Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
IGO largely moulded by Greek thought, its law denied from ancient Rome, its religion of Jewish birth. It is the special aim of the noblest theologians of this age, in which the Unitarians of England are taking their part to restore Christianity to its primitive simplicity, as it was in Christ; and no book has recenly come out in which this is more beautifully attempted than Dr. Drummond’s Hibbert lectures „Via, Veritas, Vita“. Its aim — wonderfully fulfilled — is to go up and up the stream of time and to pierce the vail which many centuries of prejudice and superstion have drawn over the face of Christ to see him as he was. His natural human beauty is greater than any that artificial doctrine can give him. Do send him and let him speak, that is what we Unitarians are trying to do in Englang today. Men say we reject Christ. No, we try to know him as he was. And, with this aim, comes a second kindred to it, the foremost aim of our Church, namely to be like him. We are more and more recognising, I think, that the one thing our religion need do for us is to make us like Christ. The truth of God is worth knowing; ours is it to seek that we may find it. But more than truth is life. They who do the will of God are Christ’s brothers and sisters : he says so. The very center of our Churche’s life is practical goodness. Never were sermons amongst us more devoted to this aim, néver were they less directed on mere speculation. Doctrine stands for less, life stands for more. We do not attack other sects ; other sects rather attack us. We each go our own way and there is, meanwhile, a great deal of mutual sympathy. I have had pleasing proof of this in my own ministry. When in a recent year, we laid the foundation of a new school, 22 ministers walked in procession, representing every religious denomination in the town; and at a bazaar which we held for the purpose of paying off the debt upon it, amongst
