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THE CHINA MAIL,, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1949.
PART II: THE CONSCIENCE OF HIS PEOPLE
THE MINDSZENTY
STORY
Rift Between Church And State Widens
#
BY THE VERY REV.
DR. NICHOLAS BOER
vention for the Church according to the following stipulations:
(a) From June 30, 1948, and for the subsequent five years, the Hungarian Repubile ensures per- sonal State aid in proportion to On January civil sevice salaries.
maintenanco
31.
C.
Government.
of
The
Church.
in
and
Good Mornings
We are glad to note that Aus- tralia will meat Britain than half way.
more
Looka 09 f Teeven has aban- * done politics and gone in for the real estate business.
A sailor later fined for being under the inßuence was report- ed to have gone to a telephone, dialled the police, and 'asked to be collected,"
A bank is the thing that will always lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
and with the words: "Even if Bad example of staviam
1.
"Mr. and Mrs. Henry Price had
angels should descend from Heaven and tell you different from what Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sales to we are preaching, do not believe dinner on their wedding anniver
The students ahoutegi sacy, They were dellelous," the angels.
"We stick by our
In unison:
"Maria Days"
Myrtle says that gossip always seems to travel faster
over the sour grape-vine.
titled to submit proposals to the soldiers and taxes from the people
"Stay loyal to the Church and to The Government of the Hung-Hungary And never waveri
to these two," hc arian Republle ensures the up your loyalty
his then concluried above schoola port of the colleges in the same way as the personal Stale ald under paru 3. According to the existing 1, 1954, theme personal payments graph five; at the end of the legislation the Government of will be reduced by 25 per cent. period of State aid their support
cent remaining
75 per the Hungarian Republic consi-The
I will devolve in full measure upon the
Government the Church. ders as part of the free exercise guaranteed by
From December 31, 1968,
(f) The Government the holding of unill
of the schools," of Church life: DEFENCE OF Divine services in churches or January 1, 1960, 10 December 21, Hungarian Republie acknowlenges other suitable public buildings, 1963, 50 per cent. of the present and assures the right of the Re- to continue in HONG KONG
in family homes and out of State ald is to be raid, while from formed Church
On June 12 and 13 "Maria- present ligious Instruction 1088, 25 per cent of the
Sta'e Days" were held at Raja, and the The arrival here yesterday doors; the organising of Bible January 1, 1964, to December 31, complete freedom compulsory re
lessons in churches, schools,
hundred and fifty ald will be supplied by the Sate, schools. The problem of religious crowd of
An artist recalls that in his family homes and assembly- of the troopship Empire Hal-
(b) The State will also provide instruction must be regulated in thousand people gave the sumie ladale with the first sizable
rooms: Church missions carried
aid for the building, rebuilding, some form in the new religious expressions of loyal enthusiasm gurly days he once sold a picture for the ut in Church newspapers únci
and
of equipment reinforcements
of the
Churches the pilgrims at Marla-yud. When
Just as a precaution he cashed with an article in the Lon-distribution of the Bible and is churches, assembly-houses and and to those who are not members the Cardinal, at Colony's garrison coincided independent publications; the curvely Charch buildings, that members speelal Feathe for Roman Catholic schools as did while the paint was still wet.
the end of his the etieque before the ink was
dry. This material ald by religious tracts; the holding of vicarages.
any
apoco at Baje, asked his audience don "Daily Telegraph"
Ave Church assemblies and confe- will be reduced every yearA (g) The teaching ain! of whether they would promise to
bishops,
the audience their General II. G. Martin,
reners and evangelical gather- according to the proportions land schools to be abolished (technical obey
the former paragraph schools, training colleges for answered with a storing "yes" At a recent film premiere in marking that the forces he
He was followed by the Bishop New York, only a sparse atten struction in
and the and ceases on December 31, 1008. ing sent to Hong Kong add, compulsory religious in-down in
le and female teachers) wil State ald supplied (c) Any
publie walied to be taken over by the State and of Csanad, who a few days pro dance of the to slightly.
work of charity.
