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Church of the Nazarene A Song in the Night

General Superintendent Powers

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, song at midnight. Only faith and grace can and sang praises unto God (Acts 16:25). join hands and sing under such circumstances. How attractive it is, that song in the night! We are told that at the funeral of a well- At this season of the year when everyone is known atheist the press reported, “There was more or less weary of winter, how attractive no music.” Infidelity, agnosticism, and unbe­ it would be if the fragrance and beauty of lief of all kinds have no song in life’s dark spring could suddenly be made to appear in hours. the midst of the frigid atmosphere of winter! How different was a young wife and mother This of course is impossible. But the flowers whose husband suddenly passed away leav­ of God’s grace do frequently appear in the ing her with five young children! After the most unlikely places. Environment is impor­ service she and the children found their place tant but it is not omnipotent. God’s grace is in the funeral car and then, without an­ sufficient for victorious living in the midst nouncement or prompting, with a radiant face of most depressing spiritual climates. The she began to sing, as the children joined in, faith and prayers of a godly parent kept alive “But until then my heart will go on the confidence of Moses in his mother’s God, singing, so that when he came to make a personal Until then with joy I’ll carry on. choice he chose Jehovah, in spite of the pagan­ ism of the royal court in which he had been Until the day my eyes behold the city, educated. Until the day God calls me home.”* Paul and Silas, two faithful itinerant As I observed this with humbled heart, I preachers, had not won a popularity contest, thought, How real, how majestic, how beau­ but rather found themselves in prison in what tiful, how inspiring is the song God gives His would naturally have been a most discourag­ children in the night! ing situation. But in spite of this, they had a •Copyright Voss Music Co., Los Angeles, Cal. Wlrat

Prayei? Worth

By WENDELL WELLMAN

J RECENTLY READ this in­ could it have su b jective value for story of the “importunate widow” teresting statement: “Our prayer the person who doubts its o b je c ­ emphasizes the same truth. and God’s mercy are like two tive worth? Can one find strength buckets in a well. As the one as­ and power and poise through say­ BUT HERE is our problem: We believe that prayer is valid. We cends the other descends.” ing prayers while all the time he is This assertion would be widely saying to himself, in effect, I’m believe God hears. We believe He challenged today, even in the only kidding myself. I’m supposed answers. But we reluctantly admit Church! There are many who hold to be talking to God, but He doesn’t that we are not too successful in that prayer is profitable, but insist really hear me. And if He does, our praying. Seldom do we really that its value is su bjective only. It He’s far too occupied with other pray through. We can’t point to is a good thing to pray, say these. concerns to waste time with me? very much that has been accom­ plished as a result of our prayers. Prayer will calm your nerves, en­ Intelligent people cannot suc­ We thrill to the stories about Pray­ able you to face life with greater cessfully practice this kind of self- ing Hyde and George Muller, but poise and confidence, even sleep deception. If prayer is to be mean­ we’re troubled by our own inef­ better! Prayer then, according to ingful, we must believe that God fectiveness in prayer. this view, is at best a kind of does indeed hear us, and that He What can we do about it? Can psychological tranquilizer, barbitu­ will indeed answer our prayers. we become more effective in our rate, or pep pill, depending on We must believe, as did our fore­ praying? Can we learn to pray one’s need at a given moment. It bears, that it is possible to pray through with greater frequency? has no objective value. through, to receive an assurance But there is another view. It is that our prayer is heard, and that I believe we can. Confessing my well expressed in the words of the it will be answered. own need, I venture to suggest cer­ familiar motto, “Prayer Changes tain disciplines that I believe would Jesus taught us to pray until we Things.” Prayer has objective val­ be of benefit: receive an answer. The story of ue. God hears. God answers. the man asking bread from his 1. Make a thorough study of the ACTUALLY, PRAYER has both neighbor at night was designed to model prayer Jesus gave His dis- subjective and objective value. But teach this important lesson. The

M AY 18, 1966 • (247) 3 for the man who would become an effective pray-er. 2. Study the scriptural teaching that relates to prayer. Find out what things hinder our prayers. Become a serious student of the subject of prayer. Talk to some successful pray-ers. • B y C. EDWIN MURPHEY 3. Establish definite prayer times. Daniel prayed three times a CLOVIS CHAPPELL TELLS the story of “Uncle Joe,” day. It was a fixed pattern in his an avowed atheist. On Sundays, Uncle Joe would watch the life. We read of Peter and John worshipers pass his house on their way to church, but he that they went up to the Temple never would join them. Then one day the church caught on “. . . at the hour of prayer.” We fire, and he took his place in the ranks of the hastily or­ will never become effective in our ganized “bucket brigade.” When the fire was finally put out, the pastor of the church said to the old man, “Uncle Joe, prayer life if we pray only when I am amazed. This is the first time I have ever seen you at the rare impulse strikes us. the church. How do you explain it?” The old man replied, THE LACK OF POWER in our “This is the first time your church has ever been on fire.” Holy fire is also attractive. It is, of course, not to be lives and the lack of the Divine related to wildfire or fanaticism. It does not call for some Presence in our churches are di­ prescribed outward demonstration. Holy fire is that which rectly traceable to our ineffective warms hearts, giving one compassion for the lost. It gives one prayer life. This weakness can be the capacity to bear burdens and shed tears of concern for corrected. We can become men and the wayward. It expresses itself in demonstrations of sacri­ women who pray “the effectual ficial love. It makes one unwilling to keep silence concerning fervent prayer” that “availeth the Saviour when a whole world of men needs to be saved. much.” Let this be our goal! HOLY FIRE DRIVES coldness and complacency from services of worship. It gives liberty and freedom in the Spirit. It makes real the presence of an unseen Guest. It makes obe­ dience to the biblical admonition, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so” (Psalms 107:2)—not burden but blessing, not uncertain but inevitable, both in the sanctuary and in the street. Holy fire is the love of God shed abroad in the About the Cover . . . human heart by the Holy Spirit. A revitalized Pittsburgh, re­ On the other hand, coldness or lack of holy fire attracts flected through new buildings no one either to God or to the church. Coldness is both the and a maze of traffic arteries, result of, and contributing factor to, further spiritual dead­ winks through a murky evening. ness. It is practical rebellion against Paul’s admonition, “Be One of the nation’s leading cities is rushing home to sit down to . . . fervent in spirit.” It is that atmosphere which tends to dinner and relax awhile before destroy any existent spiritual life and makes impossible the putting itself to bed. Seven inception or nurturing of other such life. Coldness results Nazarene churches serve the from the absence or lack of awareness of the real presence metropolis. of God. The Pittsburgh District of the Church of the Nazarene is AN ARTICLE FROM the daily newspaper entitled “Fire­ among the larger districts with man Stumped” might provide a clue to the church’s failure 6,814 members in 97 churches. to attract Uncle Joe prior to the fire. “It took two hours The district gave for all purposes and seven cans of kerosene,” the article read, “to get a fire $1,055,000 in 1965. Sunday schools going in a condemned house so the local firemen could prac­ during the 1965 assembly year tice latest fire techniques. ‘It is difficult to get a fire going averaged 8,706 in attendance. The district office of Superin­ in an empty house,’ according to the explanation of the tendent Robert I. Goslaw is at assistant fire chief.” Butler, Pennsylvania, where the Spiritual emptiness likewise rules out the fire of God’s district campground is located. love. It results in coldness. On the other hand, the fullness —Managing Editor of God issues in holy fire. It manifests itself in life and love, in peace and joy, in praise and fruitfulness. In this light may we all pray: “Let my heart be warmed by Thy presence, O Christ, that in the power of Thy Spirit I may go forth to bless. A m en.” V______J

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4 (248) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Person Singular

o think about self is human. Feeling concern for one’s own needs, striving to satisfy one’s own aspirations—such T are the human element, and are not in ______themselves necessarily wrong. But the Christian must evaluate carefully the degree of his self-regard. He must guard against becoming self-centered, lest at any time he might be tempted to seat himself upon the throne of his heart. Some individuals live for no other purpose than to serve themselves and satiate their own sensu­ ous desires. These men have become slaves to their own selfish greed, and as such cannot be free except through the power of the Holy Spirit. True happiness cannot be found by living with­ in the confines of our own lives, but real joy comes through the giving of ourselves—to God and to others. Have you experienced the satisfaction of hear­ ing a heartfelt thank-you from the lips of one whom you went out of your way to help? And have you felt the glow of a smile on the face of a ■ child or a dear saint, a smile that you had a part in creating? If not, then you have missed one of the greatest thrills of a lifetime. The error that people sometimes make lies in the mistaken concept that a man’s life belongs to him alone, and that the way he lives it is strictly his own business. Nothing could be further from the truth, for every act, every decision, is bound to affect somebody (for good or bad) in a way we least expect. The greatest man is not the one who sits in high places with lofty positions and imposing titles. He is not the man who is idolized by mil­ lions because of his attractive personality or ex­ ceptional talent. The greatest man is the one who serves God and others, who recognizes that his life is not his own, and who patterns his life daily after the humble Man of Galilee who was himself • B y DAVID L. FLETCHER the greatest Servant of all. And His Word teaches us that, if we are to be­ come great, we must also become servants. Thus the grammar pattern must be completely re­ versed; “I” must become last. Then we can find happiness.

