OF HOLY TESTIMONY THE SCRIPTURES make very clear the he departed, and began to publish in privilege and power and the necessity Decapolis how great things Jesus had of verbal testimony on the part of God’s done for him: and all men did marvel” children. (Mark 5:19-20). Of course, a holy life is indispensable. On the Day of Pentecost the promise To fail at this point is to neutralize the was, “But ye shall receive power, after testimony. We must be holy in all man­ that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: ner of conversation and living; but a and ye shall be witnesses unto me both holy life, according to the Scriptures, is in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and not enough. The redeemed of the Lord in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part must say so. Verbal testimony to both of the earth” (Acts 1:8). the saving and sanctifying grace of God In Romans 10:10 the apostle very must accompany and complement a holy pointedly states the necessity of verbal life. testimony. “For with the heart man be- Scriptural illustrations are abundant lieveth unto righteousness; and with the even in the Old Testament. David, the mouth confession is made unto salva­ sweet singer of Israel, said: “The spirit tion.” of the Lord spake by me, and his word In the building of strong Christian was in my tongue” (II Samuel 23:1-2). character the faith of the heart and the And again, “Then was our mouth confession of the mouth are like Siamese filled with laughter, and our tongue twins; they must both live or both die with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad” General (Psalms 126:2-3). The Psalmist’s invitation was, “Come Superintendent and hear, all ye that fear God, and I Powers will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue” (Psalms 66:16-17). together. The outward conduct can This same truth is taught everywhere never be a substitute for the verbal tes­ in the New Testament. It is stated in timony, for it cannot report the spiritual Matthew 10:32-33 and again in Mark work wrought in the heart. This verbal 8:38. And on one occasion Christ in a testimony scripturally given does make direct exhortation said: “Howbeit Jesus high profession, but it attributes nothing suffered him not, hut saith unto him, Go to self, and gives all the glory to home to thy friends, and tell them how Christ. Happy, victorious, verbal testi­ great things the Lord hath done for thee, mony backed up by a holy life is God’s and hath had compassion on thee. And method of reaching a godless generation. A HERALD PERSONAL-EXPERIENCE FEATURE

THANK A

By JAMES BARTZ, Pastor, Lander, Wyoming

On a good horse—Montana ranch days.

RODEO—dust—ex­ saved because a group of Nazarenes held out in citement—act ion— prayer and faithful visitation in our behalf. It —and through all was glorious and I felt called—to what I did not of it—ego! I loved know. it! Wild sport for I inquired of God in prayer, and that very night rugged men, and He sent an angel, who sat on the foot of my bed. self! My name over His light was so dazzling I could not look directly the speaker system, all eyes on bull—and clown. upon Him. He told me I was to preach the gospel. Everyone cheers the clown!! My name—watching My only regret now is that, unlike Paul, I was not me! The old Jim Bartz! true to that heavenly vision. Due to circumstances The statement has been made many times, “A and my own folly, I backslid, and was in that state long way from an arena to the pulpit.” One of for some time, fighting the call to preach. The my former contesting friends asked, “When did you Voice came again. see the light?” My answer, “One night in my sleep, an angel” . . . but I ’m getting ahead of myself. There was the Voice. It seems now as if there The Cover . . . always had been. It came to me once when I was The Mackinac Bridge, built at a cost of $100 just a boy on a farm driving a team of horses. Again million, is a five-mile span which connects when I was a teen-ager employed in a riding acad­ Michigan’s upper peninsula with the mainland. emy in Illinois; a ranch in Montana; armed ser­ The bridge is the third longest suspension bridge in the world. In addition to tieing the vices basic training in Kentucky; service in Eng­ state together, the bridge also links the work land, France, Germany, and Austria. of the Church of the Nazarene on the Michigan District, which is composed of the western part The Voice was recurrent in good times and bad, of the mainland and the eastern half of the in peacetime or on the battlefield. Thank You, upper peninsula. The Michigan District has 105 Lord—for the Voice. He was with me in an air­ active churches and more than 7,000 members. The Sunday school enrollment is more than plane and when I was in the deepest mines in 16,000. The district during the past year raised Butte, Montana. (When one is running he will go approximately $1.4 million. Dr. Fred J. Hawk anywhere!) I ’m so glad for the truth of Psalms is the district superintendent. 139! I came in contact with the Church of the Naza- Volume 54, Number 30 SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 Whole Number 2786 rene after my return from World War II. My fian­ HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Elden Rawlings, Managing Editor; Velma I. Knight, Office Editor; B ill Lakey, Staff A rtist. cee attended our Billings, Montana, church with Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, George Coulter, General Superintendents, Church her mother. I went along with her once before we of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts w ill not be returned unless postage accompanies the material. Opinions expressed in signed articles are those of were married and they seemed like a friendly, sensi­ the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Church of the Nazarene. Published every Wednesday, by the NAZARENE ble people. (I had been warned in advance to ex­ PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri. Subscription price, $3.00 per year, in advance. Second-class postage pect the unordinary from them.) paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Address all correspondence concerning subscrip­ After marriage, we moved to Sidney, where I was tions to: Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City, Mo. 64141. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send us your new address, including " Z IP '' code, as well employed by the Montana Livestock Commission as the old address, and enclose a label from a recent copy. Printed in U .S.A. PHOTO CRED ITS: Cover, Michigan Tourist Council, Lansing, Mich.; page 15, as an inspector of cattle brands. Here I first got bottom, Jack and Bill Levy, Homestead, F la .; page 16, bottom, Dave Lawlor.

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (623) 3 After numerous jobs, each a different kind of work in which I grew increasingly dissatisfied, and after having returned to rodeo, 1 was reclaimed un­ der the anointed ministry of my good friend and then pastor, Mendal Collins. After some time the LOYALTY urgency of the (till to the ministry returned and I promised God, if He would give me a sign that He could still use me, I'd try to prepare myself for IN THE DAYS OF fitting service. He gave me such a sign in the form of souls at the altar when I preached in our Butte church soon after. I hadn’t finished high school (it didn't seem too MR. M. important during the war years) , but Rev. A. L. McQuay, my wonderful district superintendent, told me I could go to Northwest Na/arene College and encouraged me to write for admittance. It is all By Evangelist PAUL MARTIN a wonderful dream from there. College with little money and a wife and four children, despite the fact of no high school diploma. MR. M. IN TRIG U ES ME. And I like him. Ziba, Dedicated, understanding professors. The help of that intrepid self-made farmer, got away with the the Holy Spirit. The encouragement of Christian burros, so Mephibosheth had no way to join David friends. And the Voice! Our needs were many in retreat before Absalom. He couldn’t march; he but always God saw to it that necessities were was lame in both feet. And to add to his problem, supplied and finances stretched so as to be ade­ Ziba, whose idea of truthfulness was based on ex­ quate. I finished the academic requirements for pediency, gave David a funny answ'er about Mr. M. ordination, and the district superintendent gave But in all of this confusion and disappointment, me a church. God saw me through a two-year pas­ Mr. M. found a way to show' the invader, Absalom, torate there and into the fifth year of my present and the weak-hearted who remained, on whose side tenure. Through four years as district N.Y.P.S. he was! “And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came president, and the wonderful abiding of the voice down to meet the king, and had neither dressed hit of the Holy Spirit of God leading, opening doors, feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes providing thrills, encouraging, saying, “This is the from the day the king departed until the day ht way, walk ye in it." came again in peace” (II Samuel 19:24) . In the I am sure that the dust of a rodeo arena, the language of his time, he found a way to show hi: swelter of a copper mine, the din of a life-and-death loyalty. At first glance, David saw' Mr. M.’s protest struggle in war, all gave me some experience—but I This was no quick work of a make-up artist. Hi am glad that God persisted and prevailed. I will had been a man in mourning from the dav Davit, never be able to repay what He has done for me and left. my family, though I am determined to burn out for I c;m look loyal. If common knowledge tells me Him. “Thank You, Lord, for the wooing, directing that a certain aspect of my appearance tells others Voice that changed my life, my appetites, my very that 1 am of Christ, I will want to do that. First self—and finally my destiny.” impressions are not always valid, but they are im­ portant. So when first we meet, I want them to say, “He’s a Christian.” I can talk “loyalty.” Uncertainty, a little ques­ tion mark, hesitancy—these hardly speak of real support. Many think intelligence is expressed in vagueness, compromise, and postponement. But when you really know, and really care, and really love, you sound very certain. 1 can trust my Lord and my church. This is not blintl support. It is love support. Without Him I would be hopeless, lost, and perhaps in hell. The church patiently told me of Jesus, showed me the spirit of Jesus, and pointed to a place of prayer. Now I have the privilege of making my church effective, of keeping its message clear, its spirit warm and kind. Since I can help plan, help pray, The James Bartz family. Back, Pam, Connie, and help work—I can trust the church, and encourage Diane. Front, Mrs. Thelma Bartz, Tim, and Rev. Jim. others to trust it. Love demands it!