ather possible headings
used in the same way as the other viously had returned from a visit greet the stars on their arrival at For this purpose the Govern- under serious strain imposed on
in a progres- tenching stats taken
the bishop the cinema. into State to Rome, and when the ment permits
Church tu will be continued in
service.
the audience the But the police good-naturedly repen'ed Britain's
of the sively decreased proportion. utilise the schoolrooms
(d) The State will provide for
cordon to keep back State
In case the Academy question the Pope And asked him: formed a schools 13h all other
the pensions of the members of
what crowd there was, suitable premises outside the ru
the Hungarian Reformed Church
abolished, the State will provide Catholics identify themselves with gular hours of classes (according
the professors now
Cardinal Mindszenty?" enthusiasm. to separate agreements with the ‡ Men's Pension Fund, including suitably for
knew 110 bounds and
peop Government of the shouted: "Yes, yes, we do." sehnal authorities, subject to the their wives and orphans accord- Payment of
ent of compension for any ing to the scale of civil service imployed there,
pensions and including thor
Unfortunately, however, the eventual damage caused by such
in schools Communis's were now on the alert too: necessary steps, that arrangement), for Divine service pensioned before December 31, Hungarian Republic will take the Sunday schools. Bible lessons, 1053.
In which the pupils are not Han- and, since they could not force other religious
(Rumuninn. from the people declarations which speaking 0. According to the clear com- garian choir practices and
Ruthenian, mand of the Gospels, the Hun- Serbian) the language of Instruc- taneous," they resorted to
Slovakian, could be made to appear "spon- terror and family gatherings and assern blies fren of charge until such garlan Reformed Church will pro- | Gen tine as the Church tommunities are ele to provide other buildings
The all
Government tralia WOS concerned,
garian Republic considers as part and peace of the whole nation; that could be expected in an 10
of the free functioning of Church
on Stato festival days
it will hold brigadeffe; the jurisdiction of the Church Divine
in accordance emergency was
its with the Gospel of God and the sphere and own #roup of 3.000 men now in within its
The regulated by the faith of the Church. AS Japan.
however
the
services. armed He said that the task was made all the harder because unils here und in Malaya had to be maintained from home depots nearly 10.000 miles
away.
The writer believed that in no the government was
a bigger position to send force here unless it embodied the territorial army and re- called men who have been
even
schools
(h)
Law at Kecakemet should be Is it true that Hungarian
The (1)
demobilised. As far as Aus- for the purpose of the Hun- the Government. the prosperity under the principle of reciprocitarnment offices, in factorles, na
a
ac'ivities
services
Re-
states.
well as
Martin implied. Church law and approved by the formed Church declares that the the neighbhurch whil modify its and sometimes the mere fact
General with truth, that conscription head of the State.
Church Duty
"
ric
pass into the
Parents Protest
•
"Radio writer wina plagiarism award."
In a highly competitive fald,
"He threatened to throttig, his
'.
One of those pressure cookers.
•
Whenever you hear there in #
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i
vide in its Divine service regula fon should be, at the request of and intimidation. At meetings of wife if his dinner was not pro- tions for prayers for the Hungar- the parents the mother tongue of schoolmasters associations, in Guv. perly done." A the same time, ian Republic, the Head of State, the pupils.
wen as in private houses, they the Government of the Hungar sent out a large number of cir
A doctor Bays that excessive fan Republic wall strive to obtain culars demanding the nationalisa the same facilities for the school tion of schools and extracted drinking time de
the Hun-signatures children and students of living in from jobs art of Interament. In other cases a man gets all
under threat of
of diamin-"twilight condition.". garian mother tongue
Meetings were held under threat.
