Herald of Holiness Volume 62 Number 18 (1973)
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HERALD OF HOLINESS CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE / AUGUST 29 73 General Superintendent Orville W. Jenkins THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF HIS POWER recently drove into the service sta favorable growing conditions with ample 1tion where I often buy gasoline and moisture will produce more than a hun was startled to read the sign, “C losed- dredfold. out of gasoline.” As I drove away to In the harvest of souls, what mighty another nearby station, I reflected on results the Church could experience if the fact that there is no shortage of the every Christian would produce a hun resources of God’s power and grace. dredfold, or sixtyfold, or even thirtyfold! The only limitation rests with us when Christ’s power and presence are availa ever we fail to be obedient and exercise ble to each one of us and to every faith and trust in Him. church to make it all possible. The Christ who declared, “All power We now face the closing four months is given unto me in heaven and in earth” and the final surge toward our denomi (Matthew 28:18), is the same Jesus who national goal of winning 100,000 people said, “I will build my church; and the to Christ and the church by December gates of hell shall not prevail against it” 31, 1973. Some local congregations (Matthew 16:18). He does possess all have reached and surpassed their ac power and He is still building His Church cepted goals, and many others are with in the world. in reach of their goals. A genuine That we are to be fruit-bearing Chris revival-tide coupled with personal soul tians is acknowledged by all true follow winning could enable us to lead hun ers of the Lord. In this connection Jesus dreds and even thousands to our Lord said, “Herein is my Father glorified, that and into the fold of the church during ye bear much fruit” (John 15:8). these fall months. When Jesus spoke the parable of the His power and grace are available to sower, He said the returns would be you and your church. Together with thirty, sixty, and one hundred fold. Good Him, we can turn back the tide of evil seed planted in fertile soil and given and precipitate a glorious revival! □ John C. Oster, Kansas City. A faded rose framed on my study wall speaks we know of Watergate. quietly of a day gone by, but insistently about Strangely, it is the Watergate that prompts tomorrow. these words to be written now. In the turmoil of Let me explain. public affairs, we hear much of the unsavory, It was a hot summer day in Kearney, Neb., too little of the good, in 1968 and the candidate Richard Nixon was Jorge Barros, speaker for the Portuguese shaking hands with well-wishers after a cam “ Showers of Blessing” radio broadcast and a paign speech. I was busy maneuvering for posi native of the Cape Verde Islands, told a Kansas tion with my camera to get a picture for the City District camp meeting crowd June 17 that newspaper. My wife and small son were stand “ Watergate is not America. America,” he said, ing off to the side waiting for the crowd to dis “is something better than that.” District Su perse. perintendent Milton Parrish agreed but said Mrs. Nixon also escaped the crowd and went that “ Watergate should wake us up; it to her waiting car, carrying with her the inevita should wake us up to how far our country ble bouquet of red roses. She saw my young son, has gone.” Johnny, and impulsively held out a rose and The best thing that could come out said, “Here, give this to your mommy.” Natu of Watergate would be that evan rally, I was busy reloading my camera and so gelical Christians across the one priceless picture was never taken. country take seriously their That rose became a treasured memento of the commitment to citizenship and kind and generous impulse of a gracious lady. actively become the salt to sea The next time that I saw Mrs. Nixon, her hus son politics and bring about a band was the president, walking with measured healthy restoration of credibility tread and serious countenance at the funeral of and respect to our government. former President Eisenhower at Abilene, Kans. In the magnifying spotlight Former President Johnson was also there, walk of public life, every witness for ing slowly, silvery head somewhat bowed as the good will be multiplied many great general and president was buried beneath times over. the Kansas prairie. Even a faded rose will be re The years have come and gone. We have read membered. of trips to Peking and Moscow. We have seen America is in need of the salt the return of our prisoners of war. And of course, of the earth. □ B&fP’l HERALD Of HOLINESS W. T . P U R K IS E R , Editor in Chief JACK M. SCHARN, Office Editor Contributing Editors: V. H. LEWIS EUGENE L. STOWE GEORGE COULTER ORVILLE W. JENKINS EDWARD LAWLOR CHARLES H. STRICKLAND General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene IN THIS ISSUE THIS MESS ARTICLES THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF HIS POWER..................2 General Superintendent Jenkins A FADED ROSE . AND WATERGATE......................... 