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4-15-1964 Herald of Holiness Volume 53 Number 08 (1964) W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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N.F.M.S. GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY | PROJECT: A New Guinea Hospital See page 12 Holy Spirit. It preached to me, pleaded with me, pointed its finger of truth at me. It urged me, pushed me with no rest, till I sought the baptism with the Holy Spirit. Tears, prayers, vows, consecra­ My Church tion, yielding faith! He came: love, perfect love, for God, for all mankind was mine. The church has been indeed the mighty force, friend, guide, comfort of my life. I thank God for it. It is a good and church. It was founded by great men, led of God, men who were able to center on the great essentials: regeneration, WITHOUT DOUBT the most important sanctification, a holy life. My church factor in my life is my church. does not harass me with the sidelines. It points to the main line. It threw its cloak of influence about me when I was but a lad. It was good. It tells me to seek God’s will, to rest It was strong. It was positive. It in­ in faith, to place the emphasis of life jected divine truth into my mind. These and faith where God says in His Word truths became the reference points of my to place them. decisions, standards, and habits. It is not a church of human aggrand­ The church became the tool of God to izement with ecclesiastical prestige and thunder His will for my life. Its min­ ministerial authority, but is the church isters became the patterns by which I of divine worship and the leadership of began to shape my career. They were the Lord. good men—men of God. They preached It is not weakened by the dilution with fervor. They denounced sin and and modifications of accommodations to proclaimed the gospel with great fervor. worldly influences, but centered in the The church became the lens through will of God. which God focused the light of His re­ Neither has it led into the confusion demptive plan upon me. During revivals and meanderings of the isms, the non- this light became intense and searching essentials, the secondaries, the peculiari­ and revealing. It was a clear light. In ties of gift seeking or fringe demonstra­ its radiance sin became ugly, stripped of tions. Rather it offers the more excellent all veneer—terrible—a repulsive thing. way—the way of holiness. My church shuns the excesses of the Corinthians, the problem church so well rebuked by Paul. It urges us to be (ie n e r a l worthy of the commendations given by Superintendent Paul to the Thessalonians as he wrote, “For this cause also thank we God with­ L e w is out ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it . . . as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe” (I Thessalonians I fled its condemnation to the altar; in 2:13). repentance I escaped its slavery and My church is good. It leads me into doom. In faith I found peace. Wonder­ the way of eternal life and guides me in ful peace! its way. I am at peace. I seek no other So the church brought me Jesus. Life way. I am content. is so interwoven with Him and my I shall look neither to the right nor church that I cannot conceive an exist­ to the left, but pursue the way of holi­ ence for me without Him. ness unto the dawn of the perfect day. The church led me to the meaning of Join me in saying, “Thank God for Pentecost—the glorious advent of the our church!” The Center of the Highway of HOLINESS /> 1/ KOUEKT !•;. HAKIHNG. Pastor, First ( lunch. Minneapolis, Minnesota

And an highway shall be there, and a way, and act so much like the world, and, in fact are so much it shall be called, The way of holiness; the un­ a part of the world, that the world accepts us and clean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for perhaps the Lord himself classifies us with the those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall world. not err therein (Isaiah 35:8). The center of the highway to Bonhoeffer is what HERE WE HAVE PICTURED the wilderness of he calls “costly grace.” “It is costly because it costs the world with its rocks and crags, its dry and dusty a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a desert. In the midst of it there is a highway which man the only true life. It is costly because it con­ is up away from the roughness of the wilderness and demns sin, and grace because it justifies the sin­ the bleakness of the desert. And down the center ner. . . . Grace is costly because it compels a man to of this roadbed is a way called The way of holiness. submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is This is the way of the ransomed of the Lord. The grace because Jesus says: ‘My yoke is easy and my redeemed walk there. Only the unclean are forbid­ burden is light.’ ” den. God says, “T he wayfaring men, though fools, Down through the years the Pharisees have been shall not err therein.” This way of holiness is the used as examples of legalism. But before we are too center of the highway—a plain path, clearly discerni­ quick to condemn them we should realize that in a ble, and an even place where we may be spared clay when righteousness was at a low ebb, when much of the heartache and discouragement of spirit­ ethics and morals were being disregarded, and it ual setbacks. W hen faced with tem ptation to turn was not popular to be religious, these men with aside from the center of the highway of holiness we their great show of public piety and the great stress should pray David’s prayer, “Teach me thy way, they gave to “externals” were saying in effect: We 0 Lord, and lead me in a plain path” (Psalms don’t care what this world thinks; we are taking our 27:11), or, “Keep me in the center of the road.” stand for God and righteousness. Dr. J. B. Chapman said that the only time some However, in spite of holding some lines legally, people are in the middle of the road is when they Jesus said that the Pharisees had ignored the are crossing to the other side. This is true in differ­ “weightier matters.” They had become so taken up ent areas of our lives. We are not justified in being with their traditions that they had forgotten mat­ extremists, excusing ourselves by thinking that al­ ters truly spiritual; they didn’t even recognize though we may have veered from the center of the the Lord, their Messiah, when He walked among them. road and perhaps even gotten into the ditch, at least we didn’t get off the highway on the other side. Other Extremes It is heart-rending to realize that our very sin­ To go to either extreme is to end up in the ditch cerity may cause us to move from the center of the and not in “the center of the highway of holiness.” road and thereby miss God's ideal will, often lead­ “Cheap Grace” Versus “Legalism” ing others into the ditch. We can mention only a We are living in a day of “cheap grace,” and few danger areas. some in an endeavor to avoid this ditch alongside To neglect Christ’s healing ministry because the highway of holiness have swung to the other some have commercialized it is to leave the way extreme, which is “legalism.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer open to these very charlatans and the healing culls in his book, The Cost of Discipleship, says: “Cheap of the day. grace is the preaching of forgiveness without re­ There are those whose religion is centered in nei­ quiring repentance, baptism without church disci­ ther the head nor the heart, but in the emotions pline, communion without confession, absolu­ alone; and these have caused some to try to remove tion without personal confession. Cheap grace is emotion from religion. In a reaction to extreme grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, emotionalism they would swing to extreme intel- grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” lectualism, believing that the problems of man can With this attitude it is easy to excuse sin and be met through education. Our crop of intellectual abuse our Christian liberties by living too close to delinquents has disproved this theory, and there is a the world until we look so much like the world, swing in the other direction.

APRIL 15, 1964 • (143) 3 We have nothing to tear from sincere questions, (1) Am 1 really saved? Am I farther along tin free from skepticism and cynicism. Our religion way than the day / was saved? should stand the test of reason. To put a premium (2) Am / reading my Bible sincerely, or am . on ignorance is a reflection upon our God, the like D. L. Moody when he hoed corn, who said hi Supreme Intelligence, and upon man, the object did such a poor job sometimes that the next da; of His creation. he couldn’t tell w'here he had stopped the day be Man is an emotional being, and this essential fore? element in man should not be excluded from his (3) Do I pray every day? religious life. Souls have been born into the king­ (4) Am I a living witness, sowing seed? dom of God in times of religious enthusiasm such as (5) Am I holding a grudge . . . am I at “outs’ revivals, camp meetings, and regular church ser­ with anyone? vices: (<}) Am I willing to put Christ before everythin} And heav’n conies down our souls to greet, —school studies, club meetings, sports activities, fa While glory crowns the mercy scat. vorite radio and TV programs, loved ones, friend: In fact, if there is reality in your religion, if the —even life itself? Lord has truly forgiven you of past sins and cleansed (7) Am / sanctified wholly, and am I living ; your heart of sin, filling you with divine love, then holy life? you have your own “glory” as the Holy Spirit wit­ For a fruitful revival, we must be fruitful Chris nesses to your heart that you are a redeemed child tians providing edible fruit for a hungry world. Dc of God. Led “in a plain path,” and kept in the I love my enemies and neighbors? Have I joy ir center of the way of holiness, the joy of the Lord singing the songs of Zion, in revival, in seeing soul; shall be yours. won to Christ, in praying, and in everyday Christiar living? Have I “peace” in my heart and soul; have I en tered the second rest? Am I “longsuffering” wher / am sick and someone makes demands of me Have You Left that are hard? Have I “gentleness” of heart in the most trying circumstances? Have I “goodness’ to give unto others and not expect reward? Havt I “faith” to take my burdens to the Lord and leave The T Out of them there? Can I ask Him in faith, nothing waver ing (James 1:6) ? Have I “temperance” in all phases of living? After hearing the Word on salvation and holi­ S t h S ^ % 'y M $ ness am I walking behind light and thus hindering revival? To have revival we must be right in our own hearts first. It is not REVIVAL without the “I."

The Cover . . . Missionary Nurse Margaret Bromley attends a patient in the emergency room of the dispen­ sary in New Guinea. The N.F.M.S. Golden An­ niversary Project is to raise $150,000 for a By THOMAS P. PAINE complete hospital for the new Nazarene field Pastor, Woodland, Washington in New Guinea. God has mai'kedly blessed the mission of the Church of the Nazarene in New Guinea since Rev. and Mrs. Sidney Knox first HOW ABOUT you and revival? We say, Brother began work there in October, 1955. The re­ Jones does not come to the services. Sister Smith sponse of the people has been eager, and many have professed faith in Christ. The Golden An­ is not living as good a life as she should. Brother niversary Offering on May 3 will give all a Wilson is not praying enough. Maybe the other chance to share in this important project. fellow isn’t what lie should be, but how about me, myself, and I? Volume 53, Number 8 APRIL 15, 1964 Whole Number 271 Can I pass the spiritual lie-detector test? Am I HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knigtr Office Editor; Dave Lawlor, Art Director. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Power right? Am I doing my part? Am I inviting others? G. B. W illiamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Vanderpool, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewi; I I General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts wi Am praying for revival? Do go to the altar not be returned unless postage accompanies the material. Published every Wedne and pray with seekers? Or is it hard to pray for day, by ths NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Manager, 292 Troost Avs., Kansas City, Missouri. Subscription price, $2.50 per year, i others because I have to pray secretly for myself? advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Address all corn spondence concerning subscriptions to: Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box 521 To find if we have left the “I” out of revival, Kansas City, Mo. 64141. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send us your new address including "ZIP" code, as well as the old address, and enclose a label from let us question ourselves: recent copy. Printed in U.S./

4 (144) • HERALD OF HOLINESS B y WILBUR W. BRANNON, Pastor, First Church, Hot Springs, Arkansas