MAY 18, 1966 • (249) 5 Real Religion: What Is It?

• B y J. H A R R ISO N HUDSON

Christianity must never lose woman has no clothes to wear and evangelical Christianity is substi­ sight of the practical application of nothing to eat, and one of you say, tuting pious words for practical truth. In his short letter James ‘Good luck to you, I hope you’ll deeds. It is one thing to be ac­ writes: keep warm and find enough to quainted with the language, terms, “Now what use is it, my brothers, eat,’ and yet give them nothing to and ritual of conservative Chris­ for a man to say he 'has faith’ if meet their physical needs, what on tianity. It is quite another to dem ­ his actions do not correspond with earth is the good of that?” (James onstrate practical holy living. it? C ould that sort of faith .save 2:14-16, P h illips)* The most notable group in the anyone’s soul? If a fellow man or One of the greatest dangers in New Testament for divorcing ec­

6 (250) • HERALD OF HOLINESS To be concerned only with the saving of one's soul is the most certain way to lose it

clesiastical piety from a practical but of those who through exelu- ance, reading a chapter of the concern were the Pharisees. Re­ sivism have ignored human need. Bible daily, and spending hours in ligious observance meant every­ To be concerned only with the prayer. There are those in the thing to them. They knew the law saving of one’s own soul is the most Christian Church who pray well and obeyed it im plicitly. A n e x ­ certain w ay to lose it. T here is a in public, but when the church or­ ample of their rigorous attitude sense in which the Christian must ganizes a program of visitation can be clearly seen in their criti­ keep himself separate from the evangelism, or some attempt to cism of Jesus for healing on the world, relative to sharing its de­ reach the community, they are con­ Sabbath. sires or sin. But there is another spicuous by their absence. sense in which the Christian must So stringent were the rules gov­ Pious words may be cheap and be very much in the world. Jesus erning Sabbath law that any work, easily uttered, but the nature of did not remain on the Mount of even any attempt to heal the sick, the Christian message calls for the Transfiguration. He was constant­ was condemned as evil. The whole practical expression of the faith. ly involved with the people, heal­ matter was carried to such ridicu­ Such a responsibility always means ing the sick, feeding the hungry, lous extremes that if a man carried involvement with human need and and comforting the sad. enough ink to write two letters, or suffering. There is a righteousness which “food equal to a dried fig,” he was is repelling in its expression. There No committed Christian would guilty of working on the Sabbath. are Christians with a piety that is question the need and efficacy of When Jesus healed the paralytic most unattractive. Theirs is a righ­ prayer, but if the disciples had on the Sabbath, it was a public teousness which lacks understand­ remained in the Upper Room, the demonstration of the priority of ing and sympathy. It is censorious Christian Church would never human need and suffering over rit­ and rigid. None would dream of have been born. Like the Master, ual and law. He was aware that seeking their counsel or help. Such their piety was expressed not only the pious Pharisees were watching, are most apt to have satisfying in religious observances but by get­ and that their reaction would be thoughts of their own piety. ting down to where men and women live. one of harsh criticism. A short time ago the writer had No one with a crying need ever occasion to visit a Christian lady Many may go through the mo­ appealed to Jesus in vain. His con­ belonging to a very exclusive sect. tions of piety and from all ob­ cern for men in need was greater A member of her family had been servations their orthodoxy is be­ than His respect for a piety con­ guilty of a breach of morality, and yond question. But if such ignore fined to religious observances. To her attitude towards that unfor­ human need they have not begun be sure, piety and religious ob­ tunate person was one of utter hor- to practice real religion and are servance are important in the life hor and contempt. With such an hardly worthy of being considered of a Christian; but there must ever attitude there was little she could disciples of Christ. An eminent be a correct perspective, for real do to restore the fallen relative. writer quotes the Quaker poet religion is always practical in ex­ She had confused a disgust for sin W hittier: pression. with a disgust for the one who had sinned. O brother man, fold to thy The Pharisees were also noted Christians must avoid the danger heart thy brother; for their aloofness and self-righ­ of summing up the essence of re­ Where pity dwells, the peace teousness, which issued in the re­ ligion in terms of church attend- of God is there; jection of the not-so-pious. They To worship rightly is to love were appalled that Jesus mingled each other, with “publicans and sinners,” Each smile a hymn, each whom they considered untouch­ kindly deed a prayer. ables. Smug and satisfied by their There are three important qualities own goodness, they were ever evident in the Bereans (Acts 17:11) Follow with reverent steps the ready to cast stones. They thanked ichich should characterize every earnest Christian—an open mind to great example God they were “not as other men.” Scripture, persistent study of it, and Of Him whose holy work The Church is not without a readiness to obey it. Let us daily was doing good; find time to search the Scriptures. groups and individuals still who So shall the wide earth seem Let's make the Bible more than a share this holier-than-thou atti­ table ornament in our homes and our F ather’s tem ple. tude. The Pharisees were simply hide its truths in our hearts that we Each loving life a psalm of concerned with saving their own might not sin against God (Psalms gratitude. souls, and this is true not only of 119:11).—Melvin McCullough. those who have retreated behind *From The New Testament in Modern English, © J. B. Phillips, 1958. Used by the cloistered walls of a monastery, permission of The Macmillan Company.

MAY 18, 19G6 • (251) 7 DO ?SYSELF NO HARM

• B y PAUL MARTIN r V hy do men commit suicide? I’m have not fled. Across the court­ analyst might predict. But God is sure there is no easy answer. But yard comes the voice of one he still God. He is concerned for here is one reason: The devil has heard singing earlier. “Do thyself mankind, and what might appear convinced them there is no hope. no harm: for we are all here.” inevitable could be averted. And when all the facts available I resist every attempt of the “I cannot go on . . . these prob­ are known, sometimes to our minds humanist, the materialist, and lems are too big. There is no hope —so thoroughly trained in the others to tell me that all the facts . . . divorce, bankruptcy, and only scientific method to sort, to classi­ of life can be tabulated, arranged, ruin are ahead.” Try God. He fy, to choose—life looks hopeless. and projected to determine pre- knows you, your bills, and your It is'vanity; all is vanity. home better than you do. Let Him This is true of the Philippian jail­ have you, your problems, your er. Look at the facts: the prison purse. See what God can do. has been wrecked by an earth­ “And the keeper of the prison “I am so confused. I hear so quake, the cell doors are open; it awaking out of his sleep, and many voices. Nothing seems to be is certain the prisoners have fled. seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would right. I am a weary man in a sick Not just his job, but the keeper’s have killed himself, supposing world. Is God dead?” No, God life is at stake. Magistrates take that the prisoners had been fled. lives. This is what He says to those dim views of keepers who can’t But Paul cried with a loud voice, who listen: “Peace I leave with keep. Surely he would die at the saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here” (Acts 16:27-28). you, my peace I give unto you: not hands of the soldiers. He would be as the world giveth, give I unto remembered as a dismal failure, a you. Let not your heart be trou­ laughingstock to other keepers and bled, neither let it be afraid” to the free prisoners. cisely what the outcome will be. (John 14:27). “Then why not take your own For God lives! He loves. He for­ Faith in God will move mighty life before others get to it?” sug­ gives. He intervenes. He can untie mountains. Faith in God will re­ gests the devil. And if this is the impossible knots! “With men it is lieve the troubled heart. Faith in whole story, all the facts, he’s right. impossible, but not with God: for God will set the soul at peace. But there is more, much more. with God all things are possible” I just want to say, Thank God, The devil has lied. With the same (Mark 10:27). It is never hopeless there is more in this world than facts present, the same causes . . . when God is near. computers, specimens, intelligence the result is not as he has said. “We are on a collision course tests, radar, hidden persuaders, For by some wonderful, strange, with China, an atomic war is just fluorine, or propaganda. God is heavenly intervention the prisoners a mile ahead,” a foreign-affairs here, and He will not fail! 8 (252) • HERALD OF HOLINESS The Blessed Man

• By T. M. ANDERSON

he central theme of the first psalm is expressed in the word “blessed.”

