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5-28-1969
Herald of Holiness Volume 58, Number 22
W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House
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Just Another Holiday? (See page 3.) herald OF HOLIN ESS
Church of the Nazarene
. that these dead shall not have died in vain/' Thirty Men Plead for a Missionary!
General Superintendent Coulter
TT WAS a long “talk-talk.” Thirty Nazarene Most of these 30 men wore badges indicat A men from Jimi Valley in New Guinea had ing that they were “councillors” in the local come to meet and to talk to “Number One Big government being established by the Aus Fella” (pidgin for general superintendent). tralia government officials. Here a nation is Time is never too important in New Guinea. emerging and Nazarenes are helping to lay But on this occasion, 30 men wanted to be the foundations! doubly sure that I got the message. Their Not just once or twice, but many times they words were translated by a “turn-talk” (in repeated the words: “For many years we lived terpreter) into pidgin and then translated into in New Guinea as a primitive people. We English by Missionary Wallace White. My had no schools, no church, no hope. But Naza words to them followed the reverse procedure. renes sent a missionary. He loved us. He told Sitting on the floor, drinking gulps of hot us of a Jesus who loved us. Now we are tea, listening, looking, and emphasizing a Christians! Missionary Bromley has worn point over and over again, they were an in himself out for us. Most of us cannot read teresting group. Why were they here? Why or write. We want to learn. We want to read were they so anxious to talk to “Number One God’s Word. Will you please send a mission Big Fella”? ary to help Missionary Bromley?” It all started with a Nazarene missionary My answer was long—and difficult. I want by the name of Will Bromley, who obeyed ed to tell them we would send a missionary the call of God to go into the Jimi Valley. immediately who would preach. Perhaps one For years he lived in a tent, walking the whose wife could teach. I longed to tell them mountain trails, talking and preaching by day, that a young couple was ready to come. But praying and crying out to God by night for I had to tell them that we were carrying on the salvation of these people. For seven long, missionary work in 55 countries in the world. agonizing years he labored—without a single I had to tell them that of the 17 missionaries convert! And then revival! Two hundred of appointed in 1969, only three evangelistic these New Guineans in one great ingathering! couples were included. Then I made an ap Thirty of them were here today for the “talk peal to them! talk.” Many more were on the grounds of the mission station. “You men are now a part of the great inter Now, replacing that lone tent are a mis national Church of the Nazarene. Will you sionary home, a dispensary, a “house-sick,” a pray that God will call young couples into school for the first two standards, grass huts, missionary service? Will you pray that Naza and above all, a lovely church where the glow renes will provide the money to send them?” of revival still lingers. (Continued on page 4) • By W. S. Muir Crawfordsville, Ind.
Just Another Holiday?
EMORIALM DAY! We look forward to it Many died in places like Gettysburg, Antietam, every year with excitement, for it means Bull Run, and Manassas, in the Civil War. many things to all of us. Many died in the Spanish-American conflict at To everyone it is the first holiday of the ap places like San Juan Hill. proaching summer season, announcing to all that vacation time is approaching. A taste of that will Many died in Flanders field and in the trenches be sampled today perhaps by swimming, boating, of France in World War I. fishing, and camping. Many died in Normandy, Anzio, Iwo Jima, Ba To almost everyone, but especially to those in taan, and Corregidor in World War II. the Midwest, and more so to those in Indianapolis Many died on Old Baldy, at Inchon, and on land, the day means but one thing, Race Day. Yes, Pork Chop Hill in Korea. it is the long awaited day for the running of the Many died and are still dying in faraway Viet annual 500-mile classic when men will compete nam in places like Khe Sahn, the Mekong Delta, against each other and the clock in a test of speed and AnKhe. and of motor-racing equipment. About 300,000 The creation and the maintenance of our liber people will jam the racetrack, and millions will be ty came about much as the words of Winston listening around the world on radios to the Churchill in the British survival of World War II, “greatest spectacle in racing.” with “blood, sweat, and tears.” All of these no doubt are significant, but the In the midst of a troubled world, the freedom celebration of the day should take our minds lives on. How exciting a beginning! back to the real meaning of the day. It was origi nally Decoration Day, when the graves of the The first issue was independence. A long, lanky soldiers of the Civil War were decorated, and Virginian, Thomas Jefferson by name, was ap has now been traditionally set apart for decorat pointed to frame a document which, when read ing the graves of soldiers of subsequent conflicts. today, sends chills up and down the spine. In cemeteries across the land, people will gather Many notables were there in the historic gath to pay respect to the honored dead, those who ering, among them John Hancock, who led off have given their lives for their country. The with his signature, writing it so boldly that creation of this concept did not just happen. George III might be able to read it without “put Many died in the struggle of the Revolution ting on his specs.” from Valley Forge to Yorktown. The old bell-ringer was pessimistic about the Many died in the struggle of 1812 at places like whole affair. Edgar DeWitt Jones tells us that he Fort McHenry. said, “They’ll never do it! They’ll never do it!”
MAY 28, 1969 • 3 Then suddenly a boy appeared, Who lives pure life and doeth Now, more than ever, those men running and shouting, “Ring! Ring! righteous deeds, in the Jimi Valley are praying, pleading—and waiting. □ j Ring!”—and the event was history. And walks straight paths, how We of today might well dedicate ever others stray, ourselves anew to the ideal of And leaves his sons, as utter keeping the Liberty Bell ringing. most bequest, God Has Promised Ralph Barton Perry has written A stainless record, which all that “the Puritan philosophy has men may read; When heavy-laden and weary, formed an important part of that This is the better way. □ No sunlight can I see, fundamental agreement of mind I hear Him say, “If you want rest, and purpose by which the United My child, come unto Me.” States has played its peculiar role Thirty Men . . . in the modern world.” (Continued from inside front cover) When there seemed no place of Our forefathers were certainly quietness, I waited for a reply. Grunts, nods, men of integrity and honor, people On this noisy path I trod, of a great compulsion. They would and, I thought, sounds similar to an “Amen” billowed about me. I heard Him say so gently, certainly agree with the Psalmist “Be still, and know that I am The “talk-talk” closed with prayer. that “except the Lord build the God.” house, they labour in vain that If I ever prayed in earnest, I did build.” that day. Those 30 men are still praying— And when my heart is burdened, At the focal center of their faith and waiting. No help there seems to be, stood a living and almighty God Somewhere there is an answer to Then—“Let not your heart be whose will was sovereign in the their prayer. A young couple to troubled— affairs of men and nations. Benja supplement the labors of Will and Just believe in God—and me.” min Franklin said, “I have lived, Margaret Bromley—preacher and sir, a long time; and the longer I nurse! A young couple, not afraid And when in need and it seems so live, the more convincing proofs I of isolation, to help build the king hard see of this truth, that God governs His promises to believe, dom of God in a new and promis in the affairs of men.” Then I hear Him softly whisper, ing nation. The God with whom they dealt NOTE: These words were being “Ask, and ye .shall receive.” and covenanted was the Almighty, written in Brisbane, Australia, as whose sphere of action was history the soul of Will Bromley took its And when I feel I'm all alone, and who had once and for all spok flight from New Guinea to the New Don’t even have a friend, en for men’s salvation in Jesus Jerusalem. Then—“Lo, I am with you alway, Christ. Evidence of this faith is Now, more than ever, a mission Even unto the end.” shown by the swift erection of ary is needed to supplement the Wauneta Ploger places of worship at Roanoke, labors of Brother Bromley. Kinsley, Kans. Jamestown, Plymouth, Williams burg, and indeed everywhere men went throughout this vast land. Just another holiday? More than that. A day when we pause to give ABOUT THE COVER . . . thanks for our freedom and for Upon the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National those that paid the extreme price Cemetery are inscribed the words, “Here rests in honored glory an in order that we might have it. It American soldier known but to God.” is a freedom that flows from obedi The Unknown Soldier of World War I was entombed on the east ence to God, from willing subjec front of the Arlington, Va., Memorial Amphitheater, November 11, 1921, tion to law, and a discipline of self. in the presence of President Warren G. Harding. The body had been chosen at Chalons-sur-Marne from unidentified Surely a renewal and a cultiva dead in Europe. On Memorial Day, 1958, two unidentified servicemen, tion of these attitudes can once one of whom died in World War II and one in the Korea War, were placed again bring our country to a right in crypts beside the first, in ceremonies led by President Eisenhower relationship with God and its fel and Vice-president Nixon. The President placed the Medal of Honor low nations. Susan Coolidge ex on each of the two coffins. pressed it so well: The total of unknown dead interred in Arlington National Cemetery is 4,724. He serves his country best
