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Herald of Holiness Volume 55 Number 51 (1967)

W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. '-KZ-—------« —David Livingstone General Superintendent Coulter Capacity to Stand The Strain

It’s rock, not sand, that stands the stress that house; and it fell not: for it was founded of storm and flood. This was Jesus’ message upon a rock” (Matthew 7:25). in a distant day as He searched the multitudes Spiritual structures can stand! Spiritual for those who would truly follow Him. structures will stand—if they are founded Multitudes heard Jesus but their enthusi­ upon the rock! asm was short-lived. He sifted out those who Faith and obedience are the necessary in­ were not really in earnest about following gredients in building on a firm foundation. Him. Here is the secret of spiritual stability. Here He summed it up by saying: “Therefore is the capacity to stand the strain of storm whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and and wind and flood. doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, Jesus himself is the Rock on which the which built his house upon a rock: and the Christian stands. Our hope is fixed on noth­ rain descended, and the floods came, and the ing less than Jesus. winds blew, and beat upon that house; and He “is the image of the invisible God.” it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock” (Matthew 7:24-25). He is “the firstborn of every creature.” What a lesson for our day! So much of “All things were created by him, and for what we build is geared to shoddy workman­ him.” ship, shortcuts, laborsaving techniques, and quick sales. “He is the head of the body, the church.” (Colossians 1:15-18). Foundations must have rock in them, not sand, if they are to stand the pressures and With credentials like these, who can doubt the stresses. Sand shifts and buckles under Him? With power like this, who should fear strain. So it is in spiritual structures. the storm and wind? The man who built upon the rock took time The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for for essentials. He paid attention to the unseen repose part of his building. He exerted effort until 1 will not, 1 will not desert to his foes; he dug down to the rock. He paid the price That soul, though all hell should en­ for a solid foundation. deavor to shake, “And the rain descended, and the floods I’ll never, no never, no never forsake; came, and the winds blew, and beat -upon I’ll never, no never, no never forsake. Of Men And Mountains

• By Milo L. Arnold Richland, Washington

hat an experience! Vaca­ the past. Year after year, millen­ They praise Him even in their ma­ tioning in majestic Gla­ nium after millennium the wise jestic silence. W cier National Park, we old council of the pinnacles has Tonight we are resting in a drove over lofty Logan Pass,read the minutes of the past, then campground, cuddled in the lap of known as the Going to the Sun has sat waiting to read the same a mountain. The very atmosphere Highway. For miles we threaded minutes again and again. is charged with a sense of power, our way among gathered moun­ Scientists come and listen, glean­ of hugeness. God has walked here! tains. ing knowledge of the long, long I kneel and join the pinnacles in I know no other place where so ago. The council points them back an eager paean of silent adoration. many mountains group so closely to ages now out of sight. Each Silence is becoming for such an or surround the traveler so inti­ with its finger of bony crags mo­ hour; words are too weak, too mately. One feels almost shy in tions over its shoulder to a glori­ small, too human. Yet, as I pray, their lofty, intimate presence. Their ous crisis experience. something is lacking. I cannot stay bald-pated domes tower in dignity Gradually, persistently, surely here. This is yesterday, the finger­ above the fringe of timberline. the mountain range over which the prints of God’s work already done. They are very old, very strong, patriarchs preside is eroding. The very solid, very great. They re­ attrition of seasons, the gouging of I am not accustomed to this kind minded me of an august, venerable glaciers, and the clawing of ava­ of patriarchal meeting for reminis­ board of directors. lanches take away a bit of their cing. At home I sit in board ses­ This majestic council has been stature. Their greatest days can­ sions where the reading of the min­ meeting for many millennia. Yet in not be regained. The future has utes of the last meeting is but the spite of its impressive composition, nothing so splendid as what has prelude to new business. it has never made a meaningful been. A church board is made of hum­ decision for the future nor given a I am awed by the bigness they ble men and women, dedicated to pronouncement for guiding the bring out of the past. They tell of God, human, fallible, but eagerly world. Its entire agenda deals with the greatness of God, the Creator. facing ahead. They are not craggy FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1007) 3 reminders of a past glory. Tomor­ row is in their hearts. I had rather sit with a council of very human men and women facing tomorrow than in a meeting of grizzled pin­ nacles, looking backward. I must go shortly to a district advisory board meeting where to­ morrow will be the focal point of business. In turn I must go to the meetings of the boards of two of To Pledge or Not to Pledge our great educational institutions and join with them in the thrill of making plans for the unborn fu­ ture. They will not point back to their most glorious days nor seek merely to delay sure erosion by the tooth of time. They will dream To pledge or not to pledge— of bigger things. That is the question. A few weeks ago I sat again with Whether ’tis nobler in a man the general board of the church To take the Gospel free and felt the thrill of newborn And let another foot the bill, plans, ideas, and dreams. That prudent group of dedicated Naza- Or sign a pledge and pay toward renes bore the grave weight of Church expense! responsibility with which the To give, to pay—aye, there’s the rub, church has clothed them. They will To pay— now and then put a bit of memory into the archives and place an oc­ When on the free-pew plan a man casional marble monument to past May have accomplishments. They will read A sitting free and take the Gospel, too, the minutes of the previous meet­ As though he paid, and none be aught ing; then the chairman will say, The wiser “Now we are ready for new busi­ ness.” With that we will be on Save the church committee, who— our eager way into tomorrow. Most honorable men—can keep a secret! Mountains were born in glorious “To err is human,” and human, too, to buy greatness out of the heat of vol­ At cheapest rate. I’ll take the Gospel so! canoes and the frigid gouging of For others do the same—a common rule! glaciers, the shuddering of earth­ I’m wise; I’ll wait, not work— quakes and the fury of elements. However, from the moment of their I’ll pray, not pay, making they began to decline and And let the other fellow foot the bills, will never be so tall again. All And so I’ll get the Gospel free, their wisdom is etched in memory. You see! They have no imagination. This is not my element. I have been permitted by the church and the grace of God to join councils Author Unknown of fragile humans who are com­ mitted to the emerging future rather than the receding past. To­ morrow is in their hearts; the dawn sparkles in their eyes; I can hear the chairman saying, “Now we are ready for new business.” The Church is always beginning!

Vo'ume 55, Number 51, FEBRUARY 8, 1967; Whole Number 2859. HERALD OF HOLINESS; W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Elden Rawlings, Managing Editor; Bill Lakey, Staff Artist. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, George Coulter, General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned unless postage accompanies the material. Opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Church of the Nazarene. Published every Wednesday, by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri. Subscription price, $3.00 per year, in advance. Second- class postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Address all correspondence concerning subscriptions to: Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City, Mo. 64141. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send us your new address, including "ZIP" code, as well as the old address, and enclose a label from a recent copy. Printed in U.S.A. PHOTO CREDITS: Page 3, Luoma Photos, Weirton, W.Va.;page 6, Louis C. Williams, Nashville, Tenn. 4 (1008) • HERALD OF HOLINESS How to Grow Old -In a Hurry

• By Ward L. Kaiser

hether or not you smoke, Then he made his point. Sharp they have a most plentiful lack of you’re going to die.” and clean it was. wit, together with most weak W “Now the difference between the hams.” The man behind the cigarette smoker and the nonsmok­ One could go on with the de­ words was Dr. E. Cuyler Ham­ er is that all these things which scription. Corrugated forehead, mond, a research scientist with the unfortunately occur, that we as­ moth-eaten hairline, a hand American Cancer Society. He was sociate with old age and deteriora­ cupped hopefully behind the ear, on a national TV hookup at the tion, occur very much sooner in bridges, bulges, bifocals. the smoker . . . than in the non- time. Wouldn’t you rather be young? Hammond’s statement sounded smoker. The more heavily he smokes and the earlier he begins, Advertisers, meanwhile, are like an echo of the attitude taken working night and day to sell to­ by many smokers these days. Re­ the quicker these things happen to him.” bacco. With the biggest budgets port after gloomy report points up they’ve ever had, they’re trying to the harmful effects of smoking, es­ Yeah? set up a link in your mind and pecially cigarettes, yet millions, Yeah. You heard what the man said. mine between cigarettes and run­ habit-ridden, continue. “Since I’m ning brooks, cigarettes and ro­ going to die anyway,” the question Hammond is not alone. Dr. Har­ mantic love, cigarettes and vibrant keeps coming, “why shouldn’t I din Jones, a physiologist at the health, cigarettes and good living. choose one of the tobacco-linked University of California’s Donner diseases?” Laboratory, said in a symposium If researchers like Hammond and Jones are correct, all such adver­ So smokers, while they joke that the major effect of smoking tising is a downright lie. It de­ about “cancer sticks” and “coffin appears to be “premature old age.” liberately portrays the very oppo­ nails,” keep on puffing. Their cash In case you wonder whether site of the product’s normal result. has pushed the tobacco industry in your eyes deceive you, read those For reasons like that, Great Bri­ many countries to an all-time high statements again. That’s right: in sales: some $7.8 billion in 1965 there’s not one word in them about tain now outlaws cigarette ads that in the United States, according to lung cancer! associate smoking with health or manliness or romance, or that fea­ the Department of Agriculture. Yet some young people I know ture prominent athletes or other That’s 550 billion cigarettes, by the are more influenced, it seems, by way. such statements than by all the popular heroes. reports on lung cancer ever com­ LeRoy Collins, former governor During the period that produced piled. Cancer and heart disease of Florida and now president of the the scientific warnings about smok­ they can take—after all, griefs like National Association of Broadcast­ ing and the death rate—the last that are years away—but growing ers, has urged American TV and seven years—cigarette consumption old, beginning now, that’s different. radio networks to join in similar has increased every year, without That hits where it hurts. action. They have the suggestion exception, in the United States and Another acquaintance, a man of under consideration. Canada. middle years and a smoker, says But Dr. Hammond wasn’t fin­ that Hammond’s words reminded o far the idea has met with ished. He really wanted to say him of a picture out of Hamlet. something less than spec­ something about the process of Polonius has just asked Hamlet tacular success. aging. “As we get older our bodies S what he’s reading, and Hamlet re­ As it looks now, you’re going to tend to deteriorate and certain plies: continue to face a barrage of ciga­ very unpleasant things happen. We Slanders, sir: for the satirical rette commercials and social pres­ tend to get short of breath, we rogue says here that old men have sures to smoke. Regardless of what tend to fatigue. We are much gray beards, that their faces are others do, you’ll have to make up more likely to have to go to the wrinkled, their eyes purging thick your own mind.—Reprinted from hospital. That is, the older we get, amber and plum-tree gum and that the Mennonite. the more this occurs.” FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1009) 5 The Fool of February

