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12-14-1960 Herald of Holiness Volume 49 Number 42 (1960) W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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For the Days Just Ahead

For the days just ahead there is great apprehension; Many hearts are afraid—ev’ry morrow they dread. But our God holds the reins of this world filled with tension, And His own He’ll prepare for the days just ahead.

For the days just ahead—there’s a hand that will guide you Through the long, weary night till the darkness has fled; And when dangers press hard, in the Rock He will hide you. Be not anxious but trust Him for days just ahead.

What tho’ sorrows may come—tho’ hard trials come stealing? By the hand of the Saviour His children are led; He will comfort and keep; there is balm for our healing, And His grace is sufficient for days just ahead.

Then look up and take heart when the battle is pressing; Keep your eyes on the Cross, where the dear Saviour bled. There He died to redeem and to give us His blessing, And there’s vict’ry in Jesus for days just ahead!

Copyright © 1960 by Lillenas Publishing Company. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.

By FLOYD W. HAWKINS

Music Editor, Nazarene Publishing House Hints on Personal Evangelism: <^ralicffblmes$ THE POWER OF A CHILD'S PRESENCE ^4^3' |C December 14, 1960 Whole Number 2538 By J. KENNETH GRIDER Vol. 49, No. 42 Associate Professor of Theology After serving the Mifflin Avenue Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri Church in Lansing for over three years, 1 For the Days Just Ahead, Floyd W. Hawkins On the first Sunday of the November Rev. Russell E. Spray has resigned to 3 Perfected Holiness, Lawrence witnessing thrust, I hit upon a way of accept the pastorate of the church in li. Ilicks breaking down barriers in house-to-house Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Priceless Plan, Jack XI. visitation. I took along my nine-year-old Scharn I Our Church and Her Min­ daughter. Pastor C. L. Rodda sends word from isters, I.. E. Humrich It is amazing what that did. Standing Huntington, Indiana: ‘ First Church in :> 1960 Chadwick’s Centenary, on porch after porch with her, as people an inspiring Thanksgiving Sunday gave Evangelist Robert Emsley came to the door, I was not someone S3.900 for world missions, and had 519 6 God’s Multiplication Table, who could harm the family. Wide open in Sunday school, to lead the North­ Andrew F. Cone the doors went, more than at any time eastern Indiana District." 7 Saints for Supper! Evangelist when I have visited alone or with anoth­ Nettie A. Miller er man. Wives alone in the home were The Requests, Grace V. Wat­ Pastor Charles E. Ballard sends word kins free to invite us in for prayer. My from Los Angeles, California: “The 8 God of the Second Chance, daughter would thank the Lord for the Los Angeles Marshall Memorial Church, Celia AI. Wright doggie there in the living room, and for working among the colored population 9 Marriage with Love, Wm. ]. suchlike, which did not exactly make the of Los Angeles, has had a spectacular Nichols people unfriendly toward the evange­ growth. On October 14 we had 41 in Endless Tragedy, Jean Leath­ listic party. ers Phillips Besides the entrance it gave and the Sunday school, and on November 20 we 10 News in Picture blessing of a child’s leading out in prayer, had 958 in attendance. In order to Revival in Our Day, Evan­ accommodate the crowd, Sunday school gelist Harold L. Yolk it must be quite good training for the was held all day in forty-fivc-minute 11 I Give Thee Thanks! Enoia child who accompanies the adult. Our sessions. Our building seats only 100. Chamberlin daughter is wide-eyed with her request Pray with us that God will help us H e a v e n , Evangelist James to go out again next Sunday. provide adequate housing. This har­ Robbins If a considerable segment of our Sun­ vest is a cumulation of three years’ 12 Editorials, W. T. Purkiser day school children were schooled in work due in large measure to the labor HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, this way, the new generation of Naza- Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Ed­ renes might not be as reticent about visi­ of Rev. Elwood Mungcr.” itor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Van- tation evangelism as so many of us adults derpool, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, Gen­ are at present. At a recent meeting of the Roswell eral Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Published every Wednesday by the NAZA­ (New Mexico) Ministerial Association, RENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Rev. Ronald Rodes, pastor of Central Manager, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri. Subscription price, Church of the Nazarene, was elected to $1.50 per year, in advance. Second-class serve as secret a ry-t rcasu rrr of the group postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Pastor Lewis A. Posey sends word for the new year. Printed in U.S.A. from I’ineville, North Carolina: “God moved mightily upon the church and Rev. and Mrs. James II. Garrison will people and there was $977.26 in cash celebrate their fiftieth wedding anni­ Rev. Robert W. Taylor has resigned placed in the offering plates on Thanks­ versary early in January. They were as pastor at St. Charles, Illinois, to re­ giving Sunday. We give God praise, married January 4, 1911, in Dorset, Ohio, enter the field of evangelism as of honor, and glory for His wonderful at the Methodist parsonage. Mr. Gar­ February 1, 1961. blessings.” rison has been preaching for almost fifty years, and in the Church of the Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hoffman celebrated Nazarene for forty years. He pastored their golden wedding anniversary at the at Brazil, Indiana, building their first Maplewood Church of the Nazarene, church; also at Seymour and Oakland St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday evening, HOLY IS THE HEART City, Indiana; and Framingham, Massa­ October 24. A beautiful candlelight By CHRISTINE WHITE chusetts. He was head of the science de­ ceremony was sponsored by their sons, partment at Eastern Nazarene College Albert and Kenneth, with Rev. J. W. There's nothing like the Bible 1928 through 1939, then pastored at Burch officiating. After the ceremony, To stir the deadened soul, Rochester, New York, and Norfolk, Vir­ dinner was served to 189 guests, among And light the narrow pathway ginia. He served as superintendent of whom were ;"> ministers and their wives, Toxcard the heavenly goal. Virginia District for two terms, then and numerous out-of-town guests. Their pastored at Titusville, California; and Sunday school classes presented money Words of men may charm us Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Although trees, which were graced by telegrams, With their earthly grace, now retired, he is pastoring a home stacks of cards, and a score of packages But the Word of God remains mission work in Williamsburg, Virginia, conveying congratulations to this Chris­ A beacon to the race. helping to establish the first holiness tian couple who through the years have Words of love and mercy, work in that historic city. They have been true to the church and each other. Power may impart; two children, Mrs. Donald E. Coombs The Hoffmans were charter members of Holy is the life that hides of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and J. W. First Church, and in 1935 became mem­ Its message in the heart. Garrison of Williamsburg, both Naza- bers of Maplewood Church of the Naza­ renes. rene.

2 (1022) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Perfected Holiness By LAWRENCE B. HICKS, Pastor, First Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14). An analysis of this text will reveal that two saying. The Holy Spirit informs us through St. parties arc spoken about, “he” and “them.” Of Paul in II Corinthians 7:1 that to be included course the “he” is the Lord Jesus Christ; the finally under the promises of full redemption we “them” are all the saints who will “receive him” must “cleanse ourselves” from certain worldly af­ (John 1:12); will do His “will” (I Thessalonians fairs. About the same thing is restated in II Tim­ 4:3); will walk in His “light” (I John 1:7); and othy 2:21. While the being perfected is in the “hold fast the confidence ... to the end” (Hebrews past, we receive it now. 3:6). Thirdly, let us notice the future. Surely holiness Further, the text reveals that whatever “he” did will be perfected in the eternal regions of heaven. for the “them” is described by the words “per­ While God in His greater wisdom sees us as fected for ever.” “Perfected” is a verb in a past “without blame” before himself in love today, the tense qualified by an adverb of time—“for ever.” world finds fault. St. Jude strikes the final great The forever extends the power and the gracious note in the Victory March in Jude 1:24. In that benefits of the “perfected” from the past into the verse Jude tells us that our gloxious Saviour will present and projects them throughout eternity! “present you faultless before the presence of his Surely this is rejoicing ground for any of the glory with exceeding joy.” Blood-washed saints of God! H ence, let us rejoice in the “has been” of perfect Here one can see the potential sanctification holiness; let us walk in the light obediently in the of every child of God. Dr. Daniel Steele wrote, must be of cleansing today; and hope rejoicingly “God has begun to save every human soul” (L ove for the will be of perfect rest and service in heaven E nthroned, page 15). Certainly Dr. Steele was no forever. universalist. He did not say that God would save +------* every soul, but that God has set up a perfect po­ tential holiness for each of us. St. Paul insists in Ephesians 1:4 that we are “chosen in him . . . that we should be holy and without blame before THE PRICELESS PLAN him in love.” The Holy Spirit is thus informing us that God By JACK M. SCHARN has a definite purpose, a predetermined plan, whereby we can be wholly sanctified to the extent See we the priceless Son of God of being “without blame” in Christ and before Bowed low to serve salvation’s plan? the great Judge of all the earth, Almighty God. The hill of Calvaiy He trod What a promise! It is little wonder that many in To offer grace and hope to man. the Church and out of the Church stagger at this exalted state of heart purity. See we the blood upon His face? First, the text denotes a past act that is a con­ A crown His wondrous head adorns. tinual action. Thus it is the sure foundation for Taking the sinner’s rightful place, our Christian perfection in the love of God. It Pierced by a thousand thorns. implements the “choice” of God as set out in Ephesians 1:4. It provides for the demand of the See we His wondrous heart of love, Saviour in Matthew 5:48. It is the means of puri­ Broken by sorrow, grief, and pain? fying the heart as promised in Matthew 5:8. The Yet from this scene a crimson flow full and very express purpose of this perfecting act That washes deeper than the stain. is seen in Hebrews 13:12, “that he might sanctify the people with his own blood.” The text plainly See we this One who comes again sets forth the fact that the “perfecting” is a work In glory through the parting sky? of grace and not of the earth, earthy (Ephesians With majesty and strength—Amen! 2:8-9). The final victory is nigh! Secondly, the text implies a human element. Shall we say, holiness must be perfected. We do no vio­ lence to the Scriptures nor wrest the text in so

D ECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1023) 3 Our C^liurcli an d ^JJ~er W lnister,