This means a spiritual T state of righteousness worked in one’s heart ------by the power of the Lord and confirmed by His testi­ mony. Its direct effects are stated both negatively and positively: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, tor’s high honor and heartfelt the Heaven-given happiness of nor sitteth in the seat of the scorn­ pleasure expressed in the words, life’s fullness forevermore. ful. But his delight is in the law of “Blessed is the man.” This righteous man knows but the Lord; and in his law doth he This heavenly state of inner de­ one supreme object, and that is the meditate day and night.” light cannot be understood except Lord; and has but one excelling The inspired Psalmist gives the in connection with an epochal ex­ pleasure, and that is love. He not only true description of interior perience. This blessing of inner­ only has an awareness of his love blessedness, declaring that he only most satisfaction is the portion of for the Lord, but he has an inner is blessed whose delight is in the the man who, having obtained com­ consciousness that the Lord loves law of the Lord. plete cleansing from indwelling sin, him in return. There is only one priceless pearl finds the settled state of innermost of innermost blessedness, and the quietness in a very eminent ex­ “He brought me to the banquet­ man whose delight is in the law of perience of entire sanctification. ing house, and his banner over me the Lord has found it. The godly The blessed man bows in sub­ was love (Song of Solomon 2:4). man lives, moves, and has his be­ mission to the Lord with a holy “My beloved is mine, and I am ing in a realm o f perpetual bliss solemnity that keeps his mind and his” (v. 16). These heartwarming utterly unknown to worldly-mind­ heart in the depth of humility. He words reveal an enjoyable condi­ ed unbelievers. testifies to the Lord’s peculiar tion of inward blessedness, a sea­ Man is the only being in the manifestations of pleasure when his son of special soul-felt delight, a Creator’s boundless domain to heart is enlarged in the full enjoy­ foretaste of heaven, and a fore­ whom “blessed” can be properly ment of union with Him. gleam of eternal glory. applied. All around the man and There is a real sense in which the The profound secret of this bliss­ below him are creatures of a vast blessed man has suffered the loss ful state of Christian experience is variety of structure and capacity. of all things in order to have un­ disclosed in the words, “We which Yet not to a single one of this broken fellowship with the infinite have believed do enter into rest” countless variety of creatures is the God. In God’s immensity man finds (Hebrews 4:3). word “blessed” adapted. It cannot be said of them that their natures are capable of receiving the C rea­

M AY 18, 1966 • (253) 9 Over and over we read it: “My Father work- The Living God eth hitherto, and I work”; “I seek not mine own Few religious furors in recent years have will, but the will of the Father which hath sent reached the pitch caused by the claim of a few me”; “I am come in my Father’s name”; “My radical American theologians that God is dead. Father giveth you the true bread from heaven”; It reminds one of the saying so dear to the hearts “No man can come unto me, except it were given of Scottish theologians: “Theology is constructed unto him of my Father”; “He that hath seen me in Germany, corrected in Scotland, and corrupted hath seen the Father.” in America!” The D-O-G theologians profess high confidence It would seem that magazine and newspaper in the ethics of Jesus. But it is quite impossible writers have made about all the mileage possible to accept the ethics of Jesus and reject His the­ out of this theme. But the articles continue to ology, just as it is quite impossible to enjoy the pour out, and paper by the ream is used to con­ fruit and destroy the tree. demn, explain, or defend these “new” ideas. Although he wrote long before these new ideas With our modern love for alphabetical abbre­ were publicized, Dag Hammarskjold put it well viations, someone has even come up with the when he said, “God does not die on that day we idea that the “death of God” theory is the cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die “D-O-G” theology. The signs are that it may be on that day when for us life is no longer shot around for quite a while. through with the ever-radiating splendor of mir­ One of the problems, of course, is knowing acles from sources beyond the reach of reason.” just what these men are trying to say. If they That a death has taken place we may well are only trying to say that the shallow ideas about admit. But it is the death of faith, and hope, God some people have had are now dead, this is and finally love—not the death of God. As Max both true and insignificant. If, as seems more Warren wrote: “False ideas of God can be cor­ likely, they are trying to say that God has ceased rected. It is much more difficult to correct no to be a genuine option for faith and that we must idea of God. That is the dilemma we confront now become “Christian atheists,” then they are as we meet Western man, and as to an increasing just exactly as wrong as it is possible to be. extent in Asia and Africa we face ‘Westernized man,’ the man who, to quote Toynbee, has taken FOR ONE THING, “Christian atheism” is a the husk of Western civilization and rejected its complete and hopeless contradiction in terms. kernel.” It makes about as much sense as a straight curve, a square circle, or a heavenly devil. IT ALL STEMS BACK to a faith too small for If there is anything certain about Christ, it is the greater demands of these crisis times. Half­ the fact that He lived His whole life in conscious hearted belief in a little God will never do for fellowship with the living God, who is His Father. days like ours. So real was this fellowship that His followers The late Samuel M. Shoemaker tells of an came to call the Creator and Ruler of the universe experience he had as a young man. He listened simply “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus to Henry Norris Russell, an outstanding astron­ Christ.” omer and a profound Christian believer, describe The first recorded words of the Saviour were, the size of the universe. “How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that Dr. Russell spoke of the speed of light, trav­ I must be about my Father’s business?” His eling 186,342 miles per second through space, and last words on the Cross were, “Father, into thy taking a million years to reach the earth from hands I commend my spirit.” distant galaxies. The vast reach of creation is His entire life before the beginning of His almost beyond the power of the mind to grasp. public ministry was summarized in the words, At that time, Shoemaker said he was reaching “And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and out for divine guidance in the daily decisions of in favour with God and man.” His ministry life, unsure of the leading of the Lord. He talked began with the voice from heaven, “This is my with Russell after the lecture. beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” “How on earth can a God big enough to create

10 (254) • HERALD OF HOLINESS and control such a universe have any time left home may be built of logs, or frame and lath and for the details of my one human existence?” he plaster, or cement blocks, or some new type of asked. synthetic material—and still be no more or no Dr. Russell’s reply was: “The trouble with less a home. The essential is the shelter and your infinite God is that He is not nearly infinite security and love the home provides. What it is enough. Since God is really infinite He can dis­ built of or the color it is painted is quite inci­ patch the affairs of this universe in the twinkling dental. of an eye, and then have all the time in the world Yet sometimes common sense fails us when left for you.” we turn to the realm of religious faith. Religion What we need to say to those whose God has is defined by some in terms of the bonnets or the died is expressed in the title of J. B. Phillips’ horse and buggy or the particular diet one does' classic little volume, Your God Is Too Small. or does not wear or drive or eat. It is defined They just haven’t yet found the God of the Bible, by others in terms of the form of worship, the described thirty times in its pages as “the living mode of baptism, the day of the week, or what God.” have you. The God of Scripture is Life and cannot die. But all of these accompaniments of religious The gods of men are dead and cannot live. expression are incidentals. The molehill becomes Over two years ago Langdon Gilkey, a scholar a mountain when the incidental is regarded as not especially noted for his fundamentalism, the essential. wrote: “The seeming irrelevance of God to our time and the corresponding feelings of emptiness MOLEHILLS GROW INTO MOUNTAINS when concerning Him are no proof either that He is in we give them undue attention. Food and raiment fact dead or that we do not need Him, despite and shelter are necessary to life in such a world our good opinions of ourselves. The salvation of as ours. But Jesus warned against taking anxious a church that has almost lost its Lord lies not in thought for these things in relation to the future. forgetting Him, but in finding Him again in its “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his life.” righteousness; and all these things shall be added God is neither “Lord emeritus” nor “the hon­ unto you,” He said. orary President of the Universe.” He is the Lord Molehills grow into mountains when we lack of all, Creator, Sustainer, and Judge. “The God perspective. Far too many of us spend far too and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” is indeed much time in concerns that won’t matter at all and in truth “ the living G od.” in just a few days, or weeks, or years. The sun is a great burning ball of fire 864,000 Mountain-Climbing over Molehills miles through from one side to the other. It is Someone commented to the effect that “ulcers a mass 332,000 times greater than our entire are what you get from mountain-climbing over earth. Without its light and energy, this speck molehills.” The practice of making mountains of dirt and rock on which we live would be black out of molehills has been with us a long time. and dead. Yet a two-bit piece, just a quarter of Life does have its mountains. The only way a dollar, can completely cover the sun when we over is to climb. But no one can long survive hold it six inches from the eye. spiritually who forces himself to labor over the Sometimes God has to destroy our molehills molehills as he should on the mountainside. in order that we may scale to the tops of the There are those who make mountains out of mountains. We spend so much time mountain- the molehills of inconsistency they see in others. climbing on molehills that we neglect the tower­ Many a sinner has excused his rebellion against ing heights. God on the basis of some flaw, real or imagined, William Davies relates that not far from his which he has detected in a church member. As home in Wales there is an old Norman castle Wyn Blair Sutphin put it, “Most people ride to known as Castell Dinefwr. He says: “In sum­ Hell on little horses, and go down the avenues mer when the trees which surround it are in full of small distractions.” leaf, the castle is hidden: it can be seen only in There are others who practice mountain-climb­ glimpses. But when winter comes, and the trees ing over the molehills of incidentals. Wisdom in have lost their foliage, the castle walls stafid life demands that we distinguish the essential forth in the stark clarity of their ancient splendor. from the marginal. In any area there are those The living of our days has been wintry,” he con­ elements or aspects that make up the essential cludes, but it may have helped us to see with nature of the real or genuine. Then there are new awareness what is essential in our lives. also those elements or aspects that may or may Molehills don’t matter much to mountain- not be present without making any vital differ­ climbers. When we set our faces to scale the ence. heights God has set before us, the molehills will What we call common sense tells us that a pretty much take care of themselves.

