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12-7-1960 Herald of Holiness Volume 49 Number 41 (1960) W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House
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Let the Light Shine! General Superintendent Benner It was in San Juan Chemelco, Guatemala. With one of our missionaries I stepped into a large, new Church of the Nazarene to find more than five hundred Kekchi Indians reading from the Word of God in their own dialect. Only a few years earlier they enjoyed no such opportunity or ability. Although at that time they were affiliated with a group professing the name of Jesus Christ, they were denied access to the Bible and lived in ignorance, super stition, and spiritual darkness. But into that situation came a sanctified Nazarene missionary and trans lator, William Sedat. With superior linguistic skill and unlimited patience he began the translation of the New Testament into the difficult Kekchi dialect. I saw in his study the completed translation files, with a card for each verse in the New Testament. Week after week passages were selected and printed so that the people could learn to read the Scriptures. This process was useful also in correcting or revising the translation so that it would be accurate and clear. Thus, through the specialized ministry of a Nazarene translator the light of God’s Word began to shine into the minds and hearts of the Kekchis. As I listened, the sounds were strange, but my heart was blessed as I sensed the spirit of these redeemed Kekchis as they read from the divine revelation. The translation of the Bible into more than one thousand languages and dialects, together with the distribution of multiplied millions of copies through out the world, constitutes a glorious phase of Christian evangelism. In this the American and British Bible Societies have played a major part, and today the Church of the Nazarene is aided and strengthened in a score of fields by the projects of these societies. With gratefulness to God for the abundance of redemptive light which we enjoy through free access to the Bible, let us support generously these groups whose ministry is so vital to the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ. " I WANT TO DO IT ^emlcicfjhliness BY MYSELF" By WILBUR J. DODSON*
By EUGENE STOWE, Pastor, College Church, Nampa, Idaho
At this period of the year when the Christian times they have found that the faith of their fathers Church observes Universal Bible Sunday, it is in revealed through the Scriptures still speaks with teresting to note that the first word which many unchanging authority. of our children learn to spell is the word “Bible.” Furthermore, the Bible remains the best-selling Long before they enter public school they are en Book because it is— rolled in Sunday school. Almost as soon as they T h e B o o k o f Se c u r it y can sing, many of them are taught the chorus In the recent political campaign in America which states: much was said about the security of the nation The B-I-B-L-E, and of the individual. Throughout the world Yes, that’s the hook for me; there is a universal cry for physical and economic I stand alone on the Word of God: safety. But even more important than social se The B-I-B-L-E. curity is soul security. In the words of Jesus: What better way for a child to begin his Chris “Fear not them which kill the body, but are not tian education than this? What better foundation able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which upon which to build a life than a reverent appre is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” ciation for the Holy Scriptures as God’s written (Matthew 10:28). This being true, the only real Word? relief from fear about the future will be found when Wise indeed is that person, whether child, youth, one secures the eternal part of his nature for or adult, who can testify that the Bible is . . the eternity. book for me.” Millions around the world of every This is what the Bible is all about! It is not a age and from every cultural and economic level history book, a science book, or a storybook. It is unite their voices in this affirmation. One reason a Textbook on salvation, or soul security. Article for this universal acceptance of the Scriptures is IV of the Articles of Faith, in the Manual of the that the Bible has proved itself to be— Church of the Nazarene, states: “. . . we under T h e B o o k o f A u t h o r it y stand the sixty-six books of the Old and New Dr. H. Orton Wiley, dean of Nazarene theo Testaments [were] given by divine inspiration, in- logians, declares, “Our conclusion is that the Scrip errantly revealing the will of God concerning us tures were given by plenary inspiration to the in all things necessary to our salvation, . . .” degree that they became the infallible Word of The Bible clearly maps the road from earth to God, the authoritative rule of faith and practice in heaven. It describes man’s major malady as sin. the Church.” Protestantism has believed this from It reveals Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God that the beginning. However, in recent years liberal taketh away the sin of the world. It defines the theology has sought to undermine this foundational process by which a man may confess his sins, be truth. Dr. Harold John Ockenga, writing in forgiven, and be born again into an eternal life. Christianity Today, states: “The watershed of It further instructs the Christian to make a full modern theology remains one’s attitude toward the commitment, and receive cleansing from the nature Bible as the ultimate and final authority for faith of sin and the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Finally, and action.” it guarantees that those who obediently walk in The tragic impotence of much of today’s preach the light have a continual cleansing from all sin ing can be directly traced to a proclamation of and a truly “eternal security.” “Thus saith man’s reason” instead of “Thus saith Without the Bible, man is hopelessly estranged God’s Word.” However, it is encouraging to note from God. With it he has the very key to the that even in communions whose ministers do not gates of heaven. The power of this written gospel accept the Bible as authoritative there are num has been proved countless times. One illustration bers of laymen who place their final faith in its comes from the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the father teachings. In the uncertainty of these changing of Indian independence. Although not a Christian DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (999) 3 himself, Gandhi accepted many of the teachings of tion of the Scriptures which had been sent him by Christ. On one occasion he sent a copy of the another who was not himself a Christian! New Testament to a man who was confined in Let every Christian not only reverence the Bible jail. The prisoner read the Book avidly. The Holy as “the Book for me,” but let us give our hearty Spirit applied the truth, and he was genuinely co-operation to every agency which is engaged in converted. Without benefit of a human preacher translating and distributing the Scriptures, so that or teacher this heathen man was brought to a it may in fact become “the Book for every man saving knowledge of Christ through reading a por- everywhere.”
quer the world by the sword. The Word of God says, “They that take the sword shall perish with the sword” (Matthew 26:52). Alexander died ai thirty-three—one of the most amazing failures in history. “Bob” Ingersoll was a militant atheist. He weni about using his fine talent in an endeavor tc break down faith in the Word of God. In various places a little, shriveled-up Irishman used to de bate with him, and quite often put him to discom THY W ORD liture. The Word of God says, “Answer a fool according to his folly” (Proverbs 26:5), and old Father Brown worked on that principle. IS TRUTH At one time when the two met on a public debating platform the crowd was definitely pro- By CHARSTEN CHRISTENSEN Ingersoll. Ingersoll knew it, and as he strode onto the platform in all his resplendent appearance—a big man, well dressed, handsome—he pointed a Thy word is truth (John 17:17). The old black scornful linger at Father Brown and said: “Just smith illustrated this thought perfectly: his anvil look at him. He’s an example of Christianity. 1 had not worn out by repeated blows on it, but am an example of atheism. Why, if I rubbed a rather it had worn out many hammers. “. . . the little butter on him, I could swallow him at one word of God which . . . abideth for ever” (I Peter gulp.” 1:23) . And little Father Brown, backing up in mock It was Julian, the apostate emperor of Rome, terror, said, “Yes, yes, I know you could. But il who attempted to stamp out Christianity. But he you did, you would have more brains in youi failed so miserably that when he died, the story has stomach than you ever had in your head.” “Answei it, he said, “O Galilean, Thou hast conquered!” a fool according to his folly!” From then on the Another antagonist of the Word, Voltaire, boast crowd was with little Father Brown. ed that lie had effectively crippled Christianity. The idea of the Flood often has been subjected But it was the birthplace and family home of this to ridicule. Not long ago a number of coins minted same Voltaire which later was used as a storehouse in the third and second centuries b .c . were found for the Christian Scriptures by the British and in a little town in Phrygia. These coins depicted Foreign Bible Society. Noah and his wife walking from the ark. The Many years ago God said to Abraham: “I will Greek word under it is Noe, and a dove with an bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curs- olive branch is seen above the ark. eth thee: . . (Genesis 12:3). Hitler did not be Far over on the other side of the w'orld the lieve the Bible; therefore he attempted to stamp Thlinkut Indians in British Columbia tell a stor) out the Jews. He exterminated six million individ of one ol their forefathers who took refuge in a uals of the Jewish race. But Hitler is gone, and great floating building. They describe it in much the Jewish race is more firmly entrenched than the same language as that which describes Noah’s ever. “Thy word is truth.” ark. Charles Darwin set out indirectly to prove the Today we fear the onslaught of communism. One fallacy of Genesis. But it was Charles Darwin him of the tenets of communism is the MCH—the Ma self who said that after examining over 160,000 terialistic Concept of History. Jesus said, “Man specimens, he found absolutely no evidence of the shall not live by bread alone” (Matthew 4:4). transmutation of species. Genesis says, “after his Nor will the human race continue itself on a kind” (1:25). Thy word is truth. materialistic concept. Let us encourage our hearts “Christ and Alexander died at thirty-three”—so by the “every word that proceedeth out of the goes the beautiful poem. Alexander set out to con- mouth of God.” Thy word is truth. i (1000) • HERALD OF HOLINESS tion of those truths which He seeks to make known. It is not enough to read the Bible as the words of God. The Bible is the word of God—God re The vealed. “The word of God is quick, and powerful’’ (Hebrews 4:12); it is living and active. It is dy namic and eternal, speaking not only of what God Speaking has done and said in the past, but of what He is doing and saying now. When the Bible rs used only to confirm one’s accepted beliefs, when it speaks comfort and never Word rebuke, when it speaks to one’s strength and not By HARVEY J. S. BLANEY to his weakness, when it is made to give license Associate Professor of Religion to one’s ideas and practices and never humbles Eastern Nazarene College, Wollaston, Mass. him before his own shortcomings and failures, when the Bible becomes the tool of one’s plans The Bible has two centers of divine revelation— and wishes and not the monitor of them—in short, Mount Sinai and Mount Calvary. At Sinai the when the reader of the Bible achieves less than a moral code was established in the Ten Command personal encounter with the living God, he stands ments. At Calvary redemption was provided for at a door which has not opened to him. When he man, who had broken the moral law. Both were goes through that door to where God himself waits evidences of the covenant relationship which God to be known, ever new and thrilling experiences holds with His people. The first covenant was will be his. ratified by a sacrificial ceremony, repeated year He will hear God in both the thunderings of after year. The second covenant was ratified by Sinai and in the still, small voice of Horeb—and the sacrificial death of Christ, once for all. God will be standing by the Red Sea place in The moral code is the theme of the Old Testa his life. He will see God in the burning bush and ment; Christ is the Theme of the New Testament. on Moses’ mount of vision—and God will lead The moral law, and thus the Old Testament, him into His Canaan land of perfect love. There streams from the first two commandments which re he will find the fountain of truth and the light of veal the character of God. The gospel, and thus the life, the vision of greatness and the path to per New Testament, streams from the Incarnation, the fection. The moral code will become his way of revelation of the person of God. life, and the Cross his salvation from sin. The In the Old Testament, God meets man beside Bible will become free from the bounds of petty the tablets of broken law in the holy of holies. dogmas, and the reader will become free in mind In the New Testament, God meets man at the and spirit—free with the freedom wherewith Christ cross of Christ. These two foci give the heart and has made him free. kernel of divine revelation in the Scriptures—God The tablets of the moral law have been lost in revealing himself at the place of man’s sin. In the the debris of time. Christ no longer walks in law, He leads man to Christ (Galatians 3:24) . In Galilee. But God is still speaking, whether it be Christ, He draws man to himself (John 12:32). in law or in gospel, and the Holy Spirit, who It is therefore imperative to recognize the Bible “searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” as primarily the revelation of God himself in (I Corinthians 2:10), has been given to lead us His manifold character, and after that the revela into all truth.
Through every verily of life, THY WORD Thy insight is complete; WILL GUIDE Through pathways dark and treacherous “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, Thy Word will guide our feet. and a light unto my path” (Psalms 119:105). Have mercy, Lord; increase our strength, According to the light we have, For we ivould do Thy will. Help us to walk, O God; Remember now how frail we are— For other souls, in other times, And all our being fill! Have mastered stony sod. — F l o r a E . B rec k
DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (1001) 5 Renewing the Call of the Pastor General Superintendent Williamson The General Assembly made some significant ing on the pastor. What was advisable thirty years amendments in relation to the renewal of the call ago is not necessary or appropriate now. The of the pastor. The new Manual, section 10, para Church of the Nazarene has grown to greater graphs 87 and 88, reads as follows: maturity. “87. A pastor receiving less than two-thirds, (1) The requirement that a pastor must receive but a majority vote, on a renewal call shall be a two-thirds majority in a renewal call places the considered re-elected for a period of one year; power in the hands of a minority. A fundamental but cannot be voted on again unless nominated principle in a democratic form of government is by the church board as in regular procedure that the majority rules. (2) A pastor who received of calling a pastor. A vote for an extended one less than two-thirds of the votes has heretofore call may not be taken unless theie is a favor been eliminated. He has been humiliated along able two-thirds vote of the church. with his family. (3) Furthermore, in most cases “88. However, it is hereby provided that the a cleavage in the church membership leaves wounds local church may, when voting to renew pas that often take years to heal. (4) Almost invariably toral relations after the pastor has served the the church is discounted in a community for having church for at least one year, extend the call turned its pastor out. (5) The problem of termi for a period of two, three, or four years on nating ineffective pastorates was not solved by a condition that the pastoral vote for one year congregational vote. Often those getting little or has been presented and a favorable vote re nothing done were given substantial majorities to ceived, and that such extended call shall have continue, while men making steady progress are been recommended by majority vote of all voted out for insufficient reasons. (6) Pastors members of the church board and approved in guilty of infidelity to the doctrines and standards writing by the district superintendent. Such of the church are seldom eliminated by a vote of a vote must be by two-thirds vote by ballot of the congregation. The Manual provision for their church members of voting age present and removal is the method which must usually be voting, and must be taken at a church meet employed. (7) None should forget that when un ing duly called for that purpose at least ninety successful men are removed from one church they days, but not more than one hundred eighty remain in the ministry of the denomination and days, prior to the date of convening the next their placement, which is now more difficult, is District Assembly.” a continuing responsibility of the church and its S ig n if ic a n t C h a n g es leaders. Three points in the revised working need atten T h e A d v a n ta g es t o t h e P a sto r tion. (1) A vote to renew the pastor’s call may Let us admit that the new provisions do not not be taken more than 180 days prior to the solve all the problems related to pastoral tenure expiration of the term now in effect. (2) A pastor and further changes may be necessary. There are, who has served at least one year may now receive however, some advantages to the pastor. (1) There an extended call for two, three, or four years. should be a relaxation of tension both on the (3) A pastor who receives a majority of the votes part of the pastor and the members of the church on a renewal ballot is elected for one year. Under at the time for re-election of the pastor. Only on such circumstances a vote to extend the call may rare occasions will members believe they can not be taken. Furthermore, the pastor is not eliminate the pastor by a majority negative vote. eligible for renewal of his call again except upon (2) A pastor who receives a majority is elected. the nomination by a majority vote of all members (3) He will have sufficient time to bring about of the church board, which has been approved in the reconciliation of his opposition. If the church writing by the district superintendent. Election board and the district superintendent believe he for one or more years in such a case will require can gain a two-thirds majority the next year, he a two-thirds majority. will have opportunity for the call to be renewed R easons f o r t h e C h a n g e and it could mean a lengthened tenure. (4) If This action by the General Assembly recognizes the opposition is irreconcilable, the pastor will the fact that the demand for a two-thirds majority have as long as a year and a half to make his for renewing the pastor’s call has been too exact adjustments. (5) This procedure provides a much 6 (1002) • HERALD OF HOLINESS better chance lor the district superintendent to sentment and retaliation toward those who voted placc a worthy man on his district or to assist in negatively or even the assuming of an attitude of finding him a location elsewhere. self-pity will make the extended year an unhappy one. (2) You are elected; accept the fact gracious R esponsibility o n t h e D ist r ic t Superintendent ly, and rejoice in it. (3) Do not insinuate that To considerable extent the operation of the new you even suspect who voted for a change. If you provision depends on the district superintendent. have an idea who did, win them to your support (1) He should make sure that a clear, under by kindness. Treat them better if possible than standable statement of the new ruling is given to you do those who supported you. This is not pastors and the voting congregation. He can do human but it is Christian. (4) Work close to this either in person or in writing. (2) He should your district superintendent. Accept his advice emphasize the fact that a call is renewed if a simple cheerfully. (5) If you are convinced that your majority is received by the pastor. (3) In case a opposition will not change, accept the first reason pastor has the call by a majority only, the district ably satisfactory call to another church. (6) Never superintendent should either exert his influence take up a cudgel to browbeat your opposition foi to strengthen the pastor’s position or to find a the sake of self-defense. Such an attitude is plainly satisfactory change for him before the situation contrary to the spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ. further deteriorates. (4) His attitude toward the (Under all circumstances you are to be Christlike.) new procedure should be positive until it has at Your wrong spirit will hurt you more than anyone. least been given a quadrennium for a fair trial. Furthermore, you may turn back the tide of the whole church which now runs in your favor. Or P a sto r, Y o u C a rry t h e B a l l you can by your magnanimous spirit prepare the The success or failure of the advantages pro way for further legislation favorable to the pastor. vided by the new law of the church depends on The ball is in your hands! Play the game like the pastors who are given a year of grace. (1) Re a man!
