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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 11-1-1947 Preacher's Magazine Volume 22 Number 06 J. B. Chapman (Editor) Olivet Nazarene University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Chapman, J. B. (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 22 Number 06" (1947). Preacher's Magazine. 234. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/234 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Preacher's Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. November-December, 1947 Beautiful Night! Jean Leathers Phillips Beautiful velvety dark midnight sky; Beautiful stars in the heavens so high; Beautiful songs float down from above; Beautiful angels tell of God’s love. Beautiful kindness of shepherds who keep Watch over gentle and trusting sheep; Beautiful shimmering glory that gleams On hills and rocks and babbling streams; Beautiful silvery olive trees stand Catching the brightness in soft leafy hands. Beautiful Babe in a manger of hay; Beautiful mother kept watch as He lay; Beautiful story of God’s own dear Son, L et’s tell it and tell it Till the whole world is won! Managing Editor’s IreacherfO / J’ MESSAGE Volume 22 Number 6 Wlacjazine c Nov.-Dee., 1947 E have all been greatly saddened W by the homegoing of the editor of this periodical. Dr. J. B. Chapman, w ho passed to his reward July 30, 1947. The Continuity of the Ministry Some have written to know if the J. B. Chapman .............................................. 3 magazine will be continued. Yes. we The Challenge of Hardship will continue to publish The Preach ,/. B. Chapman .............................................. 4 er's Magazine. We have on hand Sanctification from Augustine to the enough editorials from the pen of Dr. Present, Ralph Earle ................................. 5 Chapman for one or two more issues. Carpenter of Lives Then the managing editor will accept Paul S. Ree.s .....................................................10 the full editorial responsibility. He The Doctrine of the Kenosis, or What needs your prayers that God may help It Cost God to Become Man, him to fill acceptably and to His glory J. A. Huffman ................................................14 such a responsible position. The Atonem ent in Christ I like to think of The Preacher's P eter Wiseman ..............................................16 Magazine as a sort of exchange center When They Tried to Make Christ King for ideas and plans for preachers. The Neal C. Dirk.se ................................................20 work with The Preacher's Magazine All Out for Souls is a part-tim e job for us all. The Man W. Roy Stewart ............................................21 aging Editor gives what time he can The Pastor and His Bible take from other duties to look after Granville S. Rogers ......................................22 The Pastor and His Devotions the planning of the magazine, and his secretary squeezes in between meet C. O. Christiansen ......................................24 ing dead-line dates of the Herald of A Prayer for Our Ministers H oliness a few hours now and then to A. S. London ..................................................26 work on material for the magazine. We Lot: A Borderline Christian desire our readers to put in a little of Edward Paul .................................................. 27 their time in writing and submitting articles, plans, sermon outlines, illus Departments trations, or any other material which The Theological Question Box they consider may be useful in the H. Orton, W iley ............................................29 magazine. We promise that we will Searching Truths for Ministers ...................32 read and consider for publication each The Preacher's Scrapbook ........................... 33 contribution submitted. Also, your sug Quotable Poetry ................................................34 gestions for the betterment of the mag A Preaching Program, John E. Riley ....3 6 azine are solicited. Illustrations .......................................................... 60 Recently several discerning lay- Missionary Department ................................. 62 members requested the M.E. to make Book Notes, P. H. Lunn ................................. 65 a plea to preachers to be more definite in their preaching. Their criticism was that some preachers to whom they listen are not clear and definite in J . B. CHAPMAN, D.D., Editor preaching the message of holiness and D. SHELBY CORLETT, D.D., Managing Editor in making altar calls for people to seek Published bimonthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, the experience. We all do well to ask if 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri, maintained by and in the interest of the Church of the Naza our preaching is as definite and clear rene. Subscription price: $1.00 a year. Entered as second- as w e assume it is. L et’s check up on class matter at the post office at Kansas City, Mo. Ac ceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for this matter. in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized De cember 30, 1925. Address all contributions to The Preach D. Shelby Corlett, er's Magazine, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri. Managing Editor 2 The Preacher’s Magazine The Continuity of the Ministry By the late J. B. Chapman, Editor AST week there came a letter from a abatement. John Wesley said, “God buries L young Christian who thinks he is called His workmen, but carries on His work.” to preach. He has never preached as yet, This means that none of us individually or and feels himself educationally unprepared in generations are complete of ourselves. for the task. And yet of a sudden he is We are part of the past and of the future, made to feel that the call is so urgent and the as well as servants of the present. demands of the work so critical that he is The well-balanced preacher knows that uncertain whether or not he should spend he is not only a prophet of God, but also a any time in school. servant of the Church. He is servant not This sense of urgency is good—even es only of the particular congregation which sential—but it has its dangers. Many an lie serves, of the denomination of which he older preacher has looked back upon his is a part, and of the age to which he be days of beginnings with regret that he was longs, he is servant of the Church of all the the victim of his own haste or of the shal Christian ages. And this well-balanced low advice of well-meaning friends, and preacher knows that the Church comes that he entered into the active work with fust; its welfare comes before his own or insufficient preparation. A call to preach that of his family or his loved ones. is a call to prepare to preach, and the well- No preacher has the right to expect that advised prospect takes all he can get from the church he serves will quit just because the schools, and even then enters upon his he leaves or dies. Moreover, he has no right task with trembling. The times demand to expect that a church will begin all over not only more preachers, but better preach again just because he has come to be its ers, and if precedents are asked, let it be re pastor. The preacher who disparages his membered that the Master himself spent predecessor or annoys his successor is a thirty years preparing to preach three menace, no matter what his gifts and tal years, that the Twelve spent three years in ents may be. It is every preacher’s right to the finest seminary the world ever saw attempt improvements, but, if he is worthy before they took on major responsibility as of the name wisdom, he will prefer reform preachers, and that John Wesley was a fin ations to revolutions. And when a preach ished scholar before he became the apostle er’s day is finished in a given parish, he of revival in England. Dr. Bresee once said should prepare the way for his successor and that if he knew he had but ten years to then get out of the way. It is seldom wise pi each (being a young man ready to be for even the preacher who has come to the gin), he would spend the first five years age of retirement to settle within the bounds in preparation, believing that he would ac of the last parish he served. complish more in this way than he would I think it was Carlyle who heard the by entering fully into the work without saying, “The Church is on its last legs,” proper preparation. and made this reply: “Indeed it is. It al But it is well for us all, regardless of ways has been.” A recent commentator on age or experience, to bear always in mind these words said that the Church is al that we and the preachers of our day are ways so precariously situated that if one but links in the chain of the Christian min single generation refused to support it, it istry. The chain began with Jesus and the would disappear from the earth. The apostles, and will end only with the con Church is indeed, from the human stand summation of the gospel age. Our respon point, a “self-perpetuating institution.” sibility is to receive the unsullied heritage From the beginning the Church has been from the fathers, and pass it on (still un dependent upon its own members to sus marred) to the sons who shall succeed us.

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