Reformátusok Lapja, 1950 (50. évfolyam, 8-24. szám)
1950-06-15 / 12. szám
4 REFORMÁTUSOK lapja church members: confirmed: 11,157, uncomfirm- ed: 4,694. Members in Sunday School: 2,936. The number of church buildings: 58; parsonages: 44, other buildings (schools or parish houses): 16. Among the 56 charges, we still have 32 receiving aid from the Board of National Missions which in the year 1948 amounted to $23,615. All these figures are representing the year 1948, since at present moment the figures for 1949 are not yet available. We know that especially the following figures were much higher in 1949: Congregational expenses for local needs in 1948: $564,197; total amount paid on benevolences: $39,191. Total amount of / their apportionment was $32,492, out of that they paid Whiting $15,494. — The real estate value of their properties as reported for 1948 was $3,215,250, upon which an incumberance pf indebtedness amounted to $458,264. During the year 1949 the property value was considerably raised and the indebtedness also well reduced. Together with the cash balances or assets of the congregations and of their different organizations, the financial value of their combined assets must be well over five million dollars. Soli Deo Gloria! REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA Semi-monthly September to June; monthly July & August Subscription rates: $2.50 per year everywhere Published by the Board of National Missions of the Evangelical and Reformed Church Editorial Committee: Rev. Charles Papp, Dr. William Tóth, Joseph Hegedűs. — Finance Committee: R. Paul Smith, Roberts R. Appel, Dr. Ralph S. Weiler, — members of the Hungarian Committee of the Board. Editor: Alexander Tóth, D. D., Hungarian Secretary 55 N. West End Avenue» Lancaster, Pa. Send editorial correspondence and articles to this address. Circulation manager: Rev. Árpád L. Bernáth 134—8th Street, McKeesport, Pa. All correspondence concerning the mailing of the paper, and ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS are to be sent to this address. Entered as second class mail matter January 11, 1944 at the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Aditional entry at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, Pa. Aceptance of mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, authorized June 4, 1938. Cikket vagy szerkesztői levelezést tessék e cimre küldeni REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA, 55 N. West End Ave, Lancaster, Pa. Előfizetési dijakat, valamint a postai szállításra vonatkozó minden levelezést erre a cimre tessék küldeni. REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA, 134—8th Street, McKeesport, Pa. ABOUT THE REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA As we have already stated, it was started on the 15th day of August in the year 1900. Rev. Zoltán Kuthy, pastor of the New York congregation, started it. But in a few months, it had already changed hands: Rev. Alexis Csutoros, pastor of the First Church in Cleveland, edited it, also for a short time only. Rev. Endre Kovács, was its editor similarly for a very short period. Then it came to more steady hands: Rev. Alexander Kalassay, pastor at Pittsburgh, and many Cleveland years later, Rev. Alexander Harsányi, of Homestead, both guided its destiny for a long period. A peculiar venture followed. Ministers in our Church and in the Presbyterian Church dreamed about the beauty of the harmonious cooperation in the two denominations for the same group of people, and persuaded the respective judicatories of the two churches to take over and jointly publish this paper. So for a period of 22 years, the paper appeared under the aegis of the Board of Home Missions of our Church and the Publication Board of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. During that time, Rev. Stephen Harsányi, later his brother Rev. Ladislaus Harsányi, Rev. Julius Hankó, Rev. Sigmund Laky, Rev. Edmund Vasváry, Rev. Michael Tóth and finally Rev. Samuel Horváth were the editors of the paper. Then, in 1929, the Presbyterian Church withdrew from the publication of the paper, which was now edited by Rev. Julius Melegh, of McKeesport. When our Board of Home Missions felt the hard pressures of great depression, the paper was dropped by us too. Rev. Melegh had to take over the whole publication and soon broke under its financial burden. After that a very sad period came again: the paper was tossed like a ball from one group to another and went to the rocks, until finally Rev. Árpád L. Bernáth, then of Chicago, took it over and saved it through the worst years of its existence. In 1938, a group of ministers asked our Board if they would permit their Hungarian Secretary to take over the editorship of the paper, to which the Board consented, on the principle that this medium would also serve the same promotional aims and interest. In 1940 Dr. Tóth took over also the publication of the paper and for almost ten years he attended both duties, besides the \