in ancient times and they spoke or wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. He revealed His nature in the Living Word, our Lord Jesus Christ. THE Book He lived, loved, worked, died, was raised from the By D. SHELBY CORLETT dead, sent the Holy Spirit, worked through His Pastor, Arcadia, California Church as its living Head. It was to make known There are two aspects to any book: the visible this revelation of the message and nature of God aspect, the material factors which make up the and the life and work of Jesus that this Book was book; and the invisible aspect, the message which brought into existence. It reveals God to us so its words convey and the thoughts these words truly that we call it God’s Word to us. inspire. The invisible purpose is the basis for As we read the material pages of this Book, the book’s existence. God speaks to us. His message is brought to our Before there is a book there is an author whose minds; we have some conception of what His words thoughts call for expression. The design of the meant to the people to whom it was first given, book is the expression of these thoughts through but best of all through its timeless message God the printed page. The purpose of presenting this speaks afresh to us. As we read this message material book is to enable readers to know the thoughtfully we think God’s thoughts after Him; author’s message, to think his thoughts after him, we let Him open the eyes of our hearts, that wre and to stimulate their minds to understand and to may see the deeper truths of the Spirit; we meditate assimilate his message. This is the intangible and upon its words, that we may be inspired and en permanent value of the book. lightened !>y the Holy Spirit. The value of the The word Bible means “book.” It has a material Book is this intangible and spiritual aspect: what phase: its paper, its binding, its printing. It is we think, what we feel, what we do as the result only through this material phase that its message of reading the material product. may be conveyed. The message of the visible Book We love the Bible, not because of its beautiful expresses truths which existed long before the ma binding, its lovely printing, or its helpful pictures; terial Book came into being. God would express but because its message conveys God’s truth and His thoughts, so He communicated them and re light to us and through it we are brought into a vealed His nature to men. He spoke to the fathers vital, living, personal relationship with Him.
DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (1003) 7 MUSIC MEMOETTES pasturing this church when we received our cor By Ovella Shafer respondence from him concerning his hymns. The ministerial labors of Rev. A. H. Ackley are duly appreciated, but no doubt he will long be re The Late Alfred H. Ackley membered for the following contributions to hymnody: “I Shall Not Be Moved,” “He Lives,” The name of Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley is very “The End of the Road,” “Heartaches,” “Take Up familiar because it occurs in nearly every current Thy Cross,” “Song of the Soul Set Free,” “Jesus hymnal. But in July of this past summer Mr. Set the World to Singing,” “Wonderful Name He Ackley, the noted Christian song-composer, passed Bears.” into “Cod’s Tomorrow” (name of one of his com positions) . He was born on a farm near Spring These Ackley brothers, Alfred Henry and Bentley Hill, Pennsylvania, January 21, 1887, into a Meth l)e Forrest, have often collaborated in song writ odist home. His father was a gifted musician who ing—B. D. usually writing the music, as evidenced led singing schools and who studied under famous in these well-known songs: “Where They Never song writers of his day—Root, McGranahan, and Say Good-by,” “The Day Without a Cloud,” “You Palmer. Thus this background of music in the Cannot Hide from God,” and “Oh, How I Love home gave him a love for gospel songs and hymns. Him!” Their works certainly do live after them! He describes his father as “a fine Christian man, a strict disciplinarian, and the leader of a little country band of about twelve pieces.” His brother, the late B. D. Ackley, who was also well known as a composer, was twelve years older and in a letter to us told about an old melodeon that was Oh, the Prospects such a thrill in their home—a gift to their mother by her father on her birthday. of a Christian! In later life, A. H. and B. D. Ackley’s father became a Methodist minister. Composer A. H. Oh, the prospects of a Christian! Ackley appreciated the little country church he Groiving brighter all the time, first attended, as expressed in a song, not as well Even when “the darkness deepens’ known as some, entitled “The Little White Church And no earthly light doth shine on the Hill” (we include the second and fourth For within his bosom burneth stanzas.) One pure ray surpassing all Earthly grief and tribulation There's an old-fashioned bell in that little And whatever might befall. white church. And its sweet, solemn tone I can hear, Tor that light u>ill lead him safely Calling, “Come, ye oppressed; come to worship Past each rock and danger zone and rest,” To the veiy gates of heaven, And I think of it now with, a tear. Where one moment will atone There is none can compare luith the little For the heartaches and the burdens xuhite church, Carried here— this earthly ?nile. With its spirit of peace and good will; Oh, the prospects of a Christian, Only heaven could be any sweeter to me Growing brighter all the while! Than the little luhite church on the hill. By ALICE HANSCHE MORTENSON C h o r u s : Oh, the little while church of my childhood, Precious memories hallow it still! Joys celestial I share as my tho’ts linger there, Years ago a friend painted for me a very simple In the little ivhite church on the hill* and beautiful motto. It contained but three words. Mr. Ackley was thoroughly educated, even to For over twenty years it has hung on the wall of completing seminary training, and was ordained my office and has been a source of help not only a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He was a cello for me but for scores of others as well. There player of note, having specialized in this field have been many times, both in the pastorate and enough to become first cellist in a prominent the work of Christian education, when circum orchestra. Even though he remained a Presbyterian, stances have arisen that seemed insurmountable. he pastorcd the First Congregational Church in However, through the years I have looked at the Escondido, California, for many years and he was motto and received strength anew, knowing that ’'Copyright 1935, Nazarene Publishing House. “God Is Able.”—H a ro ld W. R e e d . 8 (1004) • HERALD OF HOLINESS An insight into the work of ED Your Bible Society in PICTURE By ORVILLE JENKINS Pastor, Kansas City First Church To attend the annual meeting of the American Bible Society is an enriching experience. There, gathered from all parts of the nation and from many parts of the world, are men and women, church leaders, all interested and all committed to the uniting task of giving the Bible to the peoples of the world. Most of our meetings were conducted in an assembly room in the second basement floor of Christ Church in Newr York City. Seeing the serenity and quietness of that room, one would never suspect that just a few feet beyond the wall to our right ran the main line of the New York Central Railway Company as it tunnels its way into Grand Central Station, or that just be Rev. Frank Xolson, left, pastor of the Church of the yond the north wall was the main artery of the Nazarene in Santa Barbara, California, receives the New York City subway system. one thousandth pulpit Bible presented to newly or There we sat and with growing appreciation ganized Nazarene churches by the American Bible Society. Dr. W. Shelburne Brown, district superin heard the reports of officers, directors, and person tendent, makes the presentation. The pulpit Bible is one nel telling of the Society’s work of the year just of the many editions published by the American Bible concluded. Society in its effort to bring about a tvider distribution of the Holy Scriptures in this country and abroad. In First, we soon had the realization that here were 1959 the Society distributed over 17,000,000 volumes of men who were not just doing a job—they are Scriptures in nearly 300 languages. Since it was founded, men dedicated to serving God by translating and in 1816, the Society has distributed over half a billion sending His Word into all the world. Bibles, Testaments, and portions. Second, we realized that the Society’s work was big business carried on in an efficient and orderly sincere appreciation lor what the young people manner. Standing behind the staff in this far- of the Church of the Nazarene are doing in their reaching work is a board of directors made up annual offering to the work. And you will be principally of business and professional men. They glad to know that our total giving has been in know how a successful business should be con creasing from year to year. Yet, when one sees ducted. They serve without pay and give of their how vast the needs and demands are, he comes time and ability to the successful operation of the away with the feeling that we ought to do better. American Bible Society. We must give more. Third, we slowly got a grasp of the tremendous The work of translation is tediously slow. Only size and the complexity of the Society’s operation a few new languages are added each year. The as the thrilling work of translations and Bible dis translators in the remote areas of the world are semination unfolded before us, told in word and usually missionaries. It requires time and addition in picture. al money for them to capture an unwritten lan Lastly, we became aware of the important part guage, place it in alphabetical form, then slowly that each denomination plays in this great work. translate God’s Word. Yet the work is going 011 As we reviewed the previous year’s financial state all the time. Some of our own missionaries are ment and the contributions from the various de contributing to this important work. nominations, both in total and percentagewise, we So when you receive your offering this month, were happy that our churches had participated. remember that by giving you are helping to send Only now we wished that our young people’s so His Word to people who have never had the cieties and all the other societies of our churches privilege of hearing the gospel even once. “No had given a little more toward this important work. man has the right to hear the gospel twice until It is of this approaching offering for the Ameri every man has heard it once.” You will give gener can Bible Society that I would write. The officers ously this year in your offering to the American of the Society expressed to me several times their Bible Society, will you not? DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (1005) !) The amazing story of Mrs. Helen E. Fisher: “J Wdl Walt tL lord By MAYNARD JAMES
On Friday night, July 22, 1960, Helen E. Fisher for twelve months I was in the Allegheny General was consecrated a deaconess in the Church of the Hospital for treatment. Nazarene by General Superintendent Hugh C. Ben “My body was so numb that the instrument used ner. A radiant and lithesome figure, Mrs. Fisher for registering pain showed no reaction in my case. showed no signs of the dreadful disease which had Even when needles were thrust into me I had no made her a helpless cripple for years. In 1957 she feeling whatever. In this sad state I lingered, until had been wheeled in her chair to the Butler camp the time came when I felt I could stand it no lon grounds, dependent upon the constant attention ger. As a Christian who believed in Christ’s power of a trained nurse. In 1960, on those same camp to heal, I had prayed for years that the Lord would grounds, she walked freely up the steep terrace deliver me from my affliction. He gave me two and told me her remarkable story. precious promises from Psalms 116 and Isaiah 42. Appended to this account of her miraculous Again and again I would cling in faith to those healing are statements by District Superintendent comforting words: R. B. Acheson and Rev. L. B. Baltz, which " ‘I will walk before the Lord’ (Psalms 116:9), certify the genuineness of Mrs. Fisher’s deliverance. and ‘I [the Lord] will make . . . crooked things Said Sister Helen Fisher in her quiet talk straight’ (Isaiah 42:16) . with me: “Then came an unforgettable night. It was New “I was brought up in a fine Christian home and Year’s Eve, 1957. I was especially desperate at the I gave my heart to Christ when but a girl. In time and I cried unto the Lord that He would my early teens I was badly injured in a motorcar do something to end my misery. Suddenly I had accident. This brought on two herniated discs, for a vision of Jesus Christ sitting near my bed. He which I underwent surgery. Gradually I grew simply said: ‘Go to church tonight.’ So impressed worse. Paralysis seized my limbs, and multiple was I that the great crisis moment had arrived that sclerosis afflicted my whole body. The bones be I telephoned the Church of the Nazarene parson came soft and the spine was affected. So complete age in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. The pastor was was my paralysis that I could not move my limbs, the Rev. L. B. Baltz (now in charge of our Grove and I had to be turned over in bed. Tubes were City Church) ; and special revival meetings were inserted into me, and for twelve months my body then being conducted by Evangelist Joe Kanzelmar. was in a full brace, reaching from my shoulders I said to Pastor Baltz: ‘Tell the evangelist to bring downwards. My feet were so distorted that they the anointing oil with him to the service. Tonight, turned in and up; and when the brace was re either I shall be healed or taken to heaven.’ moved my knees would pull right up to my body. “That same evening my son wheeled me to the For two long years I was completely helpless, and church and then carried me down to the front. A holy quietness filled the place. Pastor Baltz really thought I would go home to heaven that night. WINTER AFTERNOON When the time came to anoint the sick, the evan By GRACE V. WATKINS gelist realized that he had forgotten to bring the anointing oil with him. So someone went out to Gone are the gold adagios. get it. In the meantime God himself was working Stern and swift is the wind that blows mightily in my body. In faith I arose from my Through gray and leafless boughs; yet high seat and took one step forward to the altar. (Pur And holy wonder is here, for I posely I had left my brace at home that night). Can see a broader reach of sky. “Suddenly I felt intense pain surging through Whenever something lovely goes, my body—something I had not experienced for Lord, let mine be a heart that knows years. Life, vibrant life, was flowing through my With ivider vistas I can see whole system, and I knew that the Lord was mi Neiu, shining paths and walk with Thee, raculously healing me. The intense pains I felt Victoriously! were sweet indeed; they were evidence that my 10 (1006) • HERALD OF HOLINESS paralyzed body was awakening to the touch of “Today I am enjoying good health and am able Omnipotence. to work six days a week as a nurse in private prac “Then I began to walk up the aisle, trembling tice. Also I serve as a consecrated deaconess in our at first, because I was like a child learning to walk. local church. For this great privilege I am grateful When the saints realized what was happening they to God and to the Church of the Nazarene. broke out into fervent praise to God. The glory “To God be the glory for the wonderful things of the Lord rolled over that church like the waves He has done for me!” of the sea. —H e l e n E. F ish er “A week later I was back at the piano, playing Certification: the songs of Zion. In my longing to glorify God for this miracle of healing, I determined to pay “I have great pleasure in stating that I was Mrs. a surprise visit to my physician, Dr. Joe Thompson. Helen Fisher’s pastor when she was miraculously Like most of the people in Kittanning, the doctor healed in our Kittanning Church of the Nazarene, knew me well, for I had lived in that one place on New Year’s Erie, 1957. I witnessed that amazing for thirty-one years. When that good man heard scene when Sister Fisher, who had been a helpless my amazing story and saw me walking in front cripple for years; arose from the altar and walked of him, he exclaimed, ‘This is your faith.’ He was up the aisle of the church. She is now a consecrated so convinced of the reality of my healing that he deaconess in our clrurch in Johnstown, Pennsyl urged me to go to the hospital the following Sun vania, and is in a good state of health.” day morning to meet the doctors of the town who (Signed) Rf.v. L e s l ie B. B a ltz, Pastor, Grove City gathered there for consultation once a week. I did Church of the Nazarene. August, 1960 so and was carefully examined by those medical District Superintendent R. B. Acheson has written authorities. They were astonished and confessed of this miracle: “There is no doubt in my mind it was a miracle. about its authenticity.”
