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11-25-1959 Herald of Holiness Volume 48 Number 39 (1959) Stephen S. White (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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(Christ *3^6 the ^ JJ'eacl the (Church General Superintendent Williamson The realization that Christ is the Head of the Church is the secret of its vitality and progress. Implied in this figure is the truth that the Church is the body of Christ. Thus it is distinguished from organizations of men such as societies, associations, and clubs. The Church is a living organism like a body, with all its members and functions under the direction of the head. Head combines the thought of supremacy with that of origination and con­ veyance of life and energy. As its Head, the Son of God is the constant Cause and mighty Source of spiritual vitality to the Church. As the body of which Christ is the Head, the Church receives, expresses, and channels His spiritual life to the world. ‘‘Through it divine grace is pervaded everywhere by His spiritual omnipresence.” Without the Head the Church is a decapitated corpse. But without the body the Head has no medium of self-expression to the world. The Spirit of Christ fills the Church, His mystical body, with wisdom, goodness, truth, and holiness. Paul reminds us that “the body is not one member, but many. . . . If they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body” (I Corinthians 12:14-19). There is diversity but unity. In the Church there is infinite variety among the members, but there is unity in Christ. He brings together the many members with their varied gifts and functions to make the Church a manifestation of the life of God among men. Each member with his consecrated powers contributes to the well-being and usefulness of the entire body. Glory upon one is shared by all. Injury to one calls for the sympathy of all. The health of one strength­ ens all. The sickness of one weakens all. Every member of the Church should be aware that a wound in the body causes Christ the Head to suffer. Christ “is the head of the body, the church: . . . that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:18). The Truly Great 'ralirfftolm ess l\V\\%\V\VW V\\\\V\\\\V>\\\\\\\\\V\\YV\\\\\\\\W \\\\V\\\\V\\\V By ENOLA CHAMBERLIN November 25, 1959 Vol. 48, No. 39 If walking along the street you were Telegram . . . Whole Number 2483 to ask ten people who in their estima­ tion are the truly great, you would no Kankakee, Illinois—Marion, Ohio, 1 Christ Is the Head of the First Church with Rev. L. L. Zim­ Church, General Superintend­ doubt reccive ten different answers. merman, pastor, yesterday (Novem­ ent Williamson And these answers would vary so ber 8) pledged $8,800.00 on the 3 I Saw the Fire Fall! Evan­ widely that it would scarcely seem “Steps, Doors, and Windows” phase gelist G. Franklin Alice possible that they were replies to the of Olivet Nazarene College’s Develop­ -1 The Whole Armor of God, same question. Presidents, statesmen, ment Program in response to the Evangelist II. It. Gar, 'in movie stars, kings, artists, singers might challenge of J. Harlan Milby, as­ An Unwritten Letter, Clar­ all get votes and, in many cases, the sistant to the president. This is the ence E. Flynn person named would be truly great but largest amount pledged to date by a 5 God's Light for Man’s Night, often nol for the thing named. For in single church. Nesbitt Hall, new 150- Paul Updike bed women’s residence, is now under 6 Heaven—the Home of the my mind, what one achieves does not roof and work on the interior in Redeemed, Evangelist Hugh necessarily make him great. His great­ progress; $388,651.61 pledged to date Slater ness lies in what he is. on this $450,000.00 project. God is Our God, Grace J. Meyer To be truly great, one must be able blessing Olivet in every way. Exactly 7 The Treasure of Content­ to meet adversity, sorrow, suffering and one thousand students are registered ment, Mrs. J. C. Wallace for the first semester. The autumn This Year I Plan to Give still retain his thankfulness to God. revival with Rev. Donald Snow and Again! George W. Sutton He must be able to endure a long Professor Paul McNutt, workers, was 8 The Abiding Guest, Clyde W. siege of prosperity, of happiness, and oiitstanding. A number of student Rather still continue to hold on to his hu­ applications are already being re­ Cause for Defeat, Walter E. mility. In fact he must meet whatever ceived for the 1960-61 school year.— Isenhour comes his way and not let the outside R. L. Lunsford, Department of Pub­ 0 News in Picture conditions change too greatly the basic lic Relations, Olivet Nazarene Col­ Why People Are Not Personal goodness that is his. lege. Workers, D. Edwin Doyle 10 Thank God for Spiritual Abraham Lincoln, fighting up Light, Bob Breedlove through failure after failure—from l\WVVVVV\V\V\VVV\V\VVV\V\\V\\\\VV\\\W\V\\\\\\VWV\W\\\WVW1 "Hi, l’urty Lady!” Jessie Whiteside Finks poverty to the highest station in Evangelist Charles E. Haden writes 11 If You Incline to Forget God! our country—remaining still just Hon­ that he has left the field to accept the K. Boyle est Abe, is an example of the truly pastorate of the church in Somerset, He Is Getting Us Ready! great. Helen Keller, living out her Kentucky. Alice Hansche Mortenson life in a dark, silent world and yet 12 Editorials, S. S. White being humbly thankful to God for each Pastor J. Donald Freese sends word day, is another. But we do not have from Orlando, Florida: "Greatest re­ Next Week . . . to go far afield, in either time or space vival in history of Orlando First Church, Holiness: the Heart of the Old to find these great ones; they are all October 28 to November 8. Evangelist and New Testaments, J. V. around us. Roy Vaughn and Singer Paul Qualls, Wilbanks A little girl, oncc asked to write an special workers. Capacity crowds, altars The Shepherd’s Coat, Jean essay on true greatness, wrote of a lined, God very near." Leathers Phillips woman who put out a big washing over a ribbed washboard, only to have her HERALD OF HOLINESS: Stephen S. White, Rev. J. G. Wells has resigned as pas­ Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Ed- line break and drop her wet clothes into itor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, the mud. Calmly she picked them up tor at First Church in Miamisburg, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Van- Ohio, to accept a call to pastor the derpool, Hugh C. Benner, General Superin­ and washed them over again. This time tendents, Church of the Nazarene. Published she spread them on the grass to dry. East Broadway Church in Toledo, on every Wednesday by the NAZARENE PUB­ the Western Ohio District. LISHING HOUSE, M. Lunn, Manager, 2923 A dog came along and walked over all Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, but two pieces with his muddy feet. In Missouri. Subscription price, $1.50 per picking up her clothes to be washed After four years Rev. Wayman Davis year, in advance. Second-class postage paid has resigned as pastor at Arkadelphia, at Kansas City, Missouri. Printed In U.S.A. again, the woman stopped, bowed her Arkansas, to accept a unanimous call head, and said a little thank-you prayer to pastor Grace Church in San Antonio, for the two garments left unmuddied. Texas. If you have friends at any of sixth birthday on Friday, December 4. That, the essay said, was true greatness. the air force bases there, write him (310 Those wishing to send him greetings And it was. Any one of us who can l’reston, San Antonio 3), and he’ll be may address him, 1107 Shields Avenue, be truly thankful for two small bless­ glacl to contact them. Fresno, California. ings out of fifty or so that are a great deal less than blessings has achieved a Rev. Bob Lindley, pastor at Loving- measure of greatness. Such a person is ton, New Mexico, has been elected When we follow Christ we find that one of the truly great no matter where president of the Lovington Ministerial the way is narrow only at the beginning. he lives or under what conditions. Association; it represents about 15 co­ On the other side of the entrance the So even a few of those answering your operating churches, and 4,000 members, way broadens and enlarges all along the question and naming someone of high in this city of 15,000 population. journey. Our path “shineth more and estate may be of the truly great them­ more unto the perfect day.’’—Mendell selves. For along with other qualifica­ Rev. Andrew Downing, retired Naza­ T a y l o r . tions a man who has greatness never rene elder, will celebrate his eighty- knows that it is his. 2 (934) • HERALD OF HOLINESS jumpers. Chutes bloomed beneath the planes, and man’s age-old battle against fire was on. To this observer, obtaining his first close-up of lightning strikes in the high country, the most amazing thing is that lightning does not necessarily strike the highest points. Instead, it seeks the easiest route with the least resistance, the best con­ ductor, to its countercharge in the earth. A green tree, because there are life and moisture in it, is more likely to be chosen than a dry one. Mineral­ ized areas are more susceptible than nonmineral spots. The better conductor it is, the more likely is any object or place to be used. A n d w h a t a b o u t f ir e f r o m G o d o u t o f h e a v e n ? The Bible gives us many instances where holy I S A W fire from heaven has lighted on human beings, and also quite a few where it has been sought but not obtained. Which leads us to the question: Why THE FIRE is it that some human targets are selected for this holy fire, while others that to us may appear as FALL! worthy are rejected? A careful study of God's Word reveals to us the fact that the Holy Spirit observes laws as logical as those that govern electrical fire. Just as lightning seeks the best conductor and the easiest route to its objective, so does the fire that does not consume. Sinai was aflame from base to summit because Moses was God’s best channel, and all the area By EVANGELIST G. FRANKLIN ALLEE about him was kindled by the fire that came down from God. A selfless, dedicated man of God any­ We were standing above the eight-thousand-foot where makes a good conductor for the Holy Spirit. level on War Eagle Peak, in the rugged mountain Fire fell on Elijah’s sacrifice, consuming it but :ountry of northern Idaho, where it appears the not him, because he was a holy man, closer to creative fingers of the Almighty must have pressed heaven than any other human being at that time. just a little harder to chisel out some of the most The Upper Room disciples had emptied them­ picturesque panorama that has ever delighted selves of sin and self, both holy-fire resistors, until the eye. so much holy fire fell that it was visible to the The forest was tinder-dry. Humidity was at a natural eye. Had the priests of that day been bet­ dangerous low. The deer and elk were turning ter conductors of holiness they would have been the away from springs gone dry and moving to greener recipients of this greatest of all blessings, instead pastures. In the sky a few white clouds moved of the humble crowd in that Upper Room. hurriedly before a high-altitudc wind, some of God is no respecter of persons, and holy fire them shaping into the dread anvil-heads that are will fall today wherever proper conductors are to the forester’s terror. Flashes of lightning streaked be found. God does not select men for their earthward in the distance and the ominous crash brilliance, wealth, position, or personality. It is of thunder reverberated from peak to canyon. This the pure He seeks, the humble, the dedicated, and was “dry lightning,” the scourge of the timberland. through them He will send the fire of the Holy Ghost upon the earth. For all sin, all selfishness, T h e n w e s a w i t s t r ik e ! and even fleshliness, are resistors of heavenly fire. One moment all in the forest about us was as It is up to those who would see God come to a it had been—the next there were thin knife blades needy world to offer themselves submissively to of hot fire from the heavens. To all appearances all the will of God, not seeking power for them­ earth and cloud met and kissed in the hot embrace selves, but seeking the holy will of a holy God, oE a hundred million volts. A green ponderosa pine seeking to help souls and to glorify God. Then, became a flaming torch there before our eyes with and only then, will the fire fall from heaven. a suddenness that beggars all telling. Another And may it please God in this day and time fiery arrow shot down, and another fire was spread­ to find many whom He can use as transmission ing. Soon the anvil-heads had passed, but plumes lines, and from whose lives the living flame may of smoke were rising from a dozen different spots, spread to ignite revival fires throughout our church and frantic radio calls were summoning the smoke and its constituency! Amen and amen! NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (935) 3 THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD

By EVANGELIST H. B. GARVIN Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and be with us and cause us to triumph in every con­ in the power of his might. Put on the tuhole ar­ flict with evil. mour of God, that ye may be able to stand against In this conflict with the devil we must not be the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:10-11). cowards. We must face the enemy with strength The challenge of this text lies in the call to be and courage. We must face up to life’s battles like strong in the Lord. This challenge to the Christian real soldiers of God. The strength and courage that is full of meaning when we face the fact that it will come to us through possessing the Holy Spirit will take spiritual strength to withstand the evils will make it possible for us to do this. of our day. God wants us to be strong, and surely it would seem wicked and shameful to be weak Must I be carried to the skies when, as Christians, we can be spiritually strong. On flow’ry beds of ease, Then too, the weak ones will always miss the joyful While others fought to zvin the prize thrill of being triumphant and strong in Chris­ And sailed thro’ bloody seas1 tian service. It is this strength and triumph of the Christian that adds romance to Christian service. Sure I must fight if 1 would reign. And there is a warning that reaches us that weak­ Increase my courage, Lord. ness on the part of Christians often leads to com­ I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, promise and spiritual defeat. Supported by Thy IVord. Another fact that must not be overlooked is that we, as Christians, are protected by the armor of God. God provides this armor and expects all of His followers to put it on and to make use of it. This armor will be needed in our spiritual bat­ An Unwritten Letter tles. We come into possession of this whole armor of God when we receive the experience of entire By CLARENCE E. FLYNN sanctification. Why should Christians try to face Beloved, when I gave all diligence to their temptation battles without this glorious spir­ write unto you of the common salvation, itual equipment? It is plain that God’s command it was needful for me to write unto you, to each of us is to put on this whole armor of God and exhort you that ye should earnestly as soldiers of His kingdom. contend for the faith which was once de­ As Christian soldiers we can see God’s purpose livered unto the saints (Jude 3). in commanding us to put on the armor in a sanctified experience. It is that we may “be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” It will not take long for the soldiers of God’s army to find out One day the Apostle Jude sat writing from such that the devil is real, and that the Christian’s con­ a glowing heart that the very words still shine on flicts with him are real. This fight with the devil is the page and throb in our hearts as we read them. no sham battle, and here is the reason that God His theme was “The Faith Once for All Delivered to the Saints.” He must have been hearing that has prepared for us this Christian armor. God people were beginning to try to improve on it, wants that we shall be able to resist the devil’s hence his impassioned plea that it be accepted as attacks on us. With this whole armor of God as it was. our spiritual equipment we may rest assured that In order to present that plea he had been obliged we will never have to fight our battles alone, for to put aside another subject on which he had been the Holy Spirit will give help and strength in the intending to write. “Our Common Salvation” was battle. The presence of the blessed Holy Spirit will the topic he had been intending to discuss when 4 (936) • HERALD OF HOLINESS new developments had caused him to change his 011. It does this despite the fact that the human plans at the last moment. mind treasures its dividing lines, and the human We know what Jude had to say about the faith heart clings to its prejudices. once for all delivered to the saints. His letter is Whatever attitudes we take in some of life’s re­ short and can be quickly read. We can trace the lationships, we must bear in mind that salvation page and hear the lingering echoes of his denunci­ is open to all on the same terms. It is not limited ation of the clouds without water, carried about by any distinctions we can make between and of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, twice dead, among ourselves. Faith carries with it good will, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, co-operation, and friendly helpfulness; and when foaming out their own shame; wandering stars to faith slips across boundary lines, heart and hand whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. are sure to follow it. Faith is first an experience, But we do not know what Jude intended to then a fellowship. It is weakened and warped write in his letter on our common salvation. It wherever a human soul is excluded from its may have been written 011 another day and been privileges. lost among the writings that either did not survive Jude pleads eloquently against the Church’s or have not been found. Or he may have been so erring in its fidelity to revealed truth; but in order busy defending the faith that he never got it writ­ to do so he has to turn from another subject about ten at all. which he is also much concerned, namely, his fear The fact that he mentioned his abandoned pur­ lest the Church become a thing of class and clan pose is fortunate. It gives us something to work and its potential world fellowship be cramped into on for ourselves. We cannot reproduce his in­ something less than a universal one. tended epistle, but we can consider its commanding Jude was prevented from opening his mind to theme. our times 011 that subject; so newer apostles have The fact that it is not always easy to keep our had to do it for him and try to see that, as the salvation a common one in prevailing practice is Master had directed, the Christian faith shall be not new. Two wonders concerning it are: First, a common faith, that redemption shall be without it is so old: and second, despite its age it still goes restriction, and that salvation shall be open to all.

God's Light for Man's Night From left to right: Dr. Howard Hamlin, Dr. Paul Updike, and Rev. Ponder W. Gilliland standing beside the full Bible in Braille— al the meeting of the American Bible Society, November 19, 195S. This is a day of unprecedented artificial lights: ding its rays from the “dayspring from on high,” night lights, boulevard lights, etc. In spite of all men read God’s truth for man’s need. the ways that man tries to overcome the night From the time of the crude press set up by Jo­ and live through and even revel in its foreboding hannes Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, the obscurity, the moral darkness is appalling. The Bible has remained the only Book in continuous juvenile crime wave, atheistic materialism, and printing. Its pages flow with ready hands, and ravenous inflation are world-wide, binding man’s even the sightless are given Braille to reach the hopes hand and foot. inner comfort of its folds. The Bible, God’s Word of Life, challenges still the error and sin of man Never was there so much money spent on back­ in his night. ward countries, never so much put into arms races, Your Bible Society offering will help give this never so much time and effort sacrificed at w’orld flood of light increased pressure to reach farther peace tables as now. Yet, with all of the outlay and do more than arms or conferences, good though of man’s brain and brawn, fear and strife stalk they may be. The offering is well spent by good the world. men writh responsible hearts and minds tied to­ In this dark picture one sees myriads of fingers of gether around the wrorld in organized effort with a light streaking through the darkness. In Kenya single goal—giving the Book that lives to men who of East Africa, in Djakarta of Indonesia, in Seoul are dying in the world’s darkness. of Korea, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and many areas —P a u l U p d ik e , Superintendent covered by the aurora of the curtain of light shed­ Northeastern Indiana District NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (937) 5 By EVANGELIST HUGH SLATER

Heaven The Home of the Redeemed

it wonkl lie worthwhile to seek Christ and live hood, the inspiration of pure manhood, the one a Christian life if there were no hereafter, for the Avoid that sums up to us our highest conception of peace and joy we have in serving the Lord are happiness, and the final realization of our purest indescribably precious. There are peace that flows ideals. In short, it is the gathering place of all like a river and joy that is unspeakable and full of those free beings who have chosen conformity to glory. The Christian’s life is not all sunshine and the will and nature of God. It is the center of free­ roses, but it is an abundant life. It is not all dom and peace, in the sunshine of Jehovah’s face. crosses and losses and yoke bearing, but it is full of abiding inspirations and marvelous delights. In the heavenly state physical limitations have But the true value or meaning of the religious fallen away and all those defects of our earthly life is its relation to the world beyond. All the state have been left behind, so that the soul ex­ mighty plan of salvation could mean but little pands and the restless mind reaches out continually were it not that human life sweeps through the after new realms of truth. It is the end of proba­ eternities. It is man’s relation to the life beyond tion, turmoil, weariness, pain, affliction, grief, ad­ the grave that gives meaning to all the wondrous versity, heartache, disappointment, sorrow, sickness, plan of salvation, offers the key to his tremendous death, trial, test, and peril of every kind. With destiny, and throws an environment of infinity it we associate God, the angels, the spirits of just around his responsibilities. men made perfect, the multitude that no man can Heaven is the final home of the sanctified soul. number, whose robes and hearts are made pure and It is the place toward which the destiny of the white in the blood of the Lamb; the city that lieth redeemed gravitates; the utopia of perennial light foursquare, with walls of jasper, gates of pearl, toward which the sin-tired, grief-smitten, sorrowing streets of gold; a sunless, starless world of undying hearts of men in all ages have turned with longing daylight, whose atmosphere is redolent with purity and hope; against whose battlements there leans and vibrant with the songs of the redeemed. Here the topmost rung of that mystic ladder upon which it is that the soul that loves Jesus finds its eternal men ascend to God. It is the dream of our chikl- rest, its abiding place, which is the final outcome of “so great salvation.” Into such a state of blessedness and life-giving energy the Christian finally ripens. Heaven is Our God salvation ultimate, eternal, final, complete, and irrevocable. It is the work of grace crowned with By GRACE J. MEYER glory, the cross of suffering transformed into the Great is our God, and faithful is He. crown of rcjoicing, and the blossom and fruitage Trust Him all flesh, and His goodness you’ll see. of all the anguish and groaning and passion and Mighty in power, in lox’e, and in strength, travail of this earthly life, through Jesus Christ, our He never ivill fail us; He’ll go the full length. Lord. “And they shall reign [with Him] for ever He asks for oar love, obedience, and trust. and ever” (Revelation 22:5). He knows we are weak and made of the dust. We must never forget that we have the wonderful Fie gives us His strength, His grace, and His hand prospect of heaven because of our Saviour and the To help us each day not to stumble, but stand. efficacy of His blood that was shed for the sins of When temptations assail us and devils oppose, lost humanity. And I would just like to say with God stands in between, for Jesus arose— John the Revelator, who got a glimpse into that He conquered all hell, and devils, and sin, eternal city before he dropped his temple of clay, And bought our redemption, and brought us “Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our ivithin sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and The power of His blood: our prolectioti and tozver priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory To which ice can run for safety each hour. and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” (Revela­ tion 1:56-6). 6 (938) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Even in a darkened room there can be— The Treasure