• By John Hancock Dunbar, West Virginia

MANY CALLED him a fool, this lean and sumed that government of the people must be lanky American who never ceases to cast his government by and for the people. long shadow across the short month of February. A fool, many said. A great fool, many more History records the lives of great men. Good believed. and honorable men. Evil and wicked men. All This was Lincoln, whom friends and foes alike brighten or blot the pages of the past. called foolish. This was Lincoln, who hid the bitter dregs of betrayal in laughter which was a But as a leader of little louder than the rest of the crowd. This was men and a nation, per­ Lincoln, whose answer to derision was withdraw­ haps no character in al into solitude. This was Lincoln, who muffled history offers more with a funny story the dripping of blood from a hope and inspiration broken heart. to mankind than does Abe Lincoln, out of the personal tragedy of his Abraham Lincoln, own life, learned to pity where others struck out who, while living, was in blind anger. From his own losses, he bowed himself so artless and his shoulders until he carried the heart sickness selfless as to be of all the weak people in his nation. In humility classed as a fool. he controlled his opportunity of limitless power. A fool they called And, being the man he was, he won through him for losing his death the mantle which life often disdains to be­ heart to the grave of stow upon the simple soul . . . Lincoln won last­ his mother. ing peace and eternal glory. A fool they named him for marrying EVEN AS HE walked quietly and humbly to above his “station” a death he both anticipated and predicted, he left and living a life of a great message for us. Were he writing this to­ loving patience. day, Lincoln would declare: A fool, they cried, when he pitted his homely “The greatest want of the world is the want of ignorance against the courtliness, brilliance, and men—men who will not be bought or sold; men urbanity of the mighty Douglas in debate. who in their inmost soul are true to a cause and honest to self; men who do not fear to call wrong A fool, they laughed, when he set himself to do by its right name; men whose conscience is as the right in a world and society where the victory true to duty as the magnetic needle is to the axis of the day went to the strong. pole; men who will stand as men though the A fool, they smirked, when he dreamed of heavens themselves fall.” freedom for a people whom the North wanted to Thus, Lincoln’s life speaks to us. While he keep out as strongly as the South felt the need to lived, all around him proud men—Seward, Cam­ control. eron, Chase, McClellan—competed ambitiously A fool, they declared, when he chose unkempt, for great epitaphs upon their graves. But this silent, ponderous Grant to lead to victory* the man . . . this Lincoln . . . the lean, foolish man of muddling, stumbling armies of the Union. God’s will and destiny, forgot himself into im­ A double fool, they screamed, when he pre­ mortality. 6 (1010) • HERALD OF HOLINESS "This is that..

The questioning crowds were witnessing long-awaited fulfillment of prophecy

• By H. S. Galloway Columbus, Ohio

eter’s sermon on the Day of Old Testament promises came. Spirit. This is that! Whosoever Pentecost silenced many of These are largely summed up in shall call upon the name of the P the critics and brought the prophetic words of the father Lord shall be saved. clear direction to confused ofand John the Baptist as recorded by This is that . . . the “Canaan- wondering minds. Luke: “The oath which he sware rest” for those made a part of the Strange things had been happen­ to our father Abraham, that he New Israel by the new birth. Isaiah ing in the city of Jerusalem. One would grant unto us, that we, be­ had said, “For with stammering who had come as the Christ and ing delivered out of the hand of lips and another tongue will he had been looked upon as the long- our enemies, might serve him with­ speak to this people. To whom he awaited Messiah of Israel had re­ out fear, in holiness and righteous­ said, “This is the rest wherewith cently been put to death as a com­ ness before him, all the days of our ye may cause the weary to rest.” mon criminal on a cross. life.” The writer to the Hebrews cries Subsequently, rumors had gone Now the Redeemer and Saviour out, “There remaineth therefore a around the city that He had arisen has come. His work is consum­ rest to the people of God.” from the dead. Stories of appear­ mated. The Holy Spirit has been One of the great ances to His disciples had spread. sent as the Father’s witness to that inaugural signs of One hundred twenty of His dis­ consummation and as the moving the beginning of ciples had for ten days been meet­ Spirit to bring its full benefits to the new covenant ing for prayer and waiting on the all men who will accept. Now man as the Holy Spirit Lord. can be free from sin’s bondage. came was the gift of languages. This Then suddenly, on the great day Now there is holiness through the is that! A spirit­ of the feast of Pentecost, the un­ indwelling Holy Spirit of God free­ ual Canaan is open usual happened. The Holy Spirit ly offered to all who open their to the people of came upon the little group indi­ hearts in full consecration to God. There is rest vidually and collectively. Out­ Christ. as the Holy Spirit takes full direc­ standing dispensational manifesta­ This is that . . . the completion tions accompanied His coming. tion and control of life. That rest of the work of our Lord Jesus remains as long as the Christ is To the questioning crowds, Peter Christ made available to all men. enthroned by the Spirit remaining cried out, “This is that . . What Jesus came as the divine Word in control of life. they were witnessing was the long- bringing to completion the pro­ This is that . . . God the Holy awaited fulfillment of the prophecy phetic message of God to men. Spirit comes into His temple. That made many centuries before by the Never man spake like this Man. temple is the human soul com­ prophet Joel. It was the outpour­ The way of holy living in the full­ pletely dedicated to Him and set ing of the Holy Spirit of God, ness of love to God and love to apart for His service. As the glory made possible by the sacrifice, res­ man is set forth not only in the of God’s presence filled the con­ urrection, and ascension of Jesus message of the Son of God, but secrated Tabernacle, the glory of Christ. also in the life of Him who was also the Holy Spirit’s presence fills the This is that . . . the consumma­ the Son of Man. consecrated soul. In that coming tion of the hope of the ages. In the Jesus revealed God the Father He cleanses, “purifying their hearts fall, sin had implanted itself as a so truly that He said, “He that by faith.” In that coming and abid­ parasite in human nature, and in hath seen me hath seen the Fa­ ing He is a sufficient and enabling succeeding ages has held men in ther.” He wrought in suffering and Strength to make possible victori­ its bondage. It was a bondage sym­ death, bearing our sin and sins and ous, holy living along life’s every bolized by that of Israel in Egypt, breaking His own life, that life pathway. In the constancy of His but worse because it was more than might become ours. He suffered presence, He is the Energizer for a physical slavery; it was a spirit­ without the gate that we might be the witnessing, working Christian. ual slavery within one’s own soul. sanctified wholly. All of this is This is that . . . God’s better way But the gleam of hope broke gathered up and made available to through Christ for those who fol­ through as the rays of light of the men in the coming of the Holy low Him in our day. FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1011) 7 on the fflocks

