Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
168 the same. It is true that if we expect all this solely from the minister, we may, perhaps, seem a little extravagant in our demands; for science and the freedom of the press, the school and the thousandfold department of public life, individual religious liberty developed in a true Protestant spirit and recognised also by legislation, and, with us, chiefly Politics, are, on so many directions and in so great a measure, influencing men’s minds and hearts, and estranging them from „the one thing needfu 1“, that it hardly lies in a ministers’s power to counteract all this. The church, as a whole, has to lend him a helping hand; for it is a common interest with us, that we should all have a safe haven for the peace and rest of wind, whereto we may steer our bark from amongst the surge and shipwreck of a troubled life ; where we and those that are ours, may rest secure in the arms of a loving God; and wherefrom we, stronger in faith, refreshed in moral feeling, still hoping and confiding, may return to the daily round of our life’s activity. New, paths ought also to be opened in the congregational life, where ambition and the powers of the spirit may come forward and multiply the ties of sympathy between men; for else the steady race of secular life will continue to draw away all our interest in the church. In a word, the minister, bent on fulfilling his clerical duties, wants a number of people to co-operate with him. Steps to he made in this direction, cannot remain void of success. To do this, or sincerely to join any movement of this description, is of the utmost interest for a minister. The following traits in the individuality of the minister himself, are indispensable : namely, a trusting soul and a deep religious feeling on close union with a consumig love of one’s vocation, exemplary life and character, corresponding