4 (624) • HERALD OF HOLINESS ONE DAY A V IO LIN IST Tvno" played each week on a nationwide broadcast received a letter from an old mountaineer who lived back in the hills. It contained a request: “I've got an old fiddle. It’s out of tune and I don’t have anything to tune it to. Next time you play, would you mind sounding me a good, strong A}” The letter appealed to the musician, and on his next broadcast, before he played, he made this announcement: “Old-timer, I got your letter. Get your old fiddle out. Before I start my program I am going to sound for you a good, strong A.’’ Paul, the peerless professor of the Early Church, applauds his prize pupils at Thessalonica for sounding a good, strong A. They were living such radiant lives that their witness rang clear to all with whom they came in contact. In fact, the appreciative apostle commends their performance by dting them as pattern believers, the kind he would urge others to copy. So true was their testimony that Paul writes: “You have become a sort of sounding board from which the Word of the Lord has rung out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia but everywhere that the story of your faith in God has become known” (I Thessalonians 1:8, Phillips*). Their inner Ghristlikeness was the sounding board ing the true tones of their faith outward. A sounding board is an indispensable part of a piano. It solid piece of wood located back of the strings inside the i producing a true tone by reflecting the sound of the notes as t keys are struck and the strings within vibrate. If the sounding board develops the slightest crack, the quality of the notes is affected. A piano must be kept in tune, and its sounding board must be intact, if it is to produce pleasing music. The sounding board is internal, but it dictates the tone heard without. It is hidden from view. It does not advertise its merits, but it is essential to the perfect performance of the instrument. Too many professing Christians have a cracked sounding board! They just don't ring true. The tone of their lives doesn’t harmonize with the testimony of their lips. They sound flat. Their performance By is short of their profession. The need of our turbulent world today Pastor, Ancon is for Christians who ring so true that others may be led to Christ by their godly example. The dominant chords that produced a clear ring in the lives of the Thessalonian Christians were threefold: (1) “work of faith,” (2) “labour of love,” (3) and “patience of hope” (1:3). G. Campbell Morgan observes that each of these cardinal Christian graces is more fully defined in verses 9 and 10: (1) Faith—"ye turned to God from idols,” (2) I.ovc—"to serve the living and true God,” and (3) Hope— “and to wait for his Son from heaven.” Paul mentions a major theme of his gospel preaching. The Christians at Thessalonica had experienced more than a synthetic ialvation. It was thorough and went deep enough to change their lives completely: “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance”

•From the NEW TESTAM EN T IN MODERN ENGLISH, © J . B. Phillips, 1958. Used by permission of The Macmillan Company.

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (625) 5 (I Thessalonians 1:5). Paul always insisted on this. Could it be that the Modern Church has opened the door to too many “word only” Christians? Paul was careful to demand a testimony “in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.” Cracks such as worldliness, faithlessness, and fruitlessness will ultimately produce defective tones from the sounding board of the “word only” Christian. Paul’s final point of praise for the Thessalonians was a tribute to the projecting power of their wit­ ness. It extended beyond the borders of their own communities, reaching “everywhere that the story By WALTER W. SMITH ' of your faith in God has become known” (v. 8, Pastor, Beloit, Wisconsin Phillips) . Do our lives reverberate fact or fiction? RECEN TLY the weather services of our area sent If we ring true, there will be a reverberating echo out warnings of the possibility of an approaching that will resound triumphantly under any circum­ tornado. The men who have made a study of stances. It will touch people we do not even know. weather knew that conditions were present in the The Thessalonians did, for their conduct was con­ heavy thunder clouds to make a tornado. As the vincing those beyond their conscious influence. Not dark storm clouds gathered and moved nearer to that they went everywhere preaching, but that their us, it looked as if at any moment the dreaded tor­ lives rang out a genuine sound. nado could swoop down and bring its powerful Jenny Lind, the celebrated operatic soprano, was wrath to our community. known as the “Swedish Nightingale.” It was said to The civil defense men were alerted; all police be her custom, before singing in any concert, to go and firemen were called to duty. The radio stations to a kind of upper room offstage. After dismissing kept us up-to-date on the activity of the approach­ her secretary and maid, and locking the door against ing storm. The police began calling out warnings all visitors, she would stand resolutely alone in the through the loudspeakers in their cars, for people middle of the floor and lift her voice to strike a to prepare for the storm. Then came the cry to certain note. She would listen intently as the tone “take cover”—a funnel cloud had been sighted! filled the room. Then, closing her eyes, she would Many folks wisely sought cover in their base­ pray, “Master, Master, let me ring true tonight.” ments or in areas where the most protection could And, invariably, as she opened the door to appear be found. Still there were people who paid no before her audience, she felt the mystical presence attention to the warnings, and went about their of Christ preceding her across the platform. To a business as usual, seeming to pay no heed. A local close friend she once confided, “Sometimes I hesi­ radio announcer was amazed at the number of tated and could not sing on the instant, because I people in the downtown area who failed to make was waiting for Him to smile and say, ‘It’s all right. any effort to seek protection—too busy going about Go ahead, Jenny.’ ” And individuals who heard her their business or unconcerned even for their own sing declared that when those wonderful tones came safety. ringing out, strong and true, it was as though her The apathy of these folks graphically portrays the audience were witnessing the transformation of a picture of many today who have been warned, human voice into that of an angelic messenger come preached to, and pleaded with, to prepare their from God. hearts for the soon-coming wrath of God. Yet they “O God, help me to ring true! May I often enter continue on in their sinful paths as though they the closed room of prayer to check the tone of my will somehow escape the great and terrible day of testimony. Give me Thy smile of approval, so the the Lord. The Bible says: “As I live, saith the effect of my influence upon others will be a rhap­ Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue sody of righteousness. Grant that I may ring true shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall before others here, that I may reign triumphantly give account of himself to God” (Romans 14:11- with Thee hereafter. In Jesus’ name. Amen.” 12). We appreciated the good work of our civil de­ fense group and all others who worked together to ' But now in Christ Jesus ye who some­ alert us of the possible danger ahead from a tor­ times ire, -.1 far off are made nigh hy the nado. True, no tornado came that day, and some blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who may laugh at those who made every effort to pro­ hath made hath one. and hath broken tect themselves and their loved ones. Those who down the middle wall of partition be­ laugh are much like the ones who say, “Aw, preach­ tween us . . . For through him wi both hare access hy one Spirit uv.to tin Fa­ ers have been preaching the soon coming of Christ ther" (Ephesians 1 Id-lSi. and the great day of His wrath too long for me to believe it.”

6 (626) • HERALD OF HOLINESS No matter what men may say or do, they cannot of Him “that sitteth on the throne” (Revelation change the facts of God's Word. This world is 6:16). rapidly moving toward its final day. Christ's hand Let each one seek the only cover and protection that can be found for that day. Seek the forgive­ of love, protection, and mercy will soon be lifted ness of Christ for sin, and believe in the blood of and the wrath of God be rev ealed. The day is soon the Lord Jesus Christ to cleanse away sin. Then coming that men shall cry for the rocks and moun­ begin a new life today, one that is dedicated to tains to fall upon them to hide them from the face serving Jesus Christ.

The Sin of Materialism By Evangelist J. J. STEELE

Major Alexi Trifoloff of the Bulgarian army An invisible idea existed in the mind of the marched his soldiers to the summit of a hill, where architect before the great building became visible. he took advantage of the view of Sofia to deliver a The same is true of the thousands of manufactured Communist lecture. items in a great market. Everything made by man "Comrade soldiers,” he said, “do you see Sofia?” existed first as an invisible idea; and yet no dis­ "We see it.” sector’s scalpel ever has located an idea in the “Do you see the Cathedral of Alexander Nevski?” human brain. “We do.” Nothing visible in the universe “just happens.” "Do you see the mausoleum of the leader and Every massive planet and every tiny atom existed teacher of the Bulgarian people?” first as an invisible idea in the mind of the Creator. "We do.” So that which is seen or seeable is but the extension “And do you see God, comrade soldiers?” of the mind of God. “We do not see Him, Comrade Major.” This is completely contradictory to the material­ “Well, then, this means, comrades, that there is ism of Communism. Matter is all that matters to no God. What cannot be seen does not exist. Sofia, the atheist. He denies the reality of pure thought the church of Alexander Nevski, the mausoleum— and will not believe anything existed first as an they are all there. You have not seen God; there­ idea. He says all existing things came into being by fore He is not there. He does not exist. Under­ pure chance, a claim which is completely absurd. stand?” Thought or idea is the first reality and exists in “We understand, Comrade Major.” a completely invisible state. This makes the mind Private Stoil Bojinoff from the village of Dra- of the inventor far superior to what is invented. galevci requested permission from the major to say Thought is impossible without personality; and something. Comrade Major granted him permis­ personality is always superior to substance. The sion. Stoil Bojinoff stood at attention in front of person is or should be master of what is made. And the soldiers. if ever he bows down to what he has made, he “Comrade soldiers, do you see our major, Com­ becomes an idolater, a slave, a worshipper of the rade Alexi Trifoloff?” works of his own hands. “We do see him.” Nothing is more insulting to the author or creat­ “Do you see his head?” or than to make more of what is produced or "Yes, we do.” created than of its producer or creator. The painter “Do you see his boots, his sword strap?” is greater than his paintings; the inventor, than “We do.” his machine; the author, than his works. To think "Do you see his mind?” otherwise is to exalt matter above personality, to “No, we do not see it.” make less of God than of His works. “So it is, comrade soldiers, as Comrade Major has To entwine our affections around visible things, told us: ‘What one can see exists; what one cannot whether created by God or made by man, is to see does not exist.' Understand?” worship the creature rather than the Creator. It is “We understand, Comrade.”* to deny the existence of the Originator and Father, All things created by God or made by man are to idolize the created while we despise or deny the the extension of what existed previously in an in­ Creator. visible state. This is the sin of materialism spoken of by Paul

*As reported in "Guideposts" magazine. in Romans: “For the invisible things of him from

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (627) 7 the creation of the world are clearly seen, being ents must work to meet payments of household understood by the things that are made, even his gadgets, cars, and expensive homes. The faraih eternal power and Godhead; so that they are with­ altar, private devotions, public worship, and peace out excuse: because that, when they knew God, and quietness of soul are far too often sacrificed they glorified him not as God, neither were thank­ in the mad rush for more and more things that onli ful; but became vain in their imaginations, and perish with the using. their foolish heart was darkened. Professing them­ It's the same old sin of idolatry, or evaluating the selves to be wise, they became fools, and changed visible above the invisible. It is the worship of the the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image substance, the created, rather than the Creator. made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore Never have the words of John been more needed God also gave them up to uncleanness through the than now: “Love not the world, neither the things lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own that are in the world. If any man love the world, bodies between themselves: who changed the truth the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, ever. Amen” (1:20-25). but is of the world” (I John 2:15-16) . \\ re are all affected more by materialism than we To overcome the pull of this materialistic age realize. This form of idolatry has permeated our demands utmost care and concern for spiritual generation, and we’re sucked into the massive values. The invisible God and His kingdom ot movement and forced along with the tide, hardly never-perishing treasures are only for those who realizing what is happening to us. Many are bow­ cultivate the rich realities of the unseen. The Holy ing down to the gods of materialism while pre­ Spirit can make the hidden things of the Kingdom tending to worship the true God. real and precious only to those who seek “first the The drive for material affluence has destroyed kingdom of God, and his righteousness,” believing treasures of the spirit far greater in value than all that “all these things shall be added” (Matthew visible wealth. Family life suffers when both par­ 6:33).

