Herald of January 25, 1961 HOLINESS
Official Organ of the Church of the Na/arene
The Golden Gateway General Superintendent Lewis
Jesus Christ came to this world to give life to mankind, and lived here among men that He might show us how to live. His living on earth had a place and purpose in God’s plan as well as His dying. The tremendous impact of His death with all its redemptive meaning is related to the splendor of His living. The stature of His cross on the “hill far away” is enhanced by His good life. It stands, always visible, towering high on time’s horizon. Its silhouette is sharp ened by the light of His earthly life which preceded His death. It is therefore fitting and proper that our youth should celebrate Youth Week in an effort to know Him better. They for whom life is so filled with potential magnificence should now earnestly search for and know the Lord of life. Christ preached the Sermon on the Mount to the world. He was the Giver of life—telling the youth of the world how to live. He then went from that sermon to live its verities, that all men might know that His way is indeed the way to live now and the road to eternal life in heaven. He proved this—proved it by His deeds, His love, His kindness, His heal ing, and His soul winning. While here among us, He built His way forever into the ways of men. Those who disbelieved Him, by their own tragic recompense, have left proof in history that the One of whom it was written, “Never man spake like this man,” was and is correct. Those who have made Him their Saviour, built upon Him as their Rock, and have lived by His precepts have known the rich, full meaning of truly great living. We must always live. We cannot cancel our contract with time and eternity. Since all this is true, seek Jesus, the Saviour, and come from death into the life He gives. Know Christ, the Master of life, and you are thereby prepared to live. Follow Him and enjoy His life “more abundant.” Serve Him and make a world better. Lead others to Him and enjoy a wonderful reward. He never really went away. He is still here, calling forth the best in you, showing you His way. Youth W eek—shining pathway to Christ—to peace, to success in His will. Youth W eek—golden gateway to life now and eternal life, today, tomorrow, forever! leraLtaffhlmesi GENERAL ASSEMBLY To Portland, Oregon ••••••••••••••••••••A* January 25,1961 Dr. Ralph Earle of Nazarcne Theo Whole Num ber 2544 logical Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri, Vol. 49, No. 48 By actum of the General As was elected vice-president of the ">63- sembly Location Commission, mcmber Evangelical Theological Society 1 The Golden Gateway. GeneraI the Sixteenth General Assem at the society’s annual national meeting Superintendent Lewis held at Gordon Divinity School near bly will be held in the city of Boston, late in December of I960. 3 The F.lims of Life, (I7, li. Portland, Oregon, June 21-27, Walker 1964. I Reconsidering Our Stand After pastoring the St. Bernice Church Against the Movies, Wesley D. on Southwest Indiana District for five Tracy and one-half years. Rev. Marvin Patton has resigned to accept the pastorate of 5 I Cannot Live a Christian Life, //. M. von Stein the church at Mackey, Indiana. 6 News in Picture IF THAT HAD "Don't Follow Me." Hazel E. After pastoring the church in Avon Howard BEEN M Y CHILD! Lake, Ohio, Rev. Thomas Pauley, Jr., is answering a call from the Lord into 7 What About Those Shoes? Ida M. Attebery It was just three weeks ago today full-time evangelistic work. He has W hat’s New in the Manual we were called to St. Louis to attend pastored for six years in Missouri, Ohio, the funeral of my sister's eight-month- and New York. 8 “ His Is My Soul. Redeemed old baby boy. It was a sad funeral from from All Sin." Justin Rice the standpoint of having to give up a !> "His Is My Heart, Purified beautiful child such as this one, but it Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Sigafoes will W ithin," Ken Tippitt celebrate their fifty-second wedding an was the most beautiful service I have niversary on February ">. He is a retired 10 "His Is My Life, Transformed ever attended. The message gave us an Nazarene elder. They are both doing from Above,” Hill Greenelsh insight into heaven, and knowing with very well and able to attend church 11 “His My Whole Being—an out doubt that the child had gone to most of the time. Their home address O ff ring of Love,” Paul Skiles heaven was even more comforting. is P.O. Box 23. Scott, Georgia. 12 Editorials, W. T. Purkiser As we were traveling back to our home in Kankakee, Illinois, our children, ages nine-and-one-half and seven, were asleep. Pastor Kenneth Rice sends word from HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Ed My husband and I were discussing the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: “Irma Jean itor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, fact that it could have been one of our Shook, prominent member of First G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Van- derpool, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, Gen children. Then the thought came to Church of the Nazarene, passed to her eral Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. me, What if it had been? Have our reward on December 28, 1960. She died Published every Wednesday, by the NAZA children reached the age of account as she lived, victorious in the faith.” RENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A . Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, ability? They have both been to the Kansas City 41, Missouri. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance. Second-class altar at an early age, have accepted postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Jesus in their hearts, and the oldest one Printed in U.S.A. has joined the church. The week following the funeral the YOUTH'S YEARNING Photo credit: Page 6, New Zealand News papers Ltd. questions kept coming to my mind. Have EXPRESSED 1 as a mother done my best to teach our children right from wrong? All children That gangling, awkward youth—not go through the time when they will tell nearly as wise as he thinks, but far a lie or steal something. Have I been wiser than generally credited—confronts as thorough as I should have? Do I take us. His heart yearns to express his deep may look like so much bungling, but for advantage of every opportunity that emotions, such as his love, ideals, and him there is a way, for faith abounds comes along to teach them the way God goals, but finds that this confused world and energy compounds itself to find that would have them live? Our responsi with its harshness sorely hinders that way for a more spiritual church. bility as parents is a very great one. revealing expression. He must express himself in a real at With everything moving as fast as it But this frustrated, immature adult mosphere of liberty, or he will shut the is today, are we too busy as parents— will overcome this; for he will soon sing gates of faith and a bitter root will ma even with our church work and outside in our choirs, sit on our church boards, ture instead, and another teen-ager be activities—to talk, read, pray, and play and bring his children for dedication lost to God and the Church.—D e i.m a r with our children as we should? —IF. T hat is, IF in the church we can S t a i . u k . Pastor, Churubusco, Indiana. If that had been one of our chil help him express this love for God and dren— have we as parents done our bestf man, somehow enabling him to verbal —Rhoda (Roth) Rinebarger, Kanka ize and accomplish the worthy spiritual kee, Illinois. goals he holds. Men do not doubt God because the If in the church, the atmosphere of evidence of His existence and power love and understanding prevails, courage are insufficient, but because their will rise in his heart; he will feel no fear hearts are out of adjustment. Let a nor shame to express deep emotions. His man trace his doubt down to its tap The only fellow we know who root and in nine cases out of ten he plan to better our world and our church makes anything out of running folks will find sin there.—J. B. Chapman. down is the elevator operator. 2 (1166) • HERALD OF HOLINESS were there. And what the home at Bethany was to Christ, our homes should be to us. (2) A nother Elim is the house of God. The Oke CtimS o f aCife writer of the Book of Hebrews says, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the man ner of some is” (Hebrews 10:25). What a place B y W. B. WALKER Pastor, First Church, Ravenna, Ohio of refreshment is the sanctuary of the Lordl The world has its disappointments, cares, and anxieties that depress our spirits. But every seven days and The children of Israel were journeying through oftener we can come to Elim, the place of rest, the wilderness. They had crossed the raging Red refreshment, and renewal. Sea, and were on their way to the land of promise. There are people who are weary and tired in They had just passed through the bitter experience body. But I know something worse than a tired of Marah, where they almost perished for lack of hand, and that is a tired heart. There is something water. They marched over the burning sand, with worse than a tired brain, and that is a weary soul. their hearts well-nigh broken and their spirits But thank God, there is a place of twelve springs crushed. T he narrative says, “And they came to of water and threescore and ten palm trees where Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and three men may come and lay down their burdens and score and ten palm trees: and they encamped there cares. A person may come to this Elim broken by the waters” (Exodus 15:27). hearted, but lie can go away saying, “I came to If God’s ancient people had not come to these church tired, weary; but I left rested, refreshed, cooling and refreshing waters, this pleasant and and strengthened—for I met the Lord.” restful spot, they would never have reached Canaan. (8) Still another Elim is the place of secret If they had not come to Elim that day, it could prayer. Jesus said, “Enter into thy closet, and well have been the end of their journey. But just when thou hast shut tliy door, pray to thy Father in time to save them from surrender, apostasy, which is in secret; and thy Father . . . shall reward and despair they came to Elim. At these sparkling thee openly” (Matthew G:f>). The mountaintop, springs their bodies were refreshed and their droop the wilderness, the olive garden proved to be ing spirits caught newr courage. veritable Elims to Jesus. Prayer is the breath of These people had left Egypt with high hopes, the soul. Prayer puts us in touch with the divine. and shouted the victory along the way. But when We can take our burdens to the Lord in prayer, they had heard the sound of Pharaoh’s pursuing and go away with new courage and hope. Do hosts they had fallen into deep despair. They you pray without ceasing? Do you delight to linger had turned upon their leader with reproaches and before the Lord in fellowship and prayer? What condemnation. They had said, “Wherefore hast kind of tale does the carpet at your bedside tell? thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of (4) These Elims will lead you to the heavenly Egypt? Is not this the word that we did tell thee lilim. Matthew Henry says of these ancient people, in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve “They only encamped there for a time. It was the Egyptians?” (Exodus 11:11-12) They had then not their abiding city.” We cannot remain in the seen the hand of destruction upon the Egyptians place of prayer forever, nor continue in the sanc in the R ed Sea. tuary, for we must go to the office, the factory, or The Elims of life are God’s gracious resting the field. places. It is at these wells and beneath these palm The Elims here only give us hints and suggestions trees that Christians are encouraged to press on of the joy and bliss which will be ours forever in to the heights beyond. What are some of God’s heaven. The city of God will be a place of streams Elims? and trees, for through the midst of it will flow (1) T he Christian home is one of God’s Elims. the River of Life. On either side of the river are Our experience in the world is often hard and fruit trees for the healing of the nations. No painful. Men take advantage of us, say unkind storms will beat upon this Elim—no trouble will and uncharitable things about us. In a thousand break its peace. There is neither sorrow, nor cry ways they chafe and irritate and hurt us. But ing, nor any more pain, nor death. It will be a when we come home in the evening, and cross land of everlasting music and song. Will your the threshold, we find ourselves bathed in the at journey end in this Elim? We are every day coming mosphere of love. I have often wondered how the nearer to the end of our pilgrimage. Where will Master had strength that last week to return day your journey end? after day in rendering compassionate service to humanity. But I remember He too had His Elim. “. . . eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany “About all the devil has to do in some churches with the twelve” (Mark 11:11). Bethany was the is to go on a vacation and let the folks take over.” Master’s Elim. The spring and the palm trees —Carroll A. Etter.
JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1167) 3 Reconsidering Our Stand Against the Movies
B y WESLEY D. TRACY Pastor, Armourdale Church, Kansas City, Kansas
Are we wrong about the movies? Have we been cite crime. In a detailed study of 40 films, Dr. Dale mistaken about Hollywood? Is it really a paragon discovered that 57 criminals committed 62 crimes of virtue instead of a playground of vicc? Perhaps and only 7 were punished by law. we should reconsider our traditional stand and ask A survey of reformatories conducted by Drs. ourselves some serious questions about the movies. Blumer and Hauser recorded “thirty-two separate (1) Are we xvrong in believing that movie morals . . . items of crime technique” which the young are corrupt? prisoners learned from the movies. Movie titles alone are evidence enough for us to Yes, we will have to hold to the facts—movies see that we are not wrong. Such titles as “The foster crime. Mating Game,” “Fast and Sexy,” “Let’s Make (3) Are we wrong in our conviction that movies Love,” and “Sex Kittens Go to College” reveal the incite passion and lust? moral content of the movies. Advertising blurbs In the Payne Fund Survey, teen-agers testified are just as revealing. Here are a few from today’s with brutal frankness that movies do incite passion Kansas City Star: “See girls corrupted,” “the most and inflame lust. These records reveal such a diabolical murderer,” “the sensuous body.” This is desperate depravity that it cannot, for modesty’s the moral tone of the theater. sake, here be described. Dr. Fred Eastman of Chicago Theological Sem Seventy-two per cent of the girls in one reforma inary says of Hollywood, “Its stories are peopled tory testified that they had “imitated the movies.” with crooks, gunmen, prostitutes, and drunkards.” In another, nearly one-half the girls confessed that T he Los Angeles Times declares, “We might as “passionate love scenes had led them to become well be frank . . . The pictures that arc selling delinquent.” . . . are . . . made of smut.” Many teen-age boys re-echoed the following tes One minister, the members of whose denomina timony of a sixteen-year-old sex delinquent: “I tion spend three times as much on movies as they took a girl to one of these pictures . . . and we give to missions, made a personal survey of one did everything they did in the picture.” Multiplied hundred films. He discovered that sex was the over and over again were testimonies such as this theme of seventy-nine of them. The hero or heroine one given by a seventeen-year-old sex delinquent was involved in adultery thirty-five times, eighty- girl: “The thing most responsible for getting me seven films honored drinking, and seventy-two had into trouble is these love pictures.” “bedroom” scenes. This is a sordid subject, yet the facts reveal that A converted movie actress testifies, “Pen cannot these scenes of wickedness and passion are nour describe the sin, sorrow, wickedness, and wretched ished and cherished and imitated by many viewers, ness that exist in this modern Sodom.” especially teen-agers. The above evidence points to one thing—the (4) Arc we wrong when xue say that it is worse conscience of the church is not wrong in condemn than useless to try to “pick the good ones”? ing movie morals. A council in St. Louis, made up of Catholic, (2) Are we mistaken when we say that movies Protestant, and Jewish organizations, was set up manufacture criminals? for this very purpose. Within fifteen years this The Production Code of the Motion Picture As council was recommending 98 per cent of all Holly sociation of America, Incorporated, reads in part: wood productions. Several religious magazines have tried the same “No picture shall be produced which tiling. Christian Century attempts to pick the few will lower moral standards . . . Hence the “good biscuits” from Hollywood’s “swill pail.” sympathy of the audience shall never be However, one investigation reveals that thirty-eight thrown to . . . crime, wrongdoing, evil, or films recommended by this magazine contained the sin. . . . following violations of Christian morals: adultery “Law'—divine, natural or human, shall appeared in eight films; there were sixty-one crimes, not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be thirty-three dancing scenes; in thirty-four the hero created for its violation.” or heroine was a drinker; twenty-five had question In spite of this noble pledge, one year one censor able nude displays; twenty-three contained smutty ship board eliminated 4,825 scenes tending to in jokes; and twenty-eight had “bedroom” scenes.
4 (1168) • HERALD OF HOLINESS An examination of films recommended by the In reconsidering we find that the only safe po Christian Herald revealed that they contained sition is that position which the Church of the adultery, crime, smoking, drinking, and bedroom Nazarene has always maintained—total abstinence! scenes. These are not Hollywood’s worst. They are May God deliver us from ever holding any other Hollywood’s best! view.
I Cannot Live a Christian Life
B y H. M. von STEIN
The cabin was built of ax-hewn logs along an We started out all right. But Bible reading and Indian trail with a name that has been forgotten. family worship “kind of petered out” on us. With The mountain meadow, called a “glade,” is hum- all the time there was, other things took its place. mocked with wild grass and edged with brush The Bible got stuck under a pile of magazines, and where deer like to bed because the mountain lion church, religion, and the things of God retreated can hardly get close enough for the kill without to memories of polished pews and organ music. detection. One of those miraculous, icy, higli- W hen we got down off the m ountain in the fall mountain springs gurgles through the grass, and there was a difference between ourselves and the the call of mountain quail, which are larger than people of die church who had not missed Sunday the valley variety, echoes querulously among the services. T he revival—well, he preached at me. giant firs and cedars which surround this pocket of What was wrong? Are the Bible, Sunday school, paradise in the Siskiyous. and church just for town people? The thing we Here, for a number of years, we were to spend call a “real, spiritual Christian experience”—do you each fire season, with horses and pack mules ready have to be in church every Sunday to have it? to travel over the winding mountain trails to wher It wasn’t as easy to figure out as you might think. ever a fire might break out following the inevitable For those who know nothing but the environment lightning storms. of streets and people, the pure, fragrant silence of I am told there are people who find it difficult the mountains seems like the very presence of God. to imagine living where there are no telephones, Why shouldn’t a man live a Christian life in such no daily paper, and no TV; where a man track is an environment to better advantage? something you speculate about until you find out After a number of years of working at it, and who made it and what he was doing; because no only then through the ministry of our pastor, Rev. one who is friendly would think of coming into Harold Sanner, it became apparent to this poor the back country without bringing the mail or at hillman that a man can’t live a Christian life. His least a paper. handicaps and difficulties are always spiritual and This sort of life was not “away back yonder,” no different in one place from what they are in and the only difference now is that we have a another. No one, in fact, has ever in himself lived transistor radio. a Christian life except Jesus. When our pastor learned we were taking this The only way one can live a Christian life is job he asked me how we were going to stay relig in Christ. He lives it in us, through us. There is ious “away back there.” I didn’t think much 110 other way. “If any man have not the Spirit of about it. We had been Christians of a sort for Christ, he is none of his” (Romans 8:9). The quite a while, and the Church of the Nazarene mountain glade or the city street are all the same had begun to change that. As I looked back upon in Him. it now, we were still dragging our heels; but God, Ready access to church and Sunday school is an to us, was not a man with a long beard looking asset in maintaining a Christian experience. Yet down over a cloud to see that we behaved. with the gospel message filling the ether waves, With all the temptations of worldliness, it should even the great, ragged old fir trees surrounding be easier to live a Christian life off yonder, where the mountain glade no longer nod their hoary the peaks stood against the western sky, than down heads on the night breeze, whispering together of here with the world blowing its beery, tobacco-laden the goings-on across the mountain, but seem to breath into our faces. whisper, instead, of the coming of our Lord.
JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1169) 5 From one penny-sheet of paper you could make several large bows and revel in a wide selection of colors. My expensive silk ribbons were aban Km scoB j doned for the cheap, new kind. I must “do as the Romans did.” Two weeks later, paper bows had in PICTURE : vanished. EH Times have not changed in some respects. Young people tend to be the same, wearing “look alike” clothes and hair styles, the boys with their “duck tails” and the crew cuts, the girls with whatever fashion dictates. We cannot all be leaders, but we do have the prerogative of finding out whom we are following and where we are headed. Jesus said, “If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch” (Matthew 15:14). I have heard mothers say, “I don’t care where my children attend Sunday school, just so they go somewhere.” Often they have no conception of the teachings of that particular church and its interpretation of the Bible. They do not know with what lessons their children are being indoc trinated. The little ones are willing to believe what they are told. It could be a case of the blind lead This float ivas entered by the Church of the Nazarene of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the “River Festival" on ing the blind. the Avon River in Christchurch last November. It was When a small boy was asked why he was a Chris the only religious entry and ivas given much newspaper and other publicity. The base of the float was a large tian, he thought a moment: “I guess it just runs open Bible on which ivas placed the world, with il in the family.” Parents may teach their children luminated uords, “Try Christ's Way.” to pray, and the youngsters may follow their prin ciples of right and wrong, but becoming a Chris tian is a personal experience. It is not inherited. “This isn’t the right road, I am sure,” I told The sign in the car ahead said— the car driver. The country around us looked un familiar. “Let’s look at the map,” I suggested, but he refused, saying he knew where he was going and I should not worry. It was some time later "Don't Follow Me" when, miles out of our way, he admitted he was lost. I pointed out the way on the map and he B y HAZEL E. HOWARD backtracked to the place where he had taken a wrong turn. We do not like to admit we are in the wrong, Waiting in my car for the green light, 1 noticed or are lost. It deflates the ego. The world is full an oblong card in the rear window of the car ahead. of lost people—lost because they are living with Printed in bold, black letters were the words: out Christ in their lives. Some do not realize it. “DON’T FOLLOW ME . . . I’M LOST” They are following the crowd. Others will not humble themselves to admit it. Jesus said He Not long after that I was looking for a way onto came “to seek and to save that which was lost” the freeway in a neighboring city and turned to (Luke 19:10). He also told His disciples, “I am the right, as the sign indicated. However, a couple the way.” To Peter and John, He said, “Follow of blocks farther, I found myself at a dead end and me.” in the rear of a large warehouse. As I turned my Have you found the Way, or are you lost in sin? car around, I saw a car following. When it came Arc you following the crucified Christ, or someone opposite to mine, the driver called from the win who is a Christian in name only? Why not take dow, “I’m lost too.” a moment to stop, look, and listen? It’s easy to follow someone else and become lost. Most of us are conformists by nature. We have a fear of appearing different. When I was in the Doubtless, on the great day of judgment, we sixth grade, a child started a fad for tissue-paper shall sta)id appalled when we behold how much hair-bows. The next day the majority of the girls God’s cause ivas harmed through so-called "harm blossomed out in the crisp ribbon replacement. less” chatter!— M a r y S a n d e r s .
