Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1958-08-01 / 8. szám
FRATERNITY 15 what he writes of the post-war Church: “I have seen with my own eyes the gallant witness that the Magyar Reformed Church has made under the Communist regime. It is my conviction that there are many Church men in the West who would like to know something about this very living Church.” In order to make the “Church men in the West” “know something about this very living Church”, he translated, in a concise form, Bishop Revesz’s book: “History of the Hungarian Reformed Church”, published in 1950. The last chapter, bringing the story up-to-date, was written by Professor Knight. The publication of the present book was made possible by the generosity of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America. This Federation is a fraternal organization established in 1896, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Beside furnishing its members with life and sickness insurance, the Federation, from its very inception, has been the foremost cultural factor in the life of Americans of Hungarian extraction. In the spirit of the highest ideals of the Reformed Church in Hungary, the Federation has been instrumental in alleviating misery at home and abroad by donating generously to every worthy cause, and in spreading light by its numerous publications in educational, literary and ecclesiastical fields. The present “History of the Hungarian Reformed Church” is a momentous milestone in its cultural activities. The editing of the book was done under the aegis of the American Hungarian Reformed Ministerial Association embracing ninety members in the two Americas. The Ministerial Association is grateful to the author and translator of the book and, especially, to the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America for publishing this very timely history of a confessing Church. May this story “of a very living Church” enhance the glory of the Savior of mankind! (To be continued)