• By W. Lee Gann Pearl City, Hawaii

s we walked away from the service that Sun- occasion, between two Samoans and with them . day morning, Elsie said, “Well, that was my received the elements, emblems of our Lord’s ■ first time to have Communion on the body and His blood, from the hand of our mis­ Arocks!” sionary. I confess I was a bit startled when I We were in the district of Lafaga, deep in the noted that what I had been given for the bread bush country, twenty-eight miles from the city appeared to be a small portion of some sort of of Apia, capital of Western Samoa. The new fruitcake, which it turned out to be. Then the church had been dedicated just three days before wine was offered, which on sight gave evidence and we were to have the first Communion on that it was not grape juice. It actually was con­ Sunday morning. centrated, unsweetened raspberry juice. When On Friday night it was discovered that while taking the “wine” on signal, I was again startled gathering provisions earlier in the week the ele­ to find the taste quite bitter and almost breath­ ments for Communion had been overlooked. So taking. before daylight the native pastor and a layman The abnormalities were soon forgotten and the left the village in search for the needed supplies. relative unimportance of “ceremony” realized as With a two-hour ride by local “bus” each way, one could hear the weeping of those children of they did not return until the middle of the after­ God making their own prayers. The lifting of eyes noon on Saturday, advising that the proper ele­ revealed the stains of tears as they splashed upon ments were not available, but explained that they the altar as they were “partaking of His body and had used their best judgment in acquiring substi­ blood” to their own souls’ comfort and need. tute materials. Following the prayer of benediction we arose Sunday morning came and bright and early the from our knees. I turned to our missionary, people gathered for service all dressed in white, whose face was also bathed in tears. He said to their traditional apparel for church attendance. me, “I thought as I ate that cake a few moments Following the flannelgraph lesson given by my ago that to taste of the Lord was not flat and wife, Elsie, interpreted by our missionary, Rev. tasteless as with regular Communion wafers, but Jarrell Garsee, the morning hymns were sung I have found Him to be sweet and good.” and the Communion message completed. The mis­ I responded by saying that as I drank that sionary invited Christ’s followers to come to the bitter juice I was reminded that the cup of the Lord’s table. Lord was not always pleasant, for the Lord him­ It should be explained that the floor of this self had once asked the question, “Can ye drink church was not carpeted nor was the altar pad­ of the cup that I drink of?” ded. On the contrary, the floor was simply There we stood, embracing one another, weep­ crushed coral. Pieces of coral which had been ing unashamedly, and realizing that in the substi­ broken by the pounding surf and pushed by the tute of fruitcake for the unleavened bread and relentless waves to the beach were gathered by raspberry juice for the fruit of the vine, we had the local people and hauled to the church site. experienced the most significant and meaningful These bits of coral are like stones averaging pos­ Communion service of our lives. sibly one-half to three-quarters of an inch in di­ Elsie, too, had sensed the strange warmness ameter and from one to three inches long. On this and blessing of God as He met with His chil­ surface woven mats of coconut leaves about one- dren. But she had not been fortunate enough eighth of an inch in thickness are placed. There to have even a mat to protect her knees from the are no chairs, and if the crowd is not too large coral. So, as we all walked back to the native there is room for everyone to sit on some part of fale, in which we had been guests for the past a mat. five days, she commented, “That was my first I knelt at the crude altar, hastily built for this time to have Communion on the rocks!” 8 (1012) • HERALD OF HOLINESS spiritual feet had “well nigh slipped.” He was about to give up spiritually because of the pros­ perity of those who were not sin­ cere and who lived on in sin. It was only when he continued the True Values of Life spiritual discipline of going to church that he regained his per­ spective. In the midst of the wor­ • By W. Shelburne Brown ship service he saw again that God President, Pasadena College is the God of eternity. Life isn’t lived from one weekend to an­ myrna was the home of the were really poor, so far as this other, but it is lived in the light early Christian bishop, world is concerned, but John re­ of eternity. Christ can be trusted S Polycarp. During the days minds them that they were really and spiritual values are not about of persecution Polycarp soughtrich. to be discounted. “Be thou faith­ safety, but readily gave up to the And how much like the teaching ful unto death, and I will give Roman soldiers when they found of the Master is this encourage­ thee a crown of life” (Revelation him. His only request to the sol­ ment by the Apostle John. One can 2:10). diers was that he might be given hear the voice of Jesus saying, III. There is tribulation ahead, the opportunity to pray. He was “Lay not up for yourselves treas­ but the Christian need not sentenced to be burned at the ure on earth . . . but lay up for fear. stake when he refused to renounce yourselves treasures in heaven” Jesus never promised an endless Christ. He stood by the stake (Matthew 6:19-20). How telling vacation experience for the Chris­ without being tied. The breeze so the story still is about the wealthy tian. His word was always to the blew the fire that it prolonged the farmer who was congratulating effect that in the world one could agony of his death until a soldier, himself for his financial security! expect tribulation. However, the in mercy, killed him with a sword. The response of God was, “Thou trials are borne in the realization The city of Smyrna was set on fool, this night thy soul shall be that Christ has overcome the a harbor, the land beyond rising required of thee” (Luke 12:20). world. Through Him, we too can gently to a graceful peak, atop Isn’t it difficult for us really to conquer. which sat an Acropolis. The city accept this teaching? We have a Faithfulness is the watchword had once been destroyed by fire hundred clever rationalizations for in the intervening days. We have and for 400 years barely existed, our materialistic grasping. In fact no way of controlling the events after which it was rebuilt. we can almost work it around to of life. We do have a way of con­ The reference to Christ in verse equate material prosperity with trolling our response to those 8 as the One who was dead and spiritual blessing, like Job’s com­ events and the assurance of vic­ then alive again was particularly forters. In times of crisis we catch tory in every arena of trial. After appropriate to the people of Smyr­ a vision of what real value is, but all the storms of sin and persecu­ na. The message to Smyrna was the vision fades so quickly under tion have combined against the the most tender of the letters to the pressures of secular living. It Christian, the worst thing that can the seven churches. The faithful­ requires a close walk with God to be done to him is to take his life. ness of these people was known sing sincerely, “Take the world, The firm conviction of the child everywhere. At one time they had but give me Jesus.” of God is the same as for the stripped off their own garments to II. God knows those who are sin­ Apostle Paul, “To live is Christ provide for the Roman army. To cere. . . . to die is gain” (Philippians the Church of Jesus Christ in this In the city of Smyrna there 1:21). city, the Lord sends a threefold were those who were playing at John and Betty Stamm, mission­ message. the task of being religious. No aries to China, were martyred for I. Outward poverty is not the true doubt they had struck a balance their faith. Some lines of one of measure of life. between the demands of the law John’s poems expresses it well: For many years the testimony, and the pleasures of the world. Afraid? Of what? “Christianus sum” (“I am a Chris­ Those poverty-stricken Christians Baptize with blood a stony plot, tian”), was evidence enough to looked on, as some do now, and Till souls shall blossom from lose any right to employment, to grieved over the situation. John that spot. be cut off from friends and so­ simply reminds them that God Afraid of that? ciety, and often amounted to a looks on the heart. Those who “Fear none of those things which death sentence. It was this kind claimed they were Jews, but were thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil of enmity to the Christian Church not, were really a part of the syna­ shall cast some of you into prison, that provides the background for gogue of Satan. It isn’t necessary that ye may be tried; and ye shall this congregation in Smyrna. The for us to judge. God has done that, have tribulation ten days: be thou converts had been stripped of and is doing it already. faithful unto death, and I will give earthly possessions. Those who had It must have been something thee a crown of life” (Revelation some wealth soon spent it in pro­ like this that David witnessed 2:10). We have only to persevere viding for others in the Church when he cried out, “Verily I have to the end of life, and then He will who were less fortunate. They cleansed my heart in vain.” His meet us on the other side. FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1013) 9 r 1 Editorially Speaking • By W. T. PURKISER

