Hungarian Church Press, 1949 (1. évfolyam, 4-13. szám)

1949-10-16 / 13. szám

- 5 -No 13.

Hungarian Church Press

JEWISH MISSIONARY SUNDAY IN THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH

The latest nunmber of the official Gazette "Református Élet" /Reformed Life/ contains the decree of the Presidency of the Hungarian Reformed General Conventus, that the second Sunday of Advent, i.e, this year the 4th December must bo devoted to the Jewish mission. On this day the special calling of Israel in God's plan of salvation must be dealt with, and the sermons mu*t apeak of the missionary responsibility of Christians for the Jewish people. The Jewish missionary Sunday is carefully prepared in Bible classes, meetings of elders and in the different branches of congregational work.

THE DEATH OF REV. PAUL PODMANICZKY D.D., PROFESSOR ON THE LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN SOPRON

The Hungarian Lutheran Church is in deep mourning: one of its most devoted sons, the professor of the Theological Faculty, the Rev. Paul Podmaniczky D.D>. was called home at the age of 65. He was one of the leaders of the latest Hungarian evangelical revival. Genuine living faith and a most up-to-date theological knowledge were coupled in him. He was baron, but there was no trace of aristocratical pride in him. Already in his early youth he became a qualified joiner and used to speak with a radiant faith of the blessings of manual work. Philosophy, religious philosophy and missionary sciences belonged to his subjects. He was also one of the founders and editors of the foreign missionary periodical "A Hajnal" /The dawn/. He was buried in Sopron^ where he lived and where over the entrance of his house the following inscription can be read: "This is merely my earthly abode, an eternal home is prepared for me above".

NE17 LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY PASTOR

The Hungarian General Lutheran Church appointed Ladaislaus Benczúr D.D. teacher of religion to University pastor and director of the Martin Luther Missionary Training Institute for layworkers. Rev. Benczúr D.D. spent a longer time in the Ecumenical Institute in

Bossey.