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

1950-03-01 / 4. szám

4-Hungarian Church Press A LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The editor of our Church Press received the following letter:

Easington Rectory,Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, England,

Friday 27th January 1950.

Dear Doctor Imre Kadar,

In your letter which accompanied ho.14 of the Hungarian Church Press, and which was dated bovember 1, 1949, you ask for further acknowledge?^:-; on the part of those who have been receiving this Journal.

It would be a lack of courtesy on my part not to respond to your appeal, as I have read the Hungarian Church Press with interest.

I want, moreover, to make this reply to your appeal a means of sending to you fraternal greeting "in Christ". So this letter is a token of the Christian "Caritas" which an Anglican pastor wills to share with you and with the Brethren who are associated with you.

My concern as to the welfare of the Reformed Church in Hungary was enlivened by the booklet written by my friend Kenneth Leslie entitled "Kungary-Chrietian or Pagan" after he had visited you. He was, as you will know, the Editor of the journal "The Protestant" which until recently was published by him from hew York.

. I have no technical criticism to make. I am not

qualified to make such criticism. My desire is to recognise the fundamental "sameness" of your present vocation with the fundamental Church situation in this land so far as the Anglioan "Established" Church is concerned.

This statement needs some qualification, for I write as a member of the small minority who believe that we, as members of the Anglican Church, shall have to tread the path along which you are bravely going before there can be a genuine revival of Christianity in this country.

At present, as you know so well, ordinary Church allegiance is almost overpowered by the stress which is being . applied by "Church-and-State" officials to ensure that "Western Christian Civilisation" shall not be overcome by "godless"Marxism This, cf course, is a strategic move on the part of Capitalism, led by the United States of America, to make the world safe for the purposes of Capitalism. This move totally ignores, the reiterated assurance of Socialist countries that peaceful collaboration is possible between those who have decided to go the Socialist way and those who for "sufficient" reason prefer to go the Capitalist way.

There are two things which perhaps you will allow me to add before I close this greeting.

1./ Arising from what I have' said above : you will understand that the religious danger in England /and .1 exclude