CONTENTMENT As we come to the Thanksgiving season we should be the most thankful of any people on By MRS. J. C. WALLACE earth, for God has been extremely good to us. Even in this Sputnik and atomic age, where there The great writer of New Testament truth, the is confusion on every hand, God has helped us Apostle Paul, expressed an unexcelled truth when as a church to complete fifty glorious, golden he said, “Godliness with contentment is great gain” years of growth. (I Timothy 6:6). He seemed to indicate that a I ask this question, How has this been ac­ person could have godliness and not have con­ complished? Then comes the answer we have tentment. Sometimes it seems impossible to have heard so many times—the faithful and sacrificial this treasure in earthen vessels. Paul said he had giving of our people. While it takes the preach­ learned to be content in whatsoever state he was ing of the gospel to reach the hearts of the un­ saved millions, it takes money to get the message in. Thackery could have had a scriptural meaning to them. The task remains as great as ever, and when lie said, “Cheerfulness means a contented the command to evangelize the world is still spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition. imperative. So how can we do less than our It means humility and charity, a generous appre­ best? ciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.” As a layman and church member, I felt it an Many times Christians let themselves get in a obligation and privilege to give last year as we “rut” of uncheerfulness. They have let circum­ completed our fiftieth year as a denomination stances make them so uncheerful, and are so un­ and this year with unprecedented challenge to aware of it, that in every conversation they strike the Christian Church, “I will give again.” Will a note of gloom. you? I think I know why our phone companies insist GEORGE W. SUTTON upon our using a pleasant voice when we talk on First Church of the Nazarene our phones. Many Christians answer their phones Dallas, Texas in a voice that sounds as though they have buried every member of their family and they were ex­ pecting any moment to follow. One man said to me feel better.” I happen to know that the man another, “There is something about the way you with the cheery “hello” had many problems of say a cheery ‘hello’ on the phone that always makes his own. I was privileged to visit a little lady several years ago who had been lying in the same dark room for over thirteen years. She could not bear one “Oftentimes in our lives there lurks the ray of light to touch her body. The doctors said temptation to choose the easy path, the line it was exposed nerves. I expected to find someone of least resistance. Is it necessary to do all who was restless, discontented, and in a state of we are doing for God? Could we get off unhappiness. I was amazed as I was led through easier? We are tempted to desert or to shirk the darkness to the bedside to find one who was a disagreeable encounter with the enemy of running over with good fruits of the Spirit. Her our souls. But let us always remember that radiant personality seemed to light the darkened Jesus died, one Man for the people. And room. She had been dictating poetry to be printed we are not worthy of Him unless we are —she wanted to share her feelings with the world. prepared to follow Him, to dare for Him, I felt that here was a soul whom life had dealt a and to suffer with Him, so that it may be terrible blow. However, after leaving that home, said of us that we fulfilled our destiny as I am convinced that truly here is an intangible He did His.”—Edward Lawlor. thing which every child of God can have. It can be called “The Treasure of Contentment.” NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (939) 7 strain Him to abide with us, and He passes on, taking with Him the blessings He would so gladly bestow on us were He invited to enter and remain. Disaster had come! Him If we truly desired Him to abide with us, He whom they had believed to be the coming Messiah would never leave us. What a life of joy and had been taken by cruel and wicked men and put blessing! What strength and peace of soul if in­ to death and they had watched while loved ones deed He were always with us. Unbroken fellow­ gently laid Him away in the tomb in the garden. ship day by day would bend heaven near us all No wonder they were downcast as these two friends the time and these sordid lives of ours would be walked along toward Emmaus with heavy hearts! shot through with the eternal sweetness and fra­ They could not refrain from talking aloud of grance of holiness and transformed into the likeness their loss and of Him whom they had lost. So of Jesus himself. How life would be transformed! intensely absorbed were they with their grief that Our joys would be purer, our sorrows and griefs they were not aware of One who drew near and illumined, and a radiance would emanate until joined them. others would be constrained to open up their heart Jesus always draws near when His loved ones doors and invite Him in to abide. Christ still are talking of Him and when their hearts are walks the Emmaus way, looking for weary-hearted burdened and lives weary. How the loving heart and discouraged souls; He still joins the traveling of Jesus must have yearned to speak words of companies of earth, wishing that those thus alone courage and help as He talked w'ith them in the and depressed would constrain Him to enter and way! They did not know it was the Master, but thus abide with them always. what He said to them must have given them new' heart and spirit; for as they entered Emmaus and Jesus made as if to go on, they constrained Him imiiiniiiBinniiminnimiiiiiiiiiiininiiniiiinninniiiiiinnimiiniiiniiinmniiniiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiininniimiiiniiiiiiinnan] to abide with them. His fellowship had filled a deep void in their souls. If the two disciples had not constrained Jesus CAUSE FOR DEFEAT to stay with them, He would have gone on and they would have missed the blessed fellowship and By WALTER E. ISENHOUR enjoyment of His company and the revealing of himself to them as they sat at meat. What a pic­ The thing that spells a man’s defeat ture for us! How many times we miss out on the Is not so much xvhat he may meet, blessings that would come to us because we do Like words that cut and burn and sting not earnestly insist on Christ’s abiding w'ith us! That jealous men and critics fling; Jesus loves to be invited with insistence. He will Or stumbling stones that foes may lay not go where He is not wanted and where His To cast him down along life’s way; presence is not greatly desired and sought after. Or oppositions to his plans If we really wanted more of the blessed company He never fully understands. of Jesus we could have it. He is willing to be our abiding Guest, desires to enter into our every ex­ Defeat more often dwells ivithin perience of life, into our work and labor of love; When men decide to live in sin; to enter into our pleasures, our social life, into our When they possess a jealous soul, temptations and our trials. He truly wants to camp Or fail to practice self-control; in the back yard of our souls, so that He may be Or yield to unbelief and doubt with us always. But many do not want Him thus By shutting heaven’s blessings out; to abide. His presence would interfere with their When they drift out of God’s good will, methods of business or would cross with their man­ Then drift in spirit down the hill. ner of living or seriously curtail many of their enjoyments and amusements. So we do not con­ 8 (940) • HERALD OF HOLINESS PASADENA COLLEGE DEDICATES FIVE NEW ADDITIONS: Dr. Samuel Young, general superintendent (left), is shown presenting the keys to Dr. Russell V. Dehong, president, dur­ ing the “Key Ceremony,” while Mr. J. C. Wooton, lay business­ man and chairman of the Expansion and Building Committee, looks on.

Why People Are Not Personal Workers By D. EDWIN DOYLE Nazarene layman, Tulsa, Oklahoma There are three reasons why people are not the that they are living a lie, for seldom do we find personal workers they ought to be, or even that one who is actually living a lie. There are things they would like to be. that are considerably smaller but achieve the same The first of these reasons why there is a lack results as living a lie did for the young man in of interest in personal work is this: one cannot! the story. The reason in most cases is due to the fact that The second of the reasons why there are not there is something hindering. There is a story told of a young army captain who told his friends more personal workers than there are is: one won’t! at the church of his exploits as a pilot during the He is simply refusing to do what his heart and war. He was talented and very likable, with a conscience tell him he must. There may be many genuine desire to be a soul winner, but with all reasons behind his refusal, but none of them is his ability and desire he was most unsuccessful. justifiable. God makes no exceptions. A man Then one day, before several hundred others, he may seek to alibi his failure to do what he knows got up and said, “For a long time I’ve been telling he must, and his testimony will become apologetic you I was a hot pilot with quite a record during and lame. He may seek to compensate his dis­ the war. Well, as a matter of fact, I washed out obedience by going farther along another line of in the first weeks of my training, and I have never service, but naught will avail until he comes to flown a plane. Please forgive me. I have been the point of submission and obedience. It is not wanting to be used of the Lord to win others, only a privilege but a duty from which none of but this has hindered me—I have been living a God’s own is released. lie.” The last reason is simply this: one doesn't! li Needless to say, with this obstacle out of the may be for a lack of confidence in oneself, because way, he righted his own relationship with God and of fear, because of a lack of knowledge as to became an effective soul winner. the procedure, or one of the many other reasons,, Today, if the truth were known, we would find but he doesn’t do it. As to being fearful of making that there are not more souls won to Christ be­ mistakes, let him assure himself that he will make cause there are things that hinder those who would mistakes, but will profit by them. In the process be soul winners. This does not necessarily mean lie will find his own soul. NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (94t) 9 THANK GOD By BOB BREEDLOVE for Spiritual Light Pastor, Athens, Georgia The Holy Scriptures admonish us to “walk as materialism, or selfishness in your life that needs children of light” (Ephesians 5:8). Nazarenes are to be dealt with. children of light. A large portion of spiritual light Or third, are you grateful for the spiritual light has been manifested to those who call themselves that God has given you? A listening mind, a Nazarenes. What have been your reactions and thankful heart, and a ready will—these should be attitudes to your spiritual heritage as a Nazarene? our responses to spiritual light. Should we not First, are you walking behind light? Have you be grateful that “the light of the glorious gospel failed to move up to the spiritual level you know of Christ, . . . hath shined in our hearts” (II Corin­ you could be occupying now? Most Nazarenes thians 4:4-6)? do not need more light. We need grace to walk How can we help but be glad that we do not fully in the light we already have. If you have live in the darkness of spiritual night like millions not accepted the challenge to live in the light you of earth’s people do? We are blessed of God when have already received, your reactions and your He gives us light. So, friend, thank God for the attitude toward your spiritual light are wrong. spiritual light Fie has given you. Don't be afraid Second, do you complain that you have too much of it; don’t shy away from it; don’t walk beneath light? Does your spiritual knowledge cramp your it. Walk in the light of your spiritual knowledge. ambitions? If so, then again your attitude is all Walk in it proudly, walk in it willingly, walk in it wrong. Surely there is carnality, or worldliness, or humbly, and walk in it thankfully.