the unchangeable usefulness of the Word of God— the Bible. The Bible has been through, not one century of time, but nineteen and more; and it THE ENDURING comes forth undiminished, in more glory than at the beginning. This sublime truth, alone, should AND ENDEARING convince all of the Book’s veracity and genuineness. By J. V. WILBANKS But our museum will teach us more. The human Nazarene Lay Member, Colorado Springs, Colorado hands that made these buildings and used these obsolete tools have long been idle in earth’s cold clay. I wondered how many of these dear souls, of The things which are seen are temporal: but the generation past, had lived for things eternal the things which are not seen are eternal (II Co and unseen. Did the majority of them live and die rinthians 4:18). unprepared, as men now do? This serious and Today my family and some friends went to weighty reflection causes one to remember some Cripple Creek and Victor, famous gold-mining thing else. The salvation extended to men in the areas of Colorado. At Victor we rummaged through nineteenth century was adequate to meet every the museum which displays life as it was around human need—present and eternal—whether they Victor sixty years ago. availed themselves of it or not. Now, today, as we browse through the museum How quickly customs of man change in half a and view the city’s dilapidated buildings, we still century! Heating equipment, once more excellent realize that Christ’s salvation has not changed. It than par, now completely outmoded. Fine furniture, is adequate for our society today. It makes demands that graced well-to-do homes of half a century past, relating to mankind now. Though garments of linen is now useful only to restir the memories of ancient and wool will become moth-eaten; though buildings days. The fashions of dress likewise have suffered a of brick and stone will crumble; and though man drastic change—perhaps for the worse! in the past, present, and future will lie down in Here in the town of Victor about the only things the grave and return to dust, yet the eternal Word still in use from “the good old days" are the build of God and Christ’s salvation apply to every genera ings; and these, though their day too is almost o’er, tion. Every individual’s reaction to God and His tie you to the past with voices of silent reminder. redemptive scheme through Christ opens one of two But the objects of a bygone day witness to some doors into eternal realities, either eternal life or thing else. To the soul without hope, perhaps, their eternal damnation where “their worm clieth not.” drabness and decay merely reflect the black to What are we, as Christians, doing to guide our morrows. To the Christian they fix in bold relief generation through the right door? DECEMBER 7, 19B0 • (1007) II By W . T. PURKISER •
of God.” This is because man is more than matter. Book for the Ages We are citizens of two worlds. On the one hand, The Bible is the Book for the Ages. we are creatures of time, living in a physical order, It speaks to our human need as no other volume subject to natural law. On the other hand, we ever has or could. are creatures of eternity, living in a spiritual order, It challenges every capacity of the person. The subject to moral law. mind is challenged by its truths for doctrine, the Where the Bible is rejected or ignored, the emotions by its insights for devotion, and the will spiritual dimension of life comes to seem unreal. by its guidance for the conduct of life. Attention is centered in material things. The Books made in the minds of men come and go. sensual becomes more attractive than the spiritual. Of the making of them there is no end. But the The great goals, the ends and purposes for which Book of God is always timely because it is timeless. we should live, drop over the horizon, and men No other can equal its importance, and all together wander with little or no sense of direction. The cannot take its place. The Bible, as Francis Bacon Bible will never be out of date so long as human said, is such a Book that men would not write it beings need not only the means of livelihood but if they could, and could not write it if they would. something for which to live. In the preface to his two-volume set of “standard The Bible is the Guardian of the human con sermons,” John Wesley wrote a memorable and science in our age. It brings reinforcement to the much-quoted paragraph about the Bible: moral will. The Psalmist said, “Thy word have I am a creature of a day, passing through life I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit, thee” (Psalms 119:11). coming from God, and returning to God; just The Bible raises its voice of protest against the hovering over the great gulf; a feiu moments moral relativism so widespread in our day. It hence I am seen no more; I drop into an un proclaims a moral law which is both objective and changeable eternity! I want to know one absolute. It reminds us that we do not break the thing— the way to heaven: how to land safe law of God. Ultimately, finally, we only break on that happy shore. God himself has con ourselves upon it. descended to teach the way. He hath written In a shallow, rootless, convictionless age, the it down in a book. O give me that Book! Bible proclaims a standard of right and wrong At any price, give me the Book of God! I not measured by human desires, but which meas have it: here is knowledge enough for me. ures those desires. Halford Luccock said it well: Let me be a man of one book. Here, then, “When life acknowledges no great imperatives, it I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit comes under the crudest tyranny that it can ever down alone; only God is here. In His presence know, the tyranny of the whim of the moment. I open, I read His book, for this end— to find The word ‘must’ as it comes from the command of the way to heaven. Jesus does not come into life like a ball and chain Yet one of the most amazing things in modern but like a key that unlocks a jail.” life is the fact that the world’s “best seller,” the But supremely, the Bible is the channel of a most praised and prized Book on earth’s book personal life-commitment to Christ and the sanc shelves, man’s greatest literature, is unknown, un tifying will of God. It is “able to make thee wise read, and subject to almost unbelievable ignorance. unto salvation” (II Timothy 3:15). As God’s prophet long ago said, these are the days I could not for a moment underrate the im of famine in the land, “not a famine of bread, nor portance of the written Word. Yet, after all, it a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the is an instrumental value. Its real purpose is to Lord” (Amos 8:11). God says, “I have written lead us to the Living Word—the crucified, resur to him the great things of my law, but they were rected, ever-living Lord, in whom alone there is counted as a strange thing” (Hosea 8:12). salvation. To stop short of a total surrender and Three times in the Bible—in Deuteronomy once, a complete consecration to God is to carry the and twice in the Gospels—we read the words, “Man doctor’s prescription in wallet or hand, but to shall not live by bread alone, but by every word fail to take the remedy provided. 12 (1008) • HERALD OF HOLINESS The Bible is indeed the Book for the Ages— for every age, and for ours most of all. GUEST EDITORIAL O Word of God incarnate, By Paul Skiles, General N.Y.P.S. Secretary O Wisdom from on high, O Truth unchanged, unchanging, O Light of our dark sky, The Book for Everyone We praise Thee for the radiance That from the halloxued page, “The Bible is for people—everywhere and at all A lantern to our footsteps, times. It is God’s Word about Himself. It describes Shines on from age to age. His purposes and plans for His world. It intro duces and interprets Jesus Christ, man’s only suf- It floateth like a banner licient Saviour. We, as representatives of the Before God's host unfurled; denominations, set ourselves to the task of helping It shineth like a beacon men everywhere to possess and utilize this soul- Above the darkling world; inspiring and life-charting book that, as the BOOK It is the Chart and Compass FOR EVERYONE, it might bring life and salva That o’er life’s surging sea, tion to everyone.” ’Mid mists and rocks and quicksands, These words are from the preamble of the 1960 Still guides, O Christ, to Thee. American Bible Society Advisory Council report, and bring us quickly to the heart of a great task. Editorial Notes... And from the 1955 Advisory Council, this reso Don’t overlook the annual offering sponsored lution: “We call attention to the fact that the by the Nazarene Young People’s Society for the American Bible Society is related to the denomina work of the American Bible Society in the United tions in a unique manner and is, in a real sense, States, and the British and Foreign Bible Society the agency of the denominations in the task of in the commonwealth countries. The Bible so translating, publishing and distributing God’s cieties serve all churches and mission fields, and Word. We recommend also the indispensable represent the type of work we can do all together service which the Society renders to the denomina which none of us could do working separately. tions in their respective missionary tasks.” Give liberally next Sunday through your local And what is the record? In the overseas distribu N.Y.P.S. tion alone last year, the American Bible Society ♦ ♦ * engaged in the translation, publication, and dis Leaders of a sister denomination have expressed tribution of the Scriptures in 296 languages (the concern that the number of young people being Scriptures now7 exist, at least in part, in more than called into the full-time ministry seems to be de 1,100 languages) in 75 countries and territories on creasing. One of them recently said, “There is no 5 continents, in co-operation with 22 other mem better barometer of the spiritual life of a denomi bers of the United Bible Societies. Last year this nation than the commitment of young life to the effort produced a total circulation of 30,000,000 call of God. When that barometer starts falling copies of the Scriptures. Distribution outside the along with a diminishing of evangelistic concern U.S.A. was made possible through the dedicated at home, then it is time to fall on our knees and efforts of thousands of men and women (many cry for God’s forgiveness and help.” of whom are Nazarene missionaries) who speak We in the Church of the Nazarene may well hundreds of languages in scores of lands but who share this concern for ourselves. The sober fact is have a single purpose, to see that the Bible becomes that we are quickly approaching an acute shortage in fact “THE BOOK FOR EVERYONE.” of qualified applicants for ministerial and mission We recognize that if churches were to do this ary service in our Zion. Our colleges and seminary work individually, the costs would be immeasurably are just not getting enough applicants for minis higher. Hence we acknowledge our responsibility terial courses of study to supply the demand of to support the Bible Society in every way possible. the very near future. Universal Bible Sunday, December 11, 1960, will The establishment of new churches, the expan be the time for the offering to be received for the sion of our missionary work, and the rate of re work of the Bible Society. The goal? Every con tirement of older men all add up to a need for gregation participating. We, of the Church of the some four hundred new workers every year. Let us Nazarene, will again have the opportunity to give pray that God will “send forth labourers into his our share to help make it possible for men every harvest” by calling our finest youth to His service. where to read the Scriptures and be made “wise And let us remember the lesson of history, that unto salvation through faith which is in Christ this prayer is answered only in a spiritually vital Jesus.” church. DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (1009) 13 October October Increase 1959 1960 North Arkansas *3,693 3,681 -12 South Arkansas 3,907 3,828 -79 SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE San Antonio 3,609 3,526 -83 Kansas 8,852 8,758 -94 Nebraska 2,806 2,700 -106 Louisiana 3,161 3,029 -132 Kansas City 5,272 4,978 -294 REPORT SOUTHWEST ZONE New Mexico 2,818 3,502 684 Los Angeles 10,549 11,196 647 Southern California 13,910 14,450 540 Colorado 6,461 6,741 280 Northern California 16,035 16,191 156 756 0 ^ October October Increase Hawaii 756 4,306 -126 1959 1960 Arizona 4,432 NORTHWEST ZONE SOUTHEAST ZONE 1,684 Washington Pacific *6,180 6,853 673 Georgia *5,862 7,546 882 Alaska 764 850 86 Florida 10,124 11,006 472 Northwest 7,241 7,266 25 Alabama 7,435 7,907 174 Minnesota 2,425 2,422 -3 Virginia 3,736 3,910 154 Nevada-Utah 923 911 -12 Easiern Kentucky *5,389 5,543 -3 North Dakota 1,556 1,524 -32 Mississippi 2,915 1,912 -55 South Dakota 767 724 -43 Tennessee 8,100 8,045 -117 Rocky Mountain 2,527 2,352 -175 East Tennessee 5,882 5,765 -142 Idaho-Oregon 6,187 5,956 -231 South Carolina 5,064 4,922 -263 Oregon Pacific 8,483 8,088 -395 West Virginia 11,608 11,345 CENTRAL ZONE North Carolina no report Southwestern Ohio *8,830 9,800 970 Kentucky no report Southwest Indiana 10,373 10,860 487 EASTERN ZONE 328 Northwestern Illinois 5,565 5,924 359 Maine *3,248 3,576 177 Michigan 8,928 9,239 311 New England 4,350 4,527 38 Missouri *7,078 7,325 247 New York *2,173 2,211 -120 Northwestern Ohio *5,920 6,149 229 Albany 3,965 3,845 -204 Chicago Central 6,583 6,757 174 Washington 5,927 5,723 -259 Northwest Indiana 6,242 6,404 162 Pittsburgh 8,934 8,675 -1,173 Wisconsin 2,301 2,409 108 Akron 13,602 12,429 Eastern Michigan 9,823 9,780 -43 Philadelphia no report Central Ohio 15,265 15,172 -93 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH 415 Northeastern Indiana 11,098 10,952 -146 Canada West 4,318 4,733 173 Indianapolis 10,032 9,703 -329 Canada Central 2,644 2,817 119 Illinois 9,553 8,875 -678 Canada Atlantic 1,067 1,186 51 Iowa no report Canada Pacific 1,279 1,330 35 North American Indiana *1,186 1,296 110 Australia *838 873 SOUTHERN ZONE British Isles North 1,803 1,350 -453 Abilene 5,968 6,245 277 British Isles South no report Southwest Oklahoma *5,588 5,796 208 432,937 Dallas 4,873 5,076 203 Estimated average for October, I9 6 0 6,158 Southeast Oklahoma 3,448 3,647 199 Increase over average of October, 1959 Joplin 4,475 4,576 101 Per cent of increase 1% Northeast Oklahoma 4,267 4,344 77 "Average attendance last assembly year. Northwest Oklahoma 5,963 5,997 34 E. G. BENSON, Houston 3,778 3,782 4 Field Secretary
you are doing, and keep up the good work.” —D o n a ld I.. D ix o n . “My wife and I have greatly appreciated the publications the Nazarene Servicemen’s Commis sion has so faithfully furnished to us these past two years of military service. As a chaplain’s as : I C O R N E R • sistant with a full schedule of post chapel activi ties, our Nazarene literature was about our only link with our church, even though several Naza rene churches were within driving distance of our post. “Even greater seemed the value of this litera Thanks h r the Literature ture while I was isolated in northern Greenland “While serving with the U.S. Air Force for the for six months. past twenty months on Guam Island it was a joy “I wish for you God's richest blessings.”—R e x R o b y , J r . and privilege to receive the Herald of Holiness, “I would like to thank you for the literature. the Other Slieef), and Conquest. "There have been many times when I was far “As you probably know, we do not have a from Christian fellowship but the literature came Church of the Nazarene on Guam, so we de faithfully. pended upon the church papers to stay in contact 'It has been an important influence in my life. with the church. May you continue the good work.”—G era ld J o n e s. "I want to thank you for being so faithful in sending me the church papers. A person cannot realize what it is like to not have a Church of N azarene S ervicemen’s C ommission the Nazarene to attend until he finds himself in this situation. ( / 2 a DIRECTOR “Again let me say thank you for the fine job
14 (1010) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Sunday because of the floods, we came home to have about thirty-five in our Wednesday evening prayer service. This work was only begun the last of May. We feel God has been good in bringing this response from the people.—M rs. G a l l o w a y , Xicaragua.