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• By Mark F. Smith Who You Are Seattle
I Peter 2:11-17
emorial day was started ther water nor food. These men by a Virginia woman of were buying time with their sacri M French extraction. She be fices and with their lives. They gan the practice of placing flowers were buying freedom. on the graves of both southern and Twenty-seven days gave General northern soldiers who died in the MacArthur time to get to Austra Civil War. She chose May 30, as lia, regroup his forces on land, and that was the day known in France prepare for heavy naval engage as “The Day of Ashes.” It was the ments at sea. The battle of the date when the remains of Napoleon Coral Sea followed, which proved Bonaparte were returned to France to be the turning point of the war. from his St. Helena island prison. It saved Australia—it turned the After the Civil War in 1868, Ma Asian battle fortunes in our favor. jor General John A. Logan, com Let’s not forget who we are. mander of the Grand Army of the I suppose some will always run Republic, president of the Union to Canada, burn draft cards and Army Veterans, authorized the flags, be haters of America, cow practice nationwide. ards, or seek asylum in Switzer This day was called Decoration land. But on this Memorial Day we Day until 1910, when it became a remember unheralded millions who national legal holiday and the did not have to be lectured on name was fixed as Memorial Day. why they should love God, love However, both terms are still used, their country, and love their as we honor those who have given homes. Let us be among the heal their lives in the defense of their thy and strong who overcome the country and as we remember in age-old ailment of the free world loving-kindness relatives and —the confusion of liberty and li friends. cense. The memory of the dead sets us It was September, 1781, when apart from the stone, moss, moles, Washington stood with Robert and animals and keeps us human. Morris and viewed the campfires of A man is lonely who has no one to his army camped on the hills of remember, and is richer and wiser Pennsylvania. Morris was treasur when he does remember. er of the Continental Congress. But Memorial Day is also a day to there were no funds. think of the cost of freedom. The Washington said, “We need food, cluster of crosses around the world They saw the great cannon placed blankets, clothes, medicine, guns should cause us to think of the cost here to guard the sea entrance. and bullets. Many of the men have in resources, suffering, separation, They could cut to shreds any ship not been paid for months. All are and sorrow. within 20 miles. But the fortress discouraged. Some have deserted— Dr. Harold Reed, president of which was impregnable against sea a few have mutinied. We must Olivet Nazarene College, tells of attack was helpless from the main have money or we will not have I visiting in Manila with Missionary land of Luzon and from the air. an army come spring.” Denny Owens. On the island of You may recall that on April 9, Morris suggested a broker of Corregidor they saw the concrete 1942, Bataan fell to the Japanese sorts in Philadelphia as a possible , barracks a mile long—built to and Corregidor was expected to source of help. He had twice been house 5,000 men—a mass of con follow within hours. But it didn’t. arrested by the British for aiding crete and twisted steel, left after For 27 days the defenders held it. the revolutionary forces. Morris the savage attack of the Japanese. The last four days there was nei rode off to Philadelphia to see
MAY 28, 1969 • 5 Haym Salomon as Washington re turned to his tent to pray. It was Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement, a time to fast and pray, the most holy day of the year— as Morris rode up in front of the small brick synagogue, vaulted from his horse, and asked for Haym Salomon. The slender, brown-haired Haym listened to Robert Morris, read the brief note from General Washing Faith at Home ton, and with grim face talked with the other worshippers, saying, “Washington sends us two bills of Dedicated Drudgery exchange for $20,000. He hopes we will be able to let him have that E can’t do the dishes, if we want to get to church on time,” sum without delay.” I called to Susan, as I raced through the house after Becky. A murmur of protest arose. But W Haym raised his arms for silence. At 15 months of age, she’d become quite a sprinter, and making “Friends.” He waited a moment. attempts to dress her was a game of tag. “This is part of the battle all of Bill zoomed past. I shouted, “Get your sweater.” Too late. us are fighting. Whether in uni He was already out of earshot. I handed it to Sharon to give to form or out, we are all in this war. him. We must raise this $20,000 for this Tom went out the door with dragging steps, because he had to crisis.” wear his “good” shoes instead of his scuffed play-pair. The crowd hushed. They pledged their plows, their oxen, their seed Countdown began at 10 minutes till 7 p.m. Miraculously, we grain, their savings, and sent Mor arrived at Sunday evening service just as they began the first ris back to tell Washington that hymn. “he shall have the money he Our missionary from Africa gave the message. How we thrilled needs!” to the account of lost souls won to Christ, who then went on to win In the years that followed, Haym others! The stories showed God’s hand moving in her life, bring Solomon again aided the cause of ing about the seemingly impossible. Her face was radiant with the American Revolution. He im the glow only Christ within can give, and it was reflected in our poverished his business and family. hearts. We were lifted, inspired by this totally dedicated woman. These sums were never paid back. Then I returned home to a pile of dirty dishes, a floor needing At death, he was penniless. But his scrubbing, and getting the children off to bed—against their com children—and we—have freedom. Don’t forget who we are. □ bined protests. For an instant, I saw my daily life as a continual round of dull routine. Do the laundry. Stir those beans. Swish that mop. Clean and cook; cook and clean. Hope Restored Necessary? Of course, but hardly comparable to winning The Master dropped His thorn- souls in darkest Africa, I thought. How inadequate I felt! crowned head— God doesn’t always wait until quiet moments to come to me. The holy Son of God was dead; They laid Him in a borrowed grave; He didn’t now. The house was full of chatter, clatter, and con Now, who could heal, and who could fusion, but He knew my need. As if a light save? switched on, I saw my problem clearly. Entombed behind that giant rock Were all the hopes of His sad flock. I owed Him my entire life. That included even the small, endless, distasteful tasks. After The morning sun dawned bright and all, they were vital in a behind-the-scenes way clear— to the success of my greatest commitments to Christ’s resurrection morn was here; He burst aside the heavy stone, Him—my marriage and my children. For death and hell could not post What a change! What a challenge! The pone That fount of grace for sinful man, most tedious jobs took on special joy and Nor thwart the Father’s saving plan. meaning, when I stopped merely doing them— and began doing them for Jesus. The holy Son of God was dead— But now He’s risen as He said, Triumphant o’er the curse of sin, By Rosemary Lee Worthington, Ohio Eternal life for man to win; All life and hope He did restore; Christ lives and reigns forevermore. Ivan A. Beals Quincy, III.
6 • HERALD OF HOLINESS By James D. Hamilton Kansas City Victory at the Place of Defeat