B y L. E. HUMRICH, Pastor, Midland, Texas Every station and office has its corresponding The apostle instructed the church at Corinth duties. For instance, there are parental duties which concerning Timothy, “See that he may be with you devolve upon parents. There are filial duties which without fear” (I Corinthians 16:10). Today our devolve upon children. There are pastoral duties, ministers are to serve without fear. If they are to which devolve upon the ministers of our Lord Jesus do this, it becomes the obvious duty of the church Christ. Our ministers have their minds and hearts to supply its minister’s needs and not let him fear directed to those duties at the time of their ordina­ as to his temporal support. If the minister is fully tion and at other times. But there are necessary engaged in providing for laymen spiritual things, corresponding duties which devolve upon those how reasonable that laymen should supply him Christians whom our ministers serve in the Lord. with needful temporal things! It is difficult to say St. Paul repeated these often in the salutations just how much should be given to those to whom of many of his Epistles. To the Thessalonians he the care of souls is committed. Perhaps most wrote, “And we beseech you, brethren, to know churches are able to do more in this regard than them which labour among you, and arc over you they think. But at least two things should be con­ in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem sidered: the necessities of the pastor and his family, them very highly in love for their work’s sake” and the ability the church possesses. If he cannot (I Thessalonians 5:12-13). Relative to the ap­ be remunerated adequately, the church must do proaching visit of Timothy to the Corinthian all it can. This the minister has an equitable right Christians, Paul wrote, “See that he may be with to expect. This should be done respectfully, with you without fear for he worketh the work of the great courtesy, and in the spirit of promptness and Lord, as I also do” (I Corinthians 16:10). love. There arc a few facts which, if all will remember, The pastor should be able to serve without fear will make for mutual understanding in our churches as to the position he occupies in the esteem of the and will aid in promoting the kingdom of our church. Let the church show him that he has favor Saviour. The Christian minister is called to his in the eyes of its members and that he is planted office by the Lord. He is qualified by the Lord. deeply in their regards. The Christian minister He is employed in doing the Lord’s work. The should be received as from God, and should be means and instrumentality of doing it are laid honored and loved as such. down by the Lord. The minister has a right to expect faithfulness The work of the ministry is a solemn work. It as to attendance on the means of grace. He should is connected with the mind and with the spirit; it not fear as to the acceptance of his ministry in the concerns the undying souls of men. It is work which midst of the church. If he must study, pray, and comprises all that is momentous in time and eter­ preach—and he must do these things—it is the nity. It is inseparably connected with the eternal duty of the congregation to be present to hear what glory or the everlasting misery of our fellow beings. lias been prepared for them. May the laity of the It is an arduous work that requires the outlay church never be found guilty of religious vagrancy of the whole man: the energies of the body, the by being found seeking a morsel of spiritual bread capacities of the mind, and the emotions of the here and there. spirit. Not only is it arduous from the lofty sublim­ The courage of the minister will be greatly ity of its theme; it is arduous also from the array strengthened when the laymen join hands with him of opponents with which it has to contend. It re­ in doing the tasks connected with this holy enter­ quires all the devotion of time, means, energies, prise. He may do a little singlehanded. But he and resources which the most highly favored hu­ will, like Moses, fail unless the laymen are near man being may possess. him and with him to encourage his heart and hold The Christian minister is a steward and hence up his hands. he must render a clear, minute, and complete ac­ Remember to pray fervently and continually for count of himself and work to God. God will reckon him. Someone has well said, “Don’t forget to pray with him and reward or condemn him, according for the only member of the church who has no to the employment of the talents he has had com­ pastor.” Pray for him in the services of the church, mitted to his trust. That responsibility is con­ at the family altars, and in the secret prayer closet. nected with the eternal destiny of those under his The minister asks for no greater reward than charge. The blood of souls, if he should be faith­ that of seeing the holy fruit of his labors exhibited less, will be required at his hands. Such are the in the lives of his members. It was declared of work and office of the Christian minister. one group, “Ye are living epistles.” Strive to see

4 (1024) • HERALD OF HOLINESS to it that the ends of preaching and pastoral min­ In 188G, after training at Didsbury College, Man­ istry are answered in the holy life you live. Be chester (and incidentally our new British Isles Naz- the joy of the pastor’s heart by holy fruitfulness, arene College is also located at Didsbury), Chad­ good works, and Christlike spirit. wick was sent to work first near Glasgow, then to There are a number of good motives for follow­ Leeds, and later to London. ing such a course as has been outlined. The pastor In 189-1, Samuel Chadwick returned to Leeds and himself will be happy. If he is with the church in began the most notable part of his pastoral min­ fear, he cannot be happy. Would you have a happy istry at the famous Oxford Place Chapel. Soon the and cheerful minister? Then see that he is with building was too small for the crowds which flocked you without fear. to hear his Bible expository preaching. Under his If the church will faithfully practice these things leadership the Chapel was enlarged, transformed that have been suggested, the profit of the members into a place of vital evangelism, and later renamed will be increased. The minister cannot do good “Leeds Methodist Mission.” The congregation be­ to the members unless he has their confidence, came the largest free: church congregation in that affection, and esteem. Otherwise his ministry will city of five hundred thousand people. be paralyzed. In 1907, Chadwick resigned his pastorale and A happy, effective pasLor is indispensable to the moved to Cliff College to become resident tutor welfare of the church. Without it the church will of Bible and theology. Upon the retirement of have no attraction to those whom it seeks to win. Neither will there be joy for those within. Thomas Cook in 1912, Chadwick became president Finally, individual accountability to God is ol Cliff College: and for twenty years he exercised wrapped up in these thoughts. God will require an unforgetable ministry at the “College of the an answer for the treatment given our brothers in Underprivileged.” Christ. Act as in God’s sight, and for Mis glory, Chadwick's writing is to be tound in the books so that you may meet Him in the presence of the 77le HV/y to Pentecost. The Path of Prayer, The Lord Jesus with exceeding great joy. C.ospel of the Cross, and The Call to Christian Per­ fection. most of which are still obtainable at the Na/arene Publishing House. In an age when G. Campbell Morgan and J. II. jowett were “pulpit giants.” Samuel Chadwick also had a part, but "out of the public eye.” 11 is task was to pass on lo young men a vision and en­ 1960 thusiasm for the right blending of rugged evan­ gelism and personal holiness. Several British CHADWICK'S CENTENARY Na/arene ministers owe much to their early train­ ing at Cliff College at the feet of Dr. Chadwick. By EVANGELIST ROBERT EMSLEY Never a robust man, however, he had long pe­ Samuel Chadwick was born on September l(i, riods of illness and physical weakness, and yet his 18(i0, in a small cottage in the cotton textile town faith never wavered, [ust before his death in 1932 of Burnley, Lancashire, England. His parents were he gave a parting message to the College staff: devout Christians, and at an early age Samuel was “Stand together for the Word of Cod, but not truly converted to Christ. Having poor parents, in any stupid sense. Stand in a spirit of unity, of however, he had as was the usual custom in those faith, of doctrine, according to the fourth chapter days, to begin work at the age ol eight years and of Ephesians. This will be the great consummation work long hours in a local textile mill. of my work and hopes. I have stood true to the As he grew up, Samuel Chadwick gave himself last. I have had no doubts, I have been sure of the to much prayer and Bible study, sometimes, after living God. He knows mv limitations, but I have a hard day’s work, studying well into the night loved Him and trusted in His mercy. My ministry with only a candle to light the pages of God's has been the message of the Cross. I am not dead Word. vet although it seems the end is not far away. God Later he felt the “rail to preach,” but when is very, very good to me, and if my day's march is interviewed as a candidate for the Methodist min­ over, I am ready for the roll call in the morning.” istry, he was rejected. Disappointed, but not de­ Thus passed on to God the soul of a saint, one feated, Chadwick became a lay pastor (a type of to whom the holiness movement owes much, and paid local preacher) , and it was during this period whose writings still live with the message of “Holi­ of his work that he was sanctified wholly. This ness unto the Lord.” May Chadwick’s evangelistic experience brought with it a fiery zeal for evan­ fervor for souls and holiness and his last words, gelism, and his service for God greatly prospered. 'Marshal the forces of prayer,” challenge our Then a second time he offered himself for the church today in this our quadrennium of “Evan­ ministry and this time was accepted. gelism First.”

D ECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1025) 5 God’s Multiplication Table By ANDREW F. CONE, Pastor, Gardiner, Maine One of the least profitable and most discouraging was planted on a mountain. Now the top of a tasks upon which we may waste our time is the mountain is not the most likely location for a task of adding up our resources and subtracting bumper crop of corn. It is too cold—everyone from them our problems and difficulties in order knows that good corn weather is “frying hot” to arrive at a decision as to what we can accom­ weather. The ground is too hard. Then there is plish. When we do this, however, we are using the too much wind, and there are few more pitiful wrong kind of arithmetic—adding when we should sights than corn after a strong windstorm has be multiplying. Instead of saying two and two pulled at its shallow roots. Lack of heat, storms, are four, wc should say two times two is four. winds, washing away of the soil, all make it next But you say, “Since the answer is the same, what to impossible for corn to survive, much less bring difference docs it make?” forth an abundant harvest. Well, none, if you intend to stay in the two-by- How similar this is to the condition facing the two class all your life. Try going up into the big Church today, as in every age! From the very be­ numbers though, and you will soon discover that ginning those who preached the gospel have faced it makes a great deal of difference whether you antagonistic religious systems which were deeply add or multiply. So let us always remember to entrenched. People’s religion was traditional—the multiply our limited resources by Divinity and we religion of their fathers—therefore as unchange­ will find that we have a completely different an­ able as the rules of a bureaucratic government. In swer from that which we are in the habit of getting. some localities one of the hardest obstacles to over­ As our gallant preachers of another day used to come is still the fear that, should the people leave shout, “One with God is a majority!” the traditional church, they would be barred from All this philosophizing began with a verse in the the ancestral burial ground. Prejudice in religion Psalms (72:16) which intrigued me as I read it. is even stronger than in politics and constitutes the In it the Psalmist declares, “There shall be an nearest thing to an insurmountable obstacle. handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the This, however, is not the only hindrance. The mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Leb­ hardness of the human heart has always presented anon.” poor soil for the reception of the seed of righteous­ I was struck first of all by the fact that here ness and godly living. As someone has said, “There certainly was a small beginning and here were des­ is nothing in the doctrines or duties of the gospel perately limited resources. It was a handful of which is at all congenial to man’s fallen nature. corn that was sown—not a bushel, not a peck, not Its truths are foolishness to him. Its purity excites even a quart, but a handful—one handful for a his enmity.” whole mountain! However, it was corn, not peb­ Nevertheless, we find an encouraging thought bles, or gold nuggets, or diamonds, or chunks of here also, and that is that God makes the differ­ uranium. And corn is a seed, having within it that ence! In spite of small supply and difficult con­ divinely instilled something called life, which no ditions, wc read, “The fruit thereof shall shake scientist has succeeded in isolating, but without like Lebanon" (Psalms 72:16). Here is a harvest which every scientist would soon be nothing but more like the great cedar trees for which Labanon an unthinking, unfeeling pile of dust. Further­ was famous than a field of corn. Here is a crop more, life reproduces—but not merely a replace­ capable of withstanding the terrific onslaughts of ment. It multiplies to feed the multitude. the elements on the exposed mountaintop—for the Seemingly, it has always been God’s policy to use word translated “shake” carries with it the thought little, insignificant things to accomplish His will in of a storm whipping and tearing at everything in the affairs of men. Gideon’s 300 shouters, David its path. This corn, sending its roots down like the with his “special delivery” message for Goliath, cedars, stands tough, resilient, and strong. Elijah facing the flashing steel of the heathen God can do that to a crop of corn and that is priests on Mount Carmel, and the 120 frightened wonderful. But the glorious truth which sends a followers of a crucified Jew in the Upper Room— shot of adrenalin through our veins is that God from human standpoint all were doomed to certain can also do that for churches and Christians today. and speedy failure. But in all these cases we find There never has been a time when it has been that God multiplied them by himself, and that easy to serve the Lord and to extend His kingdom. always results in victory. Persecutions without, hypocrisy and strife within, I was struck further by the fact that environment inadequate buildings, too little money—the list is is not necessarily the deciding factor, for this seed long and frightening. Sacrifice, blood, sweat, and

6 (1026) • HERALD OF HOLINESS tears—that lias always been the order of the day for To devour is to eat greedily. They ate greedily, the Christian Church. And, sad to say, Satan, taking not the food, but the people whom they bit with­ advantage of conditions, has tempted and too often out mercy and knew nothing or little about. persuaded to discouragement. This is wrong. Even the law of the land calls But when God moves in, the picture is changed. it defamation of character and has its punishment Enthusiasm and courage take the place of timidity for it, but those who engage in this cannibalistic and depression. Light replaces darkness. Faith instinct seem to have no compunction of conscience. replaces despair and cries, “Thanks be to God, Paul said this biting is done by those who are which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus carnal. “Brothers, you were called to be free: only, Christ” (I Corinthians 15:57). The church be­ do not make your freedom an opening for the comes an army with banners, marching with a con­ flesh, but serve one another in love” (Galatians queror’s tread. Flood tides of glory inundate the 5:13, Moffatt*) . For the whole law is summed up souls of God’s people while sinners tremble at the in one saying: “You must love your neighbour as manifest presence of God. yourself (whereas, if you snap at each other and Let us then change our arithmetic, get out of prey upon each other take care in case you destroy the two-by-two class, multiply our resources by one another)” (Galatians 5:15, Moffatt*). Divinity, and we too may have a bumper crop on There was enough biting there to leave the bitten our mountain! crippled for the rest of his ministry. The Lord means for us to live by the Spirit, and we will not indulge physical cravings which are against the Spirit. 1 left the table thinking how much better it would have been to have the feeling, Behold how they SAINTS love one another! instead of they “bite and devour one another,” and to have enjoyed manna from heaven instead of saints for supper. Be careful what you say; you might be in some­ for body’s dish today! ^Copyright 1922, Harper & Brothers, used by permission.

