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3-29-1961 Herald of Holiness Volume 50 Number 05 (1961) W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Hie Lord U risen indeed" (Luke 24:34) ment to the will of God expressed in the words, EASTER: a Call to Holiness “Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” THE EMPTY TOMB of Jesus Christ is God’s time­ (Luke 22:42). less call to holiness of heart and life. True, there This is not a consecration to preach, to sing in is a challenge to the unconverted in the fact of the the choir, to teach a Sunday school class, or to work risen Christ. But the major message of Easter is in the church—although it may involve all that and still to the people of God. So much of the shallow­ more. It is embracing the whole will of God, ness and superficiality of Christian profession today absolutely and without reservation, whatever it lies in the failure to grasp the deep meaning in means, wherever it leads, now and for all time. experience of Christ’s death and resurrection. Every talent, every possession, every relationship The New Testament over and over again presents is included. So is “the unknown bundle,” the whole the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ of the future with all that it shall bring. So deep as a picture or object lesson showing God's plan and and radical is this yielding that it is truly described purpose for His people. Jesus made it such when as “dying out.” He said, “If any man will come after me, let him In Golgotha, where the Cross was raised, we have deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” the picture of the Christian’s cleansing. Paul, in (Matthew 16:24). On the eve of the Passion, the Romans 6:6, makes a startling application of the Lord said, “For their sakes I sanctify myself, that Cross to the believer’s life: “Knowing this, that our they also might be sanctified through the truth” old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin (John 17:19). And Paul said, “I am crucified with might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ serve sin.” liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the Crucifixion was a bitter death. But it was always flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who certain. There was never any doubt about the out­ loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2: come when one was crucified. Holiness means not 20). only death to sin, but the death of sin by a cruci­ Holy week has a threefold message for Christians: fixion with Christ. “God sending his own Son in Gethsemane, the message of consecration; Golgotha, the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the message of cleansing; and the garden of the sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:3). To condemn, as empty tomb, the message of commission. here used, means to “pass sentence on,” to “doom to In Gethsemane we have the picture of Christian death.” consecration. In the midnight hour Christ shows What dies, of course, is not the human self but us the first step to the risen life in a total clevote- the carnal self, the principle of inner sin. The “body of sin,” the evil twist or bent of nature which gives rise to anger, wrath, malice, and the sins of speech (Colossians 3:8), is to be destroyed. The garden of the empty tomb speaks to us of the Christian’s commitment, the new and risen life The Cover . . . with Christ. As the passion Friday of crucifixion is followed by the Easter morning of resurrection, He died and rose that so the dying out of consecration and the crucifixion we who trust Might live with Him of inner sin are always followed by rising to walk among the just; in newness of life. Paul put it, “I am crucified . . . He died but rose on the third day, nevertheless I live; yet not 1, but Christ liveth in Our God to be, our debt to pay. me.” In Christ we died, were buried, raised To heavenly heights, His name be praised! Phoebe Palmer immortalized this great truth in He faced the Cross; alone He trod, her lines: The God of Grace, the Grace of God! Oh, now I see the crimson wave, —Edward Ashland The fountain deep and wide; (Copyright, 1930, Lillenas Publishing Co.) Jesus, my Lord, mighty to save, Points to His zvounded side. (Please turn to page 12) total

know not what they do.” They reaped the harvest of death which was implicit A TOTAL VICTORY is gained only if in their evil deeds, while He triumphed the embattled foe is converted to a friend. over death because He used no carnal Even unconditional surrender or com­ weapons against them. He employed plete destruction of the vanquished none of Satan’s weapons to defeat Satan. leaves in the soul of the victor seeds of Had He done that, He would have been hate that will grow until another struggle crushed in a vicious circle more certainly is inevitable. than those who nailed Him on the Cross. Total victory must be of such a nature Christ’s death and resurrection now that it cannot be lost by subsequent re­ bear all the attributes of ultimate victory, versal or by the erosion of those noble for love conquered hate and life brought principles by which it was won. It must death to full surrender. have the changeless character of ultimate The elements of permanent victory and eternal triumph. were inherent in the teachings, the prac­ The death of Jesus of Nazareth on the tice, and the character of the God-Man. cross of Calvary to friend and foe seemed Over Him death had no power. “It was to be a crushing and final defeat. Viewed not possible that he should be holden of in the light of two thousand years of his­ it.” Resurrection was the certain out­ tory, however, it remains the world’s come for the Victim of Calvary, for He classic illustration of total victory. He was to be and is forever the Victor of did not use His great power to destroy Easter. He shares His triumph over the those who schemed together to bring grave with all who are saved by His re­ about His crucifixion. Judas, the priests, deeming grace. They shall also be in the the clamoring mob, Pilate, and the Ro­ likeness of His resurrection. man soldiers were all included when He Total victory is the keynote of the prayed, “Father, forgive them; for they Easter message.

The fact of immortality is sure. I feel it— know it—for myself I know! Celestial voices have not chanted it, But quietly Faith whispers, "It is so!” I shall take up again the threads of life Beyond death’s fleeting shadoiu, and shall find Bright vistas opening before my eyes, And truth transcendent for the eager mind. / trouble not my heart with years that were Before I drew my first faint infant breath. All dark, unworthy thoughts, regrets, and fears Why then should doubts assail or questions rise Will be forever past, and lessons true Concerning that strange mysteiy called death? Shall be revealed as I can master them. Are not the facets of eternity, “Behold!” One saith, “I have made all things All times, all tides, the limitless expanse new!” Framed by God's love, touched by His hand unseen? Then, since my life is His and Him I love, His purpose underlieth all— not chance. Weep not too long beside the silent clay. Most trustingly I’ll take the path unknown, By KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK Since Calvary ever leads to Easter Day! MARCH 29. 1961 • (83) 3 Contents... General Articles © © 2-3 Editorials 5 Why Jesus Christ Has Not Appeared to Me, Jack Ford Pastor Harold Runyan sends word C An Easter Plea, Edward Lawlor from Charleston, West Virginia: "Grace 7 Into a New Life, James H. Jackson Church recently closed one of the great­ 8 Three Gardens, Hazel E. Howard est revivals of its five-and-one-half-year 9 The Validating Event, J. Kenneth Grider history. Evangelist H. B. Garvin was 10 The Three Easters, Fletcher Spruce greatly used of God; his messages were 12 The Empty Tomb Proclaims, Katherine llevis dynamic. The Harrison Trio made a great contribution to the services with Poetry their Spirit-filled singing. Grace Church 3 Immortality, Kathryn Blackburn l’eck moves forward for Christ and souls.” 8 Easter Morning, Jack Ford 10 After These Things, Frances /». Erickson Rev. Albert Schocke and wife (Hazel) observed their golden wedding anniver­ Departments sary on March 19 at the Casa Robles 13 Foreign Missions Missionary Home, 6355 N. Oak Avenue, Department of Evangelism Temple City, California, where Mrs. 14 The Sunday School Lesson Schocke is the home's nurse. More than News of the Churches fifty years ago they began their ministry 18 News of the Religious World as pioneers in the early-day work in The Answer Corner Indiana, followed by pioneering of new HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Editor; Dave Lawlor, Lay­ churches in the Northwest and in Cali­ I ferald of out Editor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. fornia. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Vanderpool, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be re­ Evangelist Donald R. Silvernail is turned unless postage accompanies the material. Published every Wednesday, by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, leaving the field to accept appointment M. A. Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, by the district superintendent as pastor Kansas City 41, Missouri. Subscription price, $1.50 per of the new' Cooper-Alamo Church, Vicks­ MARCH 29, 1961 year, in advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas burg. Michigan. Vol. 50, IMo. 5 Whole No. 2553 City, Missou Printed in U.S.A. PHOTO CREDIT: Cover, Hahn-Millard Pastor E. Roy Darden sends word from Blackwell. Oklahoma: “First Church was recently deeded adjoining property, married March 9, 1901. Brother Ashby estimated at ten thousand dollars, by was licensed to preach fifty years ago, The Fatal Niche Mrs. Frank Smith as a memorial to her and has been an ordained minister late husband, who died in the faith, and forty-eight years, serving thirty-seven By H. M. VON STEIN years in the Church of the Nazarene. He of her mother. Plans working for build­ The radio carried another sermon on ing an expansion.” resigned his pastorate in 1955 and is "How Does the Church Fit into Modern now retired. The Ashbys have twelve Life?” The intent of the preacher was Rev. C. E. Ryder, retired Nazarene living children. Open house w'as held good, but it is this mistaken emphasis elder, died on March 3 at his home in for Brother and Sister Ashby on March which is a source of a lot of trouble Columbus, Ohio. He pioneered the Naz­ 12 at their home. They are loved and for Christianity. arene work in Nebraska, and was or­ appreciated by the Louisiana District. The Church does not fit into any­ dained by Dr. P. F. Bresee at York. thing! We need to get this straight and Nebraska. He also pastored Nazarene see that everyone else does. The Church, churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He the ' building of lively stones,” is the is survived by his wife and two sons. fountainhead and foundation of every­ Rev. Jack C. Hawthorne, pastor of "HERALD" thing, including life, because it is Christ the Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) Church of SUBSCRIPTIONS himself in the hearts of men. the Nazarene, has been honored by his Even as an organization, the Church fellow citizens with a Distinguished Effective July 1, 1961, the new has no obligation to “fit in.” That's Service award for outstanding com­ subscription price for the HER­ what's the matter with too many of us— munity service. He is currently serving ALD OF HOLINESS will be the Church has its “little niche,” into as president of the Coeur d’Alene Min­ $2.50 per year. which we peer at appointed seasons. All one-year subscriptions re­ The outrageous evil of communism isterial Association. has placed before Christianity the per­ ceived until that date will be at fect example of what Christianity must Rev. and Mrs. A. I). Ashby of Blanch- the $1.50 price. However, we be like if we are to save the world anil .nd, Louisiana, recently celebrated their cannot accept subscriptions be­ ourselves. To the Communist there is sixtieth wedding anniversary. They were yond one year at this price. nothing else—NOTHING! Thank you! Let us be clear in our thinking— Dollars for missions mean salvation Nazarene Publishing House Jesus does not “fit” into our lives; the for souls. Will my Easter offering 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527 Church does not “fit” into the world, show genuine concern for the lost? Kansas City 41, Missouri any more than Almighty God would April 2 will tell. "fit” into Congress. The Lord of life is the Lord of all, both day and night. 4 (84) • HERALD OF HOLINESS JESUS CHRIST HAS NOT APPEARED TO ME