their shepherd and will guide them to the springs Dry, Hard, and Cold of the water of life.”* Our age has been vividly described as “an age Did you catch it? of dry eyes, hard noses, and cold feet.” In many The Lamb of God, who bore away the sins respects this is an apt description. of the world on Calvary, and who is the supreme Dry eyes are the prime evidence of loveless Revelation of the redeeming love of God, is not hearts. When the capacity for compassion is lost, only at the heart of the Cross but at the heart of human life becomes cold and empty. the throne. At the ruling center of the universe is To a certain extent, dry eyes have always char­ the Lamb, the incarnate love of God. Let this acterized the world. What should give us pause rebuke our dry eyes and our loveless hearts. is the degree to which dry eyes have come to characterize the Church. BUT NOT ONLY is our problem one of dry eyes; What the Church in general and we in particu­ it is also one of “hard noses.” This is a rather lar need most in our times is a sweeping revival modern expression. A hard-nosed person is one of love for the lost—not simply lost “souls,” but who is tough, stubborn, unyielding, hard, and bel­ lost people in all the trials and perplexities of ligerent. their errant lives. There is a sense in which all of these qualities For some of us this may mean taking more to may be assets. When standing for uncompromis­ heart certain parts of our Bibles that we skip ing right, give me the man who has about him over lightly. For example: “If a brother or sister something that is tough, stubborn, and unyielding. be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of Unwillingness to fight for principles that are pre­ you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye cious and true is weakness and not strength. warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them It is the hard-nosed person who takes his un­ not those things which are needful to the body; yielding stand for personal privilege, or for no­ what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not tions and opinions that either do not matter or works, is dead, being alone” (James 2:15-17). are positively wrong, who contributes most to the George Whitefield, in a mood strikingly like chaos of our times. that of the Apostle Paul, said in a sermon on re­ There is a place for hard noses in the Church, pentance: “Believe me, I am willing to go to when those noses are set in the right direction. prison or death for you, but I am not willing to One of God’s greatest saints recorded his de­ go to heaven without you.” termination in terms not unlike our contemporary Baron von Hugel long ago defined a Christian as way of putting it: “For the Lord God will help “one who cares.” On- this definition, how many me; therefore shall I not be confounded: there­ real Christians do we have in this world? fore have I set my face like a flint, and I know Such compassion, such caring, will drive us to that I shall not be ashamed” (Isaiah 50: 7). And our knees. It will save us from the curse of a Greater than Isaiah, bent on His redemptive prayerless tears and tearless prayers. It will open mission, “stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusa­ our lives to become channels for the love of God lem.” Nothing could turn Him aside. that streams from the middle Cross. It will put us It is when the attitude symbolized by the in touch with the power that rules the universe. “hard nose” gets itself attached to incidentals or There are some things in The New English Bible personal status and pride of position that the that I personally do not like as a translation of the Church is crippled. Energies that should be di­ Greek of the New Testament. But there is one rected toward fighting the devil are turned against verse that takes on tremendous new truth as I fellow Christians, and Satan is the only winner in read it in the NEB. Where the King James Ver­ the conflict that follows. sion reads, “The Lamb which is in the midst of The story is told of a night watchman who had the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them been ordered to guard carefully the tools of a unto living fountains of waters” (Revelation. 7: contractor. In the morning he carefully checked 17), The New English Bible translates: “The © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Lamb who is at the heart of the throne will be Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961. 10 (1014) • HERALD OF HOLINESS over the saws and hammers and all the small course. Strength without courage is futile. Cour­ tools, then triumphantly reported that all were age without strength is folly. But strength and accounted for. But the steam shovel was gone— courage together are freely offered to all who stolen in the night! would “fight the good fight of faith.” The minister who told the tale commented, “He If there is a long future, and if there are archae­ gave his time to the little and missed the big! We ologists who may exhume the bones of our present exhaust ourselves in skirmishes and lose the bat­ day, may they say of us that at least we belonged tles and the wars.” to the order of vertebrates. God grant us in our But it need not be so. There are fires to fight, day the indomitable courage of the Maine farmer and we need not waste our courage and energy who built his stone fence four feet wide and three on the smoke. There are diseases to heal that feet high so that, if the storm should ever blow it hard-nosed opposition to the symptoms will never over, it would be higher than it was before! cure.

COLD FEET is yet another sign of the times. At Milking Cows and Making Butter first glance, hard noses and cold feet might seem A very wise man once said, “I milk a hundred like contradictory qualities. Yet more times than cows, but I make my own butter.” He wasn’t not, a hard nose is really the result of cold feet. talking about cattle and churns. He was talking Men are prone to fight over opinions because about books as the raw material from which dis­ they lack the courage of real convictions. Unyield­ ciplined thought may gain new insights into ing stubbornness in small causes grows out of in­ truth. security in respect to those issues for which we ought to fight and die. Two points are quite obvious in this parable. On the face of the earth and in the Church the There is no butter without some cows to milk call to courage is the cry we need to hear. “Fear and without the labor of milking. And there is of controversy,” said Gerald Kennedy, “is the no butter without the process of churning. mark of a sick generation.” And so it is. Of special concern to us now is the offering to The Bible has a great deal to say about courage. be taken throughout the church next Sunday for One of its most common expressions, used no less the library at Nazarene Theological Seminary. than nine times in a Book not given to vain repeti­ Dedicated last month, this new and commodious tion, is, “Be strong and of a good courage.” building, which would grace any campus of its Both strength and courage are necessary, of size anywhere, will fill a large and important place in the preparation of preachers for the church around the world. When they have been true to their heritage, the True Beauty people of the Wesleyan tradition have always been concerned with reading. John Wesley said, “The work of grace would die out in one genera­ Beauty is printed on canvas tion, if the Methodists were not a reading people.” By artists taught and inspired; Books, magazines, literature in general, have Loveliness, too, is created always had priority among us. The first enter­ In proper color and motif desired. prises organized in the Church of the Nazarene beyond the work of the local congregations were Beauty is birthed in music colleges—universities, as they were then usually By vocalists blending in song; envisioned to be—and a publishing house. Harmony, too, is abounding “The readers of today are the leaders of tomor­ When a maestro wields his baton. row” is a slogan with a great deal of truth in it. Books and the facilities to make them available Literature revels in charm With poetry, drama, and prose; lie very close to the heart of any educational en­ terprise. No student will amount to much who Elegance, too, is evident— does not get beyond the place of the fellow who New places and persons one feels he knows. answered the question, “What books have helped you most?” with the reply, “My mother’s cook­ People find beauty in living: book and my father’s checkbook.” In the arts—at work—from the sod; It is our sincere hope that every local church Yet beauty is evident most will receive a Seminary library offering Sunday, In a soul who has truly met God! and that our people will be generous in their re­ sponse. President Eugene Stowe and the faculty By OVELLA SATRE SHAFER and students of Nazarene Theological Seminary need our united backing in the days ahead. FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1015) 11 are needed who will think more of After all, what is more beautiful and Letters spreading the gospel to the poor than more God-sent than a tiny, helpless in exchanging expensive gifts . . . baby? PRO >”,he< CON Mrs. Louise Schrag Mrs. Harold Bowlby Editor Kansas Indiana

... I can read this type of “hog­ . . . Who could ask for anything wash’ any time in other publications which could improve upon the Christ­ Pro: Article on “Pious . . . Mr. Miller tears everything apart mas classics which cover the scope Jingle Bells” and makes no attempt to reconstruct of the birth of Christianity? . . . How May I commend your judgment in it by either specific example or in­ better could the incarnation of holy placing William Miller’s “Pious Jingle ference. . . . Love be expressed than in these Bells” in the position it seems to me to Everette S. Beals words: deserve in the current Herald of Holi­ Utah How silently, how silently ness. Since I am neither academician The wondrous Gift is giv’n! nor theologian, my opinion is not very ... I felt that it was practically So God imparts to human hearts weighty, but I anticipate that article sacrilegious ... I realize that he has The blessings of His heav’n. . . . ? will reap a generous harvest of “con” made some good points too ... I find Mrs. Lucille Hardcastle mail for you. As the cudgels and nothing at all objectionable in any of Idaho shards fall about your ears, be as­ the Christmas hymns and carols found sured one hillbilly agrees with the in our hymnal. I think that they do . . . His shallow, pseudo-pious reas­ article. honor Christ and His reason for com­ oning was even the more startling I am encouraged. My heart burns to ing to earth, and I doubt if the Christ­ when viewed against the marked and see and share a renewed grasp of the mas story would ever have gone so timely cover using the symbolism of mighty inspiration of the immediacy far or lasted so long without these the Christmas story being the final of our Lord. old Christmas carols. and key piece in a grand puzzle of It must be that we have a distorted C. L. Gardner life. . . . By his own words he speaks hindsight concerning traditions, as Ohio of the spiritual poverty of his own well as seeing through a glass darkly. soul, the cynicism of his own atti­ Our traditions should enrich and ex­ ... I believe this was the whole tude, and the desire he has to judge pand our experience and our horizons. idea of Christmas, that we should all others by superficial and irrelevant God will bless you for sticking your celebrate it referring to Christ as a standards. In fact, as an afterthought, neck out, sir. babe. It shows the humbleness in I wonder if he isn’t an overage ado­ Hal von Stein which He gave His life into the hands lescent who never awakened on Oregon of others, that He came to grow up, Christmas morning to find a surprise have the same feelings of joy, despair, gift in his stocking hung by the fire­ Thank you for the article “Pious sorrow, and pain as we have. . . . place with care! . . . Jingle Bells” in the December 21 issue I can’t think of a different way that I’m glad for our modern heroes of the Herald. How cleverly and I would like to celebrate Christmas. such as the astronauts. But I trust no catchingly secularists and sentimen­ one will try to write Christmas carols talists express “Christmas” for us inserting such modern concepts as while we Christians naively overlook spaceships or astronauts in the place the loss of the heart-truths of this of a guiding star or singing angels. . . . terribly significant event! I wonder And come to think of it, I hope no how many Nazarenes sang “Jingle one will try to do away with the tra­ Bells” more often than, “Joy to the Church Chuckles ditions that go with our celebration world! The Lord is come,” during of Christ’s birth. The making of plum this holy season just past. pudding, the Christmas cookings and Christian song writers, where are candies (you should taste my wife’s you? Have all the paens of praise fattagmund, fruitcake, and Christmas been written? How nice and effort­ meringues!), the putting up of the less to leave your chores to Charles tree, the holly—yes, and even the Wesley! mistletoe—are a part of the richness Thanks for this thought-provoking of our families’ life. I’ve watched our meat in the Herald and please, for children grow increasingly excited as the survival of vital Christianity’s the house takes on the atmosphere of sake, deliver us from pap. Christmas. They joyfully plan, count E. C. Blanchard and recount their money, as they buy Minnesota gifts for friends and loved ones. And it is so much fun to wrap gifts—and address cards to many, many dear Con: Article on “Pious friends and loved ones! . . . Jingle Bells” Andrew G. Hanners Oregon . . . What we need today is not a change of hymnody or theology but changed men—men who live the lives Pro: Editorial of Christians in such a way that the Editorial, Nov. 2, “A Life to Im­ carols will have meaning to all who “We nearly stayed home after Ralph part”—HOW RICH! Read and re­ hear them. Christians are needed who caught a news flash about a bad read. Others should not miss reading will spend Christmas in church when snowstorm “headed this direction. By it. Thank you! it falls on Sunday instead of in the way, where IS Upper Saskatche­ E. G. Theus merry festivities at home. Christians wan?” Oklahoma 12 (1016) • HERALD OF HOLINESS ------VITAL STATISTICS______Deaths MRS. GLADYS M. ROBERTS, fifty-nine, died No­ vember 19 in Franklin, Ohio. Rev. Kenneth J. Grandy conducted funeral services. She is survived by her husband, Tine, a sister, a brother, and several nieces and nephews.