LEE up. new hymn books about to be: B. The published will contain hymna rules referring to public education people attended the meeting was
according to
When suitable for such occasions.
to the new State laws. regarded as resolution. nen of youths for a short period
The Hungarion
to the Reformed 9. The combined committee does not contribute to the
4. The Government of the Fun-Church takes due notice of the be established under clause one motion was put to the vote a beautiful lie between father and these meetings, most Linics the son, the son is probably wearing formation of a powerful
nation- It. the Government of Republie acknowledges, decision of
possesses mulharity to discuss and majority voted against standing army, and in view carian
to settle any allsation, you the telegram sent to respects and ensures respect for the Hungarian Republic to na-prepare proposals
the Minister usually said that of the paucity of men com-
..tho
"unanimously" ing forward as recruits for the duty of the Hungarian He- tionalise the nation's State school: other outstanding queations.
formed Church to encourage its and the colleges closely connected
meeting manded nationalisation. In Eastern the Regulars, he emphasised members in charity and especially with them. The nationoilsation of
agitators est the reformed schools will be car. in the care of the poor and desti-ied out under the following con-
Hungary, Communist that the only remedy was to
tute and the orphans
Just at the time when the Gov-made shephered-boys of ten and make conditions more this
people according to the commands ditions: favourable, although
of the urnment had proposed its bill for twelve sign their fa hers' names (a) Every member of Christ and the tenets of the necessarily coal
the teaching and demonstration staff non-compulsory religious instruc- on the circular demanding nation
of would
Therefore, within
Roman aliation. They applied pressure Church money.
framework of the existing logal of the nationalised schools and ton, the Association
hawkers
and right to colleges will be taken over inte Cathole parents again sent pro-10 young Industrial apprentices; Our
friends decrees, it ensures the
the undred thousand to they threatened Communist
charity the State service on July 1, 104. tisis by rs of the Actio Catho- holders of market stails with maintain and develop
and colleges
the directors will ho doubt lick their lips
(b) The schools
they and any lands belonging to them lien and to the Government. The forfeiture of their licences it at this piece of good news, organisations and to collect charit-
able gifin,
the protests reiterated the opinion that did not sign. In many cases they ownership of although it is by no means
b. The Government of the Hun State, together with any obligain a question so vital to the life ob'ained signatures from the blind. which chased out the the last word on the subject, garian Republic takes due nofications
tions, mortgages or debts ac- and history of the nation it was
occupied by the and is indeed volunteered by of the efforts to realise the printions
large detachment one man speaking entirely ciples of "a frea Church in a free quired not later than May 15, impossible to bring in an act police and by a
State."
Vis
any dispute arising la without consulting the Png of the armed forces A Lair num-
the Minister of It was in this spirit that without governmental au-
For the transitional period, in Education and Religion decides, the anniversary he hundred and imprisoned and various state cm.
of the Maria ber of priests and paren's thority. Unfortunately his order to enable the Reformed after consulting the committer Gyud pilgrimage the comments come on the heels Church to recuperate its financial formed in paragraph one.
afty thousand pilgrims hod. aployees and sometimes, those in ecrot private employment na well-wers of the visit of Mr. Alexan-resources, the Goverment of the
(c) The Government agrees são man, insisted on a that those members of the teach- ballat in connection with the na- dismissed from their jobs because der, British Defence Minis-Hungarian Republle expresses its ter, whose circumlocutions readiness to provide a State sub-ing staff who also exercised the tonalisation of "hurch schools and, they refused to sign declarations functions of choir masters or pra. by an angry protest, refuted the making for the nationalisation of left such a harmful impres-
contors hould continue
in this charge that Church schools ware Church schools.
reaction ww
By this time the cause had made sion. It is as well, however, that the formation of a volun-
d number of martyrs all over the present in the to face the unpalatable facts teer force here has not been capacity for another two years the hotbods of
terma. Any farm- crowd of one hundred and nfty and know where we stand. a success. Perhaps the massing allotments due for the choir- thousand spontaneously voted that country. It was obvious that the Like the civil service, the ing of Communist armies mas
Ortu ny. sent to Minister.
