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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 12-1-1976 Herald of Holiness Volume 65 Number 23 (1976) W. E. McCumber (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation McCumber, W. E. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 65 Number 23 (1976)" (1976). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 1201. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1201 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OF HOLINESS CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE / DECEMBER 1 76 n The Power and Value of Discrimination I HE DICTIONARY tells us that the last • It consummates its purpose in the re­ JL big word in the above heading means deemed soul. “making a difference in treatment or favor.” • It expresses its ethics in the righteous living This is a great benefit to every one of us. We o f the Christian. have the power to make choices. • It sheds its light across the dark pathways This becomes very important in the area of o f the earth. our mental or intellectual intake. I am re­ • It revels in the resources of God and offers ferring to what we choose to see via the them to men. media and what we select to read. The entire system of education is built on the fact that • It brings eternity into perspective and the human mind can be educated, enlight­ sobers the mind with its vastness. ened, trained, modified through study and • It shows its impact upon persons through learning. their talented expressions of its meaning in The need and the right to be discriminating music, art, and literature. in what we see and read is a lifelong respon­ • It is the world’s greatest work of art. sibility and power. Christianity stands at the • Between Genesis 1 and Revelation last it apex of all religions in its revelation and truth brings to the reader all one realty needs to and beauty and benefits to man. Because this know about life, death, sin, holiness, eter­ is so, its Book, the Bible, is supreme in litera­ nity. ture. When you read it, you are learning from It is still the Book of all books. Choose it the best. today. Read it every day. Favor it for your • It is a book com plete in its truth. Source of truth. It is within your power to read • It achieves its object of revealing God to it and from its power to live and really live! □ man. 2 HERALD OF HOLINESS by CLARE ST. JOHN Portsmouth, Ohio c e ° L £ A > T IS of interest to \ Russell, “ a harassed, . note that whereas driven leaf.” Or if the face of a clock is the asked for light on what onlyI part not intrinsic to follows when this life is its operation, it is the one over, “Nothing,” they say part which gives sense to the with Sir Arthur Keith, “ Noth­ whole thing. ing follows. Life goes out like a Consider, for instance, a-clock with­ guttering candle.” Or in the unfor­ out a face. To one unacquainted with a time gettable words of Macbeth, “ Life’s but... a piece, he might well suppose the elaborate machine tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying —with all its gears, springs, and well-regulated move­ nothing.” ment—existed for the sole purpose of rotating two Against such a dismal, black backdrop the Chris­ strips of metal on a central axis, one at a speed of 12 tian testimony stands out bright and clear. Should times that of the other. That and nothing more! you ask him how he can be so confident that there is It is the face of the clock—itself separate from the meaning to his life, he might answer, “How do I mechanism—which clarifies the machine’s purpose. know? The Bible tells me so!” Follow that same thought into the intricate system It’s that simple. Reject the one “ face of the clock” that is the world . and our lives. There is only and end up in the abyss of unbelief. Or accept its one indicator which provides the clue to the purpose faithful witness and live a life of dignity, assured of of it all. Without its witness we are left to stumble endless future possibilities. □ along in Stygian darkness. And that indicator is not an integral part of it at all. It is the Bible!!! Though penned by men, its authorship goes beyond mere man. Its own testimony to itself is that “ All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” Holy men of old spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy DIRECTIONS Spirit. If God can plan a universe That book—in this world, but not stemming from And spin earth's globe in place— this world—alone provides us the answers. Nothing Direct its path, control its course else supplies a clue to the riddles of life. But to his great loss man has neglected and re­ With regal rule and grace . jected it. Since this interpretative “ face of the clock” He's surely planned a path of life has been so set aside, it should come as no surprise that those who have sought to understand life