M AY 18, 19G6 • (255) 11 trained teachers as a regular school g Letters B subject to those who desire to take the study. . . . I PRO W COHI I hope you will continue to print The Book Comer these articles concerning vital sub­ k m i " " L h b m jects affecting our everyday life, even V P in the face of the criticism you will PRACTICAL PROBLEMS get from some sources. Con: OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE T h o m a s G. C arson T V Today By Delbert R. Gish. Kansas City, North Carolina Mo.: Beacon Hill Press. 88 pages, Goody for Milo L. Arnold's chal­ cloth, $1.50. lenging article in the February 2 Dr. Delbert R. Gish is registrar and issue of the Herald, exposing the Pro: professor of philosophy of religion menace of the uncontrolled giant in Marriage Article and Christian ethics at Nazarene The­ the parlor! This is especially to thank you for ological Seminary. His extensive tech­ However, if all families who view publishing the article by Norman Mac nical knowledge of the field of ethics TV scenes incompatible with the high Farlane (“What Has Gone Wrong is matched by an exemplary life standards of Bible teaching decided to with Marriage?” ) in March 16 issue which truly reflects the principles he “sell their TV sets—cheap,” they of the Herald of Holiness. enunciates in this book. couldn't even give them away. For It would be good to have that arti­ In a world in which lines between there probably would be a train load cle used in youth group meetings right and wrong are badly blurred, of TV’s available for each prospective everywhere. Christian ethics can also become ill- purchaser. It is written in such an interesting defined. The author points out clearly “To throw the TV set out the door” way! that Christian experience and Chris­ is not only “the easy way to control M rs. A l m a W onch tian conduct, though inseparable, are it,” as Brother Arnold’s fine article California quite different. One is crisis, the other stated, but perhaps the only 100 per­ a matter of growth and development. cent sure way, especially where chil­ In increasing measure we must reflect dren are involved. in outer conduct the high profession In one respect, at least, TV is like a Con: “Deaths . . . Births . . . Marriages” of grace within. Communist. You can scarcely trust This book warns against the danger one from one moment to the next. . . . No doubt some are interested in the “deaths . . . births . . . mar­ of rationalizing our conduct and of I have watched numerous showings watching the lives of others. The change from a harmless to a harmful riages . . . adoptions” but unless these people are well-known throughout former leads to carelessness and the scene before one could hardly bat an latter to disillusionment. In a sane eye, let alone walk across the room our general church they should not be listed, in our opinion. We’d like and sympathetic fashion the author and turn a knob. deals with the many facets of Chris­ to see this space used differently. True, this is penetration without tian conduct and presents a pattern permission. A surprise attack! An We like the questions—the letters— and are only interested in seeing that of life that is both personally satisfy­ ambush! But the enemy is an expert ing and glorifying to God.—J. Fred our paper be of the most good for all at this. And this is one of his chief Parker. tactics in his every realm of conquest. who read it, by habit or chance. So, for my part, until TV increases E lberta S. P h illips THE SPIRIT IN REDEMPTION considerably percentagewise in pro­ Pennsylvania By George Shaw. Cincinnati: Jen­ grams which are spiritually, morally, nings and Graham, 1910; reprinted and/or culturally constructive (if it by Paul Finch, 1965. 414 pages, paper, ever does), I feel that our home can $2.00. keep Christ at the center better with­ George Shaw was dean of the out TV than with it. For Christ is Church Chuckles School of Theology, Central Holiness our gracious, unseen Guest and Guar­ University. His book contains twen­ dian of the home. ty-seven chapters, each dealing with L eslie W ooten some vital aspect of the work of the Illinois Holy Spirit in the plan of salvation and continuing through the life of holiness. Pro: There are chapters on the witness Bible in Public Schools of the Spirit, the Spirit’s work in I wish to highly commend the arti­ temptation, spiritual progress, prayer, cle in the Herald (March 23, 1966) preaching. There’s a chapter on the entitled “The Bible Can Be Taught fruit of the Spirit, and one on the in the Public Schools.” If a lot of gifts of the Spirit. preachers and others had read and There are aspects of the Holy studied the Supreme Court decision Spirit's office work set forth and instead of using it as an excuse to explained in this book that, to our criticize the court and the govern­ knowledge, are not found elsewhere. ment, they would have discovered —William M. Greathouse. this fact a long time ago. I am opposed for many reasons to the teaching of religion in the public Any of these books may be ordered from the schools; one is that I believe that it Nazarene Publishing House, Box 527, Kan­ is the job of the home and the church. “Be back in a minute, Nurse. I want sas City, Missouri 64141. Reviews of books I am highly in favor of teaching the from other publishers do not necessarily to enroll them in our church’s Cradle constitute unqualified endorsement. Bible in the public schools by well- Roll!”

12 (256) • HERALD OF HOLINESS A Story-Note from...

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$ "Give us this day our daily bread (Matthew 6:11). ^ 1964 Volkswagen bus, a gift from the Newport, Vermont, church. The bus was formerly used to bring Sunday school pupils to church. Rev. Byron Maybury is pastor.

