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

A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások

Substance of the paper read (in German) by dr. Vance Smith. In the course of the addresses delivered yesterday in this Conference, the names were mentioned of the English gentlemen who have visited Hungary in former years and taken an especial interest in the Unitarian Churches. Those names I need not again repeat. But there is one friend whose name has not been introduced, and who is not so well known as he deserves to be in this connection. I allude to the Rev. John Kenrick. This was the friend to whom, in the first instance, Mr. Paget, of honoured memory, especially addressed himself, when he desired to call our English attention to the Unitarian Churches of Transylvania, and who interested himself more than any one else at that time to introduce those churches to the knowledge of English Unitarians. Mr. Kenrick, I must explain, was a College pro­fessor of Mr. Paget, as he was of Mr. Tagart and Mr. J. J. Tayler. This relationship existed in the College at York, which is now removed to Oxford. He was a man of extensive learning and great general ability, well known and highly esteemed as a classical scholar and the author of considerable works on Egypt and Phoenicia. It was to him, as I have said, through his connection with Mr. Paget, that our English Friendship with the Unitarians of Hungary commenced as it did and has existed ever since. Mr. Kenrick died many years ago, at an advanced age. But now, passing from this point, let me say a

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