Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
his social and patriotic duties; for guiding and educating liis people in such a manner, he does a service which is, at least, equal to that performed by any other public factor of any right and vocation And the Christian state and society want, first of all, citizen active, liberal, godfearing, loyal, and obedient. * * * We should, however, err, if we would let the minister have only an indirect influence on the social and national life of the people. On the contrary, we expect him to be interested in all the relations of his people’s life. Even as our Lord and Master, Christ himself, had a warm sympathy towards the children and the sick, the crippled and the starving, the persecuted and those that were poor in spirit; and was, likewise, interested in civic duties, misbeliefs etc. And it cannot be otherwise, for public morality and all the phases of social life, are, on either side, in constant touch with religion. And the more the latter penetrates the former, the more certain it is, that the harmony of the moral order of the world, in which religion and all manner of laws are melted, will he realised; and man, on this height, and with the halo of earthly perfection around his head, revealed in his true nature. As Channing said : „A greater and a more glorious name than that of Man, we know not on earth.“ The thousandfold mares and machinations however, of the outer world menace one’s bodily, spiritual, and moral life with thousendfold dangers. The strong may, perhaps, defend himself, the wise avoid the labyrinth and the perilous cliffs; but the weak, the pusillanimous, and the unsteady, need, a sentinel to stand by and to fill them with courage, strenght, and endurance; and, if necessary, to side with their cause. To do this; to prosecute wickedness; and to cure the symptoms of vanity and worldliness: no one has apart even from