The had resulted in deep mental con- army has now become a vast along the frontier would give porty of the Curran the pro-telegram of protent should be line the Government was taking gave in fileta among the Roman Catholle (d) Nationalisation not place, of the pilgrimage dve for population. And these conflicts, in a Allip to recruiting, but a bureaucracy, with almost as
ecclesiastical char this
According telex at a purely many clerks and other chair- well-trained, loyal army can- include the educational institu-spiration deep and
nt a time when : the theological high schools, legend, in wallahs as real soldiers. We not be created overnight. It can see little or no remedy seems to us that the author the training colleges of the clergy, largo, part of Hungary had bess for this, and can only look itles muy have to consider the institu's training deacons and occupied by the Turks, the Blessed peasant at the stripped-down truth: the question of conscription deaconesses, missionaries and any Virgin appeared to a
named Tamas by the church of Maria-Gyud and said to him: that the number of fighting of British subjects, however other church workers.
"Free me from my prison." Legal Relationship men available throughout hateful such a suggestion the British Empire and oc- may be, and however diff- cupied territories Is stretch-cult to implement in view of
1948. In from
master functions
tions actor,
of
and the
does
new go-
д
Within the prosent limits, the sing you
of
wero
to turn, lead to tragic acts.
To Be Continued Tomorrow)
At the reducat of the Guardian of
Order.
Tur. the The legal relationship between the Franciscans ed beyond the limit already. our all-too-famillar "peculiar the theological faculty of Dairesen kish governor of Szigetver re- of Education #ored the church to the Itoman Catholics, and it has been one of Our local profiteers who circumstances."
their best-known places of pil. have never handled anything One or two forthright and remains
(0) In appreciation, of the edu
Reformeu Erimage ever since. more, lethal than a cheque intelligent persons since the cational merits of tho,
On his way to take part in the book in their lives, and never war have insisted that the Church and to ensure the pre-
training
the Cardinal s'opped of
pilgrimage, At Fees, the Government
which is fairly largo intend to, may protest at this units of the Commonwealth liminary
with a univer- educational tacit admission of lack of must now prepare to defend oration of clergy,
of the Hungarian Republic agrees
Cmber and
of schools. At protection, or alternatively themselves, and not depend that of the Reformed Colleges i hope, resignedly that the to such an extent on men,,
the following shoula an
on behalf of Communists when they ar- money and armaments from the strongest historicala mesting, hore a schoolboy made effect body to the that voluntarily and freely, the Church schools: rive will keep their hands Britain to protect sea routes territorial integrity. Those of and
The Secondary School Lyceu atud
student body would hold cut for off private means. us who want to see this This was not a governmental and Teachers College of the Re- the righ's of the Roman Catholic
behalf Colony remain in British pronouncement but it had formed College of Sarospalakro-thousand-year-old, Church
Nobody The Secondary Lyceum hands are, however, faced much sense in it. with a serious responsibility, wants heavy taxation or con- And Teachers College of the ite that its right to teach should not The question arises: If the scription in an entrepot such farmed College of Debrecen, to be violated. Replying to the youth.
School Igreeum and Teachers' Home government is unable as this. Nevertheless a call-ther with the Girls Socondary ful speaker, the Cardinal wald: to provide sumclent troops up may be the only logical College of the Doczy Girls Gniecho
It is rouse having Lego. ***
he pointed out that the to save us in time of crisis, step.
College are we to fold our hands and unhampered trade and free The Secondary Behgal belong-ferencs, b
the Reformed
or foome Mother-Church with _|_Hungariana, uver accept the inevitable, or likedom of movement if these 10
Papa. a few others to escape whilfe are to be taken away by the Reformed Secondary School since they first settled, thero is still time? 6
invaders. We of Lenys coca Budapest, and 11 Barepe and had remained with during the fetatul ucated Girl Or would the alternative are not putting forward this adjunct the Reformed
suggestion with any degres Seoudary School of Baar Madan, 1044-46 The Church
If bom, framework: le ja be az- the people of Hungary for nine of satisfaction, but would be
estab the State, is the tirợ thế" eighteenth Interested & tour hearse gange panded, in the course of year, hundred and fifty wars, whereas
U. I. A. Count to Coast
of defending the Colony our selvam not appeal to a come, munity of well-fed traders
totalitarian
The
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heart:
down
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