6 (1170) • HERALD OF HOLINESS for us today as it was lor Israel just before Jericho. Shod with these shoes we will do exploits! We What About will walk over every satanic power that opposes us, and carry palms of victory, triumphing over the world, the flesh, and the devil! Those Shoes? What about the brass? Sounds like brass has something of an adorning quality. Brass is a symbol B y IDA M. ATTEBERY of holiness. T he vessels in the Tabernacle that were used for cleansing purposes were made of Nazarene Elder, Ventura, California brass. The altar of burnt sacrifice was made of brass. T he serpent that was lifted up in the wil Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy derness as an antidote for the venom of the fiery days, so shall thy strength be (Deuteronomy 33:25). serpents sent among the disobedient, murmuring This promise of strength for our days is often people was made of brass. quoted. Like other of God’s children, f have Brass is bright and shiny. The brazen serpent been blessed and heartened by it. But I did not shone all day long in the desert sun; it also shone know what to do with those shoes. all through the night, reflecting the light from the One day while meditating upon this portion of glowing cloud above the Tabernacle. Its gleam the promise, I said to myself, Everything in the penetrated to the farthest outreach of the camp. Bible has significance; surely there is something When Solomon sang of the Church, the bride, lie for us in these unusual words. From here I trusted exclaimed, “How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, the Holy Spirit for analysis. O prince’s daughter!” (Song of Solomon 7:1) Even Iron shoes would be very heavy to wear, and so, the feet shod with the mighty strength of God difficult to walk in, but inasmuch as they are and the shining beauty of holiness will witness to coupled with the promise of daylong strength, we the world as we pass through on our journey will be able both to wear them and to walk in heavenward, where we will receive our eternal in them. heritance. Thank God for these spiritual shoes of But what advantage would there be in wearing divine strength, and the beautiful adornment of iron shoes? To be sure, we could tread upon holy living! thorns, and they could not pierce us; we could clamber over sharp and jagged rocks, and they could not cut our feet; also wc could crush the head of a serpent. But that is a small part of what they can do. The Israelites wore shoes when they left Egypt, and we infer that they lasted beyond Kadesh-barnea, through the wilderness wanderings, and until the time when the host was gathered on the cast side of Jordan in the land of Moab. Moses reminded them of the fact that both their clothing and their Church property came in for review by shoes had lasted all this time without waxing old the 1960 General Assembly. In case a local (Deuteronomy 29:5) . They were now at the bor church becomes disorganized, the title to der of the Promised Land, and it was time for such property shall pass to the district ad new shoes. Let’s look them over. visory board, acting as agent for said district Why must these shoes be of iron and brass? where such has been incorporated, or other When we think of iron, we think of strength, an authorized agent. This property may then unyielding quality. We picture a host shod in be used as the district assembly shall direct this manner, and quickly the scriptures come to for the use of the Church of the Nazarene us: “Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: at large. (Paragraph 168) the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample In states where the civil law does not under feet” (Psalms 91:13) ; “And the God of peacc permit the incorporation of the district shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly” (Ro advisory board, the district assembly may mans 16:20); “Through thee will we push down elect the advisory board as district trustees, our enemies: through thy name will we tread them who then shall have power, on their own under that rise up against us” (Psalms 44:5) ; “Be resolution, to purchase, hold, or convey prop hold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents erty as may be necessary in carrying on the and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: work of the district. (Paragraph 216, Sec and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke tion 7) 10:19). All paragraphs referred to are found in Why, these are victory shoes! Canaan is a land the 1960 Manual. of conquest and victory, and the figure is as much —S. T. LUDWIG, General Secretary
JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1171) 7 By JUSTIN RICE' TEEN-AGE REPRESENTATIVE, GENERAL N .Y.P.S. COUNCIL
The song of the redeemed cannot be sung by pending on His strength, I have no fear in serving ilie angels but I can sing it forever. I can sing Him. In return for His blessings, I will give my of the love of an almighty God which has provided increased devotion. redemption for my soul. 1 can sing of a Re deemer who loved me enough to give His life as / have a Christ that satisfies, a ransom for my sins. I can sing it because 1 Since I have been redeemed. have experienced the joy of being redeemed. Yes, To do His will my highest prize, I can sing from my heart, “His is my soul, redeemed Since I have been redeemed. from all sin.” How glad I am that I not only heard the story Teen-agers, the Lord needs your best now. Do of redemption but that I also accepted the plan not wait until your adult years to become com for my life at an early age! Christ became my pletely His. The sooner you make the conse personal Saviour at eight years of age, and at that cration, the greater your happiness will be and moment God’s redemptive plan began its appli the greater blessing you will be to others. There cation in my life. I was freed from the power are other teen-agers who may have no one to show and guilt of sin, and the image of the Creator them their need of redemption. God needs conse was restored upon my heart. Since then I have crated teen-agers w'ho will lead others to an ex known the thrill of living for Christ. I have dis perience of salvation. Your influence will count covered that life comes only by death to sin. Under for something important during your teen-age the bondage of sin and the penalty of death there years. Why not let it be as a witness for Christ? could have been no genuine happiness. I can be As the redeemed of the Lord, we must pro thankful not only for forgiveness of sin but also claim the gospel of redemption to a lost world. salvation from a life of sin. How glad am I that The ransom was paid not only for us, but for all. I did not have to try the world before I realized But have all heard about the possibility of living the awfulness of sin and my need for redemption! a life “redeemed from all sin”? Many people Never have I regretted my decision to follow Christ. know about Christ but do they understand His As I continued to follow Christ, I realized that purpose for coming into the world? Will they die the ransom which was paid on Calvary was for in ignorance of the glorious gospel? Can we af my sanctification as well as my salvation. I knew ford to be silent when such a wonderful thing has it was God’s will that man should have a pure happened to us and there are others who have not heart, for Adam was created as a holy being. After as much as heard of the redemptive plan? I say being saved, I then had a heart to be cleansed and with the Psalmist, “Let the redeemed of the Lord a life to be consecrated. I dedicated my life to say so” (Psalms 107:2). The theme song of the Him and fie purified my heart. It was then that redeemed must be: I could sing with more devotion than ever, “His is my soul, redeemed from ALL sin.” Redeemed—how I love to proclaim it! How can 1 keep my life for myself when He Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb! gave His life for me? I am redeemed but by no merit of my own. What a debt I owe! 1 am like We, the redeemed, must not fail in our task, a debtor who has nothing to give but a life of for our “redemption draweth nigh.” Yes, our re service. This I will give Him out of a heart full demption is yet to be completed. The entrance of love. I will give my best to His service. Only of sin into the world brought death and eternal by becoming His servant completely can I effective punishment upon man. But our Redeemer has ly serve Him. Then I can trust in Him to mold brought back the hope of eternal life. He not only me and make me into the servant He needs. De- delivered us from eternal damnation but has also promised us everlasting rewards. After we have ^Lawrence, Kansas; Bethany Nazarene College.
