Calvin Synod Herald, 1975 (75. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1975-11-01 / 11-12. szám
REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA 7 DR. WILLIAM TOTH Dr. William Toth, 1916-1975, was born in Keasbey, New Jersey. He graduated from Woodbridge High School, attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1939. He studied medicine at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia and interned at the US Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia. At Hahnemann, Dr. Toth, along with Dr. Denton Cooley helped develop procedures for open-heart surgery. He was a staff member at Perth Amboy General Hospital, John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Roosevelt Hospital and Hahnemann Hospital. Dr. Toth was an Edison Township council man from 1958 to the time of his death. “The News Tribune” of Woodbridge, in an editorial remembers him as follows: “The death of Dr. William Toth of Edison has prematurely ended a unique career of service that included the highly demanding responsibilities of a surgeon with the markedly contrasting services of a dedicated public servant. Dr. Toth seemed to find time for both roles that extended the arbitrary limitations of a clock, performed in both professional fields with distinction. Dr. Toth’s life was a record of service as difficult to match as it was difficult to fully appreciate.” Thomas Molyneux, Freeholder and Chairman of the Health and Social Services of Roosevelt Hospital said of Dr. Toth: “He was the type of doctor who didn’t ask if they had money, did what he had to do, and if they didn’t have the money, he accepted what they had.” Dr. Toth died on November 28 and was buried on December 1, 1975. WHY I QUIT SPORTS: With football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, I am getting fed up. Too many rabid fans, too much of everything. So here are my specific reasons for quitting sports: 1. Everytime I went, they asked me for money. 2. The people I sat next to were not friendly. 3. The seats were hard. 4. I went to many games, but the coach never visited me. 5. I cannot agree with the coach on how to play the game. 6. The referee made decisions I could not agree with. 7. There were too many hypocrites who did not come to see the game, but to visit, or else said they were for the game and then forgot it once the game was over. 8. The band played music I was not familiar with. 9. Many games went into overtime ... but anyway the games last more than one hour... I cannot sit that long. 10. There is nothing for the children to do there during the game and baby sitters cost too much. 11. I was taken to too many games and had to watch too many games on TV. I won’t take my children — I’ll let them choose. 12. I know more than the coach about the game anyway. 13. There are too many other things to do. Even church is at the same time. all mankind. We commit ourselves anew to His grace, set forth in Jesus Christ and witnessed to by the Holy Spirit, in the communion of the Church Universal”. The centenary of the Alliance will be marked by a number of commemorative events in London at the end of September. These include an official dinner on Friday September 26, a special meeting of the British Churches’ Committee of the WARC on the 27th, and a service of thanksgiving at Frognal United Reformed Church, London, on the 28th, when the preacher will be the president of the Alliance, Dr. William P. Thompson. Dr. Edmond Perret WARC general secretary, and his predecessor, Dr. Marcel Pradervand, are also expected to attend the London celebrations. The centenary will also be marked by the publication of “A CENTURY OF SERVICE”, a history of the WARC, written by Dr. Pradervand. The book —the first complete history of the Alliance ever produced—is scheduled to come out before the end of the year, published by St. Andrews Press, Edinburgh, Scotland. rps ONE HUNDRED YEARS WORLD ALLIANCE OF REFORMED CHURCHES Geneva—On July 21, 1875, sixty-four representatives from 21 Presbyterian and Reformed churches met in the English Presbyterian College, London, and decided to form what is now known as the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational) — the oldest among the world confessional families. In a letter to all 142 member churches, the WARC president, Dr. William P. Thompson, and the general secretary, Dr. Edmond Perret, issued a call for “special prayers of thanksgiving and intercession for Christ’s Church and all people everywhere”. The WARC leaders further wrote: “The founder-members wanted to ‘manifest more fully their essential oneness, have closer communion with each other, and promote great causes by joint action’. The preamble to the Constitution stated clearly: ‘In forming the Alliance, the Presbyterian churches do not mean to change their fraternal relations with other churches, but will be ready, as heretofore, to join with them in Christian fellowship, and in advancing the cause of the Redeemer, on the general principle maintained and taught in the Reformed Confessions that the Church of God on earth, though composed of many members, is one body in the communion of the Holy Ghost, of which body Christ is the supreme Head, and the Scriptures alone are the infallible law’. Today, on July 21, 1975, we remember with gratitude that historic decision. Together we voice our thanksgiving to Almighty God for all that He has accomplished through the Alliance in the course of these hundred years. On this occasion we would express to the member churches of the Alliance the gladness which we all know in our fellowship and work together. We invite you to join with all your sister churches in this act of thanksgiving in the assurance of our communion one with each other throughout the world. At this point of entry into a new period of our history we affirm our faith in the God who holds in His hands the destiny of the world and of