A neglected girl with a yearning heart called out— “Hi, Purty Lady!” Hurrying from town on the shady side of the street, deeply engrossed in thought of the tasks By JESSIE WHITESIDE FINKS awaiting my attention at home, I was stopped sud­ denly when a child’s voice rang out from a car Taking note of the car and the uncared-for chil­ parked at the curb, “Hi, purty lady!” “Breathes dren, I could but wonder about the father and there a ivoman with soul so dead” who would not mother, and judged they were in the saloon across have been stopped? the street, for I remembered seeing this family be­ Turning, I saw a little girl, all smiles; so I walked fore when the father left them and went into a over to the car that she might have a close-up of saloon. Perhaps the mother went along as a re­ my bright hat, which had occasioned the remark. monstrance to too much drinking, or she might She greeted me with all the eagerness of childhood, imbibe for all I know. Anyway, the children were all the while feasting her eyes on my “cherry-fiz”- left to their own devices, as so often happens to colored hat—true femininity, God implanted! And the children of drinking parents. even though she was dirty and unkempt herself, After a visit with my little admirer, I left, sad she was happy nevertheless, and expressed herself indeed that children should suffer neglect because with all the exuberance of childhood. of the sins of the father. When, oh, when will the The car was old and dilapidated and filled to Church of God arouse itself to the enormity of the overflowing with children, for one boy was on the sins of the liquor traffic and arise as one and running board, holding to the door. A lively oppose this monstrous evil in our midst, that little scuffle was on between two boys in the back seat; children may have sufficient food, clean clothing, one boy was under the wheel—a make-believe chauf­ comfortable homes, and bright colors to enjoy! feur; while another was deeply interested in the O God, help me to do what I can, and to so live gadgets on the panel—a possible future scientific that little children may be able to see in me that engineer. Only the little girl had time to notice which will always enable them to say, “Hi, purty passers-by. lady!” 10 (942) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Tie a string around your finger— If You Incline to FORGET God! By K. BOYLE I can well remember when I was just a little there is nothing wrong with your health; your girl, my grandmother said to me one day, “Kathy, business is good, and you have a good family life. you should tie a string around your finger, so Your trouble lies deeper than any of these. I want you wouldn’t forget so often.” And I remember you to try this remedy for one week.” how one day she did tie a bit of string around “I’ll do this if you say so,” said the man. “But one of my fingers, reminding me that there were I still can’t see how two words can help me in the things “I dared not forget.” condition I’m in.” It seemed such a funny little cure for my for­ The troubled man did try it. He had already getfulness, but do you know, it did make me begun to doubt that there was a God. But starting remember what I was to do that dayl for the office the next morning, as he drove along Things have a way of “slipping our minds.” he murmured at intervals, silently within himself, All of us, too often, are forgetful. As the little Thank God! True, he didn’t see what he had poem we learned as a child says: to be thankful for, but he kept on through that It isn’t the things you do, dear, day, and the next, and throughout the week. It’s the things you leave undone, Then at the end of the week he called on his That give you a bit of heartache friend. Before the friend could even question him At the setting of the sun. he said: “Why, Tom, it’s made such a difference! One of the greatest and most important things I never knew I had so many things to be thankful we are prone to forget is to “thank God.” God for—health, sunshine, the air I breathe, friends, never forgets us, but it seems many times we for­ a good wife, two sweet children, a comfortable get Him. home, a good business, the church—why, Tom, I’m David tells us, “The Lord hath been mindful just beginning to realize what wealth is minel” of us” (Psalms 115:12); and though we may have Gone was the undercurrent, the discontent, and to “tic a string around our fingers” to remember now thanks-giving became thanks-living! He had Him, He remembers us and blesses us beyond begun to remember to thank God, and when he measure. realized how God had never forgotten him, his life The story is told of a businessman who was was filled with a new-found courage and joy. just growing tired of things in general. His busi­ Discouraged? Tie a string around your finger ness was prospering; he had a good home life. and remember to thank God! But he felt himself growing cold, cynical, and it irritated him because he couldn’t understand why he should feel this way. One day he called on a friend whom he knew had found the secret of a happy life, and lie confided in him: "I’m losing He Is Getting Us Ready! faith in life. I’m wretched and unhappy, and I By ALICE HANSCHE MORTENSON honestly don’t know the reason why.” The friend was very thoughtful for a long mo­ He is getting us ready for heaven right now. ment; then he said: “Bob, I want you to try this The purging, the cutting, the trimming simple remedy, even though it may seem strange Are a part of His plan, so we must hold still to you. But try it the next few days and see what And ask Him to use us in winning a difference it makes in your life. As you drive Some stars for His crown that forever will shine— to work in the morning, let your mind murmur Long after our pain and our sorrow to itself, two words, Thank God! Through the Have turned into gold in Omnipotent Hands, day let your mind murmur these two words, and Making a brighter tomorrow. then driving home in the evening, do the same.” He is getting us ready for heaven—His bride, “What good could that do?” questioned the man. Though unworthy of His adorning. “Sounds kind of silly, . . . a grown man saying Suffering? Yes, a little just now; that over and over.” But we’ll reign with Him—in the morning! “You came to me for advice,” said the friend kindly. “I have told you what to do. You know NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (943) 11 counsel of the ungodly.” “Blessed is the man that Two Life Careers Contrasted walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor One commentator has suggested that the writer standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the in the first psalm brings before us two life careers seat of the scornful.” —one of righteousness and the other of unright­ The life career of the righteous is not only eousness. In this connection we should add that negative; it is positive. “But his delight is in the all people choose one or the other of these two law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate careers. This is a forced choice. Because of our very day and night” (v. 2). Negatives are essential, nature, as moral beings, we must choose to do right but the truly righteous person never stops with or to do wrong, to give ourselves to one career or what he doesn’t do. Along with his “don’ts,” there to the other. are plenty of “do’s.” “But his delight is in the This thought is especially significant in connec­ law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate tion with the first psalm, because it is often thought day and night.” He enjoys the Word and perseveres of as an introduction to all of the psalms. Their in his meditation upon it. main purpose is to set forth, from different view­ At this point I think of Philippians 4:8, where points, these two life careers; the one we may Paul gives us these words: “Finally, brethren, what­ call righteousness, and the other unrighteousness. soever things are true, whatsoever things are hon­ Thus the theme of this first psalm becomes the est, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things theme of all of the psalms. are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever N e g a t iv e a n d P o s it iv e A s p e c t s things are of good report; if there be any virtue, Let’s look at the life career of righteousness as and if there be any praise, think on these things.” set forth in the first psalm. It begins with the This is exactly what the person does who delights negative side of the righteous life: “Blessed [or in the law of the Lord, and meditates in His law happy] is the man that walketh not in the coun­ day and night. There is nothing which can take sel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of the place of the Word of God in the Christian life. sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful’’ It is the Bread of Life to the Christian. (v. 1). In this negative setting we get an excellent T h e F r u it o f t h e R ig h t e o u s L i f e -C a r e e r idea of the evolution of sin. One begins the sinful After the writer of this psalm has talked about life-career by walking in “the counsel of the un­ what the man who has chosen the righteous life- godly”; next, he stands “in the way of sinners”; career does not do, and then what he is within and finally he finds himself sitting “in the seat his heart, he describes the wonderful results in the of the scornful.” Adam Clarke, I believe, brings life of this blessed man. “And he shall be like a out this development as set forth in two ways in tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth this passage: walking, standing, and sitting; the forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not “ungodly,” the “sinners,” and the “scornful.” wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper” The blessed, or happy, or righteous, man doesn’t (v. 3). He doesn’t say he shall be like a tree by end up by sitting “in the seat of the scornful” the rivers of water, but that “he shall be like a because he doesn’t start walking “in the counsel tree planted by the rivers of water.” One who is of the ungodly.” The only way to be sure that pursuing the righteous life-career has a chosen sin doesn’t come into full possession of us is not place for his life—it is a good place. He is not to start down the way of sin, not to walk “in the only like a tree by the rivers of water, but he is 12 (944) • HERALD OF HOLINESS like a tree that has been “planted by the rivers of flesh, of sin. “Therefore the ungodly shall not water.” He is there through the purpose of God, stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congre­ and because of this it is a wonderful place to be. gation of the righteous” (v. 5). Since they are More than that, he “bringeth forth his fruit in “like the chaff which the wind driveth away,” his season.” When the time rolls around for him they will have no part in the general assembly of to bear fruit, he bears it. He is not like the fig tree the Church of the First-born, which will be a con­ gregation of the righteous. A life career that would end well must begin and continue in righteousness. Any other life career ends in despair and destruc­ tion. At the beginning of the sixth, and last, verse of which had all the signs of fruit but had no fruit this psalm we have the reason for this difference he has the signs of fruit, and he has the fruit. in the outcome of these two life careers. “For the What does this fruit mean from the standpoint Lord knoweth the way of the righteous,” but He of the life career of the righteous? It means, it does not know the way of the unrighteous. That seems to me, at least one thing—his witness. He is, He does not sanction it, He is not for it, He will not only represent Christ, but he will repre­ does not sustain or support it. Because of this, he sent Him in such a way that somebody will be in­ who follows this way “shall perish.” fluenced by him for Christ. He will be a soul Two E x a m p l e s winner; he will be a messenger of the King. His Man was made for God, and he cannot live on life career will be fruitful; it will bring forth re­ earth as he should without God; neither can he sults. “His leaf also shall not wither; and what­ finally make his home in heaven without God. soever he doeth shall prosper.” “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but That's a wonderful song which says, “I want the way of the ungodly shall perish.” This truth my life to tell for Jesus.” The blessed man, the is written on almost every page of the Word of God. happy man, the man who has chosen the life Cain chose the unrighteous life-career; Abel, the career of which I am speaking now, will have a righteous. What was the result? God had respect life that will tell for Jesus. Thus the Psalmist in unto Abel and his offering, but not for Cain and his description of the life career of the righteous his offering. What a contrast between these two brings out its negative aspects, its positive aspects, men, and how different the lives which they finally and the results of such a career. led, even here on earth! And that was only a fore­ T h e U n r ig h t e o u s L i f e -C a r e e r taste of the difference between the types of lives In contrast to the story of the life career of the they were destined to live in the world to come. righteous man, the Psalmist sets the life career of Beside this contrast from the Old Testament let’s the unrighteous. “The ungodly are not so: . . .” place one from the New Testament. It is the story These words arc very meaningful. They imply that of the rich man and Lazarus. The former chose the wicked walk in the counsel of the ungodly, the unrighteous life-career. No doubt there came stand in the way of sinners, and sit in the seat of to him, as with these others, a time when he had the scornful. Instead of refusing to start down this to make a choice; he had to take one road or the road, like the blessed or happy man does, they other; he had to choose one career or the other. enter its wide gate and continue in the broad way. What happened then? He turned his back on More than that, they are unlike the righteous Christ; he chose the way of sin, the unrighteous in that they do not delight in the law of the Lord, life-career. He ended up in hell, begging for a and they do not meditate in His law day and night. drop of water. All of the riches that he had amassed Their minds are not filled with the good; they are while in this world were of no avail; they could filled with that which is evil. Their minds are not not help him in that hour, for he had turned his made light by the glory, the presence, and the back on Christ. It was not so with Lazarus. blessing of God; they aie darkened by the black Though he was a beggar, when death came to ness and hideousness of the presence of Satan. him, his soul was wafted away by angels to the Further, instead of being “like a tree planted bosom of Abraham. He had chosen the righteous by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit life-career, and heaven was to be his home forever. in his season,” they are “like the chaff which the “Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the wind driveth away.” What they do does not pros­ judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of per because their leaf withers. They do not have the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the the fruit of the Spirit: they have the fruit of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (945) 13 man had bought a songbook somewhere and learned the words and music. In our prayer times here we are ask­ ing God for a tithing, rejoicing church. Will you join us? This would mean a great deal to our church and its wit­ ness here in India. REMISS REHFELDT, Secretary The Need Is Great! Missionaries on the Move is no harmony of parts. The time, also, We need your prayers here, for the Rev. and Mrs. Stanley Wilson have is quite different. need is tremendous. As we go into the moved to: Box 562, Iloilo City, Philip­ In our churches we sometimes sing locations and see the sin and vice that pine Islands. hymns which have been translated into is gripping the hearts of these people, Rev. and Mrs. John Pattee are at Marathi, and use Western tunes. But the burden overwhelms us. Some of Box 14, Baguio City, Philippine Islands. our village Christians who never saw our Sunday school children come from Rev. and Mrs. C. Dean Galloway, a piano nor an organ think the Western these homes. Except as they find Christ, Apartado 38, Granada, Nicaragua, Cen­ tunes are very queer. They prefer their there is no future for them whatever. tral America. own type of Christian songs. Please pray with us that we may see Since coming back from furlough we many of these boys and girls and men Music have been surprised at the number of and women turn from their sin and Marathi hymnbooks we sell to non- accept Christ, the only One who is Among India's Christians Christians. I asked one of the other able to keep them in such sordid sur­ By MARY ANDERSON, India missionaries about this and he said that roundings.—N e l l ie St o r e y , Idalia, Africa. In this music year of our church, we the village people want to sing but do would like to tell you about our music not know any words! So they buy our Workers' Institute here in India. songbooks. Recently this missionary We recently spent several days in the As you know, the music of the East drove through a village where there Workers’ Institute on the Southeast is quite different from Western music. are no Christians living, and heard a Mexican District. Almost all of the Much of it is in a minor key, and there man singing about Jesus Christ! The pastors were present for the opening

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DISCHARGED—“You may remove my name from you for the literature which I have received so your mailing list. I certainly enjoyed receiving regularly the past two years. all of the periodicals; they were a blessing to me “It is a great blessing to know our church looks and opened up many opportunities to witness for after the interests of the servicemen. I have been my Lord. Thanks for remembering the service­ meeting American servicemen in my local church man.”—M a u r ic e M . M a so n . (Clapham Junction, London) and have had great times of blessing with them. Thanks again for FROM FORT BLISS, TEXAS-“I received your the uplift I have received through your depart­ letter and the Conquest magazine. I have attended ment.”—M ic h a e l E. A l e x a n d e r . church in El Paso and received a warm welcome. May God’s blessing be upon you for the work you are doing for the Nazarene servicemen around WITH APPRECIATION—"I have been trans­ the world.”—V er n o n B. S m it h , SP/4. ferred from France to Germany and would like to give you my new address. I would like to express THANK YOU—“I wish to thank you for all the my appreciation, as well as my wife's, for the literature that I have received. Through your wonderful Christian literature you’ve been so services I have been able to locate Nazarene faithfully supplying us. It has been a blessing churches very easily during the time I have been and helped us spiritually.”—A/1C J o h n A. in the army. Q u esen b er ry , J r. “I would like to leave my testimony—I am glad to say that I accepted Christ as my Saviour A CHAPLAIN REPORTS—"I have been trans­ on the tenth of October, 1954. I am so thankful ferred to the office of assistant division chaplain, to be a child of God and to know that my sins which increases my W'ork and responsibility. I are covered by the Blood. I want everyone to have two places to preach each Sunday, con­ know that the Lord is the same yesterday, today, ducting three services. God is blessing in every and forevermore. I appreciate all the prayers way.”—C h a p l a in (M a jo r ) H erb ert J . V an that have been prayed for me, and those who are V o r c e. still praying. Prayer surely changes thing}.”— 1’fc P ier c e C. S m it h . N azarene S ervicemen’s C ommission FROM ENGLAND—“This is to inform you that I have left the Royal Air Force. I wish to thank Director