Chorus "H is" copyright © 1960 by Lillenas Publishing Co. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. (Continued on page 9) 8 (1172) • HERALD OF HOLINESS As Christ gave himself for the sinner, so should ual. The young, pure Christian can be an im we feel a responsibility to give ourselves to Him. m ature Christian; but as long as his heart is pure, Giving self is an inward expression of gratitude maturity will come. Therefore we should strive for Christ’s divine love for us. for Christian perfection in purity. If we keep The verb sanctify means “to make holy.” It clean and pure hearts, God will lead as He wills, means “to make clean” or “to cleanse” in gen to help us progress into a mature Christian ex eral, both inwardly and outwardly; to consecrate perience. by cleansing or purifying; or to free from the pol A pure heart is a heart like Christ’s: lution of sin. When a person becomes sanctified, Give me a love that knows no ill; he testifies that he feels clean, the carnal mind is Give me the grace to do Thy will. gone, anger has fled away, and the peace of God Pardon and cleanse this soul of mine; is the ruler of his heart. Give me a heart like Thine.** This peace, however, does not rule out the pos sibility of temptation. Paul said, “My brethren, In other words, “Sanctify me that my heart might count it all joy when ye fall into divers tempta resemble Thine.” tions.” He said that the trials we have will only George Fox, founder of the Quakers, capably strengthen us and make us “perfect and entire, shows the result of sanctification in his testimony: wanting nothing” (James 1:2-4). “I knew Jesus, and He was precious to my soul. What happens when a person yields to temp But I found something within me that would not tations and chooses drink, dancing, gambling, keep sweet and patient and kind. I did what I worldly pleasures, or human wisdom and fame and could to keep it down, but it was there. I be power, only to find himself captive, crushed, and sought Jesus to do something for me, and when ruined? What shall he do? Is there hope? Is I gave Him my will, He came to my heart and there a deliverer? Yes, there is! Jesus said, “If took out all that would not be sweet, all that would the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall not be kind, all that would not be patient, and be free indeed” (John 8:36). The sinner whom then He shut the door.” Jesus makes free is loosed from the works of the Sweet? Kind? Patient? It cannot be true until devil. The sinner is bound to his guilty past, but this testimony is mine . . . “His is my heart, puri Jesus forgives, and one is no longer subject to the fied within.” penalty of the broken law. Jesus looses him and **© 1920. Renewed 1948. The Rodeheaver Co., owner. International copy he “is free indeed." right secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. In sanctification, a man is delivered from the remains of the carnal mind, from doubts and fears, evil tempers and desires, shame of the cross and (Continued from page 8) the like, and is made perfect in submission, in faith, in love. It is a complete deliverance, a per experienced this, our redemption will be complete, fect liberty, a heavenly freedom that Jesus gives, for it will have reached as far as the effects of by bringing the soul to liberty, which is the law of sin have gone. love. “His is my soul” now; His will be my soul for Heart purity is not only a separation from sin, ever, for I have been redeemed. but it is a dedication to God. It is a perfect love. It is more than our original consecration of Redeemed, redeemed, the soul. It represents the Holy Spirit’s acceptance Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; of the offering of our lives. Redeemed, redeemed, Purity is the result of cleansing from the pol His child, and forever, I am. lution of sin; maturity is due to the growth in “The Spirit of God takes no delight in publish grace. Purity is instantaneous; maturity is grad- ing the failures of men and Christians.”—Paul S. •Nampa, Idaho; Northwest Nazarene College. Rees. JAAIUiABM 25. 1961 • (1173) 9 w ife ( f t
By BILL GREENELSH TEEN-AGE REPRESENTATIVE, GENERAL N .Y .P .S . COUNCIL
Dramatically, the Word of God begins with the his own will for his own glory. This goal is changed statement, “In the beginning God created the to doing God’s will and giving God the glory. heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). From that Attitudes are transformed from getting to giving, time, centuries ago, until now, it has been God’s from selfishness to selflessness, from hatred to love. purpose to have fellowship with man. These are the characteristics of which Jesus spoke But God cannot tolerate sin; therefore, when when He said, “Wherefore by their fruits ye shall Adam and Eve sinned, the fellowship between God know them” (Matthew 7:20). and them was broken. A truly transformed life will not desire anything The Bible points out that we are the descendants other than the perfect will of God. This applies of Adam and Eve; therefore we were all born in to every decision and deed. sin and separated from God’s divine fellowship. Romans 12:2 is a verse that fits perfectly with Not until we are perfected in eternity can this the phrase, “H is is my life, transformed from fellowship be completely restored. However, it above.” The Amplified New Testament renders lias been God’s plan to start the restoring of this ii this way: fellowship on earth with the death of His Son on Calvary. The Saviour died to release us from the Do not be conformed to this world—this age, bondage of sin. fashioned after and adapted to its external, So we see that the first step is accepting God’s superficial customs. But be transformed Son as personal Lord and Saviour, thereby re (changed) gaining fellowship with God. This, of course, is by the [entire] renewal of your mind— called salvation (the saving of a man from the by its new ideals and its new attitude— spiritual consequences of sin). so that you may prove [for yourselves] what Being a holiness denomination, we believe, by is the the authority of the Word of God, that the next good and acceptable and perfect will of God, step in further perfecting this fellowship with God even the thing which is good and acceptable is sanctification (perfect love toward God out of and a pure heart). perfect (in His sight for you). Now comes the phrase, “His is my life, trans An interesting word in this verse is “prove.” formed from above." This is most certainly the Prove what? Prove God’s will. A truly transformed testimony of one who has experienced both salva person will soon prove to himself what God’s will tion and sanctification. Being “transformed from is for his life. Selfish endeavor must take the back above” is a product as well as a witness of these seat, and a commitment for Christian service must two works of grace. be made. When I think of the word “transform,” immedi Immediately you recoil and lash back with this ately its synonym “change” enters my mind. When question, “Do you mean I’m not transformed un a person is transformed, he is changed. Another less I plan to be a preacher?” No! Do not mis question quickly arises, When does this change understand! The meaning of my statement is take place? Of course a transformed life can be wrapped up in one word, available. Simply being seen after salvation and before sanctification. But available to God for His service whether it be wit after sanctification a greater evidence of trans nessing, inviting, praying, preaching, teaching, sing formation is visible, simply because the nature of ing, or just listening. our inherited sin from Adam and Eve has been Our Heavenly Father loves us and desires close cleansed away allowing us to have an even closer fellowship with God. fellowship with us. T o have this closeness with God, we must accept His Son in salvation and Let me illustrate: A person’s purposes and mo sanctification. This will lead automatically to a tives are changed. No longer does he wish to do life that is completely “His . . . transformed from *San Luis Obispo, California; Pasadena College. above.” 10 (1174) • HERALD OF HOLINESS These words thoughtfully read or seriously sung, But drops of grief can ne’er repay as they have been and will be by thousands of young The debt of love I owe. Nazarenes, speed us straight to the heart of it all. Here, Lord, I give myself away; The only way to know full joy, peace that the world ’Tis all that I can do! cannot give nor take, a hope that never dies, is to It's the “debt of love.” God’s love for all! His love take the pathway of complete surrender. Anything for me! That’s the difference. Love changes a hu short of it brings bitter dissatisfaction to us and manly unrealistic demand from a strict, unyielding great disappointment to God. requirement to an irresistible invitation. Wholeheartedness is a characteristic of the young. “Love is the weapon which Omnipotence re It is like them to refuse a halfway settlement in any served to conquer rebel man when all the rest had area of their response or experience. So we should failed. Reason he parried; fear he answers blow not be surprised when to the question, “How about for blow; future interest he meets with present your heart? Your will? Your love? Your life? How pleasure; but love is the sun against whose melting much can God have?” the clear-voiced chorus of beams the winter cannot stand. There is not one our youth replies—and with amazing earnestness— human being in a million, nor a thousand men in “His my whole being, an offering of lone.” We all earth’s huge quintillion, whose clay heart is should not be sold by the quiet sound of it, for it is hardened against love” (Tupper). strong and deep and very, very willing. In response to His love and by His grace, loving God’s call is for obedience—without reservation. even as He “who gave himself for us” has loved, Meister Eckhart wrote, “There arc plenty to follow we say it . . . and sing it . . . and mean it: our Lord halfway, but not the other half. They will “HIS MY WHOLE BEING, AN OFFERING give, up possessions, friends, and honors, but it OF LOVE.” touches them too closely to disown themselves.” It Not because we are forced to—but because we is just too much to willingly follow' Him the other love! half ... to sincerely disown self ... or is it? The finest young among us have often faced this challenge at a place of prayer. Sometimes it has happened in the home church revival, sometimes at SOMETHING MORE! a campfire altar . . . sometimes with friends to lift B y BERNIECE AYERS HALL and pray, sometimes all alone. And God was say ing, “Not just your possessions, plans, and pals . . . No wealth is ever quite enough— but you.” It is obedience without reservation. Our hearts crave “something more.” Tho’ paths are smoothly paved or rough, Thomas Kelly tells of the experience of George Our restless feet explore. Fox, who as a young man was religious enough to Friends gathered ’neath a sheltering roof, meet all earthly standards and was making plans Our loved ones to adore— to enter the ministry: “But the insatiable God- These priceless riches still are proof hunger in him drove him from such mediocrity into Our hearts crave “something more.” a passionate quest for the real whole wheat Bread of Life.” His family could not understand it. They Life never can be quite complete took him to a physician to have his blood let . . . In spite of blessings sent, the equivalent of a visit to a psychiatrist. This A home upon a sunny street— blindness is still with us. Often those who intend Who, ever, is content? to be wholly obedient, submissive, and listening Long years ago men left their nets have to push aside the advice of friends and family Forsaken on the shore. to “be reasonable.” Zacchaeus (lest the mind forgets), How can it be? Why do men accept such a de Fie climbed a sycamore. mand? The answer is expressed in Isaac Watts’s Today, on paths our feet have trod, hymn “At the Cross”: We find that "something more”—in God!
JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1175) 11 By W. T. PURKISER
To Church on Sunday Night go to work on Monday morning. Then, too, I don’t get convicted listening to you as I would One of the earliest signs of spiritual decay in if I were at church. any church or in any individual is the growth of “Ed, I’m in the hospital now, and I need your “Sunday morning religion.” Timely, then, is this help. I can’t go to the pastor, for in substance I year’s special emphasis in the Church of the Naza have slapped him in the teeth every Sunday night rene on the Sunday night evangelistic service. when he preached, and I saicl in effect, ‘What you There is an old saying of somewhat doubtful have to say does not interest me one bit.’ Why value: “The attendance on Sunday morning shows should I lower myself to allow him to pray for me the popularity of the church in the community; the now? attendance on Sunday night shows the popularity “Then I can’t go to God, for I have put Him of the preacher; and the attendance on Wednesday ‘second fiddle’ to you so many times that I’m em night shows the popularity of God.” But there is barrassed to go to Him now. . . . enough truth in it to sting just a little. “Please, Ed, will you help me get well? Also bills It is an open question whether any service of are piling up; will you help me meet my obliga the church has contributed so much to the real tions? And if perchance I should die, will you see building of the kingdom of God as the Sunday that I get to heaven? evening evangelistic service. If you ask ten of your “If I do get well, you can count on me to be in staunchest Christian friends, the backbone of the my place on Sunday nights, supporting your pro Sunday school, the prayer meeting, the choir, and gram. I will be a faithful listener. So please don’t the Sunday morning service, when they were let me down. brought to a personal, redeeming knowledge of “Signed, A Devoted Supporter.” Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour—nine of them Could you send a carbon copy? will answer, “Sunday night.” The Sunday night service should not be a pale The tragedy is that many churches are dark on copy of the Sunday morning hour. There should be Sunday nights, and many others, at least measured freedom without license, a certain informality with by their attendance, are exceedingly dim. The out casualness, a lift and a lilt in the singing, a evangelistic zeal, the burden for souls, the concern flexibility and variety in order of service, an earnest for the welfare of the unsaved, in any group finds ness in the praying, an unction in the preaching, its truest measure in the Sunday night congregation. and a sense of vital participation on the part of It is not hard to think of reasons why church every Christian present. attendance on Sunday night should be less than None of these qualities just happen. They must that on Sunday morning. One is the problem of be planned. We have put much of planning and the older person whose health is precarious and forethought into the Sunday morning service, and whose night-vision is dim. Another is the factor all too often depended on the inspiration of the mo of distance in some of our “spread-out” metro ment to carry the evening service along. A preacher politan areas. But all of us must be sure that our cannot work all week on a Sunday morning mes “reasons” do not turn out to be shabby excuses we sage and depend on two hours Sunday afternoon to should be ashamed to mention at the judgment. prepare him for the evening service and expect max Is it possible that television has become a con imum results. A music director or song leader can tributor to Sunday night delinquency on the part not plan and pray and practice all week for Sunday of those who are perfectly able physically to go morning, and scratch a few numbers on an envelope to church? One of our Baptist friends wrote “An leu minutes before the night service begins hoping Open Letter to Ed Sullivan”: lor a miracle. God does work miracles in His “Dear Ed Sullivan: Church, but mostly they come to those who plan “I am writing this letter to you because you have and pray for them. become my god. Instead of going to church on Participation in the Sunday night evangelistic Sunday night, I have stayed away and listened to service is of great value for the Christian. He may you. It took so little effort to relax on Sunday eve have no business himself to transact at an altar of nings and listen to you on television. prayer. He may have found the forgiveness of sins. “Now understand, I am not lazy, for I always He may have been sanctified wholly. But when the
