Ferencz József: Párhuzam hazánk és egyházunk története között (Kolozsvár, 1896)
9 II. But our country and our Church resemble each other also in their struggles for their existence and maintenance. I do not know, were we to select from the history of our country the pages bright with glory and those dark with woe and mourning, which would be in greater number? But so much is certain, that by the side of the former we should find abundant examples of the latter description. I hardly believe, that any country has had more enemies than Hungary or that any nation had to fight more for its existence than our nation. Not to mention other less and more endurable tribulations, what a dreadful ruin and devastation in our country the hords of wild Tartars committed ! Instead of embracing us in their arms, how often our neighbours stretched forth their hands for plunder? How many a time our constitution, our liberty and our independence have been threatened even on that side from where we might justly have expected our boldest defence? And how often even her own sons threw the flaming fire of disunion into the bosom of the nation, setting on fire with their own hands the peaceful cottages and palaces of their fatherland ? Really, we cannot be thankful enough to God "that after many a fateful chance and dangers, wild and' grand" which our country during a thousand years had to undergo, He has kept us for our fatherland and our