14 (946) • HERALD OF HOLINESS service. For one week Brother Jose Rodriquez, Brother Moises Garces, and I gave classes to the workers on vital 1 subjects that we teach in our Spanish HOME MISSIONS Bible Institute in San Antonio. God Hi I it It f j blessed the meetings in a wonderful NEW CHURCHES OVERSEAS FIELDS CHURCH EXTENSION MINORITY GROUPS IN U.S. way. ROY F. SMEE, Secretary On the second night the Spirit of the Lord fell upon the pastors and the people present, and the altar and front of the church were lined with people seeking the second work of grace. The service lasted until mid­ night as many testified to their new experience of holiness. It was a sight we shall not forget. We shall start now on the building of our new girls' dormitory for our San Antonio Bible School. The need is great. I have never seen so much interest on the part of our Mexican vouth. We could double our attend­ ance this year if we had room to put them. However, we are not building just to have a large enrollment. If we can get our facilities up to where we can handle forty or fifty students, we feel that will be sufficient to meet the demands of our districts for na­ tional workers. W iix ia m C. V a u g h ters, Principal San Antonio Bible Institute

Lima, Peru The new property which was made possible through the generosity of the General Board is ready for occupation this week, for which we thank you all. There is an adequate house for the resident missionaries and space for other General Church Loan Fund Announces Increase missionary families to stay when they Beginning November 1, 1959, interest Board auditors, the Board of General must be in the city for business reasons, paid on savings deposits in the General Superintendents, and the General as frequently happens. Church Loan Fund increased i/2 per cent Board. The work at the church goes on and is now paid at the following rates: steadily. There is a general spirit of Church Extension loans total­ '/, per cent on deposits for one to expectancy for doing even better this 3 ing $2,222,815.32 have been provided year than before. A number of our five years for 338 churches on 67 districts in young people are visiting a new hous­ 4 per cent on deposits for five years less than 13 years, ivithout a single ing project where as yet there is no or more loss of principle or interest. evangelical witness. They report well- 4VS> per cent on deposits of $10,000 Through these funds, Nazarencs work attended meetings and a desire on the or more for at least five years together to build the Lord’s work. part of some for a church. At one re­ Here are the facts about this church Think about this: cent open-air meeting some hecklers building loan fund: threw water on us, but one of our # You know how your savings are young Christian men testified, thanking being used when deposited in the them for the opportunity of suffering In four years, $800,000 has General Church Loan Fund. been sent in as deposits, and at They are never used for loans to for Christ, and asserted that he was present outstanding cash deposits breweries, taverns, dance halls, ready to die if need be. Another as­ amount to $575,000. or other worldly concerns. Your sured the hecklers that water could money builds churches while not quench the love he had in his heart earning you a good rate of in­ for them, and promised to return to Your savings are protected terest. by a careful policy set up by the 0 Present depositors received semi­ tell them some more of the good news. General Board and a reserve trust These evidences arc a real encourage­ annual interest payments in Oc­ ment to us because it lias not been fund of over $42,000. tober totaling $9,834.26. easy for our people to grasp the feeling • New deposits are needed now. We of responsibility for the lost souls Total Church Extension loan have approved applications from around them. funds now amount to over $1,200,000, churches amounting to $200,000. The Lord is also blessing the Sunday used only for building loans to Send in your deposit (minimum school in Surquillo, where most of the churches. amount, $100) or write for further children being reached are those who information today to Operations of the fund are have never had any evangelical teach­ under periodic review by the De­ G en era l C h u r c h L oam F und ing. They are responding most en­ partment of Home Missions, the In­ 6401 the Paseo, Box 6076 couragingly.—Sa m u e l H e a p , Peru. vestment Committee, the General Kansas City 10, Missouri NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (947) 15 lives to get "things” and accumulate “possessions.” When we check honestly —“If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged” (I Corinthians 11:31). Public

Sunday: Jesus’ evaluation names love as the Morals and supreme value, the one indispensable —total unmixed love for God and man. And Paul said. Christ—all things else are only refuse in comparison. Perhaps the two are one. Both lived their sum- mum bonum into visible action and au­ dible speech. by BERTHA MUNRO

Questions on Values “Christmas for Christ” stamps are (I Corinthians 11:31) now available. Their purpose is to REMINISCENCE: emphasize that Christmas is the Monday: birthday of the Prince of Peace—not “A man's religion.” Thomas Carlyle Mv childhood days spent at Indian a day for secular celebration. said, “is the chief fact about him.” But L a k e Campgrounds, Michigan, are The “Christmas for Christ” stamps he also said a man's religion is that filled with many memories, and among may be used in at least five ways: to which he gives himself, that which these fond recollections is Dr. Haldor —On the back of Christmas cards, absorbs his energies and shapes his Lillenas. It was a personal thrill to letters, packages life. What is your “religion”? What have been one of those who sat in the —On lower corner of business let­ ters during Christmas season is mine? congregation while lie composed music —On letters to business firms urg­ Tuesday: during a service. ing them to hold “spirits-less That matter of the summum bonum Also I remember the services held Christmas parties” this year —the philosophers say that one can for us children in the “little” taber­ —On Christmas beer and liquor always tell what is a man’s estimate nacle. How we sang! Among our fa­ advertisements torn out of pub­ of the “highest value” by noting what vorites was one of Dr. Lillenas’ hymns. lications, and mailed back to the he spends most time and money and It was new, just recently having been publishers thought on. What would they judge published. Our singing of “How Can —On personal letters to radio and yours to be? Or mine? TV stations, urging them to I Be Lonely?” was so robust that the eliminate beer-casting at Christ­ Wednesday: “big” tabernacle was disrupted. mas time and throughout the Is your actual, “practical” summum year bonum identical with your conscious It was on this occasion that Dr. Lil­ “Christmas for Christ” stamps are chosen value? If so, remember and lenas said, “I never dreamed when I inexpensive. They come in sheets keep it so. Work it. Translate it into wrote that song that the children would of 50 and are priced as follows: living, or a lower value can creep into love to sing it so much.” 4 sheets $1.00 first place. 12 sheets 2.00 The world has been mightily en­ 100 sheets 6.00 Thursday: riched because of his consecrated tal­ 500 sheets 25.00 Or has the supposed summum bonum ents. My own life has been also. I 1,000 sheets 40.00 been found “impracticable,” "difficult,” always remember Dr. Lillenas’ words These stamps may be ordered “unworkable,” “unrealistic”—or been when I hear or read the song “How from: crowded out, choked, forgotten—or Can I Be Lonely?”—P a u l in e E. S pr a y , The National Temperance League postponed for more convenient days? now pastor’s wife in Lansing, Michigan. 131 Independence Ave., S.E. In your best moments does your mind Washington 3, D.C. cast its vote for the worthy value, but EARL C. WOLF, Secretary in the off-guard hours that make up Committee on Public Morals the business of living, your wishes and your will cast a double opposite ballot? Friday: If your conscious and unconscious highest values differ, your personality is divided—divided in a way that makes eligionsftjews & (jomments you basically insincere in the worst sense—untrue to yourself. By LESLIE PARROTT Saturday: To Buddha the highest good was escape. • According to the United Press In­ is the second of the late Secretary of from conscious reality—could that sub­ ternational, the Church of England, a State’s three children to study theology. consciously be yours, or mine? To Con­ top investor in British industry, made His son, Avery, is a Jesuit priest. The fucius and other humanists the highest a “paper” profit of about forty-two mother of four children, Mrs. Hinshaw good was the poised, generous conduct million dollars in the stock-market boom is now engaged in pastoral duties at the worthy of a "superior person”—could it that accompanied the Conservative Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. be that, calling ourselves Christians, Party election victory. • According to Religious News Serv­ we reach no higher than this fine hu­ • Mrs. Lillias Hinshaw, daughter of ice, the present Pennsylvania state law man level? the late John Foster Dulles, was re­ requiring Bible reading at the opening Both these “pagan” teachers would cently licensed to preach by the Pres­ session of public school every day is scorn the material-minded person w'ho bytery of New York. Mrs. Hinshaw being contested in the Federal courts. 16 (948) • HERALD OF HOLINESS The district courts have already ruled ihe practice as unconstitutional. Fur­ thermore, a bill to allow public school pupils in Pennsylvania to be excused e s t i o n from participating in Bible reading on written request of their parents has Conducted STEPHEN S. WHITE, Editor been introduced in the House of Repre­ Recently, in connection with our Sunday school lesson, we were told that sentatives. healing is not in the atonement. However, 1 believe that the Church of the Nazarene teaches that healing is in the atonement. What do you say? • An open rebellion by Southern First, let us notice what the Manual at this point. The difference is found Presbyterian laymen against an "eccle­ of the Church of the Nazarene says: in the fact that God does not always siastical machine of liberal ministers The fifteenth, or last, Article of Faith, think it wise to use the provision for which has gained control of the lead­ is stated thus: “We believe in the Bible your healing, while for your salvation, ership of the church” has been revealed doctrine of divine healing and urge our He is sure that it is always wise. In in Jackson, Mississippi, according to a people to seek to offer the prayer of other words, the use of the provision special report to the New York Times. faith for the healing of the sick. Provi­ for man’s healing, finally, depends upon The disclosure came in an announce­ dential means and agencies when God’s will, but this is not true of salva­ ment this week by the newly deemed necessary should not be re­ tion. We know from the first that it is formed “Presbyterian Laymen for fused.” But someone might say that God’s will for every sinner to be saved Sound Doctrine and Responsible Leader­ this does not assert that divine healing and sanctified wholly. Therefore we ship," headed by John Ames, business­ is in the atonement. I agree that it never pray for God to save or cleanse man of Selma, Alabama. He said, “We does not specifically declare this, but I from inbred sin if it is His will. In are convinced that the time has come believe that it implies it. There was a contrast, we should always pray for God when the members of our church must time when I held that healing was not to heal provided it is His will; and make a decision as to whether we are in the atonement, although I believed when someone prays the prayer of faith, going to have a Bible-centered, spiritual just as much in healing then as I do that means that it is God’s will. Along message and program for our church, or now. Dr. H. Orton Wiley, the dean of with this, we must remember that no are we going to let these liberal min­ theologians in our church, places divine one could ever be blessed with initial or isters change the church into a political healing where it should be when he full salvation or bodily healing if pro­ and social service organization?” says that it is in the atonement, but not vision for each of these had not been in the same sense as salvation—regenera­ made through the death of Jesus Christ, • An intercity evangelism campaign, tion and entire sanctification. It is the or the atonement. It should be added termed a ‘‘Pilot Project in New Tech­ will of God for all of us to be saved, that salvation from sin is always best for niques,” for the Christian churches sanctified wholly, and finally in the us, or always works out for our good, (Disciples of Christ), will be started next world glorified, but it is not always but this is not true of bodily healing. soon in the Chicago-Gary-Hammond God’s will for a sick person to be healed. In some instances bodily sickness and area. The three months’ project might When a person is healed, that results suffering are better for us than health. have far-reaching implications for other from the provision which has been made God knows this far better than we do. Disciples' churches. The denomination by Jesus Christ in the atonement just as Because of this He sometimes withholds has nineteen churches in Chicago and surely as his salvation does. There is His healing touch. the two Indiana cities. no difference between these two things • A news release from Cairo warns Why do Chrisians suffer physically? tourists against being gullible about the This is related to the question which quences in this life. How many people great, imaginative stories that cunning has been answered above, for physical I have seen who were suffering physi­ Egyptian guides tell about the pyramids. suffering of a certain type is banished cally now as Christians because of sins Four hundred years B.C. a glib Egyptian guide convinced the roving Greek his­ when a person is healed. Why, then, they committed before they came to the torian Herodotus that a Pharaoh's doesn’t God heal all who are sick, all Lord! It pays to start out with God daughter had built one of the towering who suffer physically—especially Chris­ early in life. But someone may say, Giza pyramids with stones each lover tians? Or why does He permit even Why doesn't God do away with all of gave her. Others have been convinced some Christians to suffer physically? this suffering that Christians have to go that the pyramids were built by Joseph This is a question which has baffled through with physically in this world? as giant storehouses in preparation for the minds of men ever since sin entered He’s going to do it in the next world. the seven years of Egyptian famine men­ the world. No one ever has been fully Of course I cannot give you all of the tioned in the Old Testament. Other able to answer it. However, something reasons why He doesn’t do this—take guides have called the pyramids a can and should be said as to this prob­ away physical suffering in this world. gigantic book of prophecy relating to lem. Christians suffer because they Nevertheless I do know this—“God is the Christian faith. The best available still belong to a fallen race, even though more interested in our holiness than our records indicate that about one hundred they have been saved from sin without happiness,” our character than our free­ thousand men worked for three months and within. Turn to Genesis 3 and dom from physical pain. I am also in the vear over a period of twenty read verses 14 to 19. There the result sure of something else, and this is that years to complete the giant structures. of the race’s fall in the way of physical physical and other kinds of suffering According to one authority, Dr. Hassan, suffering is definitely and clearly set often have character value; they are a the Pharaoh Khufu recruited paid work­ forth. Physical suffering is a part of means of grace. They are means where­ ers during the annual flood season when the curse which is ours because of by God can discipline us and bring us farmland was under water and the Adam’s sin. Christians also suffer more and more into His wonderful like­ peasants otherwise would have been un­ physically because of their ignorance ness. Some of the greatest saints I have employed. It is now generally agreed and mistakes, and because of the sins ever known have been great sufferers. that the Pharaoh not only considered which they committed before they be­ In a world where there is sin, physical the pvramids as an important place for came followers of God. God forgives suffering may be and often is an in­ his own burial but also as an ancient your sins when you are saved, but He strument of spiritual development, of Egyptian public works project to provide does not save you from their conse­ growth in holiness. labor for otherwise idle men. NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • C949) 17 was also talking to Ananias about the brought an answer from heaven. Saul moves he should make to come in con­ received both physical and spiritual tact with Saul. Neither knew what had sight. been happening nor what had been said A Championing Vote: The disciples The to the other. However, the Lord was who were not a party to these amazing Sunday School in on everything taking place. events continued to be afraid of Saul. Ananias had every reason to hesitate They figured that he had designed a Lesson about following the calling voice of the way to worm his way into their group Lord. Everything lie knew about Saul so he could do a systematic job of de­ MENDELL was negative. No\v the question was: stroying every one of them. They re­ TAYLOR "Should he [Ananias] deliberately ex­ fused to believe that Saul would ever pose himself to this dreaded enemy of change his attitude of hatred toward the Christians?” From all the evidence the Christians. he had, Saul was still the chief opponent Ananias had to come to Saul’s defense. Topic for to the way of Christ. It was also easy A full explanation had to be con­ December 6: for Ananias to reason that Saul had an vincingly related or the disciples would alphabetical list of the Christians whom keep their distance from Saul. Ananias he planned to destroy, and since Ananias was ready to champion his case. He Helping New Converts started with an A, in all probability gave an endorsement and sanction of Sc r ip t u r e : Acts 9:10:31 (Printed: that would be the first name on the Saul that persuaded the disciples to Acts 9:10-20, 26-29a) roll. take him into their fellowship. However, Ananias knew that the voice G o l d e n T e x t : Be ye kind one to A Challenging Victory: The disciples another, tenderhearted, forgiving one that called him to action was the Lord’s, at Jerusalem took Saul into their circle another, even as God for Christ’s sake so he did not continue to argue. without reservations. As a genuine hath forgiven you (Ephesians 4:32). A Chosen Vessel: When the Lord friend, "he was with them coming in made it plain to Ananias that Saul was and going out at Jerusalem” (v. 28). After Saul’s dramatic experience on a “chosen vessel” (v. 15), the whole They were now convinced that anybody the road to Damascus, he needed to issue was settled. Ananias was ready to was a fit subject to become a Christian receive his physical sight and his spir­ start the search for Saul. If the Lord since Saul had been won to Christ. itual equilibrium. The way this spir­ had placed His hand upon Saul and Their faith mounted. Their boldness itual program unfolded was as follows: had a mission for him to perform, multiplied. Their enthusiasm cascaded. A Calling Voice: The Lord never Ananias was ready to do everything pos­ They felt that they could do anything. works on one end at a time. He is sible to promote the program. The inspiration generated by this vic­ always doing more underneath than we He went to the street called Straight, tory challenged them to trust the Lord can see on the surface. He operates a found the house of Judas, found the for great and mighty things. whole plan while we see only in frag­ man he was looking for, placed his hand ments. Lesson material is based on International Sunday upon him, and prayed that Saul might School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for While the Lord was instructing Saul receive his sight and ’'be filled with the Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its about the steps he should take, the Lord Holy Ghost” (v. 17) . This obedience permission.