Shortly before His ascension, ter of the disciples’ earlier de start. But the words of Jesus are Jesus charged His disciples feat. The results of Pentecost insistent—“beginning at Jerusa to preach His gospel to all would have been remarkable had lem.” nations “beginning at Jerusalem” they been achieved anywhere, but What remarkable confidence (Luke 24:27). the fact that they occurred at Je Jesus had in the power of the Why did He insist that they be rusalem makes them even more Holy Spirit, to know that the com gin this ministry at Jerusalem? remarkable. Jerusalem, the place bined weaknesses of the disciples Was it not at Jerusalem that Jesus of prior defeat, had become the would be no drain on the power was captured and crucified, and center of conquest. The difference of the Holy Spirit, to know that was it not there that the disciples could be explained by only one the difference between His disci forsook Him and fled at the time of thing—that the Holy Spirit had ples’ past defeat and their future the Crucifixion? come. victory could be assured by that Jerusalem was the scene of the A word which repeatedly oc power! Thus He confidently apparent defeat of Jesus and it was curs in the New Testament in con charged His disciples to tarry for the scene of the real defeat of His nection with the Holy Spirit is the the Spirit’s coming at Pentecost. disciples. This being so, Jerusalem word “power.” How powerless the Pentecost occupied a definite was the logical place to begin the disciples were before Pentecost and point in history. It was an event fulfillment of the Great Commis how powerful they were following of the past; therefore it is a captive sion. Pentecost! of time. All that happened at Pen But how great a commission The enormous change tells us tecost—the sound of a rushing was it, and what guarantee was more about the Holy Spirit than mighty wind, the cloven tongues there of its possible fulfillment? it does of the disciples. At some like as of fire, the gift of languages Fortunately, Jesus gave not only a other place, where defeat had not —will not, nor need not, be dupli great charge to His disciples but a been known, the remarkable phe cated. promise greater than the charge. nomenon might have been inter But the Holy Spirit given by God The promise was the gift of the preted by onlookers as something on the Day of Pentecost is not a Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8). This prom the disciples had done. But not at captive of time. He is timeless. He ise was realized on the Day of Pen Jerusalem—this was none other is just as real today as He was tecost by the disciples. than a change wrought by the Holy then and He is just as available When the Holy Spirit descended Spirit. For many who witnessed now as He was then. upon those waiting disciples, they the wonder of Pentecost had earli We may have every confidence, became changed persons. Their in er witnessed the weakness of the then, that the power of the Holy adequacy was changed to adequa disciples. Spirit is available here and now cy, their reticence was changed It is at the place of our greatest and that we can fulfill Christ’s to boldness, their defeat was defeat that the Holy Spirit can commission beginning at our “Je changed to victory. The account in come today. For rusalem.” Acts is that 3,000 souls were saved some today, The Holy Spirit’s power is not as a result of the disciples’ Spirit- Christ’s words, just a little “extra” to help Chris filled preaching (2:41). Shortly “beginning at Je tians do better what they could do thereafter 5,000 believed (4:4). rusalem,” may in their own strength without Him. “Beginning at Jerusalem” was mean beginning at Rather, unless His power is real more than a geographical consid home. For others ized in our lives, Christ’s commis eration. It is true that Jerusalem it may be begin sion is an impossibility. was the religious center of the ning at work or Let this question confront us as world, and it is true that it was the beginning at we seek to serve Christ: What are place where people from all na school. Satan suggests that some we trying to do that we are not go tions would be gathered on the Day other place, where we are not ing to get done unless the Holy of Pentecost. known or where we have not ex Spirit’s power falls upon our lives? But Jerusalem was also the con perienced failure, is the place to □
MAY 28, 1969 • 7 HE LITTLE BEAR is highly SUS- has crossed the line of danger in picious of the unfamiliar. dicated by his inborn nature, he As the camera flashed on will never be able to resist follow this portrait, he hurried back up ing the odors of food into a camp, the tree as he had just descended. a cabin, or a trap. His God-ap This fear of the unfamiliar will be pointed caution will not be in him a characteristic of the bear anymore. Neither dogs nor gun throughout life. shot wounds will bring it back. As His inborn suspicion is fostered that bear lives, he will become a and matured by experiences which, cunning, murderous beast, to be especially for the little bear, are destroyed. largely negative. He learns early A few days past another man to flee without looking back, the about 30, with a good job, a fine] smells and sounds associated with wife, and three vigorous children, what has hurt or frightened him. sold his possessions, quit his job, Observing others apparently wis and traveled with his family to an er than himself, man learns to dis unfamiliar place to enter school I count his negative experiences. He for the ministry. Not everybody discovers he can take chances and credited him with good judgment! I not always suffer disaster. He can But he had counted the cost, cal drive at excessive speed or take culated the risk. poison and live. He reaches a point Would he be able to finance his where all laws seem to have di way? What if there should be sick minishing value, even inviolable ness? Finally, could he learn to be natural ones. He has lived to see come an acceptable minister in the time when “everything that this highly demanding age? It was goes up” need not necessarily come not enough to know he was doing down again—ever! a good thing. No one greatly admires a per These things and more, this man son who will never take a chance. balanced against a still, small Voice If you are older, you call it ac within him that no one else could cepting a calculated risk. It sounds hear which told him he must better, but there is no fun in it. preach the gospel. He did not lis There is a life-giving, inspiring, ten to those who said the chance strengthening quality born in chal is too great. lenging the unfamiliar which builds There is a point in every human character, and sinew, and faith. life where life itself, eternal life, The trick is to know the kind of depends upon willingness to take a chances you should take. long, committed step out upon an Last week a man fishing in the unfamiliar Rock. Pacific surf from a point of rock It must be a committed step. You accepted a calculated risk he had will not reach the Rock unless you taken before. His lure fouled fully accept the risk. You may lose among the rocks; he ventured out your balance altogether and fall in upon a ledge which experience to an abyss, sometimes called a told him could be dangerous if a cult. The risk is real only in pro stray wave came over. The wave portion to your hesitancy in taking came. The man was bruised upon the step of faith; for Jesus, the the rocks, buried headfirst in deep Rock, is ready to help you, per Take a Chance? water, and carried down. Wearing sonally. chest waders and heavy clothing, it Life will not be the same again. seemed he could never reach the Nothing will. Your reputation will surface to breathe. be different. Some will not be But God must have further use friends anymore. Pleasures, even NOT ME! for that man, for He delivered him. the harmless ones, will be altogeth If the man was like the little er different. bear, he would probably blame the waves for his experience and not But when you shave or brush • By Hal M. von Stein go near the ocean again. Or he your hair, the person in the mirror Medford, Ore. could reason that, since he had will look you in the eye without been delivered from death, he must shame or guilt, and with a strange be God’s special pet and immune consciousness of fellowship with from disaster. the mortal body God has given you Of course the bear doesn’t un to live in for a while. derstand about God, and once he It’s a chance worth taking! □
8 • HERALD OF HOLINESS What Do We Know About Heaven?
By Herman R. Holler Fresno, Calif.
