1918 · 1924 A second bellDruhý zvon

Czechoslovakia was declared in 1918 and the Hungarian-language administration ended; Slovak became the language of the school as well as of the church, and Leštiny stopped being a place that had to defend its language. The church's second bell is dated 1924. Across Slovakia the early 1920s were the years when parishes recast their bells, because the army had requisitioned church bronze for guns and shell cases during the First World War — hundreds of village bells went into the melt and were replaced afterwards by subscription. A new bell in a poor village is a small thing; it is also a village deciding it intends to go on.V roku 1918 vzniklo Československo a maďarská správa sa skončila; slovenčina sa stala jazykom školy, nielen kostola, a Leštiny prestali byť miestom, ktoré musí svoju reč obhajovať. Druhý zvon kostola je datovaný rokom 1924. Začiatok dvadsiatych rokov bol na celom Slovensku časom, keď zbory dávali zvony preliať nanovo, lebo armáda počas prvej svetovej vojny rekvirovala kostolný bronz na delá a nábojnice — stovky dedinských zvonov skončili v peci a po vojne ich nahradili zo zbierok. Nový zvon v chudobnej dedine je maličkosť; a zároveň je to rozhodnutie dediny, že mieni pokračovať.