with­ So man w on't be alone! out its guidance should end in futility. The pundits Yes. He directs and charts life's course learned in man’s wisdom, but ignorant in that “ wis­ Across the vast unknown. dom which cometh down from above,” dolefully point -JACK M. SCHARN out the absurdity of life, concluding it to be nothing San Diego, Calif. but nonsense! “ You are an eddying speck of dust,” said Bertrand DECEMBER 1, 1 976 3 HEQAU) OF h o lin ess W. E. McCUMBER, Editor in Chief ■ > IVAIM A. BEALS, Office Editor Contributing Editors: Spiritual V. H. LEWIS • ORVILLE W. JENKINS GEORGE COULTER • CHARLES H. STRICKLAND EUGENE L. STOWE • WILLIAM M. GREATHOUSE General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene Maturity IN THIS ISSUE Through ARTICLES THE POWER AND VALUE OF DISCRIM INATION 2 Reading General Superintendent V . H. Lewis THE FACE OF THE C LO C K ....................................................3 Clarifier of purpose Clare St. John By M. A. (BUD) LUNN DIRECTIONS ............................................................................ 3 Kansas City Poem Jack M. Scharn SPIRITUAL MATURITY THROUGH READING ................... 4 Nourishment for Christian living M. A. (Bud) Lunn ILLIAM STTDGER authored a book SEEK ME EARLY.......................................................................5 entitled Finding God in Books. That Time for God Colleen L. Reece title seems to be at least somewhat mislead­ HONEY FOR A CHILD’S HEART............................................ 6 Wing. A good book may lead one in his search Books, a treat Gladys M. Hunt for God, but there is only one Book that can ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND 7 lead a reader to God. But it is true that a good Ross W . Hayslip book can have a tremendous influence in GOD’S WORD FOR A NEW A G E .......................................... 8 nourishing the spiritual life. To all men Melvin McCullough It is axiomatic that the spiritual life must THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK ....................................................... 9 be nourished. All life—physical, mental, Poem Alice Hansche Mortenson spiritual—subsists only by being properly SORROW ENRICHES US SPIRITUALLY........................ 10 and adequately fed. Beauty through loss Gordon Chilvers There are many sources of spiritual nour­ SOMETHING MORE THAN BREAD.................................... 11 ishment: the Word of God, the preached The living Word Earl C. W olf Word, prayer, meditation. But one never THE GLORY OF THE WORD MADE FLESH ....................... 12 Rightly dividing the Word A. R. G. Deasley failing stimulus to Christian growth is found in good books that inspire and instruct, probe TELL GOD THAT YOU LOVE H IM ...................................... 13 From the heart J. Walter Hall, Jr. and admonish. THE POVERTY OF IMPATIENCE........................................ 14 In this day of frenetic activity and crowded Wait on the Lord Harold Ivan Smith schedules, reading often becomes haphazard SANCTIFICATION- rather than habitual. Priorities become a INSTANTANEOUS AND INSISTENT...................................15 problem. Too many options and too few Helps to holy living Ivan A. Beals imperatives. EDITORIALS .......................................................................... 16 John Wesley was an illustrious example of W. E. M cCum ber constant and wide reading. He emphasized YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK A BO UT...................... 18 its importance when he wrote, “The work of A Christian woman’s world Aarlie J. Hull grace would die out if the Methodists were THE PROPER W A Y ................................................................. 18 not a reading people.” Poem Katherine Blair Francis Bacon said, “ Reading makes a full STANDING FEATURES man.” A full life is a balanced life. Such ma­ turity levels out any lopsidedness, straightens NEWS OF RELIGION............................................................. 30 any kinks, opens channels of productivity on ANSWER CORNER ...............................................................31 neglected wastelands, erects barriers against BY ALL MEANS .....................................................................34 an excess of emotionalism, intellectualism, Praise God for Tennis Don Alexander superficiality. Good reading develops seasoned judgment, Bible quotations in this issue: Unidentified quotations are from KJV. rectitude of conduct, warmth of spirit, large­ From the New International Version, copyright 1973 by the New York Bible Society In­ ness of soul. The reading of good books rolls ternational. Used by permission. (NIV) From The New English Bible, © the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the back the horizons of one’s world.

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