EFFORTS TO REMOVE EVIL from the earth Have we become so lenient with hale that we have characterized the human struggle for centuries. have 110 initiative to begin cutting away this cancer We must accept our part in this struggle. We can­ of society? To paraphrase Matthew 17:19, “Why not go on talking about the sinfulness of the world could we not have cast out the evil that produced and do nothing about eliminating it. There is a the wicked impulse of assassination?" The answer pressing urgency about our task. We must become seems to be implied in the question. An unconscious involved in it notwithstanding the encompassing and infectious unbelief has cultured our alibis and dangers and difficulties. explanations for the embarrassing eruption of Perhaps our greatest obstacle as holiness people moral putrefaction. Therefore our compromises is assuming our part in the guilt of accommodating with existing evil conditions have broken down, if ourselves to the existence of the social evils in our not destroyed, our moral distinctions and vigilance. time. Isn’t it true that our common concept of true We have viewed 011 television frontier lawless­ Christian living has become all too fuzzy? T he idea ness glamorized as a part of our glorious heritage. of what a Christian is has been so drained of its The stream of scandalous releases of hate, violence, content that it is hard to tell much difference and immorality is forcing its venomous tributaries between a Christian and a non-Christian. into supposedly Christian homes. These corrosive Oh, we do notice that as a rule the Christian is influences are received with such moral passiveness usually more frequent in his church attendance! and intellectual nonchalance that the Church is left And the non-Christian may get by doing some in awesome jeopardy. Is this the preclusion to dis­ things a little more often than the Christian can do order from which will emerge an ecumenical order without his conscience cringing. that would be divinely out of order? It is so easy for some of the very basic Christian Apparently it lakes a national tragedy, lhat leaves ideas to become twisted completely out of propor­ the whole world reeling, to shake an inarticulate tion in our thinking. For example, has our concepi Church from its slumbering silence. Does a sick­ of tempcmncc become so diluted that we can do ening atrocity have to be committed before the almost anything so long as we don’t do it too much Church begins speaking on matters that pertain not or too long or too manv limes? How many of us are doing almost anything we desire just as long as it oidy to personal but universal redemption? isn’t quite to the same degree as the world does it? It is long overdue that we as holiness people quit The Bible message of holiness speaks with tones allowing those with lower standards of personal of such moral certainty that there can be no doubt conduct to out-voice us in religious pronounce­ as to the lines that must be drawn. But where is ments and actions on the moral issues in our com­ our interest in this message and its relaledness to a munities. It may cost 11s a few votes of popularity context of social responsibility? and the much coveted sense of personal security; We have stretched tolerance so far that it is diffi­ but since when has the cross of Calvary been con­ cult to distinguish our difference from others. What ceived to be cushioned with comfort! Compelled by reason do we give that men should believe as we do? divine love to uphold an ethic of holincs, we not Have we conclusive evidence to show our offering is only have something to say: we have a strong superior to anything else on religions display? reason for saying it. Of course we have something very distinctive to The Church must seek to transform individual offer. But won’t we admit that in our desire to be lives; also the social situation that would destroy conciliatory and inoffensive to the universalist, the them. The Church can begin by acknowledging her predestinarian, or the papist, we have suffered a apathy to the frequent expressions of bitterness weakening of our own holiness position? We have a and hate which weaken the power of love and unique contribution to make. Our contribution justice. Let us practice being peacemakers as those must be both to the individual and to the sociotv who have been sanctified by the God of peace. To that breeds him. a world that is ignorant of spiritual values we must

APRIL 15, 1364 • (115) 5 reveal that love can and must overcome hatred and church was being planned. evil. An attractive, well-kept lawn and shrubbery sur­ Dr. J. Paul Taylor quotes a “brilliant newspaper rounded the church, and a wide sidewalk led to columnist, who would hardly be classified as a the beautifully sculptured doors. A small parking devout Christian,”—“Were Christian concepts lot was situated to the side and back of the church, ablaze in society, as its central creative force, there and was nearly full of cars. I parked my car across would, in my belief, be no Communism. They are the street and took a picture of this excellent struc­ not ablaze. They hardly smolder. But,” Dr. Taylor ture for my collection of slides. adds, “Christian concepts are set ablaze by a flaming Suddenly I realized that something must be heart, a heart that feels deeply because it knows.” wrong. I liacl not seen a single bit of activity. The If we know that the love of God is shed abroad windows were closed; the front doors were closed, in our hearts, is there anything to keep us from and all but the parking lot looked deserted. I hasti­ demonstrating what we have been recommending? ly glanced at my watch. Had these time zones fouled me up again? No, I should be on time. While I was putting the camera away, a car drove into the parking lot and a young couple and their little girl disappeared into a small side door. I reasoned that they must start services here earlier than in other places, and the services must be half over. The growing heat reminded me that I should The Church do something besides sit there, so I walked up the sidewalk and tested the front doors. No, they were not locked. There were people inside. of the The service had not started. The church was cool; the air conditioning apparently was working fine. An usher, alerted no doubt by my having entered by the front door, immediately recognized CLOSED me as a visitor, welcomed me, and asked me to sign the register. The stained-glass windows, the graceful arches, and the modern pews were equally DOORS in harmony with the outside of the building. The pastor preached a rousing sermon, admonishing the parishioners to renew their efforts to reach the community. The sermon over, the people quietly filed out the small side door, and the pastor walked slowly down the center aisle shaking hands with numer­ ous people. I walked to the front doors, opened one, and tried in vain to find a method of propping it open. When I was finally forced to release it, the closing mechanism quickly returned it to its normal position. What was wrong? Had the pilot of my great airliner gotten mixed up in his navigation and IT WAS a beautiful Sunday morning in this set us down in another country, where disciples bustling little western city. As I looked out of worship behind closed doors like that very Early my motel window, I wondered, Where am I going Church? No, this was America. But why the closed to church this morning? A fast survey of the yellow doors? pages showed this town to have several Nazarene I suppose there are many good reasons for not churches. Since my home church is the First Church opening the front doors. Open doors would impair in the city in which I live, I said, “Maybe it will the air conditioning in summer. Open doors would give me the illusion that I am at home, and not waste heat in winter. When the weatherman could­ two thousand miles away, if I attend First Church.” n’t make up his mind whether it was going to The sun shone brightly, and was a little un­ be summer or winter, why take a chance? Again, comfortably hot, as I headed my rental car down dust blowing in the door would make cleaning the wide boulevard on which First Church was harder. It might even affect the pipe organ. But supposed to be located. Then I saw it, on the top this is not right! Churches are made for peoplel of the next hill. The beautiful white spire rose It they look deserted, the people won’t come. majestically above the surrounding residences. On another trip to this city, several months Someone surely had vision, I thought, when this later, I returned to this beautiful church. Some­

6 (146) • HERALD OF HOLINESS thing had happened. The front doors were open. standing by the doors to welcome people. On one The side door was locked. Two friendly ladies Sunday evening, I even found the front doors greeted everyone who came in. The church was locked. Won’t someone please prop those doors full of rather noisy neighborhood children. After open for me? the service the pastor stood by the doors and shook I am a real person, you know, and this is a hands with everyone who went out. real church filled with wonderful people. At some No, I am sorry to say, this last paragraph is not future date, the Lord willing, I shall again visit true. I have returned to this church on several oc­ this same church. I may even visit your church. casions on different trips. The front doors have Won’t you have the doors open for me? never been open; there have never been greeters The Church Visitor

Anxiety...... Sin!

ANXIETY is a condition that precedes sin, wrote failing—failing to impress. The capacity to love Soren Kierkegaard. and bind up the brokenhearted is dammed up by Anxiety is listed as a m ajor cause of emotional the flood of anxious emotion. problems today. This is true, even for professing Prayer is thwarted because of “distracting anx­ Christians. iety.” A contemporary difficulty in prayer life is “Take no thought . . . (Matthew 6:25) is a getting things in proper focus. We are preoccupied carefully prepared statement by our Lord; pre­ with what might happen. God’s will becomes ob­ pared with a concern to redeem men and the world. scured in our “What will happen?” “Lord . . . Yet our cares seem to increase and multiply. wait until I see how it works out, and then I will We anxious people encounter frustration because have faith,” flounders the anxious Christian. of unfounded and nebulous fears. Most of our Lack of faith haunts the anxious. It haunts the fears are based on material considerations. Yet anxious since he inwardly fears that the Lord will Christ said, “And fear not them which kill the not hear. He inwardly fears that the Lord’s will body, . . (Matthew 10:28). But our paralyzing is not best. The guilt of the past is not forgiven fear of material failure prevents us from grasping since the anxious hold on to it. The flow of redeem­ God’s promise. ing grace is blocked. W. Curry Mavis echoes : “Anxiety is a psycho­ Anxiety is excused by the complex age we live logical infirmity that hinders spiritual progress in in. It is excused by the pressures—ever increasing. much the same manner illness hinders physical Anxiety is excused in good causes. I well remember growth.” the days when by sheer dint of will I expected to There is no time to battle social injustice, im­ fill the church, save the souls, rescue my com­ morality, and no time for constructive grace. No! munity from calamity, and somehow call the world Our energy is lavishly wasted on the phantom of to repentance. For it all, I gained anxiety. tomorrow which leave as the sun burns the m orn­ Let us lay aside the anxiety that doth so easily ing haze. We may not be aware of this happening! beset us and listen to the Christ: “But seek ye first Christian service is for the anxious a constant the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and quixotic struggle, chasing the windmills of personal all these things [necessities of life] shall be added guilt, supposed family and financial ruin, supposed unto you. Take therefore no thought for the mor­ lack of love by others—all our pagan crosses. In row: for the morrow shall take thought for the fact, Christian service is often nil—due to fear of things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” (Matthew 6:33-34). Let us remember with Paul, “Likewise the Spirit Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust also helpeth our infirmities” (Romans 8:26). Paul doth corrupt, and where thieves break is reminded that the Holy Spirit employs a divine through and steal: but lay up for your­ therapy. But this therapy requires faith and a selves treasures in heaven.—Matthew rugged personal honesty. 6:19-20. “Take no thought . . but give today in the work of the Kingdom.

