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12-13-1961 Herald of Holiness Volume 50 Number 42 (1961) W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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to the Holy Spirit in terms of a doctrine to be Halfhearted Holiness believed rather than a power to be experienced.” Perhaps there really is no such state as “half­ There is potential tragedy here. It is always hearted holiness.” Holiness is akin to wholeness, dangerous when light exceeds grace; but when the and halfhearted wholeness would be a contradic­ condition goes on month after month and year tion in terms. But most people will not have too after year, the light inevitably turns to darkness, much difficulty recognizing the sort of thing which and “how great is that darkness!” There is peril could be called by this title. in the path of privilege seen but not sought, for Some halfhearted holiness comes from wrong every privilege implies a responsibility. ideas as to what scriptural holiness really is. To a Again, halfhearted holiness may be the result of large segment of the religious world, holiness is lessening devotion. The truth may have been seen, “imputed righteousness,” a sort of whitewash of a and the grace claimed, but the passing years have soul otherwise quite unchanged, a kind of robe been allowed to take their toll. Backsliding from of righteousness thrown over an otherwise unclean any state of grace rarely takes place in a moment person. of time. It is almost never a “blowout”: it is al­ The utter impossibility of this notion is quite most always a “slow leak.” The vision of righteous­ clear in a dozen New Testament passages, not least ness grows dim. The things of the world crowd in. of which is I Peter 1:15, “But as he which hath Instead of the fire, there is only smoke. Outward called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of forms may be religiously observed, but the power conversation.” Our holiness, always finite, is yet of godliness is gone. The glory has departed. to be in kind or quality as the holiness of Him This is in every way a pathetic condition. It is who hath called us out of darkness into His marvel­ tragic to see good people going through all the ous light. motions just as they always have, with none of the Other halfhearted holiness stems from a mental satisfaction and inner victory of former days. Like acceptance of the doctrine without an actual ex­ Samson, they may go out and shake themselves as perience of its reality. It has been well said, “In before, but nothing else happens, for the Lord our time there is a tendency to regard our relation has departed and the power is gone. 1 certainly do not mean to imply that advancing age and changing circumstances may not make a difference in the visible results of Christian living and serving. One has only to think of the prison experiences of the Apostle Paul to correct any mis­ taken notion at this point. There was a time when it seemed as if they couldn’t make a jail strong enough to hold Paul. “In prisons more frequent” The Cover . . . (II Corinthians 11:23), time after time he was delivered—once, at least, by supernatural earth­ This is a portion of the quake in the prison at Philippi. city of Honolulu, Oahu, in the new state of Ha­ What some have not noticed is that there came waii. Oahu is one of a day when they took him, and slammed the doors eight inhabited islands in the Hawaiian .chain, and is the most populous, having well over of the jail behind him, and the doors stayed shut 600,000 inhabitants. The work of the Church until they were opened to lead him out to a mar­ of the Nazarene in the islands was pioneered tyr’s death. If human nature was then what it by Rev. and Mrs. Leo H. Baldwin in 1946. We now have churches on the 4 principal islands, is now, there were not a few around to say, “Yes, with 10 churches in all, having a membership there was a day when they couldn’t keep Paul in of 539 and an average Sunday school attend­ ance of almost 800. Dr. Melza H. Brown is the prison . . . but look at him now! He’s lost the district superintendent. old fire and the old power, or they’d certainly have to let him go.” But while they could take Paul’s liberty and stop (Please turn to page 12) Turning Bac

General Superintendent Benner though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18). THE WORDS OF A POEM come to my Listen! “I have blotted out, as a thick memory from days of childhood: cloud, thy transgressions, and as a cloud, Backward, turn backward, O Time, thy sins: . . . for I have redeemed thee” in your flight; (Isaiah 44:22). Make me a child again just for to­ Listen! “As far as the east is from the night! west, so far hath he removed our trans­ The nostalgic desire to return to times gressions from us” (Psalms 103:12). and scenes of the past is most natural. Listen! “Repent ye therefore, and be We would recapture the pleasant and converted, that your sins may be blotted cherished associations and situations. I out” (Acts 3:19). recall them: father, mother, brothers, Through Jesus Christ our past can be home, school, the river where we fished, changed. “The Son of man hath power the “woods” where we picked the wild on earth to forgive sins.” Peace can re­ blackberries and gathered the hazelnuts. place turmoil, kindliness can supplant Then there are the unpleasant situa­ bitterness, and we can know “beauty for tions to which we wish we could return ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the to change them: harsh words, unkind garment of praise for the spirit of heavi­ acts, wrong decisions, disregarded oppor­ ness” (Isaiah 61:3). tunities, sinful activities. By the help of God there also can be We wish we could “turn back the a certain restoration of opportunity, a clock,” but this is impossible. We have kind of “making up lost time.” Through no such powers. “Turning back the the Prophet Joel, God declared, “I will clock” is a fiction, even when done by restore to you the year's that the locust the Congress in order to adjourn at a hath eaten” (Joel 2:25). Thus there can specified time by the clock. Nobody is be not only the restoration of the soul fooled and time moves on. We cannot to peace with God, but such earnestness, reach into the past; we cannot change such initiative, such zeal, that the re­ the past. maining years will account for more But there is a very real sense in which than their normal amount of effective God can “turn back the clock,” for He service. has the power to touch and change the There is little value in regret or re­ content and meaning of the past. morse concerning the past. But there is Listen! “Though your sins be as scar­ eternal gain in “turning back the clock” let, they shall be as white as snow; through the power and will of God.

DECEMBER 13, 1961 • (823) 3 Contents. . . General Articles 2-3 Editorials B |'R c:i i t k s (. a d i'.n , G e r m a n y — Nazarene 4 "C.od So Loved,” Robert E. Grosse Servicemen's Retreat, November 14 to 5 The Rest of Faith, Maynard James 16, at General Walker Armed Forces 6 They Call It Going Steady, Milo L. Arnold Recreation Center Hotel, took on pro­ 7 Good Gifts to Our Children, Milo I.. Arnold portions and atmosphere of indoor camp 8 Masquerading Wolves, Richard H. Smith meeting under tlie leadership of the 9 The Stabilizing Power of the Unseen, James A. Hamilton Holy Spirit and I he ministry of General 10 Foolish Faith, Joseph 1). Wright Superintendent Hardy G. Powers. There 11 Mark of Distinction. David K. Waclitel were 142 retreatants registered from sta­ 12 The Least I Can Do. /. C. W'ohtenholm tions in Morocco, Italy. Germany, Poetry France, and England. Scores of spir­ 9 Remember Lot's Wife! Ovella S. Shafer itual victories, with service personnel 10 A World to Win, Bcrniece Ayers Hall and wives and children seeking the Lord Departments in nearly every service. Mountaintop 13 Evangelism experiences of spiritual uplift enjoyed Foreign Missions by all. Ministry of Missionaries Gerald 14 Servicemen’s Commission Johnson and Robert Cerrato and Chap­ District Activities lains Claude Chilton, Curtis Bowers, and 1.1 The Local Churches Lyle Robinson used of the Lord to 17 The Bible Lesson enrich a full and concentrated retreat 18 News of the Religious World schedule. One hundred dollars given to The Answer Corner share in Thanksgiving Offering and HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Nazarene thrust for world-wide evan­ Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Editor; Dave Lawlor, Art Director. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. gelism.—C h a p l a i n L y l f . W. R o b in s o n , Herald of Williamson, Samuel Young, D. 1. Vanderpool, Hugh C. lie!real Co-ordinator. Denner, V. H. Lewis, General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be re­ turned unless postage accompanies the material. Published Pastor Irwin Harris sends word from every Wednesday, by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Ravenna, Ohio: “Great spirit of spir­ Kansas City 41, Missouri. Subscription price, $2.50 per itual warmth and victory in First HOHKDECEMBER 13, 1% 1 year, in advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas Church, Sunday morning, as the people Vol. 50, No. 42 Whole No. 2590 City, Missouri. Printed in U.S.A. gave $675 in love offering for foreign PHOTO CREDIT: Cover, Philip Gendreau missions. A great Thanksgiving offer­ ing, with wonderful spirit of co­ operation for missionary program.” pastor in Fori Recovery, Ohio, had been into the very soul of God, and reveals it re-elected president of the Tri-Cities throbbing with measureless love. After a little more than three years Ministerial Association. It should have If the Bible were stripped of the as pastor of the Effingham church, Rev. read “pastor of the church in Grand blessed truth of God's love, our doom Keith Kelly has accepted a call to pastor Haven, Michigan." would be scaled. Consider His holiness the church at Olivet, Illinois. apart from His love, and the burning After twelve years at Kent, Ohio, Rev. purity of that holiness would only con­ First Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, Robert 1). Danielson has resigned to demn the wretched sinner forever. But is on the advance under the leadership accept the call to pastor First Church it is holy love that converts and cleanses of our new pastor. Rev. Thomas Hcr- in Ashtabula. Ohio. the yielded heart, and causes it to stand mon. Largest Thanksgiving offering on unashamed before the very presence of record; church and Sunday school at­ His glory. tendance hitting new peaks. Great Think of His power apart from His spirit of unity, optimism, and revival "God So Loved" love, and that awesome might would fervor prevails.