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12-7-1955

Herald of Holiness Volume 44 Number 40 (1955)

Stephen S. White (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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High Purpose in Daily Living

General Superintendent Young

rJ ,HE fin a l test of Christian experi­ by extraordinary grace if they would ence must be made in the labora­ be altogether Christian and radiant. tory of daily life. Its validity must Our practices and averages are too be measured in terms of radiance low without it. All too soon our and resilience amid the pressures of charities become intermittent and in­ ordinary living. When the ark of adequate. The esprit de corps of our the covenant was rescued from the common humanity will not do. Even hands of the Philistines, it was drawn the impact of the Christian com­ back on a new oxcart— described by munity will dissipate unless constant­ one as “the creaking wagon of the ly related to the high purpose of common life.” It is certainly true in Calvary. Our challenge to victorious our day that the holy of holies in re­ living must always be to this primary ligion must be made relevant to the motive; nothing else is compelling plain man in everyday life. enough. How soon the church can But it takes the supreme motive degenerate into a private club for of Calvary to make any life thorough­ the spiritually elite! Snobbishness, ly Christian. The Apostle Paul once exclusiveness, and isolation ensue. wrote to the Corinthian church ask­ But the adequacy of divine grace ing for a collection to assist the poor makes us brothers to all men in sin. saints in Jerusalem. It was not a Their isolation from God makes them supreme effort nor an offering of un­ bereft indeed. Ours is the message of usual sacrifice; it was an appeal to reconciliation, and we dare to speak develop the ordinary Christian grace in God’s name. of giving— something lacking in these Corinthians. Paul dared to make the I know a name that dispels the pow’rs appeal to the highest motive possible. of evil, He writes: “For ye know the grace I know a name that can break the of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though tempter’s snare; he was rich, yet for your sakes he 1 know a name that unlocks the gate became poor, that ye through his of h eaven poverty might be rich” (II Cor. 8: 9). When thro’ its merits I go to God Ordinary lives must be supported in p r a y e r *

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“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; ...” (Matt. 6:33). THINK ON THIS: NEWS IN BRIEF GLEANINGS The World’s Greatest Light Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Young arrived in New York City on Wednesday, By J. M. Yarbrough* From the Office Editor's Desk November 23, via the “African En­ a s t y e a r in preparation for cele­ “ The H e r a l d is just the best paper deavor.” Both are well. brating the seventy-fifth year of ever. I look forward to it every week lightL produced by the electric bulb and never fail to find help and en­ Special dedication services of the there was developed and exhibited couragement in its pages. It is truly new College Church of the Nazarene, an incandescent lamp of 75,000-watt food for the soul.”—Ohio. Bourbonnais, Illinois, were held on rating. It was said to have been equal Sunday afternoon, November 20, with to the amount of light which would “I would like to thank you and Dr. G. B. Williamson as the special be required for lighting 190 ordinary God for such a good Christian maga­ speaker. average-size residences. This was zine as the H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s . It has the greatest concentration of light truly been a blessing.”—Texas. Pastor J. Paul Downey sends word from one lamp that ever had oc­ from Yakima, Washington: “First curred. Church is forwarding to Treasurer "How I do praise God for all those But I read of One who is the Light who have to do with our great H e r a ld John Stockton the largest single mis­ of the World. He is able to produce sionary offering in its history, in the of H o l i n e s s paper! . . . How great and give off more light than there was God’s blessing to my heart this sum of $2,633.36. This is also the is of darkness in the whole world. largest offering ever given for mis­ morning as I sat reading the H e r a ld The physical 75,000-watt lamp can’t and read thro’ the article ‘Distinction’! sions in my ministry. God honored begin to destroy all the darkness in I feel God is very pleased with all the sacrifice of the people by giving the world. There will always be us a number of seekers in the closing those who were inspired to choose areas where darkness and shadows men and women in this generation to service of the revival with Evangelist prevail, where sin and the criminal Bernie Smith.” choose certain passages from His and the gangster will hold sway. blessed Word . . . surely A. K. Bracken There will always be, until Jesus’ must have been blessed as he pre­ Rev. H. E. Hegstrom writes: “Hav­ second coming, the kind of disease ing served the pastorate at Chariton, pared this particular report for the and fear which originates and mul­ readers of the H e r a l d .” —Illinois. Iowa, for four and one-half years, tiplies most rapidly in darkness and I resigned and was appointed by the cloud. Iowa District to supervise the con­ “I have been receiving the H e r a ld But when the Sun of Righteousness o f o l i n e s s struction of the 90 x 160-foot district H , subscribed for by an un­ arises with healing in His wings, the tabernacle. The project now being known friend for me. I am very diseases of earth, the sins of man’s completed, I have accepted the pas­ thankful for this. I have received mortal existence, and all other torate of our First Church in Bur­ much help from the paper, at times products of darkness will disappear. lington, Iowa.” when help has been most needed. Man can come out of his debauchery . . . I love the Lord and thank Him and wicked attitudes only by letting again for a good friend that sent me After four and one-half years as the benign and healing influence of pastor of the church at Warwick, your paper. I intend to subscribe for divine power and energy remake his the paper when my subscription is Ohio, Rev. William L. Parks has re­ disturbed and unbalanced soul. The out. I wouldn’t want to be without signed to accept the position as as­ light of the gospel meets adequately th paper.”—North Carolina. sistant pastor at First Church in Warren, Ohio. the terrifyingly important need of man’s immortal spirit. “I’d like to say that I really enjoy the H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s . The Question After organizing and pastoring the No light on earth can with Him Box always draws m y attention first.” Bethel Church of the Nazarene at compare! THINK ON THIS! —Idaho. Cleveland, Ohio, Rev. Frank and Do­ ‘ Pastor, Oak Lawn, 111. lores DiCicco are re-entering the field of evangelism. “The H e r a l d o f H o l i n e s s still is bringing blessing in our home with its splendid spiritual food.”—Pennsyl­ After a pastorate of four and one- vania. half years in the Hailwood Church, HERALD OF HOLINESS Rev. Robert E. Phillips has resigned to accept the church at San Pablo, S t e p h e n S. 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Volume 44, Number 40 December 7,1955 Whole Number 2276 It is not how wildly we leap,

but how well we live— On Pentecost Island BY EDWARD LEE DOWD*

o c a t e d in the South Pacific Ocean, one thou­ not for self-indulgent religious feeling. Far from L sand miles northeast of Australia, is a tiny it! In jeopardy of their very lives, these men island in the New Hebrides group, called Pente­ hazarded themselves so as to become the chan­ cost Island. The major pastime of the natives of nels of the Lord unto the evangelization of the this island is quite strange—they leap from con­ entire world. They had profound conviction that structed towers high in the air earthward to the they must not, dare not, fail Him who died and ground, headfirst! The man who leaps the far­ rose again. Their very tarrying was proof of thest outward and downward is the champion their refusal to become sidetracked by the acro­ of the island. batics of human machinery or human design. While the rest of the world, looking on, may Their world and generation w ere transformed dub this dangerous sport of the Pentecost Island­ from the pollution of sin to the purity of salva­ ers “acrobatics for fanatics,” the islanders them­ tion because they did wait for God’s operation selves center their entire lives around the annual through the Holy Spirit. tower-leaping festival. The whole thing had its Pentecost does not isolate me from men. The beginning years ago when a native pursued his leaven of the Pharisees—superiority, alienation, unfaithful wife into a tree. The ingenious woman, secret agreements, criticism, public piety, pride seeking escape, tied springy liana vines to her of knowledge in spiritual matters—all this is feet and leaped from the treetop headfirst with­ done away when the Day of Pentecost is “fully out injury. From such unseemly beginnings there come.” John Wesley professed that he knew of developed a native sport of annual significance. no holiness which is not social holiness. He in­ The few outsiders who have viewed a tower- sisted that “we shall love every man so as to be leaping festival tell of the intense emotional ready to lay down our life for his sake; so as, stirring which precedes the high-tower jumps. by this love, to be free from anger, and pride, Yelling, dancing, beating of hands, chanting as and from every unkind affection” (from Wesley’s a group—all these are employed to rouse the sermon, “Satan’s Devices,” italics mine). Of the courage of men who are to jump headfirst from first Pentecostal Christians, it was observed by towers in the air. They leap from perches sixty unbelievers, Behold, how they love one another! and seventy feet up. The liana vines which are Simon Peter insisted on continuous love between tied to their ankles are measured exactly right so Christ’s followers, the sanctified. “Seeing ye have as to break the jumper’s fall precisely as his head purified your souls in obeying the truth through strikes the pulverized earth beneath. Strange as the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see it seems, though the record leap measures over that ye love one another with a pure heart fer­ eighty feet, no high jumper of the island has been vently” (I Pet. 1:22). killed by the sport. Pentecost destroys my carnal-mindedness. But Pentecost itself is not an island in human Cleansing at the soul’s sources, the Holy Spirit experience which men may use for foolish and destroys those tendencies to twisted motives. He unprofitable sport. Pentecost is rather a conti­ frees from covetousness, fear of men, hate, envy, nent of spiritual experience belonging to the Holy division, and all forms of self-centeredness. Pente­ Spirit of God and possessed by Him to purify all cost has become a tiny, self-centered island only humanity from evil tendency unto the power of where men prefer “spiritual stunts” to moral holiness in word, thought, and deed. Of the strength. The shout of victory is legitimate when first Pentecost, Dr. Luke wrote his friend The- it climaxes a moral triumph by the miracle-work­ ophilus: “And when the day of Pentecost was ing grace of God. But a shout where there has fully come, they [the disciples of Jesus] were been no battle, no danger, no sacrifice, and no all with one accord in one place” (Acts 2:1). victory is a reproach to the Lord of Hosts! Yell­ The early disciples of Jesus assembled, not ing to stir up carnal courage for a stunting party out of novelty, pride, nor caprice, but out of should be left for the natives of the tiny island obedience to the direct command of their risen in the South Pacific. and exalted Lord. When the Holy Spirit fell in Pentecost relates me to world-changing, eternal power upon the 120 obedient ones in the Upper issues. The baptism with the Holy Spirit and fire Room, they were gathered in one spirit unto faith, effects pure love to Jesus Christ and daring, unity, and loving obedience. These followers of humble service to despairing men for Jesus’ sake. Christ were not interested in religious acrobatics There is no pretense in holiness. Islanders of nor startling stunts. Their one passion was heart the Pacific may leap great distances to thrill a purity for divine service. Their tarrying was crowd, land on their heads, beat their chests,