12 (117«) • HERALD OF HOLINESS saving gospel is preached and the call to holiness GUEST EDITORIAL is sounded forth, he participates as a member of the believing community, and his own faith is strengthened and his soul is fed. A Sense of Belonging God’s Spirit is not limited to time and place, but He works most effectively when the Word He in “They were never our age,” chirped one teen spired is preached from faith to faith. Unconverted as she described her elders. Gruffly the reply was and unsanctified people are most powerfully moved returned, “She has never been our age either.” toward God when they hear the gospel while sitting But this youth-elder conflict of the centuries can among those from whose hearts a response is going be resolved in a flood of understanding love. Age, back to God and His herald. The response of faith you see, is a relative thing. To the child of six, an helps create a movement toward God. adolescent is mature; to the adolescent, the gradu Sunday night evangelism can never take the place ate student has reached middle age; and to this of personal evangelism and of the special revival same graduate, senility sets in at forty. The ancient service. But it is one mighty prong in a three- axiom, however, declares, “Life begins at forty.” pronged attack on the kingdom of darkness. I.et’s T he cycle is complete. plan and pray and purpose to strengthen the Sun The Church, from the beginning, has been con day evening program of the church, and go to cerned with men's entire life span. Jesus rebuked church Sunday night. the disciples for their harsh indifference to the Editorial Notes youngsters, saying, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not . . .” The Next Sunday witnesses the beginning of Youth Apostle Paul added, “Let no man despise thy Week, 1961, an all-important phase in the work youth . . .” John the Beloved said, “And whoso of the church. It is too much an understatement ever will, let him take the water of life freely.” In to say that our young people are the church of to the course of church events, all must be evangelized, morrow. They are a vital part of the worshiping and instructed, and inspired. working church of today. Annually the Church of the Nazarene, along w'ith In recognition of this youth emphasis, we present most other denominations, devotes one full week to in this issue of the Herald several articles of special a special youth emphasis. This has served to “weld note. Dr. V. H. Lewis, who as general superinten youth and the Church closer together.” dent serves as sponsor of the General N.Y.P.S. Coun The unrest of the world has intensified youth’s cil, has written the cover editorial. Mr. Paul Skiles. search for the enduring values. Nurtured in ma executive secretary of the General Nazarene Young terialism, young people are disillusioned with its People’s Society, and the three teen-age members rewards. Worthy goals must be found and followed. of the General Council have used the theme chorus Christ alone can give meaning and significance to for this quadrennium as the basis for four signifi the tangled strands of man’s existence. The lone cant articles. General President James R. Snow liness of life is lost with Him. The emptiness of has prepared the guest editorial featured on these life is filled by Him. The goal for life is established pages; and valuable Youth Week activities are in Him. This is God’s world, and however much listed in the N.Y.P.S. column. appearances seem to the contrary, nothing can work Let us all support in ways appropriate to our in this world but righteousness. You can stake your ages and responsibilities the activities of Youth life on it. Jesus did, and He proved the principle Week, 1961. Our young people deserve the best we for time and eternity. can possibly do along this line. Dr. Jacks declared: “In our discussion of the re ♦ ♦ ♦ ligious needs of children and young people, we “The Spirit gives reality to the Old Testament, are tempted to regard Christianity as a religion the prophetic record, and to the Nexv Testament, of the old which has by some means or other to be the historic record of Christ’s life. He impresses adapted to the minds of the young. I think we upon us the fact that Jesus is living and present —that He is what He was. His birth. His sermon should be nearer the truth if we were to regard it on the mount. His parables. His miracles, His as originally a religion of the young which has lost farewell discourse. His high-priestly prayer. His some of its savor by being adapted to the minds words on the cross, to Spirit-illumined soids do of the old.” not belong to a distant antiquity, but are per The modern mood in music called “rock and petually as fresh as the morning paper. The roll” speaks to youth saying, “You belong.” This is Spirit telegraphs the Gospels across the chasm of a basic desire. One must remember, however, that centuries and millenniums as recent news from the heavenly choir has sung this refrain through the heaven. ‘What are you so greedily reading, ages. It is the enduring sound of the sixties. This grandpa?’ said a child to a Bihle-studying saint is accented in the quadrennial theme of the N.Y.P.S.. of four-score years intently reading the Word of God. ‘News,’ ivas the reply.”—Daniel Steele. (Continued on page 14) JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1177) 13 (Continued from page 13) Not for the years of time alone, "HIS,” and the supporting scripture underlines it: But for eternity. “Ye are not your own . . . ye are bought with a J am e s R. Sn o w price.” You belong to Him. General N.Y.P.S. President
money. This represents the net assets of the Division of Church Extension, and the amount of this non-borrowed money has increased over $100,000 in two years. The second factor in the soundness of loan funds concerns the status of the loans to churches. In the General Church ROY F. SMEE. Secretary Loan Fund there are ten churches that have had financial difficulties and have Retrospect and Advance by Carol Gish; and We Live in Germany, had to apply for a reduction in the by Jerald D. Johnson. The third, a monthly payments temporarily. In every The excitement, the stimulation, and Christian Service Training book. Let's case these payments amount to more the inspiration of our General Board Look at Our Church, by Howard Ham than the interest and they are all up- and department meetings are in the lin, has a chapter on the department. to-date. In the short-term loan fund, air at Headquarters as this issue of the The architects’ exhibit and confer there arc twenty-six that are past the Herald goes to press. It seems fitting that ence at the General Assembly exceeded official one-year due date or year of these sessions are held at the New Years our expectations, and the church build renewal. Twelve of these are in the season. Just as we, as individuals, sur ing exhibit was the center of much in process of refinancing locally and will vey the past year with satisfaction, per terest. Arrangements have been made soon be cleared from the record. Eleven haps tinged with a little regret in some (or taking this display to district preach have not been able to arrange financing areas, and look forward with anticipa ers' meetings, with lectures and slides locally and the department has granted tion and eager planning to the year on church building, so that pastors who permission for regular payments to be ahead, so our church departments sur are planning a building program may made until other financing is available. vey, appraise, and with the help and have the benefit of these helps. Already Only three are having some difficulty, leading of Almighty God plan the widely ten districts have scheduled these ar but these three should be cleared up expanding program of our beloved rangements as a part of their preachers’ within a year. This is an outstanding church. It is a time for retrospection: meetings. We hope to reach the majority record of soundness that any lending Are we fulfilling our commission and of our districts during the quadrennium. agency would be glad to possess. doing all that the Lord requires of us for the extension of His kingdom? This We look forward to 1961 as another is a good starting point and gives a New High in year of advance in the General Church strong foundation to the plans for the General Church Loan Fund Loan Fund—the savings bank of the church’s operations for the coming year. church. When the year-end figures were com plete, we were able to report that 1960 Home Missions Report was one of the best years we have had Highlights from Dr. Smee's annual re in the General Church Loan Fund. The I am sure that the average parent port to the General Board were given total amount in the General Church waits too long to put forth the earnest in the Herald of January 11. Additional Loan Fund went over one million dol endeavor to lead the child to a per items of interest include the following: lars in December for the first time, and sonal and saving knowledge of Jesus There arc now 2,123 members on the our total loan funds, in both the Gen Christ, and as a consequence the 7 overseas fields. The 1960 report docs Christian spends a great part of his eral Loan Fund and the short-term life warring against evils from which not include our eighth field, Samoa, as fund, reached $1,395,817.74. The net he should have been saved before our first church there is now in process increase in new savings deposits was they ever marred him. It is a poor of organization. The Bible Colleges in $222,117.54, or about three and a half evangelism that overlooks the chil Australia and South Africa are increas times the amount of new deposits in dren and seeks principally for the ing each year in enrollment. They are 1959. These deposits now total $808, salvation of the “old toughs.”—J. B. training the pastors for our future 789.44. Chapman. churches in Australia, New Zealand, and While we rejoice in these new records, South Africa. Dr. Richard S. Taylor, it is the use of these funds that counts. the first principal and organizer of Naza During 1960 a total of $483,171.42 was rene Bible College in Sydney, Australia, sent out in loans to fifty-two churches "SHOWERS of BLESSING" has completed two terms of service and on thirty-eight districts. This was al returned to the United States. Rev. E. E. most the same amount of loans as was Program Schedule Young has succeeded him in this posi made in the record Golden Anniversary tion. year, 1958. The General Church Loan Jan. 29—“But if Not,” by R. V. De- The Chinese work on the West Coast Fund celebrated its fifth birthday in Long of the United States is showing steady 1960. In these five years almost $400, Feb. 5—“Moses’ Place of Vision,” by gains. There have been no important 000.00 in principal of loans has been J. E. Williams changes during the year. repaid and used again in loans to other Three new books have been published churches. Feb. 12—“Do You Really Pray?” (first of six sermons on “Prayer” by T. W. this year relating to the work of the De Two items point up the soundness of Willingham) partment of Home Missions. Two of these loan funds. One is the fact that, these are in the current missionary read of the total funds of almost $1,400,000, Feb. 19—“What Is True Prayer?” ing list: Missionary Frontiers at Home, $578,445 ii permanent, non-borrowed
14 (1178) • HERALD OF HOLINESS is full of the joy of the Lord. He hai started prayer meetings in his home three miles away. Pray for him too. A young couple who are members at our outstation at Moim entered Bi ble school this year to prepare for the M m H fl Lord’s work. They took their two young er children with them. They hope to return for their second year in February. GEORGE COULTER, Secretary We would ask prayer for them that God will strengthen their faith and see them Prayer Request tories that have been accomplished. through. We are planning to drill for water Twenty-six people were baptized and Two of our young boys, Nelson and on our newly purchased Bible school received into membership, and all are Isaac, also from the Moim church, ex campus. Please pray that God will direct glowing in grace and standing true, celled in high school and next year are us in our search for this very vital need despite much persecution from their going away to college for higher educa for t h e school.—R. R. M il l e r , Taiwan heathen relatives. tion. Pray that they will remain faithful. (Formosa). Recently one of these, a bright young girl named Maria, was told by her par In May this past year our main sta ents to go to be the wife of a man whose tion church received the Sunday school Missionary Address Changes parents had paid the lobola (bride banner for the highest percentage in The following missionaries have added price) when she was just a child. The crease in the whole of the Transvaal. a post office box number to their for girl refused saying that she was a Chris The membership of our missionary so mer addresses: tian and did not want to marry a hea cieties is on the increase; our young Miss Juanita Gardner, P.O. Box 51, then man. She was beaten and eventually people's services are well attended, giv Pigg's Peak, Swaziland. South Africa carried off to the man’s home. She stood ing great spiritual help to our young Mr. and Mrs. John Wise, P.O. Box 191, up before the whole family and said, folk. Bremersdorp, Swaziland, South Africa “I am a Christian. I will never make For these blessings and progress we Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Karker, P.O. Box beer, so you need not ask me. I love give God thanks. 191, Bremersdorp, Swaziland, South Af- the Lord. He is my Chief and Helper." In closing let me give you some more Maria needs our prayers. We are sure definite prayer needs we would be volt will bear her up before the throne grateful for you to remember with us: Miss Virginia Benedict, of Mozam of grace. The Lord is helping her. and 1. The church and clinic work here bique, will be taking additional training we ran help her too by standing by her. on the main station at Letaba. at Queen Victoria Hospital, Johannes Another convert, a woman who found 2. The church and school work at burg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa, the Lord when a maternity patient in Moim. for the next eight months. our clinic here, had had her Alabaster 3. Weekly services held at the eight Mr. Robert Gray would like his mail preaching points. address changed to Apartado 193, Chic- box only three weeks before time of opening. In her box was a dollar. This 1. Our two African pastors. And in layo, Peru, South America. out of the allowance given her by her clude with this a prayer for many more Rev. R. R. Miller’s correct address husband, who is not a Christian, and men to respond to God’s call to service. should be: Box 383, Taipei, Taiwan, ■>. Tent meetings planned for the Free China. Please correct your printed who earns only twelve to fifteen dollars coming months. address list. It has the wrong box num a month! How her sacrifice challenged (i. A church site in the New Tzaneen ber. us! One man preparing to be a witch Location seven miles away. Our request A Good Year doctor repented and that same day- is before the Bantu Affairs Department, It has been a good year at Letaba. brought all his paraphernalia and and has been for some time.—K e n n e t h We are thanking the Lord for the vic- burned it outside the church. His heart S in g l e t o n .