The late Dr. J. B. Chapman distinctly heard Edison say, ‘It is likewise in heaven. If heaven is to used to say that we would very beautiful over there.’ ” be a place of continuous bliss, it know more about heaven The general teaching of the Bible must be a place of continuous ser five minutes after we were there and the Book of Revelation in par vice. than in a whole lifetime while we ticular is that it is very beautiful I do not think we could go to are here. What he meant was that over there. It is beautiful over heaven and fold our hands or twid the Bible does not have a great there, first of all, because there is dle our thumbs. Monotony and deal to say about it. Nevertheless, no sin or evil. All the sins that boredom kill us. Activity and va I am sure he would agree that we have ruined this lovely world— riety give us life. All of us have are not left entirely in the dark. greed, envy, jealousy, pride, dis varied talents and abilities which The Bible is very clear in teach honesty, hate, and others—are all God can use for His honor and ing that heaven is a place. To gone. They are not there. glory. We shall be busy with the Jesus, heaven was very real. He The fearful and unbelieving, and King’s business. said, “In my Father’s house are the abominable, and murderers, Last, it is very beautiful over many mansions: if it were not so, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, there because heaven is a place of I would have told you. I go to pre and idolaters, and all liars never unbroken fellowship. Some time pare a place for you. And if I go make it. They are not there (Rev ago I saw a Christian lady weep and prepare a place for you, I will elation 21:8). There are no natural ing over the loss of a loved one. A come again, and receive you unto catastrophes there to destroy our non-Christian friend said to her, myself; that where I am, there ye homes, leave us penniless, injure “Why are you so sad? If you be may be also” (John 14:2-3). our bodies, or take our lives. There lieved in a future life, a heaven will be no more sickness that like your religion teaches, you St. John, writing about heaven brings us sorrow, suffering, or would not be all broken up with in the Book of Revelation, sees it death. We will enjoy endless tears.” as a place just as real as the cities health. And because sin and evil Whereupon the Christian lady of Los Angeles, Chicago, or New are not there, it will be a place of quickly spoke up. “It is not be York. He calls it the New Jerusa endless joy. cause we do not believe in a future lem or the Holy City—the city Second, it is very beautiful over life or heaven that we are sad where they need no sun. It is this there because heaven is a place of when a person dies; it is because realistic picture that should receive mental and spiritual growth. we miss his fellowship and pres our consideration. Growth is a sign of life. Bishop ence with us.” But we ask, Where is heaven Foster once said, “Heaven is a But heaven will be a place of re after all? Why don’t we see it? place of continuous growth.” To union, reunion with loved ones and The answer to these questions is stand still is to die. It would be friends. Best of all, Jesus will be that God wants us to be children incompatible with heaven. there. We will be able to have of faith. Sometimes when saints Very often on earth we feel that, fellowship with Him forever. depart from this life, the veil is spiritually speaking, we are “un The important question is, Are lifted momentarily before they go finished business.” We are under we ready for heaven? Heaven is and the glory of heaven lights up construction. Time runs out on us. ready for us. After Jesus said, “I their faces. But heaven provides us the oppor go to prepare a place for you . . . When Thomas Edison was living, tunity for continuous mental and that where I am, there ye may be he was a firm believer in immor spiritual growth to become more also.” Thomas asked him, “Lord, tality. He even tried to prove the like our Lord. we know not whither thou goest; existence of the soul scientifically. Third, it is very beautiful over and how can we know the way?” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale has this there because heaven is a place of Jesus answered him, “I am the to say of the inventor’s last mo service. The Scripture reads, “And way, the truth, and the life: no ments on earth: “Edison was one there shall be no more curse: but man cometh unto the Father but of the few greatest minds in this the throne of God and of the Lamb by me.” Heaven is conditional. It country. When he was close to the shall be in it; and his servants depends on repentance and faith— moment of death, the physician shall serve him” (Revelation 22: on accepting Jesus Christ as our saw that he was attempting to say 3). Our busiest moments on earth personal Saviour and following His something. He bent over him and are our happiest moments. It is way of life. □
MAY 28, 1969 • 9 Editorially Speaking
• By W. T. PURKISER
to be forgiven by God is too often and too clearly Remembering to Forget taught in the Word of God to need argument. He who refuses to forgive blows up the bridge he Clara Barton, founder of the American Red himself must cross. Only the merciful can find Cross, was once reminded of a very cruel and un mercy. necessary injury that had been done to her years Yet to forgiveness must be added a proper for before. She seemed not to recall it. getfulness. Otherwise, like a wound cleansed but “Don’t you remember?” her friend asked. not healed, memory and imagination create a con “No,” was Miss Barton’s reply. “I distinctly re stant irritation that robs the soul of peace. member forgetting that incident.” Blessed is he who, by the enabling grace of Not all are as wise, or in this respect as Chris God, remembers to forget. □ tian, as Clara Barton. But those who do not—and apart from the grace of God, cannot—remember to forget expose themselves and others to very real danger. Would You Rather Be an Ostrich? Few have ever suffered undeservedly at the hands of others like Joseph when he was betrayed A recent writer described some of the changes by his brothers and sold into slavery in Egypt. going on in society today. He made an appeal to Yet when his first child was born, Joseph named Christians both to be informed as to what is hap the baby Manasseh, “For God, said he, hath made pening and to do something about it. He closed me forget”—and the context shows that the for with the words, “Or would you rather be an getting included both the toil of years of slavery ostrich?” and the injustice which was its cause. None of us would really rather be ostriches. Sometimes when we say, “I can forgive, but I There is little to recommend the “head in the can’t forget!” what we really mean is, “I can for sand” posture except a brief interval of false give, but I won’t let him—or her—forget!” peace. A pastor tells of a couple who came to him to President Franklin Roosevelt years ago called discuss their marital problems. As they talked, the on his fellow citizens to be men and not ostriches. woman kept bringing up things that had hap It was a worthy challenge. pened. Her husband said, “Look, Alice, I thought This does not mean pushing the panic button you promised me you were going to forget all at the shrill cry of every alarmist who appears on that.” the scene. But it does mean willingness to face “Yes,” the wife said, “I promised to forget all facts honestly and do what can be done to insure that, but I want to be sure you remember I have the best possible outcome. forgotten!” This truth has some application to the religious life. If honesty and realism are necessary in any THERE IS A SENSE, of course, in which no for area, they are essential in our relationship with getting can be absolute. There is some wisdom in God. the way Townley Lord once put it: “If you do me Years ago a gospel song was current the senti some wrong, I will forgive you and forget it all. ment of which ran something like this: Even so, thereafter I will keep an eye on you.” Let me dream on, Here idealism and realism are nicely balanced. If I am dreaming. But it is easy for that “keeping an eye” on Let me dream on; someone to degenerate into constant suspicion. My sins are gone. When this happens, realism has soured into cyni cism. The overall thrust of the song was not as bad Forgiveness is really a very wonderful attitude as the excerpt sounds. The conclusion of the song and always has a touch of the divine in it. For ster was that he was not dreaming because his giveness does not minimize nor excuse the wrong. sins really were gone. Neither does it hold its condemnation. But even the excerpt is tolerable only if we That we must forgive others if we ourselves are assume we are not dreaming. “If Christ be not
10 • HERALD OF HOLINESS raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. deemer, the contemporary Christ. He alone is ... If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we reality, for He alone is the way to truth and life. are of all men most miserable,” said Paul in I Co The issues of our age can be met only in open- rinthians 15:17-19. Paul can entertain this eyed candor and with the illumination of that thought because his next words are, “But now is wisdom that is from above. Or would you rather Christ risen from the dead, and become the first- be an ostrich? □ fruits of them that slept.” If I am dreaming, I want someone to wake me up. There have been too many who have dreamed On Being Too Hard on Oneself themselves into disaster to suppose that dreams can take the place of reality. One of our most difficult tasks is to find a truly balanced middle ground between the extremes of THE OTHER SIDE of the coin is of equal im being too easy on ourselves and being too hard. portance. What about the ostrich-like notion that In St. Paul’s words, our need is to “take a sane men or nations can sow to the flesh and reap view of” ourselves (Romans 12:3, Moffatt). life everlasting, or blunder along in spiritual There are no doubt many who are too easy darkness and not fall over the edge of the cliff? on themselves. They are more interested in be There seems to be a great deal of wishful think ing comfortable than in being successful. They ing about the outcome of human conduct. People are too easily satisfied with low levels of per seem to believe that whatever they can “get by formance—at work, at home, and at church. with” for the moment is thereby good and right. When this attitude is combined, as it often is, One would think that untold centuries of hu with a disposition to be hard on others, the result man living and dying would