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9-19-1956
Herald of Holiness Volume 45 Number 29 (1956)
Stephen S. White (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House
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It and not to faint. is then that God’s presence is most consciously real, for true prayer —Luke 18:1 involves communion, and in that sacred fellowship “our hearts burn within us.” Again, it is in prayer that the weaknesses and needs of our hearts are most clearly revealed. The Holy Spirit speaks to the heart and by promptings and warnings, by applying the W o r d of God, He brings a revelation of the true condition of the inmost being. Finally, it is prayer that brings the power of God to bear upon our needs. Nothing is accidental in the spiritual realm. Dispensations of divine power come only as someone meets the conditions by which God moves and works. Through prayer the finite with its weakness and limitations is linked to the infinite with its illimitable source of divine energy. Let us covenant with God that we will honor Clod and defeat the devil by giving ourselves as never before to this blessed privilege of prayer. Persistent, believing prayer secures for us personal, spiritual achievement, and sweeping revivals. “Lord, teach us to pray.” c f j h l i m s s ) Is Your Heart September 19,1956 In Tune with Heaven? Vol. 45, No. 29 B y F. W. DAVIS Whole Number 2317 Telegram Is your heart in tune with heavenl Jackson, Mississippi—The Missis 1 Toward More Prayer, (General Is there singing in your soul? sippi District Assembly convened Superintendent Renner Is the sweetness of His glory August 29 and 30 with a prevailing 2 Is Your H eart in T u n e with spirit of unanimity. Dr. D. I. Vander- Blessing you, beyond control? Heaven? 7. IF. Davis Do you feel IIis loi’ing presence pool did a masterful job of stirring 2 Don’t Wait lor a lairv! our hearts with his unique preach Pauline E. Spray Thrill your heart from day to dax' ing. The bright spot of the district “I Am with You!” Harold E. And His blessed Spirit lift you, reports was a net gain of 103 church Platler As you lake time out to pray? members. Dr. Otto Stueki was re 4 The Cross. Wanda Milner elected district superintendent for 5 I Believe. Kathryn Blackburn Is your soul in tune with Jesus? one and then three years, by an over Peck Precious memories of love w h elm ing v o te.—Roy T. Nix, R e 6 Operation Punishment. Clin porter. Coming from the realms of glory ton J. Bus hey To your heart-life, from above? \\\\ \ 0 Consider the Lilies! Lett a J. v\\ WWWW VWWWWWW w \ \\ w \ W \\\\\\ VWW\ \ WWW V\\ \1 Oh, the joy of Jesus’ presence! Sigler Later word rcccivetl from Rev. R. T. 7 The Tender Mercy of Our Draw me closer, Lord, to Thee— Williams, pastor of Oklahoma City First God, June Pittman Keep tny heart-notes ever ringing Chinch, (see pictures on page 9) states 8 Is What You Have Worth With sweet heaven's melody. that in the recent devastating fire he Sharing? C. /». Strang lost more than 9() per 2 (670) • HERALD OF HOLINESS By Harold E. Platter Pastor, Glen Road Church of the Nnzarene, Dayton, Ohio Not behind nor in front, but I am with you* Mv telephone rang and as 1 answered it 1 was A fellow pastor said not long ago: "It’s amaz quite surprised to hear the voice of one ol my ing what God can do with this human race. All members who was at his place of work. We ex of us with our quirks of character, our different changed our greetings and then he spoke these reactions to things and people, our God-given con words, which were to me a great blessing. lie victions and shortcomings, can still find a blessed said: "Pastor, 1 haven’t anything special to call fellowship together through the power of God you lor, except I’ve been thinking about you and which transforms our lives. He fills us with His know that you have been carrying- a heavy load, grace and His Holy Spirit and we are able to get and I thought you might need some encourage along with one another.” ment. I want vou to know Irom my heart, / am I'hank God, this same grace will enable me to willi you!” get along with anybody, as long as I keep humble Note, it wasn't the oft-repealed statement, "I at the Cross, love God with all mv heart, pray, and am back of you and the program of the church." earnestly seek the leading of the Spirit. “I am with No, not behind me, but with me. What a lift! Here m i u ! " How those words bring a sense of unity in the midst of a hard place there was another and companionship, a tie that only the good pres with me, trying to help cany the- load. ence of God makes possible! The song writer knew This called to my mind the words of Jesus to this when he gave us those words: His disciples after He arose from the dead. He lilest be the tie that hinds said to them. "Lo, I am with you alway” (Matt. Our hearts in Christian love; 28:20) . Those glorious words opened an undaunted The fellowship of kindred minds pathway lo those faithful followers. That pres Is like to that above. ence is still ours todav. Praise God, He is still with us! Be fox' our Father’s throne My heart takes new courage today in the prom IIV pour our ardent prayers: ise of Christ and the good company of godly lay Our tears, our hopes, our aims are one. men. We have much dissension in this world ol Our comforts and our cares. ours without bringing it into the1 sacred influence of the church. These days of uncertainty should Oh, might such unity invade our ranks, so that be to the church days of unity. We need to be pastors and people can exert such tremendous “with” one another. 1 heard it said one time, “Two spiritual power at the place of prayer that all out men cannot love the same God and hate each oth side things that might distract or block the spirit er.” There may be some points of disagreement, of God would be brushed aside! In the place of but on the basic issues concerning the kingdom these- things then would come spiritual blessings of God we must be “with" one another. from the,' hand of God like we have never experi We must not let petty strivings, wrong attitudes, enced before. Surges of revival, the shouts and misinterpreted words, exposed feelings, and mis praises of the redeemed of the Lord, world-wide guided aims halt us in the program of saving men. growth of the Church, and with us heaven rejoic All of these things can be found in everyday living-. ing as the lost and dying pray their way through Thev should not be in our chinch: ours should to definite “victory in Jesus!” and must be a united front. The unsaved of our All of this because. "I,o, I am with you alwav”! areas are looking to us fot help; our children also II is presence makes us work together here below. search for help. We must be "with" one another O God, give us