Hungarian Church Press, 1951 (3. évfolyam, 10. szám)

1951-06-01 / 10. szám

The Hungarian Bible C uncil has the plan of publishing the books of the Old Testament in separate instalments, thereby giving an opportunity to the church members and particularly the experts of following the work with the criticism, so that the work of the revision,instead of being a matter merely of a small group, may really become the effort of the entire Hungarian Evangelical Christendom« There is a large and invisible congregation of believers that is constantly praying for this work. This brotherly concern is also expressed by the sending of gift parcels . containing food stuff from the country parishes. These gifts changed the common meals of the commission into real Christian love-feats-We praise God's grace for this work of revision. Back in those times when the Hungarian Evangelical Christendom was yet - as people say - "rich" and "free", it did not have the strength to carry the , responsibility for the Hungarian Bible alone, and had to rqly on the benevolence of a foreign society. Yet the inner renewal of the Hungarian Churches,since 1945,has tackled this problem too, giving thereby an evidence that the real church, also in the midst of a socialistic development, is being zealously and freely built. Soli Deo Gloria!

Hungarian Church Press-11-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE REFORMED GENERAL CONVENTUS

The regular meeting of the General Conventus was held on May 15-18 in Budapest. The General Conventus is supreme executive and administrative body of the Hungarian Reformed Church which deals with all matters affecting the fcntire church cf all the four Synods of the church* The meeting approved all decisions that were made by the Presidium of the Conventus since the last annual meeting. Then the reports by the heads of the various departments and leaders of the various branches of church work were heard and acted upon.

THE 87th BIRTHDAY OF EUGENE BALOGH

Mr. Eugene Balogh, General Curator of the Trausdanubian Synod, passed in this month his 8?th birthday, in full vigour. In the Presidential Council of the General Conventus, Roland Kiss, Lay President of the General Conventus, congratulated the aged leader of the Hungarian Reformed Church who was, for decades, the Lay President of the General Conventus and General Synod of the Hungarian Reformed Church.- It is not merely my own love and loyalty that I am now expressing - said Mr. Roland Kiss - bút that of the whole family of the Hungarian Reformed Church. We look up to Eugene Balogh as children look up to their, father, and v/e are grateful to God, that He is holding him up as an example worthy of following. We continue to re- • spect and love affectionately our dear Eugene Balogh, asking and accepting his wise counsels .as to serving our church and our people.