have by now dis is disaster. The first sign of backsliding is the proved the oldest he on record—the lie of the tendency to make excuses for oneself while being serpent in the Garden of Eden when he invited demanding on others. Eve to eat forbidden fruit and said, “Thou shalt The person who expects of others what he is not surely die.” himself unwilling to do is basically a sinful per But still, ostrich-like, multitudes seem to think son. Whatever else the golden rule may mean, they can play fast and loose with the moral struc it forbids us to require of others what we our ture of the universe and escape the consequences. selves are not willing to do. They would repeal or rewrite the Ten Com But while there are many who are too easy on mandments. Perhaps, they think, if we just wish themselves, there are others who are too hard on hard enough, the law will go away and we can themselves. They are perpetually defeated be eat our cake and have it too. cause they expect of themselves more than they Nothing could be farther from the truth. It are able to perform. isn’t that the law of God is an arbitrary arrange We do not now physically wear hair shirts or ment designed to limit human freedom. The law lie on spiked planks. But it is possible to do that of God is an accurate transcript of the nature of very thing psychologically and spiritually. reality and consists of the same sort of hard, In Francis de Sales’s Introduction to the Devout stubborn fact that forms the substance of the Life, one of the devotional classics of the seven “laws” of physics or chemistry. teenth century, the good bishop says, “One of the Gilbert Chesterton said it well: “The moment best exercises of gentleness is to be patient with you step into the world of facts, you step into a ourselves and with our imperfections.” And Rollo world of limits. You can free things from alien May wrote on “the courage of imperfection.” or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their Someone has said that the secret of patience own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger with others is a sense of humor about ourselves. from his bars; but do not free him from his If we can laugh at our own foibles without sur stripes. Do not free a camel of the burden of his rendering to them, we are well on the way to hump: you may be freeing him from being a largeness of charity with the foibles of others. camel.” Both self-exaltation and self-depreciation grow There is a great deal in human history to show from the same root—self. The cure for both mala that man without God is less than human. He is dies is the “sane view of” ourselves commanded hollow at the core. As H. G. Wells somewhere by the inspired writer. □ said, there seems to be a God-shaped gap in hu man nature. Nor can the situation be mended by denying it. Spiritual famine is far more devastating One may look for ever so long the other way, and than the physical kind. Man is made to it will not go away. fellowship with God and to feast upon The answer to our need for moral and spiritual His Word. No need to starve your soul. reality is the inner presence of the risen Re —Selected. MAY 28, 1969 • 11 Paul), June 1, a.m.; Danville, III. (Southside), DUNN, T. P. (C) 318 E. Seventh St., Hastings, June 8, a.m.; Columbus, Ohio (Whitehall), June Neb. 68901 12-15; Ottawa, III. (Southside), June 22, a.m.; - ♦EASTMAN, H. T. & VERLA MAY. (C) 2005 E. Morris, III., June 22, p.m.; Milwaukee, Wis. 11th, Pueblo, Colo. 81001 (South), June 29, a.m.; Racine, Wis. (Taylor), EDWARDS, E. H. (C) 506 Dena Dr., Newbury EVANGELISTS' June 29, p.m. Park, Calif. 91320 • BROWN, ROGER N. (C) Box 724, Kankakee, III. EDWARDS, L. T„ SR. (C) 1132 Ash, Cottage 60901 Grove, Ore. 97424 SLATES ♦ -BROWN, W. LAWSON. (C) Box 785, Bethany, ELLIS, ROBERT L. 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(C) c/o NPH*: Fairfield, Me., ket, Ontario, Canada: Goderich, Ont., Canada guiar Dr., Pasadena, Calif. 91107: Arcata, June 3-8 (Union Crus., Brethren Ch.), June 11-22; North Calif. (1st), June 2-8 LIGHTNER, JOE. (C) R. 11, Springfield, Mo. Reading, Mass. (Camp), June 30—July 6 HISSOM, EARL G., JR. (C) Box 544, Charleston, 65803 ♦MYERS, DAVID J. & MRS. (C) R. 1, Box 108-A, W. Va. 25322: Hammondville, Ohio (Chestnut ♦LINDER, LLOYD P. (C) 1121 Maple Row, Elk Logan, Ohio 43138: Oak Grove, Ohio (Wes.), Grove), June 15-22 hart, Ind. 46514 June 15-24 HOECKLE, WESLEY W. (C) 642 Vaky St., Corpus LINEMAN, HAZEL FRALEY. (C) 10 S. Third St., ♦NELSON, CHARLES ED. & NORMADENE. (C) Christi, Tex. 78404 Bradford, Pa. 16701 Box 241, Rogers, Ark. 72756 HOLCOMB, T. E. (C) 9226 Monterrey, Houston, LIPKER, CHARLES H. (C) R. 1, Alvada, Ohio ♦NESSETH-HOPSON PARTY. (C) c/o NPH*: Sag Tex. 77028: Nashville, Tenn. (Faith), May 28 44802 inaw, Mich. (Shields), June 5-15; Coldwater, —June 8; Port Arthur, Tex. (Grace), June LITTRELL, DICK. (C) 12707 Groveside, La Mirada, Mich., June 20-29 15-22 Calif. 90638 NEUSCHWANGER, ALBERT. (C) 7121 Trimble Dr., HOLSTEIN, C. V. (C) 1500 Lucerne, Apt. 1104, ♦LITTRELL, V. W. & MRS. (C) c/o NPH* Ft. Worth, Tex. 76134: Greenville, Tex. (Pe- Lake Worth, Fla. 33460 LIVINGSTON, J. W. (C) c/o NPH* niel), June 2-8; Davenport, Okla., June 16-22 HOOD, GENE & MRS. (C) c/o NPH*: Des Moines, LIVINGSTON, JAMES H. (C) Box 142, Potomac, ♦NORRIS, ROY & LILLY ANNE. (C) c/o NPH*: la., June 2-8; Missouri Dist. Youth Camp, June III. 61865 Manville, III. (Hol. Camp), May 26—Sept. 1 16-20; Goshen, Ark., June 23-29 LONG, WILMER A. (C) Fessenden, N.D. 58438: NORTHRUP, LLOYD E. (C) 18300 S.W. Shaw, No. ♦HOOT EVANGELISTIC PARTY (G. W. & PEARL). Fessenden, N.D., June 2-8; Mohall, N.D., June 15, Aloha, Ore. 97005 (C) Box 745, Winona Lake, Ind. 46590 23-29 NORTON, JOE. (C) Box 143, Hamlin, Tex. 79520: HOOT, W. W. (C) Box 438, Morgantown, W. Va. • LUSH, RON. (C) c/o NPH*: Tucson, Ariz. (1st), Mt. Pleasant, Tex., June 8-15 26505 June 17-22; Alabama Dist. Camp, June 30— Oyler, Donald. (R) 7000 N.W. 57th, Bethany, HOOTS, BOB. (C) c/o NPH*: Benton, Ky., June July 6 Okla. 73008: (Full-time Evangelism) 3-8; Ladoga, Ind., June 10-15; Columbia, Tenn. MacALLEN, LAWRENCE J. & MARY. (C) Artist & PARROTT, A. L. (C) 460 S. Bresee, Bourbonnais, (Mt. Wesley), June 17-22; N.W. III. Dist. Camp, Evangelist, 41808 W. Rambler Ave., Elyria, III. 60914 June 27—July 6 Ohio 44035 ♦PASSMORE EVANGELISTIC PARTY, THE A. A. HUBARTT, LEONARD G. (C) R. 6, Huntington, Ind. Mack, William M. (R) R. 2, Union City, Mich. (C) c/o NPH*: Shelbyville, Tenn. (1st), June 46750 49094: Hart, Mich., May 28—June 8 10-15; Kinston, N.C., June 17-22 • HUFF, DEL, JR. (C) Box 186, Upland, Calif. MacPherson, Walter S. (R) 320 Emmans Rd., ♦PAUL, CHARLES. (C) C/o NPH* 91786 Box 289C, R. 1, Flanders, N.J. 07836 Peck, W. A. (R) Gen. Del., Malden, Mo. 63863: ♦HUFF, PHIL W. (C) 209 N. East St., Vanlue, MADISON, G. H. (C) Science Hill, Ky. 42553 (Entering Full-time Evangelism) Ohio 45890: Brightwater, N.Y. (1st), June 4- MANER, ROBERT E. (C) c/o Trevecca Nazarene PHILLIPS, ROBERT E. (C) 1065 Warkentine, 15; W. Baldwin, Me. (Convene), June 17-22; College, Nashville, Tenn. 37210: Bristol, Va. Kingsburg, Calif. 93631 Oakland, Me., June 24-29; Houlton, Me., June (Brentwood), June 2-8; Smyrna, Tenn., June ♦PICKERING MUSICALAIRES, THE. (C) C/O NPH*: 30—July 6 9-15; Savannah, Ga. (East Side), June 24-29 New England & Canada (Concert Tour), May HUNDLEY, EDWARD J. (C) 732 Drummond Ct., MARTIN, PAUL. (C) c/o NPH*: Ambassador Euro 28—June 15; Sherwood, Ohio (Interdenom. Columbus, Ohio 43214: Crown City, Ohio pean Tour, May 26—July 6 Camp), June 22-29 (Wes.), May 29—June 8 MAY, VERNON D. 8. MRS. (C) 2643 15th Ave. ♦PIERCE, BOYCE & CATHERINE. (C) R. 4, Dan HUTCHINSON, C. NEAL. (C) 2335 Stonehenge Ct., Greeley, Colo. 80631: Oakes, N.D. (Camp), ville, III. 61832: Charleston, W. Va. (Calvary), Rd., Bethlehem, Pa. 18018 May 28—June 8 May 30—June 8 HYSONG, RALPH L. (C) R. 22, Delmont, Pa. Maybury, Byron. (R) 20 Denison St., Hartford, PITTENGER, TWYLA. (C) R. 1, Shelby, Ohio 15626: Waltham, Que., Canada (Wes.), June Conn. 06105 (Entering full-time Evangelism) 44875: Otsego, Mich. (Zion), June 16-22; Lan 6-15 -♦■MAYFIELD, PAUL & HELEN. (C) c/o NPH*: New sing, Mich., June 23-29 INGLAND, WILMA JEAN. (C) 322 Meadow Ave., Metamoras, Ohio, June 4-15; E. Tawas, Mich., PLUMMER, CHESTER D. (C) 515 N. Chester Ave., Charleroi, Pa. 15022 June 18-29 Indianapolis, Ind. 46201: Ottumwa, la., June IRICK, MRS. EMMA. (C) Box 906, Lufkin, Tex. MAYO, CLIFFORD. (C) 516 Madison, Lubbock, 2-8 75901 Tex. 79403 Potter, Harold J. (R) Sunday School Evangelist, ISBELL, R. A. (C) Drawer 408, Crowley, La. McConnell, Frank R. (R) Sunday School Evan 529 Webb Dr., Bay City, Mich. 48706 70526: Crowley, La. (Ellis Camp), June 20-29 gelist, 3711 N. Beaver, Bethany, Okla. 73008: ♦POTTER, LYLE & LOIS. (C) Sunday School ISENBERG, DONALD. (C) Chalk Artist & Evange Coffeyville, Kans., June 24-29 Evangelists, c/o NPH*: Alaska Dist. (Sunday list, 240 E. Grand St., Bourbonnais, III. 60901 • McCOY, NORMAN E. (C) 1020 W. 4th St., School Conv.), May 22—June 12 4-JANTZ, CALVIN 8, MARJORIE. (C) C/O NPH*: Anderson, Ind. 46016 ♦POWELL, CURTICE L. (C) 33 Reba Ave., Mans Centerville, Ohio, June 2-8; Gibsonburg, Ohio, MCCULLOUGH, FORREST. (C) c/o NPH*: Batavia, field, Ohio 44907 June 9-15; LeMars, la., June 16-22; Waldron, Ohio, June 3-8; Rock Hill, S.C. (1st), June PRENTICE, CARL & ETHEL. (C) Evangelist and Mich. (Sal. Army Camp), June 25—July 6 10-15; Knoxville, Tenn. (1st), June 17-22; Children’s Worker, 7608 N.W. 27th St., Beth IAYMES, RICHARD W. (C) 321 E. High Ave., Memphis, Tenn. (White Haven), June 24-29 any, Okla. 73008: Calvert, Ala., June 8-15; Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311 MCDOWELL, DORIS. (C) 948 Fifth St., Apt. J, Charleston, W. Va. (Northside), June 22-29 JENSEN, MARK. (C) 6352 N.E. Caufield St., West Santa Monica, Calif. 