‘ Pastor, Newport, Ore. scream and yell, but when their works are done,

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (935) 3 no good thing is accomplished. No one is better for the day, nor is the society improved morally, Meditation by a Mountain intellectually, or economically. Not so with the sanctifying baptism of God’s By Sylvan F. Starks* Spirit. There are no strings attached to the con­ secration of the sanctified, no limits to their death I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from to self, no return to the old nature nor to the whence cometh my help (Ps. 121:1). past selfishnesses. None but Jesus attracts them, T have never fully appreciated the spiritual nothing but His will for the world concerns them. significance of the above declaration of the Petty differences cannot alienate those made holy Psalmist until this past summer while vacation­ through His blood, for Pentecost is to them a ing in Colorado. To one who has to spend fifty continent. God is Creator here, Jesus is King, weeks out of the year confined, most of the time, and the Holy Spirit is Prime Minister. There to the office, shops, or the walls of a home in is neither place nor time for acrobatics, division, a large city of the flatlands, the mountains should nor fear because the enemy in false array is set afford not only physical and mental relaxation, for opposition and destruction of the King’s con­ but a spiritual blessing as well. tinent. The wholly sanctified, secure in the grace There’s something about the massive rugged­ and power of the Spirit, do not shudder with ness of a mountain peak towering into a cloud- fear when the enemy stalks them as “a roaring flecked, blue sky that inspires and challenges lion.” Rather does each soldier of the Cross raise my soul. It exemplifies endurance, strength, the sword of the Word, call to his Prime Minister patience, and peace as nothing else can. It calls for strength, and unite with his brother in the me to come up, apart from the bustle, tensions, battle against the dread foe of the soul, the devil. and monotonous routines of life, to nestle a little The issues of this warfare are so great, the closer to heaven and commune with Him who outcome so primary, and the victory so certain made the heavens and the earth. It poses a chal­ that the Pentecostal believer cares little about lenge because I realize that such a place is not incidentals such as his place in the lines, the easily accessible. It will require some determined giving of orders (he’d prefer receiving them), and persevering effort on my part. I must leave and the handing out of medals when the foe is defeated at last. He regards himself eoqpendable some things behind, stripped to the bare neces­ sities, if I expect to reach that goal. I will have if only the King receives glory and victory, and to discipline myself, and direct all my attention men are given life on the continent of Pente­ to the one task at hand. But I don’t mind it one costal holiness. bit when I anticipate the reward at the end of the climb. Whether it’s a mountaintop of dirt and stone, Where sin abounded, grace did much more or a spiritual mountaintop experience we are abound (Rom. 5:20). seeking, it still requires self-denial, discipline, and determined effort on our part, but the re­ ward is surely worth it all! Down through Bible history, mountains have played a significant part in God’s revelation to man. Mounts Ararat, Sinai, T H E WAY Nebo, Carmel, Moriah, the Mount of Transfigura­ tion, and the Mount of Olives are but a few. By Jean Leathers Phillips Time and again, Jesus went apart into a high There is a way, and He is Author of it; mountain to pray. The greatest sermon ever preached to man came from the lips of our Lord There is a way above all sad defeat. as He sat on the slopes of a mountainside. There is a way; the saints rejoice and love it, A strong advance that knows no grim retreat. To lift up our eyes unto the hills spiritually requires a change of heart and attitudes toward There is a way, tho’ dark the skies above you; the world and material things. To illustrate: There is a way, tho’ bold and strong the foe. my wife and I, accompanied by our eleven-year- There is a Captain who to death doth love you, old daughter, were strolling one day down a Who walked that way and knows just how to go. street in Buena Vista, our vacation headquarters, nestled between two high mountain ranges in The ways of earth are fraught with pain and central Colorado. While my wife and I were sorrow; admiring the beautiful mountain view, our little The ways of sin lead but to darkest doom. girl spied a nickel lying on the sidewalk. From But God once purchased man a bright tomorrow there on, all she could see was visionary nickels By His own Son, arisen from the tomb! lying around over the ground, and possibly some of the things she could exchange them for at the The way He gave is clean and pure and holy, drugstore down the street. That was the help In His dear Son, who said, “ I am the way.” she was interested in now—not in the hills! Come, walk with Him, once humble Man and How true to life this is in the spiritual realm! lowly, We become so concerned about the material and And be at peace this day and every day! 'Nazarene Layman, Tulsa. Okla.

4 (936) HERALD OF HOLINESS physical that we have no inclination to lift up said, “One thing have I desired of the Lord, that our eyes “unto the hills,” from whence cometh will I seek after; . . . all the days of my life ...” our help. We are no longer challenged to come (Ps. 27:4). “I love Everest,” Tenzing said. This apart to the secret place of prayer for a new was the secret of his victory. Paul said, “The vision, and em powerm ent for service. Instead, love of Christ constraineth us.” Jesus said, “I we become more and more stooped under our must ...” burdens until we are hopelessly deformed. II I may not have many opportunities to answer They were burden bearers. This was the pri­ the call to the mountains of Colorado, or else­ mary task of a Sherpa. They were to bear, not where; but I still have the call to the spiritual only their own burdens, but burdens for others. Mount of Transfiguration—those mountaintop “Bear ye one another’s burdens ...” (Gal. 6:2). experiences of holy communion with God which “Every man shall bear his own burden” (Gal. I must have if I endure the tiresome and often­ 6:5). Jesus was our Example in burden bearing. times discouraging duties in the valley. He assumed the burdens of the world; so great was the load, it bowed Him to the ground. All the anguish of the world was crowded into a WINTER ROSE single heart. That heart broke. Jesus wasn’t caught in the wheels of circumstance and crushed to His death but, “I lay down my life, that I By Clara S. Hoff might take it again.” Jesus bore the cross for I saw a yellow rose in p erfect bloom us, but the cross is not without human parallels. Upon a chilly, leafless bush alone. Simon was compelled to bear the cross a part What miracle of urgent afterthought of the way to Calvary. Up to Calvary it was Had brought a lovely bloom this time of year? Christ’s cross. Beyond Calvary it is the Chris­ Deep down the roots must still be warm with life tian’s cross. “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and Beneath the cold and frosty winter ground. so fulfil the law of Christ.” This bit of loveliness brought to my heart III A prayer that, when I grow too old to take They met with temporary defeat without giv­ My place among the young and busy throng, ing up. At times it took hours on end to climb Then like the yellow rose, I too may shed a few feet. Up—down, up—down, was the way A golden light of joy, of hope, and peace. they described their climb. What Christian hasn’t had like experiences as he made his way toward the summit of life’s goal? No doubt we all have “ NO BIRD felt that the hills are so steep to climb that often we long for rest. It is said that Jerry McAuley, who for years ran the McAuley Mission, went Ever Flew over Chomolungma” back into sin seven times before he became es­ tablished in the Christian way. Also, Thomas By C. A. Higgins* Edison had made more than one hundred at­ tempts to harness electricity before reaching his h i s w a s what the natives of Nepal taught their T children for generations—no bird had ever desired goal. One of his friends said to him, “ Y ou ’ve failed 113 times; you might as w ell give flown over Mount Everest. But the Lord was preparing a Yak herdman to one day stand at up.” “No,” said Mr. Edison, “I’ve only discovered the summit of Everest. 113 ways how not to harness electricity,” and As I read the history-making account of the on he went. two men who climbed Mount Everest (Reader’s Six times before, Tenzing had tried to climb Digest, June, 1955), I made at least three mental Everest and had been turned back by the storms. observations which parallel the Christian’s posi­ The seventh and last attempt he prayed to his tion in his effort to reach life’s goal. father’s and mother’s God. “O God,” he said, I “be good to us today. Help us reach the top.” There was an inward urge, a drive within the Then after eighteen years of trial and failure, soul of Tenzing, the Indian, to conquer Everest. on M ay 29, 1953, at 9:30 a.m., he stood at the “I had rather die on Everest,” he told his wife, summit with Mr. Hillery, a New Zealand climber. “than to live at home.” This suggests a single­ A lifelong struggle was over, a dream had come ness of purpose in our service to God and others. true, a victory had been won. The payoff was The desire to reach Everest had become an ob­ fame, honor, wealth, and popularity. But the session with Tenzing. All other interests were greatest reward was the joy of a task well done, secondary. This parallels what the Apostle Paul for Tenzing exclaimed, “I’m free! Everest has said. “This one thing I do, forgetting those things freed m e!” which are behind, and reaching forth unto those If you have tried and failed in your trying, things which are before, I press toward the mark remember, Jesus understands. If you are tempted [summit] for the prize of the high calling of God.” to give up the fight, remember, a Quitter never King David also expressed the same when he wins and a winner never quits. Take courage; 'Evangelist, New Mexico District you too can fly.

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (937) 5 intellect in tune with infinite wisdom can discern It Works Both Ways just what words to say and what words to leave unsaid. By J. Kenneth Grider* So if we pray, we must work; but if we work, we must pray. It works both ways. f w e pray— really pray— we must work. If we I meet with Him eye to eye, ear to ear, in secret, we will be thrust out into the open, to tell what “For God will have a holy people to serve we have seen and heard. If we seek His face in Him in holiness, a true people to serve Him the quiet place, we will be put on duty out where in truth, and in His Spirit, and in His new men’s swords clash loud; where their tinny hearts, and living way, above all the dead ways that bouncing about from one affection to another, cause a constant din; where noisiness is the key­ are come by sin and unrighteousness.”— note of human relations because each selfish heart George Fox. wants its own way. If we commune with Him in the solitary place, we will be ordered out into teeming cities, with INSURED-but “Too Late!” their four-story flats, housing men by the mil­ lions—men who need a Damascus road confron­ tation and a personal Pentecost. If we plead By Verdean Owens* with Him about the lost, we will be catapulted e h a d been intending to take out insurance, out to where the lost are, there to plead with but waited too long. Due to our waiting them about Him. If we intercede for unsaved W just a little too long, we came out of the hospital individuals insistently, He will soon have us re­ deeply in debt and were put into an extremely quiring of ourselves that we win souls— even the difficult financial situation as a result of neglect. souls who are still indifferent after we have Oh, yes, people had warned that we would sought their salvation the tenth, the twentieth, be sorry, but we just didn’t feel like taking out the hundredth time. the insurance right then. In a few weeks our But it is also true that if we work—really financial picture would be better; then we would work—we must pray. It is possible to go from send word to the insurance agent to come and house to house, or from one assigned address complete the policy. Yes, we had good intentions, to another, for the Sunday school, with our minds but we were not prepared when we needed that full of this and that in the here and now; but insurance. if we pray, the world above the world takes It took only one lesson to show me the folly increasing precedence over the world. It is pos­ of putting off the things that I had been told sible to teach the Sunday-school lesson, week were for my protection in the days to come. “In after week, concerned more with what the mem­ such an hour as ye think not”—I immediately bers of the class think about us than with what took care of this matter. they think about Christ; but if we pray, we are This is much like some of the folk who will able to put Christ into the front seat while we attend revival and regular services week after ride in the trunk, lid down—unseen, unsung, week, year after year. They will reply, when unswerving. It is possible to deliver our talks asked to take out eternity insurance, “Oh, yes, and sermons perfunctorily: without unction, I know that I should, but not right now.” Then without urgency, without heart; but if we pray, when they hear the words, “Today is the day; perfunctoriness gives way to power, human tomorrow may be too late,” still they put it off. manipulation to heavenly manifestation, the take- Recently, I was called to minister to a family it-or-leave-it attitude to the take-it-or-else, de­ in which tragedy had struck. The father had cision-producing spirit; jellyfish passivity to had many opportunities to get right with God, genuine passion. but had refused. Then one day tragedy came It is possible for us to work for Christ with to his home and he had nothing to help him improper motives, with un-Christlike spirit, and through that tragic hour. He made the sad with words that have no weight. If we pray, our mistake that many are making even today. He m otive in Christian work tends to be right; we said, “Now I will do something about my sal­ will be working for the good of souls, as ends vation”; but, when the shock of the tragedy wore in themselves, rather than for the egotism which off, he soon forgot about fixing up his insurance increased statistics make possible. If we pray, papers. He failed to get his name “written in our spirits are more and more Christlike; we are the Lamb’s book of life.” more gentle when rebuffed, more patient when Yes, it is one thing to see the need of salva­ ignored, more humble when successful. If we tion and quite another thing to say, “Today is pray, our words more and more become sacra­ the day,” and do something about our souls’ sal­ mental gifts from heaven; for although by read­ vation. Let us not neglect until it is too late. ing and sitting out lectures we might prepare Heed the warning and let the Christ of Calvary our minds for the work we are to do, only an write your name in His book, with the Blood that was shed for you. 'Associate Professor of Theology, Nazarene Theological Sem­ in ary ‘ Pastor, Farmland, Ind.

