Amerikai Magyar Reformátusok Lapja, 1918 (19. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)

1918-12-21 / 51. szám

AMERIKAI MAGYAR REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA

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tention to Bibié reading and Bible study than do our Hungarian missions. This is done by Men’s Bible Classes and Women's Bible Classes in Sunday School and also by the minister in the Church Services. It is a good custom coming to us from the times of Luther and Zwingli to have one or two lessons from the Bible read in each service in addition to the reading of the text on which the minister will preach. This custom is worth introducing into all Hungarian churches. Where it is employed the people like it and profit by it.

Several other features of American Protestant church work are worth special mention, the evangelistic work and the missionary work of the congregation. By the former I do not mean great evangelistic meetings like the Billy Sunday meetings not these so much as the readiness and illingness of members of the ohurc11 to find persons who are not Christians, speak to them about their soul’s needs, inviting them to church and urging1 them to become members of it. This should be done by all Christiane whether they are ministers or only members of the church whether they are Americans or people from any other country on earth, — we should all be what American Christians call individual workers for Christ.

Then too every Hungarian congregation az well as every American congregation should have a Missionary Society for the purpose of studying what other churches are doing to help save the world and also what is needed in all the world to save the people and to learn what is being done now and what more needs to be done. Mission Societies also help to gather the money needed for this Christ given work “Go ye into all the world and disciple all nations.” Some of our Hungarian congregations have such Societies and the members of them enjoy the meetings and profit by the work.

We are now in such a fearful world crisis that the forces of evil are likely to hurl bock our Christian civilization for generations unless all Christians every where become not only more earnest followers of Christ themselves but also become more active missionaries.

The war is at an end, now the more difficult task of bringingpeace with righteousness and truth to all the world is the greater and more difficult task. What can we do to help ?

The answer to this question was suggested some weeks ago by the Home Missions Council of the Protestant Churches of America in their plans and programs for the observance of a week for Christian A- mericanizatiop. The substance of it was that all Chris- tains in America without distinction of condition, or education, or social standing, or natioanity, or language must come closer together, must know each other better, must learn each other’s excellencies, must adopt what is best from each and all. and must work and serve and sacrifice to make Christianity the control- ing factor in giving freedom to all the nations of the earth.

Let me say then in concluding that the aim of every member of every member of the Hungarian Reformed congregations in America should be to become an ever better, stronger, and more active servant and follower of Jesus Christ. A more faithful member of the Church. He should not only attend his own church services but should especially in the evening when

there is no Hungarian service visit some active American church to bring home with him some lessons for his good and for the good of his congregation. This should be done both by those who wish to remain in America so that they will help make it more truly Christian and it should be done also by those who wish to return to Hungary so they will be able to help introduce not only the worse elements of American life but also the truly distinctive religious elements to which our coutry owes its history and its life and the hope of its future. He should do this so that when he gets home he will be a law abiding democratic citizen and not an anarchistic Bolshevik.

With thankfull heart toward the Hungarian missions for the courticies of the past 15 years nad with a prayer for their continued successes, and with the promise that the help of the Lord I will continue to do my very best for their moral and spiritual welfare, I subscribe myself.

Your fellow worker for Christ,

D. A. Souders, Supt. Immigrant Dept, of The Reformed Church in the U. S.

Szép olvasmányok.

Az Amerikai Magyar Reformátusok Lapjának

Kiadóhivatala a maga hatáskörében mindent készséggel megtesz arra nézve, hogy református testvéreink a legszebb és legjobb magyar könyvekhez, szellemi táplálékokhoz hozzá juthassanak. — Ilyen szép olvasmányok, jo könyveknek Ítéljük a Vasárnapi Könyvtár füzeteit, a melyek is lapunk kiadóhivatalában megrendelhetők. — 1—1 füzet ára postai küldéssel csupán 10

cent. --------------Vasárnapi könyvtár.

1—2 Regék a magyar előidőből. Kisfaludy. 2 füzet. 3. Hunyady Mátyás király- Irta br. Jósika Miklós.

4—6 Boldogháza. Buzdító és oktató történet. 3füz. Utazások az éjszaki sarkvidéken. 20 kép. 2 fűz. Elek Átdolgozta Szívós Béla. 20 képpel.

3. Víg elbeszélések. Irta Kisfaludy Károly.

9. A legvitézebb huszár. Irta Jókai Mór.

10. A természet csudái. Irta Szívós Béla. I. füzet: őriás és különös alakú fák, földünk változásai, csodás sziklák, lengő kövek, orkánok, viharok, hulló csillagok, légköri tünemények.

11-12. Boldogházi esték. Tanulságos történet a magyar nép számára. Irta Vetési László. 2 füzet.

13. Pillantások a természettudomány jövőjébe. Irta Hoitsy P.

14. A világ csudái, összeállította Szegfi Mór.

15—17 András a szolgalegény. Boross M. 3füzet. 18. Az állatvilág csudái. I. A majmok világábói. Irta Szívós B.

19- Arany János élete. Gyöngyösy László.

20. Az állatvilág csudái. II. Az emlősök, hüllők, halak, rovarok világából. Irta Szívós Béla.

21. Regék. Irta Jókai Mór.

22-24. Robinson Crusoe élete és kalandjai. 3 füzet.

25. Pál és Virginia. Francziából Saint-Piére után 26-27. A vékfildi lelkész. Elbeszélés angolból Gold- schmith Oliver után. 2 füzet.

28. Attila Isten ostora- Irta Pálffy Albert.

29. Elbeszélések. Irta Jósika Miklós.

30. Péru elfoglalása és az Inkák pusztulása. Irta Gaal-