—C a r l R e i d , secretary of crush wicked men as helpless insects. church hoard. THERE ARE many of us who consider But our God chose to display His power John 3:16 the outstanding verse of the supremely as the power of redeeming Pastor Raymond L. Meniman writes, Bible. It speaks of the greatest Person, love. The magnetic Cross still stands "After four wonderful years as pastor the infinite God. It speaks of the great­ today as the mightiest drawing power of the Adel church, I have accepted a est love, “God so loved.” It speaks of the world has ever known. unanimous call to pastor our church in the greatest Gift, “his only begotten Ponder His knowledge divested of His Donalsonville, Georgia.” Son.” It speaks of the greatest plan, love and it becomes a piercing search­ “that whosoever believeth in him should light, exposing man’s sinful nature as a Rev. Gordon B. Maywood, pastor of not perish, but have everlasting life.” bottomless pit of horror. But when you the Sciotoville Church in Portsmouth, Here is God's whole plan of redemp­ see His knowledge as love-linked, you Ohio, has been unanimously elected tion in one vast panoramic view. It will rejoice that He knows the worst president of the Portsmouth and Scioto scans in one sweep the eternity before about you and loves you still. No County Ministerial Association for the all time when He reserved His Son for tongue can adequately express the won­ calendar year 1962. our salvation, and the eternity beyond der of a love like that, but all of us may all time when He will translate every experience the wealth of it!—R o b e r t E. C o r r e c t i o n : I ii the November 8 issue Blood-washed soul into His glorious G r o s s e . Pastor. Highland S/irings, J'ir it was stated that Rev. Paul K. Moore, kingdom. Here is a window that looks ginia. 4 (824) • HERALD OF HOLINESS By MAYNARD JAMES, Evangelist, British Isles South District There remainelh therefore a rest to the people of rest of Canaan, promised to those Israelites who God (Hebrews 4:9). had been delivered from Egyptian bondage. Moses We which have believed do enter into rest frequently referred to Canaan as a country of rest (Hebrews 4:3). (Deuteronomy 12:9-10; Hebrews 3:17-18). Then There is an aspect of entire sanctification which there is the rest of entire sanctification, offered to is not emphasized sufficiently today. It is that of every Christian. It is his inheritance in Christ. heart rest, or uninterrupted inward peace. Especially appropriate in these troublous times is As never before, the word rest has a special at­ the title given in Hebrews 4:9 to this experience. tractiveness. Speed, noise, and tension are the It is called “a rest to the people of God.” order of our times. So fiercc is the tempo of mod­ To illustrate the nature and secret of this heart ern life that people everywhere are cracking up rest, the apostle pointed back to Israel in the wil­ under the strain. A Japanese doctor told a famous derness. The people had been promised an in­ missionary that tuberculosis is no longer the num­ heritance in Canaan. In that land of milk and ber one killer in Japan. It is heart disease and high honey they would cease from their wanderings. blood pressure. When asked the reason, he replied, There they would be established as a nation and “Spiritual uneasiness.” become God’s witnesses to the surrounding heathen. I But through unbelief they failed to enter the The Need of the Redeemed: The spectacle of Promised Land; instead, they perished in the wil­ restless sinners, tossed on the waves of fear and derness. folly, is tragic enough; but there is a sadder sight. With this tragedy in mind, the apostle warned: It is that of Christians who are not enjoying that “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left inward serenity and joy which is their birthright us of entering into his rest, any of you should in Jesus. Gloomy fears, carnal anxieties, and fre­ seem to come short of it” (Hebrews 4:1). quent doubts spoil their lives and service for God has promised a spiritual rest to His chil­ Christ. The language of their hearts is this: dren. It is not a cessation from the testings of Oh, when shall my soul find her rest, life, nor does it exempt us from temptation and My wrestlings and stragglings be o’er, deep sorrow. But it is a rest from inward strife. My soul by my Saviour possessed, It delivers the soul from its “wilderness wander­ Be fearing and sinning no more? ings” and establishes it in true holiness and fruitful Typical of such a condition was the experience service. Of this glorious experience of grace, W. T. of the noted Baptist evangelist, A. B. Earle. Dur­ Matson exclaimed: ing his lifetime he preached from an American Oh, blessed life! the heart at rest platform more often than any of his contemporar­ When all without tumultuous seems; ies and won about 150,000 persons for Christ. Yef That trusts a higher will, and deems his confession was this: That higher will, not mine, the best! '"I loved the work of the ministry, but had long lelt an inward unrest, a void in my soul that was Oh, blessed life! heart, mind, and soul not i iHeel. Seasons of real joy would be followed From self-born aims and wishes free; by seasons of darkness and doubt. Thus I lived In all at one ivith Deity, for many years; sometimes doubting and fearing, And loyal lo the Lord's control! and sometimes resting. 1 was unsatisfied. I wanted After entering into the coveted blessing, A. B. an uninterrupted rest and peace.” Earle wrote: “Then, for the first time in my life, II I had the rest which is more than peace. I had The Nature of the Remedy: Thank God, this felt peace before, but feared I should not retain it. vital need of inner serenity can be supplied in Now I had peace without fear, which really became Christ Jesus. In the Epistle to the Hebrews more rest ... A heaven of peace and rest fills my soul.” than one kind of rest is mentioned. There is the Bearing eloquent testimony to a like experience, DECEMBER 13, 1901 • (825) 5 Long my yearning heart was striving To obtain this perfect rest; To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that But when all my struggles ended, gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends.— Simply trusting, I was blest. Francis de Sales. Seeking soul! let not an “evil heart of unbe­ lief” keep you out of God’s Canaan of rest. To John Wesley declared, “By the grace of God I Israel was given a Joshua to lead them into the never fret, 1 repine at nothing, I am discontented Promised Land. As is well known, the name Joshua with nothing.” is the Hebrew equivalent for the Greek word trans­ Ill lated Jesus. So for us, today, a heavenly Joshua The 1Vay into Rest: This glorious blessing of waits to lead His people into perfect heart rest. inward rest conies after conversion and is obtained Oh, that I now the rest might know. by faitli. It is true that we must “labour ... to Believe and enter in; enter into that rest” (Hebrews 4:11). In other ATow, Saviour, now the power bestow words, we must resolve at all costs to obtain the And let me cease from sin. prize. But the blessing is not of works, lest any Remove this hardness from my heart; should boast. “We which have believed do enter This unbelief remove; into rest.” Sanctification is by faith in Christ Jesus To me the rest of faith impart, (Acts 26:18). The Sabbath of Thy love. HOME AND FAMILY LIFE FEATURE: They Call It Going Steady By MILO L. ARNOLD, Pastor, Moses Lake, Washini

THE RIGHT of a person to choose his or her own knowing with whom their fledgling offspring is marriage partner is one of the splendid heritages out and in what company they are if the hour of our Christian culture. The practice of dating grows too late. For the young people themselves and keeping company socially prior to and leading it provides built-in protection from having to go up to marriage is one of youth’s most lofty privi­ “stag” to some function. Both know that they will leges. have a date without the worry of having to find Our society takes delight in boys and girls keep­ one. ing company. We place them in coeducational Along with the advantages found in this dating schools. We make our parks and playgrounds into engagement, there are some disadvantages which meeting places for them. Our automobiles and young people should consider. If this practice is even some of our bicycles are built for two. The to be entered into by young people, they should church and its departments encourages dating at be aware of both its advantages and its disadvan­ church-centered functions. Who has not known the tages. It is true that going steady is looked upon thrill of watching a clean boy and girl holding a as a normal practice for very young people, but hymnbook together and uniting their voices in it can have very serious disadvantages as well as reverent song! advantages. An innovation in courtship in recent years lias In the first place, this pre-engagement social been the custom of going steady. By this the young monopoly provides an escape from exposure to people mean a sort of monogamous courtship in other valuable and worthful persons. It can be­ which the two young people set themselves apart come a way of nai rowing a person’s social world to each other in company keeping. Thus neither very greatly to the point where a young person is of them will go out with others but both will keep voluntarily shut away from other friends of both themselves mutually available for social sharing. sexes and the total social life is invested in one This sort of pre-engagement engagement has person. In this way sometimes very shy young some very definite advantages. For one thing, if persons can have companionship without requiring the dating mate has been cleared by parental ap­ themselves to brace up and meet other people proval, the mother and dad rest more easily in socially. Thus their lives are colored by the influ- « (82G) • HERALD OF HOLINESS enrc of only one person rather than many persons. This can he a great disadvantage. II it permits them to get through young manhood 01 young womanhood without learning to meet other people A Dozen Suggestions for . . . graciously, they will be lastingly impoverished. Sometimes it means that they accept the first person they meet as their future marriage partner without honestly looking about to see if there could be a wiser choice. In this way they effectively make their choice of a male very early in life and without the benefit of wider experience. While they do not profess to have actually become en­ gaged, they still accomplish the same purpose bv isolating themselves from all other opportunity. It is wholesome for young people to have a wide FAITH acquaintance. They will be enriched by many per­ that they may not feel alone in life’s dark hours. sons other than the one they will marry. They will HOPE meet some whom they will not dignify with a social that they may not demand too much of today. date. They will meet some with whom one date LOVE will be sufficient. They will meet some whose that they may learn to love without timidity. companionship is rewarding, but whom the closer GENEROSITY acquaintance of dating will rule out as marriage that they may find the full joy of giving. partners. They will meet some who disappoint them; but they will meet people, and their per­ COMPASSION sonalities will be burnished by the encounter. that they may feel the warmth of brotherhood. Another serious aspect of the monogamous court­ UNDERSTANDING ship is that it is usually entered into by very young that they may not become impatient with life. people but has eventual emotional involvements RESPONSIBILITY out of proportion to their age and situation. Peo­ that they may make decisions with self-discipline. ple who are too young for marriage can become REVERENCE so emotionally involved after a period