Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
101 thee great Creator, whose being is the more marvelous to us, the greater number of thy laws are discovered by the searching mind. Our feelings, like little rivulets tend their way towards the great Ocean of love, fromwhich issues no created being without daily receiving a thousand blessing of loving kindness. On our lips are the familiar words: heavenly Father . . . and in our inner vision appears the great prophet of Nazareth, who indelibly impressed this name in our heart. W h erevertwo orthree ofusare gathered together in thy name there thou art ... here thou art in our mi dst. This thronging multitude which came to the altars of thy truths for the bread of life, proves, that thou hast not become less in our love and reverence because we believe and confess thee a man like ourselves; because in thy struggles and sufferings, in thy glorious selfsacrifice we behold and love in thee our brother, with the features of our common humanity in the bosom of the same heavenly Father. We believed and confessed these truths through the storms of more than three hundred years. Persecution and mockery, injustice and suffering have often fallen to our lot. And we have been found faithful in the guardianship of our high trust But we must deeply humble ourselves before thee Eternal Father, because thy allsearching eyes see our numerous shortcomings and weaknesses. Perhaps the depth of feeling in us may often have fallen behind our clearnes of thought. Perhaps the undue interest we have taken in this visible world may have drawn away our attention from the invisible world which is the foundation of everything great and noble in the heart; sustainer of the moral and spiritual order of the universe ; the cause of the unceasing ascent of the human race. Sometimes doubt may have overpowered us in aur struggles to search out the unknowable, which thy wisdom has hidden from us. And