6 (938) HERALD OF HOLINESS welcome, instead of blocking the aisles and exits Come to Worship! with little cliques of special friends. We read, ‘‘To every thing there is a season, and a time By Louis McCurdy* to every purpose under the heaven” (Eccles. 3:1). It seems better to find time to be sociable Where is he that is born King of the Jews? with our friends in their homes, or ours. It seems for we have seen his star in the east, and are more becoming to preserve the spirit of rever­ come to worship him (Matt. 2: 2). ence in the place of His sanctuary.

a r o u t across those Eastern deserts the wise Would to God that the whole wide world would F men saw that star hanging in the western follow that God-given desire to worship their sky. They seemed to know that it was a sign Messiah. We thank God for these examples, from heaven. Some of the Jews, scattered over who overcame the obstacles of time and distance the lands of the East, had probably read to them to find, and worship, the Christ. We thank God from the Hebrew Scriptures of the coming today for prepared gifts that represent sacrifices. Messiah, who was to be the Bright and Morn­ We pray God to preserve more of a spirit of ing Star. God possibly gave them an inner reve­ reverence in His house. lation that the star was His star to guide them to His birthplace. They would naturally expect that the birth of the Son of God into this world KNOWING GOD would be accompanied by some demonstration of nature. By Ila R. Monday As their camels jogged across those limitless desert wastes, from one oasis to the other, they The sky was bright and the moon was still, must have known that their goal was the land And the clouds were clustered on top the hill; of Palestine, the homeland of the Jews. Each The peace of nature and my heart’s brim night the star which hung in the western sky Were overflowing, and I thanked Him— may have seemed a little closer, to assure them Knowing God . . . that their destination was drawing nearer day by day. It would furnish them with needed in­ Then came a day where there was no peace, spiration to face the desert winds and the drift­ When heavy care weighed to swift increase; ing sands o f tom orrow. The sky was black and there was no sun; My heart wept tears—but the day was won— In Jerusalem, these men with a spiritual hun­ Knowing God . . . ger testified that they had come to worship Him that was born King of the Jews. The Spirit of God must have placed in their hearts that An invalid for ten years insists— desire to worship. That desire was great enough to impel them on to Bethlehem until they found the Christ. I Would Rather Go to Church! The worship of these wise men had the quality of sacrifice. Certainly with them, there would By Harold Peters* be no hasty scramble after some loose change o m e h o w the arguments against going to church after the ushers began to pass the plates. These do not appeal to me as much as they once offerings were planned and prepared before they S did. Some people say one can hear better sermons had left the East. They were gifts that repre­ on the radio than in church. They say one can sented sacrifice. They were gifts that had an worship God in nature as well as in church and Old Testament meaning, further evidence that that it is more important to catch up on lost sleep these men had been taught by the Jews in the than to go to church with a bunch of hypocrites. lands of the East. To show their recognition of Him as King, High Priest, and atoning Saviour But none of these arguments are as plausible respectively, they presented unto Him gifts— to me now as they once were. gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. They were I will still agree that there are better sermons no modernists. Their gifts became their testi­ on the radio than in our church—but not very monies to the divinity of Christ, and indicated many. I have listened to tape recordings of our their complete trust in His atonement. church services and I think I can honestly say These wise men were reverent in the house that we have had some mighty fine sermons in of the Christ child. Their greetings to Mary and our church. However, I miss the sense of par­ Joseph must have been brief and are not re­ ticipation that comes from singing hymns and corded. Thei/ came to worship. All else was sus­ reading responsive readings right in church. pended until the worship period was over. Of course, I have not completely lost fellowship Let us follow the example of those Eastern with our church members. A group from our worshipers. They put us moderns to shame. Let church has had Sunday discussions in my home. us limit our visitation in the foyer to a few brief I think one of the finest things about Sunday greetings, mostly to visitors. Let us talk a minute school is that it gives each individual an oppor­ to that occasional visitor and make him feel tunity to put his ideas into words and to have

'Nazarene Elder, Kelowna, B.C. ‘ Walton, Kansas

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (939) 7 these ideas challenged by other members of the would arrange my schedule so I could appear class. And always some of the best ideas come in church in a refreshed condition and thus be after the discussion period has ended—but that prepared to receive the greatest possible bene­ is the way human nature operates. fits. I urge people to appreciate the value and By sharing our ideas in Sunday-school discus­ great privilege of church attendance. It should sions, we are doing a small part in helping carry not be necessary to have to give up a privilege out Christ’s great commission. By sharing our before it is appreciated. faith we increase our faith. We cannot afford I I to coast in our Christian life. We either increase i r our faith or we allow it to fade away. One of the most important things I have learned Tell It Not... Publish It Not during the time I have been bedfast is the value of Christian fellowship. I wish now that I had By Wayne M. Butchart* taken a more active part in Sunday-school dis­ ' I ’he m ighty had fallen — King Saul was dead. cussions while I could still go to church. The one who had stood head and shoulders One of my friends who seems to despise fel­ above the others; a man good to look upon, a lowship says he no longer goes to our church man whom God had anointed prophet and King— because the people there gossip so much after had fallen. He had fallen first into disobedience, church services. Perhaps a small minority do then into backsliding, then to apostasy, and gossip. Personally, I think the great majority finally into a suicide’s grave. of church people are genuinely concerned about Recorded in the first chapter of Second Samuel, one another’s welfare, materially and spiritually. we have David’s lament of this terrible tragedy. These concerned individuals are alert for oppor­ He cries, “How are the mighty fallen!” (v. 19.) tunities to tactfully direct the conversation of He then gives utterance to the wisdom of God gossips into higher channels. when he proclaims, “Tell it not in Gath, publish Our pastor has brought groups of young people it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daugh­ to sing for me and it is a joy to hear them. They ters of the Philistines rejoice.” may not be so highly trained as the radio singers When in his lifetime Saul had bitterly sought but they certainly are sincere and enthusiastic. to take David’s life, and there had come oppor­ I have started praying for these young people. tunities to do evil in return— even to the taking I pray that our pastor will guide them rightly of Saul’s life—David had cried, “The Lord forbid as they walk in newness of life through their that I should . . . stretch forth mine hand against Saviour and Lord, Jesus Christ. I pray that they . . . the anointed of the Lord.” His attitude to­ will find the Christian solution to all their prob­ wards God’s man—though his enemy and rival— lems. They have given me so much enjoyment was the same after death as it was before. He that I surely believe that I should give them expressed it thus: “Touch not mine anointed, whatever support I can by praying for them. It and do my prophets no harm.” God’s Word is is encouraging to note the optimism with which clear: keep your hands and tongue off those these young people are assuming responsibilities whom God hath chosen. in the life of the church and the community. Some men of spiritual might and stature still I am glad that I live on a farm, where I can fall. The great and the small of the Kingdom listen to the singing of birds and watch the grow­ get their armor down and are a prey to the ing of trees. Watching God’s laws in operation enemy, but God’s Word still stands: “Tell it gives one a feeling of awe and a sense of God’s not . . . publish it not . . . lest the daughters of power. The creative imagination is stimulated the Philistines rejoice.” Why give the enemy when one is alone with God in nature. But no an even greater victory? Does not the spreading one who wants to live the fullest spiritual life of such news sometimes come under the scrip­ would want to be a hermit. tural term of “idle words”? Surely God’s people There may be times when physical exhaustion do not spread and publish such news maliciously is a legitimate excuse for staying home from and with relish—not God’s people. It must be church and sleeping (not sleeping in church). in our “idle words”—to make talk—that we fall Emergencies arise in which doctors, firemen, and into this evil. But we shall give an account of other people work to the point of exhaustion. each idle word at the Judgment. Such people probably should restore their phys­ May we be sensitive to the checks of the ical energies as soon as possible, even if it re­ Spirit. May we hear Him say, “Tell it not . . . quires sleeping instead of going to church. The publish it not . . . ” ; and further, “If a man Bible says that “they that wait upon the Lord be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, shall renew their strength.” This seems to in­ restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; dicate that there are times when we need to rest considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” and let God through nature restore our normal Here is a good test of our spirituality—Do we exuberance. Certainly God wants us to co­ endeavor to restore or report? If we would operate with the rules of health. practice true spirituality in this way, no doubt After being forced to stay at home for ten many who stumble could be saved from the years, I do not think I would let any ordinary final, fatal fall. excuse keep me away from church. I think I “Pastor, McMinnville, Ore.

8 (940) HERALD OF HOLINESS of Thee.” The sweet, tender wooings of the The Mathematics of the Cross heavenly Lover continue, and love finally wins the victory and that heart joyously declares it By E. Wayne Stahl* desires, “None of self,” but only all of Christ! Oh, the joy and wonder of demonstrating the i d i t ever occur to you that the central letter mathematics of the Cross! D of the word sin is the “perpendicular pro­ noun” ? Might this not suggest that “self” is the root of “the sin question”? The secret of Christian triumph is the believer’s TELL WHAT YOU KNOW surrender of self to Christ, in faith, for cleansing and power. Then that believer experiences the By Clara M. Morrison glory of those two words more than once used D o yon know the joy of worship? by St. Paul, “In Christ,” which has been called Then tell it to a friend. the Apostle’s “monogram.” Personality is not Have you sensed the Saviour’s presence, destroyed, but the “i” of “sin” is transmuted into At day’s dawn or at day’s end? the “ i” of Christ. Is your heart a little lighter Then the sanctified one, in his testimony to For this comfort hour by hour? victory, can say, “I am crucified with Christ: Then tell this message often— nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth Tell of Christ’s redeeming power. in me” (Gal. 2:20). That happy one is “in Christ,” and Christ is in that one. Then he hears the Have you found some bit of beauty Lord Jesus saying to him, “All things are yours.” In the gospel’s holy Word? This is the mathematics of the Cross. Is there comfort, joy, or courage In the science of numbers, the minus sign is a In some thought there read or heard? small horizontal line - ; it is what we meet as Then tell it to another— we study subtraction. In coming to Jesus for Do not let it idle lie; holiness we make an everlasting, complete sur­ For every praise so spoken render of ourselves and everything we have called Leads to Jesus: lift Him high! our own, to Him. We must be crucified unto the world. So it was with the evangelist. He had such joy, glory, and triumph as a Christian that Sweet Hour of Prayer a lady said to him, “I would give the world to have an experience like yours.” By Mrs. John Nix, Jr.* He replied, “That is just what I had to give.” O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt He had placed the minus sign on the perpen­ his name together (Ps. 34: 3). dicular “i” of his being. What resulted? A cross T a t e o n e afternoon in March the storm clouds + . He found that this was also the plus sign! were moving our way; the wind had been Making Christ first in his life, he realized the high and blustery all day. I walked out on our trueness of Jesus’ promise, “All these things shall front porch and stood for a moment looking at be added unto you” (Matt. 6:33). Thank God the dark, angry clouds. for this heavenly arithmetic! A beautiful sound came floating my way— One of the things “added” is spiritual victory. the chimes of a church across the way were The triumphing of the Roman general, Constan­ sending out the song “Sweet Hour of Prayer.” tine, seems an allegory of the soul’s conquests. As I stood and listened, this thought came to me. He was a pagan, marching with his army to con­ I looked up and whispered, “Thank God, thank tend with an opposing force. As the story goes, God, this is just the way it is in the storms of he saw in the sky a great cross with these words life.” Heartaches, sorrows, disappointments, anx­ above it, “In hoc signo vinces,” “By this sign thou iety over sick loved ones, and all the things that shalt conquer.” That very day he decided to be­ come along, we don’t understand; but we can come a Christian, and took the cross as his steal away to God in prayer. He sees and under­ standard. In the battle of Milvian Bridge that stands and gives us strength to come through the followed he was completely a victor. storms of life. He never has failed to come to In the warfare of the soul, so shall it always me in time of need. be. As we “make the cross our watchword,” it Then as I turned to walk back into the house, is indeed the “sign of triumph.” In ten thousand there on the side lawn were beautiful white and times ten thousands of cases this has been found purple Easter lilies blooming, standing through true. The splendor of this fact glows in that the stormy winds and rain. Certainly if God lovely hymn where at first the Saviour’s pity cares for the sparrow and the lilies, what have I pleads in vain as the proud heart declares, “All to worry about? I am His child; He is my Heaven­ of self, and none of Thee.” But the Holy Spirit ly Father; He is my All in All; He cares for me. works on that rebellious heart and it yields to When I go to Him in the sweet hour of prayer, the extent where it says, “Some of self, and some what have I to fear?