90403 ♦PRICE, JOHN. (C) c/o NPH*: Camden, Ark. Linn, Ore. 97068 McGUFFEY, J. W. (C) 1628 N. Central, Tyler, (1st), June 1-8; Newport, Ark., June 16-22 JONES, CLAUDE W. (C) R. 3, Box 42, Bel Air, Tex. 75701: Biloxi, Miss. (1st), June 2-8 PULLUM, OSCAR L. (C) 1601 Monroe Ave., Evans Md. 21014: Vermontville, N.Y., June 2-8; Car MCKINNEY, MRS. EVELYN M. (C) 4488 S. Cedar ville, Ind. 47714 thage, N.Y., June 9-15; Pefferlaw, Ont., Can Oak Dr., Lake Oswego, Ore. 97034 PURKHISER, H. G. (C) 308 E. Hadley, Aurora, ada, June 17-22 • McNUTT, PAUL. (C) 215 W. 68th Terr., Kan Mo. 65605 KEEL, CHARLES E. (C) 1329 Brooke Ave., Cin sas City, Mo. 64113: Richland Center, Wis., ♦RAKER, W. C. & MARY. (C) Box 106, Lewis cinnati, Ohio 45230 June 2-8; Anderson, Ind. (Goodwin Mem.), June town, III. 61542: Sioux Lookout, Ont., Canada, KELLY, ARTHUR E. (C) 511 Dogwood St., Co 9-15; South Carolina Camp, June 30—July 6 June 2-12 lumbia, S.C. 29205: Burnwell, W. Va., May 27 MCWHIRTER, G. STUART. (C) c/o NPH*: Upstate RICE, RALPH. (C) 205 E. Munroe, Bourbonnais, —June 1; Doyle, Tenn., June 5-15; Houlka, N.Y. Camp, June 30—July 6 III. 60914 Miss. (Pearson’s Chapel), June 19-29 MEADOWS, NAOMI; 8. REASONER, ELEANOR. (C) • Richards, Larry & Phyllis (Coulter). (R) 1735 KEYS, CLIFFORD E. (C) 60 Lester Ave., Apt. Box 312, Chrisman, III. 61924: Brazil, Ind. Dawson St., Indianapolis, Ind. 46203 1007, Nashville, Tenn. 37210 (1st—Children's Crus.), June 9-15 RICKEY, NORMAN V. (C) c/o NPH* ♦KILLEN, ALLEN R. (C) c/o NPH* • MEREDITH, DWIGHT 8< NORMA JEAN. (C) c/o ♦ROBISON, ROBERT, & WIFE. (C) Heaters, W. KLINGER, ORVILLE G. (C) R. 3, Box 115, Read NPH*: Greensboro, N.C. (Northside), June 8-15; Va. 26627: June to Sept., Tent Meetings ing, Pa. 19606 South Dakota Hol. Assn. Camp, June 27— Rodgers, Clyde B. (R) 505 Lester Ave., Nash ♦KRUSE, CARL H„ & WIFE. (C) 4503 N. Red July 6 ville, Tenn. 37210: Uniontown, Pa. (Sal. Army), mond, Bethany, Okla. 73008 -♦■MERRYMAN, PAUL 8. MRS. (C) c/o NPH*: May 26—June 1; Oil City, Pa. (Sal. Army), LAMAR, C. M. (C) R. 1, Moquoketa, la. 52060 Cambridge, Ohio, June 2-8 June 23-29 LAND, HERBERT. (C) 933 E. Kentucky, Pampa, ♦■MICKEY, BOB & IDA MAE. (C) 1501 Edison, Rodgers, J. A. “Jimmie.” (R) 695 N. Market Tex. 79065 La Junta, Colo. 81050: Karval, Colo., June St., E. Palestine, Ohio 44413 LANGFORD, J. V. (C) 4908 N. College, Bethany, 5-15; Jena, La., June 19-29 ROEDEL, BERNICE L. (C) 423 E. Maple St., Okla. 73008 MILLER, NETTIE A. (C) c/o NPH*: Danville, Boonville, Ind. 61832 LANIER, JOHN H. (C) Poplar St., Junction City, III., June 8-15; Caro, Mich. (Camp), June 26 Rothwell, Mel-Thomas. (R) 2108 Alexander Ln., Ohio 43748: Logan, Ohio (Hocking Valley Youth —July 6 Bethany, Okla. 73008: Hamilton, Ohio (Fifth), Camp), June 11-22; New Straitsville, Ohio MILLER, W. F. (C) 521 Victoria Ave., Williams June 23-29 (Baptist), June 25—July 6 town, W. Va. 26187: Cincinnati, Ohio (God’s ROUND, RALPH B. (C) Dubois R., Riverton, Wyo. ■FLAW, DICK & LUCILLE. (C) Preachers, Singers Bible Camp), May 29—June 8 82501 & Musicians, Box 8, Bethany, Okla. 73008: MILLHUFF, CHARLES. (C) c/o NPH*: Kansas City RUPP, JOHN G. (C) 113 S. Beverly, Porterville, Hewitt, Minn., June 6-15; Hobart, Okla., June Dist. Camp, June 2-8; Detroit, Mich. (1st), Calif. 93257 18-22 June 9-15; Indianapolis, Ind. (Westbrook), June SCHERRER, L. J. (C) 6875 Robin Dr., Chatta • LAXSON, WALLY 8, GINGER. (C) R. 3, Athens, 16-22; San Bernardino, Calif. (Inland Empire nooga, Tenn. 37421 Ala. 35611: Cleveland, Tenn. (1st), June 2-8; Crus.), June 23-29 SCHOONOVER, MODIE. (C) 1508 Glenview, Ad Chattanooga, Tenn., June 9-15; Bridgeton, N.J. MINGLEDORFF, 0. C. (C) R. 1, Douglas, Ga. rian, Mich. 49221: Spencerville, Ohio (Camp), (Naz. Camp), June 18-26; Upstate New York 31533 June 15-22 Dist. Camp, June 28—July 6 ♦MONCK, JIM. (C) 2561 Pohens Ave., N.W., SCHRIBER, GEORGE R. & MRS. (C) 8642 Cherry LEE, TED. (C) c/o NPH*: S.W. Okla. Dist. Camp, Grand Rapids, Mich. 49504; Sault Ste. Marie, Ln., Alta Loma, Calif. 91701 June 23-27; N.W. III. Dist. Camp, June 28— Mich., June 3-8; Albany, Ohio (Union Ridge), ♦Sharples, J. J. & Mrs. (R) 41 James Ave., July 6 June 10-15; Missouri Dist. Jr. Hi Camp, June Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada Leichty Quartet. (R) 753 S. Wildwood, Kan 23-27 SHAVER, CHARLES (CHIC). (C) 1211 Willow Dr., kakee, III. 60901: Memphis, Tenn. (North MOORE, FRANKLIN M. (C) Box 302, Castle Rock, Olathe, Kans. 66061: Harrisburg, Pa. (1st), I Memphis), June 1-9 Colo. 80104: Hartford City, Ind. (Tri-County June 6-22; Baltimore, Md. (Brooklyn), June LEIH, JOHN. (C) 40936 Mayberry, Hemet, Calif. Camp), June 4-15; Mexico, Mo. (1st), June 23-29 92343 19-29 SHERIDAN, WILLIAM 0. (C) 7646 Bishop Dr., LEONARD, JAMES C. 8. FLORICE. (C) Evangelist MOOSHIAN, C. HELEN. (C) 18 Bellevue St., Law Chattanooga, Tenn. 37416 & Children’s Worker, Box 12, Marion, Ohio rence, Mass. 01841: Month of June, in the ♦SHERWOOD, RAYMOND & MILDRED. (C) Box 43302: Yankton, S.D., June 2-8 Far East 510, Fallon, Nev. 89406 (C) Commissioned
"HERALD" CAMPAIGN SHOWS GAIN ON S.W. OKLAHOMA DISTRICT With 1,367 subscriptions reported thus far, the Southwest Oklahoma District has reached 61 percent of its 50 CONSECUTIVE YEARS goal. This is a 12 percent gain over THE GOLDEN STAIRS BRINGS TEACHER HONORS the percent of the goal reached in By John E. Riley the last year’s Herald of Holiness How does one develop a vigor- In 1919 a 16-year-old high school campaign. out, satisfying, radiant Christian girl was asked to teach a class of girls Rev. R. L. Sumner, pastor of Okla in the Sunday school of the Colling homa City Trinity Church, was cam experience? It is developed, you dale (Pa.) Church of the Nazarene. paign manager. know! There must be a crisis She has never been without a class in The Southwest Oklahoma District is which makes one a new creature, the same Sunday school since that keeping in step with the trend of gen a child of God, and Dr. Riley de day. eral increases in Herald subscrip votes his first chapter to this Still going strong, Mrs. Agnes Gery tions reported from districts through experience on being born again. is shown in above photo receiving a out the denomination. □ But then comes the growth, the 50-year anniversary gift from the maturing, the putting off of Collingdale church at the hands of hindrances, the putting on of her pastor, Rev. Darrell E. Luther Christlike characteristics. Every MOVING MISSIONARIES (right), and the Sunday school su beginning Christian should be perintendent, Mr. Frank Gery. Miss Merilyn Manchester, R.F.D. 2, told that after 10 years of walking In addition to gifts from her class Johnson, Vt. 05656. with God there is still a need Rev. and Mrs. Roy Henck, Rte. 1. Box and the church, Mrs. Gery also re 310, Chester, W. Va. 26034. for growth in grace. ceived a certificate from the Philadel This book should be a must for phia Area Sunday School Association everyone aspiring to a vital, over in recognition of her 50 years as a VITAL STATISTICS coming Christian experience. In teacher. DEATHS cidentally, the one who does not To accommodate the 613 persons REV. E. B. MATTHEWS, 57, died Mar. 19 of a have this attitude does not stay heart attack in San Antonio. Funeral services were who attended the celebration, closed- conducted by Rev. James C. Hester and Rev. T. A. a Christian very long. circuit TV with six monitors provided Littlefield. Interment was in Dallas. He had served This is a CST text and there the church for over 30 years. He is survived by fore arranged for class study with a front-row seat for all. A “This Is his wife and two sons. Your Life” program furnished not MATTHEW NICHOLAS, 85, died Mar. 30 in Hunt questions for discussion follow only the element of surprise, but ington Beach, Calif. Funeral services were conducted ing each chapter. It is readable, by Rev. Marion McCandless. Surviving are two traced the steps of a life which has sons, Willaim H. and Burton H.; one daughter, Mrs. down-to-earth, and has interest served with love for Christ and the Elfra Mullinax; four grandchildren; and four great sustaining appeal to the individ grandchildren. church. Former class members and MRS. MARGARET E. MORRISON, 84, died Apr. ual reader. 103 pages. Paper. friends came from distant points, and 14 in Kenesaw, Neb. Funeral services were con $1.00 ducted by Rev. Douglas Clem. She is survived by greetings via taped messages were one son, Rev. C. William; three daughters, Mrs. Faith received from as far as Ethiopia and Nelson, Mrs. Wauneta Steely, and Mrs. Cecile Rosen berg; and several grandchildren and great-grand Kenya, Africa. children. The Collingdale church is celebrat ing its own sixtieth anniversary this (Continued on page 16) NAZARENE Publishing House