By A. A. E. BERG, Superintendent of Australia District

A FAMOUS GERMAN FIELD MARSHAL of the for its downfall. By their very nature these forces last century said, “Everything in military history is call for solid unity and purpose of heart for their judged by its results.” ultimate defeat. If this statement be true in the realm of con­ During World War II theorists expressed their flict between nations, it certainly is also true in the views on how to effectively defeat this kind of realm of the spiritual, in that warfare between good enemy. But wisdom and loyalty ever have sug­ and evil, between God and Satan. gested that merely to rebuke, suppress, or counter­ In the successful deployment of the forces under act such a foe is to fall hopelessly short in removing his command, a tactically shrewd general is ever the cause. While the underground movement re­ alert to guard against flank, as well as against mained, subversion was ever at work. Devoted frontal, attack, while maintaining aggressive war­ men in leadership had but one plan for the prob­ fare where possible. His bane is, of course, to be lem—the complete destruction of such a foe. No forced by the enemy into warfare on two fronts, quarter was to be given until that end was realized. thus to divide and weaken the effectiveness of his While there are undoubtedly enemies within combat armies. the ranks of the Visible Church, the Lord Jesus Yet beyond this plight, there may exist a most Christ reminds us, “I will build my church; and insidious enemy, the traitor within the ranks, the the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Mat­ spy, the soldier who has transferred his loyalties thew 16:18). The final triumph of the true Church, to the enemy, the “fifth column” in the country, which is His body, is never in doubt, and that the “quislings” of the underground movement, “great day” will declare it to be so. who undermine the nation and work incessantly But on the level of personal experience the

8 (628) • HERALD OF HOLINESS battle also wages. All of God's children are, or to Christ until he is in full possession of the bless­ have been, painfully aware of a traitorous element ing. Nothing but the experience of a clean heart within the heart called in Scripture “the carnal will rid the soul of its bitterness and fill it with mind,” which weakens and harasses their noblest sweetness of divine love. efforts to keep true to Christ and maintain the Charles Wesley wrote, and multitudes have ex­ blessedness of the justified state. Our fully ran­ ultantly sung: somed powers are needed to engage the devil on Let others hue their chains, all fronts, for he attacks the Christian incessantly For sin and Satan plead, with cunning and ferocity peculiar to his own And say from sin’s remains diabolical nature. How cruel an experience it is They never can be freed. to attempt to wage such holy war and maintain Rejoice, rejoice icith me, clear victory, when there lurks within the heart We shall from all our sin be free. an enemy who takes sides with the devil in tempta­ tion’s hour! Far too many of Cod’s children have struggled hard to rebuke, suppress, and counteract this “car­ nal mind,” which is “not subject to the law of NARROW God, neither indeed can be,” this “old man,” “the body of sin,” only to continue in painful defeat at (WAY)- points where they long to triumph. They plead for deliverance and strive to maintain good grace, only to fail again and again until the cry, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me MINDED from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24) is wrung from their anguished hearts. With our hallelujahs we want to stress that there is complete deliverance at hand. This subtle enemy By CLAYTON BONAR can and must be removed, destroyed, by the al­ Pastor, First Church, Pocatello, Idaho mighty Christ of Cod in response to the pressing plea of faith. STEREO TYPIN G is the error of the age. It is Back to our opening remarks. “Everything in much easier to categorize in broad terms and by military history is judged by its results.” And we means of generalizations than to take a really criti­ must add, “Everything in professed Christian ex­ cal look at an idea, person, or philosophy. It is perience is judged by its results.” Did not the said that 5 percent of the people think, 15 percent Lord say, "The tree is known by his fruit” (Mat­ think they think, and 80 percent would rather die thew 12:33) : and also, “Every plant, which my than think. heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted For instance, this is the day of relativity. It is said up” (Matthew 15:13) ? that nothing can be known as an irrevocable cer­ From the time of the apostles down through the tainty. At the cost of respect, reputation, and fine centuries of church history to this very day, mul­ reasoning, the Christian stands as an opponent titudes have professed and enjoyed the grace and against such false doctrine. Children sing, “I stand blessing of a pure and undivided heart. Those alone on the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E.” Such who have sought and found Christ in His sin- should be the theme song of every child of God. purging baptism are legion. The nature and ex­ When the Christian begins speaking in terms of perience of this grace may be judged by its results, certainty in his relationship with Cod, he is often in those whose lives bear the clear stamp of Christ- branded as being narrow-minded. Affronted by likeness of character. Thrilling reality is the only such brands, the temptation may arise to bend just worthwhile test. a little in favor of concession and relativity. Note these gracious provisions: “The very Cod The Christian will never become confused to the of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray Cod your point of backsliding so long as he resists every whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blame­ attempt of the tempter to put question marks be­ less unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. fore him. Question marks are the fishhooks of the Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do devil to snare the believer. it" (I Thessalonians 5:23-24). “But now being Some feel that Christianity, like Santa Claus, is made free from sin, and become servants to God, nothing more than living in the spirit of the thing, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end ever­ rather than possessing the Holy Spirit—Third Per­ lasting life” (Romans 6:22). son of the Holy Trinity. Such heresy is to be The onus rests squarely upon each honest soul shunned like the plague by each born-again Chris­ to seek for this inward freedom, this purity of tian. heau, this state of undivided love and allegiance Others have confused being narrow-way-minded

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (629) 9 with being narrow-minded. There is a difference! ty? Again one hears the Master say, “Because strai Without being brittle, the child of God must is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leaded nevertheless he fully concerned about staying in the unto life, and fewr there be that find it” (Matthet. w ay—God’s way. Christ stated clearly, “I am the 7:14). way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto Yes, one can know Christ. He must live in the the Father but by me” (John 14:6). This means area of daring certainty while the rest of the world just what it says. There is only one avenue to around says that nothing can be known absolutely, eternal glory. The Holy Scriptures are filled with precautions The way of the world is wide and wicked. Tht against taking the life “in Christ” too lightly. way of the born-again is narrow', with certaintiesd “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I a faith come alive in the person of Jesus Christ say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be the only begotten of God. able” (Luke 13:24). St. Paul tells the church at Again, St. Paul w'ould rather stand by a few cer­ Philippi, as he tells every Christian, to “. . . work tainties than all the doubts in the world when he out your own salvation with fear and trembling. says to Timothy, his son in the faith, “. . .for! For it is God which worketh in you both to will and know whom 1 have believed, and am persuaded to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13). that he is able to keep that which I hat e committed But why must the Christian live in such sobrie­ unto him against that day” (II Timothy 1:12).

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are good for us. Peter said that the trial of faith Trials and Trails was like the purging flame that frees the gold ot The words “trial” and “trail” are made up of its dross. Only a tested and tried faith will "be the same letters. The only difference is the trans­ found unto praise and honour and glory at the position of a and i. And the great lesson of life is appearing of Jesus Christ” (I Peter 1:7). that trials can be made into trails through the grace of God. TRIA LS BECOME TR A ILS because successful The Lord showed this to His prophet in the endurance strengthens the spiritual muscles. With­ Old Testament: “And I will make all my moun­ out exercise we should grow flabby and soft, unfit tains a way, and my highways shall be exalted” for the tasks of the day. (Isaiah 49:11). While perfection of motive is the gift of God This is the very last thing we wotdd ordinarily in a moment of time, there is a perfection of expect. Mountains are normally barriers to man’s character that comes only through times of testing. travel. They are obstacles, sometimes all but im­ “The trying of your faith worketh patience. But passable. Yet God says two surprising things about let patience have her perfect work, that ye may the mountains. They are His, for He calls them be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (James “my mountains.” And He turns them into high­ 1:3-4). ways for pilgrim feet. This does not happen by accident. Trials do Nor does there seem to be any shortcut possible not become trails by any magic of their own. The in this process. A mushroom may spring up over­ best translation of Romans 8:28 is not, “All things night. An oak wins rootage and sturdy growth work together for good,” but “God works in all only with the struggle of the years. things for good.” God makes the difference. There are no trails without trials. The path that The trials will come. This is one thing we can leads to life is a narrow way reached through a surely count on. God has never promised His small gate. Those who seek only flowery beds of people immunity from life. What He has prom­ ease do not travel a difficult way. ised is that He will give us grace for adequacy in When trials come, let us not despair and think life. ourselves forsaken. Let us rather look for the hand Trials, to be sure, are not the special property of God reversing the a and the i and turning our of the people of God. They come to all alike. trials into trails. “I will make all my mountains How we differ is in the way we meet them. a way,” He says, “and my highways shall be ex­ While we can’t always see it at the time, trials alted.”