‘ Nazarene Elder, Lowell, Mass. ‘ Tuscaloosa, Ala.

DECEMBER 7. 1955 (941) 9 When there is a contradiction between the pro­ WHAT OTHERS SEE fession and practice of parents, children are confused. When they are caught between con­ By Margaret Bogart flicting precepts and practices, children will imi­ tate their parents’ acts rather than their teachings. Before the rock, the congregation gathered Precept is abstract but practice is concrete. Usu­ While Moses lifted in his hand the rod; ally it is what we do that we really mean. The He smote it twice and water came out freely, child is taught more by the living example than But—it was what he said that displeased God! by any other method. The inconsistencies of parents have unconsciously but surely turned “So, must WE fetch you water out of this rock?” many a child into a life of faithlessness and sin. A weary, tired, downhearted Moses cried. Concepts are caught as well as taught. Teach­ Then there came the Lord’s voice, “You believed ing goes on in the home whether parents are Me not; conscious of this fact or not. In Israel’s sight, I was not sanctified!” The atmosphere of the home is a predominant 0 dear Lord, we humbly bow low at Your feet, influence in molding the pattern of a child’s life— Lest in our zeal we speak impatiently the attitudes of parents toward each other, of And someone watching us— tho’ weary we may members of the family to neighbors, to relatives, be— to in-laws, to agents, to the schoolteacher, to Say, “Is this the Master’s spirit that I see?” the minister. The family that spends its Sunday dinner hour criticizing the pastor will live to Help us to sanctify You, Lord; in all we do regret its folly. Careless criticism of those who To give You honor, glory, and acclaim— represent the church will place high hurdles in That others too may see and know Your power the pathway of the child’s acceptance of Christ. And praise forever Your dear, matchless name! Parents’ acts at home are more significant than their words at church. Parents can hide God from their children instead of introducing God to them. The nurture of a child’s soul is as much a HE Killed His Children! stewardship as the care of his body and mind. Good parents willingly spend the money neces­ By Earl C. Wolf* sary to feed, clothe, and educate their children. Likewise, there is a price to be paid to see our I saw a man destroy his children. children converted and nurtured in the Christian faith. In that price the highest figure is that of No, he didn’t go berserk and shoot them, he vital, consistent living. The most effective audio­ didn’t poison their food, he didn’t strangle them visual in the world is a holy life. as they lay sleeping in their beds. He tragically destroyed their confidence in that which was This truth is not to discount every other method high and holy and left them to wander on with­ parents might use to leave the Christian imprint out the inner life of faith, dead in trespasses and upon their children. Christianity must be caught sins. and taught. There should be grace at mealtime, family worship, attendance at Sunday school and This man did not indulge in wrong and ques­ church, family recreation, Christian literature tionable practices. He did not drink, smoke, and art, and other means of direct and positive swear, gamble, play cards, or go to the movies. teaching. He was regular in his church attendance. He repeatedly witnessed to his faith and was gen­ The first three principles, however, in teaching erous in his giving. He worked hard, made Christianity are: money, and provided well for the material needs Live it— “In all things shewing thyself a pattern of his family. of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorrupt­ This father, however, nullified the effective­ ness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that can­ ness of his deliberate testimony by the uncon­ not be condemned; that he that is of the contrary scious influences of his daily life. He testified part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to to love but expressed hate, to peace but en­ say of you” (Tit. 2:7-8). gendered strife, to the exaltation of Christ but Live it— “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things vaunted himself, to submission but showed will­ are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatso­ fulness, to forbearance but practiced intolerance, ever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, to deep spirituality but evidenced shallowness, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things to loyalty but spread distrust. He set forth two are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if standards— one of the lips and the other of the there be any praise, think on these things” (Phil. life. 4:8). The family is the first school of Christian liv­ Live it— “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, ing—first in point of time and first in importance. peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, ‘ Director of Adult W ork and Christian Family Life, Department meekness, temperance: against such there is no of Church Schools law” (Gal. 5:22-23).

10 (942) HERALD O F HOLINESS Social Security for Ministers

Tust recently we mailed out our first ship- Social Security (and it seems to us that •' ment of insurance policies, covering over should include all active ministers) to send 1,700 ministers in the church. These $1,000.00 in their “waivers” immediately and report group insurance policies were sent to those to our office. A free insurance certificate who have indicated their participation in will be forwarded to you upon the comple­ Social Security as ministers. The premiums tion of your file. are being paid by the church. We are de­ We regret the loss of one of our good lighted that so many ministers have already ministers who died just recently, but we are responded. delighted that he had had the wisdom and It is greatly advantageous to begin par­ foresight to complete his Social Security ticipation in Social Security in 1955. If one file in our office, and we are mailing his wife waits until the second year of grace, namely, the first insurance check given under this 1956, to begin participation, he will lose new plan. four free drop-out years given by the gov­ “Waivers,” cards, and letters of instruc­ ernment to ministers beginning in 1955. It tion have been mailed to all of our elders will, therefore, take until 1961 to obtain the and licensed ministers. If you have not re­ same advantageous protection as could be ceived yours, a duplicate set will be mailed had by the middle of 1956. So we urge all upon request. of our ministers who plan participation in Please may we hear from you before the Christmas rush?

T. W. W illingham , Executive Secretary BOARD OF PENSIONS

imaginary sinking fund. God main­ Saturday: tains a vast “fool fund” of mercy and “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” understanding love on which He lets And remember that even the Judge us draw. When we go to Him having of all the earth, who has all the facts, (yf THOUGHTJ done our best and made a mess of does His rebuking kindly and gives things, He meets us with healing and every man the benefit of the doubt. the promise to overrule—though per­ haps with the words, “Why not pray Sunday: ( BY BERTHA MUNRO J (for wisdom) first?” “Love covereth.” Old Thomas Browne wrote that there is a naked­ ness of mind and spirit which needs Wednesday: UPBRAIDETH NOT" covering more than the nakedness of Our God has gracious ways. I his body. It is this protecting of a (Jas. 1:5) would be like Him. The enemy’s way brother’s spirit from the cruel re­ is to hit a man when he’s down; we proaches of Satan and self which Monday: can recognize him by his bad man­ would rob him of heart and courage So many calls, so many conflicting ners. God is always the Lifter-up of to go on—that Jesus recommends to voices; so many theories, so many humble heads. If we will straighten us. “Perfect, . . . as your Father questions; so many demands, and all our shoulders, He will see to it that which is in heaven,” in this “cover­ seem equally pressing—there is a our faces can look into His, un­ ing” skill? confusion of mind where even the ashamed. next step is not plain, where you • • • would give the world to see priorities Thursday: clearly. “Upbraideth not.” When we have Music Memoettes: The enemy whispers, “You’re sinned and come for directions to get cracking up”; or, “No sanctified per­ on the right path again—“He hath not Did you know that, on a recent poll son would be in this fix.” God’s word dealt with us after our sins”; there carried on by the Los Angeles Bible comes, “Lack wisdom? Ask. Plenty! stands the Father with open arms. Institute Hour, “The Old Rugged No blame. He ‘upbraideth not.’ ” Of When the enemy calls us slow in Cross” still remains the listeners’ course you should have remembered achieving and stupid in planning for favorite? The hymns are listed in sooner; the devil said a half-truth. the Kingdom—He “hath long pa­ order of preference: But the best of it is, God doesn't tience.” 1. The Old Rugged Cross scold us for being stupid. 2. The Love of God Friday: 3. What a Friend We Have in Jesus Tuesday: . “Gracious and full of compassion" 4. I Come to the Garden Alone One practical institution of our —some of His ways He recommends 5. Amazing Grace family is the “fool fund.” Hypotheti­ to us. “If a man be overtaken in a 6. It Is No Secret cal, of course; no money is actually fault, . . . restore.” Help him back, 7. I’d Rather Have Jesus lying in reserve to take care of ex­ upbraiding not, giving him courage 8. Beyond the Sunset penses one of us incurs by some sense­ to hold up his head, knowing how 9. Great Is Thy Faithfulness less mistake. But it soothes our spirits you would feel—and remembering 10. Rock of Ages to recall at the critical moment this how God does it for you. —O v e i l a S . S h a f e r , Plaiiwille, Kansas

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (943) 11 Ten Aspects of Entire Sanctification

VIII. The Abiding Comforter Sanctifies Editorials e m e m b e r , the subject is stated thus, “The A bid­ R ing Comforter Sanctifies.” The Comforter, as the personal Representative of the resurrected, ascended Christ, comes to live in our hearts, to abide with us. He doesn’t come as a visitor, with a suitcase or two, and with a plan to stay a week or so. Neither does He move in as a renter. You don’t agree to let Him have the house of your rupting this arrangement. We can drive the abid­ heart for only a while, on certain conditions. That ing Comforter, the Comforter who has come to isn’t what is meant here. The H oly Spirit is to be abide with us forever, from our hearts by sin. the abiding Comforter. He moves into your per­ That can easily be done. He will not live within sonality, your life, as Possessor; His every inten­ the heart that gives itself to sin. tion is to live there from then on. “If ye love me, So, while we have talked much about the abid­ keep my commandments. And I will pray the ing Comforter, and the fact that this is no tem­ Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever” (John 14: porary arrangement, that He has come in to stay, 14-15). that He has bought the house, we do not mean at all you cannot, as a free moral agent, drive Him I remember that a certain young woman came out of your heart. Remember, God gives no per­ to live with me, after a ceremony was performed, son an absolute guarantee of entrance into and we were pronounced man and wife; and for heaven, or of any salvation state, or even stand­ more than forty years we have lived together. ing, as long as he is in this life. From the be­ She took up her permanent residence with me. ginning to the end, it is a partnership affair, and Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my command­ what God does always hinges on how we act. ments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall He never breaks the contract himself, but we can give you another Comforter, that he may abide break it; and the moment we do, it’s all off, and with you for ever.” He, the blessed Comforter, is gone. “If ye love me, It will no longer be an in-and-out or up-and- keep my commandments. And I will pray the down experience; it will be a settled, established Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, experience. There is nothing else that can quite that he may abide with you for ever” (John 14: compare with turning yourself completely over 14-15). to the Holy Spirit forever, and thus giving to Him Finally, the Abiding Comforter sanctifies; His the privilege of becoming the permanent Owner indwelling presence drives out the sin-nature. and Indweller of your personality. But someone may say: “You’d better be care­ ful, you are liable to teach ‘eternal security.’ All that you have said might be misunderstood by Keys to the Acts of the Apostles some. They might think you mean by all that you have said, by your interpretation of this scripture, that once you are sanctified, you can never back­ II. The Key Prophecy slide; once the Comforter has come into your heart to live, there can be no more separation e n t e c o s t , as described in the second chapter from G od.” P of Acts, was the Church’s greatest experience. No, that is not what the Scriptures teach, and In fact, we look more to it as the inauguration of that is not what this verse means; that is not what the Church than to anything else that happened I have intended to teach. It might be so inter­ in New Testament times. This great event of preted if that which the Holy Spirit had moved Pentecost did not come upon God’s people un­ into was a material something; but that is not awares. There were prophecies which gave fore­ the case. He has moved into a person, a creature gleams of it. We turn now to these prophecies, who is a free moral agent, who is on probation as emphasizing especially the “key prophecy.” long as he is in this life. From His standpoint, He The first prophecy mentioned is given in these has moved in to stay forever; He has no intention words: “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, of leaving. He is happy with the sale, the contract, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my and expects to carry it out to the last; but He spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine can fulfill His part of the bargain only if you offspring: and they shall spring up as among the fulfill yours. He will never slip off, or go away grass, as willows by the water courses” (Isa. 44: of His own will; but He will depart if you insult 3-4). Isaiah gives in these words at least a hint Him, if you choose that which is not in accordance of the coming Pentecost. with His will. So, from God’s standpoint, no Ezekiel is more definite in what he presents: “I provision is made for any leave-taking; but from will give them one heart, and I will put a new your standpoint, there is the possibility of dis­ spirit within you; and I will take away the stony