APRIL 15, 1964 • (147) 7 the experience of speaking in longues olien witness lo “added dimensions of praise,” new joy in read­ ing the Bible, great satisfaction in Christ, and other effects. But the holiness people have always testified to PRACTICAL such qualities—and to more, but without the tongues emphasis. For the emphasis of the holiness movement has always been upon the infilling ol PROBLEMS (lie Holy Spirit which results in purity and divine love and a life of dedicated servic e. •1. Biblical and Christian biography fails to sup­ port the doctrine of speaking in longues. The parade of Old Testament leaders such as Moses, Joshua, Eli, Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Job, and Davie! reveal no instances of glossolalia. The inarch of the prophets from Amos to Isaiah to Micah proceeds in Unknown Tongues at the beat of a heavenly drummer, yet there is no evidence of speaking in tongues. Jesus spoke of many things, but there is no record III of His speaking in tongues. With the exception ol B y DONALD S. METZ Pentecost, where the gift of languages was tempo­ Professor of Religion, Bethany Nazarene College, Bethany, Oklahoma rarily bestowed, none of the apostles gave any hint FROM THE STANDPOINT of logical analysis, of speaking in tongues. There is no recorded inci­ several weaknesses are apparent in the contempo­ dent of Paul actually speaking in unknown tongues. rary doctrine associating unknown tongues wilh None of the apostolic fathers from Clement ol the baptism with the Holy Spirit. Rome to Polycarp witnessed to such a personal ex­ perience. 1. The doctrine of unknown tongues is basical­ The great reformers such as Martin Luther and ly experience-centered rather than primarily Bible- John Calvin did not speak in longues. John Wesley centered. As such it tends to emphasize experience preached the witness of the Spirit for almost fifty at the expense of biblical teaching. Instead of using years and never spoke in tongues. Speaking in Scripture to test experience, individual experience tongues was never accepted by the Methodist is used to force the interpretation of Bible truth. church of the eighteenth century nor by the holi­ 2. The doctrine of unknown tongues improper­ ness movement of the nineteenth century. ly elevates a physical manifestation as the supreme The record of biblical and Christian saints who evidence of a spiritual reality. The idea of a physi­ have lived lives of holiness and of purity would of cal evidence for a spiritual experience is contrary to itself refute the idea that speaking in tongues is the whole tenor of the Bible and of church history. the evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit, When the Old Testament priests made the sacri­ or that it is a permanent gift of the Spirit. ficial ritual an external substitute for an internal 5. Speaking in unknown tongues fails to pro­ state of grace, they led Israel into idolatry. When duce a strong conviction of sin. One of the marks the New Testament Pharisees sought to judge spirit­ of a revival of religion is a deepening sense of con­ uality on the basis of external forms, they became viction regarding sin, both in the church and upon the deadly enemies of Christ. When the Roman sinners outside the church. Historically, the coming Catholic church made external sacrament the ex­ of the Holy Spirit has produced a noticeable clusive method of achieving internal grace, the sensitivity to sin. Protestant Reformation became inevitable. The current revival of the emphasis on the Holy Any group, Catholic or Protestant, which at­ Spirit seems too frequently to place a premium on tempts to produce or to prove an internal spiritual joy, happiness, and the “good life.” Little is said of state by an external act or evidence is missing the repentance and restitution, and not a great deal is heart of New Testament teaching. For New Testa­ said about worldliness and secularism. The present ment experience always requires spiritual evidence emphasis almost makes the Holy Spirit the sponsor for a spiritual state. of a “happiness cult” or the promoter of uninhib­ 3. Speaking in unknown tongues makes no dis­ ited ecstasy of spirit. But it must not be forgotten tinct contribution to Christian character. From that one task of the Holy Spirit is “to reprove the both past history and current observation, it may world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment" be stated that speaking in tongues, as a sign or as a (John 16:8). gift, fails to provide any significant depth to Chris­ f>. Christ is not glorified by speaking in tongues. tian character that cannot be experienced without The task of the Son is to honor the Father, and the the gift of tongues. Those who profess to have had task of the Holy Spirit is to honor the Son (John

8 (148) • HERALD OF HOLINESS “ ‘Sure,’ he said, ‘I always drop them Concerning Eternal Revenue: in the drawer where I keep my enve­ “I WORK for the Department of Internal lopes.’ And off he went to fetch his re­ Revenue. Yes, I am the chap that every­ ceipts. body loathes. I go over your income tax “Well, he had me! One look at the return. receipts and I knew he was on the level. “The other day, I checked a queer re­ So I apologized for bothering him, ex­ turn. Some fellow with an income of plaining that I have to check up on $5,000 claimed he gave $624 to some deductions that seem unusually high. church. Sure, it was well within the And as we shook hands at the door, he 30 percent limit. But it looked mighty said, ‘I’d like to invite you to attend our suspicious to me. So I hopped a trolley church sometime.’ and dropped in on the guy. I asked him “ ‘Thanks,’ I replied, ‘but I belong to a about his ‘contributions.’ church myself.’ “I thought he’d get nervous like most “ ‘Excuse me,’ he said. ‘That possibility of them do, and say that he ‘might have hadn’t occurred to me!’ made a mistake.’ But not this guy! He “As I rode the trolley home, I kept came back at me with that figure of $624 wondering what he meant by that last without batting an eyelash. remark. It wasn’t until Sunday morning “ ‘Do you have a receipt from the when I dropped my usual quarter into church?’ I asked, figuring that would the collection plate that it came to me.” make him squirm. —via Mayfair Messenger

15:26). Any excessive stress on the Holy Spirit While we may learn much from the enthusiasm of which ignores or is silent about Jesus Christ may its followers, the movement is neither biblically nor tend toward a kind of reverse unitarianism. Also, logically sound. speaking in longues tends to magnify the individual From the point of view of the author, speaking in rather than God. tongues, as currently emphasized, is a human re­ It appears impossible to find biblical or logical action to spiritual need. It does not show either support for the contemporary tongues movement. spiritual maturity or scriptural authority.

SOMETHING HAPPENS: Every Christian Has Power

Hi) Evangelist C. !!. McCAULL

THERE IS NO SUCH thing as a powerless Chris­ cept by precept. It might be only a tender smile tian. “But ye shall receive power, alter that the under persecution, or a kind word, or patient si­ Holy Ghost is come upon you” (Acts 1:8). lence, or a motto on the wall of your home, yet the You may not be aware of this power (which may work of God is advanced. It is a trick of the devil be one reason you have it). You may think you to make you believe you are powerless. are weak. But if you have the witness of the Spirit Something happens! Every time you get on your and live the normal Christian life, there is a po­ knees and pray in Jesus’ name, the forces of hell tential within that salts the earth around you and are weakened. A wicked queen said of the pray­ causes the Felixes to tremble. ing of John Knox, “I fear his prayers more than Paul said, “For when I am weak, then am I armies.” The poet Cowper penned— strong.” God often uses our weaknesses, our fail­ God moves in a mysterious way ures, our discouragement. For “God hath chosen His wonders to perform; the weak things of the world to confound the things H e plants his footsteps in the sea which are mighty” (I Corinthians 1:27). And rides upon the storm. The kingdom of God is built stone by stone, pre­ Something happens! Every time you quote a

APRIL 15, 1964 • (149) 9 verse of scripture, a bomb is released against the wicked one. Jesus, in His temptation, said, “It is I say unto you, That if tivo of you shall written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by agree on earth as touching any thing every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of that they shall ask, it shall be done for God” (Matthew 4 :4 ) . them of my Father which is in heaven. God’s Word is as seed. A seed sown in the crevice M atthew 18:19. of a rock has been known to burst the stone asunder. Your listeners might try to act as if they haven’t their children to repentance. heard, but “the word of God is quick, and power­ Once when a noted physician was converted the ful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, pierc­ preacher asked him what point in the sermon had ing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, been (he deciding factor. The new convert replied, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of “It was not anything you said that caused me to the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews turn. It was the look on the face of that old rail­ 4:12). Even a man preaching on the street cannot road man who testified before you preached.” be ignored if he quotes the Bible. Years ago an old farmer faithfully drove his horse Something happens! Don’t let Satan discourage and wagon to church. He was there for every ser­ you. Every time you witness, by word or deed, to vice, rain or shine. T he years rolled by, and he be­ the saving, sanctifying grace of God, the enemy is came discouraged. He didn’t think he was doing driven back. Your testimony, your influence, your anything. Then one Sunday a neighbor came for­ light are constantly shining forth, penetrating spir­ ward and knelt at the altar. And later, when the itual darkness and uncovering sin. Many a Chris­ neighbor stood up and testified, he said it was the tian couple have underestimated their power and old farmer’s faithfulness that had softened his heart. have died brokenhearted over the waywardness of Beloved, press on. Keep on praying, living, quot­ their children, failing to realize that their godliness ing the Bible, and testifying. You have power! would live on and would help eventually to bring Something happens!

By W. T. PURKiSER

clearly seen in the great prayer meetings recorded in the Book of Acts. But the foundation for effec­ " Teach Us to Pray" tive public and group prayer is laid in the secret As far as the record shows, the only request for place. instruction the disciples ever brought to Jesus was, Someone defined religion as “what a person does “Lord, teach us to pray.” It is a request every dis­ with his solitariness.” We are so constructed that ciple may well make in every age. we can never be what we really are except in those One of the interesting facts about this desire is moments when alone with God we open ourselves that it was inspired by example. It was as the Lord without reserve to Him from whom there is no had finished praying that His disciples came to hiding. Him with their own petition. Nothing can create Secret prayer, particularly for others, is the acid interest in prayer quite so effectively as the radiance test of unselfishness. The concerns of self must in the life of one who has learned to pray. fade away, leaving a clear channel through which It has often been pointed out that the wording God’s grace and power may flow out into the lives of the request was not, “Teach us how to pray,” of those about. The truest expression of prayer is but, “Teach us to pray.” This may suggest that not asking the Lord for what we want for ourselves, the burning sense of the importance of prayer is but in letting Him pour through us blessings for more necessary than knowledge of techniques and those for whom wrc pray. methods. It is one thing to go through the forms. It is quite another matter to pray “in the Spirit.” THEN WE MUST LEARN the need for per­ Of tivo things you must beware; sistence in prayer. In the unfolding of the lesson A prnyerless life and a lifeless prayer. with which Jesus answered His disciples’ request What are the lessons in prayer we need to learn? to be taught to pray, He told of the man who came to a friend at night seeking loaves of bread to feed a ONE IS THE VALUE of secret prayer. Public and hungry guest. The seeker received what he asked, group prayer has tremendous power with God, as is not because of mutual friendship, nor because of

