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On October 17 a new building for the Christian Theological Academy, where all Protestant and Orthodox seminarians in Poland are trained, was dedicated; on f the 18th Holy Communion was celebrated in the Lutheran Church in the morning eller and the Jubilee Assembly was held in the Reformed Church in the afternoon; and on the 19th there were public sessions on the meaning of the Consensus of Sendomir in the life of the church today. Involved in the Consensus of Sendomir in 1570 were Lutherans and Czech Brethren as well as Reformed. The Consensus was not a basis for union, but a statement of mutual forbearance, and it still provides the ground for the deepen- ing ecumenical understanding and cooperation among the tiny Protestant minority of considerably less than one million in an almost totally Catholic country of some thirty-three million souls. But this Protestant minority has made and continues to make a significant contribution to the life and culture of Poland. There are some signs that the spirit of Vatican II is beginning to be felt in the Roman Catholic Church, and this opens new vistas of hope for the Christian witness in that land. The Czechs were observing at the same time the three hundredth anniversary of the death of Jan Amos Comenius, their great educator, scholar, Christian, and church leader. Two services were held on October 18, one at St. Salvator’s Church and the other in the Bethlehem Chapel. Some 5000 persons were present at these two services, where the Senior of the Synodical Council of the Evangelical Church, Dr. Vaclav Kejr, declared that “Comenius was a man of strength because the central power in the workshop of his productive spirit was hope. His life was an unbroken chain of disappointments, sufferings, hardships. Amos — burden is the right name for him. He walked without a home through all his life, all the time with a pilgrim stick, all the time knocking at others’ doors. There was much for which he could despair. Yet, he declares: ‘I trust my God.’ He moves through the world upheld by the indestructible hope that his crippled, broken, and poisoned Czech nation will not die.” The church in Czechoslovakia still lives by this hope that is based solely on God. It has been a pilgrim church from the beginning, and it continues to walk with a pilgrim stick. It is a church without privileges, but its contribution to the world cannot be measured. Standing in Bethlehem Chapel, from whose pulpit John Hus once preached, took me back to the summer of 1956 when the State permitted the first religious service to be held there since the reconstruction of the historic edifice after World War Il. The preacher was Dr. John Mackay, then President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. The chapel was jammed, for it was a momentous occasion in the life of the church and of the Czech nation. Dr. Mackay’s sermon was a powerful testimony to the faithfulness of God to His people and to the Lordship of Jesus Christ over all men and nations. Many of those who heard this sermon in 1956 quoted it back to me in 1970, when the church was allowed only for the second time to use Bethlehem Chapel for a religious service. | always come away from Eastern Europe with a deepened awareness of a Christian faith stripped of non-essentials and of the ability of the Church to live in any situation, and to live with a quality and depth that can only shame me. Let’s not write off the Church — let’s discover it. Faithfully yours, (eee | President table of contents PRIN GE Fr ON THE ORO Ags The President’s Letter .......... 8) ,6,- 01 le, 61600). @. Ley le) .e 16/16) sah ial'é elie 6) eliejie! ois. 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