10 (630) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Priming Pumps on Dry Wells “Every man needs to be born again. Wells and pumps have always had a certain fas­ Only the power of Christ can work such cination lor a small-town boy. I am very rarely a miracle. Christ is the secret of the able to pass an old-fashioned pump without giving new man. Therefore, ‘if any man be in the handle a try, “just to see." Sometimes the ef­ Christ, he is a new creature: old things fort is rewarded with water from the spout. More are passed away; behold, all things are often it is not. become new.’ ” Some pumps, I have learned, are self-priming. w'ells. So very many promotional plans, drives, That is, they are so built that the plunger is always and devices fail because it is futile to prime the sealed and creates the conditions that lift the water pump on a dry well. from the well to the surface. What is needed is to drill deeper. Let the drill Other pumps have to be primed. T o get results, bit of God’s truth, activated by His mighty Spirit, one must pour some water into them in order to go down through the accumulated trash, the gravel, provide the seal and create the vacuum that does the hardpan, and even the rock, until it reaches the work. the streams of living water. So “pump priming" has become a rather com­ The result will be some artesian wells, that need mon expression for any kind of action that is no pump. It will be many more of the self-priming designed to produce greater results in kind. We sort. And even the pumps that need to be primed are particularly familiar with it these days in the will deliver some return on the water poured into use of public money to “stimulate the growth" them. of the economy. But there is also such a thing as “spiritual pump- Ten Sunday Nights of Salvation priming." Some people are self-priming reli­ There is a sense in which the fall months are giously. To change the figure, they have spiritual the beginning of the church year. While there is self-starters. Their Christian lives have enough dy­ no necessary “summer slump,” it is true that the namic to work without pressures from the outside. regular round of church activities is interrupted For many more, however, the pump has to be by assemblies, camps, conventions, institutes, va­ primed. Since they lack self-starters, it takes a cations, and the generally more relaxed pace of “crank” or a push to get them going. To use summer. Henry Hitt Crane’s comparison, they respond to But with the coming of September and the be­ outside conditions like a thermometer responds ginning of the school year there is a quickening to the temperature of the air, not like a ther­ of the whole tempo of life. For the church, this mostat that controls the temperature of the air. is a natural time of harvest, a time to “thrust in the sickle" and reap. BUT TH ER E ARE A M U L TITU D E of good Dr. Edward Lawlor and the Department of people who cannot seem to work even when they Evangelism are calling the Church of the Nazarene are primed. For it really doesn't do much good to “Ten Sunday Nights of Salvation” as a special to prime the pumps on dry wells. emphasis of “The Ten Sundays of Unique Evan­ Wells are usually dry because they are too shal­ gelism." All of the departments are being asked low. They do not get down deep enough to tap to share in the overall thrust of the weeks between the underground flow. September 26 and November 28. That ours is a shallow age is beyond the need October 17, for example, is to be “Youth Day.” for proof. Education is shallow. Homelife is shal­ The special October evangelism issue of Conquest, low. Morals are shallow. Even religion is shallow. Nazarene youth magazine, will have been dis­ Far too many people tend to live on the surface tributed and will be used as part of a drive to of life without depth and stability. have 100,000 persons of N.Y.P.S. age in attendance But shallow people miss so very much. The Sunday night. dependable sources of happiness lie deep. God Overall, it is hoped to reach an average attend­ rarely sprinkles His resources and His treasures ance of 250,000 in church during the ten nights, on the surface of the ground. Fie buries them and to enlist 10,000 new members in the Church deep in the earth, where they are found only by of the Nazarene during the period. There is cer­ those who are willing to dig. tainly nothing unrealistic about goals like these. So it is with the gifts of grace. They are given It probably isn’t necessary to say it, but we to those who not only ask, but who also seek, and should remind ourselves that these weeks will be knock. The kingdom of Heaven is such that only just what we sincerely and wholeheartedly set out the desperately earnest find its highest values. to make them. The best plans possible will come Before the pump will work, there must be water to nothing unless we work them. Whoever said in the well. So very much preaching and religious that success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 per­ exhortation is trying to prime the pump on dry cent perspiration didn’t miss it far.

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (631) 11 see ours.” Out of courtesy and curiosity, Less than two years a Christian . . . the young couple stayed. “As this man of God spoke,” John said, “I soon realized that I had not been intellectually honest regarding the claims of Jesus Christ. He told us that Lay Leader Energizes Jesus Christ was more than willing to take upon himself all our problems. "I felt ill at ease. Shortly we slipped out of our pew and left.” “That evening, rather than going out on the town, we went home. I had to Others to Evangelize make a decision concerning Jesus Christ. After four hours of deliberation, I slipped to my knees and poured out my By ELDEN RAWLINGS heart to Him. Managing Editor “What a change He has wrought, not only in my life, but in the lives of my wife and fam ily as well! W ith in twenty- “We have in our possession the great­ made $100.00 per week and then said. four hours, all the moral problems and est doctrine in the Christian faith,'' the If I could only make $150.00 per wreek, physical ailments that had plagued me I would really have it made. I got up handsome, dark-haired man said at the just seemed to disappear. I have not to $150.00 per week and was still dis­ close of the N.Y.P.S. service, “but for had a sm oke o r a d rink since th at time, satisfied. I have made as much as the most part we’re keeping it to our­ nor do I have the desire. My wrife ac­ $1,000.00 per day and still was unhappy. selves, when we should be sharing it cepted Jesus Christ twenty-four days I know what it is to have my own with the world.” later. Of our eight children (six boys business. I also know what it is to be The hour-long discussion was the kick- and two girls) , those who are able to bankru p t. off for a series of young adult services understand the claims of Christ have “I developed an ulcer, and found my­ dealing with lay evangelism in First accepted Him on their own. self smoking two packs of cigarettes a Church of the Nazarene in Kansas City, “After my conversion I made attempts M issouri. day. Cutty Sark Scotch whiskey and I to share Christ with others I met. How- John Petrehn, a thirty-two-year-old became close friends. Our marriage had former salesman who has been a Chris­ deteriorated to the point of despair. I tian less than two years, was speaking was impatient, irritable, and constantly to more than twenty Nazarenes who finding fault. In spite of the fact that had attended a citv-wide lay institute of we had accomplished some degree of evangelism in which more than seven success financially, we had failed where hundred persons attended from fifty- it counts.” five churches in Kansas City. Their On New Year’s Eve, December 31, purpose was to gain a working knowl­ 1963, John and Jackie were to present THE CHURCH edge of the four spiritual laws which a a sales film to a church. The pastor layman may use in leading a person to assured them they would be able to Christ. show the film in time to get to the These laymen, spurred by Charles party they had planned to attend. AT WORK Kraft, a Nazarene builder, and Vernon However, after the presentation, the Lunn, a Sears executive, purposed to pastor said, “We have seen your pro­ translate their newly found understand­ gram; now we would like to have you ing of the Scriptures into an appealing testimony to unsaved persons. John Pe­ trehn, one of the workers in the city- ever, 1 had little success. I met a man wide class, helped them to do that. on the University of Kansas campus who On later Sunday nights these lay men explained to me four spiritual laws and women recounted howf they had which a person follows to find Christ.” presented Christ. There were more The laws, scripturally based, are: than a dozen who told how the persons 1) God loves you and has a wonder­ they talked with prayed and became ful plan for your life (John 3:16 and Christians in their homes. The church John 10:10). has conserved the results of several such 2) M an is sinful and separated from conversions. God; thus he cannot know and experi­ Other Nazarene churches in Kansas ence G o d ’s love and plan for his life City subsequently asked Petrehn to visit (Romans 3:23 and Romans 6:23) . their churches to train and encourage 3) Jesus Christ is God's only provision lay men and women to become involved for man’s sin. Through Him you can in personal evangelism. know and experience God's love and “I was raised in the traditions of the plan for your life (Romans 5:8; John Roman Catholic church,” Petrehn said. 1 4 :6 ). “My primary education was in the pa­ 4) We must receive Jesus Christ as rochial school system. I can vividly re­ Saviour and Lord bv personal invitation call taking part in the worship services, (John 1:12; Revelation 3:20). marching in the processions, and re­ “With these spiritual laws at our ceiving Communion.” com m and, w e led th ree persons to Christ After persuading his parents to allow that day on that college campus,” Pe­ him to attend a public high school, he trehn said. Later, the couple visited the met and later married Jacelyn, a Lu­ headquarters for Campus Crusade for theran girl. After graduation they Christ International, an organization eloped and were married by a justice beamed to help college students find of the peace. John began college and EXPLAINS PERSONAL EVANGE­ C h rist. T h e re he was trained to become took a part-time selling job. LISM LAWS—John Petrehn talks a teacher to train other laymen how to “I started out making $42.50 a week about the four steps to salvation work with the unsaved. A lay training plus commissions, and said to myself, which he has discussed with more division of the Campus Crusades was Boy, if I could only make $100.00 per than 50,000 laymen in the last 18 developed, and Petrehn worked writh wreek, I would really have it made. I months. the organization for seventeen months,