12 (944) HERALD O F HOLINESS and reads as follows: “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be de­ heart out of their flesh, and will give them an livered: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall heart of flesh: that they may walk in my statutes, be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and remnant whom the Lord shall call.” they shall be my people, and I will be their God” (Ezek. 11:19-20). This is a glorious description At Pentecost, as all of us know, Peter became of the experience that comes to the Christian who the man of the hour. He took the platform and is baptized with the Holy Ghost. Ezekiel gives answered those who, in amazement, asked, “What another passage, which is especially marked by meaneth this?” and also those who mocked, say­ beauty and significance, as a prophecy of Pente­ ing, “These men are full of new wine.” Here is cost: “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, what he said: “Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new hearken to my words: for these are not drunken, heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of I put within you: and I will take away the stony the day. But this is that which was spoken by the heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an prophet Joel.” Then he gives the quotation which heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within I have already presented from Joel. Had this not you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and been the “key prophecy,” Peter certainly would ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And not have used it on the Day of Pentecost. By ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your quoting it then he doesn’t rule out the other proph­ fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will ecies concerning Pentecost, but he does exclude be your God” (Ezek. 36: 25-28). Nothing short of them as the “key prophecy.” “This is that which Pentecost could fulfill what is described here. was spoken by the prophet Joel.” At last the ful­ fillment had come, and Peter, who knew the Old The New Testament also has its prophecies of Testament, was sure that this prophecy in Joel Pentecost. Listen to these words: “In the last had been fulfilled for him and for the others who day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and made up the 120. cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the SUCCESS Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; R ecently I came across a quotation from Henry because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” (John A'- Ford. He said: “Coming together is a be­ 7:37-39). Very definitely this points to Pentecost, ginning; keeping together is progress; working which was to be realized only after the death, together is success.” “Coming together is a be­ resurrection, and ascension of Jesus. Then the ginning,” but is it always even a beginning? glorified Christ was to bestow the Holy Spirit Sometimes people come together by accident; upon His followers—Pentecost was to become a they just happen to come together. This is true realization. of a crowd on a streetcar or a bus, or on a crowded In the Gospel of John we have this verse: “And street in a big city. They have come together, when he had said this, he breathed on them, and but they have no common interests, they are not saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost” going to the same place. They are together geo­ (20:22). Most interpreters do not think of this graphically; but psychologically, and in every as a present realization, but rather as a prophecy other way, they are often many miles apart. There of what was to com e— that is, of Pentecost. It is isn’t much that could be thought of as success in in the same class as Acts 1:8, where Jesus says: such groups. Sometimes even congregations in “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy churches are little more than gatherings; they Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses are not there with much common interest or pur­ unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, pose. Coming together, I think we’d better say, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of may be a beginning; on the other hand, it may the earth.” Like John 20: 22, this verse may be not be. thought of as a prophecy as well as a promise. “Keeping together is progress.” I think we But the “key prophecy” of Pentecost has not have more right to say that “keeping together is yet been given. This is found in Joel 2:28-29 progress,” than to say that “coming together 'is

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (945) 13 a beginning.” It really means something for ration, hard feelings, and hurts that perhaps may people to keep together. In order for them to do never be overcome. “Keeping together is prog­ this, there must usually be something they have ress.” in common. I remember hearing a missionary But the real success, as Mr. Ford indicates, is say that missionaries would get more reward in when we are “working together.” The true basis heaven for getting along with one another than of love for one another is a common task. It mat­ for what they did on the mission field. I do not ters not how strong our love may be for one think this holds good universally for missionaries another, if we are idle, it is likely to vanish. We by any means, but still it suggests something for need to give expression to our love by working us to think about. Keeping together is often much together. There’s where the success comes. Many less easy than we think. of us heard Dr. R. T. Williams tell the story about We catch this truth in connection with music the hunting dogs. They started out to hunt foxes. perhaps more than we do anywhere else. There At the first the dogs fought among themselves, we see how difficult it is sometimes for two in­ but finally one of them got on the trail of a fox struments to keep together, or for the fifty or and began to bark. The rest of the dogs knew seventy-five instruments of an orchestra to har­ what that bark meant, and they all got on the monize; it takes an immense amount of training trail. They were working together, they were in order for them to do it. Certainly, in such headed for something, they had a common task, cases, keeping together is progress. Sometimes and their fighting stopped. “Working together is churches fall apart, there is trouble, or worse success,” and success in the Kingdom is working still, perhaps an explosion, and the result is sepa­ together with God. gj HOME MISSIONS and EVANGELISM j

Those Revolving Dollars ROY F. SMEE, Secretary

i g h t e e n months of careful study and at the same time it will build bank would lend to the church. A and another six months of prepa­ churches all over the country. $15,000.00 loan has paid off the present Eration preceded the special June 5 What kind of churches are receiv­ mortgage and the other pressing ob­ offering for Church Extension, that ing the new amortized loans from the ligations. now amounts to $62,000.00. That of­ General Church Loan Fund? Many In the South, a congregation has fering and a special reserve trust fund loan inquiries have been received. A been worshiping in a basement for of $25,000.00 provide the base for the few have fully qualified and are now seven years. Feeling they must do General Church Loan Fund and a using their loans. These are exam­ something more, they began work on great step by the Church of the ples: the superstructure. They strained Nazarene. As set up in the policy A church in the East has used a their own finances to the limit and established by the General Board, the house for its church services, with put $7,000.00 into the building, includ­ Loan Fund is now being built up the second floor as parsonage. To ing $3,000.00 borrowed. No loan com­ through deposits by individuals and provide better facilities, a church pany would help them with the churches. Each one receives for his building was started and the walls additional $7,000.00 they needed. A investment a note signed by the of­ are up and the roof on. The congre­ $10,000.00 loan has paid off the small ficers of the General Board. If the gation has gone as far as their money mortgage and they are completing the money is left with the fund for five and credit will take them. A loan of superstructure. Now the congrega­ years or more, interest is paid at the $10,000.00 from the General Church tion has an opportunity to grow and rate of 3’/2 per cent per annum, pay­ Loan Fund is enabling them to pay the monthly payments are within able semiannually. The interest rate off some construction debts, install their giving ability. is 3 per cent for a shorter loan. a furnace, and complete the basement A young church in eastern Canada Several new deposits with the fund in the new building. The property owns an old parsonage and a new are received weekly, and many in­ is valued at three times the amount church building with a total appraised quiries. We are anxious to receive of the loan. value of $50,000.00. Mortgages on the many more, so that the fund may be In the Southwest, a growing young properties amounted to $10,090.00 with rapidly built up in these early days. church in a booming residential area the church mortgage earning 7 per In fact, we are dependent upon these had a small, short-term loan that cent interest. The loan companies loans to provide the money for loans was due. Although there is excellent would not increase their mortgages for church buildings. We have re­ security, no bank would refinance to take care of the remaining $4,000.00 ceived loans from laymen, non-church the property. A loan of $9,000.00 has in construction costs, and the ma­ members, pastors, a district superin­ paid off the short-term loan and given terial dealers were pressing for their tendent, and a missionary. In loans the congregation enough to erect a money. A loan of $14,000.00 at 5 per and owned funds the General Church small Sunday-school annex. The cent interest, has paid off both mort­ Loan Fund has now increased to a property value is $40,000.00. gages and the other building debts. total of $120,000.00 in this short time. In the Midwest, a recently com­ Rental income from apartments in the A number of excellent loans, with pleted $50,000.00 church building had parsonage pay for all but $50.00 a adequate security but unable to se­ $15,000.00 in building debt, including month of the payments on the ten- cure a bank loan, are waiting now a mortgage of $11,500.00 held by a year loan. for their money. You can earn a Nazarene whose health necessitated In the West, a parsonage and al­ good interest rate on your money, the immediate return of his loan. No most completed church building are

14 (946) HERALD O F HOLINESS valued at $44,000.00. Mortgage and churches are not large in member­ its loan. building deists total $13,500.00, some ship, but have good finances and ex­ We have similar loans now ap­ of this in short-term loans. Every cellent security in property. The proved for which we have no funds effort to finance the indebtedness and closed doors for needed building available. Let your “rainy day” in­ secure funds to complete the building financing in their home towns had dis­ vestment save a church while it is failed and the future of the church couraged their people and put the earning you a splendid interest re­ was in jeopardy. A loan of $14,000.00 churches in a desperate condition. turn. We can use $50,000.00 in the on both properties has solved the After a thorough study, a loan from next three months. Your money is problem and the construction is now the General Church Loan Fund was safeguarded as carefully as in any being completed. A member of the granted, and has brought relief and banking institution. Write to the Di­ church gave $1,000.00 to the General release to these churches. Wonderful vision of Church Extension, 6401 The Church Loan Fund on the completion letters of gratitude have been re­ Paseo, Kansas City 10, Missouri, for of the loan. ceived. Each of these churches is additional information in making These are all safe loans. The now making monthly payments on your deposit.