Supper! THE REQUESTS By EVANGELIST NETTIE A. MILLER By GRACE V. WATKINS But if ye bite and devour one another, take “But, Master,” I cried, “the road is steep; heed that ye be not consumed one of another The canyons are stony and dark and deep. (Galatians 5:15). / want a path that is always bright I was out with the church people for supper and With gentle sloping and golden light.” in five minutes had saints in my soup. The con­ He looked at me then, as He quietly smiled, versation was the “Have you heard?” and “Did you And said, “You may have your wish, My child.” know'?” variety. No good news—just bad things With joyful heart I sang on the -way, about good people. I asked them if they knew the Glad for the warm and sun-filled day. people they were talking about, and none of them But never the dusk and the darkness came, did. I asked if they could prove it, and none of Or refreshing rest from the sun’s gold flame. them could. Never a shower healing and cool; The food did not taste good—I had saints in I saxu no flowers by a shady pool, my soup. Or ever climbed to a hill’s high crest Ten minutes later the first course was over and To look on a sunset-crimson west. the entree came. There was only the desert, empty and bare. I had bites of a general superintendent, two dis­ "O Master,” J cried in lonely despair, trict superintendents, two evangelists, one teacher, “I need the rain and the dark, and sweet, and a pastor, in my stew. I realized soon that I was Refreshing rest for my weary feet. going to have saints for supper, for sure. It was / need a hill, a storm for a friend, not outsiders, but Nazarenes eating Nazarenes—one another. And the challenging comradeship of ivind.” The big bites came when characters were touched Gently the Master turned His head. —that was the dirt for dessert. “You may have your wish, My child,” He said. I looked around and the crowd was eating their And now I have found the sustaining power food and the saints, enjoying both. The looks on He gives in the dark and rugged hour, their faces told that they were gluttons for gossip. And humbly I thank Him that there should be They devoured the people, my people—Nazarenes. A shadow, a cliff, and a storm for me'.

DECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1027) 7 Cjod of the .Second C^h ani ce By CELIA M. WRIGHT

Come noiv, and let us reason together, saitli the of forces, not only would the king lose this money, Lord: though your sins he as scarlet, they shall but also he would lose the good will of his neigh­ be as white as snow; though they be red like boring kingdom to the north, and lose much pres­ crimson, they shall be as wool (Isaiah 1:18). tige in the eyes of all surrounding peoples. Always this passage brings to mind the beautiful, Yet the prophet of God promised, “The Lord appealing hymn using the same words repeated is able to give thee much more than this.” Can hauntingly. Surely every sinner is affected by its God give you more than what you would gain by message. How wonderful it is that our great God worldly alliances? More honor, prestige, victories, is the God of the second chance—and of the third, friends? Apparently yes, although not always in fourth, and of many opportunities for repentance man’s terms of reckoning. God’s greater gifts are and salvation! always wiser and richer and stronger. King Ama­ Although “now is the day of salvation” (II Corin­ ziah had his second chance here, and he did what thians 6:2), and you are never promised there will the prophet advised. be another opportunity for salvation, still God in A similar record is written of King Manasseh His mercy allows most of us more than one chance of Judah. For this king was far more wicked than to yield to His call. Your life may end today, so do any king unless it was Jeroboam I, and King Ahab not delay to accept His call and message. Delay of Israel. Manasseh was so vile that God cast off is dangerous, both because another appropriate mo­ FI is people Judah, and allowed them to go into ment may not come, and also because, as time flees, captivity because of him, and still God was en­ your heart grows harder and more wicked. treated in Manasseh’s behalf (II Chronicles 33). God likewise gives us many avenues of service. This evil ruler God even forgave and allowed him When you as a Christian have failed your task, another chance, although his sins brought their in­ or when you may have been hasty to do your own evitable result of punishment. will instead of the will of the Lord, He opens ways Manasseh’s father, King Hezekiah, who was a for another trial, so that you may learn to obey much better man and ruler, was himself foolish in some of his decisions, but God allowed Heze­ Him and be conformed to the image of His Son. kiah a second chance and a new lease on life of In the books of Kings and Chronicles many ex­ fifteen years (II Kings 20). amples are set forth. One of these is King Amaziah The whole Bible is full of God-given second of Judah, who “did that which was right in the chances. God's word is, “Go, and sin no more” sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart” (John 8:11). “Come ye after me, and I will make (II Chronicles 25:2; also verses 7-9). A blessed, golden truth shines out in this story given of you to become . . .” (Mark 1:17). What He will Amaziah. The king trusted in God, but when lie make you to become depends upon His will for had established himself in the kingdom, he began you personally. It depends upon your individuality, to trust in his own strength and wisdom. He hired your location, your duties as they have been handed one hundred thousand mighty men of valor out to you, right where you are. You too have failed. of backslidden Israel to help him in battle. You too have paid out your life’s resources for self­ The Lord sent a prophet to Amaziah forbidding ishness and sin. this confederation and saying, “God hath power But God is able to help you, and to cast down to help, and to cast down” (II Chronicles 25:8). your enemies. He is able to give you much more The king was concerned about the money he than you have forfeited by your own will. Blessed had already paid out, but the prophet told him, be His name forever! “The Lord is able to give thee much more than There's a wideness in God’s mercy this” (v. 9). Like the nude ness of the sea; After studying this account, the truth struck me There’s a kindness in His justice afresh. After we have paid out our own strength, Which is more than liberty. health, and money foolishly, if we turn with re­ pentance and true faith to the Lord, He is able “We must make time for meditative habits to give us much more than we lost. Now Amaziah and communion with God. The soul grows thin had just paid out the enormous sum of an hun­ in its activities. Says Dean Vaughan, ‘Many a dred talents of silver to these men of war, soldiers Christian’s incessant action is the grave of his from their kinsmen, Israel. By canceling the union spiritual life.’ ’’—THOMAS COOK. 8 (1028) • HERALD OF HOLINESS in real life exceeded the fondest dreams of an eighteen-year-old girl. Bowing deeply, he said, a m a f f e w i t l i c jC tove “Mrs. Morrow, I would like to meet your husband." m The third hint is to be big enough to under­ stand or overlook the small petty differences that By WM. J. NICHOLS arise. William Cowper summed it up very ade­

Pastor, Grasmere Heights Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana quately: The kindest and happiest pair In Genesis 24:67 we find these words: “And Will find occasion to forbear; Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, And something, every day they live, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and To pity and perhaps forgive. he loved her.” “And he loved her”—that is the In 1912 when the “Titanic” sank, nearly all of story and description that should be repeated about the women were rescued. One of those who went every marriage. There are too many loveless mar­ down with the ship was Mrs. Isadore Strauss. riages and loveless homes today. And there are Safety had been offered to her but there was no too many Christian homes which have lost the room for her husband in the lifeboats, so she full measure of love and devotion which is needed declined, saying, “My husband and I have been for a completely happy family life. through many things together for many years. But A young boy came into the house one day from we are old now and I cannot stand the thought of play and asked his mother, “What do you prom­ separation. I will go where he goes.” They went ise to do when you get married?” His mother, down with the ship, standing arm in arm. momentarily puzzled, replied, “Why, you promise A happy home and a happy marriage are as near to love, honor, obey, cherish, and to be kind to as we can come to heaven in this life. As Christians each other.” The young lad thought a few mo­ and as parents, we owe it to our children, our com­ ments and then responded, “Why, you and Daddy panions, and ourselves to make our homes the hap­ aren’t always married then!” This seems too often piest possible. to be true even in “Christian” homes. What is the secret of keeping love alive? There is probably no one conclusive answer. But we would offer two or three hints for guidance. The first is to always keep God first in our lives. When England’s Princess Elizabeth was married, the Arch­ Endless Tragedy bishop of Canterbury said, “The ever-living Christ is here to bless you. The nearer you keep to Him, By JEAN LEATHERS PHILLIPS the nearer you will be to each other.” This is one of the inexplicable Christian maxims. From that time many of his disciples went back, Just as in tithing we can’t explain how the nine- and walked no more with him (John 6:66). tenths goes farther than the ten-tenths, so we can’t explain this. But when we love God the most, we . . went back, and walked no more with him”! can love our companions and our children even Oh, tragic words! My eyes grow dim more than if we put them ahead of God. It is hard With tears to think how they shall be for bitterness and strife to separate a family that Bereft through all eternity. is held together by a family altar. To see His face, to hear His voice, The second hint we would offer is this: Be With Him to sorrow and rejoice; careful of the little thi?igs. Opening the car door, giving a deserved compliment, a meal at the res­ To walk beside Him in the way, taurant, roses on a special occasion—these seem To share His life from day to day. small, yet they can make a vast difference. Little Hou< could they ever turn again foxes spoil the vines in marriage relationships too. Into the ways of sinful men At a dinner the world-famous pianist, Paderew­ And have communion hour by hour ski, was seated next to Mrs. Dwight Morrow, who With darkness and its fatal poiver? had recently celebrated her twentieth wedding an­ niversary. When he learned that she had been a And still this awful tragedy student at Northampton Academy of Music when Flows daily on. We all must see he played there, he asked if she ever visited her Some friend, some loved one, turn away alma mater. She replied that she went back often. And move toward Judgment’s awful day. She liked to sit in her old chapel seat and think Great God, break up our hearts again how much happier she was than she had ever For sinful, sick, rebellious men, expected to be. At this remark Paderewski stood That power-filled prayer may lift toward T hee to his feet. Here was a woman whose happiness The purchased of dark Calvary. DECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1029) 9 theology that is not passionately missionary (evan­ gelistic) . Once we prayed, "Lord, give us a revival,” but now we must pray, “Lord, we’ve got to have a revival.” We must have a revival for our personal PICTURE salvation. We must have a revival for our cor­ porate safety. Millions of earth’s people have never witnessed a revival. Some of us in America have never seen a genuine, world-shaking, history-mak­ ing revival, a revival that changes the complexion CHECK IN of society. Other generations have had them but not ours. In the last one thousand years there have been four great revivals. In the twelfth century was the revival under Waldo and the Waldensians. In the fourteenth century was the revival under Huss and Wycliffe. In the sixteenth century was the Refor­ mation under Martin Luther and his co-workers. In the eighteenth century was the revival under the Wesleys and Whitefield. We haven’t had even one of the lesser revivals such as were sandwiched in between those past great revivals, that is, revivals under Finney and Moody, light up to the door of the twentieth cen­ tury. Travailing Christians arc the greatest need in our churches today. We have plenty of educated Christians. 1 cast no aspersions, but if the world must wait for educated Christians to win it to Christ, then the world has already heard the “crack of doom.” They will never do it. We have lots of popular Christians. We have lots of rich Christians. We could double our missionary programs without even feeling it. We have all of these, but still we do not have revival. The rea­ son is we need weeping Christians, brokenhearted Christians. Mrs. Wanda Knox and her two children: Geron, seven; I have seen many revivals, and some of them and Jane, three, as they were leaving San Francisco for a new term of service in New Guinea. Mrs. Knox and were genuine revivals. I have seen revivals in terri­ her husband pioneered the opening of our Nazarene ble auditoriums, and under extremely adverse con­ work in New Guinea in 1955, coming home in 1958 be­ ditions, but I’ve never seen a revival without cause of Mr. Knox’s illness. Mrs. Knox will be teaching in the girls’ school at Kudjip in the Territory of New weeping, travailing Christians. It is not preach­ Guinea. There are five other Nazarene missionaries on ing; it is not singing—I’ve had revivals without our field in New Guinea at the present time. any special singing. God can and does use all these things. But it is weeping, agonizing, pros­ trating ourselves before God, ceaselessly, earnestly, anxiously, personally, and witness bearing that win the day. There are some things about revival that I do REVIVAL not know, and I thank God I do not have to know them. But I do know that if you put certain in Our Day things into practice, if you pay the price in a certain way, the heavens open up, the Spirit of B y EVANGELIST HAROLD L. VOLK God comes down in mighty Pentecostal power. That is what it takes. Never before has there been laid upon the heart We talk a lot about having revivals, about need­ and the conscience of the Church the burden of ing revivals. But how hard it is to get a group of evangelism as it is today. There is no place today preachers, even, to give themselves to fasting, to for a church that is not aflame with evangelistic prayer, and to intercession. zeal and enthusiasm. Nor is there any value in a My friends, if we really saw the condition of sin­