12 (632) • HERALD OF HOLINESS V. L a y m a n , Chicago Central— S h a d H o w ­ a rd , Crestwood— Pearle Hasselbring, H oop- eston West— Ralph Rice, Richton Park — Robert V. Layman, Chicago Midwest— Paul Smith, Crystal Lake— George Gallo­ w a y , Kankakee Central—Jam es Robbins, L a n sin g —Lindy Russell, W aukegan— V. E. B l a c k e t e r , L om bard —Fred MacMillan, M u ndelein— I. C. C o llin s, Danville South- side—Lawrence Jantz, Jo lie t—Cecil Ewell, Chicago First. COLORADO W. R. Donalson, Colorado Springs Palmer Heights— Jerry Hull, Denver Au­ ro ra — N. Wiseman, Denver Westminster— C. Je n n in g s , L am ar— D a le K in g , L as A n i­ m as— J . L u n d y , M ontrose— Thomas Floyd, Pueblo Fairmount— Dell Kelley, Colorado Springs Park Hill. DALLAS Clyde E. Ammons, Dallas Central— J . L . In g le , Grand Prairie—T. C. P o tts, Jacksonville— B. A. P a tto n , Mesquite. EASTERN KENTUCKY N. A. Ritchie, Ashland Grace—F. F. I c k e s , Barnes Mountain—C. Wells, Jr., Catlettsburg S.S.—C. E. Copley, Sr., D u r­ b in — A. O. Little, Ludlow—C. D eB o rd , Maysville—Wm. E. M ays, S r., R u ssell— G. H a rv ey , W aco. EASTERN MICHIGAN W. O. W elto n , Adrian First— W illis S c o tt, Port Huron Evang.— Bernard Gill, F lin t S ou th — M. H. S to c k s , Rochester— John W. Mellish, W ayne— Ronald Moss, H ighland— Howard Rickey, Detroit Bethel — Adrian Keeton, Marine City— R. J . READY FOR A PICNIC—John and Jackie Petrehn and their eight children S ta n le y , Auburn Road— fames Krauss, Imlay City— John E. Mellish, Lake Louise pose just before getting into their station wagon for an afternoon together. —James Mellish, Warren Woods— F . I. Left to right are: Jackie, with three-month-old Philip; Stephen, thirteen; R o u s e, Lapeer—E. H. D a v is, Sandusky— Becky, twelve; Cindy, ten; Kenny, eight; Kevin, six; Tony, four; and John, O. E . B u rto n , Millington— W. E. Varian, Flint Central—A. B. M c F a rla n d , L in co ln holding M aurice, who is two. P a rk — Alvin D. Richards, Temperance— Harold Harris, Richfield— Richard Lash- le y , Fairgrove— James A. Weeks, A nn until after he visited Kansas City a year over to Him. He didn’t want my abil­ Arbor University— Paul Coleman, W il­ ago. ity; He wanted my availability.” liams Lake. While conducting the city-wide lay ILLINOIS When not in crusade services, John institute, John became acquainted with James Redding, A lb ion — W illia m H. and Jackie, with their eight children, L o n g , Assumption— Wilson Baker, D e­ Rev. C larence K inzler, p astor o f the attend the Shawnee Church of the Naz- catur Faries Parkway— Leon C. Miller, Shawnee (Kansas) Church of the Naz- D upo— Francis Walters, E. St. Louis arene. arene in the suburbs of Kansas City. M aplew ood— Arnold Roland, Jr., G riggs- Since May, Petrehn has been involved v ille— A. L. Taylor, Home Gardens— K e ith The two had mutual interest in per­ K e lly , Jerseyville —Jam es Campbell, M an s­ sonal evangelism , and soon becam e close in lay evangelism training. He is in fie ld — R a y Huff, Mt. Sterling — H a ro ld personal friends. the process of forming what will be N e w b y , Paris First—Donald Underwood, known as the Laymen’s Crusade for Sesser— Harold Canaday, Springfield South “Clari has been instrumental in en­ Sid e—Jack Jones, Urbana Faith. lightening me in the doctrine of holi­ Christ. Its purpose will be to train IOWA ness,” Jo h n said. “ I received the in ­ lay men and women how to be more S a m G o w a n , A lb ia— James A. Adams, filling of the Holy Spirit in a definite effective in sharing Christ, with special A m es— John Friend, Burlington F.H.— emphasis on the ministry of the Holy F. E. Whitlatch, Cedar Rapids First— second work o f grace.” T h is happened Charles Byers, Cedar Rapids Oakland— in the Kansas City District camp meet­ Spirit in the life of the Christian. Gene C. Phillips, Des Moines East— L y le ing. Though the sermon Dr. Jarrette “My purpose,” John said, “is to do B o y e r , Fort Dodge— James Diehl, In d ian - o la — Kathryn- Lantzenheiser, Iowa Falls— Aycock p reached was n o t on the su b ­ anything I can to help fulfill the Great Rex Lee Douglas, L e M ars—Paul Clif- ject of entire sanctification, John said, Commission.” He is currently planning fe n g e r , M arengo— W. E. Burd, Mason City “I went to the altar to find God’s per­ city-wide lay institutes of evangelism, — R. V. S ch u ltz , N ew ton— S. M. Abel, Ottumwa First—Theodore Conway, Sio u x fect will for my life. He revealed to and is conducting individual church City Highland Park. me that He wanted my total will turned sem inars. KANSAS Wm. Harrison, A b ilen e— M. H u x m a n , Hutchinson Bethany—B. C a n trell, H u tch ­ First—H. 5. M ills, Youngstown Wickliffe— inson Westside—J. F a r r o w , K in sley — EVANGELISM Robert J. Smith, Canton Fairmount. M. E s ta b o , Peabody—C. P itten g e r, P r a tt— CENTRAL OHIO L. Hindman, Salina Belmont—W. M iller, Edward Lawlor, secretary Robert L. Clay, Brunswick— C la re St. Salina First—P. V a rce, Sterling—D. H all, J o h n , B u cy ru s— Ellis Teasdale, C ard in g- Wellington—G. G o u g h , Wichita First— ton — Richard Strickland, Columbus District H. M erritt, Wichita West Side. EVANGELISTIC HONOR ROLL — Miles Simmons. Columbus First—E. K. MICHIGAN R ic h e y , Columbus Shepherd—C. W. B r o w n , Eldon Schram, Battle Creek First— J o h n Evangelistic Honor Roll Certificates Columbus Whitehall—D. E. C la y , C olum ­ R. Hieftje, Bay City First—J. A. W rig h t, were presented during recent 1965 bus Wilson Avenue— J. N. Lakin, D a rb y - C old w ater— Dwight Kellar, D urand— C. H. district assemblies to the following d ale— Carl Erwin, Fredericktown— A lb er t S y m o n s , East Tawas— J a y B u c k , G ladw in E. M iller, Fulton—B. R. K e a n , G alen a— R ile y — Keith St. John, Gr. Rapids Clyde pastors, whose churches received the Dale E. Galloway, Grove City— H a rley P a rk — Fletcher Galloway, Gr. Rapids First required number of new Nazarenes. D u n ca n , Ironton Coal Grove— F r a n k A. — Kenneth Culver, Gr. Rapids West— AKRON N o el, S r., Lancaster— Thomas M. Stayner, Ronald Smith, H art—Dale Harvey, H as­ John W. Eppler, Akron Arlington— L e x in g to n — Vernon Stimpert, Lithopolis— tings— H. L. Jo h n s t o n , Jackson First— R alph L. M o u lto n , Akron Trinity— P a u l Roy E. Klingler, L ogan — L. L. Zimmerman, Gerald Laing, Jackson Grace— K e n n e th M erki, Akron West— Dean Rankin, B y e s- Marion First— Chester Sidle, Newark East A n d erso n , Lake Lansing—Elwyn Dietrick, ville—Lena Tice, Chestnut Grove— P a u l S. Sid e— Franklin M. Dunkle, New Lexing­ Lake Odessa—Harold Potter, Ludington—- B ow en, Cleveland West Side— M elv in R . ton— Daniel E. Woodward, Orrville— Aldwyn R. Carpenter, M arsh all— R a y Ja m es, D over— B . Edwin McDonald , E ast R. Wayne Sharpes, Plymouth Heights— H u ffm a n , O w osso— Carol Noffsinger, P o r t­ Liverpool LaCroft—Norman J. Stover, Robert J. Ritter, Portsmouth Northside land—Franklin Ward, Saginaw Central— Goshen—M. LeRoy Hastie, Massillon— — Audry W. Miller, Portsmouth West— H. T. S ta n le y , S tu rg is— Wayne Welton, Philip P. Edwards, Newton Falls— K e n ­ Isaac J. Ratcliff, Proctorville— M o rris M. Three Rivers—James Baynum, T ra v erse neth Schaal, Orwell—J. T. H o ls tein , S alem W o lfe , R a cin e — Hillard Bradley, Sou th C ity. First—M. E. Barrows, Sto w — D o n a ld W. A m h erst— Vernon C. Shafer, Wellston— NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA M acNeil, T allm ad ge—William G. Hill, James L. Honaker, South Zanesville. M. Harold Daniels, Bethany First— Warren Champion—Robert Rae, W arren CHICAGO CENTRAL Marvin T. Cockman, Enid Cleveland Road Morgandale—Estelle Crutcher, Youngstown Hubert King, Aurora 111. Ave.— R o b e r t — Frankie Choplin, G eary —J . R e y n d a l