FOREIG1 Missions )

REMISS REHFELDT, Secretary

New Addresses Christ. She has already sent her homeless people of Corozal. Thank Rev. & Mrs. Frank VanDevelder, husband-to-be a Bible. It is a sad you for the wonderful help and quick who have been in M exico City in parting, but we are praying that response to our need.—R o n a l d B i s h o p , language study, will be leaving for souls will be won for Christ as a re­ British Honduras. Bolivia about December 17. Their sult. Will you pray for this young address will be: Christian? She will have to stand Answered Prayer Rev. & Mrs. Frank VanDevelder alone except for God.—M e r r il B e n ­ We sincerely thank you for your Casilla 1056 n e t t , Japan. prayers during this time when Mary La Paz, Bolivia, S.A. has been sick. The Lord has definite­ ly touched her and she is now able Latest address for Sidney Knox is: THANK YOU— to be up most of the time. We feel Rev. Sidney Knox that it is just a matter of time until General Delivery From Mexico— she will be strong again. We are Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea I have received a great number of praying and believing that God will boxes of clothing, amounting to sev­ continue His work of healing.—E l m e r Temporary Address eral tons, which means that they S chmelzenbach , Africa. Mrs. Ruth Ainsworth, retired mis­ have come from many different mis­ sionary whose home is at 6355 North sionary societies and individuals, Continue to pray for Mary Schmel­ Oak Ave., Temple City, California, making it impossible for me to answer zenbach until her strength and health writes: them personally. are fully restored.—E d . “I am with my sister in Florida for The clothing has been a blessing. We would also like to report a November and December. I will be I believe that we can clothe two wonderful meeting with our workers going back to California the day after thousand people with what we have here on this district. I have been Christmas. My address here until on hand. We can still use plenty of working with them about holding on then is: clothing, for there are thousands to the new converts that come to the 201 North Lake Street that the tornadoes and floods left altar. As a result, last quarter my Avon Park, Florida” without any belongings. men reported that they had held 96 So that you will rejoice with those of their new converts. This quarter NOTICE that do rejoice, I must tell you that they were thrilled, as they were able Please do not send Christmas we now have more than one hundred to report another 104. In this all-out cards to the Foreign Missions adults converted, from the time of effort to hold our new converts we Office to be forwarded. A new, the tornado to this date; and at the have been blessed beyond all our up-to-date list of missionary Tampico church, where we had 80 expectation. We are thrilled with the addresses is free for the asking. in Sunday school, now we have 240, possibilities for the rest of the year. We will be happy to send you and from week to week the number The workers have better victory and one. grows. Glory to God! more interest in their work for the Forwarding Christmas mail Over 200 people slept and ate at Kingdom. Needless to say, I too feel involves a great deal of ex­ our church during the first days of a greater sense of His power than pense, as well as time, and we the disaster. Now we only have 80, as ever before.—E l m e r S chmelzenbach , do not have any budget set up the rest have found a way to secure Swaziland, Africa. to handle this expense. For late some boards to build a cover for changes, watch the H e r a l d o f them and their families. Please pray More from New Guinea H o l i n e s s . for them.— C a r l o s S t o p a n i , North I have just returned from several Mexican District. days spent in the Highlands area. It Prayer Request was a very enlightening trip and I A girl who has been with us two From British Honduras— feel we may be drawing nearer to years is leaving for home, at her Clothing is arriving for the hurri­ gathering sufficient information that parents’ command, to get married. cane relief. We are grateful and know will enable us to make a decision as The parents and the young man are our people will be greatly helped. to a mission location. Buddhist. Our hands seem to be tied, The rainy season has increased the I have found on the whole that the but the girl promises to stay true to inconvenience and need of the many administrative officers have been very

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (947) 15 co-operative in their attitude and difficult task. The language of Mores­ enough to make ourselves adequately suggestions. by is Motu and all conversation be­ understood and then get in good prac­ The terrific heat is quite a drain tween natives is in this dialect. Lan­ tice when we reach our mission lo­ on one’s strength but on the whole guage between European and native cation. we have felt wonderful, for which is mostly in English. Pidgin is used We are happy indeed to be in the we are very thankful. I’m sure the almost exclusively between Europeans service of the Master here, and we prayers that have followed us here and natives in the other territory, and covet your prayers for our under­ are holding us up over many difficult it is rather difficult to learn much takings. The need for the gospel here places. until you are where you can put it is staggering beyond imagination.— Studying pidgin English is a rather into practice. Perhaps we can learn S i d n e y K n o x , New Guinea.

The Spirit of the Christian L. J. DU BOIS, Secretary

T is a m a z i n g (and alarming) how of the standard.” Some of us have implant on the human heart the image much Jesus had to say about the become lost in the maze of regula­ I of His incarnate Son. The spirit of spirit of the man or woman of God. tions and externals until we have lost the Christian is the spirit of selfless­ Paul also put it on the list of the sight of the true nature of the re­ ness, of humility, of love, of long- six most important characteristics of ligion of Jesus Christ, a heart made clean and a spirit made right. suffering. It is not seeking position the exemplary Christian. The Psalm­ nor pulling others down. It is under­ ist cried out, “Create in me a clean Indeed, external things are involved in religion. A heart that has been standing and kind. It seeks to lift heart, O God; and renew a right spirit men and share with them the glorious within me.” It is vital to us today, touched by Christ will change the life one lives. But we must not be redemption that God has brought to also, that we look within our hearts them. It is not critical, never finding to see if in us there is a right spirit. content to allow the externals alone to be the judge of the force of one’s flaws in the attitudes and actions of Of course, it is much easier to use experience, for these can be dupli­ others. It seeks always to look at material yardsticks by which to de­ cated in many instances by those others through the same eyes that watch one’s own life. termine the measure of our spirit­ who have little semblance of religion. uality. It is much more convenient It is, after all, in the realm of the A spiritual religion that speaks in to place our emphasis in religion upon spirit that the real work of God is terms of the Holy Spirit living and the outer things: ceremony, duties, done. It is out of the heart that come dwelling in the human heart must patterns of service, and even upon the other issues of life. And once the speak much also of the work of God certain ethical principles. Why? Be­ heart is touched by the grace of which will be wrought on the human cause these things can be seen. We God, the entire inner man will re­ spirit. can put our finger upon them and ceive a transformation. Let us all seek to live exemplary say of one, “He lives up to the stand­ The spirit of the Christian is the lives and prove it by the spirit which ard,” or of another, “He falls short spirit of Christ. It is God’s desire to prevails in our lives day by day.

THE SUNDAY-SCHO&L LESSON

By J. GEORGE TAYLORSON Topic for December 18: The Prayer Life of Jesus Scripture: Luke 3:21-22; 4:42; 5:16; 6:12; 9:18, 28-29; 10:21-22; 11:1-13 (Printed: Luke 3:21-22; 4:42; 5:16; 6:12; 9:18, 28-29; 10:21-22; 11:1-4) G o l d e n T e x t : Ask, and it shall he sistent. He prayed briefly on occa­ seems not to be the sin of passion, given you; seek, and ye shall find; sions and spent all night in prayer as serious as that can be, but rather knock, and it shall be opened unto at other times. What He taught others the woeful ineffectiveness of our in­ you (Luke 11:9). about prayer, He exemplified in His dividual lives iri the presence of so If ever a person lived on this earth own life. Surely if He found it valu­ much unmet need. who, it would seem, did not need to able, necessary, and in fact indis­ As Jesus confronted the tempta­ pray, that person was Jesus. He pos­ pensable to pray, how much more do tion presented by human popularity, sessed all power and lived in perfect we! when the populace clamored to make harmony with the Father. It is just In the hour of His public consecra­ Him king, He prayed. There is no as true that the prayer habits of tion at His baptism, our Lord prayed. danger to the servant of God as Jesus were most regular and con- Here is where His public ministry threatening as that provided by pub­ began. How we need to pray that in Lesson material is based on International Sunday- lic acclaim. President Dwight D. School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for view of our world’s needs our lives Eisenhower is a living example of Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International will become a ministry for our Lord! Council of Religious Education, and is used by its the spirit of humility as revealed on permission. The most damaging sin of our day the eve of the Geneva Conference

16 (948) HERALD O F HOLINESS when he prayed for divine guidance, stand in need! Through prayer we receiving an answer. Christian hu­ thus giving to his nation new hope need to seek guidance in our homes mility does not consist in asking no and an added sense of security. The with our children, at work in our questions, but rather in asking them true spirit of humility never evades business, and in all the circumstances on our knees in the shadow of the responsibility by hiding behind false of daily living. Cross. The more intelligent answers, piety, but rather realizes that if we the stronger our faith. are to accomplish effective ends for It was while in the fellowship of In the crucial hour of Calvary, God we will need to receive wisdom prayer with His disciples that the Christ prayed. When life crowds in, and power through prayer. The ac­ most important question was raised: our backs are to the wall, and all complishment is not by us; no, in “Whom say the people that I am?” that is dear and close to our hearts the final analysis not by God alone, We too have our questions, and many begins to crumble, then when life but rather God's Spirit ministering times we find them related to our itself ebbs low, we too need to follow through us. Christian experience and the ways our Lord’s pattern and pray, “Father, On the eve of selecting and ap­ of God. Honest doubt is the threshold into thy hands I commend my spirit.” pointing His twelve disciples, the over which we may cross into a living As we pray, God’s will becomes all- Master went up into the mountain and faith. It is the humble mind probing important, and as we move out into continued all night in earnest prayer. for greater understanding that reach­ its stream we discover that life’s bur­ How perplexing is life for us! How es the firmer foundation. A whole­ dens become light. In the center of packed with baffling situations and some and active curiosity often exists His will we find rest for our souls, momentous decisions! If our Lord ex­ relative to the things of God’s king­ joy, and permanent happiness. “In perienced the necessity to intercede dom. In fact, it is only as we do all thy ways acknowledge him, and for guidance, how much more do we inquire that we have the promise of he shall direct thy paths.”

THE U t l S T I O l BOX

Q. Is it possible for a sanctified Conducted by Q. Did God the Father love human person to ever be lost? STEPHEN S. WHITE beings more than He loved His Son, A. Yes. So long as a person is on Jesus Christ? He gave His Son for the salvation of human beings. this earth he is on probation, and by mentioned: Son of man, Son of God, probation I mean that he is subject the mighty God, the everlasting Coun­ Wouldn’t this imply that He loved to temptation and still within reach of selor, the Prince of Peace, and the human beings more? falling, or backsliding, and finally be­ Lion of the tribe of Judah. A. No. God the Father did not love ing lost. No human being in this mankind more than He did God the world can get a state of grace which Q. In Acts 15.20, 29, among other Son. God the Father and God the Son makes it impossible for him to finally things, the Christians are commanded be lost and go to hell. At first John belong to the Trinity and the Trinity to abstain from the eating of blood. is based on a unity of substance which Wesley taught that a sanctified per­ Wouldn’t this mean that Christians involves a unity of love between son could not backslide, but he today should not eat liver or liver Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that is changed his view on this. He saw concentrates, since their content is some backslide, and, being a realist, largely made up of the blood of the not found anywhere else. he did not try any longer to fool him­ animal? self into believing that they could A. The twentieth verse reads thus: not backslide. I would add, however, “But that we write unto them, that that the Christian who has been sanc­ they abstain from polutions of idols, Q. Does the Holy Spirit come into tified is not so likely to backslide, for and from fornication, and from things the heart of an individual as the abid­ he has been given a stability which strangled, and from blood.” Of these ing Comforter when that individual he did not have as a converted person. prohibitions Matthew Henry writes as is justified? follows: “From things strangled, and Q. Why is Jesus, our Lord, called from blood, which though not evil in A. No. When the individual is jus­ by so many different names? themselves, as the other two [pollu­ tified, he is also regenerated, or born A. One answer to this question is tions of idols and fornication], nor again, or born of the Spirit. The new that in the Bible names meant some­ designed to be always abstained from birth is the work of the Holy Spirit, thing. They were indications of the as those were, had been forbidden by but the Holy Spirit does not at that person’s nature and character. Jacob’s the precepts of Noah (Gen. 9:4), be­ time come into the heart in His full­ name was changed to Israel after his fore the giving of the law of Moses; ness, or as the abiding Comforter. experience at Peniel (Gen. 32:24-30) and the Jews had great dislike to John 14:15-17 clearly makes a dis­ because his nature was radically them, and to all those who took a tinction between being born of the changed by that experience. Christ liberty to use them; and therefore, Spirit and being filled with the Spirit. was called by many names because to avoid giving offense, let the Gentile It gives us these words: “If ye love He was such a many-sided Person, converts abridge themselves of their me, keep my commandments. And I He had so many characteristics as a liberty herein, I Cor. 8:9, 13. Thus will pray the Father, and he shall person. As Jesus, He was Saviour; as we must becom e all things to all give you another Comforter, that he Christ, He was the anointed One, the men.” Forbidding the eating of things may abide with you for ever; even Messiah: as Emmanuel, He was “ God strangled was in the same class with the Spirit of truth; whom the world with us.” There were also other titles the eating or drinking of blood, for cannot receive, because it seeth him which were given to Him, each of the animal which died in that way not, neither knoweth him: but ye which had a significant meaning. still had the blood within its flesh, know him; for he dwelleth with you, Among these the following may be to a large extent. and shall be in you.”