10 (1030) • HERALD OF HOLINESS ners going to hell, if we really believed in hell, we This home of the soul is the place of many man­ would be in tears sobbing out our intercessions sions. for men to God, sounding out our witness to men Heaven is described as a city by that divine for God. Atlas, the Bible. It is fifteen hundred miles square, has walls of jasper, gates of pearl, streets of gold, and has no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the Lamb is the light thereof (Revelation 21:10-23). This glorious place is called a country—"a bet­ I Give Thee Thanks! ter country.” This world is not our home; by faith we see “the Fatherland.” The climate is By ENOLA CHAMBERLIN ideal. There are no extremes of heat or cold, no wet or dry' seasons. “They shall not hunger nor I give Thee thanks for every leaf that falls— thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them” (Isaiah 49:10). A splash of color in a browning world; It is a well-watered country. “And he shewed For each home-staying bird that flits and calls, me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, For squirrels and chipmunks in their hollows proceeding out of the throne of God and of the curled. Lamb” (Revelation 22:1). This fountain breaks I give Thee thanks for snow clouds in the skies; forth from the eternal Rock of Ages, deep and For harvests piled beyond the threat of rain; broad and clear to water the country. It is the For laughter in a child’s expectant eyes; "water of life.” For frost’s white beauty on my windowpane. The fruit is abundant and accessible to all on I give Thee thanks for love and hope and prayer; either side of the river; it affords variety, “twelve For eyes which see and for a heart that feels; manner of fruits.” The supply is certain and con­ For knowledge that I am Your child and heir; stant every month; and finally, the tree on which For Thy beneficence that soothes and heals. it grows can never die. It is the “tree of life” And for the stream of Thine upon whose banks (Revelation 22:2). 1 gladly walk, dear God—I give Thee Thanks! The inhabitants of that fair land are the best, the elite, the redeemed of all ages. Only those whose names are found written in the Lamb’s “Book of Life” shall receive passports to the better land. There will be no unhallowed passions to rankle in the bosom of any individual. None but the pure in heart are admitted. There will be no contentions, no bloody wars, but calm and peace shall reign forever (Revelation 21:27). This is a healthy country. The dwellers there rfeaven shall never say, “I am sick.” No fever, pain, cough, By EVANGELIST JAMES ROBBINS or disease shall play havoc with the citizens of heaven. Death in that region will be a forbidden In one sense, heaven is a condition of one’s stranger. The dwellers there shall live forever soul. The poet said, “Heaven is begun within my (Revelation 21:4)! soul.” A right relationship with God brings heaven When we step into the chariot of salvation and within. Paul said, “The kingdom of God is not say good-by to things and time, our homeward meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and flight will be more rapid than that of a sunbeam. joy in the Holy Ghost” (Romans 14:17). Hardly shall we lose sight of the shores of earth Heaven is also a place. It is the future abiding till we shall behold the glory and majesty of the place, the eternal home of the redeemed. I can celestial city. Home at last! God’s tomorrow prom­ still hear my mother as she went about the duties ises to be better than today. of the house singing, “ There's a la?icl that is fairer than day. And by faith I can see it afar.” “Care is such a foe to happiness, that when it enters the heart happiness departs. Next to “Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond sin, it is the greatest evil that can come into a the skies; soul. It hinders prayers, prevents usefulness and Oh, they tell me of a home far away; defeats itself. The more the bewildered bird Oh, they tell me of a home where no beats about the cage, the less chance it has of storm clouds rise; getting away. Fear and faith cannot keep house Oh, they tell me of an unclouded day!” together.”—THOMAS COOK.

D ECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1031) 11 » • By W. T. PURKISER

But what better definition is there of the Spirit of A Clean Heart and a Right Spirit holiness as He manifests himself in the sanctified One of the great prayers of the Bible is found soul than that which is suggested in the phrase, in Psalms 51: ‘‘Create in me a clean heart, O God; “spirit of Christ”? and renew a right spirit within me” (v. 10) . A spiritual Christian is measured by the degree This is part of a passionate cry for restoration to which the spirit of Jesus characterizes every wrung from the heart of one who had fallen into thought, word, attitude, and act. “Let this mind terrible sin. His fall had brought him to see that be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philip- his problem was deeper than he had thought it pians 2:5). to be. Not only had he transgressions to be blotted The spirit of Christ, a right spirit, is a spirit of out (verse 1) ; he was conscious of an inner sin kindness, compassion, benevolence, and love. We from which he must be washed, cleansed, and may well remind ourselves that the first miracle purged (verses 2, 7). Only in the experience of a clean heart could Jesus wrought, at Cana in Galilee, was a miracle he hope to have the presence of God and His of sheer kindness, relieving the embarrassment of Holy Spirit (verse 11), know the full joy of the a young host whose friends were too many for his Lord (verse 12), and see others brought to the provision. Paul describes this spirit in his great knowledge of the true God (verse 13). "Hymn to Love”: But along with a clean heart, the Psalmist saw Love is very patient, very hind. Love knows no the need for a right spirit. These two are placed jealousy; loi'e makes no parade, gives itself no together because they belong together. It is im­ airs, is never rude, never selfish, never irritated, possible to keep a pure heart without maintaining never resentful; love is nex>er glad when others a right spirit. go wrong, love is gladdened by goodness, always A right spirit is as important as right doctrine. slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, One may be as straight as a gun barrel theological­ always hopeful, alzuays patient (I Corinthians 13: ly, and fail utterly of being what God wants him 4-7, Moffatt*). to be unless with right belief there is a right spirit. The spirit of Christ, a right spirit, is a spirit of A right spirit is as important as right standards. meekness and humility. “I am meek and lowly in Scriptural standards of conduct and life are so heart,” the Master said (Matthew 11:29). Meek­ necessary in an ethically confused age such as ours. ness is not weakness, spinelessness in the face of But an ethic as clean as a hound’s tooth counts for evil. Jesus was capable of terrible anger, as when nothing unless along with it is kept a right spirit. He found the minions of the Pharisees buying and This is because every day people listen to what selling in the Temple and, under guise of keeping we say, and they look at what wc do—but even the law, violating its spirit. Yet when they cursed more, they feel what wc are. There is a sensitive Him, struck Him, mocked and spit upon Him, intuition which goes behind word and deed and He opened not His mouth. There was none of grasps the quality of our spirit. The spirit of a resentment, no kickback, no carnal self-assertive­ person is intangible and hard to define, but it is ness. very easy to recognize. The spirit of Christ, a right spirit, is a spirit of For this reason, a sanctified Christian must guard devotion to God. Repeatedly our Lord withdrew carefully against a wrong spirit. There is peril in from the crowds, and went up onto a mountain the growth of a critical, faultfinding, querulous or into a desert place to pray. The great mystery spirit. There is danger in the inroads of a cynical still is, “If He who needed to pray so little, prayed spirit, suspecting and looking for the worst in oth­ so much, how is it that we who need to pray so ers. A harsh, bitter, unloving spirit and a vengeful, much, pray so little?” resentful spirit alike are destructive of peace and The spirit of Christ, a right spirit, is a spirit of power. selflessness, of sacrifice, of passion for the lost. Its Here, as elsewhere, our Pattern is Christ. When full measure is seen in our Lord’s willingness to Paul said, “Now if any man have not the Spirit of go to the Cross, not as a martyr unable to escape, Christ, he is none of his” (Romans 8:9), the con­ but offering himself up to God, a Sacrifice without text shows that he referred to the Holy Spirit as blemish and spot. the one great essential for Christian discipleship. •Copyright 1922, Harper & Brothers, used by permission.