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DISTRICT ASSEMBLY INFORMATION VIETNAM WAR DEAD: MORE THAN HALF UNDER AGE 21. Figures released by the Pentagon on the ages of the more than 34,000 U.S. CANADA ATLANTIC, June 5-6. First Church, 13 servicemen killed by enemy action since 1961 show the following York St., Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Host Pastor: D. R. Morrison. General Superintendent: breakdown: Dr. George Coulter. Age Deaths Age Deaths Age Deaths NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN, June 5-6. Nazarene Indian Bible School, 2315 Markham Road, S.W., 17 ...... 9 21 ...... 4,973 25 ...... 1,073 Albuquerque, N.M. 87105. Host Pastor: Merle 18 ...... 1,948 22 ...... 2,507 26 ...... 736 Gray. General Superintendent: Dr. Eugene L. Stowe. ROCKY MOUNTAIN, June 5-6. First Church, 19 ...... 5,133 23 ...... 1,929 27 ...... 440 2020 S. Jefferson, Casper, Wyo. 82601. Host 20 ...... 8,033 24 ...... 1,447 28 up .. Balance Pastor: Volney Johnson. General Superintendent: Dr. Samuel Young. Greatest number of fatalities have been suffered by the army— about 61 percent of the total—while the marine casualties have been 33 percent, leaving about 6 percent of all remaining casualties coming DIRECTORIES from members of other branches. About 21,000 fatalities (62 percent) GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS were youths who had been in uniform less than two years. Office: 6401 The Paseo By states, California lost the most—3,087—with New York second at Kansas City, Mo. 64131 2,348. However, greatest number of fatalities per 100,000 population was suffered by New Mexico with 21.6, followed by Oklahoma, 21.5, and District Assembly Schedule West Virginia, 21.4. According to the report, Alaska had the fewest Samuel Young combat deaths, 24, as well as the smallest ratio, 8.8. □ Arizona ...... May 28-29 Rocky Mountain ...... June 5-6 SPACE AGE COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE. A special conference Nebraska ...... June 19-20 Canada Central ...... June 26-27 to share know-how in electronic development in each of the communica Chicago Central ...... July 10-11 tions media is planned for June 7-13 at the Arrowhead Springs inter Eastern Michigan ...... July 16-17 Pittsburgh ...... July 24-25 national headquarters of the Campus Crusade for Christ, San Bernar-. Missouri ...... August 7-8 dino, Calif. 92404. Virginia ...... August 14-15 Northwest Indiana ...... August 28-29 Internationally known speakers will show the latest developments V. H. Lewis on how television, radio, high-speed presses, films, tapes, and com Northeast Oklahoma ...... June 18-19 puters can be used in a coordinated effort to help win the battle for Southwestern Ohio ...... July 2-3 the minds of men for Christ. □ Central Ohio ...... July 16-18 Kentucky ...... July 24-25 East Tennessee ...... July 31—Aug. 1 GOVERNOR REAGAN LAUDS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. Christian schools West Virginia ...... August 14-15 are "a tribute to the wisdom of the people who endure a kind of double Kansas City ...... August 20-21 Tennessee ...... August 27-28 charge above heavy taxes to produce a superior product,” California Joplin ...... September 10-11 Governor Ronald Reagan told 6,000 people gathered in Anaheim for the George Coulter spring rally of the California Association of Christian Schools (CACS). Canada Atlantic ...... June 5-6 The rally was said to be the largest Protestant Christian school Maine ...... June 11-12 New England ...... June 18-19 gathering of its kind in the nation. CACS represents 150 member schools Northwestern Ohio ...... July 9-10 employing 1,200 teachers for 26,000 pupils. Colorado ...... July 16-18 Northern California ...... July 23-24 Governor Reagan called for the group to help young people find Iowa ...... August 6-8 truth and purpose in our society through the classroom. He said the Indianapolis ...... August 13-14 South Carolina ...... August 21-22 nation is coping with revolution . . . with a concerted assault on the South Arkansas ...... September 10-11 moral values of youth. “We can no longer afford to starve the spirit Edward Lawlor and thus kill the soul,” Mr. Reagan declared. Nevada-Utah ...... June 19-20 The speaker said it was his purpose to encourage legislation which Upstate New York ...... June 26-27 Northwest Oklahoma ...... July 23-24 would assist schools like those members of CACS through federal aid Illinois ...... July 30—Aug. 1 without violating the separation of church and state, or to curb the Kansas ...... August 6-8 Minnesota ...... August 21-22 academic freedom of individuals. His plan would provide a kind of tax North Arkansas ...... August 27-28 credit on income tax returns for those who wished to support private ...... September 5-6 New York ...... schools. Eugene L. Stowe North American Indian ...... June 5-6 In another point the chief legislator said that “no government at New Mexico ...... June 11-12 any echelon can afford all the law enforcement that would be necessary Northeastern Indiana ...... June 25-26 to protect us in our persons, our property, our freedom and our safety Michigan ...... July 16-18 Eastern Kentucky ...... July 23-24 unless the overwhelming majority of us were guided by our inner per Southwest Indiana ...... August 7-8 sonal code of morality, our adherence to a higher authority than that Northwestern Illinois ...... August 14-15 Wisconsin ...... August 21-22 of man. Georgia ...... September 4-5 “This," he told the responsive audience, “is where you are so North Carolina ...... September 10-11 important."—“EP News Service.” □ Orville W. Jenkins Alaska ...... May 29-30 IT SAYS HERE—“Enthusiasm doesn't consist of raising your voice, or Dakota ...... June 11-12 Canada West ...... June 19-20 turning handsprings. Enthusiasm is knowledge on fire.”—“Case and Oregon Pacific ...... July 16-17 Comment.” O Gulf Central ...... July 25 Akron ...... July 31—Aug. 1 Dallas ...... August 7-8 Louisiana ...... August 13-14 Houston ...... August 20-21 Southwest Oklahoma ...... September 4-5 Southeast Oklahoma ...... September 10-11 16 • HERALD OF HOLINESS from Rev. and Mrs. James Hudson, missionaries to Guatemala. They clipped the coupon out of the Herald of Holiness and sent a special gift to Late News help with this important home mis sionary cause. The office of the Department of MISSIONARY RECEIVES PH.D. Home Missions has reported receiv DEGREE IN SOUTH AFRICA ing several other checks during the Mr. Charles Gailey, missionary past week. It is hoped that $200,000 teacher in our high school at Stegi, may be received to help purchase SPANISH EAST DISTRICT LANDS for new church sites. □ Swaziland, has received his Ph.D. GAINS 111 NEW NAZARENES from the University of South Africa. In the photo Rev. Harold L. Hamp SHELBURNE BROWN RECEIVES ton, superintendent of the Spanish DOCTORATE FROM U.S.C. East District, is serving as interpreter Dr. W. Shelburne Brown, president for Dr. Edward Lawlor, general su of Pasadena College, has completed perintendent, who conducted the the requirements for a doctorate April assembly at Stamford, Conn. (Ed.D.) at the University of Southern The district showed gains in every California. The degree department, topped by a total of 111 will be conferred at new members received by profession the annual commence of faith. The previous year’s giving ment of the university was increased by nearly $10,000. Sun on June 5. day school enrollment jumped from Dr. Brown’s major 1,000 to 2,500 and a new push is being study was in the area planned for reaching Spanish-speak of administration of ing people in the inner city. higher education. His Elected as presidents of the NWMS dissertation study was and NYPS, respectively, were Mrs. in the area of campus environment. Angelica Laiacona and Rev. David He earned his A.B. and M.A. de Iglesias. Dr. Lawlor ordained as an MISSIONARY SENDS FIRST grees at Pasadena College, which also elder Rev. Joel Pineda. □ HOME MISSIONS CHECK conferred on him the doctor of divini ty degree. He has been president of AUSTRALIA DISTRICT 100% The first check received on the PC since 1964, prior to which he was IN EASTER OFFERING 10 percent missionary special for superintendent of the Los Angeles home missionary L.A.N.D.S. came District. □ A report from Superintendent A. A. E. Berg of Australia indicates that all of our churches rallied to the support of the World Missions offer ing at Easter time. A total of $3,550 came in for this purpose. Mr. Berg indicates that a more aggressive home mission strategy is being sought to evangelize that strategic area of the world. □
N.E. OKLAHOMA "HERALD" CAMPAIGN SUCCESSFUL Final report from the Herald of Holiness campaign manager, Rev. C. W. Roach, reveals a total of 1,613 subscriptions secured on the Northeast Oklahoma District. This represents an accomplishment of 94 percent of their goal, and a marked increase over last year’s campaign, which netted 1,436 subscriptions and 86 percent of the goal. Congratula tions to Northeast Oklahoma! □