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (949) 17 CHURCH NEWS Sunday-School Attendance Report Evangelist J. L. Woolman writes: "I will be in Indiana for a revival, District Last Year October Percentage February 15 to 26, and have February 1 to 12 open. I’d like to slate it in C anadian Z one that section, or between Oklahoma Canada Pacific ...... 1,106 105 and Indiana. Write me, 223 N. Ham­ M aritim e...... 1,023 mond, Bethany, Oklahoma.” 95 Districts not reporting; Canada Central, Canada West

Evangelist George Brannon writes: Southern Z one “Unforeseen circumstances make Kansas C ity ...... 9,473 108 available the following revival dates San Antonio ...... 3,679 3,964 108 for 1956: a good winter date, Feb­ Dallas ...... 5,393 107 ruary 15 to 26; also a fine early spring Louisiana ...... 4,335 107 date, March 28 to April 8; and a still South Arkansas ...... 3,639 3,873 106 later spring date, May 23 to June 3. Houston ...... Write me at my home address, 125 3,728 104 N. Wheeler, Bethany, Oklahoma. Nebraska ...... 2,843 104 These are good days in revival work.” Southwest Oklahoma ...... 6,004 6,208 103 Kansas ...... 8,085 102 Southeast Oklahoma ...... 3,973 4,034 102 Evangelist C. V. Holstein writes: Northwest Oklahoma . “I will be in Florida after Christmas ...... 5,989 6,071 101 Abilene ...... and would be glad to accept a date 5,732 101 in January of ’56 near Ft. Lauderdale. Northeast Oklahoma ...... 3,998 3,989 100 Also, I have some open time after North Arkansas ...... 3,655 97 February 5. Write me at my new address, Route 2, Indian Lake, Vicks­ Southwest Z one burg, Michigan.” Northern California ...... 14,748 15,990 108 Southern California ...... 11,161 11,682 105 Arizona ...... 3,683 3,885 105 Waynesburg, Pennsylvania—For sev­ Los Angeles ...... eral weeks this summer we had the ...... 9,020 9,232 102 New Mexico ...... Musical Mitchells working with us, ...... 3,126 3,201 102 taking charge of the musical program Colorado ...... 6,334 6,290 99 in the regular services, choir, and N orthwest Z one youth work. After an absence of sev­ South Dakota ...... eral weeks they returned to sing in ...... 847 923 109 our recent revival meeting with Evan­ North Dakota ...... 1,737 1,816 105 gelist T. H. Stanley. The Mitchells Nevada-Utah ...... 893 895 100 are fine folks; Brother Lloyd is an Oregon Pacific ...... 7,253 7,192 99 accomplished soloist, and his wife, Idaho-Oregon ...... 6,179 6,122 99 Adelaide, is accomplished on the pi­ Rocky Mountain ...... 2,463 2,413 98 ano and organ; the trio of little Mitch­ Districts not reporting: Alaska, Minnesota, Northwest, Washington Pacific ells are a decided help to any meet­ ing. We appreciated their work very C entral Z one much. God used Brother Stanley to Eastern Michigan ...... 8,431 9,071 108 give one of the best revivals our Chicago Central ...... 5,494 5,919 108 church has had. His emphasis on Northeastern Indiana ...... 9,697 10,333 107 prayer and fasting helped to deepen Wisconsin ...... 2,494 107 the spiritual life of the entire con­ Central Ohio ...... gregation. He is a rugged preacher ...... 13,336 13,804 104 Southwest Indiana ... of truth, and God used him to stir ...... 9,359 9,642 103 the people, and a number of new Illinois ...... 9,070 103 people were converted and sanctified. Northwestern Illinois ...... 4,998 5,102 102 —R. B. Acheson, Pastor. Western Ohio ...... 14,380 14,281 99 Iowa ...... 6,701 96 Evangelists Harold J. and Mae Indianapolis ...... 8,292 93 Willis report: “The year of 1955 has Northwest Indiana ...... 5,252 4,715 89 been a good one with the blessings Districts not reporting: Michigan, Missouri of the Lord upon our work for Him. By Christmas we shall have con­ Southeast Z one ducted 20 campaigns in this our tenth Virginia ...... 3,359 107 year in the evangelistic field. We have Florida ...... 7,339 104 enjoyed worshiping and laboring with North Carolina ...... 3,639 3,794 104 each pastor and church. Recently we Tennessee ...... 8,659 103 had a good revival with Pastor and East Tennessee ...... 5,636 5,828 103 Mrs. John W. May, of Elk River Alabama ...... 7,594 101 Church in Charleston, West Virginia. Eastern Kentucky ...... 5,463 5,435 99 On the closing Sunday there were 243 Mississippi ...... in Sunday school, and a goodly num­ 2,831 98 ber of young people found Christ at South Carolina ...... 4,679 4,512 96 the altar of prayer. In April of ’56 Districts not reporting: Georgia, Kentucky, West Virginia we have a meeting slated in Salem, Eastern Z one Oregon, and have April 18 to 29 open; Akron ...... w e’d like to slate this in the North­ 12,107 107 west. Also, we have some open dates Washington-Philadelphia ...... 10,467 11,098 106 for the fall of ’56. We carry the full Pittsburgh ...... 9,018 106 program. Write us, % our publishing Albany ...... 3,412 101 house, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, New York ...... 2.027 95 Missouri.” District not reporting:. New England

18 950) HERALD OF HOLINESS District Last Year October Percent

M iscellaneous North American Indian...... 1,018 1,127 110 Gulf Central ...... 171 116 69 Australia ...... 594 651 110 Hawaii ...... 494 616 125 Estimated Average for October, 1955...... 397,714 Increase over last year’s average...... 9,628 Chaplain L. A. Bevan writes from Percentage of increase...... 2.5% Mercer Island, Washington: E r w i n G. B e n s o n , Field Secretary “The nature of my present ministry is that of a transport chaplain. I am Evangelist Charles H. Lipker suggestion of Brother Corbett, mem­ assigned to the Military Sea Trans­ writes: “ I plan to be in California bers and friends joined in giving an portation Service (M STS). Our ships from January 1 through May 15, and offering of $150.00 to enable the pastor leave Seattle and carry both troops have open time for a full revival and family to attend the General and service dependents (women and meeting and a week suited to Youth Assembly next June.—Vern A. children) to Yokohama, Japan. We Week services. Write me, Box 2, Leonard, Pastor. Alvada, Ohio.” also carry troops to Inchon, Korea; Evangelist Haven Goodall writes: Whittier, Adak, and Kodiak, Alaska. Evangelist H. J. Felter writes, “I “I am now making up my slate for My most recent trips have been have an open date January 3 to 15, the fall of ’56, and also have some time aboard the USNS ‘General H. B. which I’ll be glad to slate with any still open for the winter and spring. Freeman’ since coming to this com­ church. Mrs. Felter travels with me I’ll be glad to go wherever the Lord mand last March, 1955. may open a door. Wife and I travel as evangelist, youth worker, and “Our troops load generally approxi­ pianist. Write me, Box 87, Leesburg, together, with house-trailer, and will mates 1,100 plus 250 to 300 depend­ New Jersey.” be glad to come for freewill offerings. Write me, 6850 West 115th Street, ents; this provides a very fertile field Evangelist Fred G. Stockton writes: Worth, Illinois.” for an evangelical Christian ministry. “The Lord gave us a good revival at It is certainly a privilege to repre­ Carlsbad, New Mexico, with some Dayton, Kentucky—Recently wc sent the church and Christ in this thirty souls praying through. At this enjoyed the greatest revival in the new type of ministry." writing we are in a battle for the history of this church. Rev. and Mrs. Lord with our church at Trinidad, Roy Turner were the special workers. Colorado. Rev. Ivan Gookin and God came upon every service, we family are great workers and burden had the largest attendance of any "I am writing you to let you know bearers. I have some meetings slated revival we ever have had, and there that I enjoy the periodicals so very on the New M exico District for 1956, were nine seekers at the altar on the much that you send me, including but have some open time I’ll be glad closing night. Finances came easily, the Herald of Holiness, the Other to slate as the Lord may lead. Write and the pastor received the largest Sheep, and Conquest. I am with a me, 1453 Third Street, Enumclaw, love offering in his fifteen years of ministry.—Roy Adams, Pastor. unit where there are only about twen­ Washington.” ty-five Americans. The opportunity is great, as are the responsibilities, Evangelist E. C. Tarvin writes: “We Rev. C. Neal Hutchinson writes: “After giving twenty-five years to of course. There is much wicked­ are glad to report victory in the har­ ness going on here in this vicinity, vest field for the Master. During re­ pastoral labors, we felt constrained cent weeks we have held meetings at by providence and the leadership of partly because of separation from Catlettsburg, Kentucky: Hammond, the Holy Spirit to enter the field of home folks and the tendency, there­ Indiana; Carthage, Kentucky; and full-time evangelism. Our pastoral fore, to be very lax and of very low Carthage Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. labors have been a ‘romance’ all the moral standards. I welcome with way; God has blessed us and the peo­ God gave some wonderful victories ple with whom we have labored. Our great anticipation the materials which in these meetings: altars filled time last two pastorates were with First you folks send me. and time again. At this writing I am Church, Cumberland, Maryland, and “I want to please God most of all. in Brooklyn, Indiana, and God is at First Church in New Bedford, blessing. Please pray for me.” Although it is very hard to know Massachusetts. Please pray for us, what the will of the Almighty is that we may win souls for God. We sometimes, yet still I am greatly en­ Evangelists Jack and Ruby Carter are building our slate for 1956, and couraged by the interest of these men write: “We have two open dates in have some open time in January. the early part of 1956: January 4 to Address us, % our publishing house, in caring about their souls’ salvation. 15 and February 1 to 12. We’ll be P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mis­ Even though they seem hard and glad to hear from any church needing souri.” unconvinced, yet there is a tender our services as preacher and singers. spot in their hearts, and I want to Write us, 609 N. Mueller Street, Pastor Munroe Burkhart reports: find that tender spot. Pray much Bethany, Oklahoma.” “We came to Alvin, Texas, on Sep­ for me that I will help these men to tember 1, after serving as pastor of find the Lord, the ones that do not Garrett. Indiana—R e c e n 11 y our the East Side Church in Waco for know Him. May God be pleased to church enjoyed a fine revival with more than six years. We had a fine keep me alive and strong, that I Rev. C. T. Corbett as evangelist, and group of people in Waco—seven re­ special music furnished by local calls and we did not lose one vote. might be at my best for Him, and I talent. A wonderful spirit prevailed, We have found some fine folks here do want to keep on reading and and the attendance throughout the in Alvin, and have seen the Sunday studying the Bible and the literature meeting was encouraging. As a result school go well over the one-hundred that you send me." of the plain, searching preaching of mark since we came. In September — Pfc. Paul W. P i e r c e truth, and the faithful ministry of the we had a good meeting with Evange­ Holy Spirit, several definite victories list Leila Dell Miller. We shall not were won for God at the altar. The soon forget her preaching and won­ people have been kind to us since derful spirit. God blessed and gave N a z a r e n e S e r v ic e Ir e n 's C o m m is s io n we came here in July, expressing fifty-five seekers at the altar. If you their love in many ways, including a have friends in or near Alvin, write \ R E CT0R very generous “pounding.” At the us.”

