Hungarian Church Press, 1950 (2. évfolyam, 4-13. szám)

1950-06-01 / 10. szám

HUNGÁRIÁN CHURCH PRESS

Published by the Reformed Churcht the Lutheran Church and the Federation of Free Churches (Baptists. Methodists, Brethren etc.) of Hungary

Editor: DR. IMRE KADAR Publisher: Bishop LAJOS VETŐ D. D.

Budapest, XIV., Abonyl-u. a. (Lutheran Chureb)

II» Volume» Mo 10»_____________________June 1» 1950____________

Mimeographed by the Press Service of the Geberal Conventus

of the Reformed Church, Budapest, XIV»Atonyi-u,2l*

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Contents:

Bishop Albert Bereczky: "She had seen the Lord1*» 1

The General Synod of the Reformed Church ,,,,,,, . . . , 3 Mission Work in the ’Diaspora' 3

Ministers' Postgraduate Training Courses , . . , ......................... ,4

Lutheran News • .............................. «.«4

"Politico-Ecclesiastical Events in the Holy Year".........................,5

New regulation of charitable work in the Reformed Church ... 5

Rev »Erne xy Somogyi; The freedom of religion and the

religious minorities * • 7

"SHE HAD SEEN THE LORD"- A Sermon by Bishop Albert Bereczky on John 20:1-18 -You are familiar with the Gospel narrative of how Jesus appeared several times to the disciples during those forty d^ys, how He returned, again and again, from heaven to the earth that the believers may believe in Him, and How He appointed, in sufficient numbers, reliable witnesses to present the cause of the Gospel, He visited the sad disciples behind the closed doors ns there had been special matters for some of them which were, yet to be settled personally. So He had a serious word for Thomas: ♦•Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed".Then He had a oase to settle with Peter when He asked Him three times:"Simon, son of Jonas, lövést thou me?" Then later He had a meeting with that fanatic who was breathing out threatenings against the disciples and was trying to slaughter whom he regarded as the insane followers of that hated Nszarén6-, and changed this man, Saulus, unto the greatest of His apostles. How great were the powers and world-shaping the impulses that He- discharged, through these encounters, into the world!

And yet we prefecto* go back to that person to v/hom He made his first appearance.She was a weeping woman. This encounter had no consequences comparable with those of the meeting on the road to Damascus, In the first place, the disciples did not believe that she had really seen the Lord, The Gospels speak very sincerely of this unbelief of the disciples. They took the account of the women for idle talas. Yet to make this perfectly eure# they ran out to the grave. It took Jesus ’ appearance to then to convince them that He was ris*n»This. belief is now made