By JACK FORD, Tutor, British Isles Nazarene College ONE EASTER, a number of years ago, as I was That brings me to the second reason. meditating on the Resurrection, my heart became Christ wants His disciples to concentrate on their aglow with the consciousness that Christ was as inner, spiritual union with Him. living and as available today as He was on that You remember how our Lord shocked the apos­ first Easter morning. I said to myself, He could tles by telling them that it was expedient for them appear to me now, just as He did to Mary and that He should leave them (John 16:7). While Peter and the other disciples. But He didn’t, and He was with them, inevitably they would concen­ He never has. Moreover, this is generally the ex­ trate on their material relationship with Him—on perience of the people of God today, and it is in hearing, seeing, and touching Him. But if He went, line with what Christ said to Thomas, “Blessed are the Comforter would come, and He would make they that have not seen, and yet have believed” Christ present in their hearts. It was expedient that (John 20:29). His visible presence should be withdrawn that His Why is this? inner presence might be realized. Think how impressive it would be if, at the Read again the Resurrection story and note the close of an address on the Resurrection, Christ emphasis that Christ puts on the reception of the were to appear for a few moments in confirmation Holy Spirit (Luke 24:49; John 20:22; Acts 1:4-5, 8). of His servant’s words. But He does not choose It is as if He says, “These appearances are tem­ this method, and He remains veiled from the eyes porary. When I have fully convinced you that I of the devoted disciple and the unbelieving world. am truly risen, My visible presence will be with­ Why? drawn to heaven. But I will come again in the It seems to me that there are at least two power­ person of the Holy Spirit and be in you forever” ful reasons why Christ remains unseen. (see also John 14:16-18). In the first place, He wants us to concentrate on It is the inner relationship which counts. invisible realities. Why was it that some marriages broke down dur­ It is God’s purpose that a Christian should walk ing the war? Perhaps the chief reason was that they by faith, not by sight (II Corinthians 5:7). were based on a purely physical relationship of The correct attitude for the believer is to “look sight and sound and touch, and when the partners not at the things which are seen, but at the things were no longer together the bond was loosed. Those which are not seen: for the things which are seen who were one in heart were still held by an invisi­ are temporal; but the things which are not seen ble bond, though no longer present in the body. are eternal” (II Corinthians 4:18). “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” Therefore, to encourage His disciples to depend (I Corinthians 6:17). on visible appearances would be to reverse the Moreover, the inner relationship made possible very process by which Christ wants them to live. It by the Spirit is permanent. In the days of Christ’s would exalt the eyes of flesh over the eyes of the earthly ministry there were times when His dis­ heart, the physical senses over the spiritual percep­ ciples were with Him and times when they were tions, and give a material slant to Christian experi­ not. But after Pentecost, Christ by the Spirit was ence instead of the upward gaze of faith. always present in their hearts. MARCH 29, 1961 • (85) 5 And this is important also. The inner, spiritual His presence as the next. The only conditions are relationship is universal. If Christ were to appear dedication and faith. on the platform at our General Assembly, the gen­ I do not expect Christ to appear to me this eral superintendents would have an excellent view, Easter, but I do believe that He will manifest His but what about the poor folk at the top of the presence by His Spirit in my heart. And if you have balcony? As it is, each believing heart is as rich in not this expectation, if Christ does not fill your heart, be assured He can, and He wants to, if you $6.00 per minute! Yes, that is what it costs to will only give Him the opportunity. operate the world-wide program of missions and “He breathed on them, and saith unto them, evangelism in the Church of the Nazarene. How Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (John 20:22). many minutes will you, your church, your dis­ “They were all filled with the Holy Ghost” trict be responsible for on Easter Sunday, April (Acts 2:4). 2? It’s a challenge. Do you accept it? “The promise is unto you” (Acts 2:39).

