Hungarian Church Press, 1958 (10. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
1958-01-15 / 1-2. szám
- 18 -18 HCHP Io15j-II■ 1j1958, Vol.X/l-2 than my bishop^s salary. All my income - since I have been a deputy including my deputy's fee - notwithstanding the care for of my four groat daughters - has always been lower than the salary of any;of the bishops in the Protestant Churches in Hungary« Do not be angry with me, please, for my entering into this matter. I am ashamed to be forced to enter into. I am ashamed that we are in a church , where I had to do so. / ’ Ihat happened after November the 4th ? Those, who were the organizators and propagators pf the rebellion against the Word in the church having seen that after November the 4th no rapid and dictatorial measures had been taken in connection with them, they embarked cn an intensified organization and they were little short of call into being an illegal church leadership. They could not even perceive the*man1 a judgment/ Although it had come to pass that * their ears tingled*. An other characteristic was that all those who had prepared the downfall they were busy further on in the failure. Above and arround them or at the head of the church the shilly-shallying of men - one has to 3peak of it in grief - lacking the gift of governing increased the confusion, ’..here was the responsibility of ruling if one could not run for Albert Bereczky spontaneously as the chance arrived to takey^pn to the Convent, to the clistrict that he, in his wretched state of health,/try to repair the damage perpetrated under the pretext of saving the church ? Tnen we learned of some correction referring to him but with what a painful wrangling, and how incorrectly, for it was done as if the injuries on him had had to .be repaired. Brethren, it was not the task to repair injuries what certain persons had suffered but to reveal the rebellion against the ’Tord and to look fbr the man through whom the showing-the-way and the animating force of the Word had begun to 3peak and many times had spoken powerfully, he ought to have been put ón forward. That would have been obedicnce. What had I done ? I have been asked many a times since November .the 4th what have I been going to do ? I had ny typical answer that I oould not take a word off my letter neither could I add a word to, he that hath ears to hear, let him hear. I should only answer the letter having come the official forum of the church district to a decision.. . * Right Reverend General Assembly ! I I agree with the decision of th^ presidium of the church district that it has not convoked the general assenily./ Much as I examine myself I have to retain correct that I have not returned in the mean time by means of any other procedure, and did not take over the leadership. It was correct as 'well that I was not. sitting at home and waiting. One of the functionaries of the Convent when I-was elected member of the Presidial Council exercising rights pertaining to head of 'state put the following question: has János Péter asked the Convent for permission to accept it? a man that had no word against the mode as László Pap had 'forced Albert Bereczky to fesign, a man who according to brotherly word toward me when owing to the general human rule I was actually in an extraordinarily difficult situation, he considered that to be the chief problem, If the church had been church in those days I should have asked for permission.- But in those days the church was no church and there was no leader— \
