Magyar Egyház, 1975 (54. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1975-03-01 / 3. szám

M AGY Alt EGYHÁZ

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lawns, but a wild, windblown field with pools so deep they cannot be fathomed, with fruit so unusual it has never been classified, and with flowers so rare they have never been catalogued.

There is no royal road to truth. Religion is not a closed affair. Huxley found God in the search for duty. Mendelssohn found Him in the search for melody. Keats found Him in the search for beauty. When doubts go unresolved and questions go unanswered, then comes a voice saying, “Be still and know that I am God.” Jesus said to His own disciples, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons.” You cannot think your way to God by puncture-proof arguments. People believed in God long before they had an argument for His existence. It is possible to believe in God and to trust Him unreservedly even though you cannot present positive proof of His existence.

The Bible does not make a virtue of doubt. No person will ever come to the place where all intellectual doubts will be resolved. Even if he did, that would not make him a Christian. God does not ask for cleverness but humility. Lincoln was right: “Accept all you can by reason and the rest by faith, and you will live and die a better man.”

There may be much about religion which you cannot accept or believe, but there is much more you can accept. If you could prove to my intellectual satisfaction, which you cannot, that there is no God, I would still believe. If you could prove, which you cannot, that prayer is of no more significance than the air vibrations which it sets into motion, I would

still pray. If intellectual acumen were the sole basis of discipleship, we ought to be angels living in paradise.

When you deny God, you will run into moral disaster.

When life gets you down, when doubts keep crowding in on you, when hope no longer sees the stars and love no longer hears the rustling of the leaves, when it is touch and go, when the scales are evenly balanced, when the world is too much for you, God stands in the shadows by your side.

We must go home, we must go home again, Our rainy faces pelted in the dust Creep back from the vain quest of endless strife To find not anywhere in all of life A greater happiness than blest us there.

We must go home, we must go home again.

PULPIT VACANCY

Pulpit vacancy in a bilingual pastorate, United Presbyterian Church of Wharton, N. J... Must be able to serve both English and Hungarian speaking members; membership 145. Small town 40 miles from New York City. $9000 minimum plus 10% car allowance; 16% pension paid; new manse with all utilities provided. If interested, please contact Joseph Zaycer, 69 Davis Avenue, Dover, N. J., or call 201- 366-7281.

NEWS FROM THE CONGREGATIONS

ALLEN PARK, MICH.

A blessed Easter holiday to everyone of our members and friends. The schedule of services was mailed to all.

Several members of our Church Council will attend the Western Classis meeting on April 13th, in Windsor, Ontario.

The Installation of the pastor took place on Sunday, February 23, 1975. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Zoltán Beky, from Washington, D. C., The Very Rev. Tibor Dömötör, from Akron, Ohio, Rev. Ernest Zugor, Windsor, Ontario, Rev. Andrew Harto, Toledo, Ohio, Rev. Dr. L. Vatai, of Detroit-West End Church, Rev. Stepren M. Torok, Perth Amboy, N. J., Rev. Gyula Asboth, Rev. Fr. Dominic Csorba, Rev. Ft. Kelemen Király from Holy Cross Church, Rev. Dr. Bela Nyika, from Hungarian Greek Catholic Church, were present with delegates of churches and members and friends from far and near.

Statistics: The following were baptized: Margaret Rose Sobodash, daughter of John L. Sobodash and Sandra B. E. Szakály; Sonia Imre, daughter of Francisco Imre and Cecilia Jacob; Jerfery Allen, son of Edward Wegienka

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and Julia Balogh. Marriages: Charles W. Carpenter and Jamela Joyce Kish on February 16th. Funerals: are recorded in the Hungarian section.

CARTERET, N. J.

The Easter and Holy Week schedule of church services has been sent out to all church families. We shall have again the Holy Thursday evening bilingual communion service for which the liturgy will be printed in both languages so everyone can follow it in the language of preference.

The team from the Lorantfy Society preparing the monthly sausage-sale so faithfully and so productively has grown during the last two years into a “membership” of over 30 people including women from the Junior Guild and men. To honor them, the Church Council invited them, together with husbands and wives, for a dinner to be held in Bethlen Hall on Palm Sunday.