new this Easter, that the money I had thought of spending for something new will be added to what I had planned to give for my Easter offering. If, as the space experts tell us, the time is now An Easter 11:45 on the world’s clock—if we are really just fifteen minutes before the world’s midnight, we must do something to evangelize our world, and do PLEA it more quickly than we are; for we shall either evangelize our world in our generation or perhaps by lose our last chance to do so. EDWARD LAWLOR All across the world the Communists are on the Executive Secretary Department of Evangelism march because they are willing to make personal sacrifices. It seems to me we ought to match or even beat their personal sacrifice or stop calling ourselves HIS. Think what it could mean in India, SOME of our church people are about to join with Africa, Japan, and the islands of the sea if we others in the annual spending spree that takes place the largest Easter Offering ever in the offer­ place at the time Christians celebrate the resurrec­ ing plates Sunday, April 2, 1961. tion of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Money To be really effective it would have to be fol­ will be lavished on new clothes, new hats, new lowed up by prayers, new missionaries, and contin­ gadgets, and other assorted luxuries of our way of ued self-denial in giving to the General Budget. life. But the best beginning I know would be for all I would dare to suggest to the people called Nazarenes this Easter to put self-sacrifice first, in­ Nazarenes this Easter time, 1961, that we spend less stead of self-indulgence. This would mean an Easter on frills and put whatever money we save into the Offering far surpassing anything we can at present most vital investment in the world—world evan­ visualize. gelization through the Easter Offering. This is my Easter plea! I cannot but feel that the hour is desperately late and a dramatic demonstration of our concern for the lost of earth might win for us blessing today and a glory that is eternal. THE TOTAL COST of the total Try to imagine the impact on the total Easter missionary effort of the Church Offering for 1961 if every Nazarene were to give six dollars more than he had planned . . . “one of the Nazarene at home and minute of world evangelism.” abroad amounts to six dollars It is not my plea to cut out all buying this ($6.00) per minute. How many Easter. What I am proposing is that we cut our minutes will you finance in the buying by a minimum of six dollars and add that Easter Offering, April 2? to what we have already planned as our share of the Easter Offering. For those who want to take the principle of self-sacrifice a little further, they C2. could do without that new dress, suit, tie, hat, or General Superintendent whatever they plan to have new this Easter. I have decided that for me there will be nothing 6 (86) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Into a NEW LIFE THE HARDEST QUESTION asked during a penalty for sin, the message of the Resurrection time of sorrow is the one word, “Why?” An becomes an overwhelming victory. eighteen-year-old boy paced the floor and asked, At the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus said, “I am the “Why should it be my father?” The father of resurrection, and the life” (John 11:25). He fore­ three children looked down at his only boy, lying shadowed His own victory over death by the re- on the bed, knowing that death had taken him, turn of the brother to his family. and asked, “Why?” The agony of despair is the The mother who had suddenly lost her youngest common denominator of all mankind when facing daughter at the age of ten could by faith in the death. resurrected Christ look through her tears and tes­ Through wrestling with this answer-resisting tify, “She is with Him!” Here was the power of question, and the accompanying failure to achieve the Resurrection. a satisfactory human answer, comes the dawn of In the midst of his alcoholic despair and living meaning of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus death, the repentant sinner can find a new life Christ. through faith in the risen Saviour. The power Without hope of the resurrection, the despair of the Resurrection can become effective by faith at death becomes almost unbearable. Just one as man reaches out of his sufferings and claims Christ as a personal Saviour. By JAMES II. JACKSON The woman who tries to escape her fear of Dean of Students, Pasadena College, Pasadena, California death and her fear of life can find the fortifying peace of God through the power of the Res­ urrection. “Thanks be to God, which giveth us old lady arrived at the funeral service for a friend­ the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Co­ less old man. She sat isolated among the empty rinthians 15:57). The hopelessness and spiritual pews and gave silent testimony to the loneliness loneliness that torment those who have rejected of death’s challenge. There was no hope. the will of God can be turned into the awareness A school principal, nearing the age of retire­ of life eternal by the power of the Resurrection. ment, lost all of her family through death. She Out of man’s questioning and the despair of his admitted the emptiness of her faith by defiantly heart as he faces physical death comes the urgency repeating, “They are all gone. They only live on of knowing the Resurrection message. “Christ the in us through their deeds.” Lord is risen today” brings good news to those This despair of death may come before the life who suffer loss, but also releases the captives of has actually been taken. There is a living death. living death and fear. The man who no longer fights to live, but exists What is the power of the Resurrection? All in a drunken, self-inflicted stupor, is a frightening men who have come to the despair that has fol­ example. How truly the scripture echoes, “Dead lowed in the wake of sin and judgment understand in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1)! the hope of new life. Christ came not only to A woman lay on the operating table at Memorial proclaim victory over physical death, but also to Hospital suffering the crisis of serious surgery. answer the question that has haunted man since Her struggle was not so much with physical death his first rebellion. The perturbing question, as it was with the specter of the fear of death “Why?” has found its answer. that marched across her soul. This fear of the un­ “Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe known continued to weaken her spirit and body. that we shall also live with him: knowing that Jesus wept in the face of the despair of death. Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; Mary and Martha slowly and wearily laid away death hath no more dominion over him. . . . Like­ their brother and then searchingly looked to Jesus wise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed for the answer to their “Why?” Even in the pres­ unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ ence of the Master, death seemed to have con­ our Lord” (Romans 6:8-11). Christ the Lord is quered. risen! Hallelujah! The despair of death comes with unfailing cer­ tainty as we face the reality of physical death. We who have learned the story of Christ’s death Even more devastating is the death that comes and His resurrection, and have received His new­ to the soul of man through his own rebellion ness of life, must share with others around the against the will of God. Realizing this twofold world. Give in the Easter Offering on April 2. MARCH 29, 1961 • (87) 7 longer could Adam and Eve commune with God, and walk with Him in the cool of the evening. Physical death followed later. “Wherefore, as by b y one man sin entered into the world, and death HAZEL E. HOWARD by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12). Before God closed the garden’s gates on Adam and Eve, He substituted coats of skin for the self- made fig-leaf aprons and promised a Redeemer GARDENS who would be born of woman. Yet He would be sinless because man must pay the penalty for his FROM THE DAY of Adam and Eve to the pres­ own sins and, as a sinner, he cannot redeem him­ ent, three Biblical gardens have been interwoven self or others. Therefore the only solution was in the life of man. for God’s own Son, conceived by the Holy Ghost “God planted a garden,” we read in Genesis and born of a virgin, to suffer in man’s stead. 2:8, and it became the home of Adam and Eve. The promise was contained in God’s words to Their joy was unbounded as they wandered the serpent, “I will put enmity between thee and through the beautiful grounds. The animals were the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; tame and the birds sang in the trees. When Adam it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise and Eve became hungry, they ate of the fruit of his heel” (Genesis 3:15). the trees—that is, all but one in the center of Down through the ages the Jewish people looked the garden. God said they must not taste the fruit for the coming of the Messiah, the Redeemer. Yet of this special tree of knowledge of good and evil. when He came, fulfilling prophecy, born in Beth­ Death wotdd be the result of disobedience. lehem of the Virgin Mary, they refused to recog­ But it is in man’s nature to desire that which nize Him as such, and condemned Him to die is denied him. “WET PAINT . . . DON’T on the Cross, the only known death that bruises TOUCH,” a sign on a park bench reads. Some­ the heel. one comes along, looks at the warning, touches Through the thirty-three years of His sinless the bench gingerly with a forefinger; then, with life, Jesus faced the prospect of the Cross, until a guilty look, tries to wipe off the sticky paint on at length the time arrived. With His chosen dis­ the grass. ciples, except Judas, the betrayer, He crossed the Or tell a woman not to open a package and brook Cedron into the Garden of Gethsemane. watch her heft its weight, sniff it, shake it, hold There, alone, the disciples asleep, He fought the it to her ear. The longer she resists temptation to battle of the Cross. He might have, had He see its contents, the stronger becomes her desire. chosen, returned to God and the angels in heaven, Like us, our first parents were human. They leaving man to be eternally damned by his own were also free moral agents and, as such, yielded folly. But He, the Son of God, had come to earth to temptation when tempted by the serpent. As a with one purpose—to die for guilty mankind. consequence they were exiled from the garden and He was not afraid of the slow, torturous death. sin entered the w'orld. We have only to look He would not be the first to be nailed to a cross. around us to see the results. Two malefactors would be crucified beside Him. Spiritual death took place in the garden. No But could He stand the death of the soul? The EASTER MORNING “Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,. . (Mark 16:9). He lives! He lives! The ecstasy! Make haste, my feet; keep pace with heart! And He commissions me to be He’s triumphed over mortal dart; The herald of His rising! The shadows cannot screen Him! I who have been the blight of men Here is the door! O Simeon, Am sent to bear the light to men, And Philip, Andrew, James, and John To cry, “He lives! He lives again!” Come, listen, hear me, ev’ry one. With joy their hearts surprising. He lives! He lives! Yve seen Him! By JACK FORD

8 (88) • HERALD OF HOLINESS separation from His Heavenly Father? Bear the The Garden of Joseph is symbolical of all graves. burden of the sins of the world? Sin is torment. All have been there weeping beside the grave ol A murderer is tortured by the memory of the a loved one. All will go to it. To those without slaying of a child. Sometimes he goes stark mad. Christ, it is a frightening thought. But God’s Word Yet Jesus must bear the sins of every human being assures us that, “as in Adam all die, even so in since Adam, together with those of the sinners of Christ shall all be made alive’’ (I Corinthians future generations. Millions, billions, trillions of 15:22). In Christ. No other way. sins! His great heart broke with love for the All around us we see signs of the resurrection sinner, created in the image of God. Bloody sweat in nature: new life in trees leafing out, green blades oozed from His veins as He knelt and prayed be­ of grass, fragrant blossoms. We hear again the neath the somber olive trees for His Father to words, . . sown a natural body; . . . raised a remove the cup He must drink. Then, “Not my spiritual body” (f Corinthians 15:44). The mys­ will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42), He cried. tery remains unsolved, but the proof is there. The decision was made. The battle of Calvary Christ not only died for all, but He arose from was fought and won in Gethsemane. the dead. It was over. In the Garden of Joseph of Ari- In which garden are you today? Eden, where mathaea, Christ lay in the tomb. The massive the sinner dwells, separated from God and facing stone before its door bore the seal of imperial judgment and punishment for his sins for eternity? Rome. Soldiers guarded the approach. No one Gethsemane, where you are making your choice? could steal the body. And there, amid the beauty Or the lovely Garden of Joseph, where you dwell and fragrance of spring blossoms, on the third in the newness of life. “I am come that they might day, as He had predicted, the Nazarene, God’s Son. have life, and that they might have it more abun­ burst the bonds of death. dantly” (John 10:10), Jesus promised!

means, but it gives us many hints of its rich sig­ nificance. Christ was a Ransom for us, a Sin Offer­ ing, a Substitute for us, a Victim who shed His The Validating Event blood until there was no life left. All this to atone By J. KENNETH GRIDER for man’s sin—to cover man’s sin, as a wound is Associate Professor of Theology covered when it is healed! Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri But although Christmas and Good Friday are CHRISTMAS is indeed an event ol events, for high events, the Christian year does not reach its Christians. It means that the eternal Son has zenith in them. The event of events is Easter, pitched His tent among us men. It means that when the tabernacling Son, now slain and en­ God has entered into human life, joining him­ tombed, breaks the power of death and rises a self to us—to our lot, here in this fallen world. Victor to live and to redeem forevermore. Good Friday, too, is an event of events. On This is the validating event. This is what puts that day the sojourning Son let them march Him permanent validity into all that went before. Had outside the holy city and hang Him on a Roman Jesus otdy pitched Flis tent with us and died as cross. He could have called upon angelic deliv­ other men die, men would have been only a little erers; He coidd have smitten His crucifiers; He better by reason of a good example. Flad He could have defended himself before Pilate. Fie gone on to crucifixion, without rising, His would could have, but He did not. He submitted to have been the martyrdom of martyrdoms. Had He them, let them go on with their sin. He would not risen from the dead, sinful men would have become the Lamb, slain for men such as they. triumphed in their objective and we would still The death of the second Adam, who had lived have been in our sins. Had He not risen, death the human life perfectly, would undo the detri­ would have had sting aplenty in it. The preach­ ment which had come upon man because of the ing of Christ would be vain, and faith in Him first Adam’s sin. The holy Father would be able would be vain also. to forgive and purify those who would believe, But thanks be to God, Christ did rise the third and at the same time remain a just God. For this day, becoming “the firstfruits of them that slept” cause, actually, the Son of God had come into the (I Corinthians 15:20). He did come forth, swal­ world. lowing up death, spoiling sin, living at God’s right We do not fathom Good Friday; we do not hand to intercede for us, with purpose one day plumb its depths. Scripture discloses to us a few to return as Conqueror to take His own to heaven. of its secrets, to be sure. It does not give us any Christmas—exciting! Good Friday—thanks be to neatly packaged statement of just what Calvary God! Easter—Hallelujah!