REV. LEE LONZO HAMRIC, ninety-one, died De­ cember 22 in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Paul H. Garrett, superintendent of the Dallas District, and Rev. Robert G. Nielson, pastor, conducted funeral services. He is survived by his wife, Elsie, three daughters, four sons, twenty-three grandchildren, forty great­ grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

MRS. CLARICE KRAUSE, fifty-eight, died Decem­ ber 31 in Weiser, Idaho. Rev. Don E. Cook and COMING TO CHURCH BY AMBULANCE, Glen Rumsey, a sixty-five-year-old Rev. Danny Pyles conducted funeral services. She navy veteran, regularly makes it on time for his Sunday school class. Super­ is survived by her husband, Paul; three sons, De- intendent Vernon Sutter stands behind him. Mrs. Bill Shelton is the teacher. wayne, Dale, and Darrel; one daughter, Mrs. Donna Rebman; her mother and father; four brothers; four sisters; and eleven grandchildren.

EDWIN MOTSINGER, ninety-four, died November 11 in Upland, California. He had been a member NAVY VETERAN ATTENDS of the Church of the Nazarene for sixty-six years. Rev. Bill Burch and Rev. W. H. Burton conducted funeral services. Among survivors are his wife, Nellie. REV. IRA P. BOWEN, eighty-two, died December CHURCH BY AMBULANCE 25 in Wilmington, California. Rev. Stephen Bennett conducted funeral services. He is survived by three sons, Ben, Douglas, and Ed Treece; three daughters, is name is Otto Glen Rumsey. and hospitals. First in San Francisco, Mrs. Ruth Hanley, Mrs. Rachel Schlerf, and Naomi Everyone knows him as California; then Salina, Kansas; Mari­ Bowen; fourteen grandchildren; and six great-grand­ children. “Glen.” He will be sixty-five, on, Indiana; and now in St. Anthony’s HMarch 15. Hospital in Hays, Kansas. REV. LEO BEST, a pastor in Nebraska and Iowa, died December 17 in Norfolk, Nebraska. Rev. Earl Forty-four years ago Glen was * * * * Roustio conducted funeral services in Ottumwa, Iowa. stung by a tsetse fly while serving in He is survived by his wife, Emma, and two sons. GLEN COMES TO church by am­ the navy in the South Pacific. He is bulance, but seldom misses. In fact he REV. LESLIE E. MANN, eighty-three, died De­ the sole survivor of several who were cember 14 at Gardiner, Maine. He had been a has missed only two Sundays in the pastor for nearly fifty years in New England. Rev. stung at the same time. past three years. Rain or snow, Alan Keith conducted funeral services. He is sur­ For the past forty-two years Glen vived by his wife, Annie. sleet or heat matters little to Glen. has made his home in nursing homes The transportation is costly, he often JOE KEITH, fifty-three, died December 18 in Morristown, Tennessee. Services were conducted by Lee Patch at Wollaston, Massachusetts, on Decem­ feels poorly, and he cannot partici­ Rev. Victor E. Gray, superintendent of the East ber 30. pate in the services as he would like Tennessee District. He is survived by his wife, Cora; BORN two daughters, Mary and Stella; and six sons, —to Rev. J. Wallace and Jeanette (Wilson) —but he continues to come. Ronald, Donald, Thomas, Ray, Paul, and Deryl. Cantrell of San Antonio, Texas, a son, Michael Glen can talk, but his words are Wallace, on November 22. MARY MEDA MOORE, ninety-three, died Decem­ —to Rev. Jim and Jeanne (Mowen) Lynch of hard to understand. He can move his ber 28 in Bethany, Oklahoma. Funeral services were Hydro, Oklahoma, a daughter, Janice Jeannine, on fingers only slightly. He lies on his conducted by Dr. M. Harold Daniels. She is sur­ January 6. vived by five sons, Frank, Edwin, J. C., Harvey, and —to Pfc. James Mark and Mary Lou (Ekis) back constantly and cannot feed him­ Sheppard; five daughters, Mrs. Clara Ladd, Mrs. Rodgers, of Sarasota, Florida, twins, James Mark, self. R. A. Wood, Mrs. H. E. Grubbs, Mrs. Lois Adams, Jr., and Cheryl Michelle, on December 10. and Mrs. John Wallace. —to Glen and Mary (Larmon) Pounds of North BUT VISITORS know that on Sun­ Bend, Oregon, a daughter, Christine Anne, on No­ day morning Glen will not be in Announcements vember 5. RECOMMENDATIONS SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED Room 310 in St. Anthony’s Hospital. —by a Christian man in Indiana that his wife will He will be in Sunday school and T. E. Holcomb, pastor of Houston (Tex.) Lake be saved and that the Lord will heal her body. Forest Church, is entering the evangelistic field as —by a Christian lady in Kansas for God's touch church at the Church of the Nazarene, of September 1. Mr. Holcomb is a successful, of healing on her husband's body. and he will be there on time. seasoned evangelist, as he has spent a number of —by a lady in Ohio for a very urgent silent years in the field. He is stalwart in faith, a request. Glen was converted while he was in dynamic preacher, an aggressive soul winner, and —by a Christian in Texas for three • unspoken the nursing home in Salina, and is a man of prayer. I am happy to recommend him requests. for revivals in any of our churches. His address: —by a man in Kentucky that he will not be so now a loyal member of the Church 8834 Lake Forest Blvd., Houston, Texas 77028.— easily defeated in his Christian life, and for his of the Nazarene. The church people W. Raymond McClung, Superintendent of the Houston loved ones. District. —by a lady in Texas for a daughter who has in Hays appreciate his prayers and drifted away from the Lord, and also for a very support. Several members of the Hays W. Glen Rodefer, who is a registered evangelist, urgent unspoken request. is now entering the full-time evangelistic field. He —by a man in Idaho for an unspoken request. church call on him weekly. will go anywhere for a freewill offering. He will * * * * hold any church a good revival and has had many New Church Organizations years of good pastoral experience. His address: HE LOVES TO have missionary Malden, Illinois 61337.—Lyle E. Eckley, Superin­ Grafton, West Virginia, October 30, 1966. tendent of the Northwestern Illinois District. Rev. V. N. Radcliffe, pastor.—H. Harvey books read to him. He listens eager­ Hendershot, district superintendent. ly to articles from the Herald of Holi­ J. E. and Fern Heasley are entering the field of Waverly Westmeade Church, Tennessee, full-time evangelism. They have been pastoring the November 27, 1966.—C. E. Shumake, dis­ ness. He enjoys a good joke, and wel­ church at Collinsville, Oklahoma. Both Jimmy and trict superintendent. comes visitors. The present pastor, Fern Heasley are ordained elders. They will carry Biloela, Queensland, Australia, December the entire program in singing and preaching. We 3, 1966. Rev. Gavin Thompson, pastor.— Rev. Leland Watkins, visits him at highly recommend them.—E. H. Sanders, Superin­ A. A. E. Berg, district superintendent. least three times each week. They tendent of the Northeast Oklahoma District. Trinity Austinburg, Ohio, December 4, EVANGELISTS' OPEN DATES 1966. Raymond C. Mote, pastor.—C. D. read the Bible together. Charles Ed & Normadene Nelson, P.O. Box 241, Taylor, district superintendent. Recently while the pastor was call­ Rogers, Arkansas 72756: Open time in March. Directories ing on him, Glen gave Mr. Watkins MARRIAGES BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Miss Janice Baker and Mr. Terry Rexroth at his tithe check. The pastor said, Office: 6401 The Paseo Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on December 31. Kansas City, Missouri 64131 “Someday the Lord will reward you, Miss Sharron Anita Marlin and Mr. Wayne Shands HARDY C. POWERS, Chairman at Orlando, Florida, on November 25. Glen, with . . .” Before he could V. H. LEWIS, Vice-chairman Miss Mary Pearl McBride and Mr. William Start, GEORGE COULTER, Secretary finish, Glen said almost clearly, “He Jr., in Vinton, Louisiana, on December 26. HUGH C. BENNER Miss Sara Elizabeth Spruce and Rev. Raymond rewards me now; He rewards me G. B. WILLIAMSON SAMUEL YOUNG now.” FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1017) 13 "I Almost Missed It" . . . Nebraska Pastor Recalls Seminary