Bethany Budget Up But No Tuition Hike Bethany Nazarene College president, Dr. Roy H. Cantrell, recommended to trustees March 2 a record operating budget of $1.72 million, an increase of more than $200,000 over the year be­ fore, but added that he anticipates no BLACKWELL (OKLA.) FIRST Church was dedicated by General Superin­ increase in school costs for the com­ tendent George Coulter recently. The plant, which will accommodate 400 ing year. persons at full capacity, was built at a cost of $47,000. Rev. E. Roy Darden is pastor. The board accepted his recommen­ dation, and also approved the hiring of six new staff members. Chaplain Retires Of Area Interest Cantrell outlined construction needs which included a new science hall Dr. E. E. Grosse, superintendent of and enlarging or rennovating five After Twenty Years the Washington District, announced present buildings. Lieutenant Colonel Everett D. Pen­ recently that the Fawn Grove, Penn­ Tuition, meals, and room costs now sylvania, church, organized April 3, rod, an air force chaplain for more total about $625 per semester. The is the fourth organization this assem­ than twenty years, has retired from increased budget, according to the the service following his third tour bly year. Rev. Charles Kohr was president's report, is expected to be appointed temporary pastor. In his of duty at Norton AFB, California. met through student body growth, announcement Dr. Grosse said a His duties as chap­ increased aid from Nazarene churches, Negro church at Dover, Delaware, lain have taken him and special gifts. would be organized May 2. throughout the world. The enrollment at Bethany Naza­ Bom in Indiana, Chap­ rene College is about 1.700, largest First services in the new church at lain Penrod has spent among Nazarene colleges. Lebanon, Indiana, were held March most of his life in Cali­ The new staff appointments include 20, according to Pastor Ralph Price. fornia. A graduate of Harry Macrory, assistant to the presi­ Formal dedication services will be Pasadena College, he dent for foundations and grants; Rev. held this month. The present struc­ entered the military Irwin Harris, who will seek special ture, an educational wing, is the first chaplaincy in 1943, and endowments and assist persons in Chaplain Penrod of two units to be constructed. was overseas in less estate planning; Dr. Lloyd Taylor, than six months. After VE day, formerly of Eastern Nazarene College, Rev. John R. Fergus, pastor of the Chaplain Penrod returned to the U.S. to teach chemistry; Gerard Reed, who El Sobrante, California, church, has to train for Pacific duty. will receive the Ph.D. degree in his­ received fifteen persons into the He pastored a short time before tory this summer, to teach history; church by profession of faith during returning to the service during the and Miss Joyce Cox and Mrs. Elfrieda the 1965-66 assembly year. Korean War. He has since been ac­ Hanna, to join the library staff. tive in training the chaplaincy through a variety of assignments. Dr. David Hynd, missionary doctor He has been named “Outstanding in Swaziland, was the recipient of a Moving Missionaries Clergyman Alumni of the Year” by Rev. John H. Holstead is the new super­ Pasadena College, the first military intendent of our work in Taiwan. His address is P.O. Box 802, Taipei, Taiwan, chaplain to receive the award. Renublic of China. Some of his time now will be de­ The new address for Rev. and Mrs. voted to evangelistic efforts, in which, Cleve James is DL-2. Villa Fontana, Caro­ according to the Nazarene Service­ lina. Puerto Rico 00630. Miss Agnes W illox has a new address in men’s secretary, Paul Skiles, he is British Honduras. It is Holland Memorial very effective. Clinic. Benaue Viejo, British Honduras, Central America. Rev. and Mrs. Robert Perry’s address is Students Visit Missionaries now C.P. 410. Lourenco Marques, Mozam­ Retired Missionaries spoke recently bique, Africa Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Ainscough have to twenty-five Pasadena College Mis­ returned from furlough. Their address is sionary Crusaders when the students, Donata Alvarez 884, Buenos Aires, Argen­ with Dr. Jean Williams, adviser, vis­ tina. ited the Casa Robles, California, re­ RENO, NEVADA, Nazarenes, with Rev. a^»d Mrs. Paul Andrus are in Bo­ livia for their first term. Their address is tirement home. their pastor. Rev. Robert Ulrich, are Casilla 1056, La Paz, Bolivia, South Among the group which greeted the pictured after filming a thirty-min­ America. students were Dr. Louis R. Chapman, ute television program at a Reno Rev. and Mrs. Norman Howerton in Ar­ gentina have a new address. It is Cristo­ N.W.M.S. president emeritus, and Dr. television station. First Church there is asked to produce a program bal Colon 930. San Jose de Guaymallen, A. E. Sanner, manager of the retire­ Mendoza, Argentina. once every three months. Left to ment home. The missionaries per­ Miss Mary Wallace has returned to rioht are Rae Elaine Coring, Dick Nicaragua. Her address is Apartado 387, formed a humorous skit about bap­ Johnson, Maybelle Howard, Ulrich, Rivas, Nicaragua. Central America. tism in Africa. and Nancy Carter. Miss Dorothy Bevill is on furlough from

14 (258) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Swaziland. Her address is c /o Mr. R. A. Bevill, Route 2, Searcy, Arkansas. Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Cook are in Kansas City en route to Jamaica. Rev. and Mrs. Chester Naramor have gone to Chile for their first term as mis­ sionaries. Their address: Casilla 368, Arica, Chile. South America. Rev. and Mrs. Russell Birchard are with relatives in Michigan for a period of time while Brother Birchard is recovering from a recent illness. He is regaining his strength rapidly and should soon be fully recovered. Rev. and Mrs. Leon Osborn are return­ ing from Taiwan. Their address will be 6355 North Oak Avenue, Temple City, California. Rev. and Mrs. Harry Wiese have arrived home from Taiwan on furlough. Their address is 1640 Brigdon Road, Pasadena, California 91104. Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Eades are spend­ ing a few months with relatives in North Ireland before returning to Cape Verde in July, 1966. Their temporary address is 61 Gilnahirk Road, Cherry Valley, Belfast 5, No. Ireland. Rev. and Mrs. John Cochran are home OUTLINING THE SALES PROGRAM for the 1966 district assembly season, on furlough from Argentina. Their address Publishing House Manager M. A. Lnnn explains a new music package is 152 (2 Lexington Avenue, Mansfield, during a recent sales conference to persons who will be representing the Ohio. Publishing House this summer. About 25 persons attended the conference, Miss Mabel Tustin is home on furlough and more than 100 were present for a luncheon at which the new book from Africa. Her present address is c/o Mr. Paul Cole, 6303 No. Wabash Drive, program was announced. Kansas City, Missouri. Miss Sylvia Schriber is on furlough from Nicaragua. Her address is 8642 Cherry Lane, Alta Loma, California. People in the News Speak to Joplin Pastors Miss Avinell McNabb has returned to General Superintendent G. B. Wil­ Swaziland. Her address is Box 14, Man- Rev. and Mrs. Frank A. Neufeld, zini, Swaziland, South Africa. liamson and Rev. Paul Sodowsky, Newhall, California, recently cele­ office manager of the Department of brated their fiftieth wedding anniver­ Ministerial Benevolence, spoke re­ Coulter, Hance Speak sary, and in recognition of their cently to Joplin District pastors dur­ service a Sunday school wing of the ing their annual midyear convention At Church Anniversary Newhall church was named “Neufeld Dr. George Coulter, general super­ in Springfield, Missouri. Hall.” Neufeld is an ordained elder, Dr. Roy H. Cantrell, president of intendent, and Dr. Ray Hance, Kan­ and Mrs. Neufeld a consecrated dea­ sas District superintendent, were Bethany Nazarene College, was also coness. among special speakers February 13 present. Papers were given by pas­ at the fiftieth anniversary of the tors on different phases of the min­ Rev. and Mrs. C. K. Dillman cele­ Bethel, Kansas, church. istry. brated, April 17, their fiftieth wed­ JOPLIN V.B.S. WORKSHOP Services were held throughout the ding anniversary with a celebration day, along with a basket dinner. Dr. Rev. Marion McKellips, pastor at at Bourbonnais (Illinois) College Harold Hoyt, former pastor, was also Mountain Grove, Missouri, directed Church. Rev. Dillman, eighty, re­ the Joplin District vacation Bible present. tired last year from the Chicago Cen­ Two charter members were present. school workshop, March 26, in Car­ tral District. They are Mrs. Will Aller and her son, thage, Missouri. Departmental classes Ralph. The church was organized in were held for each group. Rev. M. F. Mr. Carson Tudor received recently Eudaley, Springfield, Missouri, pas­ February, 1916, in a schoolhouse near his twenty-ninth-year Sunday school tor, is district church schools chair­ the present site. pin, indicating faithful attendance at Rev. E. R. Houston, Jr., is the pres­ man. the Monterey, Tennessee, church. ent pastor. Sunday School Superintendent Tom­ WEST VIRGINIA my Buttram presented the pin. Rev. CHURCH STARTED Missionaries Speak Eugene Campbell is pastor. Dr. H. Harvey Hendershot, West Three missionaries and the office Virginia District superintendent, re­ editor of the Other Sheep were Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Millard, Ottum­ cently organized the Scott Depot speakers recently at the fourth an­ wa, Iowa, celebrated, April 3, their church with eleven charter members, nual missionary convention held on fiftieth wedding anniversary. The and appointed Rev. Homer Estes, a the campus of Trevecca Nazarene couple has been active in the Ottum­ local preacher, as pastor. College. wa church for sixteen years. Property has been purchased for Dr. Samuel Hynd, resident physi­ the construction of a building, and cian of the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Rev. and Mrs. Nathan Essley cele­ the congregation is temporarily wor­ Hospital in Swaziland, South Africa; brated, April 4, their sixty-eighth shipping in an elementary school. Miss Jean Darling, missionary nurse wedding anniversary at Van Nuys, in India; and Rev. Donald Owens, California. Other recent organizations: Lake Grove, Oregon, February 27, 1966. Korea field superintendent, were the Rev. Forrest Hill, pastor.— W. D. McGraw, missionary speakers. Miss Helen Miss Daisy Lineback, Frankfort, district superintendent. Temple, Other Sheep office editor, Indiana, was recently honored in ser­ Hooversville, Pennsylvania, February 26, vice at First Church there, and was 1966. Rev. Dwight Buchanan, pastor.— also spoke. Robert I. Goslaw, district superintendent. The convention was sponsored by feted in the home of friends on the Longmont, Colorado, January 30, 1966.— the Trevecca Missionary Fellowship. occasion of her ninetieth birthday. E. L. Cornelison, district superintendent.

