Magyar Egyház, 1957 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1957-12-01 / 12. szám
18 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ PERSONAL prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simple necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food, and water... A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER ßethlen IjouÜi fy&ium CHRISTMAS SOCIAL AND DANCE The Youth Fellowships of the Carteret and Perth Amboy Churches will jointly be hosts to a Christmas Social and Dance to be held at Bethlen Hall, 60 Cooke Avenue, Carteret, on Saturday, December 28 from 7:30 to 11:30. Admission will be $1 and a gift grab bag valued at about 50c should be brought along. Youth Fellowships of all the Free Magyar Reformed congregations are cordially invited to attend. EASTERN CLASSIS ANNUAL DANCE The Eastern Classis Annual Dance of Youth Fellowships will be sponsored this season by the Roebling Young People’s Society. It will take place at the Roebling Hungarian Home on Saturday, January 4, 1958. Music will be supplied by the Kara-Nemeth Brothers Band. Beginning at 9 P.M. Minden nyelvbeli nehézségen átsegíti Amerika legnagyobb magyar KÖNYVESBOLTJA szakkönyvekkel és szótárakkal HUNGARIAN BOOK STORE & SERVICE 1613 First Avenue New York 28, N. Y. Telefon: LE 5-0331 Az első és hiteles Szenczy: “Tanuljunk könnyen, gyorsan angolul” csak $2.50 plusz portó.— Megjelent végre a nagyon várt: ORSZÁG: Angol-Magyar Szótár. Ára $12.50 plusz portó. — Kérje nagy 48 oldalas Katalógusunkat! — LETTERS FROM AMERICA The U.N. report on the revolt in Hungary has been called “perhaps the most remarkable document ever issued by the United Nations.” No one can read the report without realizing how ruthless the Soviet Union has been in suppressing the freedom of a smaller nation. If you would like a summary of the report to send a relative or friend abroad, where it is safe to do so, write to the Common Council for American Unity, 20 West 40th Street, New York 18, New York. CALVIN AND THE PSALMS Among the leaders of the Reformation movement John Calvin especially loved the Psalms. In the famous school of Geneva, where students, not only from the neighboring cities, but from all over Europe gathered together to sit at the foot of Calvin so that they may learn the true teachings of the Bible, these psalms were expounded. His students made careful notes and prepared them for wider circulation, but for three years they were withheld from publication. Finally, in 1557 they appeared and soon were translated into other languages, and reprinted several times. 400 years ago the modest title read “The Psalms of Dauid and Others with John Caluin’s Commentaries.” A few years ago, due to the rising interest in Calvinism, Wm. B. Eerdmanns Publ. Co, Grand Rapids Mich., published the 5 volumes in the Calvin’s Commentaries series. Speaking about the Book of Psalms Calvin said: “I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, an Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul for there is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious, that is not here represented as in a mirror.” We certainly must understand that the love of God inspired the heart of Calvin and the other reformers who translated the psalms and composed music to their words, thus making them famous in Reformed churches everywhere. The Dutch Reformed Churches, the Scottish and Hungarian Reformed Churches equally appreciate these psalms. A few decades ago in many Hungarian Reformed Churches one was able to find pious men and women who knew all the 150 psalms with all their verses in the Psalter. Calvin appraising the value of the psalms said: “There is no other book in which there is to be found more expressed and magnificent commendations both of the unparalleled liberality of God toward his church and of all his works; there is no other book in which the evidences and experiences of the fatherly providence which God exercises towards us are celebrated with such splendour of diction and yet with the strictest adherence to the truth; in short, there is no other book in which we are more perfectly taught the right manner of praising God.” Calvin labored faithfully to open up this book of treasure for the use of all the people of God. Let us read his writings as they appear reprinted by the modern press. Let us reexamine our Churches, our lives and read the word of God, the Book of Psalms and all other writings of the Holy Writ, where Calvin and all the other reformers filled their hearts with the truth. Dezső Ábrahám. rk "k k CHURCHES OVER THEATRES! While 10,000 theatres have closed in the past three years, more than that many new church buildings have been erected.