MARCH 29, 19G1 • (89) 9 By FLETCHER SPRUCE shining angel in the tomb. Death was disarmed. Pastor, First Church Christ had conquered. He arose, leaving an angel THE FIRST EASTER Canton, Ohio to brighten the tomb with the thrilling truth: “He is the Easter that has already been. It happened in is risen” (Mark 16:6). a garden twenty centuries ago amid bursting blooms Still another Easter aroma was the revealed and singing birds. Although Christ’s enemies had Christ. He did not hide himself. Mary saw Him spiked Him to death with spears and nails and and fell at His feet in adoration. Plodders on the thorns, His friends had perfumed His life with Emmaus way walked with quickened pace as their frankincense and alabaster and spices. Thrice they hearts burned while He talked with them. Thomas offered Him sweet-smelling myrrh: at birth, on the looked, and cried, “My Lord and my God” (John Cross, and in the tomb. As the Magi had perfumed 20:28). Christ perfumed all whom He approached, His cradle, so the Marys came to perfume His grave. and they departed enriched. There were aromatics in the air that first Easter! The second Easter is the Easter that is yet to be. Not the least of these was the rolled-away stone. It could happen while I am writing these words— The angel wrestled with the rock and overcame it, or while you are reading them. It may be delayed, not to let Jesus out of the tomb, but to show that but not for long. It will happen, not with myrrh, He had already risen. Jesus was not resurrected by but with music. The aromatics of the first Easter an angel; for He, being God, had already left the took away the stench of death; the music of the last grave before the angel arrived. And the angel sat Easter will awaken all who are dead. “The trumpet on the stone to show God’s power over Satan’s shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incor­ (Matthew 28:2). ruptible” (I Corinthians 15:52). God will open Another aromatic of that first Easter was the graves on that last Easter, not with a crowbar, but

After the rumors of those angels fair, After These Things Whose message was that Jesus lived again; (John 21:1) After the news of empty sepulcher— The many claims of those who saw Him then! By FRANCES B. ERICKSON 'After these things”— What things? my heart would “After these things” our Saviour “shewed himself”; cry. Sorrow and sighing fled forevermore. After the scoffing of the jeering throng; So look beyond “the sufferings of this present After the night the lonely Saviour died; time”— After a week that must have seemed so long! Be sure God’s “afters” are worth waiting for!

10 (90) • HERALD OF HOLINESS with a trumpet; not with a battering-ram, but with a bugle; not with an H-bomb, but with a horn! THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE is actively God’s trumpet sounded at Sinai and the law was evangelizing in the four most populous islands given; sounded at Jericho and the walls fell flat; of the Hawaiian archipelago. There is one church sounded at Moreh and Gideon’s handful confound­ on each of the islands of Hawaii, Maui, and ed the hosts of the Midianites; sounded by the Kauai. Seven churches are located on Oahu, and Psalmist and the people worshiped. Now God’s three of these are in the city of Honolulu. There trumpet will sound once again, and every ear— is a total of five hundred Nazarenes in these every deaf ear, every dead ear—shall hear! “The churches. Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (I Thessalonians 4:lf>). Every graveyard from Machpelah to Memorial Park will shudder and yield its dead; every battle­ field from Ai to Anzio will explode and yield up its dead; every ocean from the Arctic to the Antarc­ tic will heave heavily and yield up its dead; every abby shall split asunder and yield up its dead; every pyramid shall be pried open and yield up its

Did you read Dr. Powers’ story of “The Mighty Mite” in the February 22 issue of the HERALD? If you did, you’ll truly feel that “little is much if God is in it.” For six dollars, YOU can finance Pictured above is a Sunday school class in our the total world-wide missionary program of the Honolulu Kaimuki Church with their teacher, church. Thrilling, isn’t it! A MINUTE PER Mrs. Sylvia Miller. Rev. Robert T. Gore is the MEMBER IS OUR MINIMUM. Remember the pastor. This class is an example of the excellent Easter Offering on April 2. work that is being done in the islands. We are reaching people of Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, Philippine, and Caucasian extraction, or a mix­ ture of several of these. In some areas our dead; every catacomb shall surrender its dead; church is in the center of a large Japanese popu­ every tombstone shall topple when God’s trumpet lation and people are won out of Buddhism. Our calls for the Easter that is yet to be. pastors labor with small salaries and many dif­ The third Easter is the Easter that now is. Not ficulties, but God is blessing their efforts. content to read about the first Easter of twenty Will we be able to continue to support our centuries ago, not content to hope for that last work in Hawaii and the other overseas home Easter after my flesh has become dust again, my missions fields? Only as we give generously in poor heart cried out for a third Easter, a present, the Easter Offering will this be possible. The Easter Offering must reach $11,4 million this personal, spiritual resurrection. I had sins which year in order to provide just the lifeline budget corrupted me, troubles which terrified me, burdens of our world-wide missions program. Why not which bent me, pain which pierced me. I was do more than before? spiritually dead and begged for a spiritual resur­ —General Stewardship Committee rection. I craved deliverance, cried for salvation, confessed my sins, righted my wrongs, forsook my evil ways, and asked Christ to save me! And He did! This is my personal Easter that now is. It is real! It is satisfying! I am now risen with Christ (Colos- But I never knew an Easter sians 3:1-2), and my affections are fastened on Like that glad first daicn could be things above! I have been made alive on the inside! Till the Lord, of all the Easters I am spiritually redeemed, rescued, resurrected! Lived in Me! The fragrance of that first Easter has freshened my There have been a thousand Easters soul and the music of that last Easter already With their glory breaking through; charms my spirit! Christ did it all! With the un­ They have made a thousand thousand known poet I can sing: Hopes come true. There have been a thousand Easters But you’ll never know an Easter Since the Man of Galilee Like those first disciples knew Came to write the crowning Till the Lord of all the Easters News of history. Lives in you! MARCH 29, 1961 • (91) 11 ^Jhe £m ptu ^Jomb^somt> /*f~^rocla " roclaimd By KATHERINE BEVIS AS THE SOFT LIGHT of the morning touched borrow pain from the unknown tomorrows, and the eastern horizon, three women made their way we are filled with misgivings about things which toward the sepulcher. They moved slowly and with have no existence outside our own fearful hearts. bowed heads, for the grief in their hearts was The empty tomb proclaims, Advance in faith. indescribable. Calvary, with its ruthless Cross, had Get beyond your timorous speculations. Go to the robbed them of their happiness and hope. Jesus Saviour, even though you see nothing but difficulty Christ, whom they loved, had been murdered by and problems. When you have gone as far as you cruel men, and now His body lay in Joseph’s tomb. can, you will find you have gone as far as you And now, sorrowfully, they went to do homage ought. to a dead Christ. The empty tomb proclaims, Christ was not held As these three women walked along together, in captive by death. He is the Lord of life. He still, cool dawn, they whispered together about a stands for everything that is good and pure and problem: “Who shall roll us away the stone from right. He stands for complete and final removal the door of the sepulchre?” (Mark 16:3), they of every obstacle that lies in the Godward path queried. They knew the stone was too heavy for of humanity. their weak hands to move, for the stone which The empty tomb proclaims, Christ has made the lay across the entrance to the garden tomb was a way of man’s redemption of the soul now and the large stone, one which the Roman guards were sure, redemption of the body in the last day. as far as their knowledge of such things was con­ The empty tomb proclaims, liy the miracle of cerned, would guard the tomb securely. the Resurrection, man may now travel the path But, behold, as the women arrived at the tomb, of grace into light and peace forever. they saw the stone had been rolled away. Unseen The empty tomb proclaims, You may sing with hands had done for them what they could not do all your heart that old song: for themselves. Down at the Cross where my Saviour died, Indeed, their blessed Christ had not been held Down where for cleansing from sin I cried. captive by death and the grave; for as they beheld There to my heart urns the Blood applied. the empty tomb, two men stood by them in shin­ Gloiy to His name! ing garments; and being afraid, the women bowed The empty tomb proclaims, “For God so loved their heads to the earth, as the men spoke. “Why the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, seek ye the living among the dead? He is not that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). you when he was yet in Galilee” (Luke 24:5-6). The empty tomb proclaims to me that “I would How many, many times are we like these women not care to live in a world where Christ had not —how many times do we stand in the shadow of lived!” For if Christ had not come, there would dawn bewailing our problem? Their difficulty was not have been the empty tomb to proclaim that, not in their situation, but in themselves. It did amidst this chaos of this atomic age, the risen not arise out of real facts in the case, but was Christ remains the “Rock of Ages” which steadies fashioned out of their ungrounded fears. We too the world.

