Ferencz József: Párhuzam hazánk és egyházunk története között (Kolozsvár, 1896)
13 Behold, the freedom of conscience is united with civil liberty! And can there be for us a more elavating thought, than that the glorification of our religion happened in the most glorious period of our nation! It is true, that this bright sun of civil and religious liberty has been hidden again for a time, with threatening clouds, which passed over our country and church with destroying effect. But through the grace of God they also disappeared and the prophetic words of the great prophet of our nation ’’Hungary has not been, but it will be“ begin to be realized. Is it not so, that, since the year 1867. when our king, who reigns gloriously, became friendly with the nation, and the Hungarian nation also trusting him and in this confidence getting more and more powerful, put on his head the crown of St. Stephen? Has not during this short period our fatherland in all direction made such a great progress as during centuries ? Does not our Millennial Exhition astonish even us, and do not even the foreign nations also bow before it? Have not the strength and power of our realm increase again so much that we can look with confidence and hope into the future? And now if we turn our sight from our fatherland to our church, keeping the proportions I dare to announce, that here we also meet the same progress. Before all, we experience with pleasure, that although there are to be found even now-a days some prejudiced souls, who have some antipathy against us, the majority in general ’’considers us no more strangers