• By George F. Ferguson Kearney, Nebraska ife is made up of opportunities three years at Seminary. It is diffi­ NAZARENE THEOLOGICAL Semi­ . —opportunities for molding cult to do. nary was and is an opportunity for I character and viewpoints that * * * the men and women of the church Lenhance the quality of an individual. I FIND NEW situations almost every who feel called to full-time Christian It is a sobering thought when you day causing me to draw from those service. Being a Seminary graduate begin to list the opportunities of three short years of study and re­ does not offer or guarantee a place life that are missed. Each missed op­ search, and the hard discipline of of great prominence. Many of the portunity makes a different person writing. There is little wonder some graduates go out into home missions out of you. men are “chewed up” by the over­ and relish the task; it is a place of * * * whelming problems of the pastorate need for one who will dare the ob­ WHEN THE opportunity first came when there is nothing to draw from, stacles. to go to Nazarene Theological Semi­ no stockpile from fellowship with I almost missed it! I am glad I nary some years ago, I frankly looked men who know the story. didn’t pass the opportunity the church for an excuse not to go. The factor of The last statement emphasizes the offered me for a Seminary education. age was on the side of a decision to really great moments spent in the The loss would have been mine. leave, after one semester, the halls of Seminary. Here are the men who are ♦ * * learning. It was good advice from a shaping the thought of the Church WHAT LOSS? The loss of learn­ general superintendent which brought of the Nazarene today—and it hasn’t ing—good learning. The loss of grit— me back to the discipline of a class­ changed in principle from the days of yes, GRIT—a very choice ingredient room. 1908. The student begins to feel the of every degree. Memories of classes, I have learned the true value of depth in the doctrines of our church. chapel services, coffee-room discus­ Nazarene Theological Seminary by The true depth is seen in practice as sions, and the movings of God from the contrast of pastoring before and well as taught in theory. The doctrine time to time. after the experience. of the church is in capable and spirit­ Missing any one of these would __ I sit here at my desk some four ual hands, the hands of men whose have made a different man out of me. and one-half years after graduation hearts are totally involved in the I would have been less, both as a and try to place a value on the work and mission of the church. man and as a servant of God.

Cross-country Missions, Youth Tour Is Scheduled Representatives from the Depart­ ment of World Missions and the Nazarene Young People’s Society will make a six-week cross-country youth­ missions tour beginning April 4 in Wichita, Kansas, and closing May 17 in Kankakee, Illinois. Other cities on the tour will be Oklahoma City; Houston; Phoenix; Pasadena; Sacramento; Portland; Nampa; Birmingham; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Baltimore; Syracuse, N.Y.; and Indianapolis. Dr. E. S. Phillips, world missions secretary, and Paul Skiles, N.Y.P.S. general secretary, will be among per­ sonnel. Other members will be Frank­ lin Cook, world missions administra­ tive assistant; Bill Young, Junior Fellowship director; Paul Miller, Con­ quest editor; and Dick Neiderhiser, Young Adult Fellowship director. A recently completed, 16-mm., ARIZONA CHURCH DEDICATED—Dr. M. L. Mann, superintendent of the color-sound film, “Assignment: Am­ Arizona District, delivered on December 11 the dedicatory sermon in the bassadors,” will be among a variety new sanctuary and educational unit at Willcox, Arizona. The church, whose of activities. A member of the 1966 congregation was organized in 1958, will seat 200 in its sanctuary. Pastor Evangelistic Ambassadors will also be is Rev. Perry R. Hippie. on each program. 14 (1018) • HERALD OF HOLINESS E.U.B. Split Looms in Northwest At least 85 percent of 11,600 Evangelical United Brethren in Oregon and Washington ex­ pected to avoid merger with Methodist church

• By Elden Rawlings Managing Editor

PORTLAND, Ore.—Through Meth­ he was gaveled down for the lack of feeling a responsibility to be an in­ odism’s history, which has shown no a petition before the governing body. fluence for evangelical Christianity in small trend toward streamlining its ***** the new church. theology, small chunks of its con­ HOW MANY of the E.U.B. church­ A leading E.U.B. minister indicated servative membership have broken es will abstain from the merger? that the abstaining members “are not away, finding what they believe more At this point, this is anyone’s guess. a belligerent people. We are a strong important than the size of the group The intention of the churches will be holiness movement abiding by the that believe it. made known in a June conference. discipline of our church rather than Another such separation is in the Churches wishing to stay out of the departing from it.” making. However, by all indications merger will file a petition seeking a A prominent layman said, “We be­ this will come to pass before it is settlement on their property, along lieve our salvation is in the divinity.” ever officially related to the Methodist with a statement saying that they do * * * * * church. not want to join the new denomina­ WHAT WILL happen to the inde­ In November’s concurrent general tion. pendent bodies? conferences of the Methodist and There are 11,600 members in 82 Several possibilities exist. The one Evangelical United Brethren churches, churches in Washington and Oregon. which is heard most often is the delegates voted overwhelmingly to The membership in Montana is sig­ formation of a new denomination. merge the two denominations into nificantly smaller. Others are that the conference could the United Methodist church. As to the number of members who disintegrate into several holiness de­ The E.U.B., who have a doctrinal would evade the merger, Dr; Paul nominations, or that they could vote statement in their printed discipline Petticord, president of Western Evan­ to enter as a body into a single holi­ on entire sanctification which sur­ gelical Seminary, quoted Dr. Paul ness denomination. passes in bulk that of the Church of Washburn, executive secretary of the Overtures have been made by sev­ the Nazarene, have for a decade been Commission on Church Union, as say­ eral holiness churches. E.U.B. lead­ considering merger with the Meth­ ing that 85 percent of the Pacific ers have been looking with more than odists. The denomination is now Northwest membership would with­ casual interest at the possibility of a about twenty years old, being formed draw from the union, regardless of federation of holiness churches. Petti­ in 1946 from a merger of the Evan­ property arrangements. Dr. Wash­ cord was present at the recent holi­ gelical church and the United Breth­ burn had visited each of the church­ ness unity talks in Chicago. ren in Christ. es and interviewed their membership. The northwest churches would ***** ***** probably continue to support the Ori­ THERE HAS been a strong voice OTHER OBSERVERS close to the ental Missionary Society, World Gos­ of protest toward the liberal trend in scene anticipated that as many as pel Mission, and Western Evangelical the E.U.B. ranks. It has been most from twelve to fifteen churches would Seminary, an undenominational, con­ articulate among the Pacific North­ go along with the union. These servative school. west and Montana conferences. churches are not doing so out of ***** Eight years ago when the merger agreement in theology as much as HOW HAS the Church of the Naza­ was gathering momentum, the two rene in the Northwest been affected? conferences sought from the denomi­ Some E.U.B. families have seen the nation a right to “self-determination,” handwriting on the wall, and have which, contrary to the E.U.B. epis­ found another denomination with copal form of church government, which to affiliate. Nazarene pastors would allow the local congregations up and down the coast have accepted in these two conferences to make up THE LAYMEN of the church, a number of the families into Naza­ their own minds whether or not they whether in a men’s group, or rene fellowship. would join the United Methodist on a stewardship commission, “These are wonderful holiness peo­ church. or working as lay speakers, ple,” one Nazarene pastor said. The petition provided that churches must see themselves as ser­ Some leaders see the possibility of would repay loans, grants, and gifts, vants ministering to the needs several E.U.B. churches merging with and offered an arrangement of pay­ of people. The people of God Nazarene churches in their area. ment to the general conference for must be servants if we are to “We’re certainly approachable,” said local church property. fulfill our responsibility on be­ Dr. W. D. McGraw, superintendent of In the final forty-five minutes of ing the church in the world. the Oregon Pacific District of the the most recent general conference, The church exists for the Church of the Nazarene. the two northwest conferences were world, and must always serve While it may take more than that granted this petition. A pastor repre­ it—Dr. Robert G. Mayfield. to encourage closer fellowship, the senting another geographical area was forthrightness of their doctrinal stand quickly on his feet seeking the same is reminiscent of what happened more consideration, indicating there were than fifty years ago which resulted other pockets of dissatisfaction. But in the Church of the Nazarene. FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1019) 15 Of People and Places dena while they were still young, nings, and twice Sunday, said Dr. after their father’s untimely death, is Norman R. Oke, pastor. Rev. Elton Wood, superintendent of L. Milton, a prominent Sacramento missionary work in the Cape Verde layman who spoke at last fall’s In­ Islands, brought his first report to the ternational Lay Conference on Evan­ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph mission council in October. gelism. Forde were presented with a check for $160 Mrs. Nellie Durby died recently at recently in apprecia­ eighty-four. But since her retirement Bishop Leslie R. Marston, a leading tion for forty years of she had made for missionary causes voice in Wesleyan circles and now service at Brooklyn 700 blankets and more than 36,000 bishop emeritus of the Free Methodist (N.Y.) Miller Memori­ pounds of soap. Friends contributed, church, will speak February 22-26 at al Church. Mr. Forde said her pastor, Dr. J. George Taylor- Washington, D.C., First Church dur­ has served as Sunday son, old grease for the soap and used ing the annual Wesleyan Festival. The school superintendent clothing for the blankets. Among her five sermon-lectures will be deliv­ and his wife, Gertrude, Forde three sons whom she moved to Pasa­ ered Wednesday through Friday eve­ as church secretary. Pastor is Rev. Clarence Jacobs.