12 (1032) • HERALD OF HOLINESS There is a lesson, too, in the verbs used in this the keys of death and hell, to destroy man’s last prayer. “Create in me a clean heart”—this is the enemy, and to deliver up the Kingdom to the word used in Genesis 1:1, “God created the heaven Father. and the earth.” He spoke and it was done. ‘‘R enew All around the world this Advent season the a right spirit”—this is the word used of repairing bells ring out the memorial of His first coming. the altar (II Chronicles 15:8) and the Temple There is no doubt about the fact that Christ, the (II Chronicles 24:4). Hope of the ages, came in Bethlehem of Judea The creation of a clean heart is once and for many centuries ago. In the striking figure of Oscar all, but the renewal of a right spirit is a continual Cullmann, “D-day” has already occurred. Sin’s de­ need. The spirit of man so quickly gets corroded. fenses have been breached. But the certainty of It becomes hardened and encrusted. It must be “D-day” reminds us that “V-day” is just as sure. kept, guarded, and renewed as the inward man is There are some battles to fight, to be sure, but these renewed day by day (II Corinthians 4:16). only assure our hearts that as certainly as “D-day” Create in me a clean heart, O God; has passed, “V-day” will surely come. And renew a right spirit within me. Will it be in ’61? We cannot know, and we must “occupy till” He comes. But come He shall, the Christ Came-and Is Coming Again! meek and lowly Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord “Advent” in Christian terminology means two of Lords! things. It marks the season of the year beginning the fourth Sunday before Christmas in which the Editorial Notes Church commemorates the birth of the Lord Jesus Today’s H erald carries the Sunday school lesson Christ. It also refers to that future event which is comments for December 25, the last of the 1960 the hope of the world, His coming again. series prepared by Dr. Robert L. Sawyer, associate It is instructive to contrast what the Bible teaches professor of religion, Bethany Nazarene College. about the two “advents” of our Lord. Dr. Sawyer’s incisive and clear analyses of the In­ He came the first time as a Babe in a manger, ternational Bible Lessons for the year have been unnoticed by the world of pomp and circumstance. much appreciated. Comments on the lessons for He will come again as a King on His throne, casting 1961 will be prepared by Rev. J. W. Ellis, pastor down dominions and powers, to rule the nations of the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena, with a rod of iron. California. + + + He came the first time cloaked in humanity, al­ most “incognito,” recognized only by a handful of The National Safety Council reminds us again the faithful, some lowly shepherds on the hillside, of the dangers of the drinking driver. A drinking and some star-gazing magi from the East. He will driver was involved in at least 30 per cent of all come again in the blazing light of Deity, as the fatal traffic accidents in 1957; 55 per cent of Christ­ lightning flashes across the sky, and every eye shall mas season fatal traffic accidents involved a driver see Him, and they also which pierced Him (Rev­ who had been drinking. These figures appear on elation 1:7). the records even though it is acknowledged that in He came the first time in humility, born in a many accident cases the fact that a driver had been stable, cradled in a manger, to grow up in poverty drinking is not recorded and is not entered on in a house of toil. He comes again on the clouds the driver’s official record. The Council goes on of glory, and all the holy angels with Him. to point out that drinking to any extent reduces He came the first time to be despised of men, the ability of any driver. Small amounts of alcohol rejected of His generation, and put to a shameful reduce judgment, self-control, and driving ability. death. He comes again to receive the obeisance It is pretty hard, in a close-knit society, to take of all—for every knee shall bow, and every tongue the attitude toward the liquor industry, “I’ll let shall confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of it alone if it lets me alone.” It just won’t let us God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11). alone, as the mayhem on our streets and highways He came the first time to choose His own, and eloquently testifies. The innocent, and nondrink­ to make possible for all men the forgiveness and ers, suffer as much and sometimes more than the favor of His Heavenly Father. He comes the sec­ guilty. + + + ond time to receive His own into mansions of Drs. Hammond and Horn of the American Can­ glory, ever to be with the Lord. cer Society estimate that the death rate from coro­ He came the first time to be judged by kings and nary artery disease runs 70 per cent higher among governors and the rulers of the people. He comes smokers than nonsmokers. Other estimates (as by again to be the Judge of all, for the Father has Dr. A. Carlton Ernstene, president of the American appointed Him judge of all the world (Acts 17: Heart Association) place the figure as high as 150 31). per cent for heavy smokers. Thus not only lung He came the first time to suffer and die and rise cancer but heart disease must be reckoned as part from the dead. He comes the second time with of the cost of the use of tobacco.

D ECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1033) 13 Our altars were filled at almost every night service. When at the last meeting we had ex­ pected a decrease in attendance, we were happily Busy Days in surprised to see the crowd overflow the auditorium. That night they raised the highest offering of any service and the manifestation of the Spirit was real. Our Peruvian work can easily be divided into PERU three sections: the churches on the coast, where By HONORATO REZA the financial and membership strength is appar­ Editor of Spanish Publications | ent; the work in the mountains; and the jungle work among the Aguaruna Indians. Each of these llllillllllllliilllllllllllltilllllllliillillllillllllllll!llllllillllll!llll!llll![lliililll!lll!!lll[||||llllllllll!!liilllllllllllllliliillllili!llllllllllllllllllllillll!llllllll]l sections requires a somewhat different approach on the part of our leadership. But we have en­ It was my privilege last August, for the second joyed appreciable success in every area. time in three years, to visit our Nazarene work A new Bible Institute campus is currently being in Peru. The nineteen days spent there were full developed. Up to now the girls’ dormitory has of activity and spiritual enrichment. been located in a building adjacent to the church The evening of my arrival in Lima, I preached and the boys’ dormitory a few blocks away. A in our First Church, which has been pastored by property was acquired in the outskirts of the city Rev. and Mrs. Samuel Heap for some time. They of Chiclayo, where, eventually, classrooms, chapel, were attending a council meeting in Chiclayo up and dormitories will be constructed to house the north and a fine layman had charge of the service. growing student body coming from all areas of A few years ago our work in the capital was the district. undergoing a critical period of adjustment, but It was a real privilege to fellowship with our faith and work have paid large dividends. The national pastors, faithful servants of the Lord who young people have taken upon themselves the task have dedicated their lives to Christ. Also, it was of street preaching every Sunday evening before my privilege to stay in the home of District Super­ the evangelistic service, with line results. Our radio intendent Golliher, and eat most of my meals with program, “La Hora Nazarena,” has been used to all of our missionaries and their families. The great advantage in getting new contacts. A fine names of Golliher, Heap, Giantz, Flinner, and spirit of unity was felt among the brethren. Gray speak to me of loyalty, consecration, fellow­ The following day I arrived at Chiclayo, where ship, and spiritual leadership. Certainly our mis­ the center of our work is located, the church there sionaries there are being used mightily of God for being the largest on the district. The young peo­ the spiritual liberation of men and women. Our ple’s annual convention started that night, fol­ host pastor, Rev. Espiridion Julca, and his wife, lowed by the missionary and Sunday school annual Mrs. Rachel Julca, would be a credit to any holi­ gatherings. These were presided over by Mr. Cas- ness church anywhere. My life has been enriched tulo Galvez, Mrs. Gwladys Heap, and Airs. Rachel with their fellowship. Julca, respectively. The services were well attended. Over five hundred people gathered every night Ten days were spent with Rev. Golliher in a for great rallies and times of spiritual enjoyment. visit of the Aguaruna Indians in the jungle. My The District Assembly proper began with the twenty-five-year-old dream was fulfilled when I vis­ Sunday night service and ran through the follow­ ited this section. I was able to see the place where ing Wednesday. Our own missionary, Rev. Clyde Esther Carson Winans lived and the place where Golliher, presided with efficiency and dispatch. A she is buried. I was amazed at the tremendous fine spirit of love and understanding prevailed sacrifice it must have been to the Winanses and the throughout the business sessions, and ambitious Douglasses to work among these people. I was in­ plans were laid for the following year. It was a spired at the new plans now being developed: the real joy to see the district personnel work with one building of a missionary home in Cusu, right in aim only: that of pleasing the Lord in the task the heart of the jungle by the Maranon River, of saving souls. and ihe new push on evangelism which I am sure Tremendous progress was enjoyed in every line. will come as an answer to a long-felt need among Finances increased 30 per cent over the previous the Aguarunas. year. The N.F.M.S. contribution to the over-all I never felt a stranger among the Nazarenes of program jumped from 23,000 soles to nearly 75,000 Peru nor was I ever homesick while with them. soles in the period 1959-60. Pastoral support has I thank God for the privilege of being a worker increased 500 per cent in the last eight years. More together with my Peruvian friends in the great and more participation is being given our national task of preaching holiness. My prayers and interest pastors in the affairs of the district. will follow them in the years to come.

14 (1034) • HERALD O F H OLIN ESS tion there, a Nazarene man. The latter received the Herald of Holiness regularly, and after read­ ing it, loaned it to his fellow patient. TWO MINUTES What ensued? This second person was saved through reading it! Though he was a member of another denomination, the paper revealed to him that there was an experience of salvation and that he did not have. And he sought and found the pearl of great price. Today both these men are forever done with FOUR time. I like to think that the one who was a Naza­ rene has heard the other say to him there, in “the glory that excelleth,” “The pages of your church CENTS paper were truly for me leaves from the tree of life, which were as the balm of Gilead for my sin- B y E. WAYNE STAHL Retired Nazarene Elder, Lowell, Mass. sick soul and directed me to the Physician there." S u g g e s t io n : What a superb Christmas gift This was the amount of time and money I in­ would be a year’s subscription to the H erald, a vested recently. Already I am receiving joy divi­ present that would come fifty-two times during dends of 500 per cent. And "the party of the the following year! second part” in this little history will, I am sure, receive even greater returns in satisfaction and blessing. / AM PtRSUADED It all came about in this way: A gentleman living in New York state had read an article of B y PEARL BURNSIDE McKINNEY mine in a certain religious paper. He wrote me I am persuaded that He is able, inquiring for further details concerning part of Whate’er the task may be, the aforesaid article. He was an entire stranger Able to keep me, able to strengthen, to me. Able to set me free. Of course I was happy to respond with the in­ formation. Later, taking about two minutes to I am persuaded that He is able, roll them up in a slit envelope, seal it, and affix Able to satisfy a four-cent stamp, I sent a few copies of the Each contrite sinner seeking forgiveness; Herald of Holiness to him. Ready to hear our cry. Almost by return mail I had a check from him paying for a year’s subscription, so pleased was I am persuaded that He is able he with the official organ of our church. The very To keep until that day “gladness of God” was in my soul on receiving All I’ve committed unto His keeping. that subscription! I trust that when we meet on Oh, glorious coming day! the golden boulevards of the New Jerusalem, he will thank me for sending him those few copies of the H erald. He seems a devout man. “All men are called of Christ to be saved. Fellow Nazarenes, what opportunities we have And with that call comes a commission. for disseminating the transcendent tidings of holi­ We are chosen by Him to serve—not as ness through our church paper! Why let old copies servants, however, but as friends. Every accumulate in attics or basements when we might true Christian does two things: he worships let them, like the dispersed first Christians who Christ and he serves Christ. To worship when “scattered abroad went every where preach­ without serving may lead to fanaticism. To ing the word” (Acts 8:4) ! serve without worshiping may lead to Keep copies near the front or back door of your Phariseeism. As a true Christian I must ac­ home. When callers come, deliverymen, salesmen, cept the commission as well as the call. or other folks, never let them get away without re­ I must say, with Christ at the beginning of ceiving a copy or more. At the same time you can His earthly ministry, ‘I come to do thy give a testimony for Christ. will, O God.’ Only having done this will Everlasting benediction may result for some of I be able to say at the end of life’s little the recipients, as for a certain sick man in this day, ‘I have finished the work which thou city where these words are being written. Seriously gavest me to do.’ ”—H. G. P u r k h is e r . ill in a hospital, he had a companion in tribula­

DECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1035) 15 Missionaries and nationals alike rea ize that this is OUR day in Trinid: and God is challenging us to work NO1 while it is our day. Pray that God wi help us to do what He has placed us he to do.—R uth Saxon, Trinidad. Thirty-sixth Guatemalan Council The thirty-sixth Guatemalan Counc session convened at the home of Re rene Bible School. Their address is: and Mrs. James Hudson in San Migu< Missionaries on the Move P.O. Box 2328, Beirut, Lebanon. Chicaj, Guatemala. Rev. and Mrs. Spurgeon Hendrix of God was with us from the very begi Cuba now are living in the United States. Trinidad and Tobago Assembly ning and blessed our hearts. Their address is 409 No. Redmond, For the first time we were able to call Several construction projects were r Bethany, Oklahoma. They will remain ourselves the “Trinidad and Tobago ported completed during the past yea here for the present. District” as we met in our fifth annual new conversions had been made and co Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Gay, on fur­ assembly in Port of Spain this year. Our verts united with the church. Twen lough from Cape Verde Islands, are now newest church in Canaan, on the island vacation Bible schools were held ai living at “Shalom,” 61, Gilnakirk Rd., of Tobago, was represented by her pastor more than two thousand patients treati Cherryvalley, Belfast 5, North Ireland. and a group of lay delegates. by our nurses in the clinics. Four st Miss Lois Drake is home on furlough Our business sessions were interspersed dents graduated from the Williams< from Africa. Her home address is 1008 with singing and testimonies and many Bible Institute. Rodd St.. Midland, Michigan. special songs. One lady testified that she One of the highlights of the meetii Miss Lydia Wilkie is home on furlough had heard some say an assembly was was the prayer and fasting service whi from the Cape Verde Islands. She may boring, but she had not found this one we shared with the ministers and m be addressed at 1401 E. 16th St., Kearney, so at all. sionaries around the world, on the fil Nebraska. The night meetings were times of Wednesday of October. It was a joyo Miss Dorothy Bevill returned to Africa inspiration and challenge. Slides from time and the presence of the Lord w on December 2. Her address there is the General Assembly were shown, and very near to us as we laid before Hi Box 14. Bremersdorp, Swaziland, South our people were encouraged as they some of our burdens for our people Africa. realized that ours was an international Guatemala. Rev. John Pattee writes: “We expect church and we were all one in faith and We made plans to emphasize t' to be home before Christmas, on fur­ purpose. “Evangelism First” theme of the qua lough. You may address us at 1469 “Evangelism First” was highlighted rennium throughout our entire distri Bresee Avenue, Pasadena, California.” as our new emphasis, and our pastors Pray for the Spanish-speaking peop Rev. and Mrs. Bergc Najarian arrived were given the materials to begin work­ the many Indian tribes, and your m in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 12. ing on the “Try Christ’s Way” program sionaries here in Guatemala.—E l i 2 1960. They will be working in our Naza­ in their local churches. m/m Wilson, R eporter.