DECEMBER 7, 1955 (9511 19 Rev. G. W. Harrell, Jr., writes: Evangelist A. Ernest Collins writes: ANNOUNCEMENTS “For the past three and one-half “On last July 31 we completed an RECOMMENDATION — Rev. and Mrs. G. W. years it has been our privilege to pas­ enjoyable and fruitful ministry of Harrell entered the evangelistic field at the time tor our church in Great Falls, South almost three years with our church of our assembly. God has blessed their revival work Carolina. We have enjoyed the bless­ at New Market, Ontario. During this in a number of our churches. They carry the entire program of preaching, music, and children's ings of God and the church has made time the church was blessed with work. Mrs. Harrell is the former Alpha Hodge, who progress. Feeling God’s call upon our several good revivals, and we wit­ served as a song evangelist and children's worker hearts to do the work of an evange­ nessed a 20 per cent increase in mem­ in the evangelistic field before her marriage. They list, we have now given up our pas­ bership, in addition to splendid in­ have some open time in the early part of '56. Address them, 4235 Williamson Place, Cincinnati torate. My wife is the former Miss creases in the various departments. 23, Ohio.— D. W. Thaxton, Superintendent of South Alpha Hodge, who served for six Early in October we conducted a re­ Carolina District. years as song evangelist and chil­ vival in our church at Lake Placid, dren’s worker and was greatly used New York, where Pastor A. M. Bab­ of the Lord; she plays the piano, cock and his people are in a building WEDDING BELLS accordion, and Spanish guitar. We Miss Doris Thomas of Zurich and Kenneth Rue program. The last two weeks of of Plainville, Kansas, were united in marriage on sing solos and duets and carry the October we were in a campaign at November 6, in the Plainville Church of the Naza­ full program for revival services. We Wilmington, New York, where Rev. rene, with the pastor, Rev. Ralph E. Shafer, of­ are willing to go wherever the Lord Robert Ferris is the recently installed f ic ia t in g . may lead and we can be of service. pastor. Both of these churches were Thelma Pauline Gillespie and Harris Edward Moles Write us, % 4235 Williamson Place, the scenes of unusual blessing and were united in marriage on October 14, at First Cincinnati 23, Ohio.” spiritual reviving, with some out­ Church of the Nazarene in Pulaski, Virginia, with standing victories. God and the the pastor, Rev. A. T. Britt, officiating. Pastor Paul Vickers writes from church have given us a good slate in North Middletown, Kentucky: “Our the evangelistic field, and we have BORN— to Harley and Carol (Oulton) Bye of church recently closed a very success­ some time booked for ’56, but have Montreal, Qeubec, Canada, a daughter, Dorothy ful revival meeting with Evangelist open time in February. We empha­ Carol, on November 2. R. M. Banning as the special worker. size especially, Bible-centered holi­ — to Jesse and Dorothy Firestone of S. San A number of souls were saved and ness and ‘Crusade for Souls Now.’ Gabriel, California, a daughter, Ondria Joy, on sanctified, the church was helped, Write me, P.O. Box 682, Carleton November 1. and a nice love offering was given Place, Ontario, Canada.” — to Rev. and Mrs. Melvin Rayborn of Santa the pastor. I have now resigned to Monica, California, a daughter, Cathy Renee, on October 26. accept a call to pastor our First Evangelist R. M. Banning writes: Church in Catlettsburg, Kentucky.” “I am enjoying my work in the field — to Rev. and Mrs. Archie Marsh of Manza- of evangelism, and appreciate the fine nola, Colorado, a son, Geron Eugene, on October 24. pastors and laymen with whom I have — to Lewis D. and Virginia (Carlson) Rexroth of worked. Owing to some changes and Oskaloosa, Iowa, a son, Daniel Dean, on October 21.

a biff cancellations, I have the following — to Mr. and Mrs. Calvin W illiams of Tallahassee, dates open for ’56: January 18 to 29, Florida, a daughter, Caroline Delay, on September 1. May 23 to June 3, and June 6 to 17. b e a u tif u ! ADOPTED— by Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Conrad of Write me, Route 1, Morrow, Ohio.” Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a son, Mark Ernest, on November 2. new b o o b ! Evangelist A. L. Parrott writes: “A glorious revival in Alliance, Ohio; two great services on Sunday, with four SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a heart­ broken mother in New York that her children at the altar in the morning and may be reclaimed (they were once Nazarenes) and twenty-one at night. Owing to a brought back to God and the church— for a son change of pastors, I have a cancella­ who is very sick, that God will heal him— also tion for the date, February 1 to 12. that she may be healed and be able again to go to the house of God; George Beverly Shea's My meeting just before this will be by a Christian serviceman in Europe that he at Hamlin, Texas, and the next one may be a soul winner and that God will bless ALBUM OF SACRED SONGS after February 12 will be at Hastings, with deep conviction on those who are walking Nebraska. Anyone desiring this date, in darkness; Sixteen of the favorite numbers by a mother in Arkansas, past eighty years of please write me, P.O. Box 298, Bour- used so effectively by “Bev” Shea age, for herself and her six children; bonnais, Illinois.” for a young woman in Illinois, undergoing severe in person and on records . . . trial and persecution by her fellow workers, that God will bring her through victoriously in every * The Love of God Evangelist L. J. (Larry) MacAllen w ay; * Ivory Palaces writes: “After several years in the by a Christian mother in Illinois for her son, evangelistic field, we have been forced now in jail, that God will undertake for him in * Roll, Jordan, Roll every way, and also save his wife. to curtail our labors due to my wife’s by a Kansas mother for the salvation of a fifteen- * He the Pearly Gates Will health. Mrs. MacAllen was suddenly year-old daughter, a son in the U.S. Army, and her Open taken to the hospital for an opera­ husband, also that the husband may be delivered from the tobacco habit; * Jesus Is the Sweetest Name tion in late August and her recovery by a Nazarene mother in Minnesota for spiritual has been so slow that it was neces­ needs and also for physical health— "I do want to * He’s Got the Whole World sary to cancel our fall slate, as I be faithful to God and do His w ill"— also "for my children, that God will somehow get to their hearts In His Hands cannot be away for extended periods and save them," and for two uns'poken requests; * Balm in Gilead of time. We have appreciated the by a "Herald" reader in Pennsylvania for a fine pastors and people with whom couple who were once Nazarenes but are now drifting and eight others from church to church, also for a special silent re­ we have worked, and appreciate the q uest; Large, sheet-music size pages, prayers and understanding of pastors by a mother in Ohio for the salvation of a son with words, voice line, piano ac­ and churches with whom we have and his wife, who need God so much, and she is greatly burdened for them; companiment, guitar chord sym­ had to cancel; trust we may still by a mother in Minnesota for the reclaiming of bols and ukulele diagrams. have the privilege of working with her son and the salvation of his wife— it is urgent; you in the near future. We are now by a friend in Indiana for an unsaved man who has lost the use of his right side— both he and his * All for only making our home at 316 E. Broad wife are unsaved; also for her unsaved children and Street, Elyria, Ohio, and will be free their families— she is getting old and cannot do $1.00 a copy, delivered to hold revival meetings in that gen­ much any more but pray; eral vicinity, as well as week-end by a lady in Missouri "for a very troubled mother NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE and her drinking son whose home is near destruc­ 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri engagements and an occasional Sun­ t io n . " Washington at Bresee, Pasadena 7, California day-school advancement program by a lady in Iowa that God w ill give her victory 1592 Bloor Street, West, Toronto 9, Ontario with the help of ‘Gospel Pete.’ Thank over a nervous tension, for several friends who need the Lord, and some to go deeper with Him, also you all for your prayers and cards.” that she may not fail the Lord in any way.

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GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS

Hardy C. Powers Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 10, Missouri. ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE San A n to n io ...... May 2 and 3 Abilene ...... May 9 to 11 Albany ...... May 16 and 17 Canada Central ...... May 23 and 24 Just a New En gland ...... May 31 to June 2

G. B. W illia m s o n Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 10, Missouri. Reminder! ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE Canada Pacific ...... April 12 and 13 A laska ...... A p r il 18 a n d 1 9 Canada West ...... April 25 and 26 British Isles ...... M a y

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ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE' Washington-Philadelphia ...... M a y 10 to 12 Florida ...... May 16 and 17 Los Angeles ...... May 23 to 25 Rocky Mountain ...... May 29 and 30 Nebraska ...... May 31 and June 1

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ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE Idaho-Oregon ...... M a y 3 an d 4 Oregon P a c if ic ...... M a y 9 to 11 N orthwest ...... May 16 and17 Washington Pacific ...... May 23 and 24 Nevada-Utah ...... May 30 and 31

Hugh C. B e n n e r O Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 10, Missouri. ASSEMBLY SCHEDULE F Akron ...... May 2 to 4 Northern California ...... M a y 9 to 11 Arizona ...... May 17 and 18 New Mexico ...... May 23 and 24 F Southern California ...... May 30 to June 1

West Virginia ...... July 5 to 7 E M ich igan ...... July n to 13 Central Ohio ...... July 18 to 20 Western Ohio ...... July 25 to 27 R East Tennessee ...... August 1 and 2 l° wa ...... August 8 to 10 Houston ...... August 22 and 23 Southwest Oklahoma ...... September 12 to 14 I Northeast Oklahoma ...... September 19 and 20

A lab am a ...... J u ly 3 an d 4 Colorado ...... J u ly 19 an d 2 0 N Southwest Indiana ...... July 26 and 27 Kansas ...... August 1 to 3 Chicago Central ...... August 8 and 9 Northwestern Illinois ...... August 15 and 16 G N orth w est In d ia n a ...... A u g u s t 2 2 and 2 3 South Arkansas ...... September 12 an d 13 North Arkansas ...... September 19 and 20

South Dakota ...... June 28 and 29 THE MONEY GIVEN IN THIS OFFER­ New Y o rk ...... July 6 and 7 M a ritim e ...... July n and 12 ING WILL APPLY ON YOUR LOCAL Pittsburgh ...... J u ly 18 to 20 Northwest Oklahoma ...... July 25 and 26 CHURCH N.M.B.F. BUDGET . . . Kentucky ...... A u g u s t 1 an d 2 Kansas City ...... S e p te m b e r 5 to 7 North Carolina ...... September 19 and 20 South Carolina ...... September 26 and 27 CONTRIBUTE THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS OFFERING North Dakota ...... June 28 and 29 o M innesota ...... July 18 and 19 M issou ri ...... August 1 to 3 V irg in ia ...... August 8 and 9 MAKE A GENEROUS CON­ Tennessee...... August 15 and 16 Indianapolis ...... August 22 and 23 TRIBUTION TO THIS WOR­ Mississippi ...... August 29 and 30 G eorgia ...... September 12 and 13 © THY BENEVOLENCE.

Northeastern Indiana ...... J u ly 4 to 6 Eastern Michigan ...... July 18 to 20 Eastern Kentucky ...... July 25 and 26 U lin o is ...... August 1 to 3 W isconsin ...... August 8 to 10 D allaj ...... August 15 and 16 MINISTERS BENFHIIEVT FIINII Lou isian a ...... August 29 and 30 Southeast Oklahoma ...... September 19 an d 20

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