A Nazarene missionary, Rev. Rex H. Emslie, fifty-three, recently completed a church which will serve the East Indians of Natal, South Africa, ironic­ ally sons and daughters of the people his ancestor fought more than a hun­ dred years ago. Rev. D. S. Scarlett preached the dedicatory sermon No­

A total of 214 students are studying this year vember 13. Mr. Emslie’s ancestor was at Nazarene Theological Seminary. One out of Sergeant Robert Emslie, who fought every five of these is preparing for missionary in India with the Gordon Highlanders GOOD service in the Church of the Nazarene. A new program for a master's degree in religious edu­ before settling in South Africa in 1820. cation was just announced. A new 35,000-volume library was dedicated in mid-January. You can have a part in the good new days at The ninety-ninth annual National I rNazarene Theological Seminary. Contribute in the NEWr LIBRARY OFFERING Sunday, February 12, Holiness Association convention is set or enclose your contribution with the clip-out coupon below. And you'll see the results in the for March 29-31 in Cleveland’s Shera­ pulpits of tomorrow! ton-Cleveland hotel. The theme, ac­ cording to Convention Manager Kenneth Geiger, is “Claiming Our In­ heritance.”

Ministerial students at Olivet Naza­ rene College are competing for a pub­ ene lic Bible-reading award, sponsored by the division of religion and philoso­ phy. Prizes in books will be given, Theological Seminary according to Dr. Ottis Sayes.

Colonel Thane Minor, currently teaching in Harvard’s International Affairs Center, and formerly chief of the cold war division at the Pentagon, spoke recently to the student body at Trevecca Nazarene College.