of going that they may come to know God with intimate steady that breaking up will have much of the wonder. same traumatic effect as a divorce. Thus they make CALMNESS themselves vulnerable to the injury of a separation that they may not smother life in its own con­ without the protection of a formal engagement or fusion. marriage. LAUGHTER Persons too young for marriage are too young that they may make living a joyous experience. for such emotional encounters. Immature emo­ INDUSTRY tional lives are intense, precipitate, and eager. They that they may find pleasure in hard work. incline to take things very seriously, and cultivated CURIOSITY by a long monogamous dating experience, they that they may never lose the adventure of may put themselves in a position to receive serious learning. injury. Possibly the most serious factor in teen-age going By MILO L. ARNOLD steady is the inclination to too great intimacy. As Pastor, Moses Lake, Washington acquaintance progresses, it is natural that conver­ sation and contact become more intimate. Such acceleration of acquaintance is normal and fine provided the persons involved are old enough, clear to the place of marriage before time for the mature enough, well enough educated, and eco­ doors to open, they find themselves with no legiti­ nomically secure enough to enter the natural next mate place to go. They are then tempted to by­ step, which is marriage. pass the door of marriage and slip around that However, if these emotional involvements ad­ sacred protection to indulge in adventures and vance to where marriage is the only natural next discoveries which they intended to keep for their step and they are still unable to get married, frus­ honeymoon. The result is serious spiritual, emo­ tration will result. When they go steady too young, tional, mental, and social injury. they arrive too young at the situation demanding Sometimes when young people, thus long ex­ marriage. Their eager emotional lives demand posed to each other, look objectively at their situa­ progress and discovery, and if they explore life tion they see that marriage for them would be of DECEMBER 13, 1961 • (827) 7 questionable wisdom. Each of them harbors a putting ourselves in the painful situation of arriv­ silent fear that it is a mistake, but they have be­ ing emotionally and socially at the normal place come so mutually involved that each fears to back for marriage before the door is open? out because of what the other knows and might (b) Will our going steady deprive us of the tell about them. What amounts almost to involun­ friendships and exposures to others which we need tary blackmail pushes them onward into a mar­ in preparing us for later life? riage which is already destined to be disappointing. (c) Is our practice of going steady taking on If young people are going to go steady they need the aspects of marriage and creating in us emo­ to be mature enough to ask themselves several tional involvements which should exist only when questions and give serious thought to them. The protected by marriage? following four interrogations should be frankly ((/) Remembering that we are neither engaged faced: nor married, are we going into areas and experi­ (a) Are we old enough to go steady without ences from which it would be difficidt to back out? Masquerading Wolves By RICHARD H. SMITH, Pastor, Indian Head, Maryland

“I REFUSE to answ'er on the grounds that it might Samson, she flirts with the worldly Delilah. Hence tend to incriminate me.” These words bring into the loyalty issue cries for attention—even in our clear focus a most important issue of our day. Fact­ beloved Church of the Nazarene. finding groups have unveiled a gigantic masquer­ Subversion, disloyalty, and division ultimately ade. Too frequently men have been offering lip destroy churches. The whole truth, however, is service to one nation while devoting their life that churches collapse because the individual pil­ energy to a regime diametrically opposed. Every lars become insecure. Men never have succeeded important area of society has been infected by this in loving God and the world at the same time. subversion, including the government, school sys­ Adulterated love causes the mortar to lose its tems, unions, law-enforcement agencies, and the strength and become as dust. churches. Note now the individual who suffers with the This inner decay of disloyalty has caused the disease of disloyalty. Either he becomes careless collapse of many splendid men, destroyed fine or­ about Christian responsibilities, a rocking-chair ganizations, and toppled great nations. Neither religionist; or he actively promotes an evil influ­ men nor institutions can function effectively while ence through a program of false witnessing, de­ this inner, subtle evil remains unpurged. Jesus structive criticism, and /a?

By JAMES A. HAMILTON, Pastor, Southeast Church, Charleston, West Virginia lie endured, as seeing him who is invisible “no one lives truly who does not love passionately.” (Hebrews 11:27). Jesus was talking about a passionate love when He The eleventh chapter of Hebrews is the Old spoke of loving God with all the soul, mind, and Testament honor roll in a New Testament setting. strength. Love for God and our fellow man will It is a “Who’s Who in Israel.” Here are the names enable us to stand the cold winds and storms of of several men and women whose careers clearly adversity and sorrow, and fight through the most reveal faith as a working principle in life. difficult battles. For example, Moses was a great leader, a great A Great Purpose Will Do It diplomat, a great soldier. However, these char­ No one ever saw another man’s purpose. It is acteristics are not even mentioned. He gains his something he keeps hidden away in his own heart, place in this “Who’s Who in Israel" because, by perhaps never saying anything about it at all. But faith, he made a choice. how it steadies him in the trying time! Take another look at the text. Molfatt’s transla­ “This one thing 1 do” was an idea that became tion is strong and emphatic. It reads, “Like one an obsession with Paul. He was so intent on reach­ who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.” ing his goal that distracting things about him were Moses faced long years of grinding monotony, of little concern. bitter disappointment, cruel misunderstanding, At an Olympic game in Amsterdam, one sum­ and unending toil; but through it all “he never mer, a splendid runner lost in the last ten yards, flinched.” all because he did not keep his eyes on the tape In this world, each of us is called upon to make stretched just ahead of him. He looked behind, important decisions; we battle fiery temptations; lost his stride, was overtaken, and beaten by inches. we must go through harassing experiences. This being true, we need something to stabilize and steady us. There are three great unseen forces that we can rely upon to support and steady us in our journey Remember Lot/s Wife/ to the Celestial City. A Great Faith Will Do It ATot much in Holy Writ is said Faith cannot be seen. We see what it does, but Of Lot’s wife and her chance— faith itself is one of the invisible forces men can But as she fled from burning Sodom, call upon to help them achieve the impossible. Her heart she left in the backward glance. Men tumble in when they do not have a great With that cursory, flashing look faith. Columbus, facing mutiny after weeks of sail­ God called her swift journey to halt; ing, wrote in his log, “This day we sailed west­ Her name—a florid reminder; ward.” Cyrus Field, after failing twenty-eight times Her body—a pillar of salt! in his attempt to lay a cable across the Atlantic, tried the twenty-ninth time and succeeded. A su­ Yes, life has its warning signals, perb faith kept these men on their feet. Red lights for rocks and shoals; Livingstone turned his back on England and But retrospect for “the old life” home and friends; he turned away from Stanley, Has doomed and entombed countless souls. and made for the heart of Africa again. He never Docs your heart crave the pleasures of Sodom? flinched. A sublime faith steadied him. Do you long for the world that is rife? A Great Love Will Do It Surrender to Christ for deliv'rance; No one ever saw love. We know what love does, If not—“Remember Lot’s wife!” but it is one of the invisible forces that move ef­ fectively on human hearts. It has been said that By OVELLA S. SHAFER DECEMBER 13, 1961 • (829) 9 By JOSEPH D. WRIGHT, Northwest Nazarene College, Nampa, Idaho

FOOLISH FAITH is dangerous, and in the end with His sufficient grace limits God in doing any­ is bound to bring its possessor to disaster. thing further for you. God does not give more There is a faith that is built on the reality of grace and strength until you have used every God’s promises, and there is a faith that is con­ ounce you already possess, because until you have structed on the figments of man’s imagination and used what you have, all of it, you do not need self-deceit. Both are faith, real faith, yet in results more. they are as far apart as the east is from the west. Few Christians have really tested the limits ol There is a Biblical story recorded in I Kings 13: their abilities. The Church and people who call 1-22 which tells of a foolish faith founded on the themselves Christian are capable of doing much deceitful words of another. The prophet referred more than is being done. This cannot be done to in this story had complete faith in God, know­ without God’s help, true; but neither can it be ing He would never fail His word. But the tragedy done without intense human effort. God has not was that he was deceived into accepting a lie as failed. In the grace and strength He has ahead) God’s word. The result canceled the godly influ­ given, hundreds more can and should be won. The ence which had been his, and proved to be a fatal Church is not suffering from a lack of man power mistake. finances, or numbers. God has put enough mone) Among the great tragedies of a foolish faith is in the pockets of Christians to do everything He a serene trust in God to do what you can and wants them to do, both locally and generally should do yourself. Pure laziness motivates many There is enough man power and ingenuity ir to this end. We live in a lazy day and age. We every church to furnish equipment and accommo have been conditioned to get by with as little dations sufficient to the need of the town or com effort as possible. Either consciously or subcon­ sciously we expect machines to do the work our fathers did while we live by our ingenuity and brains. Multitudes have forgotten what real work A World to Win is, while multitudes of others have never experi­ enced it and are afraid to try. I shall not yield to woes that seem The result has been the development of an atti­ A dreadful destiny. tude that discourages men from attempting the Beyond my dearest hope or dream, difficult or hard job. This attitude has carried Christ still can give to me into the realm of man’s spiritual life—Leave the A newborn self to praise Him yet, difficult to God, why should I try? True, this A cause for me to serve. attitude displays a sort of faith in God, but it also I shall not question nor forget— displays an ignorance of God’s plan and wisdom My love must never