in Brasilia GEORGE COULTER, Secretary I'he Lord is richly blessing our work Back to Africa the Church out of existence.—B f.tty here in the new capital city of Brazil. Our journey on the "African Moon” F.m slif., Reporter. We have a nice class of prospective mem has been restful. We enjoyed the ninety- bers, and are hoping to organize the one miles up the beautiful Congo River, Note from Nicaragua church at the time of the dedication of where we unloaded United Nations sup Nicaragua has suffered severely in the the new church building in November. plies for the Congo nation, including lower places, mostly west of I.eon, with The construction of the new church is many tons of frozen meat. floods from continuous rains these past moving along well, for which we praise Two months ago sixteen hundred Eu few weeks. The older people say they the Lord. It will be our first church ropean folk fled from this port city of have seen nothing like it before. building on our own property here in Matadi, the only seaport of the whole Although we were off at the Pastors’ Brazil.—Sa r a h D e n t o n , Brazil. Congo. Hundreds of homes now stand Conference in Jinotepe when the floods empty, and many businesses are closed. struck near I.e6n. God was good and The few that are open are now run by watched over our children and the girl the Congolese themselves. We were glad who was caring for them for the two to be on our way again after our stop days. Wc were unable to go home be rlBifsociEif i in this semi-deserted city. cause three bridges had been washed out. In Cape Town we saw the Penns and We stayed in Managua for two days, I OFFERING ! Mrs. Steigleder. Then at Durban, the then left the jeep station-wagon there DECEMBER 11 ! Merkis and Miss Tustin disembarked to and flew home. Manx railroad bridges go to their field. It will be good to get were destroyed and will take consider Ever/ Church back home again to Tavane, Mozam able time to restore. The highway is Participating bique, and get back into the work.— under repair but impassable as yet, The L o r r a i n e S c h u l t z , Mozambique. territory west of Managua can be reached only by air. The Red Cross has Report from Africa helped the poor who arc left without Because zee are not prepared to obey, While missionaries of many denomina homes or any way of livelihood—but no n'C say xcc are not able to believe. Of tions were being flown out of the Congo one can replace the loss of life. course there are such things as genuine recently, the missionaries of the Church Nicaragua has been hard-pressed with intellectual problems: but too often our of the Nazarene convened their thirty- lack of work and soaring prices; now vaunted unbelief is a respectable screen seventh African Mission Council to re this disaster will increase their prob for our secret disobedience — John R. W. port on expansion of their work, and to lems. Our people and pastors suffer be St o t t . discuss projects of venturing into new cause of the conditions. Your prayers territories. The Council met at Artliur- are especially needed for Nicaragua When church members allow their seat. Eastern Transvaal, in the Union of these days. “first love” to start leaning, all too often South Africa. We are encouraged in the work here tongues are apt to start “wagging”— Dr. W. C. Esselstyn, who was unani in Leon. After having to be away over cxccssh'd\ !—Marv Sanders. mously re-elected field superintendent, reported the growth of the African field during the past quadrennium. 1956 I960 Number of organized churches 218 280 Number of self-supporting churches (not reported) 37 a z a r e n e M i n i s t e r s • Full members 4,892 5,802 Probationary members 5,159 6,251 Sunday school enrollment 15,795 21,968 B e n e v o l e n t F u n d • Total giving of the African church $20,609.00 $24,063.60 Enrollment in Bible schools 75 109 Dr. Esselstyn challenged the mission aries to lead the African church as rapid- Department of Ministerial Benevolence Iv as possible to responsible self-govern- DEAN WESSELS. Secretary ment, and to look toward future days It is the custom of the Department of when the church should be ready to send Ministerial Benevolence to remember the its own nonwhite missionaries to evan members of the benevolence roll on their birthdays each year. gelize Africa. He called for three days of This letter was received from an elder who served the church for prayer and fasting at the close of the forty years, months of September, December, March, “Your highly appreciated and most useful gift was re and June. ceived. Thank you! The Christian Church faces critical “It was a happy reminder of battles fought, victories won, and the gracious fellowship with the heart-warming association days on this great continent; but the of the brethren as wc labored together with faith and vision slogan of the new quadrennium, “Evan for God and the Kingdom.” gelism First,” is the answer which Naz- Your faithful support of the Ministerial Benevolence budget arenes here, as in other lands, give to helps the church to remember those who have given their best to the disruptive forces which seek to blast the work of the Kingdom. Let us do our best for them now. DECEMBER 7. I960 • (1011) 15 im ver com er
Conducted by W. T. PTJRKISER. Editor Is there a place for repentance in the sanctified life? If by repentance you mean contrition loveth, hath fulfilled the law; for love for and turning from known sin, the is the fulfilling of the law (see Rom. answer is, “No.” If you mean a feeling 13:10). Now mistakes, and whatever of regret and humiliation as a result of infirmities necessarily flow from the human failures and imperfections, the corruptible state of the body, are no answer is, “Yes.” If I promise my wife way contrary to love; nor, therefore, By ROBERT L. SAWYER I will bring home a loaf of bread, and in the Scripture sense, sin. . . . Not only forget it, I will apologize (and go back sin, properly so-called, that is, a vol Topic for after it) and say, “I’m sorry,” and untary transgression of a divine law; December 18: perhaps even, “Forgive me; I should but sin, improperly so-called, that is, have remembered." Hut there is no sin involuntary transgression of a divine The Compassion of Christ present as there would be in a broken law, known or unknown, needs the aton promise. ing blood. I believe there is no such Sr.Rii’Ti'RF,: Isaiah 61; Matthew 11:27- The words of John Wesley are worth perfection in this life as excludes these 30 (Printed: Isaiah 61:1-3, 10-11; Mat pondering at this point: “The best of involuntary transgressions, which I ap thew 11:27-30) men still need Christ in His priestly prehend to be naturally consequent on G oidkn T kxt: Take my yoke upon office, to atone for their omissions, their the mistakes and ignorn'i<.es inseparable you. and learn of me; for I am meek and shortcomings (as s o m e improperly from mortality. Therefore, sinless per lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest speak) , their mistakes in judgment and fection is a phrase I never use, lest I unto your souls (Matthew 11:29). practice, and their defects of various should seem to contradict myself. I be Christ, the Fulfillment of the hopes kinds. For these are all deviations from lieve a person filled with the love of and dreams and faith in the Messiah the perfect law, and consequently need God is still liable to involuntary trans that should come, was long foretold by an atonement. Yet that they are not gressions” (Plniii Account of Christian prophets wise and obedient to the vision properly sins, we apprehend may ap Perfection, pp. 42-43) . and will of God. Micah saw Bethlehem pear from the words of St. Paul, He that as the place of His birth; Zechariah saw Do you believe any Nazarene pastor has a right to gather funds without Him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey; telling the members of the church where the money comes from? Isn’t there Isaiah and the Psalmist saw Him in the danger to his own soul for pledging himself to secrecy just to get the money? minute details of His life among men. It is quite possible that a situation In fact, I was recently with a pastor Beautiful beyond the words, precious to might arise in which a pastor would who did just that. A lady in the church the followers of the Nazarene, we read be fully justified in accepting money wanted to make a sizable donation to again the thrilling predictions of the for the local church when the donor the building fund, but did not wish to Prince of Peace. requested that the source of the gift be have the source of the donation known. The Fulfillment of Prophecy: Not the not known. It is not likely that this The pastor arranged to have the money least of the prophets. John the Baptist, would be a regular practice, anil if any deposited directly with the building and prepared the people of his day for the considerable sums arc involved the pas loan association holding the church coming of Christ, with the rugged doc tor should protect himself by telling mortgage, but reported the full details trine of repentance and regeneration and his district superintendent, the chairman of the transaction to his district super baptism with water. of his finance committee, or the church intendent. and to the two key men in Imprisoned alone, most of his disciples treasurer. Surely persons in such re his local church. This would seem to having gone to follow Jesus on the dusty sponsible places could be trusted with me to be irreproachable. roads of Palestine, John sent to Jesus the confidence. for a reassuring word that He was the Do you think it is possible that there be a barrier between people for years, promised Messiah, the long-awaited living in the same house, but speaking only when necessary? Can they keep Saviour, who would bring full salvation saved and in the will of the Lord? to the people of his and every genera I think that it would be very difficult, prayers be not hindered”; Colossians 3: tion following. if not impossible, to keep saved and in 18-19, “Wives, submit yourselves unto Proof to John was simple. As Jesus the will of the Lord under such cir your own husbands, as it is fit in the quoted Isaiah 61 at the beginning of cumstances. It seems to me that such Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and His ministry, so He sent to John evi verses would apply to this situation as be not bitter against them”; and Mark dences of His preaching—the healing of I Peter 3:7, “Likewise, ye husbands, 11:23-26, “And when ye stand praving, mind and spirit, deliverance from the dwell with them according to knowledge, forgive, if ye have ought against any: bondage of sin, comfort and joy and giving honour unto the wife, as unto [hat your Father also which is in heaven praise, and a declaration of the day of the weaker vessel, and as being heirs may forgive you your trespasses.” [lie Lord. together of the grace of life; that your The Compassionate Prophet: Jesus Do we scripturally have the right to call sinners “brother” or “sister”? was a Friend to man. He was moved There is a broad sense in which it within the household of faith, “brother” with compassion at the sight of the may be proper to speak of unconverted or “sister" would be used of those who people as sheep without a shepherd, the persons as “brother” or "sister,” as for are in the Lord. I would think it would sick without a physician, the lonely and example when we speak of being our be best to reserve the term to those who despondent without comfort and joy, “brother's keeper.” However, generally are Christians. [he seeking soul with no satisfaction, the 16 (1012) • HERALD OF HOLINESS sin-damned soul with 1 1 0 Saviour. These among congenial and respectable peo > • • • • • • • He had come to help. ple, to realize that in the heart of our Yet only as they came to Him by largest citv there are organized gangs faith could they realize protection, heal of boys and young men who have well- ing, comfort, and the joy and peace of defined areas that ate theirs to control, sins forgiven and the heart cleansed. and in which every kind of vice flour I Public As followers of Jesus, we must vol ishes. In the recent crusade conducted untarily take up the “yoke of Christ,” by Billy Graham in New York City, he that we may know Him better and that spoke to seventy leaders of F.ast Harlem : Morals our generation may see not us, but gangs. In the half-hour encounter with Christ in us, "the hope of glory.” the frankly curious boys, he warned and Augustine cried out, “Our souls arc against seeking security in gangs instead restless till they rest in Thee,” O God. of in Jesus Christ. He recommended But in coming to Christ and taking His sexual purity, prayed with the youths, YOU! yoke we find rest and peace in learning and urged them to trade their guns and of Him. switch blades for Bibles. About twenty We find the abundant life and com boys timidly raised their hands when plete satisfaction in the gentle and lowly he requested “decisions for Christ.” The Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, head of the Man of Galilee—God incarnate in hu crusade was sponsored by the Protestant clinical sciences department of the man flesh—Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Council of the City of New York, which University of Illinois, says: “There Wonderful Saviour! Wonderful estimates that about one-half of the must be something drastically wrong Friend! city’s one million Spanish-speaking peo with our sense of values when we as Lesson material is based on International Sunday ple are unchurched. Every Sunday a nation allow without protest the School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for school teacher in the junior high and terrible ruination of life caused by Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International high school departments of our church, the use of alcoholic beverages.” Council of Religious Education, and is used by its Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, national presi permission. and every Caravan and scout leader, dent, W.C.T.U., says: “We have been ought to take heart and fresh courage, brainwashed with Communistic doc because they are doing some of the most trine from without, and brainwashed important work in all the world. by liquor propaganda from within. 