10 (150) • HERALD OF HOLINESS the urgency of his request, but because he would Where, though my feet may join the throng, not quit knocking until the man inside rose and My soul can enter in, and pray. gave him as many as he needed (Luke 11:5-8). One of the greatest enemies of the prayer life is One hearkening, even, cannot know easy discouragement. Expecting an easy victory, When I have crossed the threshold o’er; we give up when the response does not come im­ But H e alone, who hears my prayer, mediately. But as Frank Laubach put it, “Prayer Hath heard the shutting of the door. is powerful, but it is not the pow'er of a sledge May we, as disciples of old, come to our Lord hammer that crushes with one blow. It is the power with the sincere request, “Teach us to pray.” And of sun rays and rain drops which bless, because to learn this lesson above all other lessons let us there are so many of them.’' determine by His grace to be apt students in the Many times lightning prayers receive lightning school of prayer. answers. The quick “SOS” sent up in a time of crisis may have a quick answer. But generally Formalism and Fanaticism prayer is the drop-by-drop that causes the glass to Bishop J. Paul Taylor has strikingly said, “Form­ overflow. There is one final drop which runs over alism and fanaticism have the same mother, Pride, the rim; but each one that has gone before is just as and the same father, Self-righteousness.” Apparent­ important as the last. In building a road across a ly poles apart, these two opposites are members of swamp, hundreds of loads of stones may go into the same family and spring from the same source. the roadbed before one appears above the surface. Herein lies one of the wonders of all things hu­ But each one of the loads which has gone before is man. Extremes may be entirely different, yet as necessary as the one which finally shows. equally disastrous. The ship may be lost in the whirlpool as completely as it may be wrecked on the OR AGAIN, WE NEED TO SEE that a successful rock. There are ditches on both sides of the road, prayer life depends on a consistent walk with God. and to fall into the ditch on the right is not espe­ The way we talk to God depends on the way we cially more desirable than to fall into the ditch on walk with God when we are not talking. the left. In stressing the need for secret prayer, Jesus said Formalism in religion is the fate of those who a really amazing thing as recorded in Matthew 6:6: substitute appearance for reality, who are content “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and with a form of godliness without the power thereof. when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father It is the offspring of smugness and complacent self- which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in righteousness and is born of the pride of human secret shall reward thee openly.” self-sufficiency. At first glance, it might seem that the Master Fanaticism in religion is the end of those who made a mistake in using the term “seeth” in rela­ confuse human enthusiasm with divine reality, who tion to God's response. Should He not have said, grasp for the power but forget its Source. It is the "Thy Father which henrcth in secret”? When we child of self-righteous superiority and condescension pray, doesn’t God listen? and the foolish daughter of the pride of personal But a second look shows us something very im­ opinion. portant. To be sure, God listens as we pray. But There is one, and only one, safeguard against He also looks. He looks at the motive behind the these extremes. That is to avoid the pride and self- prayer. He looks at the spirit from which it springs. righteousness which gave birth to them. When we And He looks at the life that goes along with the recognize our dependence on God and His moment- prayer. There is much to being on "praying by-moment supply of sufficient grace, and when we ground.” learn to cultivate the sources of spiritual life and Lest we should think the closet or “inner room” power, we can have reasonable hope of finding a into which we go for the prayer tryst is necessarily solid center between formalism on the one hand a place apart, it would be well to remember that and fanaticism on the other. the majority of the houses in which Christ’s hearers dwelt were one-room houses. For He had earlier A Salute to the N.F.M.S. said that the light on the candlestick would give This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of what is light unto “all that are in the house” (Matthew now known as the Nazarene Foreign Missionary 5:15), a thing impossible if there were other rooms. Society. The Herald of Holiness extends congratu­ lations and best wishes for the golden year, and That a place alone is helpful is indeed true. But many more to come. there is an inner soul door which wTe must shut On the pages immediately following will be whatever be our surroundings. Of it an unnamed poet wrote: found an announcement of the Golden Anniversary Project and some highlights of the fifty-year history, There is a viewless, cloistered room prepared by Miss Mary L. Scott, general secretary As high as heaven, as fair as day, of the cliurch-wide organization.

APRIL 15, 1964 • (151) 11 N.F.M.S. GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY PROJECT

$150,000 for a HOSPITAL in HEW GUINEA

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Gilt-edged Investments tile hospital will be used to open new The work. This is an added incentive to go Are YOU interested in building a hos­ over the top. pital in the highlands of New Guinea? NEW GUINEA HOSPITAL “Everyone Give 50” in the New One must invest some capital before Offering Guinea Hospital Offering, May 3. he can expect interest. The amount May 3 Help Your District of interest obtained is determined by MAY 3 is a big day in N.F.M.S. history, the amount of investment personally for we have chosen this day to celebrate Build the made. our fiftieth anniversary by bringing in New Guinea Hospital INTEREST is stimulated by prayer, a ‘ birthday” offering of at least $150,000 One of the special features of the "making mention, without ceasing of for a Nazarene hospital in the highlands General Convention will be the "build­ . . . [them| in prayer.” of New Guinea. O ur slogan is “Every­ ing of the New Guinea Hospital.” Each one Give 50.” Children will bring 50 INTEREST is heightened by knowledge, district will help and be recognized in pennies or 2 x 50 pennies or their "I would not have you ignorant, a unique way. To be included in this equivalent; teen-agers can bring 50 brethren.” recognition your New Guinea Hospital nickels or 50 dimes; adults should bring INTEREST is intensified by a sense of offering should be in Kansas City by in 50 larger amounts—halves, dollars, indebtedness, “I am debtor.” June 5. Money received after June 5 tens; some could bring even larger gifts will of course count on the project, but INTEREST is compounded by pre­ of $1,000, $5,000. Everyone bring 50 for paredness, ‘ I am ready.” “I delight recognition at the General Convention a great hallelujah inarch offering on could not be given. to do thy will.” May 3. May 3 is the day! The New Guinea Hospital offering Diamonds in Our Hands God is standing ready to distribute rich should be sent to l)r. John Stockton, New Guinea’s black diamonds can lie dividends to every investor in this general treasurer, immediately, clearly in safety in our hands. Her dreadful hospital in New Guinea. Invest NOW! marked, ‘New Guinea Hospital." As infant mortality can be drastically low­ Your tim e—TODAY! This oppor­ an approved Foreign Missions special ered. Her suffering humanity can be tunity will be yours for the next few your offering will count on 10 percent lifted and healed. Cleanliness, new life, weeks only. giving for your local church. health, with control of disease, physical A Any balance (and we are hoping and and spiritual, can spring forth on the ONCE IN A LIFETIME praying that we will go over the $150,000 right hand and on the left when New gilt-edged investment! mark) not needed to build and equip Guinea has a Nazarene hospital with 12 (152) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Christian nurses and doctor. You and Flu- responsibility of working out the ported that Chicago Central was about I can work as missionaries there, too, details for getting this new organiza­ ready to organize and that “Michigan through our love, our prayers, our par­ tion off the ground was left to the is in a peculiar condition—organized cels, and our support. General Board of Foreign Missions. but not under our constitution . . . Be­ Give generously on May 3. A committee of three was appointed lieve that they will swing in line later.” and authorized to prepare a constitution By the next year (1921) fourteen 50 YEARS OF and bylaws for the organization. The organized districts were reported, in­ PROGRESS committee was made up of representa­ cluding Michigan! tives from the three major sections of The year 1923 marks an important the Church—the East represented by development in the organizational pat­ Rev. Susan X. Fitkin, of New Yoik, tern of the missionary organization due chairman; the West, by Mrs. Paid F. to the merging of the General Board Bresee, of l.os Angeles, California: and of Foreign Missions with the General the South by Mrs. John T. Benson, of Board of the Church of the Nazarene. Nashville, Tennessee. Members of the Woman's General Mis­ After much time spent in praxer, sionary Committee were elected by the study, and planning, an original draft General Assembly from nominees sub­ of the new7 local constitution was ready. mitted by a nominating committee of In the course of the quadrennium the five women appointed by the chairman committee also initiated plans for the of the General Assembly. There were district and general organization. no geographical stipulations except that Wlrs. Susan N. The General Board of Foreign Mis­ of the sixteen elected there must be FITKIN sions was well pleased with the work one representative from Canada and one B y MARY L. SCOTT already done, and at its meeting at the from the British Isles. General Secretary of the N.F.M.S. close of the General Assembly of 1919 At this same General Assembly the How interesting to delve into the complied with the request of the com­ first constitution was officially adopted records of the past and find there the mittee for the appointment of fourteen and placed in the M anual, the name of hand of God and man! Tucked away women to make up the Woman’s Gen­ the Woman's General Missionary Com­ in the hook containing the first minutes eral Missionary Committee. The ap­ mittee was changed to Woman’s General of what we now know as the General pointments were as follows: Missionary Council, and an annual N.F.M.S. Council was this interesting Div. Representative Districts Included meeting of the entire Council was au­ 1 Rev. Susan N. Fitkin Mew England, New York, note: New York Washington-Philadelphb, thorized. Origin of the WFMS [N.F.M.S.] Dr. Julia R. Gibson Pittsburgh Fhe new organization was off the New York ground and on its way to greater ac­ On April 16, 1S99, w hile the an­ 2 Mrs. E. G. Roberts Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, nual meeting zeas iti session at Columbus, Ohio Kentucky, Chicago complishments. Mrs. R. G. Codding Central Iowa, Missouri The first General Convention wras Providence, Rhode Island, a feu' Kansas City, Mo. sisters met and organized a society Mrs. D. W. Thorne held in Columbus, Ohio, in June, 1928. Grand Rapids, Mich. to be known «5 the. W om an's For­ With that event the main lines of the 3 Mrs. John T. Benson Florida, Georgia, eign Missionary Society of the Pen- Nashville, Term. Tennessee, Mississippi, organization had been established. tecostal Churches o f America with Miss Fannie Claypool Alabama Nashville, Term. Growth in Numbers S charter members. They were ac­ <1 Mrs. E. J. Harrell Louisiana, Dallas, Growth is indicative of life. The cepted by the missionary com m ittee. La Lande, N.M. Hamlin, San Antonio, ' W.M.S.” has grown steadily. Let these The first year there were 2 auxili­ New Mexico 5 No representative Eastern Oklahoma, few brief figures given at approximately aries organized and $6.05 raised. Western Oklahoma, sixteen-year intervals speak for them­ The second year 3 more auxili­ Arkansas, L ittle Rock selves. aries were organized and $133.75 6 Mrs. H. T. Wilson Eastern Colorado- Lincoln, Nebr. Wyoming, Western 1915 1932 1948 1964 raised. Since that time we have Mrs. F. Toppin Colorado-Utah, Kansas, No. of Soc. A few 1,236 2,742 4,456 been steadily growing until non1 Cannda Alberta-Manitoba- A Saskatchewan, Nebraska, Tot. Mem. few 33,388 72,657 227,532 we number IS auxiliaries and a South Dakota, North hundred membership of about WO. Dakota-Minnesota P. & F. Mem. 8,118 58,099 169,068 7 Mrs. Edith Whitesides Idaho-Oregon, Northwest, Soc. Comp. 896 2,720 4,299 The “now” referred to was the year Portland, Ore. North Pacific, San Study 1907, when these 18 auxiliaries with 400 Mrs. Paul Bresee Francisco, Southern Star (or Stand. 227 979 3,262 Los Angeles, Calif. California 7-Pt. Soc.) members were operating mostly on the Mrs. S. P. Richards Mem. Roll 58 353 1,772 local level, though recognized national­ Los Angeles, Calif. Readers 16,515 145,499 ly by their church body. At the Chica­ British Isles Mrs. James Androssan Growth in Giving go union of the Pentecostal Churches Scotland 1915-19 ...... $ 5,724.00 of America and the Church of the Naz- At the first meeting of this commit­ 1919-23 ...... 60,602.00 1923-28 ...... 237,896.00 arene, the W.F.M.S. was discontinued tee, held October 7, 1919, in Kansas 1928-32 ...... 466,245.93 as a national movement. Under “local City First Church, Mrs. Susan Fitkin 1932-36 ...... 452,216.31 1936-40 ...... 758,065.24 option” local groups continued to func­ (New York) was elected general presi­ 1940-44 ...... 1,366,206.73 tion, particularly in the East. dent; Mrs. Paul F. Bresee (Southern 1944-48 ...... 2.856,343.86 1948-52 ...... 3,992,901.45 In 1915, at the Fourth General As­ California) , vice-president; Mrs. J. T. 1952-56 ...... 5 ,5 1 9 ,261.06 sembly held in Kansas City, Missouri, Benson (Tennessee) , treasurer; and Dr. 1956-60 ...... 8,242,416.10 the W.F.M.S. was officially recognized Julia R. Gibson (New York) , secretary. 1960-63 (December 31, 1963)* . . . 9,353,662.44 as an organization of tlie Church of The first meeting of the Executive Total ...... $ 33,311,541.12 the Nazarene by the adoption of the Committee (the entire committee was >;‘ThIs quadrennium Is four months shorter due to report of the Committee on Foreign to meet only every four years) was the change of the fiscal year to the calendar year. Missions, which recommended “that held February 20, 1920. At this meeting The Next 50 Woman's Missionary Auxiliaries be or­ it was reported that the W.F.M.S. was What shall we say more? Time and ganized in all our churches, where prac­ already organized in six districts—New space do not permit recounting other tical, to increase missionary intelligence England, New York, Washington-Phila- great achievements in our fifty years of and assist in raising funds to carry on delphia, Pittsburgh-Ohio, Indiana, and progress. The future lies ahead. We the missionary work of the Church.” Southern California. The secretary re­ look at the past only to see what God

