Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-10-01 / 10. szám

14

FRATERNITY

HISTORY

OF THE

HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH

By

IMRE REVESZ, Th. D.

Translated by

GEORGE A. F. KNIGHT

VI

BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS AND AFTER

1918—1950 (Continuation)

The Treaty of Trianon greatly altered the outward situation of the Hungarian Reformed Church. The Peace Treaty cut off from Hungary two-thirds of its former territory and united them with the so-called Succession States. Large numbers of Hungarian Reformed people were now living in the three countries of Romania, Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia.

According to the 1910 census, 2,621,829 Reformed people were then grouped in five Church Districts. With the Treaty of Trianon the number of Reformed people in Hungary dropped by 916,906. F’or one thing, the whole of the Transylvanian Church District wras incorporated in the Kingdom of Romania, with the loss of 600 parishes, and something like 1000 out-stations.

In the Succession States, those on whom there fell the task of reorganizing the life and activities of the Reformed Church, all realized that every aid must be given to Home Mission work, and in all three countries the latter has flourished ever since their respective Reformed Churches were reconstituted.