Ferencz József: Párhuzam hazánk és egyházunk története között (Kolozsvár, 1896)
12 the Israelites must have suffered after the destruction of Jerusalem. Our colleges wei'e taken from us and most of our churches were seized by military force. The Unitarians were debarred from all kinds of state functions and we almost had to sustain the plight of our Polish brethren, who, in the i7-th- century were obliged to leave their own fatherland for the sake of their faith. What zeal, what self-denial and what perseverance must our forefathers have possessed under such conditions, to stand by their religion and preserve it for our inheritance! Indeed, as truly as the Hungarians can say, ”It is a wonder, that our country still exists“, so truly can we Unitarians make a similar affirmation of our church. III. I wish only with regard to the latest time to point out the resemblance between our country and our church. I say more, for there we cannot speak only of resemblance, but we can also state, that recently the history of our church melted into that of our fatherland. In the history of our church, dear brethren! with the event of 1848. no doubt a new period opened, in the atmosphere of which we live even to-day. It is not my purpose to describe here the results of 1848. for every Hungarian must know them. I only refer to the 20-th article of the Diet of Pozsony, in which the Unitarian religion has been proclaimned in Hungary proper also, as a lawully accepted religion.