APRIL 15, 1964 • (153) 13 hath wrought. As Mrs. Chapman, gen­ Other Interesting Facts last.” eral president, once quoted: "Hats off to • In 1927 small envelopes for Prayer • The first issue of the Other Sheep the pastl Sleeves up to the future.” We and Fasting were authorized to re­ was July, 1913. face the future with confidence that the place mite boxes. God who has given victory in the past • Treasurer’s Report, February 20, 1920: “The Constitutions have been • The first TV.F.Af.S. H andbook was leads on to a victorious future. published in 1940. Forward, forward, never to settle printed as revised, also blanks and • Upon the retirement of Mrs. Susan down, stationery. No monies received as N. Fitkin in 1948, Mrs. Louise R. Forward, forward, ever to win the yet . . . Mrs. Benson.” Chapman was elected general presi­ crown; • October, 1920, marks the date of dent of the W.F.M.S. The world lies out before us, the first W.M.S. page in the Other Jesus will lead victorious, Sheep. It was called “Woman’s Mis­ • In 1952 membership in the W.F.M.S. Forward into battle till U'e win the sionary Society News.” was broadened to include men as crown. • As early as 1921 a wall chart of the active members and the name was —N. B. H frrf.li. pictures of all the missionaries was changed to Nazarene Foreign Mis­ Copyright assigned to Nazarene Publishing House selling for 10c each "as long as they sionary Society.

THE CHURCH AT WORK

turn from our wicked ways. ness of men. Then there is lukewarm­ EVANGELISM W hat are some of the wicked ways ness: neither cold nor hot; rich, EDWARD LAWLOR, Seeretari/ of the so-called Christian in our day? prospering, needing nothing—fat and Leaving the first love! Is Christ really lazy 1 On Evangelism the center of our lives? Do we love Him T he work of evangelism, personal There are at least three conditions “more than these,” or do we spend our evangelism or mass evangelism, becomes for evangelism: first, hum ility; secondly, energies on things? Are we merely busy? nothing to get excited about; it’s sort prayer; thirdly, the seeking of God’s face It would be well for us individually to of a “business as usual,” they say. (II Chronicles 7:14). ask ourselves the question, Is Jesus Someone yawns and says, “Don’t wake But it seems that another central pre­ Christ Lord of all in my life? me up; let me dream on! We do not requisite of revival is contained in the A compromising of the Word of God. care for the pressure of evangelism. Nor words “turn from their wicked ways.” We must always live up to the standard do we want our pastor to become too This is something different from hum­ of the Holy Bible. There can be no evangelistic. We don’t want to be dis­ bling oneself, praying, or seeking. revival where there is a compromising turbed.” Lukewarmness is something we The world sees many Christians who of His Word. can lapse into very easily, almost un­ talk a lot, and pray a lot, but nothing Compromising with the world. T he consciously. happens. We need to remember that danger of trying to make sin respectable The big question when we seek re God is not impressed by pious phrases, is always about us. Billy Sunday once vival is, Are we ready to turn from oui but is interested in activated Christians. said, “The lower the spirituality of the wicked or fleshly ways? Or are we sat The Book of Jonah records some in­ church, the more soup it takes to run isfied to carry on as we always havi teresting experiences. Jonah carried a it, or the more worldly entertainment, with sin at the door and Communisn divine pronouncement of coming doom or the more worldly program.” Some­ ninety miles from our shores? Oui and destruction to the city. Forty days one says, "If I want to keep my young churches are fairly well filled on Sun was the allotted time. The people people I must give them what they day mornings; we build new buildings humbled themselves. The humbling be­ want.” To keep them for what? Let add new members, but do not honestl; gan at the top—with the king and his it be noted that, as worldliness moves cry out, “Revive us again,” for we lad nobles, who covered themselves with into the church, spirituality moves out. the courage to face up to that whid sackcloth. T he common people followed As programming moves in, praying smothers revival in our midst. —they sought the face of God. They moves out. Recently I read the Ten Command even went so far as to believe Him. They Being alive in name, but dead spirit­ ments again. Have you looked at them listened to the message of Jonah and ually. A sleeping church, a failing lately? We think of them as dealing accepted it as “Thus saith the Lord.” church, a church becoming careless with only with the grossest of sins—adultery But if that had been all, Nineveh truth, is slipping into uselessness by its lying, murder, and the like—and glibl] would undoubtedly have gone down in mere complacency. To be asleep at the say we are not guilty of any of these ruins, and would have been overthrown. task is to be unopposed to the wicked- But one of the greatest sins is uncovered The final step was necessary—namely, in the first commandment: “Thou shall turning to God! And I read in the Book, have no other gods before me.” “Let them turn every one from his evil We care so little, we love so little, way, and from the violence that is in "SHOWERS of BLESSING” we serve so little. Here is the tragedy their hands” (Jonah 3:8). of the unsurrendered heart. Paul bring! Here is guidance that shows a turning Program Schedule us, in Ephesians 4 and 5 and Colossian! to God as a prerequisite to revival. It April 19—“The Thirst for God,” by 3, face to face with the sins of the was not when God heard, but when God L. Guy Nees heart: anger, temper, ill will, foul talk, saw what they did, that He acted. This April 26—“The Cry for Freedom,” by bitterness, resentfulness, self-centered­ is an important point for us to remem­ L. Guy Nees ness, nagging spirit, crabbiness, all of ber and underscore in 1964. Let us May 3—“God Can Be Real for You,” the things that make it difficult for us bring into focus the situation of our by L. Guy Nees to get along in the church. time and go back to these words, and God seems to require a lot when H<

