Calvin Synod Herald, 1994 (94. évfolyam, 2-6. szám)
1994-07-01 / 4. szám
CALVIN SYNOD HERALD- 5 -REFOMATÜSOK LAPJA y}<^ß>UjAb ^h/voiujh/ he/ ^a/i& In the year 1992, in Budapest, the "John Calvin" publishing hand of the Reformed Church of Hungary printed a Hungarian version of Transylvanian Bishop Kálmán Csiha's book Fény a Rácsokon. It is the story of the Bishop's six and a half years of imprisonment by the Romanian Communist regime. It is a unique publication with immortal poems. An English translation is being prepared at the present time. TheLight Through The Bars will be a sensational publication. The editor ofourCalvin Synodtranslated the very first of these prison poems written by the bishop on his very first night behind bars in Cluj (Kolozsvár), the capitol city of Transylvania (Romania), which is the same place where he is now the ruling bishop of Transylvania 's Hungarian Reformed Synod. Our paper is the first to have it printed in its English version. first Prison Poem During the time of his prolonged prison years, he developed the same poem into a more elaborate form under the title He Can Never Be Locked Out. He Can Neuer Be Locked Out by Bishop Kálmán Csiha They locked out sunshine, With it my merriment. They gave me barred windows, Looking through them hindered. A faint patch falls on wall From the sun's wayward ray. Last touch of freedom's song, But that too fades away. Those who love me are far, And don't know where I am, In world aimlessly roam, Tears in hearts gleam like gem. by Bishop Kálmán Csiha How much forests, hills, greens shutout and lopped off! The snow-covered tall trees all banished outside In just short half an hour and life itself alike. All things now dislodged, I'm forsaken, lonely. But Him to remove is impossible only! Forests, hills may vanish from sight of human state, File of the winter-trees death sure can devastate. God lives! To exclude Him incredible a task! He visits in blind pens, when the prisoners ask. He conquers over hearts and bars of darkest cells. Locked out white winter trees, Woods, hills, greens outside! All the snow-covered scenes And life itself alike. All locked out from me, Left here isolated. Be He can't be locked out! I will hold this my stand! Forests, hills all can sink, Winter-trees can drop dead. Iron bars ten-fold dark. God lives! Not locked out there, He visits cells and coops, Triumphs o'er all forever. June 4, 1994 was the 74th Anniversary of the Torturous Treaty of Trianon On June 4, 1920, at the Grand Trianon Castle, a delegation from Hungary signed a fourteen-part peace agreement which stripped Hungary of 72% of its historical land and left 60% of Hungary's population outside its borders. The lands which were detached from Hungary were home to 3,424,000 Hungarians. Of this number, 1,084,000 were incorporated into Czechoslovakia, 1,705,000 into Romania, 564,000 into Yugoslavia, and 65,000 into Austria. No other losing country in the First World War was punished severely as was Hungary.The victorious neighbors of the losing countries took only 10% of German pre-war territories and 8% of Bulgarian lands. Trianon or the Partition of Hungary More than one century ago, the great French ecclesiastical orator, Father Gratry sounded this solemn warning from the pulpit of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris: "Every nation's homeland is sacred. If you destroy one of them, you mutilate the entire human race. He who wants to kill a people, takes up arms against God himself by attacking the living providential design of history. Our conscience tells us, it is a crime. And history adds, it is a futile crime. Thanks to God, our crimes are not only futile: they are also an unbearable burden, bringing ruin and punishment upon the evildoer." S HERALD .... j (ISSN 0161-6900) Editor-in-Chief Rt. Rev. Francis Vitéz Editor & Publisher Rt. Rev. Dr. Stephen Szabó 415 Steven Blvd. Richmond Hts., Ohio 44143 Telephone: (216) 481-3648 Published bi-monthly Individual Subscription - $7.00 yearly Group Subscription - $5.00 yearly Postmaster send form #3579 for change of address to: 415 Steven Blvd. • Richmond Hts., Ohio 44143 Second Class Postage Paid - Cleveland, Ohio Newsletters Prepared & Phnted by Liberty Media, Inc. • (216) 729-7200