swerve. in facing men with the difficult. Man is morally obligated to do for himself what I shall have faith! In each crusade his physical and mental abilities will allow. God There always is a cross. gives us the equipment for life, then justly expects I shall not doubt nor be afraid us to use it. To say you can’t do what you should Tho’ wildest tempests toss— do and what God asks you to do is a reflection on But trust with faith that grows not dim. the justice of God. No man can believe in God There is a world to win, for Him! as he should and not believe His grace is sufficient. Furthermore, failure to mix your all-out effort By BERNIECE AYERS HALL 10 (830) • HERALD OF HOLINESS munity. There arc enough people in the smallest church to win one hundred souls to Christ in the course of two years. Perhaps the greatest curse of the Church today is a foolish faith that is blighting the lives and efforts of her constituency. Thousands of church members are serene in their belief that their church cannot grow because God doesn’t want it to grow. Thousands more are convinced that God wants their church to be small so it will be more spiritual. But God is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” To con­ sider smallness as the essence of spirituality is pure folly and a flimsy excuse for laziness. A chinch of one thousand persons 011 fire for God is twenty times stronger, and more, than a church of one MARK hundred. Again, a foolish faith lulls men into believing of Distinction that God’s will is the only thing that can really happen, and therefore that which happens is God’s By Evangelist DAVID K. WACHTEL will. Such a faith is the sleeping pill of the devil, putting men to sleep while sin steals their souls PSYCHOLOGISTS tell us that, in order to sur­ and the souls of their families. Only a foolish faith vive and grow, a movement of any kind (religious, would believe that only God’s will is done in a political, or other) must have two all-important world that is as saturated and controlled by sin qualities: first, a “mark of distinction”; second, as is this world. To live by such a philosophy a “sense of mission.” And the mission must per­ would be but to legalize all the sin, immorality, form some necessary function for mankind. In the and filth in this world and credit it to God. case of a church that function must be spiritual Many are resting content in things the way they rather than social, charitable, or educational, since are, having once prayed for God’s will to be done, these are available elsewhere. but having never searched out His will, and having The Church of the Nazarene from its earliest never done it if they had sought and found it. days has had both. Our “mark of distinction” has The Church professes to believe in God, but been our evangelistic fervor—freedom in worship; doesn’t act like it. The Church prays for God’s happy, “lifting” singing; fervent, warmhearted, will, but doesn’t seek it or do it. The Church “fire-brand” preaching, and an atmosphere which prays for the salvation of sinners, but doesn’t encouraged a “shout in the camp.” Phineas Bresee care enough to go after them. The Church prays was emphasizing that "mark of distinction” when for the election of good men, but doesn’t vote for he advised, “Keep the glory down.” Other move­ them. The Church expects a revival, but doesn’t ments have been known for other distinctive char­ pay the price. The Church builds beautiful sanctu­ acteristics, such as peculiar dress, odd ways of life, aries and Sunday school units for its children but or preaching which by their legalistic emphasis does not encourage them to attend. The Church reduced Christianity to an ethical system. But that hires a preacher to preach the truth, but refuses evangelistic fervor (E. O. Chalfant called it the to listen and obey. Does the sinner not have good “Nazarene swing”) has been our “Mark of dis­ reason to ask why he should join a church that is tinction.” possessed of an even more foolish faith than his “Uncle Bud” Robinson gave expression to our own? “sense of mission” almost every time he spoke. Think not that the Church will stand guiltless Again and again he said, “God raised up the before her God. Thousands of people are not in Church of the Nazarene to spread scriptural holi­ Sunday school because of the Church’s foolish faith. ness over these lands.” It was not “Wesleyanic Millions of people have never sensed a need of holiness”—though I am sure “Uncle Bud” had God and are being lost because the Church is rest­ proper respect for the Wesleys. It was not even ing in its foolish faith. “holiness with standards,” though no man ever Foolish faith only converts such a church into a fought more fiercely for the standards he believed broad pathway to hell. The Church of the Naza- in than “Uncle Bud.” The emphasis was on the rene cannot ward off its doom if it falls a victim to word “scriptural,” and that emphasis provided the such foolish faith. It is time for Nazarenes every­ spiritual function psychologists tell us we must where to put their faith to the test. Is yours a have. We were doing a job God called us to do— foolish faith? “spreading scriptural holiness over these lands.” DECEMBER 13, 1961 • (831) 11 The church is invincible so long as these neces­ sary qualities remain. Let us maintain out “mark of distinction”—genuine evangelistic fervor. Let • Continued from page 2 j us hold fast to our “sense of mission”—spreading scriptural holiness over these lands. Let us func­ his missionary work, they couldn’t take his peace tion as an evangelistic agency, “making disciples” and his restful faith. Among the last wrords he and leading them into the experience of scriptural wrote are: “I know whom I have believed, and am holiness. Keep these, and we have kept the things persuaded that he is able to keep that which I which made us great, which have brought us safe have committed unto him against that day. I have thus far, as well as that which can provide moti­ fought a good light, I have 1 hushed my course. vation for sacrifice and service in the tomorrows. 1 have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up Lose these, and we lose all! The psychological for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, law refuses to be ignored (even if there were no the righteous judge, shall give me at that day” spiritual principles). Let even a little of the litur­ (II Timothy 1:12; 4:7-8). gical push aside that “Nazarene swing,” let the There was nothing halfhearted about this! emphasis be on anything other than scriptural Through all the varied circumstances of a stormy holiness, cease to function as ail evangelistic move­ life, Paul lived by the consistent purpose and un­ ment, and slow death would come. Motivation wavering commitment to the will of God which he would be inadequate for the task of keeping our­ associated with Christian perfection (Philippians selves alive. In our hearts we would know there 3:13-15). Wholehearted holiness is God’s answer was no real reason for our existence. Our sun to the wavering, vacillating, uncommitted sort of would set! existence some people call Christianity. May God But it is morning—and “the sun never sets in give us more of it as we try “to serve this present the morning!” age.” The Least I Can Do By J. C. WOLSTENHOLM, Pastor, Pierre, South Dakota

A LITTLE BOY walked by my house this cold talents into the regular services of the church, but night. He was a stranger to me, but I gave him we must rouse ourselves to greater effort and “re­ a friendly greeting. He did not respond, which deeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephe­ seems strange in this small town. And then I sians 5:16). People are walking beside us bound thought, Well, it’s the least I can do. It seemed for the judgment. Mediocre minimums will never to me that the Lord spoke to me and said, “Are do. Our best efforts must be put forth, if these you satisfied with the least you can do?” It has people are to be won to Christ. We must become become a question that reaches the depths of my “all things to all men” in order to save some. To heart as I review my service for the Lord. the one who sorrows, we must give some time to There are a host of people walking beside us on help ease his heavy burden. For the one who is the road of life. They are young and old, rich sick, we must call, send a card, or give a helping and poor, and all included in the whosoever of hand to let him know he is not forgotten as pain the gospel. They are walking through our homes, and disease plague his body. For the one who has our Sunday schools, our churches, and our com­ held himself aloof from our friendship, we must munities. Have we surrounded them with only find a way to break down the barrier. And that minimum efforts in getting the message of sal­ poor man on the street—we must let him know, vation to their hearts? too, that we care about his problems and that there It may be true that we have faithfully paid our is One who cared enough to die for him. tithe. Is not this the least we can do to spread That little boy has gone on down the street the “Good News” to the ends of the earth? To now. Perhaps I shall never see him again. But rise above the minimum assigned by the law to if I do, I will be sure to do more than the least the maximum asked by love, we must give liberal I can do. I will put forth maximum effort to offerings, for there are so many passing by who win him to Christ. But my prayer is that this will have never known the “love of Christ, which be true of every boy and girl, and every man and passeth knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19). woman, who passes my way. May I never be It may be true that we have given time and satisfied with just the least I can do. 12 (832) • HERALD OF HOLINESS THE CHURCH AT WORK