A new Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, church has recently been finished, complete with red-brick exterior, laminated wood trusses, and red-rock pews with padded seats, according to New Seminary Library dedicated January 10 Pastor H. W. Diehl. Dr. R. I. Goslaw, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Dis­ trict, was to have conducted dedica­ I want to help in the training of tomorrow's ministers. My gift of $ tion services. is enclosed for the NEW LIBRARY at Nazarene Theological Seminary. Name ______.______Fifteen Olivet Nazarene College stu­ dents were recently elected to “Who’s Address______Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.” They are: City______State______Zip______Mary Sue Jones, Bourbonnais, Ill.; Clip and mail with your check to: Dr. John Stockion, general treasurer, Harold Frye, Gibson City, Ill.; Terry Church of the Nazarene, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri 64131. Read, Golden, British Columbia; Frank Cox, Dayton, Ohio; Patricia 16 (1020) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Turning Down Drink Leads to $10,000 Gift Turning down a social drink occasionally results in an awk­ ward situation, but for a Grosse Point, Michigan, church music director it resulted recently in a $10,000 gift for his church. Ed Behr, music director at the Bethel Church at Grosse Point, and a member of the Warren Woods school board, found him­ self at a business dinner meeting with several community leaders. Passing up the- patrician’s punch, he attracted the attention of a lawyer who asked some questions. One of the answers intrigued him. It was Behr’s ex­ planation of entire sanctification. This set wheels to turning. The attorney remembered a provision OREGON YOUTH CENTER DEDICATED—Dr. Hardy C. Powers, general superin­ for an outright gift stipulated to tendent, preached November 27 the dedicatory sermon at the Eugene (Ore.) go to a church which produced First Church youth center and educational unit. The center, which is attached men like the one he had just met. at the rear to the sanctuary, cost $200,000. The indebtedness on the three- It took a year to work out the story unit which includes a gymnasium, classrooms for three Sunday school details, but the gift finally came, departments, and church offices, is now $132,000. all $10,000 of it, which created for Pastor Howard Rickey and his church board the delightful Conrad Studying at serve as an educational unit and problem of where to spend it. temporarily as a sanctuary. Five thousand went to local Church Growth School Rev. Alvin McQuay, superintendent interests, $2,000 to the Eastern of the Rocky Mountain District, ap­ Howard Conrad, a two-term mis­ peared on the program, as did Cap­ Michigan District home missions sionary to Cuba and Peru, is study­ program, and $3,000 to world mis­ tain John Horgen, president of the ing during his year of furlough at the evangelical ministers’ group. sions. Institute of Church Growth in Pasa­ dena, California. Ohio Pastor to Chaplaincy Among his major Capt. Paul M. Pusey, formerly pas­ professors is Dr. Don­ tor at the Findlay (Ohio) Summit Wiseman, Ironton, Ohio; Monda Tuck­ ald A. McGavran, Street Church, reported early in Jan­ er Simmons, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Patri­ whose major contribu­ uary for active duty with the U.S. cia Glancy, Highland, Mich.; Paul tion to missions has Army as a chaplain. He Zoroya, Bourbonnais, Ill.; Leila Raske, been in analyzing was assigned to Fort St. Louis, Mich.; Judith Davidson church-growth pat­ Eustis, Virginia. Whitis, Bourbonnais, Ill.; Richard Un- terns in world areas. He has been pastor Conrad is making a at Findlay since 1961. gerbuehler, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Conrad Charles W. Beavin, Indianapolis, Ind.; study of the forty­ He is a graduate of Judith A. Burguess, Columbus, Ind.; seven Nazarene fields which come Olivet Nazarene Col­ Evangeline Tomlinson, St. Marys, under the Department of World Mis­ lege and Nazarene Ohio; and Wes Jetter, Fort Recovery, sions. The report is a research proj­ Theological Seminary, Ohio. ect for the department. In addition to and has taken addi­ getting a broader understanding of Capt. Pusey tional graduate study Nazarene fields, Conrad hopes to at Oberlin (Ohio) School of Theology. More than forty young persons of­ pick up a master’s degree for his He was active on the Central Ohio fered their lives to Christian service year’s work. District as editor of the Outlook, a and nearly $500 was contributed to monthly district paper. build a mission chapel during a ser­ Montana Church Dedicated Pusey is the son of Rev. A. E. vice held December 5 in Kankakee Pusey, a pastor for forty-three years. (Ill.) First Church in memory of Mrs. Dr. Ross E. Price, Pasadena college The chaplain and his wife have three Bertha Humble. Mrs. Humble, who professor of theology, preached the sons. died September 1, served for many dedicatory sermon November 13 at the years as district missionary president recently completed Missoula (Mont.) News of Revival . . . and as a member of the General FULTON, Ohio—Twelve persons joined First Church. the church here on profession of faith N.W.M.S. Council. following revival services with preaching Construction of the building was and singing evangelists, Rev. and Mrs. supervised by W. C. McKay, a Naza­ Dwight Meredith. Pastors are Rev. and Holly Crist, daughter of Mr. and rene layman. Pastor Dell M. Kelley Mrs. Albert E. Miller. Mrs. Lloyd Crist of Racine, Wisconsin, indicated that McKay “labored ap­ MESQUITE, Tex.—Forty persons found was crowned homecoming queen re­ proximately twenty-four hundred spiritual help recently during a revival with Evangelist J. A. Allen, according to cently at Olivet Nazarene College. hours” on the building, which will Pastor B. A. Patton. FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1021) 17 Taylor, all of Lubbock; and Mrs. Jacky Leeks, of Happy, Texas. Calgary Church Burned A brother, B. O. Bingham, of Lub­ Arsonists were blamed for a fire bock, and seven sisters also survive: that did $50,000 damage January 5 to Late News Mrs. F. F. Keeton, Mrs. G. L. Perkins, the educational unit of the First Mrs. Earl Rogers, and Mrs. L. L. Kee­ Church of the Nazarene at. Calgary, ton, all of Post, Texas; Mrs. C. B. Alberta, Canada, the oldest Nazarene Keeton, of Odessa, Texas; Mrs. F. W. church in western Canada, and the Rogers, of Dallas, Texas; and Mrs. original church home of the family of M. King Bingham Dies Virgil Justice, of Herbert, Texas. George Coulter, general superinten­ Three are six grandchildren and dent. Mr. M. King Bingham, sixty-nine, one great-grandchild. Dr. Herman L. G. Smith, district a lay member of the Abilene District Funeral services were held Wednes­ superintendent, reported that inspec­ advisory board, died suddenly Mon­ day afternoon, January 18, with Pas­ tors had found that the fire was set day, January 16, from a heart attack tor James Bell and District Superin­ in the basement of the educational during what was described as minor unit directly beneath the church of­ routine surgery. tendent Raymond Hum in charge. Dr. Roy Cantrell, president of Bethany fice of the pastor, Charles Muxwor- Mr. and Mrs. Bingham had planned thy. Mr. Muxworthy’s library and to attend the General Board meeting Nazarene College, also spoke. Ap­ proximately five hundred were pres­ records were a total loss. Dr. Smith which began that day. When the trip ent for the funeral. said that plans are proceeding for was delayed, the operation, scheduled rebuilding at once.—N.I.S. for the following week, was moved up. The Binghams joined 1965 Figures Released the Church of the THANKSGIVING OFFERING Statistics on church finances for Nazarene in 1925 and 1965 were released recently, indicating had belonged to Lub­ NAZARENES EVERYWHERE: that the Church of the Nazarene bock, Texas, First Have said a great heartfelt ranked eighth among forty-four re­ Church for twenty thanks to God with $1,768,494 as ligious bodies in per capita giving. years. Mr. Bingham of January 23, and have invested The top ten groups, their membership had been a member of with our means in the great work and per capita giving are listed below: the district advisory of our Lord, who so bountifully Group Membership Per Capita group for ten years, blesses His people. Wesleyan Methodist 39,114 290.48 and was a delegate to Mr- Bin9ham Already the offering is working Evangelical Free Church 46,371 243.03 the last four General Assemblies. for souls. We trust the total re­ Brethren in Christ 9,572 221.35 From extensive land and oil in­ ceipts will reach a still larger Pilgrim Holiness 33,336 214.61 terests, Mr. Bingham had contributed amount. Orthodox Presbyterian 8,285 205.97 Our thanks to all who have so Evangelical Covenant 65,679 205.10 largely to local, district, general, and Ohio Friends 6,429 187.87 college interests. Over the last five graciously responded. Let us add to this offering our prayers for Church of the Nazarene 355,824 168.33 years, he and Mrs. Bingham had 167.97 God’s blessing upon our church. Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) 143,231 given five farms to church needs with Mennonite General Conference 36,113 143.16 a total value in excess of $250,000. V. H. LEWIS for Board of Survivors include his wife; and General Superintendents NEWS OF THE RELIGIOUS WORLD daughters: Mrs. Floyd Halbert, Mrs. Herschel Johnson, and Mrs. Herman Opens New Hospital GLENDALE, Calif. (EP)—Seven months and a third of a million dol­ lars have produced the completed forty-six-bed Alliance Convalescent Hospital here. Opened November 15, the official dedication was held on December 18 with Dr. Nathan Bailey, Christian and Missionary Alliance president from Nyack, N.Y., as the principal speaker. Part of a fourfold complex called Glendale Alliance Center, the new hospital represents years of planning, praying, and giving on the part of the C. & M.A., according to Rev. W. Guy McGarvey, general administrator of the Center, which covers five acres adjacent to Glendale Boulevard. The hospital, as well as all facilities within the Center, is available to others be­ sides those in the Alliance fellowship. Begun as a Missionary Colony in 1921, the Center now comprises near­ ly three dozen buildings for residents, COMPLETE OREGON CHURCH—General Superintendent G. B. Williamson preached the dedicatory sermon for the Pendleton, Oregon, church. The a church, a home for older folks, and auditorium, which will seat 200 persons, has been appraised at $115,000. both retirement and furlough cottages Pastor is Rev. Willis D. Barney. for missionary families. 18 (1022) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Next Sunday's | Lesson The Answer Corner By A. Elwood Sanner Conducted by W. T. Purkiser, Editor The Need for Personal Repentance (February 12) To our knowledge, the books of our local church have not been audited for the last six years. Once in that time an accountant was called in who Scripture: Luke 13 and 14 (Printed: simply reported that the books balanced. What do you think of this? Luke 13:1-9, 34-35) I think it’s bad business and in open the church board. Golden Text: II Peter 3:9 violation of the Manual provision that Mr. Cole indicates that an auditor or Is suffering proof of sinfulness? the church board shall "appoint an auditing committee should: Does sinfulness lead to suffering? auditing committee which shall audit, 1. Check total receipts reported with It is possible that repentance is a at least annually, the financial records deposits listed on bank statements. neglected, even forgotten word. Per­ of the treasurer of the local church, the 2. Examine cancelled checks to see haps this is because we tend to react Nazarcne World Missionary Society, that they are properly endorsed by those unfavorably to negative thinking. the Nazarcne Young People's Society, the to whom issued. We should be careful lest this lead Sunday school, and any other financial 3. Account for all voided checks. us to miss the import of some very records of the local church” (paragraph 4. Reconcile the bank statement with solemn words of Jesus: “Except ye 123, section 19, 1964 Manual, pp. 78-79). the treasurer's figures. repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” This is not a discretionary matter. It 5. Determine if the separate checks Suffering and sinfulness is a specified duty of the local church were properly authorized either by a board to see that this is done. blanket approval of the church board Is suffering proof of sinfulness? No. Actually, this is in no sense a matter (e.g., authorizing payment of utility or The belief was widespread then and of suspicion. It is entirely a question other regular bills) or by specific ap­ now, however, that great suffering is of protection for the treasurers involved. proval of the board or other authorized a badge of great wickedness. If I were a treasurer of any fund, I agent. It was against such a misconcep­ woidd absolutely insist that the books 6. Verify unpaid balances of any tion Jesus spoke here. The cruelty be audited regularly. mortgages outstanding or accounts pay­ of Pilate had fallen upon a group of If you are in a position to know that able. devout, turbulent Galilean zealots. the books have not been audited for Mr. Cole says, “Every treasurer should A similar act of brutality against cer­ six years, you are probably in a position insist that his books be audited. An tain Samaritans in a.d. 36 led to Pi­ to do something about it—that is, a audit is not a reflection upon his in­ late’s recall from office. But such member of the church board. tegrity nor does it imply that his com­ suffering was no indication of greater Let me suggest that you offer a mo­ petence is in question. For his own wickedness. Incidentally, Jesus of­ tion to send to the Nazarcne Publishing protection the treasurer needs to have fered no comment on the perennial House for copies of Harper Cole's it stated periodically that the books problem of natural evil, but He did Handling Finances in the Local Church have been examined and are in accept­ not blink it. Men do lose their lives for each treasurer, as well as an official able form. If for any reason a church in accidents, even while building copy or two for the board itself. Its should fail to provide an audit, the towers on the walls of the holy city. provisions should be carefully followed. treasurer would be wise to offer his But suffering per se is not an evi­ A professional accountant may cer­ resignation. The church owes it to the dence of sinfulness. tainly be used to audit the books, but treasurer to give him this protection” Sinfulness and suffering his written report should be filed with (italics are Mr. Cole’s) . Does sinfulness lead to suffering? Yes. This was the point of Jesus’ Would you please elaborate on the use and misuse of the Communion table? warning. The disaster which struck Should it be used for songbooks, literature, etc? the victims of Pilate’s wrath and the The Communion table is to accom­ reserved for that purpose. tragedy which overtook the construc­ modate the elements for the Lord's Sup­ For esthetic, if not for religious, rea­ tion workers in Siloam are but a pic­ per, and with the possible exception of sons it should not be used as a reposi­ ture of the destruction which befalls a bouquet or floral piece when the sac­ tory for songbooks, literature, etc. anyone who will not repent and break rament is not to be served, should be with iniquity. Suffering is not proof of sinfulness, but sinfulness inevitably leads to suffering. Is there any good reason why John should be called St. John the Divine at The parable of the fig tree and the the beginning of the Book of Revelation? He is known simply as “John” portrayal of Jesus in a lament over in the Epistles. Jerusalem add important elements to The title to the Book of Revelation However the better Greek manu­ our study: the patience of the Father, was added after it became customary to scripts omit theologos from the title, the compassion of the Son, but also speak of the apostles as St. John, St. and simply refer to “The Revelation of the inexorable coming of the wrath Paul. St. Peter, etc. John.” John Wesley in his translation upon human waywardness. “The Revelation of St. John the Di­ of the New Testament gives the open­ A great theologian has described vine” as it appears in the King James ing words of the first verse as the title, the wrath of God (Romans 1:18) as Version reflects the reading of a Greek “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” the opposition of God to man’s oppo­ text which referred to John as theo- which is indeed what the book is. John sition to Him. “How often would I logos. In the Elizabethan English of was the writer, but the revelation was . . . and ye would not!” The result the KJV, theologians and ministers “the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which chills the soul—a desolate, empty were known as “divines.” The term God gave unto him.” Temple. in this sense is now archaic. > COMMUNION SERVICE

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