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (633) 13 Charles Hodges into the Christian min­ istry. Mrs. G en e P h illip s was reelected .Announcing NAV.M.S. president, Rev. A. D. Foster, N.Y.P.S. president, and Rev. Aleck G. Ulmct church schools chairman. Rev. SIXTEENTH OF "SO HOLY WATCHNIGHTS" Paul McGrady, Bethany Nazarene Col­ Friday, October 1, 1965 lege religion professor, served as camp meeting evangelist, according to Report­ E* TEN SUNDAYS OF UNIQUE EVANGELISM er Eldon Shields. September 26—November 28, 1965 Pittsburgh Superintendent MID-QUADRENNIAL CONFERENCE ON EVANGELISM Elected to Four-Year Term & January 11-13, 1966 A fter serving for one year, Dr. Robert Music Hall, Kansas City, Missouri I. Goslaw was elected to the district sup erintendency fo r a fou r-year tern during the fifty-eighth assembly of the Pittsburgh District. Dr. Hardy C. Powers, general super­ R u ssell, Guymon—Bill D ra p er, O. C. L a k e - which was held at Camp Byron, Browns­ v iew P a rk — M erv y n L . Goins, Ponca City in ten d en t, presided over the two-da) ville, Wisconsin, August 5 and 6. S t. L u k e ’s— Carl Powers, Stillwater First— assembly, July 22-23. Hiram E. Sanders, Stillwater University— District membership is 1,974, an in­ Pittsburgh District churches gave 10.41 Harold Blankenship, W oodw ard— M rs. crease of 104; and the per capita giving percent for world evangelism. Louie D. Boomer, O livet. is up from $170 to $176. Total raised PITTSBURGH Rev. and Mrs. Paul Hetrick, mission­ for all purposes of $350,845 is an in­ Glenn Propst, Atlasburg— R. F. Howard, aries to A frica, spoke to th e NAV.M.S. crease of more than $32,000. The dis­ Beaver Falls College Hill—Santford Black, convention. West Virginia District Su­ Brownsville—Glenn Eagle, B u n ola — E llis trict reached a record high in giving perintendent H. Harvey Hendershol H o rto n , Coraopolis—Joseph Kanzelemar, for others, reaching again the 10 percent Corry—H. W. D ieh l, Ellwood City—Rus­ preached in a home missions service. bracket. sell L e w is , O il C ity —Lawrence Martin, In pre-assembly conventions, Rev. R. R. P a ris—Luther Pierce, Lincoln Place— E a rl John E. Rcmmenga was ordained an M errim an was elected C h u rch Schools H u ston , Saxonburg— Harry Hall, Sh arp s- elder; Dr. Mendell Taylor, Nazarene v ille— Harold Marsh, St. Petersburg— ch airm an ; R ev. D ale Bissell, N.Y.P.S. Theological Seminary dean, served as Lemuel Rodgers, Union City— W a rd S a t- president; and Rev. Elsie Neiderhiser, t e r le e , Waterford. evangelist in the camp meeting which NAV.M.S. president. SOUTHWEST INDIANA is held concurrently with the district Dr. Powers ordained E. H. Stenger, A.rthur Hill, B o rd en — Garland Johnson, assembly and conventions, according to Columbus First— John E. Smith, Cynthiana whose church won the "small church —Jam es P. Mahan, Evansville Northside— Rev. David Craig, reporter. achievement” award, Charles Harris, and Samuel P. Smith, Fort Branch— C h a r le s M. S c o tt, F ra n cisco —Joseph A. Vest, Brian McCutcheon into the Christian Georgetown— Eugene Frame, Huntingburg Eight New Churches ministry, according to Reporter George —Robert O. Godby, Jeffersonville Grace— E m m itt. Ralph Bailey, Sr., L in to n — E. R. McClure, Odon—Carlton Hansen, Roachdale—B. G. Dedicated in Iowa W ig g s, Seymour First—Waunnitta Adams, Iowa District Superintendent Gene E. Illinois Sunday Schools Terre Haute East Side—C. N. Personett, Phillips reported to the fifty-third an­ Valley Mission—Elizabeth Estep, B a in - bridge. nual assembly that eight new churches Up 7.5% in Enrollment TENNESSEE were dedicated on the district last year, Illinois District Sunday schools in­ Wm. E. Naill, Dale’s Chapel— C a lv in and that Iowa N'azarenes gave 10.8 per­ creased in enrollment almost 7.5 percent M ilan , Gray’s Chapel—Wade Powers, cent of their income to world evan­ over last year to 18,865; church mem­ Hendersonville— Ron Pelton, Jo e lto n — George Pitzer, Madison—T. J. D a g g ett, gelism . bership gained 70; and the 7.274 Naza- Memphis Northside— Ted DeBolt, N ash­ New churches dedicated were: Algona, rcnes and their friends gave more than ville Bordeaux—T. E. M artin , Nashville Atlantic, Britt, Burlington Flint Hills, F irst. 10 percent to world evangelism, accord­ VIRGINIA Clarinda, Clinton, Council Bluffs, and ing to Dr. L. S. Oliver's report to the Robert Gresham, Catlett—J. V. R o b e rts , Deep River. twenty-second district assembly. Chesapeake First—J. H. G a rriso n , C rew e General Superintendent V. H. Lewis, Dr. G. B. Williamson, general super­ — A. T. Underwood, Estaline Valley— in addition to presiding over the as­ in ten d en t, presided over the assembly, A. Wm. Erickson, Hampton—J. J. W h e e l- b a r g e r , M anassas— H. Harold Calhoun, sembly, also ordained Ted Conway and which met at Nazarene Acres near Portsmouth—V. J. S h e tle r , Roanoke East G ate— Wm. Bailey, S a ltv ille—Ben J. Bixby, Spring Creek— W. F. Masters, Tidewater C en tral— Sidney F. Mays, Timberville— Paul E. Lockhart, Waynesboro— W illis D. N a ill, Williamsburg. WISCONSIN R. Kinnersley, C olum bus—Stanley Lew­ is, Eagle River—E. C o o lid g e , Forest Center —Hugh Hill, Ingalls, Mich.—Ironwood, M ich.— M. S u rg es, La Crosse—D. B lo d g e tt, Marshfield—J. T h o rn to n , Mattoon—B. H ill, Milwaukee S. 60th—C. M u rra y , M ilw a u ­ kee S. 95th— E. Schultz, Sheboygan— W. S c h w o b , Richland Center.

DISTRICT ACTIVITIES Wisconsin per Capita Giving Increases $6.00 Church membership and per capita giving both increased among Wisconsin N'azarenes last year, according to Rev. NEW CHURCH SEATS 200—The recently completed Ephrata (Washington) R. J. Clack, district superintendent, in church, which was dedicated by Dr. Hardy C. Powers, general superin­ his report to the thirtieth annual dis­ tendent, and Rev. Raymond C. Kratzer, Northwest District superintendent, trict assembly. was built at a cost of $30,000, with an indebtedness now of less than $10,000. Dr. George Coulter was the presiding The building, according to Rev. John R. Kell, pastor, is valued by an general superintendent of the assembly insurance company at $60,000.

14 (634) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Californian, Ohioan Given C.S.T. Award A Northwestern Ohio .Sunday school superintendent and a retired navy com­ mander are among the first to receive the Christian Service Training Com­ mission’s citation for certification in church school administration, according to Bennett Dudncy, C.S.T. director. The “certified” rating is the highest in a three-step program recently started to educate church leaders in Sunday school administration. James Carleson, who is associate su­ perintendent in charge of personnel and training in the San Jose (Calif.) Cam­ brian Park Church, received his award April 30. Carleson, in addition to hav­ ing earned more than 150 C.S.T. units, is the teacher of senior high boys, chair­ man of the board of trustees, and serves as the church purchasing agent. He is employed at the Stanford Research In­ stitute as a project administrator in the TWO RECEIVE C.S.T. AWARDS—Two of the first Nazarenes to receive Communication Laboratory. Christian Service Training citations for being certified church schools Leroy Hunt, Sunday school superin­ administrators are above congratulated. (Left picture) James W. Carleson tendent of the Wauscon (Ohio) church, (right) receives from his pastor, Rev. Don Jenk ins, the award. In the received his award July 8. Rev. Olive picture on the right, Rev. M. G. M artini, Northw estern Ohio church schools Harrison is pastor of the Wauseon chairman, presents Leroy Hunt with his administrative certificate. church.

Springfield, Illinois, July 28-30. ericktown, Missouri. Mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, Completing his first year as superin­ Rev. Amos Self was the camp direc­ long-suffering, forbearance, and forgive­ tendent, Dr. Oliver was given a unani­ tor and chaplain. The camp was spon­ ness are all held together by love. The mous recall, and later an extended in­ sored by Missouri District Church man who is perfect in love has little vitation for th ree ad d ition al years. Schools. difficulty in being patient and under­ The district became the first in the standing. denomination to report a C.S.T. class Our archenemy here is pride—pride was held in every church during the THIS SUNDAY'S LESSON as a people and pride as persons: an year, and also won th e top h o n o r in Brian L. Farmer inappropriate estimation of our own its division during the 1964 H e r a ld o f importance. Admittedly, some people Holiness subscription campaign. Topic for September 19: are stupid, and it is just possible that Ray Huff, Walter Johnson, David Growing in Understanding we may be among the wise of the Moore, A rthur C arl O d le, Jo h n R uzich, and Patience world. If, however, we are convinced arid Jerry M. Wheeler were elected to that this latter possibility is true of S c r ip t u r e : Galatians 6:1-10; Philip- elder’s orders, according to Reporter C. pians 4; Colossians 3:12-15 (Printed: ourselves, it is proof that it is not. God Neil Strait. Philippians 4:1-7; Colossians 3:12-15). hates conceit. He chooses the foolish things of the world to confound the G o i.i>en T e x t : Let us nr,: be weary 270 Children at Camp in welldoing: for in due season we shall wise, and the weak things of the world Two hundred seventy Missouri boys reap, if we faint not (Galatians 6:9) . to confound the mighty. Socrates and girls attended the annual district “Charity . . . is the bond of per­ claimed that he knew more than other camp held at P in ecrest C am p n ear Fred- fectness.” men in that he knew that he knew nothing. Others did not even have this knowledge; therefore he knew more than they. Certainly, at best, W'e are a ll unprofitable servants. All comers are welcome in the Chris­ tian Church. Those with a low I.Q. are as welcome as those with a high; God does not judge according to intel­ ligence. Some who would have difficulty being accepted elsewhere must be made to feel at home with the people of God. The reputation of the Church of Jesus Christ rests more heavily on lov- ing-kindness than it does on worldly wisdom and efficiency. I gather from between the lines of the Philippian passage that Paul feared a gathering storm of misunderstanding and impatience among the Christians at Philippi and that his words were de­ YOUNG DEDICATES FLORIDA CHURCH—General Superintendent Samuel signed to quell it. Euodias and Syntyche Young dedicated in March a $176,000 church plant in Homestead, Florida, were beseeched to be of the same mind which has a sanctuary seating capacity of three hundred persons and an in the I.ord. What good advice this is overflow capacity of two hundred m ore. Fully air-conditioned, the church to the temperamental opposites and the accommodated about seven hundred people for the dedication. Rev. W. L. belligerent board members of our Chambers has been pastor since 1952, following graduation from the Naza­ church, and to those who get “hot un­ rene Theological Seminary. The population of Homestead is 7,000. der the collar” about the principle of

SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 • (635) 15 Deaths R. C. GUNSTREAM (The following account was written by Dr. R. C. Gunstream regarding his life. He was killed acci­ "SHOWERS of BLESSING" dentally August 2 on the district campgrounds near Capitan, New Mexico. A house which he was helping to stabilize after recent rains slipped from Program Schedule its temporary foundation and crushed him.) "R . C. Gunstream, born the first time Septem­ ber 29, 1899. Converted and born the second time August, 1910— really settled in my experience September 19—“Who Controls the and sanctified 1920. Called to preach January, World?” by Russell V. DeLong 1921. Entered Pasadena College, February, second semester, 1921. September 26—“Do You Know Him, "Took first pastorate at Roswell, New Mexico, March, 1924— organized the church in my front or Only About Him?” by Russell V. room. DeLong "Second church, Portales (N. Mex.)— September, 1926— June, 1930. October 3—“What Does Conversion " E l Paso (Texas) First— June, 1930— June, 1935. Mean?” by Russell V. DeLong "Pueblo First (Colorado)— June, 1935— 1938. "D istrict Superintendent, New Mexico District, March, 1938— appointed by Dr. John W. Goodwin. " S till in the battle— love God and the church and its doctrines. "R . C. Gunstream.” (On the occasion of the thirty-fifth birthday of his son, Jarrell, Dr. Gunstream presented him a th e th in g , when in reality it is the pride Bible with the following note.) " . . . Please always remember that the Lord rather than the principle that is in giveth and taketh away. jeop ard y! "A ll success you have had comes because of The most patient and understanding much hard work and faith in the Lord. Keep your all on the altar. No matter what happens, success of Christians are usually those who have or failure. Success, many snares— keep your eyes been in “The Way” for a long time. on Him. But if any man will become sanctified "This is 'The Book.' Read it to be wise, that you may eat of the bread of heaven and be wholly—dealing a deathblow to his pride strong, that you may know the way of Jesus. He —he will take a big step forward. One will guide you Home. That you may be the kind cannot get away from the significance of of husband and father you should be, that your life may be a blessing and benediction to all who know the text at the top of the column, you— Read it, Read it, Read it. Know your Bible. “Charity . . . is the bond of perfect­ We want to always think of you as a deeply ness." spiritual man of God, a great layman in our church. NEW FLORIDA CHURC H—The "This is the most precious gift we humbly Ocala (Florida) Silver Springs Lesson material is based on International Sunday present to you. Church, with neir educational facili­ School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for "Affectionately, Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International "Your Father and Mother.” ties to accommodate 500 persons, and Council of Religious Education, and is used by its Funeral services for Dr. Gunstream were held a sanctuary u'hich seats 450, teas re­ permission. during camp meeting week at the district camp­ grounds and burial followed in Albuquerque. Sur­ cently completed at a cost of $82,000. vivors include his wife, Gracie, of the home; two The church and two Sunday school sons, Jarrell and Nelman; one adopted son, Phillip educational buildings are contem­ Crosby; and two daughters, Alberta Rodes and Leta Mae Rhodes. porarily designed. Pastor Roy M. Vaughn served as building super­ MRS. ELLA MARIE SCOFIELD, age eighty-five, visor. died June 17 at her home in Goshen, Indiana. She had been a faithful member of the Goshen Church of the Nazarene for many years. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Roger H. Ward and Rev. Miss Susan Jiminez and John Lunsford, on June Claude Lykins, with interment at the Mt. Zion 5, at Bourbonnais, Illinois. Cemetery, Rising Sun, Ohio. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, all ministers in the Miss Mary Jane Christenson and Larry C. Cary, Church of the Nazarene. on June 19, at Bourbonnais, Illinois.

M. J . (Mike) BURROWS, age fifty-eight, died Miss Joyce Beaver and Ronald Sutton, on July 31, June 14 in Santa Cruz, California, of cancer. at Bourbonnais, Illinois. Funeral services were conducted in Santa Cruz First BORN Church, where he was a member, by Rev. Joseph — to Arthur and Violet (Southwell) Smith of F. Morgan. Mr. Burrows and his wife had been Kansas City, Missouri, a son, Timothy David, on Presbyterians until 1960, when they became Naza- August 15. renes. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Braga; a son, Don; seven grand­ — to Dr. Leland and Sharon (M iller) Ernest of children; five brothers; and one sister. He had been Iowa City, Iowa, a son, Jeffrey Lee, on July 20. active as Sunday school superintendent until his fatal illness. — to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kidd of Bradley, Illinois, a daughter, Tamra Shon, on June 9. MISS GERTRUDE E. BAKER, age sixty-nine, died June 2 while returning from a vacation trip. — to James and Melver (Hodge) Boone of Bour­ Funeral services were held June 5 in the Ridgeway bonnais, Illinois, twins, James Wesley and Kathy (Michigan) church, of which she was a charter Launette, on July 21. member, and were conducted by Rev. Wade Roberts, pastor. She is su-vived by a brother, Henry Baker; — to Mr. and Mrs. Martin J . Bass of Bour­ and two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Avery and Mrs. Foster bonnais, Illinois, a son, Timothy Jay, on July 17. Hardesty. ADOPTED — by Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ewers of Howell, KENNETH EUGENE HOUCHIN, age thirty-three, Michigan, a boy, Brent Alan; he was born May 29, died June 10 in Rockford, Illinois, after being ill 1965. SCOTTISH NAZARENE VISITS— with nephritis. He is survived by his wife, Hannah; SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED Miss Vera Hiddleston, director of a son, Gregory; and a daughter, Tamre. by a friend in Kentucky, "for my health, and for Scottish Probation Officers Training the conversion of my son” ; MRS. A. B. STONECIPHER, age ninety-two, of by a reader in Kansas for the salvation of her College, is in the United Slates on Desert Hot Springs, California, was buried follow­ son, also for other "lost loved ones,” for a special government leave to study American ing funeral services on July 11, in Twentynine unspoken request, and for two friends who are in penal and preventative services in Palms Cemetery. need. California. She visited the world Announcements Directories BOARD OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS and MARRIAGES headquarters Nazarene Publish­ Office: 6401 The Paseo Miss Connie J. DuBois and Mr. Phillip A. Wilsey, ing House recently. Miss Hiddleston Kansas City, Missouri 64131 on July 24, at the church in Portland, Michigan. is a member of the Edinburgh (Scot­ HUGH C. BENNER, Chairman land) Albany Street Church, a mem­ Miss Patricia West and Donald E. Graham, on V. H. LEWIS, Vice-chairman ber of the trustees board of British June 26, at First Church, Roanoke, Virginia. GEORGE COULTER, Secretary HARDY C. POWERS Isles Nazarene College, and a layman Elaine Alice Tozzolina and Dwayne Lee Bounds, G. B. W ILLIAM SON on the North British Isles District. on June 30, at Oxnard, California. SAM UEL YOUNG

16 (636) • HERALD OF HOLINESS A Story-Note from Hi, vj SCHOOL Has y o u_ i £ r0 _ B — B S b T started yet? Sometimes in © san d # s forget to listen with their % to watch and read with their% s, and to write with theirf)ffi They daydream, they look out the EE and they doodle A # " © . Thisyear STUDYwhenit is fine to study. PLAYonly whenit is fine to play. Try to Be the b e st student you have ever been! Love,