14 (154) • HERALD OF HOLINESS asks for a thorough houseclcaning as a prerequisite to evangelism or revival, but look if you please at what He has promised when we meet His conditions: Pastors: . . then will I hear from heaven, Please call your local treas­ and will forgive their sin, and will urer and ask him to send any heal their land” (II Chronicles 7:14). EASTER OFFERING he has on hand to John Stockton, DISTRICT ACTIVITIES General Treasurer, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri Northwest Oklahoma District 64131. Preachers' Convention —General The Northwest Oklahoma District ireachers’ convention was held Febru- Stewardship iry 4 to 6 in the beautiful new Lakc- Committee iew Park Church, Oklahoma City, with lev. Bill Draper as the genial host >astor. Dr. V. H. Lewis, general superintend- nt, was anointed of God as he min- stered to the hearts of all in attendance. The convention was well planned and Rev. Joseph Chastain, pastor.—Melza H. of the meeting there was a healing lirected by Dr. J. T. Gassett, district Brown, district superintendent. service in which God gave definite vic­ luperintendent. All departments shared tory. Older members of the church said n the time allotted to promotion. this was one of the best meetings ever This was a convention long to be in attendance and victories. The teens remembered for its helpful messages and Rev. Don Scarlett writes: "After work­ of the church accepted Christ and are now bringing their school friends to the Christian fellowship.—E . R o y D a r d e n , ing in the field of evangelism for several Reporter. years, recently we accepted the call to services.—R. L. I r e l a n d , Pastor. pastor our church in Ravenna, Ohio. Central California District The people have been most kind, re­ Midyear Convention decorating the parsonage before we THE BIBLE LESSON moved in, and have also given us a Overflow crowds filled the Visalia ten-dollar increase in salary. We ap­ B y NELSON G. MINK (California) church to more than ca­ preciate this fine congregation. If you Topic for April 19: pacity as Central California District have friends in this area, write us and Nazarcnes met February 10 to 12 in we’ll be glad to contact them.” Facing Family Tensions the first midyear convention of the new Sc r ip t u r e : Matthew 10:39-49; Ephe­ district. Completing five years of service on sians 5:18, 21—6:4 (Printed: Ephesians The special speaker was Dr. George January 1, with the Werner Park Church 5:18b, 21-33: 6:1-4 Coulter, executive secretary of the De­ in Shreveport, Louisiana, Rev. How­ Golden Text: Be filled with the partment of Foreign Missions. His mes­ ard M. T ripp resigned as pastor, to Spirit . . . submitting yourselves one to sages were anointed of God, and of accept the work of F'irst Church in Alex­ another in the fear of God (Ephesians great blessing and inspiration. andria, Louisiana. Anyone having 5:18, 21). The convention opened with a one- friends at the England Air Force Base It is believed by many that our com­ night Sunday school convention, with you wish contacted may write Brother plex society has intensified the problems 150 pastors and superintendents attend­ Tripp at 1111 Maryland Street, Alexan­ of the home. The growing tensions in ing the banquet, and hearing Rev. Lyle dria, Louisiana. family life seem due, however, to a Potter's challenging message. In the number of things. Social factors play evening service Brother Potter conducted Evangelist R. W. (Bob) Carpenter an important part. Custom changes and his famous Sunday School Clinic. writes: “I have two good dates open doing that which "belongs” have com­ Tuesday evening the a cappella choir in the month of June (June 10 to 21 plicated the problem for those bringing from Pasadena College presented a con­ and June 24 to July 5) , which I would up children in this generation. cert under the direction of Professor be glad to slate anyplace where a pastor Respecting the rights of others, if cul­ Chester Crill. The blessing of God came is not planning to attend the General tivated, will prove one of the greatest upon the service in such a way as to Assembly. I shall be glad to go as the virtues. It is said: "Something is wrong create a camp meeting atmosphere. Lord may lead. W rite me, 501 S. Sev­ President O. J. Finch presented the with the life of the individual who con­ enth. Lamar, Colorado.” stantly sees wrong in others.” Another work of the college. It was an outstand­ ing service. person has said: ‘‘What millions of L a k e O d e ss a , M ic h ig a n —Recently our Other visitors in the convention were Americans need is to have their souls church enjoyed a good revival with Rev. lifted, and leave their faces alone. The Dr. Roy F. Smee, former superintend­ and Mrs. Glen G. Idc, Jr., and daughter ent of Northern California District, and longer I live, the more I am amazed at Rev. Kenneth Vogt, superintendent of Diane. Their children’s program is the number of ‘sad sack’ people I meet.” the Sacramento District. among the best and gave a big boost What about Christian convictions in Host Pastor Don Lammers and his to our Sunday school, establishing a the home? Do these create tensions? I people did a splendid job of entertaining new record attendance. We enjoyed the think we have to answer, “Yes." The special music and inspiring messages of Christian parents will not find it easy the convention.—E u g e n e L. St o w e , Dis­ trict Superintendent. Brother Ide, and God gave a number to have to say, "No,” to many things of seekers at the altar including a good the teen-ager wants to do. The wife New Church Organizations group of teen-agers. God is blessing the that stands alone in her home, living church here.—E lvvyn D ie t r ic k , Pastor. for Christ, will have a thorough school­ Reported ing in the things of the Cross. Norco, California, January 12. 1964. Rev. Clyde B. Winland, retired Naz­ How do we resolve these problems? Rev. Holland Lewis, pastor.—Nicolas A. arene elder, died February 17. He is First, we gain nothing by giving up. Wc Hull, district superintendent. survived by his wife, of the home ad­ lose everything in the long run this way. Lawrence, Kansas—Holiday Hills. Jan­ dress, Route 5, Mount Vernon, Ohio. There must be a lot of giving in; not uary 26, 1964. Rev. Jerrold Lake, pas­ always, but much of the time. It has tor—Orville W. Jenkins, district super­ A s t o r ia , I l l in o is —Our church had a been said, ‘‘Good manners and soft intendent. good revival in February with Evange­ words have brought many a difficult Pearl City, Hawaii, February 9, 1961. list Grant Barton. On Wednesday night thing to pass." APRIL 15, 1964 • (155) 15 now the Fort Morgan church, and remained a de­ REV. J . KIMBALL ROBERTSON voted servant of the Lord until death. She was a J. Kimball Robertson, retired Nazarene elder, died NAZARENE GlENERAL ASSEMBLY member of Trinity Church in Colorado Springs. December 19, 1963, at North Attleboro, Massachu­ MEMORIAL COLISEUM She is survived by four sons: Orville and Paul, of setts. He was born July 21, 1878, in Prince Ed­ Denver; Jim L. C., of Sterling; and Buzz, of ward Island, Canada. He was converted in 1904. Junel8-26 PORTLAND, OREGON McAllen, Texas; and a daughter, Mrs. Grace Mad­ In 1905 he was united in marriage to Rebecca sen, of Colorado Springs. Funeral service was con­ Lunney, and three children were born to this union. ducted by Rev. C. W. Davis and Rev. E. R. He was ordained an elder in the New England General Assembly window and Verbeck, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Colo­ District Church of the Nazarene in September of bumper stickers are available rado Springs. Prayer was offered at the grave­ 1929. He organized the Pawtucket Church of the side by a grandson, Rev. Loran Madsen, Nazarene Nazarene, built and organized the Bethany Church now. pastor in Loveland. at Rumford, Rhode Island, and his last pastorate Write for your REV. CLAYTON W. KIDD was the North Attleboro church. Survivors include Clayton W. Kidd was born at Fraserville, Ontario, his wife, of Attleboro, Massachusetts; and a son, Canada, March 3, 1905, and died at Detroit, Michi­ Kimball A., of Cincinnati, Ohio. Funeral service FREE gan, February 12, 1964, after many years of illness. was conducted by Rev. Donald Davis, assisted by He was ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in Rev. Richard Morris and Rev. L. Broadhurst. The vinyl slicker today! 1930 and served God and the church faithfully. He d istrict was represented by Rev. Fletcher Spruce, organized twenty-seven churches; served as pastor in district superintendent, and Eastern Nazarene Col­ Michigan, Ontai !o, Canada, New York, and Missis­ lege by President E. S. Mann. sippi; also did evangelistic work in many states. He REV. JAMES MONROE MARTIN is survived by his wife, Mrs. Daisy Kidd; a daugh­ James Monroe Martin, reti.ed Nazarene minister, ter, Mrs. Barbara Metras, of Dearborn; and a son,. was born November 16, 1879, at Nauvoo, Alabama, Jerret, of Burlington, Massachusetts; also by a and died February 17, 1964, after an extended brother, Orville; and a sister, Mrs. Jean North. iI Insss. He was a charter member of the first Funeral service was held at Greenville, Michigan, Church of the Nazarene organized in the state of with Dr. Fred J. Hawk, district superintendent, in Alabama. He assisted in organizing and building a charge, assisted by Rev. Nathan Hawks, Rev. Grover large number of Nazarene churches in Walker and Reed, Rev. W illiam Hurt, and Rev. W. E. Weaver, W inston counties in Alabama. He was called into with burial in Greenville. the ministry at the age of twenty-four, ordained REV. HENRY HOWARD WAGNER soon afterw ards, and served a num ber of churches Henry Howard Wagner, retired Nazarene elder of as pastor. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Belle the Los Angeles District, died February 5, 1964, at Cheatham Martin; three sons: Paul, of Jacksonville, the age of eighty-three, in Pasadena, California, Florida; Daniel B., of Kingston, Tennessee; and after a lengthy illness. He spent seventeen years as Reynolds J., of Jasper, Alabama; and one daughter, a missionary in Japan, and for some time had been Mrs. Lois M. Blackwell, of Jacksonville, Florida. in the employ of Pasadena College. He is survived Funeral services were held in First Church, Jasper, by his wife, Gladys; a son, Howard E.; and a w ith Rev. John Banks and Rev. Bobby Holsombeck Elvin Hicks, field representative for daughter, Doris Davis, missionary in Japan. He lived officiating. Interment was in Walker Memory Gar­ the Nazarene Publishing House, victoriously and died triumphantly. Funeral service dens, Jasper, Alabama. placing on his car the first sticker was conducted at Central Church of the Nazarene with Rev. Don Irwin, Dr. Roy Adams, and Dr. Announcements released. Henry B. Wallin officiating. NOTICE REV. C. J . QUINN President Hugh Rae and Professor Jack Ford C. J. Quinn, retired elder of the Church of the of B ritish Isles Nazarene College will be in the Nazarene, died January 19, 1964, at Brazil, In­ United S tates prior to and im m ediately following diana. He had served as pastor in Indiana, at the General Assembly, and have some open dates. Learning to respect the rights of oth­ Princeton, Bluffton, Indianapolis, and Brazil; also Dr. Rae is available May 31 to General Assembly, ers is a sure road to happiness and at Guthrie and Ponca City, Oklahoma; and in Mo- and Professor Ford has June 8 to General Assembly, peace. Conflicting loyalties hinder the berly, Missouri. He served as superintendent of the June 28 to July 5, July 27 to August 2, and Indianapolis District for twelve years, and as a August 10 to 23. Either may be contacted airmail chariot wheels of the home. The Christ- member of the Olivet Nazarene College board of c /o British Isles Nazarene Coilegs, The White controlled person makes life richer, and trustees. He is survived by a stepdaughter, Mrs. House, Dene Road, Didsbury, Manchester 20, Eng­ oils the machinery that is being slowed Grace Fox. He was a member of the Brazil church land.—W. T. Purkiser, Editor. at the time of his death. Funeral service was con­ BORN down by friction. Cultivate a sense of ducted by his pastor, Rev. Frank Canada, assisted by — to Ronald and Joanna (Lindsley) Snowbarger values that shrinks irritations and pro­ Rev. Clyde Montgomery, pastor of Terre Haute First of Johnson, Kansas, a daughter, Tanya Lynette, on motes a flexibility of mood. Someone Church. March 6. has said, "The resilient of spirit bend, REV. ROBERT S. BRADLEY Robert S. Bradley, retired Nazarene elder of -—to Rev. and Mrs. M arshall Pryor of El Paso, but they don’t break. They have the Northeastern Indiana District, died December 26, Texas, a daughter, Jana Michelle, on March 4. power of comeback.” 1963, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the age of eighty Time and experience, as well as ob­ years. He was born July 1, 1883. He is survived -—to S. Fred and Shirlee (Sullivan) Rapp of by his wife, Annette; four sons, Milford, David, Aberdeen, Washington, a son, Robert Eugene, on servation, have proved that it pavs to Robert, and James; and three daughters, Ruth, February 26. be Christian—all out! Tensions are Miriam, and Margaret. Funeral service was held at more easily resolved, humility more Fort Wayne First Church with the pastor, Rev. S. J. --to Carolyn and Gerald Hale of Fort Worth, Roberts, officiating, assisted by Rev. Cecil Morgan Texas, a daughter, Kathryn Ruth, on February 10. often exercised, and the lights of and Rev. Ronald Bishop. Interm ent was in Linden- others more likely to be respected. The wood Cemetery. —to Ted and Geraldine (Garrison) Wight of practicing of Christian love provides an REV. I. D. HORINE Orange Park, Florida, a daughter, Margaret Ann, Funeral service of Rev. I. D. Horine, Nazarene on January 29. overall coverage that cannot be dupli­ elder on the Southwest Indiana District, and pastor SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED cated elsewhere. One truth in 1 Corin­ of the Haleysburg church, was conducted from the by a minister in Michigan, now an invalid, and thians 13 stands out, Love wears out ev­ Brownstown, Indiana, church on Sunday, December needs prayer; erything! 15, 1963, with the district superintendent, Dr. Leo by a reader in Michigan that God may under­ C. Davis, in charge. Brother Horine was in his take in a business proposition for His glory, also This submission of ourselves one to seventieth year. He began his pastoral work in for an unspoken request; another in today’s Golden Text has the 1926 at Parker, Indiana, and had served most by a friend in Texas that "God will heal my formula for most of the cures of the faithfully in his several pastorates across the years. body for my family's sake," and help them in Members of the remaining immediate family are financial matters; ills we’ll encounter. Someone has sug­ Mrs. Ethel Horine, a daughter of Indianapolis, and by a grandmother in Arkansas for a grandson in gested, “The size of your troubles usual­ two sons of Phoenix, Arizona. Burial was at Bed­ the navy planning for a marriage to a young woman ford, Kentucky. not of his faith, that God may undertake in a ly depends on whether they are coming REV. J. 0. HOKE special way; or going. We arc challenged to be so Jesse 0. Hoke was born May 12, 1677, in Mon­ by a friend in California "for the healing of consistently Christian that we can make roe County, on Second Creek, West Virginia. He one of God's children who is suffering greatly," our part of the home all that it can be. was converted in 1904, and sanctified in 1907. and also praver for the writer; He attended Trevecca Nararene College and while in by a reader in Kansas for her husband to b? by the grace of God. Nashville, Tennessee, m et Rev. Edna Wells, who saved and sanctified, that their home may not be broken up, and also for an urgent unspoken request. Lesson material is based on international Sunday became his wife. They served in the pastoratc-s at School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for Carterville, Decatur, Peoria, Rockford. Bloomington, DISTRICT ASSEMBLY INFORMATION Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Farmer City, Olivet, Rantoul, Tuscola, and Flora, BRITISH ISLES NORTH, April 25 to 28, Sharpe Council of Religions Education, and is used by Its Illinois, and also in Racine, Wisconsin. He was a Memorial Church, Burgher Street, Glasgow, E. 1, permission. minister on the Chicago Central and Illinois districts Scotland. Pastor Sidnev Martin. General Super­ for fifty years. Several years after the death cf intendent Lewis. (N.Y.P.S. convention, April 25: his first wife he m arried Rev. Helen Peters, in S.S. convention, April 18.) Deaths 1941, and their life was a fruitful ministry to­ REV. ANN ELEN HOOVER gether for God and the church until his death on NORTHWEST, April 29 and 30, First Church, 603 Ann Elen Hoover, age ninety-four, Nazarene eldor, November 10, 1963. Besides his ministry of the Wright Ave., Richland, Washington. Pastor Milo died January 24, 1964, in Colorado Springs, Colo­ spoken Word, Mr. Hoke was the carpenter who L. Arnold. General Superintendent Vanderpool. rado. She was born April 19, 1869, in Taylor helped in the building of many churches in Illinois (N.F.M.S. convention, April 27.) County, Iowa. She and her late husband, Elzy and, with his wife, pioneered in many hard fields. Hoover, came to Coiorado Springs in a covered He is survived by his wife, Rev. Helen Peters Hoke; SAN ANTONIO, Ap-il 29 and 30, Grace Church, wagon in 1888. Sister Hoover was ordained as an aiso two sisters, Mrs. Addie Osborne and Mrs. 1006 Koenig Lane, Austin 5, Texas. Pastor Jimmy t 'der at the Colorado Assembly in 1927 by Dr. Edyth Mustain; and two brothers, Leroy and James Blankenship. General Superintendent Young. H. F. Reynolds. She pastored various churches in Edgar. He was preceded In death by one sister a.-id < N.F.M.S. convention, April 27; N.Y.P.S. conven­ Colorado, started the home mission work which is five b.-cthe.-s. He died most trium phantly. tion April 27; S.S. convention, April 29.)