HOLD THE LINES M i n i s t e r s • By F. W. DAVIS B e n e v o l e n t F u n d • The armies of evil are raging; Their forces are mighty and strong. But God, our Commander, is with us In the battle of right against wrong. Department of Ministerial Benevolence Let’s hold the lines for the Master DEAN WESSELS. Secretary And stand for His truth and the right, Recent Changes in the Social For we have the promise of Heaven Security Law Affecting Ministers If we never give up in the fight. Ministers are now eligible for disability benefits at any age if they become totally disabled and have been under Social Se W'lien the conflict with the devil is over, curity for five years or longer. The wife and dependent children And he sinks in hell and defeat, are now covered by these benefits also. How glad we’ll be we were faithful Unchanged is the rule that a minister can get Social Security And refused to quit or retreat! benefits for each month of the year that his annual earnings do Someday in glorious triumph— not exceed $1,200.00. Beginning in 1961, for amounts^ over $1,200.00, When the battle for Jesus is done— the following new formula applies: $1.00 in benefits is withheld for We shall shine as the stars in the morn each $2.00 of earnings between $1,200.00 and $1,500.00. If a person earns more than $1,500.00, he forfeits $1.00 in benefits for each $1.00 ing, that his earnings go over the $1,500.00 amount. When our crown of vict’ry is won! JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1179) 15 nswer comer
Conducted by W. T. PURKISER. Editor
Where were the apostles when the Holy Spirit came upon them on the Day of Pentecost? Were they in an “upper room” or in the Temple? Tradition lias it that the 120 were in gathered in one of the Temple rooms. the “upper room” referred to in Ads This would easily account for the fact 1:13-14. “And when they were come in. that, when the Holy Spirit came, the they went up into an upper room, where word was so quickly spread abroad (Acts abode both Peter, and James, and John, 2:
llie dynamic of a meaningful faith can give them • • an adequate foundation, a sense of purpose, a structure of moral values, and a commitment to spiritual ideals. One of the heartening aspects of our ministry is that we are not required to carry this burden CORNER • or concern alone. When the commanding general of our depot first reported aboard, to the as sembled officers of his command he made a most significant statement. He said, “It is as im portant for a commander to lead his troop to A CHAPLAIN REPORTS worship as it is for him to lead them into battle.” This quality of leadership of the professional John Wesley said, “The world is my parish.” military leader aids the chaplain and assists him Such a universal concept of the Master is certainly in the spiritual aspects in his ministry to the necessary. The gospel is universal, but most of youth of our country. As a nation we are sur us labor in a more restricted area of ministry. rounded with material abundance, with awesome The ministry of the military chaplain is confined military strength, with the obvious results of almost entirely to that of military personnel and scientific advancement, and yet our leaders recog their dependents. That of the navy chaplain nize that man is still a moral and spiritual often finds a field of service being attached to creature and, unless this determination of life duty with the United States Marine Corps. Such with its needs is met, that all other progress has been my experience for these last two years. comes to naught. Our training stresses the objec My parish has been confined to young men be tive to build men, but thank God the emphasis tween the ages of seventeen and twenty. They is also given that they must be men who recognize have fluctuated in number from 5,000 to as many their responsibility to God. as 20,000. This has been at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, which cares for all This is my parish. The boy from down the new marine recruits west of the Mississippi River. street where you live, the towheaded, freckle These young men represent a cross section not faced youngster who squirmed in your Sunday only of American life but of American church life school class, the gangling adolescent who ap as well. We have the opportunity to observe the peared to be bored during the service of worship, strength and the weaknesses of their convictions the devout and conscientious young man who concerning Christian faith and how they apply always took his faith seriously . . . these are members of my parish. The boy from the priv these beliefs to their training. . . . ileged side of the tracks, the young man from the Many of these young men recognize no moral wrong side of the tracks, the young man with a authority and resent the discipline and the strong home life, the boy who just, “like Topsy,” authority represented by the military because they grew up—these are all here. We begin where the have never acknowledged the ultimate authority home and the church have left off. We work of Almighty God. For some of them, military with those that you have sent. It is a great task. service is marked by a sense of futility without It is a challenging ministry. It is rewarding in meaning, without purpose. This then becomes the results that we see when these “God-starved the challenge to the chaplain to relate them to youth” come to a place of personal decision and the unique authority and purpose of Jesus Christ acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, in a saving relationship through faith. When discovering the real purpose of their lives. the foundations of faith have not been adequately laid by either the home or the church, this makes the task of the chaplain doubly difficult. For what should be primary for many of them is N azarene S ervicemen’s C ommission beginning eighteen or twenty years too late. And yet the task is not without hope. For the trans < DIRECTOR forming power of God through Jesus Christ and
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PAUL SKILES. Secretary school, youth services, and the church choir practice, a supper to which many were visited. The sick and shut-ins were What Youth Have Done unchurched youth were invited, and a included in the project, and many new o u th week, 1961—January 29 vouth-lcd prayer meeting. persons were called on for the first time Y through February 5 are the dates . . . Youth were teachers for all classes in the name of the church. set aside for youth activities that of the youth and adult divisions of the . . . Compiling, editing, and mimeo strengthen personal spiritual life. It Sunday school. Oldsters enjoyed class graphing a youth bulletin that was so may be a time when many unchurched sessions that had been well prepared well received the group voted to make youth are introduced to the church; it by the youngsters. The youth teachers this project a monthly feature. may become a week when numbers of gained new insights into what is needed . . . A singspiration, concluded with unsaved youth are led to repentance for for successful class periods. Communion observed by candlelight, sin and faith for salvation. Idea starters . . . Youth fellowship meeting at the was a feature the youth of one church for what to include in Youth Week are parsonage. The occasion included a sup will not forget soon. activities that have made previous Youth per prepared by the young people and Youth Week—a time filled with possi Weeks a success: a discussion period when youth talked bility for the spiritual enrichment of . . . A week end of revival, beginning with their pastor about spiritual con the youth of the church. The amount on Thursday of Youth Week and con cerns. of planning done for it will determine cluding on Sunday night. The first . . . A week when visitation was the the degree of spiritual help youth re nights of the week were used for special special feature. Absentees from Sunday ceive from it.
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Kissimmee, Florida Lancaster, Kentucky—Our church is happy to report that at Christmas time our juniors led the entire church in a unanimous vote to give our Christmas treat fund money on the offering for the Nazarene Ministers Benevolent Fund. We appreciate our children being so thoughtful at this time of the year, and feel that God will bless them and the church in this step toward helping our retired ministers.—C h a r l e s H a s e l w o o d , Pastor.
Evangelist Joe Bishop reports; "My first meeting in the fall was at El Paso, Texas, where God met with us and gave a number of souls at the altar. After attending our district assembly we went to Jefferson. Texas, one of the oldest Recently our district superintendent, sery. The total debt on both parsonage Nazarene churches in that part of the Dr. John L. Knight, dedicated the new and church buildings is $15,000. God county. Following a week’s meeting in Sunday school annex seen at the back of has helped the church to start a branch our home church we went to West Mon the sanctuary. The church was organ Sunday school in a neighboring city, roe, Louisiana, where Rev. Jack McClung ized on February 5, 1955, with 13 charter and now they have their own organiza is doing a good work. WTe had a fine members in the parsonage chapel next tion with pastor and parsonage chapel. meeting at Pineville, Louisiana, with door that has since been completed into Recently we had a good revival meeting Pastor Donald Peal; then to Buhl, Idaho, a fine, three-bedroom parsonage. The with Rev. J. V. Frederick, Sr. WTe have with Rev. M. M. Matlock; and back to membership is now 115 and the Sunday a faithful group of members and friends. Shreveport, Louisiana, for a meeting school average for the year 152. The We have some young people studying in with our Werner Park Church and Pas church and the annex have about 8,000 Christian colleges, preparing for nurses, tor Howard Tripp. Our last meeting square feet of floor space and can well and two young men of this group are was at Mangum, Oklahoma, where we accommodate 25 classes. T he seating already preaching. Our people are go closed on December 11. We are enjoy capacity of the sanctuary is 300; it is ing all out for “Evangelism First.”— ing our work and thank God for His equipped with sound system and nur F r e d T o m s , Pastor. blessings.”