Letter Writer's Prayer: I -wrote a letter to m\ friend That penned a picture of my heart; M in is t e r s As I reread its paragraphs I saw myself u-ith a sudden start. B e n e v o l e n t F u n d T here was friendship, it xeas true, Hut w here was Christ, my Lord? There was I in fine display, : JfET p M T f ll* ...... ••••< But Christ was not outpoured! ' rSMn W m Department of Ministerial Bencvolci DEAN W ESSELS. Secret. My thoughts were superficial, I An active pastor, whose wife was recovering My phrases cute or nice, from a serious operation, sent this letter of Hut none would find such blessing gratitude. They had received Emergency Medical Assistance from As to make him read it Ixt’ice. the Department of Ministerial Benevolence.

In my correspondence, Lord, be present; “Thank you for your concern and your help in our time of In my writing, be Thou near; need. Your check came at a most opportune time. We have To those xl'I w read my sentences Speak Thou through eye, through ear. a fine church here, and a wonderful chance to serve the Lord, but financial pressure was beginning to bother our ministry. Forbid that I should write in vain Bx failure to reveal “Things are working out, and the Lord is blessing our work. hi all my friendship letters I never cease to praise God for leading me into the wonder­ The Christ I know, I feel. ful fellowship of Nazarene people and allowing me to labor O T hou xvho gaxiest man language shoulder to shoulder with such dedicated and lovely people.” As to no beast or bird, Express thyself today through me, You have made Emergency Medical Assistance possible for this Thou glowing, living Word! pastor, and many other pastors in similar circumstances, by your — Lyle Prescott faithful giving to the Ministerial Benevolence budget.

16 (1036) • HERALD O F HOLINESS nswer comer Conducted by W. T. FURKISER, Editor Do you believe it is pagan to observe Christmas Day? No, if the observance is a Christian history, the incarnation of the eternal observance. There are some ways of Second Person of the Trinity, when the "celebrating” Christmas which are pagan Word, who was with God and who was or worse than pagan. Some miserable (.od, became flesh and dwelt among us people conceive of the spirit of Christmas (John 1:1, 14). as the sort that comes in bottles. The Incidentally, let’s banish "Xmas" from By ROBERT L. SAWYER so-called “office parties” the clays before all our writings and all our cards. Our Christmas and New Year’s are a disgrace Christ is no X, no unknown quantity. Topic for to any civilization. He is our Lord, before whom every knee December 25: But Christmas can be a very beautiful shall bow and to whom every tongue and sacred season for devout Christians, shall confess. “Xmas” and "Xian” may God’s Unspeakable Gift whose thoughts turn constantly to the be thoughtless, but they come too close coming of the Saviour into the world. It to blasphemy for me. Scripture: Luke 2 (Printed: Luke emphasizes the greatest event in human 2 :8-20) G o l d e n Tr.xr: Thanks be unto God If sanctification is essential to entrance into heaven, how can we be saved for his unspeakable gift (II Corinthians short of sanctification? See II Thessalonians 2:13. 9:15). II Thessalonians 2:13 says, “But wc includes final salvation, as is seen for The birthday of the King of Kings! are bound to give thanks alway to God example when Paul, looking forward to What rejoicing, how the angels sang! for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, the coining of Christ, says in Romans What rapture, how precious and tender because God hath from the beginning 18:11, “And that, knowing the time, the kneeling shepherds! What serenity, chosen you to salvation through sancti­ that now it is high time to awake out of how Mary, the mother of Jesus, pon­ fication of the Spirit and belief of the sleep: for now is our salvation nearer dered the revelations of God’s will in her truth.” This verse, together with He­ than when we believed”; and Peter, in heart! What rest and satisfaction to brews 12:14, shows that w'e cannot be I Peter 1:4-5, speaks of “an inheritance Joseph and Simeon and Anna; how they finally saved short of sanctification. incorruptible, and undefiled, and that marveled and thanked God for His un­ The problem of the questioner is, fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for speakable Gift—Jesus Christ! however, that he restricts the term salva­ you, who are kept by the power of God T he G ift: Jesus was born of a virgin, tion to conversion, or the new birth. But through faith unto salvation readv to be conceived by the Holy Spirit, that He salvation is a much broader term than revealed in the last time.” might bring to a sin-cursed world full justification or initial salvation. It also redemption through His blood. It is We have so many social activities at our church that many feel they cannot difficult to think of Calvary on this dav attend prayer meeting. People say, “We cannot attend everything.” I think of Christ’s birth; yet the manger of the juniors and teen-agers should have parties, but why for the older people? Bethlehem and the cross of Calvary are People want to get together, but if there were not so many parties our older inseparable. “For this cause came I into people would come out one night for prayer meeting and another night for the world” (John 18:37), Jesus reminded Bible study. Ilis disciples. Many will find it easy to It sounds as if this church needs to pull the load. sentimentally accept the Christ of the take a good, hard look at itself and its A pastor friend of mine ruefully went manger, but refuse to take up the cross program. Certainly, if any institution over the announcements for the week— of the resurrected Lord. should put first things first, it is the something on every night except Tues­ The Message of Love: “God so loved Church. There is real peril in getting the day. Then he said. "Now Tuesday night . . .” (John 3:10), is the message of God calendar so full of social engagements we arc going to have Family Night.” through Christ to fallen man. Love is of all kinds that our main purpose for An almost audible groan went up from the message of Christ to us. Love must being goes by default. Even in the area the people. “No,” he said, “I don’t be our message today. of church m a c h i 11 e r y—committees, mean here at the church. I mean at How can we do less than give our best boards, and the like—the machine can home. Tuesday night stay home and get —our all—to the propagation of the good get so big it takes all the steam to run acquainted with your families.” It’s not news—sins can be forgiven, the heart l he wheels and there is no power left to a bad idea. cleansed, the soul can find rest and Why was the word “also” used in I Thessalonians 4:8? Does it not imply peace. Hallelujah—what a Saviour! two works—separating sanctification and the enduement with power? In the three previous lessons we have This verse and the one preceding can Standard Version of 1901. In Acts prepared our hearts for the Christmas read: “For God hath not called us unto 15:8-9. it is the giving of the Holy Spirit story, Christ is the Fulfillment of proph­ uncleanness, but unto holiness. He as on the Day of Pentecost that purifies ecy, the incarnate Son of God, the therefore that dcspiseth, despisetli not the heart by faith. This verse makes no Redeemer, and our coming King. man. but God, who hath also given unto allowance for a "third blessing” of an The Responsibility: In all of our us his holy Spirit.” However, there is enduement with power as a separate giving and receiving gifts at this warm no word corresponding to “also” in the work of grace following entire sanctifi­ and friendly time of year, we must not original. It simply reads, “Who giveth cation. forget that we must share God’s greatest his Holy Spirit to you,” as in the Ameri- Gift, His Son.

DECEM BER 14, I960 • (1037) 17 We may, like die shepherds, not only of good will. building in Samoa, but this has been find Christ for ourselves, but with “Thanks be unto God for his unspeak­ delayed by necessary corporate regis­ strength and joy praise C'.od and share able gift” ^11 Corinthians 9:15) . tration and other legal requirements. with others this “unspeakable gift.” Lesson material is based on International Sunday Pray that it will be possible to secure School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for property and erect a building soon. In This Christmas gift can change one’s Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International the meantime a branch Sunday school life and bring real joy and peace to men Council of Religious Education, and is used by its permission. has been started at NuVuli.

Home Missions Harvest Chicago Central District is the latest to be added to the list of districts organizing a new church this fall and winter, through the end of January. The charter was officially opened for the Crystal I.ake church on October 16 by District Superintendent Mark Moore. ROY F. SMEE. Secretary Services have been conducted in Crystal lhat the people are participating in the Lake for several months, with attendance First Church in Samoa “Try Christ's Way” witnessing effort. between thirty and forty-six. Three and On November G the charter for the Preparations were being made for the one-half acres of land have been pur­ first Church of the Nazarene in Ameri­ first Thanksgiving offering from Samoa. chased and a church building will be can Samoa was opened and sixteen mem­ Services in Pago Pago are carried on constructed soon. Rev. Ralph Wright bers were received into the church. mostly in English, although some of the has been appointed pastor. Fifteen of these are by profession of people do not understand il thoroughly. Eleven districts have now reported new faith and one, Rev. Robert Manuma, Among the members of the new church churches during this period. This is a by transfer. Rev. Jarrell W. Garsee re­ arc people of different nationalities: part of the “Evangelism First” emphasis ports that God’s blessings were poured Samoan, Togan, European, Chinese. for the present quadrennium. out upon the people in this service and We greatly need our own church (Continued on page 19)

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Leaving the Service Soon "In a few months I will be getting my separa­ tion from the army. "I would like to say that I have appreciated your sending me the Nazarene periodicals during my stay in the service. They have been an inspiration and encouragement to me. “I have had the privilege of attending a few Nazarene churches. At present I am attending one in San Antonio, Texas. The pastor's min­ istry and presence have been a blessing to me.” —Sp/4 P a u l S. M a r s h a l l “This is to inform you that I will be re­ linquishing my service with the air force very shortly, and you may stop sending me literature. “I just wish to express my heartfelt thanks to We Need Your Help a commission that stands behind the servicemen In order to keep our records up-to-date, we and provides them with good literature. It has depend on YOU (pastors, parents, friends) to let certainly meant a great deal to me.” us know any changes of address for our service —C l i f f o r d B . J o h n s o n personnel or to notify us of any discharge from the service. We feel relatively sure that we have persons on N azarene S ervicemen’s C ommission our roll who have been out of the service for some time. DIRECTOR If you are uncertain that we have been notified,

18 (1038) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Home Missions money increase and at the same time available until their 1961 district assem­ (Continued from page IS) work for the Lord is to make a deposit bly. in the General Church Loan Fund. Perhaps you have thought of sending Savings and Service October 30 was the date for the semi­ annual interest payment on these depos­ in a deposit, but have put it off. Why its, and 341 depositors received a total not send in a deposit now, or write a of $14,198.64 in interest for the six- letter for any additional information month period. you need? Any amount of $100 or more Some depositors have requested that may be sent in, for a minimum term of their interest be left in the fund, to at least one year. You will receive 3i/ 2 accumulate to their credit until the per cent interest each year; but if you maturity of their note. We are glad to make your deposit for a five-year term, make this arrangement, and whenever the interest rate is 4 per cent. Deposits the interest being held for a depositor of $10,000 or more for a five-year term amounts to at least $100.00, a new note receive 414 per cent interest. Your money is sent. is amply secured and you have the Recently we received the first deposit satisfaction of knowing that every dollar from a district of money being set aside of it is used to help a Nazarene congre­ for delegate expenses at the 1964 General gation get a greatly needed building. Assembly. A number of districts have Write to the Division of Church Exten­ We haven't found a goose that lays indicated they will do this, although sion today at Box 6076, Kansas City 10, golden eggs, but one way to have your many of them will not have these funds Missouri.