EDITORIALS, continued from page 2 are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand I see the new creation rise; of God” (Colossians 3:1). It is a life of faith. I hear the speaking Blood. Death is an event, but life is a continuing process, It speaks! Polluted nature dies! lived “by the faith of the Son of God, who loved Sinks ’neath the cleansing flood. me, and gave himself for me.” And the Christ- centered life of faith is an outflowing life. Life that turns inward becomes stunted and miserable. I rise to walk in heaven’s own light The risen life turns outward to the needs of a dying Above the world and sin, world about. With heart made pure, and garments white, May God grant that this Easter time will chal­ And Christ enthroned within. lenge us as never before to realize each in personal The risen life is a Christ-centered life. “If ye experience: the meaning of Gethsemane, the Cross, then be risen with Christ, seek those things which and the empty tomb. 12 (92) • HERALD OF HOLINESS district. St. James is our first church to be completely self-supporting. Several other churches have taken on more re­ sponsibility for their local affairs. The , IMHML. Tunapuna church have completed the wall around their church property and repainted their church inside and out, ( K M ® paying the expense themselves. The Vance River church installed electrical wiring in the manse and the church, GEORGE COULTER, Secretary purchased a new altar rail, and thirty- this heat. It also seems to be snake sea­ live new Nazarene hymnals. They also Prayer Request son. Eight have been killed in the three moved ahead in the fifty-fifty plan. The for Rabinal-Achis months we have been here. These in­ Santa Cruz church purchased forty new From JAMES HUDSON clude snakes such as the deadly mamba, songbooks and made some minor re­ There are fifteen Rabinal-Achi Indian puff adders, and so on. Three of them pairs on their church building. The men who have openly expressed their have been just outside our doorl—P a u l Five River church and the Dibe church desire to accept the gospel. They live Su t h e r l a n d , Sxvaziland, South Africa. have kept up their share of the respon­ in San Gabriel, where we have a strong sibility for the expenses on their build­ Rabinal-Achi church. We will be having Trinidad Moves ings. Our pastor in Sangre Grande was our annual camp meeting at San Gabriel able to make business contacts that during the week preceding Easter Sun­ Toward Self-support helped us secure two and one-half build­ day. l’ray much that these fifteen men By WESLEY HARMON, Trinidad ing lots for a location for a new church and many more will accept Christ as Our pastors and people are feeling and manse in this needy community their personal Saviour during this week. the responsibility of becoming full- within the next year. Our youth camp If these men accept Christ it will mean fledged, self-supporting Nazarenes. The paid for itself. Truly Trinidad-Tobago a new clan for Christ and the Kingdom. pastor of Vance River church has said District is moving forward on a sound lie would like to see his church become pattern toward a truly self-supporting Thank You for the Budget the second self-supporting church on the district. Thank you for the regular budget that comes just in time. We’re constantly reminded of the faithfulness of our good Nazarene people in the States. We only wish we could tell them more clearly EVANGELISM what it means to a missionary to know FIRST0 o / that the folk at home are praying and giving to keep the gospel going out, and out, and out—farther into the territory EVANGELISM of Satan. If they could just hear folk testifying, “I’ve tried praying to your God, and He has heard, and helped me EDWARD LAWLOR, Secretary too,” or, “I thought I couldn't give up —be days of renewed dedication to our the habits of sin, but your God has SANCTIFY A FAST!! task of evangelism, which is to make saved me, and made all this battle a Today, March 29, begins a "Solemn known that repentance from sin and simple affair"! Fast" throughout our church. A holiness faith in the redemption purchased by This kind of testimony makes all the church such as the Church of the Naza­ our Saviour, with the subsequent ex­ leaving home and loved ones well worth rene cannot but view with deep concern perience of heart cleansing wrought by it. Thank God for this privilege.—H u ­ the universal laxity toward Almighty the Holy Ghost, are for all men every­ b er t H e l l in g , Japan. God and the tragic threat of global de­ where. New Arrival struction that faces our day. "Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn as­ Miss Deborah Lynn Owens arrived in We are grateful that it has been placed sembly, gather the elders and all the Korea on February 27, 1961. Father re­ in the hearts of our leaders to call for inhabitants of the land into the house ports that mother and daughter are a time of fasting and praying during of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Holy Week. The Department of Evan­ Lord” (Joel 1:14). “both well and beautiful.” gelism commends these days to our Missionaries on the Move Revival Now! Rev. and Mrs. John Cochran arrived N o t ic e t o E v a n g e l ist s a n d P a s t o r s : in Argentina on February 25, 1961, for ll'x Time to s\ The Department of Evangelism, 6401 their fourth term of service. The Paseo, Kansas City 10, Missouri, gladly lists open dates of evangelists dur­ In the Land of Our Calling HUV FOR SOULS s ' ing the coming six-month period. These Here wre are finally in the land of our lists are mailed monthly to all district calling, and although things are new superintendents. Any pastor may write and strange to us, we feel God's hand for these lists that show names and dates upon us. He has never failed to be .. .6'OOp.nn ib of evangelists available for the next six “a very present help . . The children months. are adjusting quicker than we, of course. In fact, four-and-one-half-year-old Ran­ people and asks that we unite in in­ Praying Preachers dy knows more Zulu already than we do. tercession in order that our prayers may Wednesday noon—first of each month And thirteen-month-old Karen babbles truly be the spiritual power which in Zulu also. should undergird our program of Remember The weather is very hot, since this is "Evangelism First.” the Solemn Fast Period summer here. I try to picture snow there May WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday— at home but it’s difficult while here in AND FRIDAY-MARCH 29, 30, and 31 March 29, 30, and 31. MARCH 29, 1961 • (93) 13 Church-wide Then I roused from my indifference— To call, witness, pray, and invite but kept the vision; neighbors every place Conference on Evangelism And in my heart, before God, I made To “Try Christ’s Way"—till I see Jesus Wednesday through Friday, January 3-5, a decision face to face. 1962 Music Hall—Kansas City, Missouri. Plan now to attend. This makes for loneliness—deep, iso­ lated, sometimes overwhelming. Try as Interview with the Lord we may, most of us are exiles on Main By Mrs. ELSIE M. BROWNELL* Street, U.S.A. But regardless of the silent It seemed it was time to leave this earth concrete, the quiet walls, the strange and go away, fares, the fleeting feet, man is not alone And as I stood before the Saviour, I —there is God revealed through Jesus heard Him say: Christ!—and, behold!—He not only ‘Ilax’e you fed My lambs and given them knows and understands; He cares! bread Il is rather an ugly wording, but true, By your many words and the things that you were filled with devils. Seven, you've said? to be exact. Seven is often looked upon Did you give them the food of the Spirit as the perfect number. That being so, on which to feed, you had a rather good case of the devils! By your offerings and sacrifices—supply That is one reason, Mary Magdalene, their needs? you speak to the common situation. All Did you think of your neighbor in of us (ah! how we need to face it!) darkness and offer a prayer, By J. W. ELLIS have had (or are having) a good case Or with your attitude of selfishness— of the devils. didn’t you care? Christ, Our Living Lord But the ring in your name comes, not "It’s time 71 ow to open the Book. from the devils which possessed you, Is your name written there? Topic for but from Jesus Christ, who released you. April 2: Neatly, here it is: you were devil-pos­ Did you a midnight vigil keep, sessed and damned, here and hereafter: That another might reach a lost sheep?" Sc r ip t u r e : John 20—21 (Printed: John then Jesus came and you were Christ- I said, “Lord, I did pray some—but as 20:11-23) possessed and saved, here and hereafter. I look back G o ld f.n T e x t : Then said Jesus to Let us switch scenes quickly. Now Over a lifetime spent—with eternity them again, Pea/e be unto you: as my you stand beside the sepulcher weeping. ahead— Father hath sent me, even so send I you Normally, no one likes tears, especially By my negligence, neighbors in their (John 20:21). a woman's tears. But yours are different. sins lie dead. Why? Takes not a genius to answer. By my lack of sacrifice and love Mary Magdalene, formerly of Magdala, The hope of your heart had been They never knew of the Father above. now of Jerusalem, not much is known drained out. It was not enough that By my neglect to share the visitation about you. Naturally there has been they should crucify your Lord; they also load much speculation, perhaps some gossip. stole His body. The emptiness of the There was no one to show them the Even though a lot of chaff is mixed sepulcher was matched only by the emp­ road. with the wheat, your name has come tiness of your life. By a life that’s self-centered and out clean. There is a certain attractive A sensitive ear can hear the cries of prayerless ring about it. our day. It comes from the great emp­ My neighbors’ sinful plight was made This is because, I believe, what is tiness that is within our society. This hopeless." known about your life speaks of a com­ is why you speak to us. The Master said not a word. He sadly mon human situation. True, your whole But then, suddenly, Jesus came! looked at me— life is not clearly sketched. Is anyone’s? Hope was restored! And your life was And I knew by my words I had Most of what is known about people is made worthwhile by Heaven’s invasion. condemned me. either the deliberate “on stage” produc­ Thus you speak to us. My feeble excuses sound feeble indeed tions or the uncontrolled “in crises” Lesson material is based on International Sunday When the Light of the World had been situations. Thus it is rather evident that School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for my neighbors' need. one cannot fully know or understand Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its •Yakima, Washington. another person. permission.