Harrah Thomas Gilham 50 11 is much political unrest in many of EVANGELISM Seminole Wilbur Brannon 81 12 Oklahoma City Zion J. Andrew 100 18 these countries, and often our mission­ Midwest City 1st Nolan Culbertson 130 14 ary work is hindered and the lives of EDWARD LAWLOR, Secretary floldenville Clarence Parker 146 12 SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA missionaries endangered by the activities Evangelistic Honor Roll Wynnewood L. Gilley 10 9 n[ those who would seek to overthrow Purcell Dewayne Hicks 11 7 The districts shown report the follow­ Tuttle Charles Smith 26 8 the established governments of these ing churches as having received the Waurika E. Rawlings 41 9 countries. Pauls Valley 0. Milburn 66 8 Kvangelistic Honor Roll Certificate. Carnegie Robert Williams 72 8 I'll is is presented on the basis of metn- Duncan Oak Ave. W. Lynch 110 13 New Work in Chile hers received bv profession of faith dur­ Okla. City First J.imes Snow 555 35 By IRA TAYLOR, Bolivia ing the assembly year. The I am writing this from Arica, Chile, qualification standards are shown as where I have been caring for the work follows: which has recently requested our help. G r o u p M e m b e r s h i p G a i n R e q u i r e d On Sundays we have a good congrega­ I 1- 24 4 tion in our main church here—around II 25- 74 8 seventy-five. Every night of the week III 75-149 12 there is a service in some outside con­ IV 150-299 18 gregation or group, generally in a home. V 300 and above 25 It is real pioneer work, but not new Membership to us, as we had the privilege of doing at last a lot of that in Peru. Church Pastor Assembly Gain AKRON Bible school in Bolivia, where we Byesville E. Stenger 14 7 teach between trips to Arica, closes the Goshen N. Stover 16 4 Sunday Nights Left Akron Trinity R. Moulton 23 10 first of November. Most of our past Brilliant D. Sterling 23 4 OF two years of work has been at the Bible Canaan Hill D. Pritt 23 7 Youngstown FOURTEEN school. We believe that the school is Boardman R. Parry 23 5 now getting to the place where we have Youngstown Wickliffe C. Carmichael 28 9 Canton Calvary J. Killgore 31 13 SUNDAY NIGHTS OF an adequate staff to do efficient work Newton Falls G. Gales 35 13 in building a future Church of the Naz­ Cleveland Calvary E. Herron 43 12 EVANGELISM Cleveland Central C. Stouffer 52 8 arene in Bolivia. We rejoice in its ma­ Clinton Irwin Harris 53 20 Your presence is needed to help keep terial advance, better buildings and fa­ Warren Morgandale Wm. Restrick 67 14 Wadsworth L. Morgan 124 14 the fires of evangelism burning on cilities, and scholastic progress. But Greentown Roy Watson 126 12 Sunday nights. most of all we thank the Lord for real Alliance J. McCaskell 134 34 Toronto John Eppler 148 24 Be sure your travel and hotel res­ growth in spirituality. This year more Akron Arlington Wm. Thompson 201 18 than any we have seen real outpourings E. Liverpool First James Hunton 485 27 ervations are made for your trip to CANADA ATLANTIC the Conference on Evangelism, Janu­ of the Spirit. The visit of Dr. Paul Up­ St. John's, Nfld. V. Williams 0 5 dike, of our assembly evangelist, Brother Windsor Gerald Huff 39 8 ary 3, 4, and 5, 1962, in the Music Summerside, P .E .I. Philip Chatte 57 10 Hall, Kansas City, Missouri. Julca, from Peru, and messages by our GEORGIA own teaching staff have been wonder­ Albany Northslde Chester Roberts 0 12 Swainsboro Billy Ring 0 10 fully used of God in helping many of Waynesville H. Strickland 0 7 our students to find an established sanc­ Americus Henry Mills, Sr. 6 8 FOREIGN MISSIONS South Trion Marshall Lambert 7 9 tifying experience. Some of our young Thomaston Frank Chapman 16 4 people are really “on fire.” Columbus Grace R. L. Pitts 35 18 GEORGE COULTER, Secretary Valdosta S.S. G. McCommon 39 9 In September we had our annual Marietta Ralph Herrick 48 18 Note from Italy council meeting on the property we Harrisburg Eugene Jay 56 11 Rev. Robert J. Cerrato has been ap­ Columbus Downtown Robert Huff 71 10 recently bought in Chulumani in the Ten! lie J. Lindsey 75 17 pointed district superintendent of the low country, half a day’s drive from Gainesville Hugh Mincey 83 14 Italy field. He assumed his duties on Mt. Olive James Hawkins 119 19 La I’az. The balmy, tropical air at five JOPLIN November 13, 1961, and will continue thousand feet was a welcome relief to Garnett Tom Nees 0 5 to make his home in Florence, Italy. Fredonia Homer Gilbert 22 11 all. We got more done and all returned Mansfield Paul Buchanan 36 12 Rev. Alfredo Del Rosso, former super­ to La Paz feeling better for this respite Highway John Moles 63 33 intendent for twelve years, will now give Chanute Claude Pittenger 90 12 from the altitude. Iota Wilson Baker 130 12 full time to the pastorate of the church Independence Robert Leffel 163 18 at Civitavecchia, Italy. New Nurses in Coffeyvllle First Sam Stearman 165 19 Carthage First Wendell Paris 276 21 The prayers of Nazarenes everywhere NEW YORK are solicited on behalf of our Nazarene Our India Hospital Spring Valley Raymond Hedges 34 11 Sunitibai has been to Indore this year Poughkeepsie Jay Bergers 49 9 work in Italy. Brightwaters Robert Utter 49 8 D r . H a r d y C . P o w e r s to take the ward sister’s course in grad­ Kingston Willis Scott 88 12 uate training. Now she is back to re­ East Rockaway Herbert Rogers 129 13 General Superintendent SOUTH AFRICA Gkorce Coulter sume her duties and help with the Ventersdorp R. Hurni 6 4 teaching in the Nurses’ Training School. Stilfontein Pieter Schoeman 7 18 Executive Secretary Lusaka J. Scheepers 24 4 Department of Foreign Missions She will be a big help to us. Please Rustenburg D. Raath 24 6 remember Sunitibai in your prayers as Johannesburg W. Siebbeles 33 9 Primrose G. Rensburg 39 17 Prayer Request she undertakes these new responsibili­ Potchefstroom L. Kriel 49 20 Remember to pray for the nations SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA ties. Maud W. Ledbetter 11 5 of Central and South America. There Estherbai too is staying with us and, DECEMBER 13, 1961 • (833) 13 when you read Iliis. will lie beginning her ward sister’s course. Stic will be faced with many problems this next year, not the least of which is the fact Attend your Mid-Quadrennium that her family do not understand her decision to remain with us, nor do they fully support her in that decision. Fam­ CONFERENCE on EVANGELISM ilies arc close-knit units here and Esther- bai will feel very keenly the lack of • Music—to Inspire family approval and support, l’ray for her that she may have the extra grace • Messages—to Challenge and strength from God that she needs • Motivation—for Action in order to do His will. Nalinibai has completed her graduate Music Hall, Kansas City, Missouri training now. This is a wonderful an­ January 3, 4, and 5, 1962 swer to prayer. She first started the Keynote Address—Wed., Jan. 3, 1962—7:30 p.m. sister tutor training course in I9.">G. but [ell ill with tuberculosis in the middle “Spirit-inspired Evangelism” of it. and was in bed for several months. In 1959 the course was offered again, and we wanted her to finish then, but she prayed about it and felt she in the field of group counseling and shouldn't go because it would leave me group psychotherapy. DISTRICT ACTIVITIES alone with the teaching, as Miss Darling “In the Retraining Group first and was on furlough. Then last summer the foremost the individual receives coun­ Canada Central District principal of the graduate school asked seling and treatment from the psycholo- Preachers' Meeting special permission from the board to The annual preachers’ meeting of the take Nalinibai in and let her finish Canada Central District was held Octo­ her course before the principal left for ber 1() to 18, in the Newmarket church, furlough. This fitted in a little better developing into one of the finest meet­ for us, for Miss Darling would arrive ings of recent years. The guest speakers were Dr. William back from furlough before Nalinibai Greathouse, pastor of First Church in left us. We were thrilled to have the m Nashville, Tennessee; and Rev. Alpin opportunity for Nalinibai to complete Bowes, of the Department of Church her training. Now she has her certifi­ Extension. Although speaking on wide­ cate and is a fully registered sister tutor. ly differing themes, both men were used Thank God for His faithfulness!—E s t h e r of God to refresh and challenge the H o w a r d . India. hearts of the pastors present. Dr. Great­ house gave a series of outstanding stud­ Trinidad Vignette ies on John Wesley which both stirred We are keeping busy here in Trinidad. gists, psychiatrists, social caseworkers, and the mind and blessed the heart. Brother Vacation Bible schools kept us on the chaplains. The counseling is directed Bowes had arranged a comprehensive go during August. In our main church toward the individual’s assumption of display of church architecture, as well responsibilities. as speaking and showing slides on “The they had more than 530 in attendance Church Building." The contributions of some mornings. It is a strange experi­ “A great deal of my time is spent in both men will be long remembered and ence to hear a pastor plead that no clinical work, evaluating, measuring, and appreciated. more children be invited to come to assessing the personality and character Dr. Arnold Airhart, president of vacation Bible school. But I couldn’t of the retrainee in relation to his ethical Canadian Nazarene College, briefed the blame him. They were crowded be­ and moral stability. Few clergymen pastors on the progress of the college yond capacity and the teachers could have the unlimited opportunity for dy­ since its move to Winnipeg, Manitoba. not spread themselves any thinner, and namic Christian service that is mine The optimism of this good man is in­ still te a c h anything.—Wesley Harmon, here. Through a specific personalized fectious. An especially thrilling point about the Trinidad. program of therapy and correction men meeting was the almost 100 per cent at­ with real problems are brought into a tendance of the pastors. This is indica­ vital spiritual experience. Throughout tive of the high esteem held for our SERVICEMEN'S a daily schedule beginning with a capable district superintendent, Rev. ‘morning devotion’ at 0745 and continu­ Bruce T. Taylor. The pastors of this COMMISSION ing with diagnostic interviews, therapeu­ district are confident in his leadership, tic counseling, and group discussion and look for greater days, as Canada PAUL SKILES, Secretary classes of moral and cthical content, I Central District continues to uphold the have the perfectly programed privilege message of holiness to the heart of Can- Gleanings to honor and glorify the blessed Christ ada.—J a m e s A. T a y i . o r , Reporter. from and to lead men to Him. West Virginia District Chaplain Donnelly’s Report: "Needless to say, I do not have time “I am again privileged to have a very on my hands. I spend eight or ten hours Preachers' Meeting per day in interpersonal relationships The annual preachers’ meeting of the unique assignment, and one which I West Virginia District met in the city have been most anxious to receive. To with the retrainees. An average of four of Beckley with more than one hundred my knowledge, this is the only chaplain additional hours in the early morning pastors, wives, and evangelists present. assignment in the air force where the and late evening each day is required Rev. Carl W. Gray, Jr., and wife did a chaplain is officially designated a mem­ for writing up case reports and in prep­ grand job of entertaining, and afforded ber of a clinical team. I was especially aration activities. This is the most de­ us every convenience. interested in duty with this organization manding duty I have had but also the The convention began on Monday in order to obtain clinical experience most rewarding.” evening, October 30, with a banquet, 14 (834) • HERALD OF HOLINESS and the address of welcome was given Marienthal, Kansas—Fifteen months tiac, Michigan, to enter the field of by the president of the local Chamber ago we came here to pastor the Sunny- full-time evangelism. I was a member of Commerce. Tuesday morning the side Church and found a wonderful of the Arkansas District for fourteen mayor of Beckley, the Honorable Cecil group of people. Soon after our coming, years, and have been on the Eastern Miller, welcomed the delegates on be­ the West Kansas Holiness Association Michigan District for eight years. I half of the city and promised us every revival was held in our church, with shall be glad to go as the Lord may courtesy available. Rev. H. Harvey Dr. Ray Hance and Dwight and Norma lead. Write me, 360 Center Street Hendershot, our beloved district super­ Jean Meredith as the special workers. (north Center), Bradley, Illinois.” intendent, presided at the meetings with God gave many souls in this meeting. In grace and efficiency. January we had a good revival with Dr. and Mrs. A. S. London report: Dr. Samual Young, general superin­ Evangelist and Mrs. J. W. South. God “Rev. Frank Brinkley, pastor of our tendent, was the special speaker. Once blessed their preaching and singing, church in Beatrice, Nebraska, has a again Dr. Young endeared himself to several souls found victory at the altar, beautiful new building, on eight, well- the hearts o£ West Virginia Nazarenes and the church was uplifted. In October located, donated lots; the building was with his scriptural messages filled witli we had a revival with Evangelist “Dick” erected at a cost of half its value. It was wit and wisdom. Law. God used Brother Law’s messages a joy to be with the Brinkleys, as we The papers presented by the pastors to awaken souls to their need, and had been with them in two other pas­ were outstanding and helpful. Special more than thirty people sought the torates. They are good people, sincere, singing during the convention was high­ Lord for pardon or heart purity. Our devout, and aggressive. It seems that lighted by the preachers’ wives’ choir, people prayed, fasted, and carried a the Beatrice church is on the way to a under the direction of Mrs. Dallas Bag­ burden for souls. We give God praise new day after forty years’ history. We gett. for His blessings.