M AY 18, 1966 • (259) 15 her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ellis; one sister; three brothers; maternal grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. C. F. Sanders; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ellis; and one great-grandparent.

HOLLIS HANN, thirty-eight, died March 20 in Yucca Valley, California, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Rev. Roy Smith and Rev. Don Redmond conducted funeral services. He is survived by his wife, Patience Ruth; five sons, Guy Gary, Graig, Glenn, and Garen; his parents; and one sister.

CHARLES OMER BIRD, eighty-seven, died re­ cently at his home in Frankfort, Indiana, Funeral services were held by Rev. Nathan Adams. He is survived by his wife, Ora Alice, two daughters, five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

0. WINFRED LEWIS died January 21 from a heart attack in a Floydada, Texas, hospital. He was Sunday school superintendent of the Floydada church. He is survived by his wife.

MRS. NELLIE PEARL PERKINS, sixty-eight, died April 11 in Austin, Texas. She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. W. A. Russell, five grandchildren, her m other, one siste r, and one ON NAVY CRUISE, Rev. Dean Baldwin, superintendent of the Joplin Dis­ brother. trict, listens to a former Bethany Nazarene College classmate, Commander H. W. Stroman, the senior chaplain aboard the U.S.S. “Constitution" in the ANNA UEHLEIN, sixty-four, died April 7 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rev. Curtis G. Coburn conducted Pacific. Baldwin was one of sixteen civilians selected for the orientation funeral services. She is survived by her husband, cruise. He spoke during a chapel service during the five-day trip. Charles; two sons, James and John; and one daughter, Marion Sorrell.

REV. THERON BURTON GRAY, fifty-five, died Deaths March 26 as a result of injuries sustained in an Henry Speaks at Ohio State automobile accident in Wichita, Kansas. Funeral MRS. RUTH BOGGS, sixty-seven, died about Janu­ ary 5 in Evarts, Kentucky. She was the oldest char­ services were conducted by Rev. C. Marselle Knight. Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of ter member of the Evarts church. Rev. Alvin Boggs He is survived by his wife, two sons, Burton and Mervin, and one sister. Christianity Today, spoke recently to and Rev. John Stewart officiated at funeral services. She is survived by her husband, Chester; two daugh­ MRS. CORA M. COOK, ninety-two, died March 27 more than 500 persons at Ohio State ters, Mrs. Reba Daugherty and Mrs. Mabel Barnes; in Sea ttle , Washington. Funeral services were con­ one brother; five grandchildren; and five great­ University on the “new birth, and ducted by Rev. Mark Smith. Dr. Leslie Parrott, and grandchildren. how it would change man’s life com­ Dr. W . D. M cGraw . She is survived by four sons, William, Rollin, Arthur, and Ralph. Rev. Ralph Cook MISS MARY E. THOMAS died April 2 in Pasa­ pletely,” according to a report of Rev. is missionary to Jamaica. Among surviving grand­ dena, California. Rev. Earl Lee, Rev. H. B. Wallin, children is Rev. Franklin Cook of the World Mis­ Miles Simmons, pastor of Columbus and Mrs. Bertha Schwab conducted funeral services. sions Department. (Ohio) First Church. She is survived by one brother and two sisters.

The occasion was a prayer break­ EVA DELLA HEATH, eighty-one, died March 25 Announcements fast at which university administra­ in an Ithaca, New York, hospital. Rev. Frank Heberle EVANGELIST'S OPEN DATES and Rev. Marion Walchle conducted funeral services. James and Ruth Ford, Rt. 8, Box 677, Indianapo­ tors and students testified to how She is survived by her husband, Floyd, eight chil­ lis, Indiana 4 6 2 3 1 . One in May, one in June, all Christ had changed their lives. dren, twenty-four grandchildren, twenty-one great­ of July, and some time in August and September. grandchildren, one sister, and one brother. The breakfast closed a week of Bender Evangelistic Party, P.O. Box 8635, Tampa, JIMMIE LORENE ELLIS, sixteen, died March 13 Florida 33604. May 26 to June 5. witnessing work on the campus, di­ in her family home in Mount Hebron, California, as rected by Campus Crusade, an or­ a result of a gland tumor. Rev. Woodie Williamson Charles H. Lipker, Route 1, Alvada, Ohio 44802. ganization devoted to the evangeliza­ officiated at funeral services. She is survived by November and December of 1966. tion of university students. The group met daily in First Church for their training and sharing periods, Simmons said.

Latin Churches on Roll Rev. Everette Howard, Central Latin-American District superintend­ ent, reported that fourteen of twenty- five churches on the district received Evangelistic Honor Roll Certificates at the recent district assembly. A total of 172 Nazarenes were re­ ceived by profession of faith during the past essembly year. The churches and pastors receiving the award are: Abernathy, Texas, Agustin Cerda; Abi­ lene, Texas, Santos De Leon: Colorado Springs, Colorado, Martin Hernandez; Corpus Christi, Texas, Juan Vergara; MUSIC COMMISSION, during an informal moment at their meeting with Fort Worth, Texas, Samuel Picazo; Har­ music faculties of our colleges. Left to right: Professor Lester Dunn, lingen, Texas, Jose Carillo; Kansas City, Bethany; Professor Harrell Lucky, Bethany: Dr. John Knight, Trevecca; Kansas, Oziel Flores: Lamesa. Texas, Leo Rev. Wendell Wellman; Dr. Leslie Parrott; Professor Olive Marple, Eastern Flores; Laredo, Texas, Armando Rodri­ guez; Odessa, Texas. Alejandro Sandoval; Nazarene College: Professor Audrey Darling, Canadian Nazarene College; Columbia Heights, Texas, Joaquin Torres; Professor Curtis Brady, Olivet: Professor Chester Crill, Pasadena; Dr. R. T. Mistletoe, Texas, Carlos Stopani; Palm Williams: Dr. Hugh C. Benner, General Superintendent; Professor Robert Heights, Texas, Jose Cardona; San Benito, Brown, Eastern Nazarene College; Professor Marvin Bloomquist, Northwest Texas, Hector Raygoza. Nazarene College; M. A. (Bud) Lunn