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Los Angeles, California—October 18 Evangelist C. W. Brockmueller writes: I use the large, real Felto-Scenes with was the closing day of a great revival “This has been a busy time, and God color-changing lights; will be using some campaign in the Glassell Park Church, has been good to us. Recently I re­ of the colored slides of my trip abroad, with Evangelist Thomas Hayes. The turned from visiting in twenty-four as well as preaching. We also do chil­ crowds were the largest of any revival countries abroad, which included the dren's and Sunday school work. We here during the past ten years. The Bible lands, much of Europe, and six will go anywhere; write us, 908 15th singing was cared for by Jim Lee, of months in the British Isles with our Ave. South, Nampa, Idaho.” our Pasadena College; he was assisted good district superintendents Dr. George by Mat Korody, also a student there, Frame and Rev. J. B. Maclagan. It was Knowles, Oklahoma—Wc are now and Eddie YVolpe, instrumentalists. a joy to labor with all these fine pastors serving our second year here. Last year Brother Hayes’s messages bring faith and people, and above all, for our the church property was greatly im­ and conviction, and his healing min­ Christ. God gave us many souls, and proved and the church en joyed two good istry is particularly blessed of the Lord. we give Him all praise. I enjoyed my revivals. At assembly time the pastor We thank the Lord for the wonderful work with our missionaries in Italy and was able to report all budgets paid in victory and success of this meeting.— down in the Middle East. My vision for full. So far this assembly year our mis­ Eu.wooo W. M u n c e r , Pastor. the entire church was greatly stirred by sionary society has sent out two boxes the evangelistic tour in these countries. (to Africa and Free China) beside the The need is great, the harvest is white! official box work. The latest addition Gouverneur, New York—Recently our I thank God for the privilege of laboring to the church is a new Wurlitzer piano, church had a good revival with Evan­ in His harvest field and of being a and budgets are being paid ahead of gelist Ernest A. Collins. It was a time minister in the Church of the Nazarene. schedule. One of the high lights of the of blessing and victory, as twenty-six Since my return most of my time has year has been a week-end revival with people made their way to the altar of been with our churches in Canada. We two of our Bethany Nazarene College prayer on the closing Sunday. Brother are enjoying our evangelistic work here students, Elton Stetson and Gene Han­ Collins spent much time in prayer and on Canada West District with Superin­ cock. We thank God they came our personal work; he is a great Sunday tendent Edward Lawlor and his good way. A spirit of unity prevails, and we school worker. His messages and min­ people. We praise God for the victories are happy in our work with these fine, istry were a real spiritual uplift to our won. Wife and I travel together; she progressive people.—John L\mbf.rt, Pas. people.—Bealf.r U. Bfrquist, Pastor. sings and plays the piano and violin. tor. 18 (950) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Evangelist Mrs. Emma Irick reports: "On last August 30 we closed our twenty-six-year pastorate in First Howell, Michigan Church, Lufkin, Texas. A special pro­ gram was presented in our honor, with an appreciation cash gift presented by the church, friends, and businessmen of the city, with a lovely reception at the close of the evening service. Our first meeting was at Bonham, Texas, with Pastor J. Ray Shoulders; a good meeting with good crowds. Then I flew to Philadelphia to tour the district with Superintendent Win. C. Allshouse; made the six zones with the district depart­ ment leaders in workshops, preached one Sunday for Rev. Harold Parry and church at Ephrata, and the last Sunday at Collingdale, Pennsylvania, with Pas­ tor Ketncr. It was a great joy and privilege to meet the fine pastors on this great district. I had a fine revival in Central Park Church, Houston, Texas, with Pastor David Kline, and with Pastor K. S. White at Beaumont Thc Howell church was organized use. We have a fully carpeted audi­ First Church. God gave victory. Then October 31. 1930, with 20 charter mem­ torium with new furniture and beauti­ I flew to Florida for five meetings. At bers. On January 18, 1959, the new ful accessories. This church has been St. Petersburg First, we had a wonderful church building pictured here was dedi­ blessed with many fine pastors, and we revival, with excellent crowds, good cated. I he new addition gives us room owe our 307 average in Sunday school altar services, and a nice class added to for a Sunday school of 500, and an and 220 church members to their fine the church membership. Pastor Clifton auditorium comfortably seating over 400. work. The laymen of the local church Nixon and wife arc doing fine work. I he dedication service, with Dr. G. B. arc of the finest. The pastor since 1956 At Sulphur Springs Church, Tampa, Williamson presiding, was an inspiration and during the building program was with Pastor E. J. Singletary, God met to our church. The message and spirit Rev. W. E. ("Bill”) Varian. Recently with us again and gave good services. of our general superintendent were he was given a unanimous recall, and 1 will be busy until the holidays, and gracious and uplifting. The new build­ the work of the church goes on in a am glad for the calls for 1960 and on ing, upon its dedication, gave us nearly united way to build the Kingdom.— into '01. My greatest joy is to win 15,000 square feet of room for church Reporter. souls and get them into the church. My address, P.O. Box 917, Lufkin, Texas.” son presiding, and the trustees partici­ The church was helped and we give God Overland, Missouri—Sunday, October pating, the mortgage was burned—the the glory.—C. F. H unt, Pastor. 4, marked the twentieth anniversary indebtedness is paid. The people still celebration for this church. This have a mind to work, and the congrega­ Greensboro, Indiana —Coming here church had its beginning when Rev. tion has purchased adjacent property to from our assembly, September 1, we and Mrs. A. R. Aldrich were directed by make room for an educational building. found a faithful and loyal group of God to pitch a tent and conduct serv­ Dr. Williamson brought challenging Nazarenes. God has been with us in a ices; later they rented a store building messages in the morning and afternoon, gracious way in the services, and we and organized with eleven charter mem­ with Dr. Simpson preaching at night. appreciate the old-fashioned Nazarene bers in 1939. After locating and pur­ The choir, under the direction of Pro­ swing. God blessed in a great way in chasing a lot, they began to build, first fessor Arthur Hubbs, added much to the our first revival. Evangelist C. S. Nutter the basement, and later the beautiful services with their wonderful singing. is one of the best, and he was certainly structure we now worship in, with a The pastor was given a raise in salary. used of the Lord. We praise God for seating capacity of four hundred. Dr. With the continued prayers and faith­ the great victories won in this meeting. G. 15. Williamson was guest speaker for fulness of the people, and the blessings We have organized a Sunday school the anniversary celebration. District of God. the work moves forward.—M rs. visitation group and it is working fine. Superintendent and Mrs. Simpson were Am i in i. F lo y d , Reporter. We appreciate the splendid co-operation present, also 8 of the charter members, of our people.—LtiTiiF.R Williams, Pas­ with an overflowing crowd. The Sligo, Pennsylvania—In October our tor. Shekinah glory of God dwelt on the church had a very well accepted re­ San Diego, California—On Sunday services. In the afternoon service many vival, with Evangelist Robert C. Rob­ afternoon of October 4 a ground­ friends and pastors from over the dis­ erts. His messages were Spirit-filled, breaking service was held by the Claire- trict were present. Rev. and Mrs. A. R. clear, doctrinal, and easily understood. mont Church at the site of its new Aldrich, who began the work twenty His spirit among the people was all that location, in the Clairemont section on years ago, are still pastoring, with only could be desired. The music was cared Limerick Avenue. Representatives from two negative votes in twenty years; for by the Musical Mitchells—Lloyd and the other churches in the area gathered membership is now 178. Brother Addie Mitchell and their four children; to rejoice witli the congregation and Aldrich is a true holiness preacher. In they captivated the audience. Members pastor. Ihe principal speaker was our the afternoon service, with Dr. William­ said this was the best revival in years. beloved district superintendent, Rev. Nicholas A. Hull. lie also operated the big D8 cat with its huge shovel to turn the first ground for the new church; construction will start soon. This serv­ Keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas | ice also marked the first anniversary of the Clairemont Church; it was organized on October 5 last year. This was one *,'^ G iv e gifts with a CH RISTian em phasis of the eight churches organized on the For suggestions— see October 28, November 4 and 18 "Heralds" Southern California District during the Golden Anniversary year.—B l a in e L. S ir a u se r , Pastor. NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (951) 19 Elko, Nevada—God has given us a wonderful revival here. The meeting started on October 2 with Evangelist L. C. Miller preaching and 41 present. NIGHTINGALE OF THE PSALMS Each night the Lord continued to bless under the gracious messages of Brother By JARRETTE AYCOCK Miller. Seekers responded to each in­ vitation, with a total of 44 for the ten days' meeting; some of these were “first- now available in Braille timers" in a Nazarene service. On the closing Sunday (October 11) we had a A copy of this second release in Braille has been sent to record attendance for this church of 92 those whose names are on file. Free copies will be sent in Sunday school and 103 in the morn­ ing preaching service. Our crowds are upon request to others who would benefit from this increasing so that we are being forced free service of to build. The Lord continues to bless in the services, with the altar lined with Your NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE seekers on the Sunday following the close of the meeting.—B o b G. M a t h is , 2923 Troost Avenue Pastor. Kansas City, Missouri Gagetown, Michigan—Sunday, Octo­ ber 18 marked the close of a real Holy Ghost revival here with Evangelist Carl Amos. God used Brother Amos in a heart purity. The meeting was a great Sunday school has averaged eighty in definite way in presenting the gospel blessing to the church anil community. attendance, and nine new people have with unction and power. Some thirtv Over forty dollars was raised in a love joined the church. We thank God for people sought God at the altar, most of offering for the pastor. The work here His blessings spiritually, financially, and whom prayed through for pardon and is on the move; so far this year our numerically.—R. J. St a n l e y , Pastor.

