Hungarian Church Press, 1958 (10. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)

1958-01-15 / 1-2. szám

HCHP 1.15,-11.1,1958, Vol.tyl-2 - 19 -19

ship in the Reformed church. In the circumstances I accepted the president’s duty in the Institute for Cultural Relations to help our people where I could, in the degree of ny experiences I received.

I have the honour to informe the General Assembly about ny work in thisphere of activity. I have considered my utmost job to help our people in the degree of my possibilities to make it emerge from that horrible abyss into which it was pushed by the counter-revolution, from that painful isloation caused by the ocunter—revolution by fostering spiritual, cultural and human relations. I deliberately say: by fostering spiritual relations, too.

In January I was in Czechoslovakia in order to talk with all the church leader#. In February I was again over there but that time for working out the cultural plan of works for this year between Czechoslovakia and Hungary and for signing it* Parallel with it I had talks with the Czech leaders of that place either. In the elapsed 12 months I was in the Soviet Union, too, for negotiating about the- plan of work for cultural relations of this year. In the middle of Novenfcer, immediately after the counter-revolution I was in Helsinki on the session of the Bureau of the World Peace Council. Since that time I have signed the cultural agreement between Egypt and Hungary; I had negotiated in India, Ceylon, Burma* Indonesia, Syria* Egypt. Sudan and represented Hungary on the London confer ence'~őf_tT^Int crparlamentary Union, and on Monday I left the General Assembly of the U.N.O. for Hungary after a 3 months’ American .sojourn, I feel a deep gratitude for being able to live in those tasks in the course of the past months,

'.That is to be done now ?

What is the further task of the church and the church’s leadership ?

1. ) One has to seek the place of repentance for the rebellion we committed and let people to commit against the gospel revealed to us. Canfidarfc

in the mercy of the Lord who never despises the contrite heart. Everybody who lives and moves ought to be busy in this seeking. This is the turning-point whether the . decay commenced in the Reformed church what a degree would spoil further to. Recovery depends on that,

2. ) Such kind of men have to be placed on the leading watch who have the gift of governing, i.ej who are aware of what is happening in the church and about the cirurch, who know the ohurch’s way about, which she shall advance on.

3. ) Everybody responsible for the deterioration has to be called to account seriously, without any spirit of revenge, I do not think now of a disciplinary procedure or not only of that. Disciplinary procedure has also the forms of a heart-to-heart talk. No purification can take plaoe without the purifying events of calling to aacrount.

jlargight Reverend General Assembly ! You know that I was responsible for several/sentences. How it is that even in the most feverish days of the counter- revolxitian when instigaticn might have been rewarded, there was no one - whose life had benn yet painfully interfered in by me - no care raised one’s head against me. What is the reason of that ? The ohurch’s disciplining which painful an event may be when it takes place in a manner that has to be done for church’s sake, then the situation will not be spoiled even in the case of such a great chanoe of decay.