Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1961-08-01 / 8. szám
FRATERNITY 19 waged, and waged successfully, had left it extremely impoverished, whereas the Homan Church had bj' now enormous estates of its own throughout the country bringing in all the income it needed for the most lavishly equipped schools. The Reformed Church was thus quite incapable of meeting the government requirements, and so was afraid of opening schools which would not be able to fulfill the regulations and which would then promptly be taken over by the State. Moreover, its fears were justified. The Reformed Church only just managed to keep its schools going with difficulty in the cities and towns, but in the country districts it now lost many, many of its smaller schools. And it lost its schools just in those villages where the Roman Church could support a pretentious building! Moreover, nowhere did the Roman Church respect the clause in the 1868 law which forbade “reversal”. The parish priest, if he could get away with it, would browbeat the young couple into the promise which the State had forbidden, or insist on Catholic baptism for the newly born infant. (To be continued) OUTSTANDING QUOTATIONS FROM THE BOOK OF BOOKS “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36.) “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33.) “For all have sinned, and have come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23.) “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23.) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life ... He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:16, 36.) “Jesus saith unto him: I am the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6.) “Whosoever trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.” (Proverbs 16:20.)
