Hungarian Church Press, 1957 (9. évfolyam, 14-15. szám)

1957-11-30 / 14. szám

HCHP XI. 50,1957, Vol. IX/14- 21 -177

With this I close my report. I thank you far the often •experienced love of the congregations, pastors and the entire people of our synod which, now for the tenth year, I have been privileged to enjoy. I praise God for the prayers of the faithful which have upheld me, with all my deficiencies and manifold responsibilities, in the sight of our gracious God, May the grace of God which has not only surrounded my life and more than forty years of ministry, but has even made it fruitful, give now our church faithful and saorificially minded servants whose life will radiate the victorious paver of faith and whose hope will inspire living hope in the life of the church, to the glory of Jesus Christ, the risen Lord Who reigns forever.

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IN CONNECTION WITH THE BISHOP'S REBOOT, THE CCKVOCOTIQN OP THE DANUBIAN CHURCH DISTRICT, ACTING ON THE PROPOSAL OF THE SENIORS’ AND CURATORS' CONFERENCE,

PASSED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION : -/

The Convocation of the Danubian Church District thanks, fully adopts and accepts the Bishop's Report on the past two difficult years. Order is given that the Report be attached to the Minutes of the Convocation.

The Convocation, above all, confesses in humility, in the sight of God, all "those sins which, under the aegis of the Church District, were committed, either by individuals or groups, against Albert Bereczky. The Seniors and Curators are particularly grieved that they failed for months to defend unmistakably their Bishop against the unworthy and unlawful at tracks made against him at a time when, in his illness, he was in the worst need of brotherly sympathy.

The Convocation fully shares and adopts the Biblical view, expressed in the Report, of the past ten years of our church's life, then of the subsequent break and of the possibilities of the future. The Convocation also identifies itself with the Bishop's repentance. It solemnly declares that it accepts responsibility, with the Bishop of the Danubian Church District, for the mistakes, omissions and failures of the past years. It declares that with the hope that the gracious God will give sufficient strength to the fathers and believers of the Church District to effect corrections arid make amends for the mistaltes, failures and omissions of the past and for tire damages resulting therefrom.

The Convocation is convinced that the only passable road for the church, the narrow path, which v;as so decisively formulated and scripturally authenticated, already in the 1948 Report of Bishop Albert Bereczky, is now - after the lamentable events that passed in the life of our people - even clearer and more recognizable. If the Reformed Church in Kungaiy wants to avoid the incalculable dangers of adventures, then it can only maron towards the future by accepting and abiding by those fundamental principles which determined the entire activity of the church's government in the past period. The Convocation realises with shame and yet with gratitude that it has not been from fear or by calculation