18 (1182) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Clare, Michigan—We recently closed a Martinsville, Indiana—We are now in Evangelists P. 1’. and Marie Belew glorious revival under the ministry of our fifth year with this good church and write: "On this New Year’s Eve we feel Evangelists Dewey and Wavolene Mounts people. During this time we have aver impelled to thank God for His protec with twenty-five seekers at the altar, aged 388 in Sunday school, and have tion and goodness during the year of and the church definitely strengthened. received 115 into church membership, I960. We have traveled more than fifty The closing Sunday night service cli almost all of them on profession of thousand miles by plane and car with maxed with four seekers praying through faith; we have had a net gain of 80 out any serious accident, and have en and the presence of the Holy Spirit members. Recently we had the greatest joyed the anointing of the Holy Spirit very real. Many of our people went revival in the church’s history with on our ministry as we have preached deeper for the Lord, and two young Evangelist Fred Thomas preaching and and sung the gospel through many couples were saved at the altar. Wc Homer and Martha Maddox and their states. Needy souls have sought and greatly appreciated the ministry of daughter, Sarah, singing. These fine found God. and the Christians have been Brother and Sister Mounts. His dy workers were mightily used of God. greatly blessed. For all these and many namic messages and friendly spirit, to Since this meeting we have received 14 other divine favors too numerous to gether with Mrs. Mounts’s thrilling members into the church; 5 couples, 2 mention we praise God, take courage, musical ministry, made each service other adults, and 2 fine young people- and press on." challenging and enlightening. As a re all by profession of faith. We are serv sult of these meetings there is a mar ing on the first year of a three-year call, Evangelist C. G. Weathers writes that velous spirit in our church, and we go and recently the church gave us a sub he has three open dates, March 1 forward for God, with "Evangelism stantial increase in salary. We have through April 9, and would be glad to First” our motto.—J f.r r y D. U l r ic h , much for which to praise God, and slate these dates in the Middle West. Pastor. thank Him wc are privileged to serve He plans to be in the East in the late Him in the church with this wonderful spring and fall. Write him, 811 N. Sin people.—E a r l M a r v e l , Pastor. clair, Tavares, Florida. Evangelist Hob Palmer writes that he has an open date. February 5 to 12, and will be glad to go anywhere for freewill offerings. Write him, 59 Broad Street, Jackson, Ohio. First Church, Washington, Pennsylvania Thompson Station. Tennessee —The Jones Chapel Church has been in a spirit of revival since our fall revival meeting with Rev. Raymond Orner. His preaching was Spirit-anointed, re sulting in the altar being filled with seekers several times during the meeting. Because of the prevailing spirit of re vival, our church has enjoyed two good week ends with the pastor preaching in the first and Rev. G. Dennis of Trevecca Nazarene College as the preacher for the second. Souls have been saved, new members added to the church, and be cause of the emphasis on “Evangelism First.” God is supplying our needs botli spiritually and financially.—V e r n o n F.. H u r i.i s, Pastor.
Clarksville, Michigan —On Sunday morning, December 18, Elmdale Church enjoyed a gracious time as the Spirit of First Church was formally dedicated minds of the possibility of such a the Lord was wonderfully manifest in by Dr. G. B. Williamson on Sunday, venture. In the past five missionary our midst. The altar was lined with November 13, I960. Pastor William G. offerings the church has raised a cash precious souls and all prayed through Ardrey writes: "We are in our third offering average of $1,100. We have to victory. Our people were encouraged. year of service, and in this time 28 new been able easily to become a '10 per cent’ The church shows definite signs of prog Nazarene members have been added lo church, and God’s blessings have been ress for which we praise God.—E a r l L . the church on confession of faith. Our marked throughout the church. These S p r o w l s , Pastor. Sunday school average has increased offerings have been spurred on by our from 128 to 175. and budgets have in active and enthusiastic missionary presi Knowles, Oklahoma—We have been creased from $2,936 to $3,795. In the dent. We now have a complete plant pastoring this church for thirty months, fiscal year 1957-58 the church raised for with a commodious sanctuary to seat 350 and feel that these have been some of all purposes a grand total of SI6,170; people, a full basement under the sanc the best days of our lives. We have in 1959-60 the grand total giving in tuary, and an educational unit. The had some good revivals with District creased to a new high of $24,648. This valuation of the church completely fur Superintendent J. T. Gassett, Evangelist fiscal year shows a still higher giving, nished is set at $125,000, with a debt of J. V. Langford, and a number of students and indications are that we will exceed .$39,000. The sanctuary is beautifully from our Bethany Nazarene College. the $30,000 mark. The Lord blesses a carpeted, and the church is completely Last year the church gave more than church and people when they bless Him. furnished with blond oak furniture and 10 per cent to the General Budget. For The pastor presented to the official a new' Baldwin organ and Hamilton the past years the church has paid all board the need of being a TO per cent’ piano to match. We thank God for all of its budgets in full and supported church. Our first move to this end was He has enabled His people to do, and every phase of the work. Our people to go over the top in missionary giving. with this continued spirit of sacrifice, arc progressive, and many improvements The average cash offering for missions plus the wonderful facilities and the have been made during these months. at Easter and Thanksgiving was $500, unlimited horizon in this new and un A new garage was built during the sum the balance supplemented from the churched community, there is no reason mer, and in a few days more improve church treasury to meet the budget. why this could not become a great ments will be made in the parsonage. When a suggested goal of $1,000 was church. We arc continually reminded We thank God for our people who love made for an Easter and Thanksgiving of the axiom. ‘A missionary-minded Him and stand by the work with their offering, a doubt was raised in many church is a strong church at home.' ” prayers, labor, and tithes and offerings. —J o h n L a m b e r t . Pastor. JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1183) 19 L\vangelists Jack and Ruby Carter re ful victory in these meetings, with a were helped. It was a joy to labor with port: “Wc began our fall revival work large number of seekers in some of them. our fine pastors and people. We have on August 31 in Childress, Texas; then In all, we saw a large number of people some open time for the spring and fall to Regent anti Carrington, North Dako helped, some reclaimed, some sanctified, of ’61. W rite us at our new address, ta; New Matamoras, Dresden, and Min and others saved for the first time. God 4609 N. Mueller Street, Bethany, Okla eral City, Ohio; Gainesville, Texas; and blessed our efforts in preaching and homa.” Estherville, Iowa. God gave us wonder singing the gospel, and the churches
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20 ( 1184) HERALD OF HOLINESS Rev. R. E. Elzey writes: "After spend Evangelist C. B. I'ugett reports: “For were heard. Programs of advance and ing five and one-half years as pastor of the first two Sundays of September, I challenge were set for all departments. First Church in Tampa, we felt led of was with Rev. A1 Farris in Summerville, A Herald of Holiness drive with a goal the Lord to accept the unanimous call Kentucky, and saw some good results. of 2,500 subscriptions was announced. to pastor the Colonial Church in Or Had another good revival at Lafayette Papers presented by pastors discussed lando, Florida. The Lord is blessing Park Church in St. Louis, Missouri, with the scope, soul, series, sermon, scheme, and we are off to a good start with these Pastor R. T. Morris, and Professor Paul and financing of the revival, as well as fine people. If you have friends here McNutt singing. Then we went to Cali a final series on "Saving the Results of you’d like to have us contact for the fornia, where God gave wonderful re Evangelism.” church, write me, 2112 Vivada Avenue. sults at Riverside First with Rev. Hugh Preachers’ wives held separate sessions We would appreciate an interest in your Hines; then on to El Monte with Pastor on two days with Mrs. B. V. Seals as prayers.” George Gardner, and Paul and Mary the special speaker.—G k r a ld L. F osbf.n - Jester, singers; to Santa Ana First n k r , Reporter. Church with Rev. H. O. Johnson, and Evangelist T. J. Farlow reports: “After Professor Ron Lush as singer; at entering the field of full-time evangelism Banning with Rev. Steve Bennett, and last October, we conducted four revival Mrs. C. B. Cox as singer; at Bloomington meetings, and then because of sickness with Rev. Frank Watkins, and Professor Nazarene Minister were forccd to cancel two. God has been Whitcomb as singer; at Anaheim First wonderful to us, and also the pastors Church with Pastor Murray Morford, Gets Quick Service whom we have been privileged to serve. who also led the singing; to Montebello During these past few’ months we have with Rev. J. F.. Williams; closing out at Rev. Harold Volk, Nampa, Idaho, seen seekers line the altars, seeking God Los Angeles First Church, where the probably received service as fast as the for pardon and heart purity, and we arc singing was in charge of Jess and Flor Nazarene Publishing House has ever of happy in the work of the Kingdom. I ence Walling. In these campaigns over fered. Less than a half hour after he have several good dates open early in one thousand people sought God. and a placed his recent order the merchandise this year and will be in the Southland; good number united with the church. will be glad to slate this time as the was on its way to him. W e appreciate our fine spiritual pastors An amateur radio operator in Wash Lord may lead. I will come for freewill who carry a real burden for their offerings and entertainment. I travel churches, also our fine song evangelists ington contacted Professor James Mc- alone; do chalk drawings as well as with whom we have labored." Craw. also an amateur operator, and a preach. W rite me, P.O. Box 472. Jack teacher in Nazarene Theological Sem son, Alabama." inary. Rev. James McGraw was not at Northwest District Preachers’ Convention liis set at the time, but the message was Evangelist W. J. Strack writes that lie Willi "Evangelism First" as its theme relayed to him by telephone from an has an open date. March 8 to 19, which ;md a spirit of victory as its keynote. other Kansas City radio enthusiast. he would he glad to slate as the Lord Northwest District preachers held the It took less than five minutes from may lead. Write him. Box 112, Jeffer first district preachers’ convention under there for Mr. McGraw to pass on the son, Ohio. the leadership of Superintendent Ray order for the book I.ife in the Son anil mond C. Kratzer in the Kennewick to the folks at the Nazarene Publishing (Washington) church. House. Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Mungcr report: Dr. Hardy C. Powers, general superin Mr. McGraw said. “Modern means ' Sunday school history is being made tendent. presented the inspiration for of communication, plus Nazarene Pub at Los Angeles Belvedere Mexican the three-day session. November 8 to 10, lishing House service, equals about as Church (California) . In a one-week in his afternoon and evening messages. campaign there with Pastor H. O. Superintendent B. V. Seals, of the Wash fast a way to order a book as I have ever Espinosa we went from a last year's ington Pacific District, also joined in the seen." average of 96 to 625 in one Sunday. convention as a s p e c ia l speaker. Both He and his people worked so well that men challenged the pastors in their calls It is better to be a little man with the attendance was over 300 for three to reach out for Christ and the church. a great purpose than a great man consecutive Sundays, and averaged over Reports on advances in the N.Y.P.S., with a little purpose.—Walter E. Isen- 350 for the first four Sundays. Brother the Church Schools, and the N.F.M.S. hour. Espinosa’s vision and bold, aggressive spirit make a gain like this possible."