1 am more afraid of the latter than Disturbing Surveys the former.” Not in competition to. but in addition Former President Herbert Hoover to, the emphasis that our church places said in his address before the Repub | Religious News | on reaching our youth, we ought to lican National Convention in July, 1960: “Today America is in the midst begin definite projects to reach the of a frightening moral slump. Dur increasing number of “senior citizens” of ing the 14 years following the end of 1 aiMl Comments! our country. The need for evangeliza the Second World War, our statistics tion among the nation’s elderly was show that major crimes in most of the years have increased three times made apparent by two recent surveys. as fast as the population. During the In Iowa, a report on the problems of same period since the end of the By WILSON R. those over sixty indicated that religion war, our cities have become increas LANPHER is decreasing “as an important source ingly infested with teen-age gangs of of meaning and security in later life.” criminal traits. In a recent year 740,- Return to Congo More than one-half of the women said 000 of these youngsters were arrested From various sources comes hearten that religion “was the most important by the police. ing news that missionaries from several thing in my life.” Among the men the “Beyond the terrifying warnings of denominations are returning to the statistics, we can hardly believe that picture was different. Nearly one-half integrity and moral steadfastness are troubled Congo. Sixteen Methodist men omitted churchgoing as a preferred ac increasing when we witness the con missionaries are back at seven stations tivity, and more than one out of three stant exposure of state and municipal in the Central Congo Conference area. did not characterize religion as a major corruption. We daily read blazoned They are the first from their church to source of comfort. A table on “preferred headlines in the press exposing cor return since over one hundred mission leisure time activities" showed that 84 rupt practices in some nationwide ary personnel evacuated the area in per cent of the men and 90 per cent of services and the fraudulent practices July. Indications are that more mission the women enjoyed radio and television. of some distributors of our daily ne aries may return in limited numbers In contrast, “reading the Bible" was en cessities . . . But some part of this de cline in morals is an infection from soon, and that conditions and morale joyed by 41 per cent of the men and ()6 Communist Russia. I do not need to are excellent. Also some Presbyterian per cent of the women. In another sur remind you that the doctrines of Karl missionary families have returned. A vey, concerned by the low rate of par Marx and of the Communists are a group of fourteen women and eight chil ticipation in church life among rural destroyer of all morals. They de dren flew last month from Salisbury, farm and nonfarm families, the Rural clare there is no God. They stigma Southern Rhodesia, the point to which Sociology Society set out to find some tize religious faith as an opiate of they were evacuated three months ago. answers. In one Ohio county, two rea the people.” The women missionaries, among them sons were predominant: the people EARL C. WOLF, Secretary one doctor and several nurses, are re weren’t interested and felt no need. Oth Committee on Public Morals joining a small task force that remained er reasons included: “no time." “dislike during the crisis in the tortured Congo. for ministers and members,” “can’t af ford to,” “no interest in socializing.” The Christian is not a settler here. Confronting Organized Here is a challenge for our church to He is a pilgrim. A pilgrim, let it be make the love of Christ so real in our quickly added, and not a tramp! A Violence own lives and in our churches that we tramp is aimless: a pilgrim has a shrine It is difficult for the average church can bring salvation and comfort to those iti his heart and a destination in his eye. member, living in a respectable part of who have become disillusioned with —Paul S. R n s. town, and going about his daily routine meaningless religion. DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (1013) 17 Charleston Garden Road ]. 1). Taylor 33 8 • r~j • Bamberg J. M. Adams 34 14 Lancaster | Brazzell 46 8 I Dee>ad)/i£ti£ 0/ j I-Iartsville First H. H. Haynes 48 18 : EV A N G ELISM i Orangeburg First W. E. Sargent 65 14 • • Georgetown R. T. McElveen 69 11 • • Caycc M. D. Cline 70 12 EDWARD LAWLOR, Secretary Charleston First \V. B. Welch 110 12 Chester C. O. Moser 133 12 EVANGELISTIC HONOR ROLL Columbia First I. H. Fades 165 18 The districts shown report the following churches as having received the Ei^angelistic Honor Roll Certificate. Correction: This is presented on the basis of members received by profession of faith during the assembly year. The groups The Clary Carden Homes Church on the Northwest and qualification standards are shown as follotvs: Indiana District received twenty-one members by profession GAIN GAIN of faith. It was previously reported that they had received GROUP MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED GROUP MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED only eight ;nbers. We congratulate Pastor R. R. Feather- I 1-24 4 IV 150-299 18 II 25-74 8 V 300 and above 25 ston and the Cary Garden Homes Church on this wonderful I II 75-149 12 group of new Christians added to the church. We are happy The entire church and the Department of Evangelism to list the correct information below: rejoice with these churches and their pastors over the new Christians added to the fellowship of the church. Gary Garden Homes R. R. Featherston 68 21 Membership at Church Pastor Last Assembly Gain N o r t h A rkan sa s D istrict Clarksville \V. A. Sharpton 0 5 OUR SOUL-WINNING PROGRAM Ozark T. and L. Altes 9 7 The “Try Christ’s Way” soul-winning program Crawford Memorial G. and R. Smith 10 4 did not end with our witnessing to 2,000,000 Russellville J. McKinney 41 9 souls in November. Morrison Davis M. Courtnev 59 13 We hope to hear of 100,000 seekers kneeling South Side Ft. Smith R. Miller 94 27 at our altars and 25,000 people received into church membership by profession of faith when S o u t h C a r o l i n a D is t r ic t all reports are in, January 31. I.ake City W. Copeland 4 Souls are dying. The world needs God. Know 5 ing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; Camden Emmanuel F. L. Wilson 10 6 This is “Evangelism First.” We must continue Rock Hill Grace R. Agner 1.5 6 to pray and encourage each other in our soul- New Ellenton G. Reynolds 17 4 winning program. We must work together for Ash wood F. Smith 24 4 such an old-fashioned outpouring of the Holy Laurens M. 1). Jones 24 11 Ghost, that our youth shall say, “This is that.” Pelion T. Baughman 24 :> Sumter Boulevard I . C. Childs 28 20
News of the Churches
Evangelist George C. Sherry reports: finders. At this writing I am in a Evangelist H. A. Casey reports: “God “During the fall we have had weeks of meeting at Sparta, Tennessee, with Rev. blessed and helped us during the past great victory and rejoicing in the Lord, G. E. Wilson. It is a joy to serve God assembly year. In 26 revivals, we saw serving Him and the church. In Sep and work in the Church of the Naza 1,457 seekers, 127 new members added tember, 1 was in West Virginia for rene. My home address is now 707 to the church, 151 new tithers, as wc several meetings. At Gallegar with Long Avenue. Port St. Joe, Florida. labored on 14 different districts. God Pastor Bill Martin, God gave a good has given me a wonderful companion to meeting; and at Lens Creek Church, Trenton, Ontario—Our church re help in the music and singing, the for Charleston, with Rev. James Withrow, cently enjoyed a most stirring revival mer Miss Helen Lavely; she traveled for God blessed again with victory around under the ministry of Evangelist and eighteen years as a commissioned song the altar. At New Cumberland we had Mrs. Harry J. Feltcr. Their God evangelist in our church. Besides the a meeting with Rev. Lawrence Martin in spired messages were a blessing and preaching, we sing solos and duets, and and the Free Methodist church, and God help to all, and the presence of the play thirteen different musical instru blessed with victory and the strengthen Holy Spirit was manifest in the services. ments. Due to pastoral changes we have ing of the church. Then to Seth, with Souls prayed through to God at the three dates open early in ’61; January Rev. E. J. Miley, with souls praying altar, and some, under deep conviction, 18 to 29, March 15 to 26, and April 12 through at the altar and members added prayed through to victory in their to 23: also a few dates open for summer to the church. Next we went to homes. Music was under the direction and fall. We carry the full program Altoona. Pennsylvania, where God gave of Brother Marvin Mitts. We thank God for the meeting and will come for free a great revival with Pastor Charles for His blessings here as we strive to do will offerings. Write us, c/o our pub Wright. In service after service the altar our best in the “Evangelism First” em lishing house, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City was lined with hungry seekers and happy phasis.—R. W. S c h i r m i r h o r n , Pastor. 41, Missouri.” 18 (1014) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Cimarron, Kansas—On Sunday night, Evangelist Emmett E. T aylor writes, November 13. our church closed what “I have a January date open, and also was believed to be the most outstanding some open time in the spring and sum revival of its history, with a wonderful mer of 1961. Write me, c/o our pub flood tide of victory. We had all-day lishing house, P.O. Box 527, Kansas services with an afternoon service cele City 41, Missouri.” brating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the church. Rev. H . 1). Cole began this Fredericktown, Missouri—Our church work, and his widow told of the be recently enjoyed one of the greatest ginnings of the work; and Rev. Archic revivals in its history. Evangelist H. N. Norsworthy, former pastor, brought the Dickerson preached the old-fashioned afternoon message. The revival workers gospel, and Clod spoke to hearts. Thirty- were the very best—Rev. Mrs. Emma five persons bowed at the altar of Irick. evangelist, assisted by Rev. and prayer, many of these seeking God for DON'T CHEW Mrs. Don Crenshaw, pastors at El Dora the first time at the altar. Brother do. Sister Irick preached some great Dickerson carried a real burden for this YOUR PILLS! messages. God honored His word, the revival, and God honored his faithful people worked and prayed, and God ness.—I.e i.and B u c k n e r , Pastor. The preacher had given a short mes gave an old-fashioned revival. It was sage on the necessity of forgiving others the type of revival you hear about, Nashville, Michigan—R e c e n t 1 y we to a small group in the beautiful chapel dream about, and pray for. More than closed a meeting with Evangelist Mar ol an old folks' home. After he con- fifty seekers were at the altar, some for gin S. Cooper as the special worker, and the first time, and many prayed through an outpouring of God's presence upon chided, an old lady whose face denoted outside the regular services. Those of us. New people were definitely saved, intelligence and spirituality came for all ages prayed through to God, and and the church was marvelously helped ward to meet the guest speaker. prayers of many years' standing were by the ministry of Brother Cooper. The She gave her reactions to tlie mes answered. We thank God for the evan church board gave him a unanimous sage. She declared that some people in gelistic ministry of Sister Irick.—N o r m a n call to return lor a holiness convention life had been able to injure her suf H o w e r t o n , Pastor. in the fall of '01.—A l l e n C o b h , Pastor. ficiently to make her dislike them. A number of years before she had heard Evangelist James W. Humble reports: Pasadena College and heeded a homely bit of philosophy "I give thanks to the Lord for healing At the meeting of the Board of which had been a great help to her me this last spring so that I am now Trustees of Pasadena College, Pasadena. along this line. A certain pastor had able to carry a full slate in the field. California, in October, Dr. W. Shelburne exhorted his congregation. "Don't chew God has been meeting with us in a Brown was elected president of the your pills.” wonderful way and I am enjoying work board. Dr. E. E. Zachary was elected ing with our good pastors and people in vice-president, and the writer as secre- I his very quaint advice points up the the great program of ‘Evangelism First.’ tary-treasurer. fact that everyone will have some "bitter At present I have a good slate, but have This was the first meeting of the pills” to swallow in life and that it is a couple of open dates in the spring of board since the election of Dr. O. J. poor judgment to chew such pills be 1961, and also some open time in the Finch as the new college president. An fore swallowing. Their bitterness will spring of 1962. I will be in the North outstanding spirit of co-operation and increase with the chewing until the soul west this coming spring, and in the enthusiastic support was evidenced both Midwest in the spring of 19(i2. At this among the board and Development is in danger of being overcome. writing I am in the closing days of a Council, who met jointly, as well as Sometimes these bitter pills come to us good meeting in Larimore, North Da among the faculty and student body. through the malice of an adversary. At The college is proceeding with the kota, with Pastor A. E. Belzer and his sale of $7“>0,000 of its first trust deed other times they come through a kindly fine folks. Write me. 219 Elder Street, mortgage bonds for the financing of providence which sees that a salutary Nampa. Idaho.” the acquisition of additional property lesson is in order. In any event, they to enlarge the campus and for new all come by the permission of God and Massillon. Ohio—God is blessing, and classroom facilities. The initial response arc intended, not to regale the gustatory gave us a very wonderful revival during of the constituency to the sale of the nerves, but to nourish or heal the body October under the ministry of Evan bonds, which pay interest of (i per cent through the action of the assimilative gelists Dayton and Patricia Lockard. and are redeemable over a period of organs. It will be well for all of us, as The attendance held up well, with many three to fifteen years, has been excellent new people in the services—and these with approximately SI 00,000 already we meet the often unpleasant circum people are still coming. The preaching sold. A special sinking fund has been stances of life, to remember this homely and singing by the evangelists was established to assure repayment of prin advice, “Don't chew vour pills.”—R. A. greatly appreciated by both pastor and cipal and interest as it shall become due. K ir b y . G/y-city, Colorado. people. More than forty people sought Alumni Home-coming Day, November God at the altar of prayer, and two new 11, was outstanding and set a new record members were added to the church. We for attendance. Rev. Hugh Glass, grad camp meeting. Evangelist Harold give God praise for His blessings.— uate of the class of 1938, was special Froclge, and the Jantzes as singers and M. L f.R o y H a st ie , Pastor. speaker.—J. Wist.i v M iera s, Secretary, musicians, were with us for a week; Hoard of Trustees. then District Superintendent Harold Jackson, Michigan—First Church en Daniels joined them for all-dav services joyed a good, eight-dav meeting with \lt. Yci non. Illinois—Coming to pastor cm Sunday. We had exceptionally large Rev. Ponder Gilliland as the evangelist, First Church here following our assem attendance. In the spring we had a and the pastor in charge of the music. bly of 1958. we found a line group of two-week revival with Evangelist Thomas God used the ministry of Brother Gilli people. In spite of transferring 30 Haves. All of these workers contributed land to build up our people in the faith, members to other Nazarene churches, to the success of the church. We have and about thirty bowed at the altar, we have been able to hold our member just closed our fall revival with Evan where God met the needs of their hearts. ship and Sunday school attendance, with gelist H. A. C.asev and wife as the The church and parsonage here were excellent attendance in both morning special workers. The average evening built under Rev. Charles McKinney, who and evening services. Our prayer meet attendance was 12"), with seekers in was followed by Rev. H. T. Stanley. ing attendance averages about 65 per almost every service, and many new Both men are loved and respected for tent of the membership. During the people attending the meeting. Older their contribution to this church. We assembly >ear of ’59 we had a revival members say the church is in the best have a good, loyal people, and count it with District Superintendent C. E. Shu- spiritual condition in years. Wc appre a privilege to minister to them.—H arold makc (of Tennessee) as the evangelist, ciate our fine people and the wonderful J o h n s t o n , Pastor. followed bv a revival and an indoor spirit prevailing.—W. F„ A l i.iso n , Pastor. DECEMBER 7. 1960 • (1015) 19 Evangelist L, D. Sharp reports: “Just Clark, Hugh S. 602 S. Broadway, Georgetown, Ky. Clemmons, Paul H. 1300 Terrace Dr., Defiance, recently we had a good revival in our Ohio West Side Church, Hutchinson, Kansas, Clift, Norvie 0. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. with Pastor Eli Cook. The Lord blessed Boise (Euclid Ave.), Id a h o .. . Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 His Word night after night, and a good Bakersfield (Brentwood), Calif...... Jan. 2 to 8 number of souls sought God for pardon Cole, George 0. 413 E. Ohio Ave., Sebring, Ohio and heart purity. Brother Cook said Cooke, J. Mervin. Route 5, Lynn S t., Abbotsford, the crowds were the largest he had B.C., Canada Cooper, Marvin S. 1514 N. Wakefield S t., Arling seen during his ministry there. Home ton, Va. talent provided the special singing and Albion, Mich...... Dec. 6 to 11 it was blessed of the Lord. N'azarencs Corbett, C. T. P.O. Box 215, Kankakee, III. from the other churches in Hutchinson Pontiac, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Coulter, Miss Phyllis. Song Evangelist, P.O. Box 33, came in to boost the meeting.” Nineveh, Ind. Cox, C. B. 1322 N. First Ave., Upland, Calif. EVANGELISTS’ SLATES Crabtree, J. C. 1506 Amherst Road, Springfield, Ohio Eudora, Kansas...... Dec. 5 to 11 A to C Des Moines, Iow a...... Dec. 12 to 18 Allee, G. Franklin. 12844 N.E. 84th St., Kirk- Cravens, Rupert R. 823 N. Kramer, Lawrenceburg land, Wash. Tenn. Hillsboro, Ore...... Dec. 1 to 11 Halltown, Mo...... Dec. 4 to 11 Amos, C. A. Route 4, Boonville, Ind. Crews, H. F., and Mrs. Evangelist and Singers, St. Paris, Ohio ...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Anderson, G. R. R.F.D. 1, Linesville, Pa. Leve l land, Texas...... Jan. 1 to 8 Anderson, Gilbert and Syivia. Preachers and Sing Crider, Jim and Janet. Singers and Musicians, Box ers, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. 65, Greensboro, Ind. Ashby, Kenneth and Geneva. Singers and Musicians, Crider, Marcellus and Mary. Evangelist and Singers. 1254 E. Thompson Rd., Indianapolis 27, Ind. Route 3, Shelbyville, Ind. Baiiey, Clarence and Thelma. Song Evangelists, Evansville, Ind...... Dec. 7 to 18 Route 4, Portland, Ind. Crites Evangelistic Team, J . A. Preacher and Sing Bai.ey, E. W. Box 239, Nocatee, Florida ers, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Baker, Earl Raymond. Box 762, Springdale, Ark. Minerva, Ohio...... Dec. 7 to 18 Baker, Everett. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Crutcher, Estelle. 9301 Jamaica Drive, Miami, Balsmeier, A. F. and Leonora T. 14 N. Maple St., Florida Hutchinson, Kansas Kinston, N.C...... Dec. 4 to 11 Battin, Buford. 1509 Seventh St., Lubbock, Texas Beaty, B. K. Route 4, Taylorville, III. East St. Louis (First), III. D to F ...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Dale, Bennie I. 339 Northeast E St., Linton, Ind Bebout, R. E. 215 N. Poli. Route 3, Ojai, Calif. Danner, Joel. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Belew, P. P. and Marie. Preacher and Singer, Ulysses, Kans...... Nov. 29 to Dec. 11 P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Gloster, Miss...... Dec. 16 to 25 Bertolets, The Musical (Fred and Grace). 1349 Darnell, H. E. Box 929, Vivian, La. Perkiomen Ave., Reading, Pa. Natchitoches, La...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Ephrata, Pa...... Jan. 4 to 8 Here’s a pastor looking Darnell, Leo and Pauline. Evangelist and Singer, Bettcher, Roy A. 3212 Fourth Ave., Chattanooga, 1524 Laurel Drive, Columbus, Ind. Tenn. through his latest Herald of Chrisman, III...... Dec. 1 to 11 ShelbyviIle (First), Ind...... Dec. 2 to 11 Holiness. Or is he a Sunday Nashville, III...... Dec." 12 to 18 Bierce, Jack. Song Evangelist, Box 118, Idaville, Davis, C. W. and Florence. 930 N. Institute, Colo Ind. school superintendent thumb rado Springs, Colo. Bierce, Joseph. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Davis, Leland R. Song Evangelist, Nazarene District Bishop, Joe. 1515 S. Jensen St., El Reno, Okla. ing through the latest cata Center, R.D. 1, Louisville, Ohio Mangum, Okla...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Davis. W . H. (B ill), Rt. 3, Box 228-A, Henryetta, Blair, Earl E. 941 Idlewild Ct., Lexington, Ky. log? He might be an N.Y.P.S. Okla. Boggs, W. E. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Austin (South), Texas...... Dec. 2 to 11 Fresno (Grace), Calif...... Dec. 1 to 11 program chairman searching Home for Holidays...... Dec. 12 to Jan. 1 Fresno (Central), Calif...... Jan. 4 to 8 Dayhoff, I. E. Missionary Evangelist, Box 233, Bouse, Fred. 420 East 12th St., Indianapolis, Ind. for Sunday night material. At University Park, Iowa Brand, W. H., and Wife. Evangelists and Mu any rate, he is unconsciously Dickerson, H. N. 5220 N.E. 20th Ave., Ft. Lauder sicians, 3205 Winter St., Fort Wayne, Ind. dale, Fla. Pioneer, Ohio (U.B.) ....N o v . 30 to Dec. 11 Dishon, Melvin. 252 East 14th St., Bowling Green, influenced by the sincerity of Ky. Peru, Ind...... Jan. 4 to 8 Brannon, George. 125 N. Wheeler, Bethany, Okla. the message. Unknowingly, he Brownstown, Ind...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Home for Holidays ...... Dec. 7 to Jan. 1 Dobbins, C. H. 604 S. Wayne St., Alexandria, Ind. Bridgwater, R. E. and Dorothy. 116 Wolfe Ave., reads between the lines to see Dobson, J . C. Box 504, Bethany, Okla. Colorado Springs, Colo. Donaldson, W. R. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Brockmueller, C. W. and Esther. Evangelist and if the contents have been dis Singer, 908 15th Ave. So., Nampa, Idaho Portales, N .M ...... Dec. 1 to 11 criminatingly chosen—for a Drayer, Fred E. 32 Fenner Ave., Newport R I Molalla, Ore...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Nashua, N.H...... Dec. 1 to 11 Home for Holidays ...... Dec. 12 to 30 Nazarene audience. Reserved— Holidays...... Dec. 12 to 31 Brown, Curtis R. Song Evangelist, 449 Bresee Ave., Drye, J . T. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Bourbonnais, III. We at the Nazarene Pub Dunmire, Ralph and Joann. Singers and Musicians, Bel Air, M aryland...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 202 Garwood, Nashville, Tenn. Brown, Marie. 1018 Malvern Ave., Hot Springs, lishing House trust that this Dunn, T. P. 318 E. Seventh St., Hastings, Neb. Ark. Eastman, H. T. and Verla May. Preacher and Singer, Brown, Marvin L. 810 Pleasant St., Kewanee, III. gentleman, be he a pastor, 2005 East 11th, Pueblo, Colo. Brown, W. Lawson. Box 498, Bethany, Okla. Norman (Grace), Okla...... Dec 7 to 18 Bethany (Westgate), Okla...... Dec. 11 to 18 Sunday school superintend Edwards, L. T., and W ife. 657 Second St., Stay- Buckley, Ray. 300 E. Jackson St., Orlando, Fla. ent, N.Y.P.S. chairman, or if ton, Oregon Budd, Jay B. 5030 Renard Drive, Dayton 24, Ohio Elkins, W. T. Heaberlin Road, W urtland, Kentucky Casey, III...... Dec. 7 to 18 he is filling any of scorcs of Elsea, Cloyce. Box 18, Vanburen, Ohio Bullock, Ed. 605 Lexington Ave., Newport, Kentucky Emrick, C. Ross and Dorothy. Evangelist and Musi Burnem, Eddie and Ann. Box 1007, Ashland, Ky. other needs in the Church of cians, 600 N. Trumbull St., Bay City, Mich. Rising Sun, Ind...... Dec. 7 to 18 Emsley, Robert. Bible Expositor. 26 Maple Ridge Burton, C. C. 412 Monticello St., Somerset, Ky. the Nazarene, has come to Ave., Buffalo 15, N.Y. Callihan, Jim and Evelyn. Singers and Musicians, So. Milwaukee, W is...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Box 3123 O.B., Dayton 31, Ohio rely on us to help him in Erickson, Dave. 3972 Christopher St., Charleston Cargill, A. L. and Myrta. 838 W. Kiowa, Colorado Heights, S.C. Springs, Colo. his task. Richmond (So. Side), V a .. . Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Cargill, Porter T. 405 N.W. First St., Bethany Okla. Houston (Canonsburg), Pa...... Jan. 1 to 8 Erickson, Wm. (Billy). 521 Lemont Drive, Nashville Carleton, J. D., and Wife. Preacher and Singers, 7, Tenn. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Estep, Alva 0. and Gladys. Preacher and Singers, Carlsen, Harry and Esther. Evangelist and Musi Box 238, Losantville, Ind. cians, 168 Belmont St., Carbondale, Pa. Caudill, Virgil R. Route 3, Troy Road, Springfield Everleth, Lee and Judy. Song Evangelists, 618 8th Carpenter, Harvey and Ruth. Evangelist and Singers, Ohio S t., Marietta, Ohio 5 Reading Ave., Hillsdale, Mich. Chatfield, C. C. and Flora N. Evangelists and Singer, Carroll, Morgan. Box 42, Vilonia, Ark. Waoato, Wash...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Fagan, Harry, and W ife. Singers and Musicians, R.D. Carter, Jack and Ruby. Preacher and Singers, Box Garden Grove, Calif, (c/o Ira Truex, 1, Box 93, Carmichaels, Pa. 222, Bethany, Okla. 12661 Nelson S t.) ...... Dec. 1 to Jan. 1 Fales, Herman S. 3706 DeLevil Ave., c /o J. P. Estherville, Iow a...... Dec. 1 to 11 Clark, Fddie. Route 1, Colona, III. Fales, Tampa, Florida Casey, H. A. and Helen. Preacher and Singers, P.O. Clark, Gene. Box 7, Cory, Indiana Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Felter. Harry J ., and W ife. Box 87, Leesburg, N.J. Lorain, Ohio...... Dec. 12 to 18 Elkton, Maryland ...... Dec. 7 to 16 Smithfield, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Terre Haute, Ind. (W. Gospel) Fightmaster. Wm. F. 2663 Blackhawk Rd., Day Dover, Okla...... Dec. 12 to 18 ...... Dec. 26 to Jan. 8 ton 20, Ohio 20 (1016) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Files, Gloria; and Adams, Dorothy. Evangelist and Hostetler, Robert L. Song Evangelist, 1017 E. Jordan, Hugh R. 1124 Fort St., Boise, Idaho Singer, Wiley Ford, W.Va. Firmin, Kokomo, Ind. Keith, Donald R. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, McConnellstown, Pa...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Hubartt, Leonard G. Route 4, Huntington, Ind. Mo. Christmas vacation...... Dec. 12 to 31 Cloverdale, Ind...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Keller-York Party, The. Singers and Musicians, Box Finger, Joseph C. Box 632, Route 1, Orlando, Humble, Don. Piketon, Ohio 444, Nampa, Idaho Florida Langsville, Ohio...... Dec. 6 to 18 Kimberly, Idaho...... Dec. 1 to 11 lronton, Ohio...... Dec. 27 to Jan. 8 Kelly, Arthur E. 511 Dogwood St., Columbia, S.C. Finger, Maurice and Naomi. Route 3, Lincolnton, Humble, James W. 219 Elder St., Nampa, Idaho Eau Gallie, Fla...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 N.C. Butte, Mont...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Kimball, Everett and Irene. Evangelist and Singers, Firestone, Orville. 316 Edwards, Bossier City, La. Reserved for Holidays...... Dec. 13 to Jan. 2 P.O. Box 408, Potterville, Mich. Fisher, C. W m. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Hutchinson, C. Neal. 933 Linden St., Bethlehem. Knight, George M. 723 Lincoln Ave., Oildale, Calif. Houston (First), Tex...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Pa. Kruse, Carl H., and W ife. Evangelist and Singer, Fitz, R. G. 215 Chestnut, Nampa, Idaho 503 N. Redmond, Bethany, Okla. Ford, A. E. and Mrs. Song Evangelists, 647 W. I to L Mena, Ark...... Dec. 6 to 18 Lincoln St., Caro, Mich. St. Joseph IN. Side), Mo...... Dec. 28 to Jan. 8 Fowler Family Evangelistic Party, The Thomas. Ingland, W ilm a Jean. 322 Meadow Ave., Charleroi, Laing, Gerald D., and Wife. Preacher and Singers, Pa. Preacher and Musicians, c/o Trevecca Nazarene 119 E. Reasoner, Lansing, Mich. College, Nashville 10, Tenn. Irick, Mrs. Emma. P.O. Box 917, Lufkin, Texas Munith, Mich...... Dec. 11 to 18 Isenberg, Don. Chalk Artist-Evangelist, 17 Third Orlando (Colonial), Fla...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Land, Herbert. Box 362, Dumas, Texas Fox, Stewart P. R.D. 2, Leesburg, Va. St., College Park, Maryland Langford, J. V. 701 N. First, Henryetta, Okla. Fraley, Hazel M. 458 Moore Ave., New Castle, Pa. Jantz, Calvin and Marjorie. Singers and Musicians, Fillmore, Okla...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Franklin, Cletus M. 116 McGrath, Battle Creek, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Lanier, John H. Poplar St., Junction City, Ohio Mich. Havana, III...... Dec. 5 to 11 Williamsport, Md...... Dec. 4 to 18 Freeman, Mary Ann. 721 W. Broadway, Monmouth, Fairfield, Iowa...... Dec. 15 to 18 Latham, E. L. Dawson, Illinois III. Jaymes, Richard W. 622 E. Ash St., Piqua, Ohio Law, Dick and Lucille. Preachers and Singers, P.O. Jerrett, Howard W. 630 W. Hazelhurst, Ferndale, Canton, III. (F .M .)...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Mich. Frodge, Harold C. Box 96, Pana, III. Beardstown, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Johnson, W. Talmadge. Box 249, Duncan, Okla. Fugett, C. B. 4311 Blackburn Ave., Ashland, Ky. Gastonia, N.C...... Dec. 28 to Jan. 8 Jones, A. K. 315 Harmon Ave., Danville, III. Chattanooga Valley, Ga...... Dec. 5 to 11 Leichty Family, The (Elvin, Marge, Dianne, Donald). Jones, Claude W. R.F.D. 1, Bel Air, Maryland Warner Robins, Ga...... Jan. 3 to 8 Evangelist and Singers, Route 1, Earl Park, Ind. Easton, M d...... Dec. 6 to 11 Leih, Martin. 309 Violet St., Monrovia, Calif. Hanover, Pa...... Jan. 4 to 8 Longview, Wash...... Nov. 27 to Dec. 7 G and H Jones, M. J. 2624 Hawthorne, Orlando, Florida Leonard, James C. 223 Jefferson St., Marion, Ind. Garvin, H. B. 1415 Robinhood Rd., Charleston, Open time for December Tobo'o, Ohio...... Dec. 7 to 18 W.Va. Geeding, W. W. and W ilm a. Preachers and Chalk Artist, Box 123, Avon, 111. Gibson, Charles A. 192 Olivet St., Bourbonnais, III. Gillespie, Sherman and Elsie. Song Evangelists, 1614 Rector Ave., Muncie, Ind. Gilmour, A. Alan. 309 Spring St., Jamestown, N.Y. Rio Grande, N .J...... Dec. 7 to 23 Gleason, J. M., and W ife. Preacher and Singers, READY 935 N. Mueller, Bethany, Okla. NEW Godfrey, Laura M. Singer, 797 N. Wilson, Pasa dena 6, Calif. Goodall, Haven and Gladys. 22330 Lanark St., Canoga Park, Calif. Ford, Kansas...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Gordon, Maurice F. 2417 " C " St., Selma, Calif. Granger, Miss Marjorie. Song Evangelist, 3634 MANUAL Blaine Ave., St. Louis 10, Mo. Green, James and Rosemary. Singers and Musicians, 1201 Bower Ct., New Castle, Ind. Grand Rapids, Mich...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Greenlee, Miss Helen. Song Evangelist, Route 2, Humeston, Iowa Church of the Nazarene Griffin, Clarence A. 5829 North 64th Drive, Glen dale, Ariz. Griffith, Roland E. Missionary-Evangelist, 960 Bur rows Rd., Campbell, Calif. Yreka, Calif...... Jan. 1 to 8 Containing all the new legislation en Grimm, George J. 136 East St., Sistersville, W.Va. acted by the delegates to the 1960 Gen Mastontown, W .V a...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Grubbs, R. D. 1704 Madison Ave., Covington, Ky. eral Assembly. Haas, Wayne and June. Singers and Musicians, Route 1, Cory, Ind. Haden, Charles E. Sacramento, Kentucky Decherd (Warren Chap.), Tenn...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 ■ Your official reference to the history, doctrine, ritual, and polity of Home for Holidays...... Dec. 14 to Jan. 1 the Church of the Nazarene. Hall Evangelistic Party, The Dave. Preacher and Singers, 776 E. Simpson, McPherson, Kans. ■ The only authoritative book for conducting and maintaining the Stafford, Kansas...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Open dates for January work within the church. Hamilton, Jack and W ilm a. 532 W . Cherokee, Springfield, Mo. Ballwin, Mo...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Available in two bindings Hampton, Pleais and Dorothy. Evangelist and Sing ers, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. LEATHER BINDING—Especially suitable for ministers to take to Harding, Mrs. Maridel. 803 N. Briggs, Hastings, Neb. the pulpit and carry with them when calling. Harley, C. H. Burbank, Ohio Dignified, soft, black, fabricated-leather binding with matching end leaves, Smithville, Ohio (U .B .)...... Dec. 7 to 18 rounded corners, stained edges, and silk-ribbon marker. Title stamped in Harrington, Wm. N. 1251 N.W. 44th Ave., Gaines gold. Convenient pocket-size, 4 x 6 inches. ville, Florida Harrison, Charlie. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Limited Quantity ONLY $2.50 Mo. Name imprinted in gold (one line), Harrold, John W. Box 291, Red Key, Ind. 50c Freedom, Ind...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Havener, J. D. 460 S. Bresee, Bourbonnais, III. REGU LAR BIND ING—The copy that should be in every Nazarene Hayes, Thomas. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. home. Also appropriate to present to all newly received members. Hegstrom, H. E. P.O. Box 8, University Park, Iowa Send for an extra supply (see quantity price below) to have on hand Heriford, Russell W. Box 82, Big Bear City, Calif. use. Higgins, Charles A. 1402 Boutz Rd., Las Cruces, for immediate N.M. Comes in durable, black cloth-board binding with gold-stamped title. Custer, O kla...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Hodge, Ralph and Mrs. Song Evangelists and Musi $1.25; 12 for $12.00 cians, 417 Lawrence St., Benton, III. Hoffman, Daniel C. 557 Plains Rd., Mentor, Ohio Hokada, James T. Rt. 1, Parkview, Grafton, W.Va. Holstein. C. V. 623 Village St., Kalamazoo, Mich. NOW READY FOR MAILING Ortonville, Mich...... Dec. 1 to 13 Hoot, G. W. and Pearl. Evangelist and Musicians, Box 745, Winona Lake, Ind. Corey, M ich...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Order Your Copy AT ONCE Hoot, W. W. Rt. 5, Box 207, Morgantown, W.Va. Proctorville, Ohio...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Hoots, Bob. Box 1, Albany, Kentucky 2923 Troost, Box 527 Hoover, Amos. 1451 Ravine Rd., Vista, Calif. NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Kansas City 41, Missouri Hopkins, L. C. (Lee). 503 Holly, Nampa, Idaho DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (10X7) 21 McNutt, Paul W . Song Evangelist, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Chicago, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 McWhirter, G. Stuart. Cordova, Alabama •vicjutiws, Naomi; and Reasoner, Eleanor. Preachers „ For hundreds of suggestions . . and Singers, 2510 Hudson Ave., Norwood 12, Ohio Modoc, Ind...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 ijKm CHRISTMAS GIFT EDITIONS Meredith, Dwight and Norma Jean. Song Evange lists and Musicians, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, '■ October 26 November 9 and 23 Mo. Harvey, III...... Dec. 1 to 11 Derby, Kans...... Dec. 14 to 18 Messer, Haley. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Meyer, Virgil G. 3112 W illow Oak Drive, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Leverett Brothers. Preacher and Singers, Route 4, Martin, Paul. 914 Greenwich St., San Francisco 11, Mickey, Bob and Ida Mae. Evangelist and Singer, Lamar, Mo. Calif. 309 Cimarron Ave., La Junta, Colo. Liddell, T. T. 8819 S. Fairfield Ave., Evergreen Martin, Vern. Route 1, Fruitland, Idaho Glenwood Springs, Colo...... Dec. 7 to 18 Park 42, III. Maurer, Mrs. Feme (Siinette). Song Evangelist, 1601 Mieras, Edward E. 1962 Brigden Rd., Pasadena 7, Lansing, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 W . Ray Mar St., Santa Ana, Calif. Calif. Lipker, Charles H. Route 1, Alvada, Ohio May, Buddie. 328 Greenup Ave., Ashland, Ky. Miller, A. E. and Pauline. Preachers and Chalk Hamilton (Tuley Rd.), Ohio. . Dec. 30 to Jan. 8 McCatill, C. B. Evangelist, 210 Phillips St., Berry- Artist, 307 S. Delaware S., Mt. Gilead, Ohio Litle, ri. C. 1338l/2 Hunter Ave., Columbus 1, Ohio ville, Ark. Miller, E. J . P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Locka-d, Dayton and Patricia. Preach?rs and Sing McCoy, Norman E. Song Evangelist, 1318 East 28th Miller, Leila Dell, c/o Trevecca Nazarene College, ers, Rt. 2, Box 312-C, Charleston, W.Va. St., Anderson, Ind. Nashville 10, Tenn. Sistersville, W .Va...... Dec. 7 to 18 McCullough, Forrest. 787 E. Waldorf Ave., Mem Home for Holidays...... Dec. 13 to 27 Home for Holidays...... Dec. 19 to 27 phis, Tenn. Miller, Nettie A. c/o Trevecca Nazarene College, Long, Robert E. Evangelist, Box 143, Hatfield, Pa. Waynesboro, Tenn...... Dec. 7 to 18 Nashville 10, Tenn. Longn?cker, J . L. Evangelist, 401 W . Sixth St., Knoxville (Grace), Tenn...... Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 Columbus, Georgia...... Dec. 19 to 30 Beardstown, III. McDonald, Ray. 5958 Southwind. Houston, Texas Miller, Mrs. Ruth E. Song Evangelist, 310 S. Datura Mt. Carmel, III...... Jan. 2 to 8 McDowell, Mrs. Doris M. 948 Fifth St. Apt. H, Ave., Littleton (Denver), Colo. Lummus, H. T. 109 Fifth St. West, Canby, Minn. Santa Monica, Calif. Miller, W. F. 521 Victoria Ave., Williamstown, Lyons, James H. 3117 W . Foster, Apt. C-3, Chicago Ukiah, C alif...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 W.Va. 25, III. Home for Holidays ...... Dec. 12 to Jan. 11 Mitchells, The Musical (Lloyd and Addie). Song McFarland, C. L. Route 1, Michigantown, Ind. Evangelists and Musicians, R.D. 1, Summerville, M Kirklin, Ind. (Ch. of G o d ).. Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Pa. MacA'Ien, L. J. 119 W. Rambler Ave., Elyria, Ohio McNatt, J . A. 2932 Wingate Ave., Nashville 11, Moore, Ernest, Jr. 718 Saipan Place, San Antonio, Markham, W alter. 408 S. Cottage Ave., Porterville, Cal. Tenn. Texas Martin, Elsie G. 208 Martin St., Spencer, Ind. Birmingham (First), Ala...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Moore. Franklin M. Box 24, Cory, Indiana Creve Coeur, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Greeley (Sunnyview), C o lo ... Dec. 28 to Jan. 8 Moore, Sartell. 7 Ferro-Monte Ave., Kenvil, N.J. Mooshian, C. Helen. 18 Bellevue St., Lawrence, Mass. Morgan, J. Herbert and Pansy S. Evangelists and An ideal family remembrance Singers, 334 N. Randolph St., Indianapolis 1, Ind. Morgan, Oliver and Ruth and Daughter Mardell. Evangelist and Singers, 485 S. Bresee Ave., Bour- bonnais. III. The Kokomo (N. Side), Ind...... Dec. 6 to 18 Home for Holidays...... Dec. 19 to Jan. 3 Moulton, M. Kimber. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41. Mo. HOME EDITION Pomona Calif...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Mounts, Dewey and Wavolene. Evangelist and Sing ers. 123rd St. and Ridgeland Ave., Worth, III. of Clare, Mich...... Dec. 7 to 18 w o r sh ip Mounts, Paul E. 6708 N.W. 29th St., Bethany, Okla. 'Praise and Worship Mund, Fred A. Song Evangelist, 10101 Coburg Lands Drive, St. Louis 37, Mo. Murohy, B. W . 