—R u s s e l R. M c C o l l o m , had eight blessed days with Pastor Wen­ Superintendent Hendershot and wife Pastor. dell Paris and church in Carthage, Mis­ received a nice love offering, just another souri. Rev. Curtis Smith was with us token of esteem shown for the wonder­ Anch orage, Alaska—The Greater on the first Sunday in the interests of ful work they are doing on the district. Anchorage area experienced a very suc­ Bethany Nazarene College; more than The convention adjourned Thursday cessful city-wide campaign with Dr. $1,750 was pledged. We enjoyed having noon, after a wonderful Communion Russell V. DeLong as speaker, and Rev. the college quartet with us for the sec­ service in which the presence of the J. Stratton Shufelt as soloist and song ond Sunday. There were 324 present in Lord was truly felt by all those present. leader. Many souls were saved, and the Sunday school. The congregation has The pastors of the West Virginia Dis­ churches were strengthened in the Lord. purchased a new location for the church. trict are back of the whole program of Dr. DeI.ong was well received, and his The convention was well attended, and the church, and the emphasis of “Evan­ ministry appreciated by all the civic Pastor Paris and wife are excellent lead­ gelism First” has a deeper meaning than groups of the area as well as the ers. The choir, the attendance, and the ever before.—1’ a i j l D a r u l i .a , Reporter. Ministerial Association, as he took time boys and girls who found Christ, all to speak to all these groups in addition make a memory that will linger with to the regular services. Dr. DeLong has us. It was a blessing to be in the home THE LOCAL CHURCHES a needed message in this hour of world of District Superintendent Dean Baldwin crisis. All the services were well at­ and wife; they are devout and aggressive Stanford, Kentucky—In October wc tended and some nights the crowds leaders.” had a one-week revival with District overflowed the large auditorium.—M. R. Superintendent D. D. Lewis as our K o r o d y , Reporter. Somerset, Pennsylvania—Recently our evangelist. We began on Monday night church enjoyed a good revival with with the house filled, and during the Rev. A. C. Rowland writes from Nash­ Evangelist G. F. Underwood and wife as week ten seekers received definite help ville: "After a serious and almost fatal the special workers. They are a good from God at the altar of prayer. On heart attack we had to resign our work team, and their ministry was a blessing Saturday night, in a healing service, as pastor, on the advice of one of the to the church. The morning prayer three testified to receiving help from best doctors in the South. God did un­ meetings were blessed of God and re­ God. Two fine people were received dertake, in answer to prayer, and we sulted in many victories in the services. into the church, making seven on pro­ received a miraculous physical touch. We have a fine group of spiritual people, fession of faith and one by transfer Both arms, frozen from the shoulders and all departments Of the work are since our district assembly. The church to elbows, were instantly healed by the moving ahead.—G e o r g e F .m m i t t , Pastor. is in good spiritual condition, and we Lord. We say ‘thanks’ for all the are now trying to secure a lot on which prayers, cards, and flowers. For some Evansville, Indiana—We give God the to erect a new building. One year ago, reason God has spared our life. Al­ praise for the victories won and new August 21, when we came as pastor, we though we have had to resign as pastor, people reached in the recent revival in had twelve in Sunday school; and on doctors do urge that we continue to do Grace Church with Rev. Clyde B. Rodg­ October 15 we had fifty-nine, with an some preaching. Recently I have ers as the evangelist. We greatly ap­ average of fifty for the year.—J. W. preached at Shelbyville, with Rev. J. E. preciated the old-fashioned, Spirit-an­ S h e r o n , Pastor. White, and Fulton, Kentucky, with Rev. ointed messages of the evangelist. They Troy Daggett: Annapolis, with Rev. are just what our church needs today. Greenville, Texas—Peniel Church Everett Lewis, and Flat River, Esther, Brother Rodgers' singing and chalk observed “Laymen’s Day” on Sunday, Missouri, with Rev. C. F. Transue; artistry were also used to be a blessing October 15. with three laymen partici­ Paducah, Kentucky, with Rev. Earl to the people— Piivt.us W e l d e n , Secre­ pating in the evening service. One lay­ Cooprider; Dexter, with Rev. Ralph tary. man was in charge, another conducted Lachance. St. Louis with Rev. Glen an old-fashioned testimony service— I’acc. and at this writing in l’iedmonl. Bcnnetlswlle, South Carolina—Recent­ which caught fire and we had a real Missouri, with Rev. F. A. Welsh. Wc ly our church had a week's revival with l’cntecost—and a third brought a mes­ thank the Lord for His continued bless­ Evangelist J. C. Crabtree. Without a sage which was a blessing to all. The ings in giving some wonderful altar ser­ doubt, this was the most soul-stirring service closed with a great season of vices. I am resigned to do His will, and revival ever held in our church. Brother prayer around the altar; it was a time believe He has spared me for a task to Crabtree preached with the anointing of refreshing. Our people have a mind help our church in keeping ‘Evangelism of the Holy Ghost, and his Bible-ccn- to work and the church is taking on First.’ Write me at my home address, tered messages brought conviction to new life, with God giving us some won­ 408 Veritas Street, Nashville 11, Ten­ hearts night after night. Again and again derful services. Rev. and Mrs. W. J. nessee.” the altar was lined with seekers, and Campbell are doing a splendid job, and God honored with victory. The closing the "Shining Lights on Sunday Nights” Rev. Oscar Stallings writes: “After day will be long remembered by our emphasis is paying off in increased at­ twenty-two years of pastoral and evan­ people, and the climax came with seven tendance on Sunday night.—M r s . N a r v k i . gelistic preaching, I have resigned as members coming into the church on G a s w a y , Reporter. pastor of our I’arkdale Church in Pon­ profession of faith. God honored the DECEMBER 13, 1961 • (835) 15 prayers of our people and the largest day religious education program’ in the Spirit. The church had prepared well, crowds in years attended the services. public schools systems in Wyandot Coun­ with prayer bands praying and fasting, Brother Crabtree endeared himself to ty. By accepting this position, Brother along with cottage prayer meetings pre­ the hearts of the people, and has been Harr will be reaching more than six ceding the revival. Nearly sixty seekers given a call to return—L. L. J e n k i n s , Pas­ hundred children in the fourth and fifth prayed through to God, with many seek­ tor. grades one day each week with this Bible ing and finding heart purity. On the clos­ course; this outreach includes six public ing Sunday we baptized five in the Ohio Rev. Forest Hill writes: “After pas- schools. We feel this is a wonderful op­ River, and received six on profession of toring our church at Oak Harbor for portunity to spread the gospel and an­ faith into church membership. This three years, I have accepted the work of other way to reach unchurched homes.” makes thirty new members during our our Lakewood Church in Tacoma, Wash­ two-year ministry at Middleport. We ington. This presents a great challenge Salem, Indiana—God greatly used Rev. give God praise for His help and bless­ since we are the nearest of our Nazarene and Mrs. Marcellus Crider in giving us ings.—C l y d e J. B a r t l e t t , Pastor. churches to Fort Lewis and McChord one of the greatest revivals, October 11 Air Force Base. If you have friends or to 22, in the history of our church. Their Evangelist E. L. Latham reports: "Re­ relatives stationed in either place, please singing was an inspiration to all, and cently I had a good revival campaign in send us their names and addresses and Brother Crider’s Spirit-inspired, old- Carterville, Illinois, with Pastor C. L. we will do everything we can to help fashioned, Bible preaching was honored Chapman. Wonderful spirit of prayer them. Our church is located at 9308 by the Lord. High lights of the revival prevailed throughout the meeting, and Meadow Road, S.W., and the pastor’s were: 25 seekers at the altar on the God gave some good victories at the address is 9012 Dalwyn Court, S.W.; tele­ closing Sunday morning, giving a total altar. We had ninety-one in Sunday phone is JU 8-0808.” of 50 seekers; Sunday school attendance school on the closing day. This is one record broken three times during Oc­ of the oldest churches in our denomina­ Evangelists C. C. and Flora N. Chat- tober, with 240 present on October 22, tion, having been organized in 1911. The field write: “It is a great joy to report and the evangelist raised a love offering work is moving forward under the lead­ that we arc still on the firing line and of one hundred dollars for the pastor ership of Pastor Chapman. At this writ­ active in the service of the Lord. Re­ and wife. The church maintains a spir­ ing I am in a meeting in Lowell, Indiana, cently we had a good meeting with the itual glow' of revival, with a good num­ with Pastor Raymond Buskirk, and al­ Ratliffs at Brownstown, Indiana. Pastors ber in prayer meeting, and special ready twenty-three persons have sought and people stood back of the meeting manifestation of God on the Sunday God at the altar for pardon or heart in every way. Just before that we were morning service following the revival. purity. 