Calvin Synod Herald, 1973 (73. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1973-05-01 / 5. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 7 (W. Maurice King, from "Alive Now") Lord, sometimes I talk too much. I talk about people, I am sure, too much. I am often a carrier of what I have heard, not what I really know. I talk to You when I should be listening to hear what you would say to me. So I miss out on much needed guidance and direction. Sometimes I talk to compensate for my ignorance or basic insecurity. Sometimes I rattle on and on because of habit. Lcrd, help me to bridle my tongue, to practice more self-control in my use of it. Help me to speak up for the right, to speak out against the wrong; but also to know when to invoke the genius of silence. Amen. Then little children would not laugh and play; Birds would not in the leafy woodlands sing, And roses would not beautify the spring. No gentle showers throughout the summer long, No autumn fields to cheer the heart with song. No rising sun, no moon to give its light, No placid lake reflect the stars of night. No friend to help us on the toilsome road, No one to help us bear the heavy load. No light to shine upon the pilgrim way, No one to care, or wipe the tear away. No listening ear to hear the lost one call, No eye to see the righteous battler fall. No balm of Gilead to dull the throbbing pain, No one to comfort and the heart sustain. Millions would die in unforgiven sin, With none to bring the lost and straying in; Yea, this great universe would melt away If God forgot the world for just one day. —Christian Laymen’s Tract League. THEOLOGICAL CHALLENGE FOR UNITED CHURCH PINPOINTED BY BRITISH CHURCHMAN London — Having something fresh to say about theology, may be one of the contributions the United Reformed Church in England and Wales has to make to the world. This is the opinion of Dr. Daniel Jenkins, minister of Regent Square Church, London, and visiting professor at London University. Writing in the March issue of “Reform” about the responsibilities of the URC, formed last October when Congregationalists and Presbyterians united, Dr. Jenkins called for an imaginative reorganization of theological education as a first step, and for making better use of available resources. Said Dr. Jenkins: “On the whole, Congregationalists have been livelier and more sensitive to change and Presbyterians have been more solid and less easily swayed. The one has produced the better writers and the other the sounder scholars. Together, we may be able to summon up enough energy to move ourselves sufficiently far out of the doldrums in which the whole English-speaking theological world find itself at present to catch a fresh breath of the Spirit.” FIRST EVER JOINT MEETING FOR DUTCH SYNODS Utrecht — The general synods of the Netherlands Reformed Church (Hervormd) and of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerd) will meet jointly for the first time on June 15 and 16 next. The meeting will be held in the Lucas church here, a building which for years has been used by Hermvormde and Gereformeerde congregations. Major items on the agenda are “confessing the faith as a point of recognition and in confrontation with the world,” and institutional problems related to the cooperation between the two churches. Other denominations will be invited to attend; moreover, plenary sessions will be open to the general public — space permitting. Exhibits, displays and a bookstall in the Lucas church centre will give information on the life and work of these two major Reformation churches in the Netherlands. Special prayers for the joint synod meeting will be said in Dutch churches on Sunday, June 10 (Whitsun). It is planned that a service of preparation in Utrecht on that Sunday will be broadcast on IKOR television. The Mission Department of the French-speaking Protestant Churches in Switzerland will have a new general secretary. He is the Rev. M. Morier-Genoud who succeeds the Rev. Henri Mercier who is retiring. Mr. Morier-Genoud (47) was from 1951- 69 a missionary in Mozambique and professor of theology at Lourenco Marques. He is the author of several theological publications in Portuguese and Tsonga. Mr. Fred Shaw, the public relations officer for the Sydney Opera House, is the main speaker at a production workshop on worship to be held at Camden Theological (Congregational) College, Sydney, Australia, on March 31. Mr. Shaw has studied theology and acted with the Ensemble Theatre Company. RPS SO WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO: AROUND THE WORLD THROUGH THE OGHS SOS OFFERING $100 provides a scholarship at Casa Mia, Naples, Italy; subsidizes a rurallife workers’ conference in the Philippines; reclaims a half-acre of land in the Middle East, in a self-help project; delivers a pig or two goats. $50 pays for a new house in Bang-RPS RPS