16 (260) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Crawford T. Vanderpool. General Superintendent North Carolina September 14 and 15 Powers. (N.W.M.S. convention, May 23 to 24.) New York September 23 and 24 "Showers of Blessing" CANADA PACIFIC, May 26 and 27, at church, SAMUEL YOUNG: McCallum and Cannon Drive, Box 175, Abbotsford, District Assembly Schedule Program Schedule B.C., Canada. Pastor Cyril Palmer. General Super­ Florida May 23 and 24 intendent Benner. (N.W.M.S. convention, May 25; British Isles South May 28 to 30 S.S. convention, May 24.) British Isles North ...... June 6 and 7 Michigan July 13 to 15 May 22—“Why Aren’t You a BRITISH ISLES SOUTH, May 28 to 30, at Northwest Oklahoma July 20 and 21 Christian?” (Part I), by Rus­ church, Albion Street, Morley, Yorkshire, England. East Tennessee July 28 and 29 Pastor John Townend. General Superintendent Young. Kentucky August 11 and 12 sell V. DeLong (N.W.M.S. convention May 27; S.S. convention, Minnesota August 18 and 19 May 29—“Why Aren’t You a May 2 8 .) North Arkansas ...... August 31 and September 1 Christian?” (Part II), by Rus­ South Arkansas ...... September 7 and 8 NEW MEXICO, June 1 and 2 at Nazarene Camp­ Joplin September 14 and 15 sell V. DeLong ground, Capitan, New Mexico. Pastor John M. Power, Capitan. General Superintendent Powers. HUGH C. BENNER: NEW "SHOWERS OF BLESSING" OUTLETS (N.W.M.S. convention, May 30; N .Y.P.S. convention, District Assembly Schedule KlYIM-FM Lynden, Washington May 3 1 .) Canada Pacific May 26 and 27 106.5 meg. 9:30 p.m. Saturday A laska ...... June 2 and 3 KTXJ Jasper, Texas ALASKA, June 2 and 3, at First Church, 1220 Nebraska June 23 and 24 1350 kc. 9:00 a.m. Sunday "E" Street, Anchorage, Alaska. Pastor Hugh E. Northeastern Indiana June 29 and 30 WTYC Rock Hill, South Carolina Hines. General Superintendent Benner. (N.W.M.S. Southwestern Ohio July 13 and 14 1150 kc. 12:15 p.m. Sunday convention, June 1; S.S. convention, June 3; Pittsburgh July 21 and 22 WRJN Racine, Wisconsin N.Y.P.S. convention, June 4). Wisconsin ...... August 4 and 5 1400 kc. 10:15 p.m. Sunday Iowa August 10 to 12 WRJN-FM Racine, Wisconsin Indianapolis August 17 and 18 100.7 meg. 10:15 p.m. Sunday Directories Louisiana ...... August 31 and September 1 Southeast Oklahoma ...... September 7 and 8 GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Office: 6401 The Paseo V. H. LEWIS: Charles Ed. and Normadene Nelson, P.O. Box 241, Kansas City, Missouri 64131 Rogers, Arkansas 7 2 7 5 6 . Some open tim e in June, District Assembly Schedule Southern California May 25 to 27 July, and August. HARDY C. POWERS: District Assembly Schedule Canada West June 9 and 10 Asa Sparks, 68 Lester Ave., Nashville, Tennessee Arizona ...... May 26 and 27 Canada Atlantic June 23 and 24 37210. Some open dates in June, July, and August. New Mexico ...... June 1 and 2 Albany ...... June 30 and July 1 MARRIAGES M aine ...... June 15 and 16 Chicago Central ...... July 7 and 8 Miss Shirley Jean Middleton and Mr. Douglas New England ...... June 22 and 23 Eastern Kentucky July 20 and 21 Arthur Schmidt, on April 1, at Pasadena, California. West Virginia July 7 to 9 Southwest Indiana July 28 and 29 SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED Northwestern Ohio July 13 and 14 Northwest Indiana August 11 and 12 —by a Christian friend for a talented Indiana Colorado ...... July 20 lo 22 Northwestern Illinois August 18 and 19 University student who must settle it w ith God now M issouri ...... August 4 and 5 Houston ...... August 31 and September 1 —atheistic teaching has been a hindrance and he Tennessee ...... August 10 and 11 Southwest Oklahoma ...... September 0 and 9 needs help. Kansas City August 17 and 18 GEORGE COULTER: Nazarene Camps G. B. WILLIAMSON: District Assembly Schedule District Assembly Schedule Rocky Mountain June 9 and 10 June 6 to 12, Kansas City District, at the Dis­ A bilene ...... May 25 and 26 Nevada-Utah June 15 and 16 trict Center, 7600 Antioch Road, Overland Park, Northeast Oklahoma ...... lime 15 and 1.6 Canada Central June 23 and 24 Kansas. Workers: Rev. C. Hastings Smith, Rev. South Dakota ...... June 22 and 23 Eastern Michigan July 13 and 14 Paul Martin, Singer James Bohi. Rev. Wilson H. North Dakota ...... June 30 and July 1 Central Ohio July 20 to 22 Lanpher, district superintendent. Northern California ...... July 14 and 15 Illinois July 27 to 29 Oregon Pacific ...... July 20 to 22 Kansas ...... August 3 to 5 June 20 to 26, Nebraska District camp and Akron ...... August 4 and 5 Dallas August 18 and 19 assembly; all evening services and all day Sunday V irg in ia ...... August 11 and 12 Gulf Central ...... September 1 and 2 at campgrounds, S.E. Kearney, Nebraska. Workers: South Carolina ...... August 18 and 19 Georgia ...... September 8 and 9 Rev. Paul McGrady, Rev. Bill Sullivan; the Jantzes, song evangelists,’ and Missionary Jean Darling. Dr. Whitcomb Harding, district superintendent. TIME IS RUNNING OUT! July 1 to 10, New England District, at Nazarene Have you mailed in your application? Campgrounds on Route 28 (15 miles north of Boston), North Reading, Massachusetts. Workers: Dr. T. E. Martin, Rev. C. Neal Hutchinson, Rev. James E. Baker, Singer Paul W. McNutt. Rev. Fletcher Spruce, district superintendent. LAYMEN’S / would like consideration for my reserxui CONFERENCE ^ ^ tion to the Laymen’s Conference on Evan-' July 2 to 10, Albany District, at District Center, ON / gelism in 1966, Brooktondale, New York (eight miles north of EVANGELISM Ithaca, Route 79, then Rt. 330 to White Church Road). Workers: Rev. James Hunton, Rev. Fred Mr. & Mrs. Thomas, Singer Jack Bierce, Missionary David Brown­ ing. Rev. Kenneth Pearsall, district superintendent. Mr.

July 3 to 10, Chicago Central District, at Chalfant Mrs. Hall on campus of Olivet Nazarene College. Workers: Miss ...... Rev. George Gardner, Singer De Verne Mullen. Dr. Mark R. Moore, district superintendent. Last Name First Name(s) Street ...... Phone ...... July 4 to 10, South Carolina District, at Naza- rene Campground, Batesburg, South C arolina, on A U G U S T 23-28, 1966 City & State ...... Zip ... State Route 391. Workers: Dr. Russell V. DeLong, Rev. Paul McGrady, and Singers Ralph and Joann Age-group: □ under 30 □ 30 to 40 Cunmire. Dr. Otto Stucki, district superintendent. □ 40 to 55 □ over 55 District Assembly Information Local Church FLORIDA, May 23 and 24, New Everglades Hotel, Membership: ...... on Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida. Pastor C. B. My check for $...... is attached. Nixon. General Superintendent Young. (N.W.M.S. convention, May 21; N.Y.P.S. convention, May 21; S.S. convention, May 21.) IMPORTANT: Make all checks payable to: ABILENE, May 25 and 26, San Jacinto Church, 411 Alabama, Amarillo, Texas 79106. Pastor Rob­ THEin jC i INTERNATIONAL LAYMEN S CONFERENCE ert Green. General Superintendent Williamson. (N.W.M.S. convention, May 24; S.S. convention, ^4ct rio«,t Two persons, modified American plan, May 2 3 .) $10.00n on per~ person per day. Registration fee: $2.50 per person'. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, May 25 to 27, River­ side Memorial Auditorium, Third and Lime, River­ Mail the completed slip with your deposit. ( S25.00 per couple. ) side, California. Pastor Arnold Carlson. General Superintendent Lewis. (N.W.M.S. convention, May 24 .) Mail to: DEPARTMENT OF EVANGELISM