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Washington at Bresee 2923 Troost, Box 527 IN CANADA: 1592 Bloor Street, West Pasadena 7, California Kansas City 41, Missouri Toronto 9, Ontario 20 (952) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Doyle, Tennessee—On October 18 our church closed a Heaven-sent revival under the Spirit-anointed ministry of Logan, West Virginia Rev. Gordon Winchester. The Lord blessed with souls and a reviving of the entire church, so that the spiritual con­ dition is now at high tide. We appre­ ciated having with us a man so completely led of the Spirit. Also we broke all previous attendance records of the church, with 204 present in Sunday school on the closing Sunday of the meeting. We give God praise for this time of victory.—D e w e y J. W il l ia m s , Pastor. Hannibal, Missouri—On Sunday, Octo­ ber 11, we dedicated our new Sunday school annex, with Dr. E. D. Simpson, district superintendent, as the special speaker. This was also our fall Sunday school rally day, with 225 present. The annex is a two-story structure, with six rooms, two rest rooms, and a small auditorium on each floor. It is built of September G marked the dedication of and matching furnishings, new gas fur­ brick and concrete blocks, with plastered our church with District Superintendent nace, and baptistry. The building is walls and accoustical ceilings. It was H. Harvey Hendershot as the speaker. valued at $105,000 and our present in­ built mostly by donated labor—members We purchased this building from the debtedness is less than $20,000. We of the church did most of the work, Presbyterian congregation, and had been praise God for the wonderful way the thus saving the church many thousands in the building only one year when a people have stood by during these of dollars. It is estimated at contract fire destroyed the interior of the main months of rebuilding. God is blessing price to cost about $35,000 but cost the auditorium. The building has been th e w ork and so uls a re being saved and church only about $16,000, and the renovated at a cost of $29,000; and the added to the church.—Robert E. S a ls e r, present debt is about $11,000. On Octo­ interior provided with light oak pews Pastor. ber 18 we closed a good revival with Evangelist H. N. Dickerson, one of the best since we came to Hannibal. Sin­ ners were converted, backsliders re­ claimed, believers sanctified, and two both pastors and laymen attended by ance. Superintendent Morgan is a good fine young men received into the church, the hundreds for two services each eve­ man, a sincere Christian, a good making six new members since our as­ ning. It was a great success. We were preacher and leader—pastors and lay­ sembly last August. We are on our privileged to speak seventeen times in men work with him. These two district fourth year here at Hannibal and the one week, and enjoyed the blessings of leaders, with their helpmates, are a outlook is belter than ever.—A. L. God and the co-operation of the people. credit to our denomination.” R o a c h , Pastor. Superintendent Baldwin is loved by his people, and the district is making gains. Dr. and Mrs. A. S. London report: There is a beautiful spirit of fellowship Evangelist George O. Cole writes: “The Joplin District, with Superintend­ and co-operation. We have just closed “God has been giving us some wonderful ent Dean Baldwin; Rev. Wendell Paris, a tour with Superintendent Arthur victories, for which we praise Him. We chairman of the district church schools; Morgan and his people of the North­ have some open time after January 15 and Rev. J. R. Smith, district N.Y.P.S. west Indiana District. Many fine new and on through March (1960); will be president, planned a tour with as near buildings are being erected on the dis­ glad to slate this as the Lord may lead. 100 per cent efficiency as could be trict. The brethren are working for Write us, 113 E. Ohio Avenue, Sebring, found. The churches responded, and seven thousand in Sunday school attend- Ohio.”

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NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (953) 21 Mancelona, Michigan—Our church re­ If you have friends in this northern Syracuse, New York—First Church re­ cently celebrated with an anniversary Michigan area, write us and we’ll be cently closed a meeting with Rev. and (thirty-one years) Sunday and an indoor glad to contact them for the church.— Mrs. Arthur Gould from Sturgis, Mich­ camp meeting. A different speaker T h o m a s L . V o y i.es, Pastor. preached each night, beginning on Sep­ igan, as the special workers. They tember 28, with neighboring pastors Sciotoville Church, Portsmouth, Ohio, closed a wonderful meeting at the near­ bringing the messages. God blessed the recently closed one of the best revivals by Fairmont Church on Sunday night, services. Then on Saturday and Sun­ in several years; some said it was the October 25, and stayed over at First day, Octobcr 3 and 4, Dr. Orville L. best one they had witnessed. Evan­ Church, Monday through Friday. They Maish was the special speaker and gelists Jack and Ruby Carter were gave us, by the help of the Lord, just preached with the anointing of God. greatly used of God to help bring about what we were needing. Several folks Sunday afternoon we had a “remem­ this outstanding meeting. Prior to and were reclaimed, an awakening for whicli brance" service as former pastors and during the meeting a volume of prayer we had been praying was experienced, friends shared former victories with went up to God; this was supplemented and now God is blessing as never before. those present. We now have a fine by prayer meetings in the homes and Brother Gould preached with poise and basement unit with Sunday school rooms prayer meetings each evening before the certainty, anointed by the Holy Spirit, and heating plant and plans arc made regular service. A number of souls and God honored with good victories. to put on the top as we press forward were saved and sanctified, and on the Sister Gould, with her effervescent spirit, for God. We are happy in our work Sunday following the close of the meet­ was a great blessing in the singing. God here and appreciate the fine work of ing twelve new members were added to came in service after service and crowned those who preceded us, and enjoy labor­ the church. God continues to bless the the efforts put forth for revival.—V e r y l ing with District Superintendent Maish. church.—G o r d o n B . M a y w o o d , Pastor. W. J e n k in s , Pastor.

