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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 4-1-1954 Preacher's Magazine Volume 29 Number 04 D. Shelby Corlett E( ditor) 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 Corlett, D. Shelby (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 29 Number 04" (1954). Preacher's Magazine. 265. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/265 This Journal Issue 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 digitalcommons@olivet.edu. APRIL 1954 O le Preachers W oc u j c i z i n e Volume 29 April, 1954 Number 4 CONTENTS Front Page—Dr. H. F. Reynolds, 1851-1938 (See page 3) Editorial ................................................................................................................... 1 The Preaching of Hiram F. Reynolds ............................................................... 3 The Power of His Resurrection, Gen Supt. G. B. Williamson................. 6 We Must Confront Evil, Dr. Paul S. Rees..........................................................10 The Thrills of the First Easter, W. W. Clay........................................................14 What About the Budgets? Dr. Harvey S. Galloway........................................ 18 Make It Plain and Simple, Edwin Raymond Anderson...................................21 The Preacher’s Responsibility, V. H. L e w is ......................................................22 Gleanings from the Greek New Testament, Ralph Earle...............................26 For the Pastor’s Wife On Keeping Alive—Mentally, Mrs. Eric E. J or den.................................28 Musings of a Minister’s Wife, Mrs. W. M. Franklin.................................30 One Man’s Method How to Create Rapport .................................................................................31 Sermon Outlines ....................................................................................................36 D. Shelby Corlett. D.D., Editor Published monthly by the Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 Troose Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri, maintained by and in the interest of the Church of the Nazarene. Subscription price: $1.50 a year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Kansas City, Mo. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized December 30, 1925. Address all contributions to the Preacher’s Magazine, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri. Editorial The Spirit Makes the Difference brought an atonement for sin. Through His resurrection He was as The great theme of the message of cended to the right hand of the the apostles was the resurrection of Father, from whence He had sent the Jesus. By it they challenged the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. faith of the people until thousands Their preaching of the Resurrection became believers; by it they stirred included all of these important facts. the wrath of the Sanhedrin and Someone has said that the apostles aroused their opposition; by it the did not remember Jesus. They did group of believers were inspired to not think of Him as belonging to the enthusiastic service and great sacri past, nor of his life as something al fice for Christ. ready accomplished. To them He Just a little use of our imagination was always a living Presence. He will make us to realize why this event was alive. He was working miracu should fire their souls as it did. They lously with them. It was this con had been Christ’s faithful followers sciousness that fired their souls to through the period of His earthly m in such devotion and service. istry. They had great hopes for His There is great need that this spirit Messianic kingdom, but their hopes of the apostles be recaptured today. had been greatly shaken by His death. While we teach the fact of the Resur However, when they were convinced rection, the reality of a living, risen of the resurrection of Jesus they were Christ does not grip our hearts and made to realize that He was every minds. We grasp its truth mostly as thing He had claimed to be and that a mental fact and do not permit its their hopes were not blasted. What glorious reality to stir our hearts or other group has been taken from such emotions. We are too cold in our extremes of despair to such heights feelings toward this event; our imagi of triumph? What other group had nations are not aroused to enter into ever had such a thrill as to have One the actual thrill of its truth. In a whose body they had laid away so sense our Christ belongs too much to tenderly come back into their midst the past. We remember Him; we in glorious resurrection? Little won present His teachings as given long der that their hearts were fired, that ago; we tell of His death, the shedding they could not but tell the story of His blood for the sins of the world; wherever they went, that it became we speak of His resurrection and of the central point of their early mes His sending the Holy Spirit upon the sage. Church. But do we not relate it too This message of the Resurrection much to the past and not enough to was the pivotal point of all other es the present? sential events of the career of Jesus. The risen Christ is our Contempo His life and teachings were glorious rary, a living Presence. The Holy and worthy of emulation and accep Spirit is His present Gift to us and to tance. His death they recognized the Church. It is the risen Christ 1 who is our Saviour; to Him we are be the ministers of this day whose united as the living Vine; He is the souls are set afire by the truth of a living Head of the Church. What a living Saviour, whose hearts burn transformation would take place in within them as they walk daily with our lives, in our ministry, in our a risen Christ, whose lives are em churches if we could recapture the powered by the presence of the Holy thrill and spirit of the early pro- Spirit, the Gift of a risen Lord, who claimers of this truth! will set other lives afire. It was the Apostle Paul who de So, brethren, it is not essentially clared that God’s transformation in the fact that mentally we accept the our lives today is “the working of his fact of Christ’s resurrection, nor that mighty power, which he wrought in we proclaim it in a true or othodox Christ, when he raised him from the manner, that will meet the needs dead.” of our age. It is only as we have re captured the spirit and enthusiasm of Never has there been an age more the eyewitnesses of His resurrection in need of this transforming message that we will be effective proclaimers than this age of frustration, disillusion of this truth. ment, despair, and confusion. The only manner in which the Church of Christ * ^ * can successfully appeal to our age is to come to it in the spirit of the apos How much like children we are! tolic age. Its quenchless enthusiasm, A child learning to walk often wavers, its contagious zeal, its boundless stumbles, and occasionally falls. But faith, its glorious hope alone can over a kind and understanding parent is come the coldness and pessimism of helpful and considerate. God has been this age. so kind and patient with us in our If we ministers could recapture the blunderings, waverings, stumblings, spirit and zeal of those early apostles, and falls. He, like the helpful parent, if we could be fired by the thrill of sets us back on our feet, assists us, the fact of a living Christ, if under and encourages us to keep going, for the empowerment and blessing of the soon we will learn better how to walk. Holy Spirit we would gloriously and As Christian ministers, representa enthusiastically proclaim to our tives of Christ, we need an ample churches and through them to this supply of patience and understanding, generation that there is a living that we may be Christlike in our Christ, a risen Saviour, that in Him dealings with the faltering and stum are hope and life and salvation and bling folk. transformation for all, that there is * * * victory over the sin and spirit of this age for all, we could see some apos Salvation is not the process of fight tolic results. ing isolated sins: this sin here, anoth Oh, yes, we proclaim these truths, er there— my profanity, my greed, my but how? It is here as elsewhere tobacco habit, my temper, etc. It is that the letter will not save; it is the the complete surrender to Christ of spirit that gives life. It was the the whole of life, the acceptance by hearts of the apostle and others set faith of the power of His grace for afire with the truth of a risen Christ the deliverance of the entire life, the and the power of the Holy Spirit that power of the Spirit in the center of set afire the hearts of others. It will life. 2 (146) The Preacher's Magazine The Preaching of Hiram F. Reynolds By James McGraw T' h e t h r e e m e n whose report as a of him, “He was one of the greatest nominating committee had just men I have ever known”; and a letter been read were noticeably surprised written to Dr. Reynolds by Dr. Roy by the kind but candidly frank re T.