Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
108 Address of Curator fr. Székely. Dear brethren in faith, from England and America ! As lay president of the Unitarian Church of Budapest I beg to offer to you on this memorable occasion the special greetings of our community. For, although with one heart and mind do we accede to all, that has. just been said in the address of the chief Curator of the Hungarian Unitarian body — our churchcommunity has its own special say to you. What else could this be but the expression of our deepest thanks for all the benefits conferred on our community through the religious zeal and practical charity of the English and American Unitarian associa tions, which helped us to lay the foundations and assure the maintenance of an Unitarian church at Budapest. Many of our professors and ministers have received their education in England; among them our first minister Charles Derzsi without whose missionary zeal and activity our church 14 years ago could not have started on its successful carrier of progress, The annual grants of the above named associations have helped us in bringing together a fund: in part the material basis of our churchlife in Budapest and its neighbourhood. It was the study of the works of Channing, Martineau, Freeman Clarke and other worthies of England and America — imbued, as they are, with the deepest religious earnestness and the broadest enlightenment — which gave to Charles Derzsi’s ministry so deep an interest and such enduring effect Some of the works of these worthies have been cheafly the source of our «Little Unitarian library» which translated and published by Charles Derzsi, has been of inestimable service to our country members in