News of the Churches

Highland, Indiana—First Church re­ Osseo, Minnesota—Our church enjoyed Evangelists Harry and Esther Carlsen cently had a good revival with Rev. a gracious time of “crusading for Christ” write: “We have just concluded our Gene Sanders as evangelist. Young peo­ in early October with Evangelist Claude third trip to Europe, this trip of seven­ ple from Olivet Nazarene College and W. Jones. The church was encouraged, teen months, taking us into eighteen First Church in Kankakee, Illinois fur­ souls sought the Lord, and one month countries. We were privileged to minis­ nished the music from night to night. later ten people united with the church, ter among the good people in both the The attendance was the best we have had most of whom came as a result of the North and South British Isles districts. for some time in revivals; the preaching revival meeting. We rejoice in the good­ God blessed, and many souls were saved was good; and a number of seekers ness of our Lord, and have extended and sanctified. The work there is mov­ prayed through to God for forgiveness another call to Brother Jones.—E d w a r d ing forward. We also spent many months and entire sanctification. We are enter­ J. Johnson, Pastor. in Scandinavia, laboring in over forty ing our fourth year in this pastorate, towns and cities. People were very and new people are attending the serv­ Ossian, Indiana—Our church recently responsive to the gospel; many nights ices and finding the Lord. The Sunday enjoyed one of the best revivals Of its people were turned away because of lack school is gaining over last year; the history, with Rev. John Harrold as the of seating room. Now back in the United missionary work is taking on new life; evangelist, and the Edwards Trio fur­ States, we will be returning to the and the young people’s work is going nishing the music. Brother Harrold’s evangelistic field on January 1. Not fine. We have a young man coming messages were Spirit-anointed and heart- knowing just when we would return, from Olivet to direct our music. We searching. Conviction settled upon the we did not slate too many meetings, praise God for His blessings.—L. D. hearts of the people, and forty-eight blit arc now ready to schedule; write us, L o c k w o o d , Pastor. bowed at the altar seeking God for con­ Box 174, Carbondale, Pennsylvania.” Lawson, Missouri—In October, Canaan version and entire sanctification. Seven Hill Church had an outstanding revival joined the church by profession of faith. Evangelist Joseph W. Peters reports: with Evangelist and Mrs. W. C. Raker We appreciate the fine leadership of our “I have had a good year in the evange­ as the special workers. The Lord used pastor, Rev. Chester Pasko. Under his listic field, and have seen a good number Brother Raker’s heart-searching mes­ guidance for the past six years we have of souls saved and sanctified. I have sages in a mighty way and gave a number enjoyed a steady growth, with the Sun­ enjoyed working with our good pastors of seekers. Mrs. Raker's singing was day school attendance gaining 10 per and people. I have some open time in enjoyed by all. Our church shows cent each year. We give God praise for 1961. between January 15 and March 26. definite signs of progress, for which we His blessings—Avis H u l v e y , Secretary. Write me, P.O. Box 22, Virden, Illinois.” thank God.—P hil R ilf.y, Pastor. Rev. L. M. Tucker writes: “I am a Rev. J. L. Longnecker writes: “I have Columbia, Mississippi—O u r district licensed minister on the Central Ohio resigned as pastor of First Church in superintendent, Dr. Otto Stucki, was District. I served as pastor of the Pleas­ Flora, Illinois, effective January 1, and guest speaker for our service on Sunday ant Valley Church at Coshocton, but am entering the field of full-time evange­ morning, November 13. “Try Christ's resigned a few months ago to enter the lism. I am now building my slate and Way” was the theme of his sermon, and evangelistic field. I have some open dates will be glad to hear from any of our pledges were made for the home mission for the spring. W7rite me, 417 Long churches, large or small. Write me, 401 drive.—Reporter. Street, Cambridge, Ohio.” W. Sixth St., Beardstown, Illinois.

D ECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1039) 19 D id Y ou Know? The Nazarene Publishing House is now publishing a periodical in Braille for blind readers?

Evangelist M. J. Jones reports: “We have had a wonderful year in the work of evangelism, conducting sixteen revivals —in Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, Kansas, and Iowa. God has blessed and given nearly one thousand seekers at the Pictured here is our new church build­ far this assembly year. Our people are altar, with many wonderful victories ing, which was dedicaLed on October 16 responding wonderfully to the "Evange­ among the young people in different by our district superintendent, Rev. lism First” program. We owe a deep places. It has been a real joy to work R. W. Hum, with a debt of a little less debt of gratitude to Rev. D. D. Elliott, with our fine, co-operative pastors. I than $3,500. We consider this to be just who began the work on the building have some open dates in the winter and short of a miracle. The building is before he left about fourteen months spring months of 1961; will be in Ohio, valued at $56,000, on one of the finest ago. In fact, we do not feel the building Indiana, and Missouri next fall. Also, locations in the city. It will care for would have been erectcd without his 1 have some time open in the spring of more than two hundred people in Sun­ sacrificial and challenging service.—C a r ­ T>2 . It is a real delight to work in the day school or in the sanctuary. We s o n N. Snow, Jr., Pastor. evangelistic field. I have now moved to have averaged just over ninety-five so Florida, and would be glad to slate some meetings during the winter and spring in Florida, Georgia, or Alabama. My home address now is 2624 Hawthorne Street, Orlando, Florida.” Escondido, California—On November appreciate the denominational em­ 8, while working on the remodeling of phasis, "Evangelism First.”—H o w a r d D. Stratton, Ohio—Recently our church our First Church, our pastor, Rev. W. A. H o p k i n s , Pastor at Kellogg; H a r o i . d P. had a wonderful revival with Evangelist Jordan, suffered fractures to both heels G ii.i.iam , Pastor at Osburn. and Mrs. Daniel C. Hoffman as the resulting from a fall. Present reports are special workers. Brother Hoffman is a about three weeks in the hospital, and Visalia. California—In November the wonderful Bible preacher, and preaches several months of confinement to wheel­ Farmersville Church had a good revival with a great concern for lost souls. God chair activities. The building-remodeling with Evangelist George M. Knight. He blessed and many precious souls prayed program began early in August and is is an outstanding holiness preacher. God through to victory, especially one young progressing nicely, with two new Sunday blessed, the church was helped, and the lady who plans to complete her calling to school department rooms completed, and pastor was encouraged.—G f.rald Couch, the mission field. We give God the other remodeling creating the Youth De­ Pastor. praise.—Dom inick Prosperi, Pastor. partment of three classes, separated by folding doors, etc. Emphasis has been put on the maximum utility of heretofore idle space. Finished plans call for a new, larger entry via a glass foyer, additional auditorium seating, and an adequate heating air-circulating system, with pro­ A useful gift for ★ ALL SINGERS visions for refrigerated air-conditioning at a future date. God has blessed in the ★ INSTRUMENTALISTS volunteer labor undertaking. Contracted estimates ran as high as fifty thousand dollars, while conservative estimates, MUSIC using voluntary labor, are twenty-five thousand dollars. We thank God for TRANSPOSING the response of the local people—L l o y d F. D o w n i n g , Reporter. SLIDE Our churches at Kellogg and Osburn, SCALE Idaho, recently concluded a two-week, union revival campaign during which God came in great power, giving one of Easy-to-use guide for rewriting music from one-half to three steps the most fruitful revivals of recent years higher or lower. When slide is properly set, each note in both treble in this area. Many people were reclaimed and bass clefs may be read at a glance in the new key and transferred and sanctified, numbers were saved for to new manuscript. Full instructions accompany each guide. 3% x 11% the first time, and both churches were inches. revived and lifted to a new level of J! No. MU-13 ONLY $1.00 unity and love. Evangelist Joseph W. i Selz brought Bible messages with great < unction and anointing. He is a preacher Write TODAY . . . Your order will be filled AT ONCE of holiness, serves with humility and 1 love, and carries a deep prayer burden n for souls. We greatly appreciated his 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri j ministry of holiness evangelism. We are Washington at Bresee, Pasadena 7, California j now planning for a union baptismal IN CANADA: 1592 Bloor Street, West, Toronto 9, Ontario j service, and classes to prepare candidates for church membership. We deeply

20 (1040) HERALD OF HOLINESS Evangelist Dave Hall writes: “We have two open dates immediately; they are December 29 to January 8, and January 12 to 22. Write us, 776 E. Simpson, THE HERALD OF HOLINESS McPherson, Kansas.”

Burlington, Iowa—First Church re­ cently had a good revival with Evange­ Yes, I would like to send the Herald for a year to: list J. T. Drye and Professor Curtis Brown as the special workers. The N am e _ crowds were good, and the spirit was wonderful. Brother Drye is a sound, A ddress Spirit-anointed, Bible preacher, and Brother Brown sings in the Spirit. First C ity ______Zone ------S ta te Church is on the move for God, and we appreciate being the pastor of these My N am e ______—.------people.—R o b e r t L. E l l i s , Pastor.

A ddress ______Owensboro, Kentucky—Some few weeks C ity ______Zone ------S ta te ago First Church enjoyed one of the best revivals in its history, with Rev. Coolidge (P.S. I’m enclosing $1.50.) Grant as evangelist, and Brother Paul Herman Lewis as song evangelist. A wonderful, sweet spirit permeated the entire place, and God blessed with seek­ ers, many of whom prayed through to definite victory. Fifteen new members were added to the church. Rev. and Mrs. 1 F.. Warren Hayes and their two fine boys came as pastors last July, and are doing a wonderful work. They are The Bible is so much more than litera- That the Holy Spirit is spoken of as talented musicians, and their ministry in ture, because it is not merely powerful; the Spirit of truth ties the highest in music is unexcelled. Mrs. Hayes is a it is power.—P. T. F o r s y t h e . religion and education together. faithful and accomplished organist, and Brother Hayes does an outstanding job with the choir and is a wonderful soloist, as well as being a great preacher. The Hayes team is doing a wonderful work in First Church, La Grande, Oregon Owensboro First Church, and they are loved by all. In November we had our pastoral recall, and the vote was unani­ mous for another year.—Evelym M iller, Secretary.