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Evangelist Leonard G. Hubartt writes: Clarksville, Tennessee —Recently our cation, and people were helped and “Due to change of pastors, I have can­ Eastmeade Church had a very successful strengthened by his ministry. A number cellation of the date May 24 to June 4. revival with Evangelist H. B. Garvin of people sought God at the altar of I shall be glad to hear from any church and wife as the special workers. Brother prayer. Pastor and people appreciated interested in this date. Write me, Route Garvin is a dynamic preacher of the the ministry of the Garvins—C h a r l e s E. 4, Huntington, Indiana.” John Wesley doctrine of entire sanctifi­ O a k e s , Pastor. 14 (94) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Evangelist J. L. Longnecker writes: “I appreciate all the calls extended to me since entering the field January 1, In the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ and His but I still have three open dates for the love, on Easter morning—WHAT SHALL MY spring and summer, beginning May 24, also some open dates in October and EASTER OFFERING BE? early November. I will be glad to go anywhere for church revivals, camp Pastor H. G. Compton reports from gram has proved to be a blessing and meetings, or home mission campaigns. Roanoke, Virginia: “After my serving challenge to our people. As a church, I want to keep busy for God and the the Garden City Church for nearly seven we witnessed to a total of 1,776 people church; will go anywhere for freewill years, the congregation has extended me last fall, and have had 247 seekers at offerings and entertainment. Write me, a four-year call. District Superintendent our altar through Sunday, February 19. 401 W. Sixth, Beardstown, Illinois.” Littrell states this is the first four-year Fifty-four credits were given to those call on the Virginia District. God has who finished the C.S.T. course, ‘The Rimbev, Alberta, Canada—A high blessed the church with steady increases Church Winning Souls.’ Since our as­ light in the history of this church was in every department. The church has sembly we have received 28 new mem­ observed when Rev. Herman L. G. received a complete ‘face lifting’ inside bers, 21 on profession of faith. Our Smith, district superintendent, was pres­ and out with purchase of organ, pulpit growing Sunday school is currently aver­ ent for the mortgage-burning service on furniture, and Sunday school chairs and aging over 200. The regular Sunday February 19. It marked the occasion of equipment. A new ranch-style, brick- evening evangelistic service is broadcast the liquidation of a $5,000 bank loan cased, seven-room parsonage was built in direct from our church, seven to eight which was paid off in five years, making 1956, appraised at $22,000. After a o'clock; also we have six daily broad­ this five-year-old building free of debt. night of intercessory prayer, revival casts, fifteen minutes each, from the Total cost was approximately $30,000. broke out and souls began seeking God study in the parsonage, and ‘Showers of Our local newspaper carried the picture before the evangelist came for the re­ Blessing’ is heard each Sunday evening. and a news item about it. Our people vival campaign. Sixty-five seekers have On Sunday morning, January 15, the have been loyal in their giving and God bowed at the altar since the ‘Try church gave us a unanimous four-year has helped us in a wonderful way.— Christ’s Way’ program was launched, call (101 votes cast), with a good raise A. P e r c y R a in e y , Pastor. and thirteen members have been added in salary granted by the board. We to the church, thus more than doubling appreciate the work of our predecessor, Evangelist C. V. Holstein reports: our membership in the seven-year Rev. C. B. Carleton, and the fine folks "Since last reporting I have conducted period. This was possible only because in McComb; also it is a privilege to revival meetings in seven states, with the of the wonderful spirit of unity and co­ serve on the Mississippi District with following churches and pastors—Iowa operation in our midst. Pastor and Superintendent Otto Stucki and some City, Iowa, with Harold Keeney; Luding- people are determined to keep ‘Evan­ ministers I have known in former years.” ton, Michigan, with John Hieftje; gelism First.’ ” Manassas, Georgia, with E. L. Starkey; Southwestern Ohio District then back to Michigan, at Nashville, Preachers’ Meeting with Allen Cobb; at Rochester, with The first annual preachers’ meeting Carl Book; at Saginaw, with J. T. 11 Million of the Southwestern Ohio District con­ Trueax; at Ortonville with John Mel- vened February 20 to 22 in the Cincin­ lish; and at Clare, with J. D. Ulrich; nati Springdale Church, with Luther S. at Walbridge Avenue Church in To­ 1/4 Dollars Watson, host pastor. ledo, Ohio, with J. D. Holstein; at in The conference was superbly directed Menomonie, Wisconsin, with V. L. and arranged by our capable district McVey; at Vassar, Michigan, with O. L. Easter Offering superintendent, Rev. M. E. Clay. Ferris; at Bay City First, Michigan, with Papers were presented by pastors, as John Hieftje; at Limestone Church, follows, with interesting discussions fol­ Kankakee, Illinois, with Wm. Foote; at Pastor Paul Darulla reports from lowing: “The Pastor’s Mental and Waurika, Oklahoma, with E. A. Raw­ Wellsburg, West Virginia: “Since com­ Spiritual Preparation for the Revival,” lins; Traverse City, Michigan, with G. E. ing here one year ago in February, we by Luther Watson; “Ways to Prepare Gallup; back to Ortonville, Michigan; are glad to report the church is making the People Mentally and Spiritually for and to Manassas, Georgia. At this writ­ gains in each department. We closed a the Revival,” by Kenneth Grandy; ing I am in a meeting with Brookhaven good revival with Rev. O. F. Haynes “Revival Promotion and Advertising Church in Atlanta, Georgia, with Pastor preaching the first three nights, due to That Are Effective,” by Jay Budd; “The Bruce B. Hall. God has blessed in the illness of our evangelist, Rev. Carl Pastor's Preaching and Heart Prepara­ these meetings, and a good number of S. Nutter. Brother Nutter came on tion for the Sunday Night Service,” by people have prayed through, with others Sunday night, and the Lord used him Leo Chance; “Promotional Ideas for receiving definite spiritual help. Pastors in a mighty way, with forty-five seekers Sunday Night,” by Walter Vastbinder, and people have been kind to me; in at the altar. Finances came easily, and “Home Mission Possibilities in several places I have returned two and crowds were excellent, and a good spirit Southwestern Ohio,” by N. C. McNelly. three times. We give God praise for all continues in our church. The pastor A. M. Wilson, O. A. Singleton, and that has been accomplished.” was given a unanimous call for one Donald E. Snow delivered the devo­ year, and received all the votes but one tional messages. Evangelist Thomas Hayes reports: in a four-year call. We have a wonder­ Dr. Hugh C. Benner, general super­ “We give God thanks for the many ful group of people.” intendent, moved nearer to the hearts wonderful revivals He gave us in 19fi0; of the pastors and wives as he shared some were outstanding. We were in Rev. Donald K. Ballard writes: “After with them his concern for the work of California, Oklahoma. Iowa, Illinois, pastoring our First Church in Lanett. the Kingdom, and gave sage advice and Michigan, Texas, and Missouri. I am Alabama, for nearly four years, I re­ admonition to the work of the ministry. now in a meeting in California, then go signed to accept a unanimous call to Southwestern Ohio Nazarenes are to Missouri and on to Illinois. I thank pastor our First Church in McC.omb, steadily moving, and victoriously sup­ God for our faithful pastors and people. Mississippi. Since my coming here last porting the entire program of the I own a beautiful gospel tent that will October, the Lord has abundantly church.—W e s l e y K. P o o l e , District Sec­ seat hundreds of people, which I shall blessed. The ‘Evangelism First’ pro­ retary. be glad to furnish free of charge to those desiring me for a revival in the summer. I am slating into ’62 but have Calvary with its bleeding Sacrifice is the some open time yet for ’61; will be glad only adequate inspiration for world evangelism. to go anywhere. Write me, c/o our publishing house, P.O. Box 527, Kansas GIVE! City 41. Missouri.” MARCH 29, 1961 • (95) 15 Northwest Oklahoma District Central Ohio District Evangelists Jack and Ruby Carter Preachers’ Convention Preachers’ Meeting write: “We are to be in Tiffin, Ohio, The Northwest Oklahoma District The Central Ohio District preachers’ for a meeting closing on September 10, preachers’ convention was held in Wood­ meeting was held in the church at and have some open time just preceding ward, February 21 and 22, under the Tiffin, Ohio, February 20 to 23, with and following this date which we would efficient leadership of our district super­ Dr. H. S. Galloway, district superin­ be glad to give to any church needing intendent, Rev. J. T. Gassett. tendent, in charge. our services as preacher and singers. God’s presence and power were mani­ Dr. L. T. Corlett delivered the open­ Also we have an open date September 27 fested in a very real way in the opening ing message to a full house on Monday to October 8. Write us, 4609 N. Mueller service. After a short, appropriate mes­ evening. The succeeding three-a-day Street, Bethany, Oklahoma.” sage by Brother Gassett, Communion sessions were times of wholesome fellow­ was served. This opening service did ship, instruction, and blessing. Evangelist W. Lawson Brown writes: much toward setting the wonderful tone Rev. A. E. Pusey, local pastor, and “Since the first of the year I have been of spirit which prevailed throughout the his fine people did an excellent job in busy in meetings as singer and preacher convention. entertaining the large group of pastors in Montevideo, Minnesota, with Rev. Dr. Samuel Young, general superin­ and their wives, other Christian work­ D. J. McGilvra; at St. Joseph, Missouri, tendent and the special speaker, thrilled ers, and visitors who came. The city of with Pastor Keith Taylor; at Corvuso, and challenged our hearts as he Tiffin likewise was very gracious, and Minnesota, with Rev. Lysle Poush; and preached the glorious gospel. A high the granting of special parking privileges at Village Church, Oklahoma City, light of the convention was his address by the police department was much Oklahoma, with Rev. A. D. Grimm. At pertaining to holiness as re-emphasized appreciated. this writing I am in a meeting in by John Wesley. Dr. Wm. Greathouse shared the Rensselaer, Indiana, with Brother Er­ A great contribution was made by speaking assignments with Dr. L. T. nest Vannest. The presence of the Lord Rev. O. Joe Olson, director of Nazarene has been manifest in the meetings, with News Service, as he gave hints and in­ a number of seekers and happy finders. formation on better press relations. I have open time, May 31 to June 25, “Brother Joe” made an impression on and am available as a singer or preacher, the convention by his humble testimony "SHOWERS OF BLESSING" or both. It is a joy to work with our for Jesus. We feel he is performing a good pastors and people and enjoy the very beneficial service for the entire blessings of the Lord. Write me, Box denomination through his office. Program Schedule 785, Bethany, Oklahoma.” Rev. J. Reyndal Russell, host pastor, April 2—“He Is Not Here . . . He Is and the fine Woodward Nazarcnes went Risen,” by T. IV. Willingham Rev. Wm. G. Richards writes: “After all out to make our stay enjoyable. The April 9—“The Power of God unto Sal­ our pastoring churches on the Michigan beauty of the newly remodeled church vation,” by E. TV. Martin District, Wife's health has improved so served to create an atmosphere of wor­ April 16—“The Love of God,” by that we are re-entering the full-time ship throughout the convention.—E. R o y E. W. Martin work of evangelism. We travel as the D a r d e n , Reporter. Richards Party (preacher, singers, and April 23—“God Knoweth,” by E. W. musician) . We are available for church Washington, Pennsylvania —Recently Martin revivals and/or camps as God may lead. Second Church had a very successful I am an ordained elder in our church. revival with Rev. T. H. Stanley. We Write us, c/o Nazarene Camp, Route 2, did appreciate his heart-searching, Bible Vicksburg, Michigan.” messages and his great burden for so u ls. God certainly honored his faithful min­ Corlett who, incidentally, was able to Announcements istry during this nineteen-day revival. come after Dr. Hardy C. Powers had to BORN— to Richard and Norma (Carroll) Krohe of cancel the engagement due to illness. Beardstown, Illinois, a son, Kevin Lee, on February One man, eighty years of age, back­ 17. slidden for thirty-five years, was re­ Everyone agreed that the coveted com­ claimed and sanctified during this bination of scholarliness, deep spir­ — to Rev. and Mrs. Clark Lewis of Sitka, Alaska, meeting. Four new members were add­ ituality, and holy enthusiasm finds a a daughter, Mary Ruth, on February 13. ed to the church, by profession of faith, high clegree of realization in these con­ — to Rev. Weldon and Doris Bull of Meaford, secrated servants of God and the church. Ontario, Canada, a son, Joseph Weldon, on January at the close of the campaign. We praise 25. God for answering the prayers o f H is The entire program, prepared under people.—E l l is K . H o r t o n , Pastor. the direction of Dr. Galloway, with his — to Rev. and Mrs. Lloyd W. Millikin of Fritch, usual clear vision and insight into both Texas, a daughter, Christi Joyce, on January 13. the district and general church respon­ Lanett, Alabama—First Church re­ SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a Christian cently closed one of the greatest revivals sibilities, was spiced with variety and lady in California that God will undertake in a criti­ interest throughout the three days. cal situation in the home of a close relative, that in its history. Through the ministry of he may keep his faith in God, his home be saved Evangelist Don Scarlett, God gave 100 Department heads reviewed the year’s from ruin, and that he will turn to the Lord for the people seeking the Lord to be saved or work and outlined spring and summer necessary help and strength at this time; schedules. Mr. Elvin Hicks, as usual, by a Christian in Oklahoma for an unspoken re­ sanctified. We praise God for these quest— " I am afraid of a tragedy unless God under­ victories, and can truthfully say Lanett did an excellent job of representing our takes . . . I have done everything in my power"; First Church is on the march again.— publishing house. by a Christian lady in West Virginia for her hus­ Among the many visitors present was band, away from home all week working, and he needs G o r d o n W in c h e s t e r , Pastor. to return to God; also for herself, since "the holi­ Miss Irma Koffel, missionary from ness way is new to me"; Africa, who gave a stirring message on by a Christian friend in Kansas for an unspoken re­ the closing day. The meeting closed quest for the souls of two people, also that her hus­ Christ gave His life for our redemp­ band may get back to God, and their children and tion. Are we willing to sacrifice to with a very impressive Communion families to be saved; win a lost world to Christ? Give in service Thursday noon, presided over by by a Christian friend in Illinois, "that my financial pressure may be released," for salvation for a loved the light of the Cross on April 2. our esteemed superintendent, Dr. Gallo­ one, and "that an unspoken request be immediately way.—P a u l K. H aym an, Reporter. accomplished."

