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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 5-1-1947 Preacher's Magazine Volume 22 Number 03 J. B. Chapman (Editor) Olivet Nazarene University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Chapman, J. B. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 22 Number 03" (1947). Preacher's Magazine. 231. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/231 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Preacher's Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. May-June, 1947 “Corinthians Thirteen” Charles Henry Mackintosh A preacher may possess the gift of tongues, A n angel’s voice, with powerful human lungs, And still be tinkling cymbals, sounding brass, If he lacks love, agape, caritas. Whatever language may supply the word, Unless the fact behind it can be heard Above the preacher’s pulpit eloquence, There will be sound and fury .... but no sense. Though oratory enters through the ears, It is the inner consciousness that hears. A golden tongue can never gain that goal Until it learns the language of the soul. No mortal eloquence can rise above The gentlest whisper of Immortal Love. Managing Editor’s MESSAGE NE of the chief tasks of the O church is to reach the unsaved and unchurched people with the gu.s- Volum e 22 Number 3 pel and to bring them to salvation May— June, 1947 through Christ. It is a sad but actual fact that many of our holiness churches are not reaching these unchurched people. This is not an extreme state ment; it is based on facts revealed by CONTENTS pastors themselves. Is your church one “Corinthians Thirteen” (poem) of these? Are you reaching the u n Charles Mackintosh .............................. 1 churched people of your community? The Preacher’s Health Are you getting any of them saved? J. B. Chapman ....................................... 3 How long has it been since you have Is It a Pleasure to Preach? had one outside or unchurched per J. B. Chapman ......................................... 4 son saved in your church in revival Don’t Put Out the Fire! meetings or regular church services? Paul S. Rees .......................................... 5 No doubt a sincere consideration of, and Gleanings from the Greek New Testament an honest answer to, these questions Ralph Earle ............................................ 8 will drive many pastors to their knees Through the Book of Acts with and to harder work among the un Homothumadon saved. J. A. Huffman ......................................... 11 There is another side to this un The Great Alternative churched person problem. Do you R. A. Kerby ............................................ 14 know what to do with such a person Making the Church Missionary-Minded should he come to your altar or to your Kenneth Sparks ..................................... 15 home seeking the way of salvation? A The Most Potent Factor in a Minister’s singer recently related an incident Life, F. Lincicome ....................................... 19 where neither the evangelist nor pastor Keeping Track of Your Tracts were able to deal intelligently with a E. Wayne Stahl ....................................... 21 person—wholly without religious back Do You Steal, Imitate, or Create? ground yet hungry to be saved—who Charsten Christensen ............................ 22 had come to the altar during the in vitation. How would you deal with Departments such a person? Better know how be fore you go out to do much work Material for Special Days ........................ .27 among them. The Theological Question Box H. Orton Wiley ........................................36 Mother’s Day, Pentecost Sunday, Children’s Day—these special days pre Searching Truths for Ministers ..............40 sent a wonderful opportunity for the The Preacher’s Scrapbook ........................ .41 pastor to stress great truths during Quotable Poetry .......................................... .42 the months of May and June, the period A Preaching Program, John E. Riley .. 44 covered by this issue. Also, all Naz Illustrations ...................................................62 arene pastors should Join fully in the Missionary Department .............................64 holiness emphasis being stressed by Book Notices, P. H. Lunn .................. .. 65 our church during the month of May, Your suggestions and contributions are always appreciated. By the way, here is something you w ill not want J. B. C h a p m a n , D.D., Editor to miss. In one of the fall issues we D. Shelby Corlett, D.D., Managing Editor will print a symposium giving an Published bimonthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 swers from over twenty-five leading Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri, maintained by and in the interest of the Church of the Nazarene. Subscription preachers on “What I mean by eradi price: $1.00 a year. Entered as second class matter at the post cation in preaching on entire sancti office at Kansas City, Mo. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, fication.” authorized December 30, 1925. Address all contributions to The D. Sh elb y C orlett, Preachrr's Magazine, 2923 1 roost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri. Managing Editor The Preacher's Magazine The Preacher’s Health J. B. Chapman, Editor HERE have been preachers who have and stay ahead of it; for pushing your work Tmade a success of their work in spite does not wear you down like allowing your of frail bodies and ill health. But note that work to push you. But much work de they succeeded in spite of these handicaps, mands much rest, and “going out for an and not because of them. And, so far as I airing” is a poor substitute for going to know, every such known preacher was weak bed and going to sleep. And don’t forget or ill in spite of his desire and his efforts to that a rested man works much faster than be strong and well. Paul prayed earnestly a tired man. Learn how much sleep it takes for the removal of his “thorn in the flesh,” to . do you. It is wise to start with more and he exhorted Timothy to look out for than you need and gradually come down to his health. Spurgeon, whenever he was able, the right mark (with the average person took his vacations in the south of France the range is from six to eight hours), and in his effort to reduce the bodily infirmity when you find the mark, stick to it. If which dogged his steps during many of his you can’t find time to go to bed, go to sleep useful years. Martin Wells Knapp, though in your chair. But sleep, and work fast given to overwork, did what he could by when you are rested. Learn to read fast. careful eating and frequent rest to ward off The fast reader gets more out of his read the collapse which, nevertheless, overtook ing than the slow reader. Write fasW- him early in life. court the muse and then chase her at top But as a rule, useful preachers make a speed—she w ill lead you on. Think fast. point of bodily health and vigor, and it is Learn to concentrate so that interruptions observed without exception that a well, will be few. Train yourself to do your best strong body adds something to the sum total every time and all the time, and then you of the preacher’s powers, and the wise w ill not have to do so many things over. preacher deliberately calculates that he Don’t worry about your work before you needs all the help he can get. Henry Ward get to it. When you get to it, do it the very Beecher, himself an example of overflow best you can. Then when it is done, do not ing physical health and vitality, said, “The do it again in regret that you did not do it soul may be likened to a cannon. The body better. Turn now to the new task. It is is like the cannon carriage. And you know with the preacher much like it is with the the cannon cannot be effective without a machine—it is the friction, more than the good carriage to transport it and give it running, that wears out the machine. direction.” Preachers do eat improperly—this too is My ideal for the preacher is a man who proverbial. Some preachers eat too much. is absorbed in his task, and who eats, sleeps, Some eat too irregularly. A few do not rests, plays, studies, prays, visits the people, eat enough. Many eat things that do not and does whatever he does as a preacher agree with them-^-just to be friendly. But and with the thought in mind that he does this whole subJect is worthy of being taken all he does with the obJect of being a better in hand and governed and directed. I became man and a more effective preacher for overweight. I explained to the medical ad what he does. viser that it is difficult for one who travels so constantly to find Just what he should It is popular for preachers to claim to be have. But the medical man was unsympa overworked. But many a preacher is over thetic. A ll he said was, “Just take what worried, more than overworked, and if he they offer and then don’t eat all of it.” And would budget his time and take his work now I must say that this plan worked, and in stride, he could do all he does now and is still working.

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