"Study to shew thyself approved unto God. " H Timothy 2:15 in the World Missions Department, and P revious to com in g to the general Neil Rimington, financial assistant. Church Schools Department, he was The ten cities included and the dates p astor for one year at O xn ard , Cali­ of the conventions are as follows: Mi­ fornia; was associate pastor at Pasa­ am i, Florid a, Sep tem b er 30—O cto b er 1; dena (California) First Church for Birmingham, Alabama, October 5-6; eight years; and was pastor for one year Nashville, Tennessee, October 7-8; Beth­ in B u rlin g to n , C olorado. M r. Hudgens any, Oklahoma, October 12-13; Wichita, is a graduate of Pasadena College, at­ Gary Moore Follows Kay Kansas, October 14-15; Fort Worth, Tex­ tended the Nazarene Theological Sem­ as Radio Music Director as, October 19-20; Amarillo, Texas, inary. and has a Master's degree in religious education from Fuller Theo­ Gary Moore, music October 12-22; Phoenix, Arizona, Octo­ logical Seminary. minister at Kansas ber 26-27; Pasadena, California, Octo­ H e and Mrs. H udgens (the former City (Missouri) First ber 28-29; Fresno, California, November Barbara F’airbairn) have three children; Church, was appoint­ 2-3. Alan, twelve; Heather, eight; and De­ ed September 1 as Insurance Coverage Up music director of For 2,500 Ministers nise, four. “Showers of Blessing,” At least thirty districts will probably weekly radio program pay 90 percent of their N.M.B.F. budget, A'MCdfc of the Church of the a standard set by the Department of Gary Moore Nazarene, according Ministerial Benevolence, which means of the to Rev. H. Dale Mitchell, Radio League that life insurance protection for more R elig io u s lit director. than 2.500 Nazarene ministers will be Moore follows his brother Ray, who doubled, Rev. Dean Wessels, department had been music director of “Showers of secretary, said recently. Blessing" for twenty years. Ray Moore This is the first year of a program Moody Radio Forty Years Old is now music instructor at Olivet Naza­ which provides an increased amount of C h ic a g o (E P ) —A C hicago radio sta­ rene College. life insurance—from $1,000 to $2,000— tion which has never sold time to com­ Gary Moore will also assume direction for ministers on the 90 percent districts. mercial sponsors began its fortieth year of music for the Spanish radio program, The insurance is free to ministers, of broad casting Ju ly 28. T h e station, "La Horn Nazarena.” since the Board of Pensions through the WMBI, is owned and operated by He will continue his assignment at Ministerial Benevolence pays all of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago and First Church, which he also assumed premium costs. is supported through gifts from its from his brother Ray, in 1963. “It is the hope of the Department listeners. that in a year or two every district will Begun in 1926, in the early years of Church Under Construction qualify under the program, so that all radio, the station was one of the Destroyed by High Winds ministers can have this valuable pro­ w orld's first Teligious stations. Other A sanctuary and education unit being tection,” Wessels said. stations in the M oody netw ork include constructed by the Gary (Indiana) First Missionary Address Change the 100.000-w att W M B I-F M in Chicago; Church was heavily damaged by high Rev. and Mrs. Don DePasquale, for­ WDLM in Moline. Illinois; and WCRF- winds which struck Lake County, In­ merly missionaries in Syria, are now FM in Cleveland, Ohio. diana, August 27. living at Beirut, Lebanon. All com­ The structure, not yet under roof, was munications should be directed to their Urge End to Death Penalty covered by insurance, and cleanup and new address. P.O. Box 2328, since there E s t e s P a r k , C o l o . (E P ) —T h e Gen­ reconstruction will begin immediately, is no one in Syria to receive their mail. eral Conference Mennonite church re­ according to Loren W. Gould, pastor. jected capital punishment as a deter- Church Schools Leader rant to crime and called upon state and Cross-country Missions To New Detroit Job national governments in the U.S. and Tour Begins in Miami Rev. Gene Hud­ Canada to abolish the death penalty. Five missionaries and four staff mem­ gens, director of The vote, 1,463 to 102, was taken bers of the World Missions Department Sunday school ad­ here at the thirty-seventh triennial ses­ will participate in ten missionary con­ ministration w ith sion of the church. More than 2,000 ventions from Miami to Fresno, Cali­ the Church Schools persons registered for the convention. fornia, between September 30 and Department for Delegates also voted to urge use of November 3, according to Dr. E. S. more than a year, negotiation in the resolution of the Phillips, world missions secretary. will become, No­ V iet N am co n flict. T h e y also registered Harmon Schmelzenbach, missionary to vem ber 1, the ad ­ disapproval of “escalation” of the war Africa; Donald Owens, Korea; David ministrative pastor there. Browning, British Guiana; James Kratz, of Detroit (Michi­ H udgens Brazil, and Ernest Eades, Cape Verde gan) First Church, according to D r. Issue Statement on Rights Islands, will appear on the tour. Only Kenneth Armstrong, pastor. R a l e ig h , N .C. (E P ) —T h e National three will participate at each conven­ The newly created position will be Free Will Baptist Association, at its tion. to organize the educational and evan­ twenty-ninth annual convention here, Dr. H. T. Reza, Spanish Department gelistic outreach potential of the church, adopted a civil rights resolution which head, will join the group for seven of Dr. Armstrong said. A new assistant said the church should wrork “to bring the conventions. minister, in addition to Darrell Trotter, every person into a right relationship The purpose of the tour is to inform currently assistant pastor, is Tharon with God, regardless of race or na­ and inspire U.S. Nazarenes about mis­ Daniels, a student at Nazarene Theo­ tional origin.” sions. There will be opportunity to logical Seminary. Its statement recognized “the right ask questions about missionary work. Mr. Hudgens will continue to con­ and privilege of the local church to Also, time has been arranged for in­ tribute a new feature which will appear conduct its own affairs in the area terviews with prospective missionary January 1 in the Bible School Journal, of human relations” but added, “We candidates. “The Adult Lesson Plan,” and an out­ recognize throughout the denomination Workshops will be conducted by R. line for Sunday school teachers of there are human relations problems—we Franklin Cook, administrative assistant adults. must learn to be tolerant.”

18 (638) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Tested by Fire FOR other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any m an build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be made manifest: / j U j i s i v e r for the day shall declare it, because it shall be reiealed by fire; and the fire shall try every m an’s work of uhat sort it is (I Corinthians 3:11-13). Conducted by W. T. PURKISER, Editor Some years ago while I was in the We have a book which says that Jesus was born in 6 B.C. I have heard air force and stationed in Assam, it was in 3 B.C. What do you think? I like to think that Jesus was born India, an Indian came to my tent at the beginning of A.D., not in B.C. with some things for sale. He offered Actually, we cannot be absolutely occurred some time after Jesus was me a good-sized sapphire for only sure just which year Jesus was born. ten rupees. born. That date is rather certainly Our present B .C .— a .d . calendar originat­ known to have been in early April in “How do I know that it’s a genu­ ed with Dionysius Exiguus, a Roman the year 4 b .c . by our calendar, or in ine sapphire?” I asked. “Oh, put it abbot who died around a .d . 550. He on the stove and make the fire hot,” the Year of Rome 750. he said: “the fire will not hurt a fixed on the Year of Rome 754 as the Some New Testament scholars believe precious stone. Sahib, but it will melt year of the Incarnation, and worked the child Jesus was about a year old glass." This certainly was adequate his computation from that date. It now at the time of the flight into Egypt proof of his statement. seems certain that he was five or six and the slaughter of the babes of A while later I visited the small years late in his calculation. Bethlehem. This would place His birth Indian village of Jorhat. While there This conviction hinges on the date then in either 6 or 5 B.C. I watched a goldsmith making a ring. of the death of Herod the Great, which I watched as the skilled artisan blew gently through a small brass tube In Acts 10:44-48, the gospel was given to the Gentiles, and immediately, directing the air into a tiny, coal-oil while Peter yet spoke, the Holy Ghost fell on those that heard. Was Cor­ flame. The blowtorch effect heated nelius a Christian before that time? a small ladle of gold. Every so often There are two important points to nelius and those with him opened their the goldsmith would take a tiny rod make with regard to Cornelius and and flickaway the dross that had hearts and received the full implication risen to the top. In noting my in­ those who were recipients of what has of the gospel by faith. Whatever they terest, he said, “I been called “the Gentile Pentecost” in may have lacked in the way of forgive­ must apply just Acts 10. ness of sins and a new birth was met enough heat to First, Cornelius was certainly not a by the grace of God then and there. purify the gold.” typical unconverted individual. He was As Peter continued to talk, in response This was a lesson a devout man who feared God and to their continued openness to the Spir­ for me. The cleans­ prayed to God alway (Acts 10:2) . His it, they almost immediately thereafter ing fire of the Holy prayers and alms were a memorial be­ received the Spirit in His fullness. Spirit will purify fore God (verse 4) . He was said to be Since the effect of the Spirit’s full­ the gold and silver cleansed and not common (verse 15) . ness is described in Acts 15:8-9 as “puri­ in our lives. The His prayer was heard (verse 31) . He fying their hearts by faith,” what the precious stones will not be damaged. worked righteousness and was accepted Epistles have to say about God’s wil 1 But the fire will destroy the wood, with God (verse 31) . He knew the in the sanctification of His people is hay, and stubble of our self-righteous works. Wood seems to us to be better word of the gospel (verse 37) . His relevant. First Thessalonians is particu­ than stubble, but God in His wisdom whole attitude was one of eager recep­ larly clear on this whole matter. Any knows just what is worth saving. tivity for the full truth which God who are troubled about a second work “Beloved, think it not strange con­ might reveal to him through Peter. Not of grace could well study it carefully, cerning the fiery trial which is to manv sinners would measure up to that noting what Paul says about the faith try you, as though some strange description. of the Thessalonian Christians, and the thing happened unto you: but re­ Second, it should be noted that the exhortations, commands, and prayers joice, inasmuch as ye are partakers account Luke gives in Acts is highly which he expresses for their continu­ of Christ's sufferings: that, when his condensed. What probably happened ance in grace. glory shall be revealed, ye may be was that, while Peter was talking, Cor­ glad also with exceeding joy" (I Peter 4:12-13).—Sidney E. Jackson, Pastor, Marysville, California. In Matthew 19:12, who are the eunuchs mentioned? What does “He that is able to receive it” mean? The verse reads a little more mean­ Christ had just said about the divine “There is no substitute for Chris­ ingfully in the NEB, “For while some institution of marriage, it should be tian example. It must precede and are incapable of marriage because they obvious that celibacy is not God’s usual support instruction in both doctrine plan. A married minister and father and morals. Everybody from aged were born so, or were made so by men, women to young children are in­ there are others who have themselves can enter more fully and helpfully into fluenced by a genuinely effective life. renounced marriage for the sake of the the domestic problems of his parishion­ Our precepts cannot ivell extend be­ kingdom of Heaven. Let those accept ers than can an unmarried man” (Vol. yond our practices, and our instruc­ it who can.”* VI, p. 178). tions must be launched from the pos­ “Able to receive it” is explained in Paul recognized that for some it was ture of our personal Christlikeness. verse 11, “All men cannot receive this best not to marry (I Corinthians 7:32- Not all people can become able saying, save they to whom it is given.” 35) . But he warned against the false preachers, but all can be good e x ­ In other words, celibacy for the sake of teachers who would come “forbidding amples. Not all can be pastors, but the kingdom of God is not a universal to marry” (I Timothy 4:3) . all can be patterns. Not all will know theology, but all can knoiv Christ and requirement, but an individual leading. As Dr. Earle remarks in the B e a c o n *"The New English Bible/' © The Delegates of show themselves a pattern of godli­ the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the n e s s —Milo L. Arnold. 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