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HARDY C. POWERS: San Antonio ...... M ay 4 and 5 Canada Pacific ...... May 11 and 12 Alaska ...... M ay 18 and 19 Maine ...... June 8 and 9 New England ...... June 14 to 16 Canada Central ...... June 22 and 23 Canada West ...... July 6 to 8 Oregon Pacific ...... July 19 to 21 Southwest Indiana ...... July 26 and 27 W isc o n sin ...... A ugust 10 and 11 Missouri ...... August 16 and 17 Houston ...... A ugust 23 and 24

G. B. W IL L IA M S O N : Washington Pacific ...... May 3 and 4 Northern California ...... May 10 to 12 British Isles South ...... May 19 to 23 British Isles North ...... May 27 to 30 Northeast Oklahoma ...... June 28 and 29 Minnesota ...... June 30 and July 1 C o lo ra d o ...... July 20 and 21 East Tennessee ...... July 26 and 27 I o w a ...... August 9 and 10 Northwest Indiana ...... August 23 and 24 Kansas C ity ...... August 3 0 and 31

SAMUEL YOUNG: M ississippi ...... M ay 10 and 11 Florida ...... May 17 and 18 A la b a m a ...... M ay 24 and 25 This is my gift for world evangelism, that others who now Rocky Mountain ...... June 8 and 9 Nebraska ...... June 28 and 29 sit in darkness may have the light. West Virginia ...... July 6 to 8 Michigan ...... July 12 to 14 Kansas ...... August 2 to 4 Kentucky ...... A ugust 9 and 10 NAME ... Tennessee ...... August 23 and 24 Southeast O k la h o m a ...... September 13 and 14 Joplin ...... September 21 and 22 North Arkansas ...... September 27 and 28 ADDRESS

D. I. V A N D E R P O O L : Washington ...... M ay 3 and 4 Philadelphia ...... May 10 and 11 Nevada-Utah ...... June 7 and 8 Eastern Michigan ...... July 5 and 6 Northeastern Indiana ...... July 12 to 14 Clip and mail with your offering to: Pittsburgh ...... July 19 to 21 Eastern Kentucky ...... July 26 and 27 John Stockton, General Treasurer Gulf Central ...... August 3 and 4 6401 The Paseo Northwestern Illinois ...... August 17 and 18 Indianapolis ...... August 23 and 24 Kansas City 10, Missouri Georgia ...... September 13 and 14 Southwest O k la h o m a ...... September 2 0 and 21