2952 Fourth Ave., Huntington 2, p Over 12,000 now in use! W.Va. Myers, J . T. 502 Lafayette St., Danville, III. N to R Nelson, Charles Ed. and Normadene. Evangelist and Sing.»rs, P.O. Box 241, Rogers, Ark. Clarksville, Ark...... Dec. 7 to 18 Noel, Ark and Lou. Preachers and Singers, 902 S. Pettit, Hominy, Okla. Norris, Roy and Lilly Anne. Evangelist and Singers, c/o Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville 10, Tenn. Dellroy, Ohio...... Dec. 28 to Jan. 8 Norsworthy, Archie N. 113 Asbury, Bethany, Okla. Every Nazarene home would love and admire a copy of their Norton, Joe. Box 143, Hamlin, Texas church hymnal—an unfailing source of spiritual inspiration Nutter, C. W. Box 48, Parkersburg, W.Va. Osborne, 0. L. 619 E. Tennessee S t., Evansville, second only to the Bible. Ind. Osburn, Brian. Blind Song Evangelist, 2206 Oregon Beautifully bound in black, leather-grained cloth with 24-carat Ave., Orlando, Fla. gold stamping and special “The Nazarene Hymnal, Home Edition” Palmer, "Bob." 59 Broad St., Jackson, Ohio La Harpe, III...... Nov. 29 to Dec. 11 imprint. Parrott, A. L. P.O. Box 68, Bourbonnais, III. Harvey (First), III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 9 So thoughtfully compiled were the 497 songs in this book that Passmore Evangelistic Party, The A. A. Evangelist and Singers, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. of the fifty hymns America loves best, determined by a re Newport, Pa...... Dec. 8 to 18 Hanover, Pa. (Independ. Tab.). .Dec. 28 to Jan. 8 cent poll in the Christian Herald, non-denominational Prot Pattan, Martin L. Route 11, Box 54, Fort Worth, estant periodical, 72 per cent of these are found in your Texas Patterson, A. B. Box 568, Abbotsford, B.C., Canada PRAISE AND WORSHIP. Patterson, W aiter. 1642 Wilson S t., W ichita Falls, Texas Houston (Clover Leaf), Texas...... Dev. 2 to 13 O N LY $1.75 Pease, Denver. 14 N. Davton St., Rockford, Mich. Perryman, V. Dan. 508 Wyche Ave., Bossier City, La. Peters, Joseoh W. P.O. Box 22, Virden, III. This year give at least one family this Peterson, Am il. Evangelist, Apt. 5, Becker St., special HOME EDITION of “Praise and Worship.” Kitchen*r, Ontario, Canada Phillips, Miss Lottie, c/o Trevecca Nazarene College, You’ll be so glad you did! Nashville 10, Tenn. Pickering Musicalaires, The. Evangelist and Musi 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri cians, 4042 Linden St., Allentown, Pa. NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Washington at Bresee, Pasadena 7, California Arona, Penna...... Dec. 29 to Jan. 8 IN CANADA: 1592 Bloor Street, West, Toronto 9, Ontario Pierce, Boyce and Catherine. Evangelist and Sing er?. 505 Columbia Ave., Danville, III. Shelbyville Ind...... Dec. 2 to 11 Pittenger, Twyla. Evangelist, Shelby, Ohio 22 (1018) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Plummer, Chester D. 515 N. Chester Ave., In dianapolis 1, Ind. Parker, Jnd...... Dec. 5 to 11 Keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas Kailua, Hawaii...... Jan. 1 to 8 Porter, Joseph I. Route 4, Fayetteville, Tenn. Potter, Lyle and Lois. Sunday School Evangelists. **^%iGive gifts with a CHRISTian emphasis P.U. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Reserved tor Holidays (10642 Olive Grove Ave., Sun.and, C alif.) ...... December Purkhiser, H. G. 4531 Marcel Ins St., N.W., Canton "Praying Hands" Auto Dash Plaque 8, Ohio Morgantown, W .Va...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Novel but meaningful—Christian witness for the home for Holidays...... Dec. 12 to 31 Qualls, Paul M. Song Evangelist, 5441 Lake Jes car; your friends will really appreciate it. samine Dr., Orlando, Fla. Indianapolis, Ind. (Evang. Center) Made of all-metal in miniature, size IV2 x 1%”, ...... Dec. 8 to 18 with raised edges. In center is a three-dimensional Raker, W. C., and W ife. Evangelists and Singers, Box 106, Lewistown, III. “Praying Hands” emblem set against a background Richards, Alvin D. and Annabel le. Preacher and of imitation pearl. Engraved along bot.om is, Singers, Linden, Mich. “Watch and Pray.” Magnet on back holds plaque Richards, Larry. Song Evangelist, P.O. Box 6, Martinsville, Ind. firmly on dashboard. Richardson, Harold S. and Flossie. Preacher and Singer, Route 4, Muncie, Ind. GI-19 $1.00 Richardson, L. A. and Nell. Preacher and Singer, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Riden, Kenneth R. 30 W . Church, Cambridge City, Ind. 'Praying Hands" Tie Tack Fowler, Ind. (Wes. M eth.)...... Jan. 1 to 8 Robbins, James F. 1817 " F " St., Bedford, Ind. Roberts, Robert C. 639 Hill Top Drive, Cumber | The man’s gift! Another practical application of this popular religious em land, Maryland. blem. Finished in silver and highlighted with black. : high. Boxed. (NZS) Robinson, Paul E. P.O. Box 981, Dayton, Ohio Robison, Robert, and W ife. Preacher and Musicians, AW-6332 65c Heaters, W.Va. Rodgers, Clyde B. 505 Lester Ave., Nashville 10, Tenn. Zion, Md. (Independ.)...... Dec. 1 to 11 Home for Holidays...... Dec. 13 to Jan . 1 Rodgers, J . A. (Jim m y). 12783 Beech St. N.E., Rt. 1961 Religious Towel Calendar 3, Alliance, Ohio Roedel, Bernice L. 423 E. Maple S t., Boonville, we prat), Kloke it sa& Ind. A new idea in a calendar; something that Quitman, Ark...... Dec. 1 to 11 Salem, Ind...... Jan. 1 to 8 will be both meaningful and useful in any Rogers, Lelan J . P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. home. Root, J . B. Summersville, Ky. Rossman, L. P. 1540 Spencer S t., Lansing, Mich. J o . Rothwell, Mel-Thomas. 701 Donald Ave., Bethany, Imported linen is attractively hand- Okla. screened in red, green, and brown with •rww.u'w Rowe, G. Howard. Evangelist, 2013 LaGrange Road, sampler design and “Bless this house” Dayton 32, Ohio Rushing Family Trio, The (Dee, Bernadene, and motto. Attached along top is rod with Tracy). Singers and Musicians, King City, Mo. hanging cord. Includes a decal sheet for liMiiijMIPMjiii Rushing, Charles and Emma Jean. Preacher and imprinting family name. A t end of year Singers, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. it becomes a durable, lint-free, highly ab Rust, Everett F. 420 Sherman, Alva, Okla. € 1 % Shattuck, Okla...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 sorbent dish towel. Size 17 x 32”. -Jwrn' S and T Si: ill Hi" Sanford, Mrs. Ruth. Song Evangelist, 9533 Hi-way No. GI-100CT $1.00 67, S t. Louis 36, Mo. Savage, F. C. P.O. Box 3, Kokomo, Ind. Scarlett, Don. Route 1, North Vernon, Ind. Mexico, Mo...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Gifts that are different—inexpensive—appreciated! Schriber, George R. 5949 N. Forestdale, Glendora, Calif. ORDER TODAY Schultz, W alter C. Song Evangelist, 707 S. Chip- man, Owosso, Mich. Scott, Carmen A. P.O. Box 455, Stryker, Ohio For hundreds of other interesting gift suggestions, Scott, N. Edward. 873 Cottonwood Rd., Bannino, NOTE see Special Gift Editions—October 26, November 9 and 23 Calif. Sellick, R. T. Box 22, Oxford, N.S., Canada Schenectady, N.Y...... Dec. 1 to 11 NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE 2923 Troost, Box 527 Selz, Joseph W. 627 Juniper St., Walla Walla, Kansas City 41, Missouri Wash. Sheets, Lloyd Dean. Box 165, Waverly, Ohio Shelton, S. Trueman and Ruthellen. Evangelist and Singer, P.O. Box 926, Riverbank, Calif. <»WVW\VV\\VW\\\WV\\VW\VVV\\VWVVVVV\V\V\VV\WV\\V\V\WWVW\WVVVV\WVVVVWV\VVWV\WVVVWV\AV\\\\V\\\\V\\\\VW\WV\VV\WVV Santa Cruz, Calif...... Dec. 6 to Jan. 1 Sherry, George C. 707 Long Ave., Port St. Joe, Florida Stabler, R. C. Box 34, Montoursville, Pa. Open date...... Jan. 4 to 15 Milton, Pa. (P .H .)...... Dec. 7 to 18 U to Z Sigler, Ray. Song Evangelist, 40 W . Second St., Stafford, Daniel. Box 207, Southport, Ind. Underwood, G. F., and Wife. Preacher and Sing London, Ohio Hot Springs (First), Ark...... Dec. 1 to 11 ers, 2044 Hazelwood, S.E., Warren, Ohio Si Ivernai I, Donald R. Nazarene District Center, Caney, Ark...... Dec. 12 to 18 Van Slyke, D. C. 508 16th Ave. South, Nampa, Vicksburg, Mich. Steininger, Dwight F. Route 3, Nashville, Ind. Idaho Slack, D. F. Song Evangelist, Route 2, Vevay, Ind. Colling, Mich...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Lewiston, Idaho...... Nov. 27 to Dec. 7 Linton, Ind...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Stepp, Martin, Jr. Apt. 4-C, Robinson Terrace, Wachtel, D. K. 1025 Berwick Trail, Madison, Tenn. Iowa Dist. Tour...... Dec. 28 to Jan. 8 Richmond, Ky. Reserved...... Nov. 24 to Dec. 21 Slater, Hugh. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Stewart, Paul J. P.O. Box 850, Jasper, Ala. Lancaster, Ohio...... Dec. 31 to Jan. 8 Caruthers, Calif...... Dec. 1 to 11 Stinette, Frank. 939 N. Lincoln, Loveland, Colo. Wagner, Betty. Box 363, Hull, Illinois Slavton, Hubert W. 237 N. Fifth St., Elwood, Stockton, Fred G. 503 N. Tenth St., Alpine, Texas Fairfield, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Ind. Strack, W. J. Box 112, Jefferson, Ohio Wakefield, A. C. Song Evangelist, 515 Woodland St., Smiley, Thos. R., and W ife, c/o Gen. Del., Odon, Swisher, Ralph and Connie. Preachers and Musi Nashville 6, Tenn. Ind. cians, 722 Heyward St., Columbia, S.C. W allin, Henry B. 1414 N. Hill Ave,, Pasadena, Smith. Billy and Helen. Evangelist and Singers, Tarvin, E. C. California, Kentucky Calif. 816 McKinlev Ave., Cambridge, Ohio Taylor, Emmett E. Evangelist, P.O. Box 527, Kansas Ward, Lloyd and Gertrude. Preacher and Chalk Smith, C. B. Box 404, Vernon, Ind. City 41, Mo. Artist, Crystal Arcade 2710-C Fowler St., Ft. Smith, Charles Hastings. P.O. Box 778, Bartles Vidor, Texas...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Myers, Fla. ville, Okla. Thomas, Fred. 177 Marshall Blvd., Elkhart, Ind. Meridian, Miss...... Dec. 7 to 18 Smith, Ottis E. 716 S. Main St., North Canton, Ohio Charleston (N. Side), W.Va...... Jan. 1 to 8 Waterman, George. Song Evangelist, 85 Wendell St., Smith, Paul R. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Thomas, James W. Rt. 2, Box 178-A, Gravette, Cambridge 38, Mass. Christmas vacation...... Dec. 12 to 27 Ark. Watson, C. R. Sealv, Texas Frederick, Okla...... Jan. 1 to 8 Thomoson, W m., and Wife. Evangelist and Singers, Watson, Paul C. 311 N.W. Seventh St., Benton- South. J. W ., and Wife. Evangelist and Singer?, 3223 Foltz St., Indianapolis, Ind. vi I le. Ark. 1331 Field St., Hammond, Ind. Trissel, Paul D., and Family. Evanqelist and Sing Alma (Mapleshade), Ark...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Spackev. Glenn. 260 Buttonwood Ave., Bowling ers, P.O. Box 352, Bradenton, Fla. Watson, Robert E. 126 Arlington Dr., Danville, III. Gre«n, Ohio Turpel, John W . Route 2, Minesing, Ontario, Weathers, C. G. and Florence. 811 N. Sinclair, Mt, Blanchard, Ohio...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Canada Tavares, Florida DECEMBER 7, 1960 • (1019) 23 December 7, 1960
Welch, Harry L. 3972 Christopher St., Charleston Wordsworth, E. E. 107 E. Sammamish Rd. North, be relieved," also tha t the answer to an unspoken Heights, S.C. Redmond, Wash. request be brought about speedily; Wells, Kenneth and Lily. Evangelists and Singers, W right, Frank and Lois (Ferguson). Song Evange by a Christian brother in Ohio tha t " I may have P.O. Box 1043, Whitefish, Montana lists, 2219 Avenue " E ," Fort Madison, Iowa divine help in a personal problem "; West, George R. 5317 Cedar Ave., Long Beach 5, Wright, Fred D. Huntertown, Ind. by a Christian lady in Texas that, if the Lord Calif. Wright, John H. 144 Sixth Ave., Seaside, Oregon wills, her father may be healed of cancer. Whisler, John F. Blind Singer, 404 N. Francis, Zechman, Mrs. Ruth M. 45 E. Broad St., Shilling- Carthage, Mo. ton, Pa. Directories White, W. T. 116 E. Keith, Norman, Okla. Zimmerlee, Don and June. 1331 Gregan Place, St. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Whitley, C. M., and Wife. Preacher and Singer, Louis 33, Mo. HARDY C. POWERS P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Florissant, Mo...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Wilkinson Trio (Lloyd M., Wife, and Daughter Mar 10, Mo. garet). 1104 Penn St., Columbus, Ind. Announcements W illiam s, Earl C. Box 64, Brighton, Colorado BORN— to Mr. and Mrs. Loren W. Pinyerd of G. B. W ILLIAM SON Tracy, Calif...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Marion, Ohio, a son, Loren Alan, on November 10. Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City W illis, Harold J. and Mae. Preachers and Singers, 10, Mo. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. — to S /S gt. Carlos and Aleda (W atts) Arnold at Mansfield, III...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 RAF Sculthorpe, England, Base Hospital, a son, SAMUEL YOUNG Weaverville, Calif, (c/o Gen. Del.) Andrew Curtis, on November 8. Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City ...... Dec. 15 to 25 10, Mo. Wilson, Matthew V. Route 2, Vicksburg, Mich. — to Bob and Dottie (White) Bryan of La Junta, Winegarden, Robert. Route 1, Cayuga, Ind. Colorado, a son, David Allyn, on October 12. D. I. VANDERPOOL Rockford, Ohio...... Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Wolfe, E. D. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. — to Emerson and Evelyn (Rutledge) Elmore of 10, Mo. Woods, Robert F. (Bob). Pefferlaw, Ontario, Canada Nampa, Idaho, a son, Robert Jess, on September 13. West Somerville, Mass...... Dec. 4 to 11 HUGH C. BENNER Woodward, Daniel E. 1523 Chi 11icothe St., Ports — to Paul and Martha Ann Eby of Nashville, Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City mouth, Ohio Tennessee, a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on September 10, Mo. Woodward, George P. Artist-Evangelist, R.D. 2, Box 9. 677, Monongahela, Pa. V. H. LEW IS Alloway, N .J...... Dec. 2 to 11 SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a Christian Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Worcester, Gerald. Route 2, Twin Falls, Idaho friend in Illinois " th a t my financial pressure may 10, Mo.
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