NEWS OF REVIVAL MELVIN REYNOLDS' (seated, right), delegate to the International Reading REV. WARREN COPELAND was Association convention held in Kansas City, is principal of a junior high the evangelist at what was described school in Japan for military dependents. These schools are responsible for as one of the most successful revivals the instruction of 27,000 American children. Of additional interest to in the history of the Marion, Va., "Herald" readers is the fact that he is a member and treasurer of the church. His message was strong on Far East Church of the Nazarene in Tokyo, pastored by Missionary Merril Bennett. This is the only English-speaking Church of the Nazarene in Japan. scriptural holiness, and teens and Pictured with Mr. Reynolds while he was in Kansas City are his former adults alike testified to the clarity stateside pastor, Rev. Paul Miller (standing), and former school teachers with which they were able to under among NPH personnel (from left, Dr. Fred Parker, Betty Fuhrman, Dr. Norman stand the truths presented. Rev. Sid Miller, and Colleen Cornwell. ney Mays is pastor. □
MAY 28, 1969 • 17 Next Sunday's Lesson The Answer Corner
By W. E. McCumber
THE BIBLE—A VARIED LIBRARY Conducted by W. T. Purkiser, Editor
(June 1) Are the days of creation in Genesis literal days? Scripture: Exodus 14—15; Leviticus 19: Very good scholars disagree as to the “The best Hebrew exegesis has 11-18; Ruth; Proverbs 10:1-5; meaning of the term translated “day” never regarded the days of Genesis as Amos 7:7-9; Luke 15:3-10; 24: in Genesis 1 and 2. solar days, but as day-periods of indefi 44; Acts 2:1-4; Philemon; Psalms However, I find most satisfaction in nite duration.” 103:1-14 (Printed: Exodus 15:1- You see, one of the problems with 2; Luke 15:3-10; 24:44; Philemon the statement of Dr. H. Orton Wiley 1-3) in Christian Theology, Volume I, p. insisting that the days of creation were Golden Text: II Timothy 2:15 455: 24-hour days is that it results in a di “The Hebrew word yom which is rect contradiction with Genesis 2:4-5, God has pressed a variety of litera translated ‘day’ occurs no less than "These are the generations of the heav ry forms into the service of bearing 1,480 times in the Old Testament, and ens and of the earth when they were His saving message to man’s heart. is translated by something over 50 dif created, in the day that the Lord God We glance at a few in today’s lesson. ferent words, including such terms as made the earth and the heavens, and 1. Law (Leviticus 19:11-18) time, life, age, forever, continually and every plant of the field before it was Law sections of Scripture remind perpetually. in the earth, and every herb of the us that God is holy and hates sin. The "With such a flexible use of the field before it grew . . .” law is designed to protect human original term, it is impossible to either The conclusion would be that it is rights—personal and property—and dogmatize or to demand unswerving better not to be too dogmatic one thus preserve order in society. Law restriction to one only of those mean way or the other. Time, of itself, does defines sin, exposes guilt, and reveals ings. nothing. the need of a Savior. "It is frequently assumed that origi It makes no difference to the teach 2. History (Exodus 14—15; Acts 2: nally orthodox belief held to a solar ing of the Bible whether God hastened 1-4) day of 24 hours, and that the church to conclude His creative work in six History recorded in Scripture is a altered her exegesis under the pressure 24-hour days or lingered over six geo special kind. God is the chief Pro of modern geological discoveries. This logical ages. In either case, God is the tagonist. His interpreted acts form the as Dr. Shedd points out is one of the Creator and the ultimate ground and substance of Bible history. Whether ‘errors of ignorance.’ cause of all that is. couched in narrative, poetry, or other forms, God’s saving acts, by which He works through men and nations to How about the church putting a float in a Halloween parade for money? give the world the Bible and the For witness, perhaps. Savior, is the stuff of history. For money, no. . | 3. Prophecy (Amos 7:7-9) Men with divinely inspired insight Did God know before He created Adam that he would not be true and and foresight speak and write the would fall? message of God. Foretelling and I believe He did, and the majority Probably the best we can say is that, forthtelling, they demand righteous of theologians would concur. in the wisdom of God, the creation of ness and predict judgment and grace. There are, of course, mysteries in persons with capacities for rebellion Their witness focuses on Christ. volved in any kind of foreknowledge against the Creator was worth what 4. Proverbs (Proverbs 10:1-5) that relates to free acts. But in gen God knew it would cost. Accumulated wisdom, pithily ex eral, the view that God knows the end I doubt that we gain any real un pressed and highly ethical, supplies from the beginning squares best with derstanding by supposing God to have divine guidance for all life, especially the tenor of Scripture as it relates to been taken by surprise when Adam young life. God is the God of com the divine nature. and Eve sinned. mon sense! 5. Parables (Luke 15:3-10) Heavenly truth in earthly figures, In I Corinthians 11, St. Paul said women should wear a veil when prayinq unfamiliar truth in familiar concepts, or prophesying. Why don’t we practice this today? dent and peaceable men” (Explanatam cast in unforgettable shape. A few Your answer is in verse 16, where are in the Old Testament. The most Paul relates the wearing of a veil to Notes upon the New Testament, p. 619). and best are from the lips of Jesus. “custom,” a word that means "customary Since no moral issue was involved, the 6. Letters (Philemon) usage,” as in John 18:39. women of Corinth should conform to Heart-to-heart correspondence be John Wesley says of this, "The sev the prevailing custom of the time which comes a vehicle for God’s message to eral churches that were in the apostles’ was observed in all the other churched us. Long, short, doctrinal, ethical— time had different customs in things It is not now the custom for women in always personal—the letters convey that were not essential; and that under the West to wear veils in public, and the will of God and lift up Jesus one and the same apostle, as circum therefore no reason why they should Christ. stances, in different places, made it con do so. The feminine hair style is sufl Through the varied forms comes venient. And in all things merely in ficient to convey what was symbolized one message: Jesus Christ, the Son of different the custom of each place was by the veil. God, the Savior of men! □ of sufficient weight to determine pru
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PROJECT: SERVICEMEN ECAUSE this church cares enough, ser small cards and placed in the envelopes. B vicemen now attend who once were Space was provided on the card for pictures LU dropouts or prospective members of the as these became available. Sunday school. The class shares news and problems of the Tragedy had awakened the congregation. boys they heard from during the week. Word came during the Sunday night ser Sam is homesick in Germany. Garry can vice: in Vietnam for several months, Phil not yet adjust to the discipline of army life. had been killed in action! Another failed to pass basic training and “Bless our servicemen,” had been prayed will be recycled. many times in public. There were the usual These problems make good prayer re bulletin notices concerning their where quests. The women of the church volun abouts. Until that night, however, the peo teered to take one boy to pray individually ple had not realized it would happen to one for each day—prayer for his salvation; of their own. prayer for his safety; prayer for his family. How had the church shown Phil their In the waking hours of the night or when interest in him and their concern for his remembering during the day, the people safety? The young people had packed a pray. food box for him just the night before; but A serious day arrived. John’s furlough it had not been mailed. The teacher had was over. Upon his return to base, he was written a letter a few days earlier. It was scheduled for Vietnam as a doorman on a returned, unopened. So what had been helicopter. Church people were called on done was too late. the phone and prayer was requested for The young people’s class was stirred to the next two days especially. action. First came the confession within “We’re doing this,” it was explained to their group of their neglect and procrasti John’s mother, “so you, your husband, and nation where Phil and the others were con John will feel a wall of strength around cerned. The next step was certain: ways you those days.” The mother smiled, hold of contact between the boys and their ing back the tears. church must be provided. One by one the boys are returning to Addresses of the boys in service from the civilian life. This church now appears to church and community were made easily be strongly united to bring them safely accessible. On a large poster card, “OUR home. Other boys, of course, are just as SERVICEMEN,” was printed at the top. At precious as these. Other churches, too, can the bottom were the words, “WRITE A assume this privilege to organize, pray, and LETTER TODAY.” expect results. □ Small envelopes were pasted on the card. On the lower part of each was typed the —MARY W. STALEY name of a boy. Addresses were typed on Cardington, Ohio SAVE SOME”