three years. He was the father of Rev. Samuel M. Taylor, Nazarene missionary who recently went to Deaths British Guiana, S.A. Besides the son, Samuel, he MRS. JIM W. ASHCRAFT was born November 3, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Taylor, one sis­ 1 1 /Million 1906, in McLennan County, Texas, and died very ter, three brothers, and his stepmother. One of the suddenly of a heart attack on February 3, 1961, in last acts performed by Brother Taylor was to pray Waco, Texas, where she had lived for the past eight a wonderful prayer for his missionary son so far 1/4 Dollars years. A devout Christian since her youth, she had away. Funeral service was conducted from the First been a member of the Church of the Nazarene for Church of the Nazarene in Vincennes, with the pas­ in twenty-seven years. At the time of her death she was tor, Rev. L. W. Conway, officiating. a member of the Trinity Heights Church in Waco. She Easter Offering was a faithful pastor's wife while her husband MRS. BEULAH DALE GARBER was born June 11, served the Meadow Grove, Pearl, Goldthwaite, and 1888, at Elmwood, Illinois, and died January 14, Crystal City Nazarene churches in Texas. Her life 1961, at her home in Lewistown, Illinois. She was was one of service to Christ and the church. She a faithful and devoted member of the Church of is survived by her husband, Rev. Jim W. Ashcraft, the Nazarene, and had served as N.F.M.S. president, Nazarene evangelist; a daughter, Mrs. Stanley Jahn; church treasurer, and teacher of the Bible class. She HUGH C. B E N N E R : and five sisters, Mrs. Robert Knowles, Mrs. Katherine was married on June 10, 1909, to Willis Garber. A b ile n e ...... May 10 to 12 Dennard, Mrs. Nell Moreland, Mrs. Margaret Clark, She is survived by her husband; a son, Gayle S.; her Los Angeles ...... M ay 17 to 19 and Mrs. Wynama Snowden. Funeral service was con­ stepmother, Mrs. J. A. Shields; a stepsister, Mrs. Southern California ...... May 24 to 26 ducted by her pastor. Rev. B. J. Garber, assisted by Katherine Dunelwy; and two stepbrothers, Keith and South Dakota ...... June 21 and 22 Rev. Ralph W est, Rev. Monroe Burkhart, and Rev. Kenneth Shields. Funeral service was conducted at North Dakota ...... June 29 and 30 A. B. McCowan, with burial in Rosemound Cemetery. the church by her pastor, Rev. Otis Bowman. Southwestern Ohio ...... July 5 and 6 Central Ohio ...... July 19 to 21 MRS. OPAL M. BUCK was born May 18, 1904, MILLARD A. PRUETT was born in Fredericktown, Illinois ...... July 27 and 28 and died January 15, 1961, of a heart attack after a Missouri, November 19, 1892, and died in Cheyenne, Akron ...... August 2 and 3 long period of illness. She was a faithful servant of Wyoming, January 17, after a brief illness. In 1912 Dallas ...... August 9 and 10 the Lord and was very active in the work of the he was married to Lula Simmons. Two years later Louisiana ...... A ugust 3 0 and 31 church. It was her faith and inspiration which were he was converted and sanctified and, with Mrs. South Arkansas ...... September 20 and 21 largely responsible for the organization of the Parma Pruett, joined the Church of the Nazarene. They church, now Calvary Church of the Nazarene, North were charter members of our churches in Frederick­ V. H. L E W IS: Royalton, Ohio. She was president of the missionary town, Missouri; Loveland and Ft. Collins, Colorado; ldaho-Oregon...... May 3 and 4 society at the time of her death. She is survived by and Grace Church in Cheyenne. He was faithful to Northwest ...... M ay 10 and 11 her husband, Charles E. Buck, of Parma; two daugh­ God and the church, serving as Sunday school superin­ Arizona ...... May 24 and 25 ters, Mrs. Dorothy E. Cook and Mrs. Irene Sievers tendent, church board chairman, member of the New M e x ic o ...... M ay 31 and June 1 (Nazarene missionary to Nicaragua); also three sis­ choir, and on occasion filled the pulpit. He helped Albany ...... June 28 and 29 ters and two brothers. Funeral service was held at to build Grace Church in Cheyenne. Besides his Canada A t la n t ic ...... July 4 and 5 Parma by her pastor, Rev. E. E. Herron, assisted by wife, Lula, of Cheyenne, he is survived by four sons, Northwestern Ohio ...... July 12 and 13 Rev. C. D. Taylor, Rev. C. Stouffer, and the Reverend Allen, Willard, Alden, and M. Allen, Jr.; two Chicago Central ...... July 19 and 20 Mr. Mosher. Final services were held at Texarkana, daughters, Leila Kitch and Violet Drake; and a Northwest Oklahoma ...... July 26 and 27 Texas, with Rev. R. B. Kelly officiating, assisted by brother, Charles. Funeral service was conducted in Virginia ...... August 9 and 10 Rev. J. W. Read. Burial was at Texarkana. Grace Church with his pastor, Rev. Allen A. Bennett, South Carolina ...... September 13 and 14 in charge, assisted by a former pastor, Rev. Clinton North Carolina ...... September 20 and 21 SAMUEL A. TAYLOR, age fifty-seven, of Vin­ A. Rock, Jr. Interment was in Overland Park Ceme­ New York ...... September 2 9 and 30 cennes, Indiana, died January 2 after an illness of tery, Loveland, Colorado. MARCH 29, 1961 • (97) 17 oj the Religious World nswer corner F u i.lf.r t o n , C a l if . (MNS) —On Janu­ ary 18 a Cessna 180 with marking for the Congo took off from Municipal Airport Conducted by W. T. PURKISER, Editor here. It was being flown to New Or­ leans to be disassembled and shipped to Where is there scriptural grounds for sprinkling or pouring as baptism? the Congo, where it will be operated In Romans 6:4 and Colossians 2:12 it says we must be buried with Jesus in baptism. Doesn’t this contradict sprinkling or pouring? by the Missionary Aviation Fellowship Romans 0:4 says, ’‘Therefore we are or pouring : (botli -together known as in conjunction with the emergency pro­ buried with him by baptism into death: "effusion”) start with Ezekiel 36:25-26; gram of the Congo Protestant Relief that like as Christ was raised up from Hebrews 10:22; Acts 9:18 (which literal­ Agency. Main purpose of the plane wil 1 the dead by the glory of the Father, ly says, “standing up he was baptized”) ; be to multiply the service of the doctors even so we also should walk in newness Acts 1:5 in connection with Acts 2:17; serving in the Congo by shuttling them of life.” Colossians 2:12 reads, “Buried and John 2:6 in connection with John between the remote hospitals which are with him in baptism, wherein also ye 3:25-26, where purifying and baptizing without doctors. are risen with him through the faith of arc identified and where it is said that the operation of God, who hath raised the water containers used held between R ic h a r d C a r d in a l C u s h in g , Roman him from the dead.” I do not see that twenty and thirty gallons. Catholic archbishop of Boston, has an­ it says “buried in water.” Dr. H. Orton Now I have lived long enough to nounced the forthcoming establishment Wiley, in connection with a long quota­ know that anything at all said on the in his archdiocese of a seminary for older tion from an older theologian, says, subject of water baptism will displease candidates for the priesthood. To be “These texts have no reference either to many folks. To me, there is final wisdom named St. Pius X Belated Vocation Sem­ water baptism or to its mode” (Christian in the decision of the founding fathers inary. it will provide training for men Theology. Ill, 181) . The references are of our church to leave the mode of bap­ mostly in their forties and fifties who to spiritual death, burial, resurrection, tism in the realm of nonessentials, where have college degrees and experience in and life. If you are seriously interested equally good people differ. Beyond this, law, medicine, and teaching. Occupying in this subject, I recommend that you I refuse to go. Whether you have been a 145-acre tract in Marlboro, 28 miles buy or borrow Volume III of Christian baptized by sprinkling, pouring, or im­ from Boston, it will accept candidates Theology (Nazarene Publishing House, mersion. if you have been born again from all over the world. 161 pp., $3.95) and study carefully pages and sanctified wholly and walk in the 161 to 189. light God gives you, you will make it T alcottvillf ., C o n n . (MNS) —A Third As to scriptural grounds for sprinkling to heaven. World Conference on Christian Com­ munications has been announced for In Isaiah 4:1 it says, “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one June 12 to 15 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man. saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only by Dr. Clarence Jones, chairman of the let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” What does this World Conference on Missionary Radio. I would hardly know how to improve polygamy which would follow. I did For four days approximately one hun­ on the comment of Matthew Henry that hear one preacher suggest that the seven dred radio executives and leaders will this verse belongs at the conclusion of women are false religions taking the confer on their mutual problems, using chapter 3, and is part of the prediction name of Christ. However, that idea is as their conference theme "The Chal­ of an awful massacre of Israel’s soldiers a little too rich for my blood. And lenge of the Century to the Church— which would leave alive only one in there are far more than seven false cults Communicate.” The conference will be seven. The reference then is to the which have taken that blessed name. preceded by a nationwide Annual Prayer Day for Missionary Radio on Sunday, If a church has a membership of one hundred, should a pastor’s wife be June 11. a board member? The Third World Conference is the It depends somewhat on the other ninety-nine. But probably not. continuation of a fellowship established a decade ago. Missionary broadcasters, What is the position of our church on such games as bingo? Is it gambling missionary radio station executives and to play for prizes? personnel, allied Christian organizations, We have declared our opposition to ment agencies in general seem to classify and Christians interested in the mission­ “lotteries and games of chance” in our it as gambling. I would think all our ary use of radio and TV meet every Manual statement of General Rules, people would want to stay completely three years. I (7). While I have never investigated free from all association with games of The World Conference on Missionary bingo, the newspapers and law enforce­ this character. Radio, according to Dr. Jones, is “a vol­ Is it dangerous to deal with the spiritualists even if they say they can tell untary service agency, stimulating co­ you the future? Do these people talk to God, or do they commune with the operation among evangelical broadcasters devil? overseas in spheres of mutual interest Have nothing whatsoever to do with and that mutter: should not a people and benefit.” The Conference has no them. It is my humble judgment that seek unto their God? for the living to membership, but encourages all inter­ insofar as there is anything other than the dead? [R.S.V., ‘should they consult ested persons into fellowship for the psychological trickery involved in spirit­ the dead on behalf of the living?’]” more effective use of missionary radio ualistic seances, it is of the devil. Con­ How'evcr, frankly, I incline to the po­ in the evangelization of the world. Its sider, for example, Isaiah 8:19, “And sition so ably defended by Harry Hou- headquarters is at Talcottville, Connec­ when they shall say unto you. Seek unto dini, that the whole business is a ticut. A monthly periodical, Foreign them that have familiar spirits [R.S.V., monstrous fraud. Missionary Radio, is issued. ‘mediums’], and unto wizards that peep. 18 (98) • HERALD OF HOLINESS ^ iJ k a tj npzfj im t m whi im dcwz a

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