Evangelist Charles A. Gibson reports: ‘•This has been a good fall for us in revival work. We began in Crawford, Nebraska, with Pastor H. C. Zerbe, where we had good fellowship. The people are devoted to God, and we saw good increases with a goodly number of folk seeking and finding the Lord. At Coshocton, Ohio, with Pastor W. E. Zimmerman, we found a large and de­ voted crowd of people. They were faith­ ful in attendance, there was keen interest, and many sought the Lord, with gratify­ ing total results. They had a fine choir, have a wonderfid building, all air-con- ditioned, and well-planned and ample In a beautiful service on Sunday, halls, plus nursery, pastor’s study, ctc. Sunday school rooms. They have re­ September 11, the new church and The insurance company valued the cently completed a lovely, new, modern educational unit of the La Grande building at $65,000. The church was parsonage. Brother and Sister Zimmer­ church was dedicated. It was indeed a constructed almost entirely by donated man have led these people wisely for milestone in the history of this church. labor with the pastor, Rev. Lawrence more than ten years, and have seen a Dr. D. I. Vanderpool brought the dedi­ Abla, serving as contractor and building great increase in attendance and member­ catory message, with Rev. I. F. Younger, supervisor. The total debt is 514,000. ship. We then went south to South district superintendent, assisting in the During the three years Brother Abla Zanesville, Ohio, for a thirtieth anni­ service. Greetings were extended by the has been with us, the Lord has blessed versary service and a revival. God city council and the local Ministerial the church along other lines; church blessed in both, with church members Association. Some of the former pastors membership increased from 45 to 92, revived and several souls finding the also participated in the program. The and the Sunday school has gained 56 Lord. Rev. R. B. Frederick is the faith­ church is a commodious building, in average attendance, with total giving ful pastor. Our last meeting was with finished in redwood and brick veneer, almost doubling at last assembly report. Rev. Harold Bedinger at the Alorton seating 200 in the sanctuary, with over­ We are grateful for all of God’s guidance Church in East St. Louis, Illinois. God flow seating for 60. The building con­ and help, and now push forward in the blessed and gave good interest with souls tains 19 classrooms, with 3 assembly “Try Christ's Way” program.—Reporter. praying through to victory.” DECEM BER 14, 1960 • (1041) 21 Rev. W. C. Raker writes: “Since re­ signing our pastorate in September, Wife and I have been kept busy in the field. You too can have a vital part in placing We just recently closed a meeting at the scripture in every home across our land East Side Church in Canton, Illinois, our eighth revival in Canton. We go now for our fourth meeting with the Bethel Church in Arenzville, Illinois. We have already received a good number of calls for both ’60 and ’61, and thank our pastors and people. We will be in Penn­ sylvania for revivals in January, and have an open date for the East or South. We carry the entire program for the meeting, wtien desired. Write us, Box 106, Lewistown, Illinois." Evangelist. Marvin S. Cooper writes: “At present I am in my twelfth con­ secutive week of what has proved to be .■: • tr.x i;.': *■>__ a God-given group of revivals. I have seen some of the clearest cases of re­ 2 3 4 5 6 7 generation, reclamation, and entire sanc­ tification that I have seen in a long while. 9 y|-v 10 XL 12 13 7 4 Truly it is God's time to evangelize. 16 17 _18 i ? . 2J0 21 Christianize, organize, and conserve Bible rSiJ te® holiness. I am to be in Illinois, April 5 23 2 4 25 26 27 28 to 13, and would be glad to slate Feb­ ye? ruary 22 lo March S. and March 8 to 19, |0 31 with pastors desiring my services. Write i $ vslir 155* me, 1514 X. Wakefield Street, Arlington m m 7, Virginia.” North Dakota Workers’ Convention The North Dakota District Workers’ 1961 Scripture Text Calendar Convention was recently held in New Rockford, w'here the pastor, Rev. Theo. Do you realize that the only scripture some people will read during Rosenau, and his people royally enter­ 1961 is from a Scripture Text Calendar you might give? tained those present. When ordering for yourself, add a few extra for your neighbors and District Superintendent Harry F. Tap- friends. They’ll all be most grateful and hang the calendar in a prom­ lin had each session well planned. Vari­ inent place in the home. It will serve as a silent witness for the cause ous department heads added much to of Christ. the convention as each presented the Printed with beautiful full-color pictures, large, bold numerals, and work of his organization. meaningful daily scripture verses. A calendar any home would be Our hearts were greatly stirred and pleased to display on some wall throughout the year. challenged as Dr. Hugh C. Benner, general superintendent, spoke to us out of his own rich ministry. He made SEND FOR A LIBERAL SUPPLY NOW each of us feel that we could do no less than go back to work more deeply in No. U-44 ONLY 40c; 3-11 copies, 37c each; 12-24 copies, 30c each love with Christ, more thoroughly aban­ 25 or more, 20c each doned to His will, and more determined to extend His K i n g d o m.—D u a n e S p r i n g e r , Reporter. 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Lord.” If it has any thought or sug­ fession, not done well, been good, or At every service, young men and wom­ gestion of a determination to possess faithful.—J. B. Chapman. en responded to the gospel call, often­ the reward of the holy without being times with only a word of invitation from Dr. Nees. The preaching of the Word of God by our evangelist was Christ-centered, Bible-authenticated, and balanced. All of us appreciated the ministry of Dr. Nees. This is the second outstanding spiritual event of our for­ tieth anniversary year. Canadian Nazarene College looks for­ ward these days to her relocation in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, next sum­ mer and is endeavoring to serve effec­ tively this great land of the North.— AIRMAIL Your Order This Very Day! W i l l a r d H. T a y l o r , President.

22 (1042) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Grace to live right is the only guarantee of grace to die right. Spec­ ulation about religious truth is no passport to heaven; holiness of heart HIGH LIGHTS and life is the key to the city of God. —J. B. Chapman. of the Fifteenth General Assembly “However religious a man may be, Church of the Nazarene however correct his beliefs and punctil­ ious his ritual observances, unless he June 16 to 24, Kansas City, Missouri loves he does not know God.’*—J. B. P h i l l i p s . Now Ready! Deaths in Hi-Fidelity, 33, Long-Play Records DONALD BRUCE DEISENROTH was born in Pasa­ dena, California, in 1922, and was killed August 8, 1960, while taking off in a crop-dusting trainer plane near Watsonville, California. He served as a fighter pilot in World War II, and had worked as An appropriate a crop duster for the past seven years. Don was married in 1941, in the Hanford Church of the Christmas Nazarene, and is survived by his wife, Norma; daughters, Linda, age seventeen, and Verla, age gift too! fourteen; and a son, Don Michael, age eight. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Deisenroth of Pasadsna College. HIGH LIGHTS ...... l-iio JULIA F. GAYTON was born October 18, 1881, in Bristol, Rhode Island, and died on June 27, 1960, Excerpts from sermons by the General Superintendents Dr. D. I. in a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. She was Vanderpool, Dr. Hugh C. Benner, Dr. Hardy C. Powers, and Dr. a member of the Bristol Church of the Nazarene G. B. Williamson. for over fifty years; a faithful follower of the Lord, always on hand to do her duty. She was loved by Musical selections from: Olivet Nazarene Choir; Canadian Nazarene all who knew her in Bristol, and will be sadly Quartet; The Combined College Choirs; Paul Skiles, Trombone; Gary m issed. Moore; The National Church Musicians’ Institute Choir; The Massed MRS. ALICE N. HOWARD was born at Wolfe Choir (Educational Service). City, Texas, December 2, 1875, and died July 1 8 , Two-rccord album, $8.95 1960. She was a charter member of the Church of the Nazarene in Greenville, Texas. She was converted early in life, and later sanctified at Old OUTSTANDING MOMENTS ...... l- iii Peniel camp meeting, about sixty-three years ago. DE VERNE MULLEN singing “Little Is Much When God Is in It” She lived a good life. She was married to Frank A. Howard in 1906; he died in 1940. She is survived and “The Wonder of It All” by two sons, J. B. and Dalton; a daughter, Mrs. DR. SAMUEL YOUNG’S brief but forceful, inspirational home mis­ Florence Dillard; also four brothers, John, Elford, sion message H. A., and W. M. Cozby; and one sister, Mrs. Lucy White. Funeral service was conducted by her COMBINED COLLEGE CHOIRS directed by Lester Dunn and Ches­ former pastor, Rev. Harold Harcourt, now of Durant, ter Crill Oklahoma; and Rev. James Weir, of Greenville, $3.98 Texas; with burial at Wolfe City in Mount Carmel C em etery. TEEN-AGE CHOIR ...... L-112 MRS. LULA BELLE PARDUE, age eighty-one, a A 45-rpm record featuring “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” long-time resident of Wasco, California, died in and “How Firm a Foundation.” Paul Skiles, director. October, I960, in a hospital in Bakersfield, Cali­ fornia. She was born in Madison, Kansas, July $1.98 19, 1879. She came to Bakersfield from Okla­ homa in 1937, and then made her home in Wasco. The very keepsake you’ve been wanting can NOW be yours! She was preceded in death by her husband, W. L., in 1954. She is survived by four sons: Ray, Lee, Homer, and Lloyd; four daughters: Mrs. Norma Harmon, Ethel Pardue, Mrs. Muriel Hodges, and ACT NOW! Mrs. Wanda Hildebrand; also a sister, Mrs. 01 lie Stone. Funeral service was conducted by Rev. NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, M issouri Robert D. Scott, of Fresno, assisted by Rev. C. W. Grim, with interment in tiie Wasco cemetery. PRODUCED BY THE AUSTIN RECORDING COMPANY, AUSTIN, TEXAS

TIMOTHY PATRICK McCANN, age eight months, died October 20, 1960, at Overland, Missouri. He was born February 8. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester McCann (mother the former Announcements heal and restore him to health without having to Elaine Roth); a brother, Stephen; and grandparents, undergo a serious heart operation. Mr. and Mrs. George McCann and Mr. and Mrs. RECOMMENDATIONS— Rev. Eugene C. Sommer Perry H. Roth, Sr. has recently united with the Church of the Naza­ ren e 011 the Northwest Indiana District, and I wish Directories to recommend him as an evangelist. He is a Bible GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS EDWARD MUNN RHODES was born January 17, preacher of ability, and our churches should keep HARDY C. POWERS 1870, at Rosston, Arkansas, and died October 10, him busy in revivals, camp meetings, and holiness Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 1960, in El Dorado, Arkansas. He was married in conventions. Contact him, 621 N. Main Street, 1 0 , Mo. 1892 to Peggy Sue Swinney, who died in 1954. Monticello, Indiana.— Arthur C. Morgan, Superin­ After the family moved to El Dorado in 1920, he tendent of Northwest Indiana District. G. B. WILLIAMSON started a Sunday school; and after a revival in Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 1921, the First Church of the Nazarene was or­ BORN— to Rev. and Mrs. Charles Shaver, Jr., of 1 0 , Mo. ganized. Although he was not a licensed preacher, Bethel, Kansas, a daughter, Rachel Delane, on No­ he was always telling people about Jesus. Al­ vem ber 10 . SAMUEL YOUNG though past ninety years of age, right up to the Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City day he died he was trying to win souls to Christ. — to Perry and Mary Winkle of Nampa, Idaho, a 1 0 , Mo. He is survived by five daughters: Mrs. W. A. Meggs, daughter, Anita Perilyn, on October 19. Mrs. Charlie Brewer, Mrs. A. G. Whatley, Mrs. D. I. VANDERPOOL J. S. West, and Mrs. Floyd Sandifer. Funeral ser­ — to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Taylor, Jr., of Richland, Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City vice was held at First Church, with Rev. Carl Washington, a daughter, Stephanie Lucille, on Oc­ 1 0 , Mo. Prentice, Sr., officiating, assisted by Rev. J. W. to b e r 1 6 . McClung. Burial was in the old family cemetery HUGH C. BENNER near Rosston. SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a group of Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Christian young people in Northern California for 1 0 , Mo. MRS. FLOTILLIE FULLZ was born December 29, their pastor, who is very ill, that God will heal 1874, and died August 6, 1960. She was a charter this man according to His own will; V. H. LEWIS member of First Church of the Nazarene in Mid­ by a Nazarene lady in Louisiana for a good Chris­ Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City dletown, Ohio, where she had lived for fifty years. tian friend in the church, that God will touch and 1 0 , Mo.

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