Fort Worth. Texas, has planned a city-wide Youth C.rusade, January 30 through February 5. The special work ers are: Rev. Jim Bond, speaker; Mr. Paul Skiles. director of music; Lieutenant Lyn Oberdier, director of prayer and NOTICE personal work; and, for the concluding four services, the Bethany Nazarene Col lege a cappella choir under the direction To ministers who are covered under the group life in of Mr. Lester Dunn. The Crusade will surance plan of the general church. be held in the Irma Marsh Auditorium in Fort W orth, and it is expected that Your Annual Insurance Questionnaire has been mailed the full capacity of over one thousand to you. It must be returned by May 15, 1961, if your seats will be needed each service. Nearly two years of planning and prayer prep ‘‘free” coverage is to be continued for another year. aration have gone into the crusade. Monthly prayer rallies have been held If your questionnaire has not reached you, please notify with Lieutenant Oberdier since Septem the Board of Pensions at once. ber. A wonderful spirit of co-operation and faith has prevailed through these days of preparation. We would urge DEAN WESSELS Nazarenes everywhere to pray for this 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076 Crusade. Also, a warm welcome is ex Kansas City 10, Missouri tended to am in the Fort Worth-Dallas vicinity to attend the services.—But. H a n n a . Hrporlrr.
JANUARY 25, 1961 • (1185) 21 It's just like Jesus to roll tlte clouds REV. G. E. SCHELL THAT'S JUST away. G. E. Schell, Nazarene elder, died December 15, 1960, at the age of sixty-seven. Funeral service was LIKE HIM! It’s just like Jesus to keep me day conducted on Sunday afternoon, December 18, at the by day. Church of the Nazarene in Fort Recovery, Ohio, with It’s just like Jesus all along the way. Dr. C. A. Gibson officiating. It was at this church B y JACK WRIGHT and under the leadership of Dr. Gibson that Brother It’s just like His great love. Schell began his ministry in the Church of the Naza Pastor, Pine Bluff, Arkansas rene in 1934 (at that time Dr. Gibson was super © 1903. Renewed 1931 by Lillenas Publishing intendent of the old Ohio D istrict). Brother Schell Company. also served pastorates in Wisconsin, under Dr. Gib In everyday conversation we often hear son's super intendency; and in Minnesota and Iowa. the expression, "That’s just like himl One year ago he returned to his home in Greenville, Ohio. Dr. Gibson said of Brother Schell, "He had It is a common phrase, almost a trite an untroubled heart in a troubled world— it was remark. But sometimes it can he a pithy this that made him a blessing wherever he went. He DID YOU lived an unselfish life with an untroubled heart, commentary on the character of the per because he was prepared." Other ministers taking son about whom it is spoken. We mean part in the funeral service were his pastor, Rev. SPEAK WITH GOD? M. E. Moore; Rev. Lester Meyer; the Reverend Mr. that the action described is consistent Haggard; Rev. C. T . Moore; and Rev. Carl B. Clen- with the individual’s past deeds. By JESSIE WHITESIDE FINKS denen, district superintendent. Although we are all surprised at times, Did you speak with Cod this morning REV. ALBERT F. BALSMEIER people have a way of reacting in almost Albert F . Balsmeier was born near Ellinwood, At the datcning of the day? Kansas, November 6, 1885, and died as the result predictable ways. Think of the men in IVhen the purple light was breaking of an automobile accident on December 25, 1960, Jesus' story of the Good Samaritan. Per at the age of seventy-five. He had lived in Hutchinson, Did xour spirit speed away Kansas, since 1927. In 1916 he was united in haps if you had known the priest and To the throne of God in heaven marriage to Leonora Taylor, daughter of the late Rev. B. S. Taylor. He was converted in August of the Levite personally, you could have And look on the Saviour’s facet 1910 at the holiness camp meeting in Wichita, predicted that they would pass on the Did you speak with God this morning, Kansas, and wondrously sanctified a few days later. He was ordained to the ministry in 1915, and served other side. They were pious men who Thank Him for redeeming grace? as pastor in Topeka, Kansas; Richmond and Ham prayed too loud to hear the groans be mond, Indiana; and Woodlawn Church in Chicago, side the road. And I rather imagine that Illinois. Following a brief term as superintendent Did you speak with God at noonday of the Colorado District, he evangelized until 1926, as Jesus told the story some fellow in At the zenith of the day. when he was elected superintendent of the Kansas District, where he served twelve years. Since 1938 the crowd who had suffered at the hands With the enemy around you he had been active in the evangelistic field. He had of these ecclesiastical hirelings might hi the thickest of the fray; held his membership in Hutchinson First Church for the past ten years, where he had given faithful and turn to a neighbor and confide, “That’s Ask for guidance and direction, generous support. He fought a good fight, kept the just like them!” Help to knou’ and do His will? faith, and has finished his course. He is survived by his wife, Leonora; two daughters, Mrs. Oletha When you consider Pilate and his Did you speak with God at noonday, Slack and Mrs. Albertina Bates; a brother, Arthur; vacillation in the face of duty, perhaps Hear His blessed “Peace, be still"? and two sisters, Mrs. Earnest Georgi and Mrs. Lila Flannery. Funeral service was conducted at Hutchinson if you had known him it wouldn’t have First Church with the pastor, Rev. W. A. Strong, come as a surprise that he could com Did you speak with God at evening in charge, assisted by Dr. S. T. Ludwig, who brought the message, Dr. Ray Hance, and Rev. J . T. Gassett. promise his conscience. As he stood 011 After you had done your best, Interment was in Memorial Park, Hutchinson. that balcony and tried to wash his hands And then heard His tender whisper, of the red stains of injustice, I wonder “Come, My child, to Me and rest”? Announcements if some aide who had seen this bent in And as darkness round you gathered, WEDDING BELLS— Miss Eunice Lau and George his character before exclaimed, "That’s Leaned your head upon His breast, Kubo were united in marriage on December 10 in First Church of the Nazarene, Los Angeles, California, just like him!” Felt His loving arms enfold you, with Dr. L. Guy Nees officiating. K?iew the true joy of the blest? Or still later when Jesus looked down BORN— to Rev. Wm. J . Nichols and wife of Fort from the agony of the Cross into the Wayne, Indiana, a daughter, Melinda Jean, on No face of the jeering mob and said, “Fa Why do we not speak more often vember 10. ther, forgive them; for they know not To our God both day and night, -—to Rev. James and Bobbie Jean (Bell) Hill of And not trust our own weak judgment Oneonta, Alabama, a daughter, Rebecca Jean, on what they do” (Luke 23:34), Mary may November 8. have turned to Martha, and biting back As to what is wrong or right; Ask for help on weighty problems, SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a Christian tears of admiration said, “Isn’t that just friend in Kansas that God may touch and heal her like Him!” And strength for irksome task? husband of an injured knee, direct in regard to his If we come in faith believing, change of job, and also that she may get a job if For Jesus’ actions, too, were predict it is God's w ill; All that we need do is ask! by a Christian brother in Ohio that he may be able. He would always react in the way healed, sanctified wholly, and fully surrendered to that the divine love in His heart de the w ill of the Lord; by a Christian friend in North Carolina that God creed. If the adulterous woman needed may touch and heal her body— she suffers much with forgiveness, love responded with the Deaths arthritis and bad nerves. salve for her wounded soul. When the REV. VIVA C. CRAWFORD lepers needed healing, love responded Directories Viva C. Crawford, Nazarene elder, died at her with the healing for their diseased bod home in Norco, California, on November 26, 1960. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS ies. Whatever the need, Jesus could be She was born in Cuba, Kansas, October 14, 1887. HARDY C. POWERS For many years she labored faithfully to build the Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City relied upon to meet it. It was just like Kingdom. In her early teens she was saved and sanc 10, Mo. Him. tified and called to preach; her early ministry was with the Friends church. She attended Olivet and G. B. WILLIAMSON Even today when a sinner looks up Bethany-Peniel colleges. In 1916 she was united in Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City from an altar of prayer, the shine of marriage to William Crawford. She preached the gos 10, Mo. pel at every opportunity in schoolhouses and brush forgiveness on his face, we show no sur arbors. In 1925 she was ordained as a Nazarene SAMUEL YOUNG prise that Jesus is the same Friend of elder by Dr. J . B. Chapman, at Miami, Florida. Mrs. Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Crawford served as the first pastor of the church 10, Mo. sinners today as He was in His earthly in Lakeland, and also in Winter Haven, Florida. For ministry. When a person arises to testify, five years she worked as a layman in First Church, D. I. VANDERP00L Bethany, Oklahoma, and upon moving to California be Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City his face glow'ing triumphantly and in a came the first pastor of our church in Concord. 10, Mo. voice choked with emotion tells how Forced to give up the pastorate because of ill health, she served as a faithful layman until her HUGH C. BENNER Christ has met his every need, perhaps death. She is survived by her husband; two daughters, Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Wilma Smith and Gwen Wilcox; and two sons, Carl 10, Mo. an elderly saint will whisper, “Isn’t that and Sam. Funeral service was conducted in the church just like Him!” The song writer put it at Corona, California, by her pastor, Rev. Paul Bran- V. H. LEWIS so well when he wrote: dyberry, assisted by three former pastors, Rev. James Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Shaw, Rev. Dan Penn, and Rev. Robert Phillips. 10, Mo. 22 (1186) • HERALD OF HOLINESS MUSIC and PROGRAM MATERIALS For This EASTER SEASON
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