16 (156) • HERALD OF HOLINESS WASHINGTON, April 29 and 30, f ir s t Church, 4301 Woodridge Road, Baltim ore, M aryland. Gen­ eral Superintendent Powers.

BRITISH ISLES SOUTH, May 2 to 5, Morley Church, Albion Street, Morley, Yorkshire. Pasior John Townend. General Superintendent Lewis. (N.F.M.S. convention, May 1; N.Y.P.S. convention, May 1, and S.S. convention, May 1.) nswer comer Directories GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Office: 6401 The Paseo Kansas City, Missouri 64131 Conducted by W. X. PURKISER, Editor HARDY C. POWERS District Assembly Schedule— Spring, 1964 Lot’s wife was turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back. I have heard W ashington...... April 29 and 30 Philadelphia...... May 6 and 7 that the pillar is still there. Can you confirm this for me? Sacramento ...... May 13 and 14 No. There is 1 1 0 evidence that the pil­ I believe Adam Clarke said it well when tos Angeles...... May 20 to 22 Southern California ...... May 27 and 2S lar of salt is still in existence, although he summarized his long discussion salt formations abound in the region (Commentary, Vol. I, pp. 126-27) with G. B. WILLIAMSON District Assembly Schedule— Spring, 1964 of the Dead Sea. which now covcrs the the words, “AH speculations on this Alabama ...... May 13 and 1-1 site of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah. subject are perfectly idle.” Florida ...... May 18 and 19 Arizona ...... May 28 and 29 New Mexico ...... June 3 and 4 Our church is studying the Manual, and as I have read the part about the church, I would like to know just how Rev. Phineas Bresee and Dr. J. P. SAMUEL YOUNG District Assembly Schedule—Spring, 1964 Widney came to call us Nazarenes. Is it based on the Scripture? San Antonio ...... April 29 and 30 It is. Actually, the name “Church of gling. sorrowing heart of the world. It Abilene ...... May 13 and 14 Canada Pacific ...... May 21 and 22 the Nazarene'' was the suggestion of Dr. is Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, to whom the Alaska ...... May 28 and 29 J. P. Widney (who incidentally was a world in its misery and despair turns, South Dakota ...... June 3 and 4 medical doctor, founder of the Los An­ that it may have hope” (Timothy D. I. VANDERPOOL geles Medical Association and the med­ Smith, Called unto Holiness, pp. 110- District Assembly Schedule— Spring, 1964 ical school of the University of Southern Northwest ...... April 29 and 30 11). Idaho-Oregon ...... May 7 and 8 California, which he served as president "The Nazarene” is the Lord Jesus Washington Pacific ...... May 13 and 14 for a short time) . Rocky Mountain ...... May 28 and 29 Christ (Matthew 2:23). It was a name Dr. Widney joined his longtime friend. which in the plural was applied to the HUGH C. BENNER ~ Dr. Bresee, in the establishment of the District Assembly Schedule— Spring, 1964 followers of Christ (Acts 24:5). But Central California ...... May 6 and 7 new church in I.os Angeles in 1895. please note: our church is not “the Northern California ...... May 13 and 14 He said the word "Nazarene” came to Nazarene church.” It is “the Church Nevada-Utah ...... May 20 and 21 Canada W e s t...... June 4 and 5 him one morning just at dawn, after of the Nazarene.” It makes a difference a night of prayer. It seemed to symbolize V. H. LEWIS when the term is used as an adjective, District Assembly Schedule— Spring, 1964 "the toiling, lowly mission of Christ." and when it is used in its biblical mean­ British Isles North ...... April 25 to 28 It was the name which above all others ing as relating to Jesus of Nazareth. British Isles South ...... May 2 to 5 Mississippi ...... May 13 and 14 linked Him to “the great toiling, strug­ Maine ...... May 27 and 28 New E ngland...... June 3 and 4 A visiting minister was invited to teach our adult class recently. During the Following General Assembly North Dakota ...... July 2 and 3 course of the lesson he made this statement, “We all know that all of the Southwestern Ohio ...... July 8 and 9 Bible was not inspired of God.” Please comment. Northeastern Indiana ...... July 8 to 10 lie would have lost me immediately. this process are the entire canonical Canada Central ...... July 9 and 10 Nebraska ...... July 9 and 10 I would have asked him how he pro­ Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the West Virginia ...... July 9 and 10 posed to decide what was inspired and Old and New Testaments. None of it Albany...... July 15 and 16 Illinois...... July 15 to 17 what was not, and how- much of the can be dismissed as irrelevant. I can­ Michigan ...... July 15 to 17 Bible lie thought would be left by the not accept the idea that the Bible only Oregon P a c if ic ...... July 15 to 17 Colorado...... July 16 and 17 time everybody got through cutting out contains the Word of God. It is the Central Ohio ...... July 20 to 22 what he thought wras uninspired. Word of God. I need to hear it all- Eastern Kentucky ...... July 22 and 23 Eastern Michigan ...... July 22 and 23 There is necessity in “rightly dividing even the parts I might not think I Northwestern Ohio ...... July 22 and 23 the word of truth.” But our data in would like. Canada A tlantic ...... July 23 and 24 Pittsburgh ...... July 23 and 24 tortheast Oklahoma ...... July 29 and 30 We have much emphasis on Sunday school teachers preparing well, taking Northwest Oklahoma ...... July 29 and 30 extra courses to make their teaching better, using the effective materials Akron ...... July 30 and 31 Chicago Central ...... July 30 and 31 provided by our Publishing House, etc. Added to that is the fact that all East Tennessee ...... July 30 and 31 the religious teaching our Sunday school children get, in many cases, is Iowa...... August 5 and 6 what they get at Sunday school. Then why is so much time taken in open­ •Kansas...... August 5 to 7 "Dallas ...... August 6 and 7 ing exercises that could be eliminated? Need the same announcements •Wisconsin ...... August 6 and 7 be given in Sunday school as in church when the same people, for the most Kentucky ...... August 13 and 14 part, are in the church service as in Sunday school except for the children, Southwest Indiana ...... August 13 and 14 [Virginia...... August 13 and 14 who don’t remember them anyhow? Julf Central ...... August 14 and 15 These questions virtually answer then: was something important going Houston ...... August 19 and 20 themselves. It is a good idea to look on. some who come late would get Tennessee...... August 19 and 20 (Minnesota...... August 20 and 21 at ourselves and our habitual practices there on time. They too know about (Northwestern I llin o is ...... August 20 and 21 with a critical eye at least once in a the "marking time.” Northwest Indiana ...... August 20 and 21 jlndtanaoolis...... August 26 and 27 while. The fact that something has And while we’re wondering—I’ve often »an«a'as City ...... August 26 and 27 always been done in a certain way is wondered why, when printed announce­ (Louisiana ...... August 26 and 27 (Missouri...... August 27 and 28 no necessary proof that it ought al­ ments are distributed to the members ittrgia ...... Sentem her 9 and 1 0 ways to be done in that way. of the congregation, it should be nec­ South Carolina ...... Septem ber 9 and 10 Southeast Oklahoma ...... S?ntember 9 and 10 “Opening exercises” in a great many essary to repeat the same announcements Southwest Oklahoma ...... Seotember 9 and 10 instances are a complete waste of time. from the pulpit. If people will not read bolin...... SeDtemher 16 and 17 lorth C a ro lin a ...... Septem ber 16 and 17 In fact that seems to be what they are them, is there any reason to suppose iouth Arkansas ...... Seotem ber 16 and 17 intended to be—just marking time until thev will listen to them? lorth Arkansas ...... Seotember 23 and 24 lew York ...... Septem ber 25 and 26 the late comers arrive. But perhaps if