3 Changing the unsavory John C. Oster hat can be done about “ this mess THIS MESS WE’RE IN ......................................................4 we’re in” ? Confidence erosion—cause and effect Leslie Parrott GUARDING AND SHARING........................................... 6 Poem Pearl Burnside McKinney WThe unfolding events of Watergate WHO’S DOING THE DRIVING?........................................7 have brought irate responses from Welcome assistance from a father's hand Americans who feel hurt, letdown, and disap Kathryn Blackburn Peck pointed. GOD TUGS AT OUR SOULS........................................... 8 The high cost of food tends to make every Channel of mercy C. Neil Strait meal a ritual of cost-accounting with the recit WITNESSES NEEDED IN ’7 3 ......................................... 9 ing of facts and figures on how things used to be Poem Mary H. Augsbury in the good old days. Inflation hits everybody WHAT TO DO WITH OUR FAILURES........................... 10 where it hurts and darkens the grey days of peo Helps to holy living Hal Bonner ple on fixed incomes. DOUBTERS ANONYMOUS........................................... 12 The streets aren’t safe for a walk to cool off. A look at genuine faith Jerry W. McCant The lack of fuel threatens to break up the on HELPING PEOPLE C R Y.................................................13 going love affair Americans have with the auto Directions James D. Hamilton mobile. THE FOLKS FROM THE “ ROARING 20S” ....................14 And the cures for problems of ecology are Responsibilities toward the retired Melvin Shrout tending to be as painful as the pollution. THE UNDAUNTED AND THE DAUNTED......................16 However, the most severe problem in West A Christian woman’s world AarlieJ. Hull ern countries is the breakdown of confidence in EDITORIALS 17 leaders and even the political system. Some W. T. Purkiser think America, and even Western civilization, has had it. STANDING FEATURES In the past there has been a general notion NEWS OF RELIGION.................................................... 30 that civilizations like Rome fell because bar ANSWER CORNER........................................................31 baric hordes attacked from without during a BY ALL MEANS............................................................34 period of moral decay from within. But social A Layman Visits Vaughn R. Davis historians now point out that these are the con sequences, not the causes. The real cause of breakdown in a country, a local congregation, a college, a community, or even a family is the erosion of confidence. When the mainstream of a shared commitment is pol luted by mistrust and broken confidences, then spiritual stamina shrivels and productive hu Volume 62, Number 18 A UG UST 2 9,1 97 3 Whole Number 3136 man ecology disintegrates into factions of vest HERALD OF HOLINESS, 6401 T in P m , K . n . it City, Mo. S4131. Published biweekly (every ed interests that contend with each other for other Wednesday) by the Naxarene Publishing House, M. A. Lunn, Manager, 2023 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 04109. Editorial Office at 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, Mo. 64131. Subscrip dominance. tion price, $3.00 per year in advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas City, Mo. Address correspondence concerning subscriptions to: Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box 527, Kansas The dissenters grow more shrill as they be City, Mo. 04141. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please send new address and old, enclosing a recent come more frustrated. Defenders of the status address label if possible. Allow six weeks for change. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be re turned unless accompanied by postage. Opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the quo seek to identify dissent with disloyalty, authors, and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Church of the Nazarene. Printed in U.S.A. while leadership scrambles to cover the bases Cover Dhoto: Fred Slab By Leslie Parrott, Quincy, Mass. Photo by Louis C. Williams at length, discovered to be fictitious. And ac cordingly they treat it, as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject to mirth and ridi cule, as it were by way of reprisals, for having so long interrupted the pleasure of the world.” Similar gloomy predictions in 1973 have gen erated in some people a new kind of hopeful contempt. Second, “this mess we’re in” is seldom the complete fault of someone else. Although a flourish of concern is better than the former and find some new common ground of purpose complacency of the silent majority, the whole and cooperation.