ARIZONA, May 26 and 27, Eastside Church, 6401 The Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri 641111 2300 North 24th Street, Phoenix, Arizona. Pastor M AY 18, 196G • (261) 17 New Aide Named James R. Davis, thirty, of Findlay, Ohio, is the new chief assistant in Late News the office of Dr. John L. Stockton, ESTATE PICTURE COMING general treasurer, succeeding Harper Because of many inquiries Cole, who has taken a leave of ab­ concerning the recent purchase sence to pursue further graduate work of the Lynn Estate by Inter­ Harper to Study at the University of Oklahoma. Davis national Headquarters, a spe­ will be in charge of data processing cial aerial photograph of the African Curriculum and be the office manager. He is a property will be carried in next Dr. Albert F. Harper, editor in chief graduate of the International Business week’s Herald. of Nazarene Sunday school curricu­ College. Fort Wayne, Indiana, and The church headquarters lum, and Mrs. Harper left Kansas was director of young adult activities property was threatened by an City, April 30, for a two-month trip on the Northwestern Ohio District. action to locate a metropolitan to the five missionary regions in He is married and has two small junior college on the adjoining Africa, where he will study Nazarene daughters, aged five and eight.— estate of Mrs. J. J. Lynn. The Sunday school literature. N.I.S. junior college board would have The senior editor hopes to lay the taken one-third of the head­ groundwork for a common curricu­ Vacation Bible School SOS quarters land by condemnation lum among the eleven language Supply orders being filled in Kansas suit. groups, plus English and Afrikaans. City had passed the 1,000 mark by Subsequent joint purchase of Much of what is being provided now May 7, and prospects for a record- the fifty-seven-acre estate by has been translated by missionaries breaking year of V.B.S. activity were the Church of the Nazarene and and reproduced by mimeograph. bright. Supervisors who have not yet Research Hospital (Herald of The lack of money and the fact placed orders are urged to do so Holiness, April 13, April 20) many are still unable to read are promptly, being sure to include the has resulted in a publicly an­ problems he and the Nazarene Pub­ actual local starting date in the space nounced decision by the junior lishing House at Johannesburg face. provided on page 1 of the order blank. college board to locate the new Dr. Harper will confer with mis­ junior college campus else­ sionaries and national Sunday school Ambassador Interest where. leaders on each of the districts, as well as direct Sunday school conven­ High Says Skiles tions. He will speak at the annual Nazarenes throughout the world preachers’ meeting on the South contributed Sunday to send sixteen African European District, and lec­ students on a six-week Latin-Ameri- Radio Format Altered ture for a week at the Nazarene Bible can evangelistic crusade. Interest in In line with a Nazarene Radio College. the project, according to what Paul Commission decision in January, the En route home, the Harpers will Skiles, N.Y.P.S. secretary, has ob­ format of “Showers of Blessing” will visit in Cairo, Jordan, Israel, and served, is high. be altered to include a variety of Athens. A two-day Sunday school Recalling the 1964 speakers beginning with the program conference is scheduled with pastors Evangelistic Ambassa­ released for the first Sunday in June. in Jordan. The Harpers will return dors’ effect on the Among early speakers will be in mid-July. Latin mission fields, Evangelist C. William Fisher and Skiles anticipated the Rev. Fletcher Spruce, New England Wordsworth Son III enlarged schedule will District superintendent. bring greater spiritual This means Dr. Russell V. DeLong, Nazarenes are praying for the nine­ results. The teams major speaker since the program be­ teen-year-old grandson of the late leave July 12 from gan in 1945, will not continue. Shortly Dr. B. V. Seals, Seattle, Washington, Denver, Colorado. after its beginning, Dr. DeLong be­ district superintendent, who is re­ Both coordinators, Dr. H. T. Reza came the major speaker and con­ ported critically afflicted with cancer. and Rev. Paul Orjala, will have eight tinued until 1960, when his messages The youth, Ralph Wordsworth, re­ college students at their disposal. were interchanged with others for a cently suffered the amputation of one This is the same number used in the period of four years. He has been leg due to the disease. He is the son 1964 crusade. Both groups will draw the major speaker since 1964. of the late Earl Wordsworth, who on team evangelists and singers. “Showers of Blessing,” now being died a few years ago from a heart Skiles encouraged all churches to aired on 560 English-speaking sta­ attack, and Mrs. Crystel Wordsworth. participate in the offering, if it has tions, has picked up 40 additional —N.I.S. yet to be taken, and forward it im­ outlets since the recent Easter pro­ mediately to General Treasurer John gram. Pledges to Bible Schools Stockton. A Nazarene layman who wishes to 140,000 of Spanish "Herald" remain anonymous for the present Kinzler to California A special edition of El Heraldo de has told a general superintendent of Rev. Clarence Kinzler, pastor at Santidad, the Spanish Herald of Holi­ his intentions to give $50,000 to the Shawnee, Kansas, for five and one- ness,, has gone to press with an order two new Nazarene Bible colleges to­ half years, and Kansas City District for 140,000 copies, one of the largest ward their operating expenses. The N.Y.P.S. president for two and one- paid circulations of any religious peri­ money will be given at the rate of half years, has accepted a call to odical distributed to Spanish-speaking $10,000 annually for five years. The pastor Riverside (California) Arling­ people, according to Editor Sergio schools are the new European Bible ton Church. Franco. college near Switzerland and the new His first Sunday at his new charge The issue, dated September 1, will one about to start in either Colorado will be June 5. The former pastor at be mailed in June. Last year’s special Springs or Fort Worth, Texas.—N.I.S. Arlington was Rev. W. H. Burton. edition run totalled 105,000.

18 (262) • HERALD OF HOLINESS The Answer Corner

By RALPH EARLE Conducted by W. T. Purkiser, Editor CORRUPTION AMIDST PROSPERITY Can a person who is saved but unsanctified make it to heaven? Also, if (Temperance) a person isn’t baptized by water, will he make it to heaven? My answer to both questions would unjustified state (Hebrews 6:1-6). How­ II Kings 14:23-24; Amos 6:1-7; 7: have to be, It all depends on why the ever much some folks fight it, the al­ 10-12 (May 22) person is not entirely sanctified and ternative for the believer is finally “on why he isn’t baptized by water. to perfection” (Hebrews 6:1) or “ back In the case of entire sanctification, to perdition” (Hebrews 10:39) . • Mountain—Amos pronounced a light does not ahvays come to the indi­ As to the necessity of water baptism, woe on those that trust in “ the moun­ vidual immediately after conversion. this also can become an issue of personal tain of Samaria” (6:1). This city was But Romans 5:9 assures us that those obedience to personally revealed light. the capital of the northern kingdom who are justified are saved from wrath, On the other hand, quite a number of of Israel. and I John 1:7 implies that all who evangelical (and I believe thoroughly On our first trip to the Holy Land, walk in the light are either provisionally saved) Christians sincerely believe that in 1949, the thing which impressed us or exponentially cleansed from all sin. the ‘‘one baptism” which is central to most strikingly was the height of the In other words, God overlooks ig­ our faith (Ephesians 4:5) is the baptism hill on which this ancient city was norance (Acts 17:30) and leads His with the Holy Spirit. Since there is only built. King Omri was not satisfied children on into the full light of total one baptism, they argue, it must be the with his capital at Tirzah, nearer the redemption. But He does not excuse spiritual baptism distinctive to New Jordan River. So he built a new rebellion. Testament Christianity. I shall have to capital on this hill. One who comes to a personal recog­ go along with them to the extent that The “mountain” rises abruptly to nition that the will of God is his sanc­ if a person is only going to have one a height of 1,500 feet, with steeply tification and who refuses to believe baptism, he would better have the sloping sides. It would be almost im­ and receive, soon if not immediately, baptism with the Holy Spirit. possible for an enemy army to storm will find himself back in sin and in an these slopes and take the city. Thus the capital was almost impregnable. Would you please comment on Genesis 1:29; 2:9; and 3:22-24? Did Adam As we stood on the top of this high ever eat of the tree of life? If so, why did he die? hill we could look northward toward The verses you cite all relate to the and evil. Before they had a chance to Nazareth, southward toward Jerusa­ trees in the Garden of Eden. go a step farther and eat of the tree of lem, eastward toward the Jordan, and While not a great deal of detail is life, they were driven from the Garden. westward toward the Mediterranean. given, I take it that Adam and Eve It is interesting to note that the An invading army could be spotted at were permitted to eat of all the trees tree of life appears again in Revelation a considerable distance. Few capitals in the Garden except the two mentioned 2:7; 22:2, 14 in the paradise of God, have enjoyed such a strategic position. in Genesis 2:9, “ the tree of life” and where its leaves are “ for the healing of But God warned His people through “ the tree of knowledge of good and the nations” and where it is accessible the prophet not to put their trust in evil.” Although only the tree of the to those who enter the heavenly city. this, but in Him. Though it took the knowledge of good and evil is specifi­ Of the precise function and nature Assyrians three years to capture this cally mentioned in Genesis 2:17, the of these trees we arc not told. It is fortress, they finally succeeded in tree of life seems to have been “off enough to know that God will give to 722 B .C . and led its inhabitants into limits” also. us through “ the last Adam” what the captivity. What happened was that, through first Adam was not able to steal, the the serpent’s solicitation, Adam and Eve gift of eternal life and blessedness. • Ivory—The rugged prophet Amos ate of the tree of knowledge of good denounced the luxury-loving Israel­ ites that “lie upon beds of ivory” Does the devil have the power of death? If not, can you explain Hebrews (6:4). It may seem surprising that 2:14 and Job 2:6 to me? ivory should be found in north Israel Without meaning to be evasive, I in the eighth century before Christ. are partakers of flesh and blood, he also should have to say it depends on what But Solomon, in the tenth century himself likewise took part of the same; you mean by “ the power of death.” that through death he might destroy B .C ., imported large amounts of ivory If you mean, Can the devil cause him that had the power of death, that from Africa to give added prestige to the death of either saint or sinner with­ is, the devil.” The term here translated his magnificent regime. Excavations out the permissive will of God? the “ power” is not the usual New Testa­ at Samaria have revealed abundant answer is, “ No.” What Satan did to ment word for ability or force. It is evidence of the use of ivory for deco­ Job was strictly limited by God’s per­ kratos, and is often translated “do­ ration in the time of Amos. mission. minion.” • Couches—The prophet scores those This does not mean the devil would That is, Satan claimed death as his who “stretch themselves upon their not gladly destroy all he could. He is own realm. But the death and resur­ couches.” The wealthy people, as in “ the destroyer.” But he is not omnipo­ rection of Jesus Christ destroyed this Jesus’ day, reclined on couches around tent, and in that sense he does not have domination by showing that it is only the table as they ate their meals in the power to inflict death at his will. temporary. The result is to deliver us leisurely fashion, attended by numer­ On the other hand, Hebrews 2:14 who through fear of death were in ous servants. reads: “ Forasmuch then as the children bondage (v. 15) . BIBLES That Satisfy Special Desires and Make Perfect Gifts

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