APRIL 15, 1964 • (157) 17 since 1952. They have been stationed at tion, M.P.E. has published a compre­ Letaba. Rev. Kenneth Singleton has hensive directory of all evangelical been supervising the area described in activity, released appropriate informa­ the new reading course book by Rev. tive material to the evangelical com­ Paul Dayhoff, entitled Pioneering in munity, and sponsored conferences for Pediland. ministers. Miss Esther Thomas, missionary nurse, In February a small group of ministers has returned to Swaziland, South Africa. met informally with Rev. Ben W. Peake, She has been a missionary to Africa general secretary of the Movement for Cable from Bolivia since 1946. World Evangelization (British) . As a Sudden devastating flood. result, M.W.E. was invited to cooperate Winchester Memorial Church Dr. Paul Gray to Trevecca in a national retreat of key leaders, both (in city of La Paz) badly dam­ Dr. Paul Gray, associate professor Old ministers and laymen, to be held in aged. Parsonage gone. Miracle Testament at Pasadena College, Pasa­ May. Later regional conferences will be no lives lost. Pray.—Ira Taylor. dena, California, has acceptcd the posi­ held to spread the vision and burden tion of chairman of the division of among evangelicals in all parts of philosophy, religion, and Christian edu­ Portugal. No Casualties Reported cation at Trevecca Nazarene College, in Anchorage Earthquake Nashville, Tennessee, beginning in Sep­ Martin Luther’s Will Damage to church property in An­ tember, 1964. Dr. Gray is a graduate of to Be Placed chorage was slight, and at press time Vanderbilt University, and has been on in Hungarian State Archives there has been no report of injuries to the faculty at Pasadena since 1959. N'azarenes as the result of the earth­ B u d a p e s t , H u n g a r y (EP)—Hungarian quake which shook Alaska, and in Lutheran church authorities here an­ Nazarene Bible College, nounced that Martin Luther’s will, ex­ which more than 100 persons were Philippines killed or missing. ecuted in 1542 and in the possession of Seventh Commencement at Nazarene The Fairbanks church property was the church since 1815, will be stored in Bible College, Baguio City, March 9, undamaged and the Seward property the state archives. with the largest graduating class of remains intact, although its location is The document, written in a neat, legi­ thirteen. Enrollment fifty-one for the near the demolished waterfront area. ble hand, was given to the Lutheran year. Two quartets going into field of At Crescent City, California, where a church by a Roman Catholic collector evangelism for the summer months. In­ tidal wave set off by the quake dam­ "as a token of intcrconfessional good­ creased faculty chosen for the coming aged this area severely, the church was will.” year. Good prospects. The second Bible also undamaged. Lost during the Polish-Prussian war, College to start in Iloilo City in August. the will later came into the possession Bookstore Under Construction Pray for these two schools and revivals. of a German family named Carpzow. Construction on the new Nazarene —Lillian Pattee, President. In 1803 the Catholic collector, a Hun­ Bookstore at the International Center is garian named Jankovich, bought the under way. The contract calls for com­ Thanksgiving Offering Final document when the Carpzow estate was pletion of this fourth unit at the Center The General Treasurer’s office has sold at auction. within 240 days. just reported that the final amount re­ ceived in the Thanksgiving Offering for South Korean Gains Highest Music Commission Meets 1963 is $1,460,737.28. This is not only in Catholic Church Worldwide T he Music Commission, authorized by the largest single offering in the history the General Assembly, and the college of our church, but it is approximately V a t ic a n C it y (EP) —South Korea was presidents met in Kansas City, March 30- $209,000 more than the Thanksgiving the Roman Catholic church’s most fruit­ 81, for a conference on music in the Offering a year before, in 1962. ful mission area last year, according to Church of the Nazarene. Dr. Benner, Nazarenes around the world should be a report issued by the Sacred Congrega­ advisor to the Music Commission, at­ thankful for this great offering. It is the tion for the Propagation of the Faith. tended and conducted a discussion. largest increase over the previous year's The report disclosed that, with 31,334 offering in any of the last ten years. adult baptisms last year, South Korean Joplin District Preachers Meet The 1964 Easter Offering is now com­ Catholics now number over half a mil­ District Superintendent Dean Baldwin ing in and should easily go over the lion, or 2 percent of the population, as reports an outstanding preachers’ meet­ $1,500,000 mark necessary to maintain compared with 167.000 ten years ago. ing at Joplin First Church with Dr. Mcl- and advance the holiness thrust around It said priests in South Korea total 597, Thomas Rothwell and Dr. and Mrs. of whom 264 arc foreign. Mendell Taylor as special workers. Many the world. visitors from the four-state area attend­ Evangelical Beacon ed. Bethany Nazarene College was rep­ to Become Biweekly resented by Dr. Roy Cantrell. of the M in n e a p o l is , M i n n . (EP) —The Evan­ Missionary Moves Religious World gelical Beacon, weekly organ of the Miss Nellie Storey sailed March 17 for Evangelical Free Church of America, the Transvaal, Republic of South Africa. will becomc a biweekly beginning May 1. She returns to her nursing duties at Portuguese Evangelicals to Try Clayton E. Carlson, chairman of the Idalia for a third term of service. Saturation Evangelism church’s board of publications, said a T he Dale Sieverses, missionaries to L is b o n , P o r t u g a l (MNS) —For the last survey indicated 78 percent of the Nicaragua, returned to the States on fifteen months the Movimento Promotor Beacon’s readers preferred biweekly is­ March 8 because of the illness of their ilc Evangelizacao, inspired by Evange- sues. daughter, Kathryn. They have served as lism-in-Depth in Latin America, has The publication has been on a weekly missionaries in both Bolivia and Nica­ endeavored to prepare the way for a schedule since 1943. except during July, ragua. similar cooperative national evangelistic August, and September. As a biweekly, The Kenneth Singletons have fur­ penetration in this country. the Beacon will double its previous size loughed to England from the Republic In an effort to bring Portugal’s twenty and add eight pages of color, according of South Africa, where they have served evangelical groups into active coopera­ to Editor Mel Larson.

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1964-65 MISSIONARY READING BOOKS

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A copy for every member! By E u n i c e B r y a n t . The fascinating travelogue of a missionary family as they visit Spanish-speaking mission stations. Provides an insight into Nazarene work from a different point of view The Many Faces of Japan and interesting information about that country. 64 pages. §1.00 Edited by R oss K i d a . “Japan—a land of SET of above 6 reading books U-634 $6.00 contrast,” but in a very real sense she is also a country of change. Emphasizing this fact, nine qualified persons describe these “faces” of Japan—its history, its religions, its acceptance of Christianity, its tragedy of Children's Reading Books war. Included are several chapters devoted to the establishment and growth of the Church of the Nazarene, a report of its present activities, and a A Peek at Japan glance into the future. Helpful to this study are a bibliography, glossary, and pronunciation chart. 148 pages. $1.50 By C a r o l y n L u n n . Stories of how four Japanese juniors found Christ as their personal Saviour. Nabu, through a typhoon; Ai-Shan, in an orphanage; Toshiho, because of a tent; Kai, on a trip . 32 pages. 50c Adult Reading Books A net for every .society an <1 chapter Boys of Nippon By H e l e n T e m p l e . Hiroshi and Nobumi grew up to become lead­ ers in the Church of the Nazarene. An exciting and blessed Okinawa Lifeline moment was when God answered prayer during a bombing, By M e r r il B e n n e t t . Just five years ago Missionary Bennett changed the wind, and saved their church. 32 pages. 50c introduced the Church of the Nazarene to the Okinawans. Now he shares some of the miraculous conversions and up-to-date victories witnessed amid almost insurmountable obstacles. 96 Candles in the Dark pages. $1.00 By K a t h r y n B l a c k b u r n P e c k . Through the experiences of several missionaries, boys and girls may better understand how God calls people when they are young and helps them prepare Oriental Pilgrim for His will. 36 pages. 50c By A l i c e S p a n g e n b e r g . From thieving sinner to shining saint. This in brief is the thrilling story of an uncontrollable Japanese boy who found God through Nazarene missions. An example of unflinching loyalty to Christ. 96 pages. $1.00 Missionary Picture Set Personalize this year’s study with this complete set of missionary pictures. Booklet form, printed on one side of a page only, so Joy Cometh in the Morning may be cut out. Arranged by fields. P-64 60c By H e l e n T e m p l e . This year our author captivates our interest with seven true stories of how God's transforming power works in the hearts of the Japanese and Okinawan people filling them Reading Course Record Book with peace and love. 88 pages. $1.00 An attractively bound book with detailed instructions, useful suggestions, and twenty-one charted pages for keeping a record Scalpel Please on each member over a four-year period. R-185 25c

By W il b e r t L i t t l e , H o w a r d H a m l i n , P a u l M a c r o r y . A n inside Secure an Ample Supply at Your look at medical missions from three doctors who gave several weeks of time and went to Africa to become part of the team District Assembly or Order from . . . at the Fitkin Memorial Hospital. 104 pages. $1.00 Pioneering in Pediland NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Post Office Box 527, Kansas City, Missouri 64141 By I r v i n E. D a y h o f f . Ever hear of a “spiritual phulamadibogo”? It’s a missionary pioneer in Pediland. And this book tells about Washington at Bresee, Pasadena, California 91104 one of the first in this Africa territory where there are now five IN CANADA: 1592 Bloor Street, West, Toronto 9, Ontario main mission stations. 72 pages. $1.00 Attractively Designed-Colorfully Printed Paperbacks Prices slightly higher in Canada