enshrined in an outward letter, but the author of a present revelation poured out on all who devoutly seek it, that is the rock on which rests our present Unitarian faith; and with it, we regain the strength that we recognise in the great mother Church of Rome, in that — in theory — it enshrines the living spirit of God. But to us God speaks through no church and no priesthood. No mediator is needed between man and God. He has His tabernacle with men; and if they have the listening ear, they each of them can hear His voice within their souls. And while this is so, our Bible are of more living worth than ever. They enable us to go back in spirit to Jesus and the prophets and apostles, with every prejudice of past superstition removed. We recognise our infinite debt to the founders of our religious faith. Our religion is that which was born amid the hills and valleys of Palestine, of great souls then in living Communion with God. We are their spiritual children, and should know our spiritual fathers. The life of Modern Europe is an inheritance from a great past, its intellect