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NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Kansas City Toronto Pasadena 22 (954) • HERALD OF HOLINESS of whom attended and sat in a body at the Oak­ San Antonio District dale church for the funeral service. She is survived Midyear Preachers’ Convention 'k by 8 children. Pallbearers were her six sons: Henry, of Escalon; Alvin and Harry, of Oakdale; George, of The pastors and wives of the San Idaho; Ralph, of Washington; and Lawrence, of Palo Antonio District met September 28 to 'k Have Alto. Two daughters also survive, Mrs. Ethel Bruton October 1 at Camp Chrysalis, Kerrville, ~k and Mrs. Hattie Rusch. "Grandma" Frisk leaves a Texas, for the annual preachers’ con­ host of friends who remember her as a staunch follower of Christ and one who carried a burden for vention. 'k YOU souls. Funeral service was conducted by the pastor, Dr. and Mrs. Roy H. Cantrell of Beth­ ~k Rev. Leonard C. Johnson, assisted by a former any Nazarene College were the special 'k pastor, Rev. John Howarth. Burial was in Bur- speakers. Their messages were chal­ ~k Taken wood Cemetery, Escalon. lenging and helpful. Papers were pre­ 'k MRS. MARY J. KENDALL, age ninety-two, widow sented bv Rev. R. W. Kornegay and ~k of Irving A. Kendall, died suddenly on June 12, Advantage 1959. She had been a patient in a rest home Rev. H. B. Jackson. One of the high ~k * in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for some time. She lights of the convention was a paper 'k * was born in Burlington, Hants County, Nova Scotia, 'k of the and had lived in Fitchburg for over sixty years. presented by a layman, Mr. Paul Rice, * Sister Kendall was a wonderful woman of God, a of Corpus Christi, on the topic “What ~k * charter member of the Fitchburg Church of the a Layman Expects of His Pastor.” This ~k * Nazarene, also a consecrated deaconess, in which was followed by a panel discussion with k capacity she served faithfully so long as she was * able. She was a faithful church member and con­ prominent laymen of the district par­ ~k * stant in her attendance. She was present at church ticipating. ~k FREE on Sunday morning of the day she was stricken; * she died that night. She was a real prayer warrior District Superintendent James C. * of the old-fashioned type. Her only survivor is a Hester presided with poise and grace. ~k * grandnephew, Rev. Donald Weymouth, of Manhas- He is much loved and appreciated, and 'k GIFT * set, New York. Funeral service was conducted by ~k Rev. Mabel R. Manning, a retired minister and a is giving capable leadership to the San * long-time friend. Burial was in Forest Hill Ceme­ Antonio District.—D a n fo r d W. A lg er , See our three * tery, Fitchburg. Reporter. ■& * Special Christmas MRS. GERTRUDE REED EMMONS, a member of * First Church of the Nazarene, Salem, Oregon, died Pittsburgh District Camp ~k Gift Editions * July 19 after an extended illness. She was born The Pittsburgh District camp meeting (Herald of Holiness) * in Summit, South Dakota, April 27, 1901. She ~k * was a faithful Christian mother whose life was a was blessed from the beginning to the 'k October 28 benediction to all who knew her. She is survived close with Spirit-filled preaching of the * by her husband, De Emmons; four daughters: Mrs. Word and outstanding sacred music. It ~k November 4 and 18 * Virginia Lansing, of Wenatchee, Washington; Mrs. 'k * Grace Cleary, Mrs. Lois Paulson, and Mrs. Ruth was held at the Alameda Park camp­ A wonderful place to do Maier, all of Salem; and three sons: Lew, Neil, and grounds, near Butler, and directed by * Jack, all of Salem. District Superintendent R. 15. Acheson. ~k your Christmas shopping and * ~k MRS. DOTTIE E. WEIR was born June 10, 1891, We were honored to have our beloved get a FREE gift too * ~k *• at Industry, Illinois, and died June 18, 1959, at general superintendent Dr. Samuel 'k South San Gabriel, California. She gave her heart Young bring several messages the first Look them over NOW * to Jesus thirty-two years ago, and at the time of k * her death was a member of the Del Mar Avenue week end, complementing the ministry 'k And Order RIGHT AWAY'. Church of the Nazarene at South San Gabriel. Her of Dr. Remiss Rehfeldt, foreign missions * pastor, Rev. Elbie D. Green, who also is her brother, secretary, and Evangelist A. A. Passmore. * conducted the funeral service, assisted by Rev. In addition to the vocal and instru­ Clive Williams and Rev. Blaine Strauser. mental music of Brother Passmore, his wife, and son, Archie, the camp was JOHN THOMAS JONES, age ninety-one, member Announcements enriched with a visit from the Central of the Manassas, Georgia, Church of the Nazarene, RECOMMENDATIONS died July 3, 1959. He shouted the victory until Rev. Carl Ross, who has been a successful pastor Pennsylvania Gospel Band. These holi­ the end came. He was born in Laurene County, and on the West Virginia District for more than fifteen ness folk played inspired renditions of lived in Toombs County for many years. He was years, has for some time felt the Lord directing old favorite hymns. Their fervor in known as "Papa Jones/' He is survived by four him into the field of evangelism. He is an excel­ daughters and four sons. Funeral service was con­ lent preacher, an earnest soul winner, and will be presentation and sincerity in personal ducted by Rev. H. J . Eason and Rev. E. L. Starkey, a blessing wherever he is used. I can recommend testimony created a wonderful spirit. with interment at Hardens Cemetery. him highly to our pastors and people. He will Also a fine group of young people com­ terminate his pastorate early in January of '60 MRS. MATILDA ("Grandma") JOY FRISK, vet­ and may be contacted, until that time, at 211 posed a choir which sang often. eran member of the Church of the Nazarene, died Guffey Street, Fairmont, West Virginia.— H. Harvey The children's work was led by Rev. in Oakdale, California, on June 24, 1959, at the Hendershot, Superintendent of West Virginia Dis­ Milton Clark, pastor at McCandless age of ninety-eight. She left 234 descendants, 100 trict. Avenue Church in Pittsburgh.—M rs. J. Sco tt N e w e l l , Reporter.

Deaths In Grateful Thanks LOUIS B. REED, father of the late Dr. L. A. Reed, was laid to rest in Northport, Long Island, July 7, 1959, at the age of ninety years. His wife, I send this offering for WORLD MIS­ Grace L. Reed, preceded him in death. In December of 1940 he married Hazel E. Delany, who survives SIONS, so Christ may be made known him; also a daughter-in-law, Mrs. L. A. Reed; three grandchildren: Dr. Oscar F. Reed, Mrs. Elizabeth to others. Knighton, and Ronald L. Reed; and one sister. MR. AND MRS. J . E. HOSTUTLER of Higgins, -$------Texas, died within three months and eleven days of each other; both were eighty-three years of age. Name Amount Mary Miriam Tounsdin Hostutler was born near Concordia, Kansas, on March 14, 1876, and died April 6, 1959, at her home in Higgins, Texas. Jesse Franklin Hostutler was born near Concordia on July 14, 1876, and died as the result of being struck Address by a ' car while visiting a daughter, near Corpus Christi, Texas. To this union were born nine chil­ dren, all of whom survive: five sons— Glen, of Ca­ nadian; Ray, of Corpus Christi; David and Eden, of Send to: Higgins, Texas; and Asa, of Center Junction, Iowa; four daughters— Ina Haines, of Logan, Oklahoma; Ethel Cloud, of Higgins; Violetta Price, of Cherry- The General Treasurer vale, Kansas; and Doris Setliff, of Robstown, Texas. Both were faithful members of the Higgins Church 6401 The Paseo of the Nazarene. Funeral services were conducted Kansas City 10, Mo. in the Methodist church In Higgins with the pastor, Rev. Roy Bickford, assisted by Rev. Marcus Adair, officiating; both services were as near alike as possible. Interment was in the Higgins Cemetery. NOVEMBER 25, 1959 • (955) 23 November 25, 1959

Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Rinebarger will be available for short meetings; they can take care of both the Special Music for singing and preaching. They would also be avail­ able to any church for singing for a revival cam­ paign. I am pleased to recommend them to any church, large or small. Write them % Pinecrest Camp, Saco, Missouri.— E. D. Simpson, Superin­ CHRIST»EAS tendent of Missouri District.

WEDDING BELLS It's time to start rehearsing! Beverly Joan Redick and Richard 0. Stewart were united in marriage on October 10 in the Church of the Nazarene at Sligo, Pennsylvania, with the pastor, Rev. C. F. Hunt, officiating. CANTATAS Aretta Mae McKinney and Gene Autry Smith Any mixed choir (four parts) of young people or adults having the were united in marriage on October 3 in the ability to learn a new hymn will find in the Lillenas cantata a most Nazarene parsonage, Sligo, Pennsylvania, with the refreshing and interesting project. Each cantata contains the real pastor, Rev. C. F. Hunt, officiating. message of the Christmas season, set to attractive but simple melodies and harmonies. BORN— to Dr. Loyd and Verna Smith of Pueblo, THE GREAT LIGHT By Ina Duley Ogdon and Haldor Lillenas 60c Colorado, a daughter, Jo Lyn Kay, on October 28. NIGHT OF NIGHTS By Dale Asher Jacobus 50c — to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Geiler of Leaven­ PRINCE OF BETHLEHEM By Alfred Barratt and George S. Schuler 40c worth, Kansas, a son, James Lee, on October 28. SONG FROM THE SKY By Mary H. Augsbury and Haldor Lillenas 40c THE GIFT SUPREME By Dale Asher Jacobus 40c — to Rev. and Mrs. (Eva Huddle) Lloyd E. Ellis KING AND SAVIOUR By Lida S. Leech and Floyd W. Hawkins 35c of Beloit, Kansas, a daughter, Darinda Nadine, on THE QUEST OF THE MAGI By L. A. Reed and Haldor Lillenas 25c October 27. WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED By Viola Wanger and Haldor Lillenas 25c WONDERFUL By Haldor Lillenas 25c — to Howard and Glynelle (Lawrence) Hull of IMMANUEL FOREVER By Rachel K. Green and Haldor Lillenas 25c St. Charles, Missouri, a daughter, Mary Anna, on SILENT NIGHT (ladies' voices only) By Haldor Lillenas 50c October 22. Examination copies sent upon request — to Rev. and Mrs. Robert Anderson of Redwood City, California, a daughter, J ill Cherie, on Oc­ tober 21. SING NOEL — to Dick and Janice (Bastian) Towns of Lima, Carols and songs for all Christmas services and programs. Solos, two- Ohio, a son, Kevin Richard, on October 12. part numbers, quartets. For children and adults. 48 pages. Includes the indispensable carols and other favorites, such as: — to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vleck of Hunter, North Dakota, a son, Wayne Allen, on October 2. "Sleep, My Little Jesus" "The Birthday of a King" "Hallelujah Chorus" "Everywhere, Christmas Tonight" 50c SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a family in Florida that they may "get established in the church there— they are in need of help" and the writer is very anxious that her family see the need THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT and urgency— she carries a heavy burden for her Solos and duets by Harry Dixon Loes and George S. Schuler. The family; original numbers contained in this collection will mix beautifully by a Christian friend in Texas that he may with the traditional and standard songs of the Christmas season. The have a victorious Christian life, also for an eighty- entire content may be used by a group of singers as a cantata-type year-old backslider and his seven wicked children; presentation, by following the sequence suggested by the authors. by a Christian friend in Illinois "that my fi­ 14 songs. Octavo size. nancial pressure may be relieved" and also that 60c an unspoken request may be speedily answered; by a Christian brother in Ohio for God's help in a spiritual problem, and for healing of his son; by an aged Nazarene lady in Texas that God CHRISTMAS CAROLS NEW AND OLD will touch and heal her body; Widely recognized as a source book of the best-known carols. Why by a reader in Illinois for the salvation of a spend hours searching through various hymnbooks for the Christmas close friend, and also for an unspoken request. songs you want when you can have them in this practical and com­ plete collection? Every choir library should contain an adequate supply. Jesus said unto them, I am the bread In addition to the well-known numbers, the book contains a large of life: he that cometh to me shall never group of lovely modern songs for various ages. 56 pages. hunger; and he that believeth on me 50c shall never thirst (John 6:35). CHRISTMAS TRANSCRIPTIONS for PIANO Arranged by Wilda Jackson Auld. A 32-page folio of familiar carols, for the pianist at the Christmas season. The style of Mrs. Auld’s transcriptions beautifully interprets the atmosphere of each number DIRECTORIES . . . adoration, joy, peace. Moderately easy grade music. Sheet-music GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS size. Includes: HARDY C. POWERS "0 Holy Night" "Angels We Have Heard" Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City "Away in a Manger" " I Heard the Bells" 10, Missouri. and the standard favorites $1.25 G. B. WILLIAMSON Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 10, Missouri. SAMUEL YOUNG Material you need RIGHT AWAY Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 10, Missouri.

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