1 have an open date, January 9 at our church in Mitchell. God met with —R a y W i l s o n , Pastor. to 21. and also March G to 18. I travel us in a signal manner, with Pastor Grant alone and can furnish own house trailer, Barton leading his people forward. At Song Evangelist George Waterman if necessary; will go anywhere for free­ this writing we arc with our Northside writes: “In October. I was in a blessed will offering. Write me, Nazarene Acres, Church in Elkhart, and God is giving meeting with Pastor Casey and the good Mcchanirsburg, Illinois.” victory. We have sold our home and people of (lie church in Windham, moved; our new address is P.O. Box 572. Maine. Evangelist Shelia Graham was Houston. Texas—A spiriLof revival con­ Columbus, Indiana. We will be aL (his anointed of the Spirit, and God came on tinues and increases in the Lake Forest address over the holidays. It is a real the services in the old-fashioned way. I Church. Recently w'e enjoyed a twelve- joy to serve God and the church.” have open dates for the spring and will day revival with Evangelist W. J. Strack. be glad to go as the Lord may lead. He is an old-fashioned holiness preachcr Nashville, Michigan—Several new peo­ Write me, 85 Wendell Street, Cam­ with a timeless, dynamic message which ple found victory in God in our recent bridge 38, Massachusetts.” the Holy Spirit uses to convict the un­ revival with Evangelist Marvin S. Cooper believer and spur the Christian on to as the special worker. We reached an Scott City, Kansas—Our recent revival greater maturity. Attendance was good, all-time high for Sunday night attend­ with Evangelist and Mrs. Carl Brock- with many visitors in the services, and ance. We appreciated the godly spirit muellcr was the greatest in the history a good number of people sought and and influence of Brother Cooper, and of the church. More than eighty visitors found definite victory in God at the altar our church is marching forward.—A l l e n attended the services, twenty-nine people of prayer. There is a prevailing spirit C o b b , Pastor. sought the Lord and prayed through to of unity among our people, and we look good victory for pardon or heart purity, to God for greater victories under the Follansbee. West Virginia—God blessed and a love offering of $200 was raised consecrated leadership of Pastor Ray­ in each service with His presence in for the pastor to apply on his car. The mond Lee Wilson and wife.—M r s . W. M. our recent revival with the Fowler Evan­ church is united and moving forward. R e a , Reporter. gelistic Party as the special workers. This church has thirty-three members, God gave several seekers during the and last year averaged forty-five in Sun­ Evangelist W. C. Raker writes: ‘Tol- meeting and, on the closing night, seven­ day school. This revival was in answer lowing the convention on evangelism in teen came to the altar, seeking God for to more than a year of special days of Kansas City early in January, Wife and pardon or heart purity. Four new mem­ prayer and fasting on the part of many I will be going west for revivals. Before bers were received into the church. of our good people.—D a n i e l C o l b y , Pas­ returning to Anadarko, Oklahoma, on Brother Fowler’s Spirit-anointed, Bible tor. February 15 to begin our eastern slate, preaching and the special music and we have some open time we’d like to singing of the party were deeply appre­ Ml. Jay Nichols and his family were slate in the West. W rite us. Box I0(i. ciated by our people. The spirit of re- honored on Sunday. October 29, at First l.cwislown, Illinois.” rival continues in our Sunday services. Church of the Nazarene in Richmond. — L l o y d C. I’r o v a n c k , Pastor. Indiana, with a special program and the Evangelist Henry B. Wallin reports: gift of a portrait of the Nichols family. ' Since entering the field of evangelism Robinson. Illinois—First Church re­ After serving as church treasurer for on January 4 of this year. I have con­ cently had a very good revival with Evan­ twenty-six years. Mr. Nichols had asked ducted thirteen campaigns in California, gelist Carl Kruse and wife as the special to he relieved of the job. The program with over four hundred people seeking workers. The church received much was in recognition of his services to the spiritual help at the altar, more than help from their ministry, and there church. His family includes his wile, fifty new family altars erected, scores were several seekers at the altar. Our Ethel; a son, William, a Nazarene min­ anointed for healing, and my own soul church is moving forward for God and ister; and a daughter, Barbara—with the lias been richly blessed as I ministered. lost souls.—C l a y t o n E. A l l e n , Pastor. son’s wife and tw'o children. In all except one of these campaigns my wife lias joined me, giving the travelogue Mrs. AVilliam Wills, secretary of the Middleport, Ohio—Rev. John W. Har- of our ministry in Japan, and witnessing church in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, rold, evangelist for our twelve-day meet­ many voting people dedicating them­ writes: “Our pastor, Rev. Carl E. Harr, ing. preached holiness messages in each selves for full-time service. I have an lias been chosen instructor in the ‘week­ service with the anointing of the Holy open dale in January which I would like 1C (836) • HERALD OF HOLINESS to slate in California; then the fall of Cousin Mary greeted Cousin Elisabeth — to Merwyn D. and M. Denice (Sherrill) Matson '02 is open. W rite me, 1414 N. Hill . . . and Elisabeth was filled with the of Portland, Oregon, a daughter, Shaunna Lynn, on Avenue, Pasadena, California." Holy Ghost. Could she help blit sing of October 22. ADOPTED Cousin Mary? “Blessed art thou among — by Gene E. and D. Louise (Jagger) Bowen of Kingfisher, Oklahoma—In service after women, and blessed is the fruit of thy Denver, Colorado, a baby boy, on October 17, service there were seekers at the altar womb." named Randall Eugene; he was born on July 18. during our recent ten-day revival cam­ Replied Mary with free and happy SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a friend in Oklahoma for an "unspoken re­ paign with Evangelist James W. Hum­ spirit, "My soul doth magnify the Lord, quest— extremely urgent"; ble. The power of the presence of God and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my by a reader in Michigan, has had a nervous was manifested as seekers testified to Saviour.” breakdown and longs "for peace and quietness of soul and mind; tensions seem to keep me from having received God’s grace in definite Throughout those indescribably beau­ claiming the promises of God"; saving or sanctifying power. Brother tiful days, Mary’s heart leaped like deer by a reader in Oklahoma, a Nazarene, for a Humble’s Spirit-anointed ministry was through a clear forest and up a high "very urgent unspoken request"— that God will help much appreciated, and this church hill; her soul was enraptured as one deep with regard to this problem. presses forward in harmony and unity. in the sanctuary with the eternal God: —M e r r i l l M . M o r g a n , Pastor. her spirit grew as one fed from the hid­ Directories GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS den springs of the valley. Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076 Fulton, Kentucky—Rev. A. C. Row­ She was one overshadowed by the Holy Kansas City 10, Missouri land, now working in the evangelistic Ghost. And in her response to God wc District Assembly Schedules field, was with us in a recent week-end HARDY C. POWERS: revival—one of the best the church has ldaho-Oregon ...... May 10 and 11 had for several years, the people said. British Isles North ...... "SHOWERS of BLESSING" British Isles South ...... His stirring messages gave our people a Northeast Oklahoma ...... June 20 and 21 new vision for lost souls, and people Albany ...... June 27 and 28 Program Schedule Eastern Michigan ...... July 11 and 12 were saved and sanctified with some en­ Central Ohio ...... July 18 to 20 tire families praying through to God. East Tennessee ...... July 26 and 27 We thank God for the ministry of Broth­ December 17—“Religion in the Atom­ Akron ...... August 1 and 2 ic Age,” by Mendell Taylor Dallas ...... August 8 and 9 er Rowland with us.—T. J. D a g g e t t , Pas­ tor. December 24—“Emmanuel: God with Kansas City ...... August 29 and 30 Us,” by Hugh C. Benner South Arkansas ...... September 19 and 20 Chcsterhill, Ohio—RecentK our church December 31—“A New Year’s Recipe,” G. B. WILLIAMSON: by V. H. Lewis Northwest ...... May 2 and 3 had a very successful three-week revival. Canada Pacific ...... May 10 and 11 Evangelist Bob Palmer thrilled and chal­ January 7—“Life's Most Important Alaska ...... May 17 and 18 Question,” by Russell V. DeLong Canada Atlantic ...... June 21 and 22 lenged our hearts as lie preached the Canada Central ...... June 28 and 29 glorious gospel. God honored his faith­ Canada West ...... July 5 and 6 ful. heart-searching messages, and his Northeastern Indiana ...... July 11 to 13 Chicago Central ...... July 18 and 19 burden for souls, with the manifest find a pattern into the way more excel­ Kentucky ...... August 8 and 9 presence of the Spirit in the services. lent. Childlike was she in trust and Houston ...... August 22 and 23 Our church and people received def­ obedience. In her adoration of God we South Carolina ...... September 12 and 13 inite spiritual help. Pastor and people find true worship. As David, she beheld North Carolina ...... September 19 and 20 are determined to keep "Evangelism the "bcautv of the Lord.” Prayer seemed New York ...... September 28 and 29 SAMUEL YOUNG: O p a i . C r i .m , to be the breath of her life. First."— Pastor. Washington P a c ific ...... May 2 and 3 If wc are to grow in the likeness of Northern California ...... May 9 to 11 Christ (and oh! how our hearts cry Los Angeles ...... May 16 to 18 out!), we too must learn the art of wor­ New England ...... June 20 and 21 Maine ...... June 27 and 28 THE BIBLE LESSON ship and prayer. A disciplined art it is. Southwestern Ohio ...... July 4 and 5 By J. W. ELLIS Simple in its profundity, yet only the Oregon Pacific ...... July 18 to 20 strong in spirit reap its rewards. What Northwest Oklahoma ...... July 25 and 26 Iowa ...... August 8 and 9 is worship? Position of body, you say? Indianapolis ...... August 23 and 24 Topic for December 17: Attendance at church? Singing the Louisiana ...... August 29 and 30 We Grow Through hymns? Attention to liturgy? Not neces­ Southwest Oklahoma ...... September 19 and 20 Worship and Prayer sarily. Worship is a spiritual exercise, D. I. VANDERP00L: hence not so much a position of body San Antonio ...... May 2 and 3 S c r i p t u r e : Luke l:2fi-80 (Printed: as it is position of spirit . . . and prayer. Mississippi ...... May 9 and 10 Luke 1:39-55) Southern California...... May 23 and 24 It is the voice of the worshiper in the South Dakota ...... June 20 and 21 C o l d k n T e x t : My soul dolli magnify spirit of truth. North Dakota ...... June 28 and 29 I lie Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in West Virginia ...... July 5 to 7 ('•od my Saviour (Luke 1:4(5-47). Lesson material is based on International Sunday Northwestern Ohio ...... July 11 and 12 School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for Gulf Central ...... July 18 and 19 “How shall this be?” asked Mary of Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Southwest Indiana...... August 1 and 2 the angel Gabriel. Council of Religious Education, and is used by its V irg in ia ...... August 9 and 10 “The Holy Ghost shall come upon permission. Missouri ...... August 15 and 16 thee, and the power of the Highest shall Announcements Northwest Indiana ...... August 22 and 23 overshadow thee: therefore also that liolv HUGH C. BENNER: RECOMMENDATION Washington ...... May 2 and 3 thing which shall be born of thee shall — Rev. Aubrey Ponce, who has beeti pastoring Philadelphia ...... May 9 and 10 be called the Son of God." replied Ga­ on the Alaska District, is returning to the south Arizona ...... May 23 and 24 briel. forth-eight states and is entering the evangelistic New Mexico ...... May 30 and 31 field. Brother Ponce is a faithful minister in the Rocky Mountain ...... June 7 and 8 The incredible had been made plain! church, and loves the souls of men. He is a fine Minnesota ...... July 12 and 13 The impossible had become possible! evangelist and any church will receive blessing and Colorado ...... July 19 and 20 Nothing now for the handmaid of the help from his work as an evangelist. Address him, Eastern Kentucky ...... July 25 and 26 4361 San Juan Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida.— Wisconsin ...... August 9 and 10 Lord to do but to humbly acquiesce . . . Bert Daniels, Superintendent of Alaska District. Northwestern Illinois ...... August 15 and 16 "Be it unto me according to thy word." BORN Tennessee ...... August 22 and 23 Gabriel departed to be with God. to Rev. and Mrs. Albert Ptinble of t.au Cljirt*, Southeast Oklahoma ...... September 5 and 6 Mary departed to be with Elisabeth. Wisconsin, a daughter, Valin ie Sue, on November 7. North Arkansas ...... September 27 and ?3 Into the hill country “with haste” she - to Samuel and Lovetta (Cornell) Meyersburg V. H. LEWIS: went with a heart full of praise and a of Bourbonnais, Illinois, a son, Daniel Scott, cn Abilene ...... May 9 to 11 October 31. Florida ...... May 14 and 15 mind full of excitement. The rocks took Alabama ...... May 23 and 24 on new strength in their silence; the hills — to Rev. and Mrs. Earl R. Baker of Van Buren, Nevada-Utah ...... June 13 and 14 became unusually friendly in their un­ Arkansas, a daughter, Joy Celeste, on October 29. Nebra;ka ...... June 28 and 29 Michigan ...... July 11 and 12 derstanding; the trees took on new glory — to Rev. and Mrs. Ronald Meyers of Butte, Pittsburgh ...... July 18 to 20 as they reached higher into the heavens; Montana, a son, Randall Wayne, on October 26. Illinois ...... July 25 to 27 Kansas ...... August 1 to 3 and the birds sang full-throated as if — to Don L. and Lois (Cramer) Morgan of Deep Georgia ...... September 12 and 13 they had just discovered a new song. River, lown, a son, Jack Cramer, on October 15. Joplin ...... September 19 and 20 DECEMBER 115, 19G1 • (837) 17 of the Religious World nswer comer Rayburn’s Illness Poses Possibility of Three Catholic Government Leaders* W a s h in g t o n , D.C. (CNS) —The incur­ able illness of House Speaker Sam Ray­ Conducted by W. T. PURKISER, Editor burn poses the definite possibility that Will you please explain I Peter 3:19, “By which also he went and preached in the next session of Congress the unto the spirits in prison”? leadership positions of both the House This is admittedly a very difficult In harmony with this last interpreta­ of Representatives and Senate, as well as verse. John Wesley and Adam Clarke tion, Dr. H. Orton Wiley quotes W. B. the White House, will be held by men believed (from verse 20) that it means Pope: "In the interval [between the who are Roman Catholics. The person that Christ in the Spirit had preached crucifixion and the resurrection of most naturally in line for the speaker’s through Noah to the generation that Christ] the Redeemer asserted his au­ chair is Rep. John McCormack (D.- lived before the Flood, whose spirits thority and Lordship in the vast region Mass.) He has served as majority leader arc now in prison under the judgment where the congregation of the dead is of the House and recently became acting of God. Many others read this verse the great aggregate of mankind” (Chris­ speaker when Mr. Rayburn was forced in the light of Acts 2:27 and 31; Ro­ tian Theology, II, 203-4). The purpose to return to Texas because of his health. mans 10:6-7; and Ephesians 4:8-10, and of the “preaching” is not clear. Selwyn President Kennedy and Senator Mike take it to mean what is referred to in thinks it means that Christ proclaimed Mansfield (D.-Mont.), both Catholics, the Apostles' Creed in the phrase “He in the spirit world the triumph of His have held their positions of leadership descended into hell." cross and coming resurrection. during one full session of Congress. Is it right for a Sunday school board to put in teachers who are saved but One thing which makes the situation not sanctified, and who say that we get everything when we are saved? of particular interest is the fact that It is not. tified, particularly in teaching classes of Mr. McCormack has often been called T he M anual states that the officers and younger children. But I can think of no “the spokesman of the Roman Catholic teachers in the Sunday school shall be good reason for permitting a person to hierarchy” in the U.S. Congress. There “in full harmony w'ith the doctrines teach who has taken the definite stand is considerable opinion that the bill to and polity of the Church of the Naza­ that “we get everything when we are provide federal aid to education might rene” (Paragraph 143, 1960 M anual). saved." To me, such a person would be have been treated differently if Mr. I can understand enlisting the help totally unqualified as an interpreter of McCormack had been speaker during of young Christians who are living ex­ God's Word. the past session. The speaker is chosen emplary lives and who are not yet sanc- by the members of the House. “ Mr. Rayburn died November 16. In Genesis 1:7, what is the meaning of the “waters . .. above the firmament”? John Elected as New Bishop Adam Clarke says, “Our translators, qucntlv that circumambient space or ex­ of Free Methodist Church by following the firmamentum of the pansion separating the clouds, which are W in o n a L a k e , I n d . (CNS)—Rev. Ed­ ward C. John, of Perry, Michigan, was Vulgate (the Latin translation of the in the higher regions of it, from the elected a bishop of the Free Methodist Bible) . . . have deprived this passage seas, etc., which are below it. This we church at a recent meeting here of the of all sense anti meaning. The Hebrew' call the atmosphere." The "waters . . . Board of Administration. He will suc­ word rakia, from raka, to spread out as above tire firmament” would then be ceed Bishop C. V. l’airbairn, who an­ the curtains of a tent or pavilion, simply the clouds. nounced his retirement at the meeting. signifies an expanse or space, and conse- The new bishop assumed office on No­ In Romans 8:17 do we become “joint-heirs with Christ” only as we “suffer vember I. with him”? Just what does this last part mean? The Free Methodist church has four If you are asking whether we become the rights and privileges of natural son- bishops. Prior to his election, Bishop “joint-heirs with Christ” as a result of ship. The suffering with Christ is as­ John was a superintendent in the East suffering with Him, I should say no. sociated with being “glorified together.” Michigan Conference. As a part of his We become joint heirs of God as a re­ It comes as a result of the Spiritual new responsibilities he will serve as sult of being born again and adopted rebirth and adoption, and not the re­ chairman of the Commission on Chris­ into the family of God (vv. 14-16). verse. tian Education. Adoption under ancient law carried all U.S. Churches Rush Aid to Stricken British Honduras Was Saul of Tarsus sanctified when Ananias laid hands on him and said, Acting within 48 hours after news “Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as was received of the ravages of Hurri­ thou earnest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled cane Hattie in British Honduras. Church with the Holy Ghost” (Acts 9:17)? World Service flew 700 blankets to the I believe he was. That he was sancti­ of sin and death"; and I 'l hessalonians inundated capital of the British Carib­ fied is seen in his personal testimony 2:10, "We are witnesses, and God also, bean colony. Also assured for immediate in Romans 8:2, “For the law [principle] how holily and justly and unblameably use in the disaster area was an initial of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath we behaved ourselves among you that $0,000 for relief work. made me free from the law [principle] believe." An agency spokesman stated that it had not yet been able to ascertain on a distribution program for the needi­ crashing into the capital. However, dif­ whether some 30,000 pounds of C.W.S. est in British Honduras for some years. ficulties in communication prevented food, clothing, and bedding already in Hurricane Hattie, according to reports more exact reports of the disaster needs Belize are still in usable condition. reaching C.W.S., brought winds of 200 from reaching the New York office im­ C hurch World Service has been carrying miles an hour and giant tidal waves mediately. 18 (838) • HERALD OF HOLINESS The new chapel at Haltom City, Texas, is a part of a district home mission program directed by District Superin­ tendent Raymond Hurn on the Abilene District. It is planned to build four or five similar chapels on the district each year. The Haltom City church was organized in June. One hundred seventy were present for the dedica­ tion service, with Mayor J. C. Gunter bringing words of welcome and Rev. Hurn preaching the dedicatory sermon. Rev. Dee Freeborn is the pastor. The Villa Heights Church of the Naza­ rene in Roanoke, Virginia, was dedi­ cated on September 10 by General Superintendent D. I. Vanderpool, as­ sisted by District Superintendent V. W. Littrell. The sanctuary seats 250, and there are 14 classrooms and offices which will accommodate approximate­ ly 250 in Sunday school. The estimated value of the new building is $70,000, with an indebtedness of approximately one-third the value. A substantial sav­ ing in cost of construction resulted from the work of Pastor Loren W. Gould acting as contractor. California visitors Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gilmore of Pasadena watch Production Manager Arch Edwards demonstrate a new hydraulic cutter which has been installed in the Nazarene Publishing House. Mr. Gilmore, a contractor, built the Publishing House Pasadena branch, the new Pasadena First Church, and is constructing the administration building at Pasadena College.

Constructed of Bedford stone, and seat­ ing 400 on the main floor, the new building of the First Church of the Nazarene in Shelbyville, Indiana, was dedicated on October 1 by General Su­ perintendent Hugh C. Benner, assisted by District Superintendent Luther Cantwell. The educational unit has a chapel seating 150 and 16 classrooms. The congregation is growing with an average of 236 in Sunday school during a recent month. Rev. C. D. Gadbow is the pastor. to be enjoyed for many years

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