the spirit of oneness with Thee for these, so that our obligation to them con and our brethren in the Lord! Send us that IIolv cerning Christ and a vital experience in their hearts Ghost baptism which assures us that “1 am with will he brought to pass. you”! SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (G71) 3 T H E CROSS: Of Life By WANDA MILNER Indianapolis, Indiana “This is the day of my death!” These words duced mortification, the immediate result was nerv flashed into the mind of Charles Barney, con ous depression. The victim sank rapidly. No longer demned to die by the blade of the guillotine in sensible of pain, his anxiety and sense of prostra Charles Dickens’ immortal novel, A Tale of Two tion were excessive; hiccups supervened, the skin Cities. But it was not Darney’s head which rolled was moistened with a cold, clammy sweat, and that afternoon on the count of “twenty-two.” In death followed. “The wounds in themselves were a heroic act of devotion and loyalty Sidney Carton not fatal”; said Dr. Fallow's, “but, as long as the had secretly exchanged places with the prisoner nails remained in them, the inflammation must and gave his own life to save Darney. have increased in intensity until it produced gan If Carton had been allowed to speak his thoughts grene.” It was with such an end in view' that Jesus they would have been prophetic, Dickens added. labored and loved. “I see that child . . . who bore my name . . . I Origin of the Cross see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, The cross was an ancient device of death when bringing a boy of my name, . . . to this place—then Christ set His face toward Jerusalem and Calvary. fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day’s The fact that the words “cross,” “crucify,” and disfigurement—and I hear him tell the child my “crucifixion” are not mentioned in the Old Testa story, with a tender and a faltering voice.” ment would seem to indicate that the use of the As it was implied that Darney and his sons be cross was not original with the Hebrews. Scholars held the guillotine, esteemed the place, and ex believe that the shape of some tree branches may pressed undying gratitude to the savior, so Paid have suggested its use to some ancient people and of Tarsus contemplated Calvary, revered the Cross, probably such crude branches were the first in and loved the Saviour. And of that act of divine struments of crucifixion to be employed. love—not fiction, but fact—the Apostle exclaimed: One of the first such executions set down in “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; history was that of an African king by the Egyptians. yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life Herodotus noted that after the siege of Babylon which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith approximately three hundred persons were con of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave him demned to the cross by Darius. Later the Greeks self for me” (Gal. 2:20). adopted its use, and after the capture of Tyre two Death by Crucifixion thousand captives wTere nailed to crosses along the During the period of the French Revolution seashore at the command of Alexander. The act the guillotine was considered to be the fusion of of scourging preceding crucifixion was probably “all the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined added by the Romans, who seem to have extended since imagination.” Yet the swiftness of its de the practice throughout the expansive Roman Em mand for life without exacting prolonged pain pire. from the condemned marked a decided advance Jesus and the Cross ment from the age of execution by crucifixion. As it was His custom to use commonplace things According to Dr. Samuel Fallows the slow, ag for the illustration of spiritual truth—the yoke, onizing death by crucifixion was caused by sym the soil, a grain of mustard seed—so Jesus capital pathetic fever excited by the w o u n d s, and ized upon the Jews’ knowledge of the cross. To aggravation by privation of water, exposure to His followers He spoke of the cross of service, weather, and the painfully constrained position of hardship, and consecration. He told them of the the body. The sufferer complained of heat, throb power which comes to any life which takes up bing headache, intense thirst, restlessness, and such a cross daily. “If any man will come after anxiety when the inflammation of the wound was me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, characterized by heat, swelling, and great pain. As and follow me” (Matt. 16:24). While to some de suming a hectic character, the fever sooner or later gree this teaching was understood, Jesus’ self exhausted the powers of life. However, when the description as the subject of Isaiah’s prophetic inflammation of the wound was so intense and pro utterance in chapter fifty-three was not compre 4 (672) • HERALD OF HOLINESS hended at the time by His followers. Thus in His death the disciples could see only the execution of an innocent Teacher, when in reality Christ on I Believe the cross became the great instrument of recon ciliation between a righteous God and sinful men. By KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK The half-formed prayer my faltering lips The Cross and the Church once pleaded Dawn’s early light of resurrection day with its When faith’s white candle flickered faint never-to-be-forgotten message, “Christ is risen!” il and dim luminated the splintered, blood-stained cross. As On the heart’s altar, one deep night of the guillotine became the symbol of the rebirth of sorrow, France, so the Cross became the symbol of eternal Was carried through the darkness, life. However, of greater import is the fact that straight to Him; the Cross became the emphasis of New Testament And He who loves His child will not forget. evangelism. Although unable fully to understand I know that He will answer—even yet! the doctrine of the atonement, the first-century Christians did not fail to accept the blessings of The human arm I needed so for comfort it. When most I craved its strength I found With the formulation of New Testament thought withdrawn; concerning the Cross the Apostle Paul is credited. But as I grieved, another in dire weakness His writings are indelibly marked with the plus Looked unto me for courage to press on. sign of life. “Blotting out the handwriting of or For his sake, then, my arm must needs be dinances that was against us, which was contrary strong, to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his And in my soul was born a marching song! cross” (Col. 2:14) ; “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that The bitter pain I bore seemed cruel- was set before him endured the cross, despising useless, the shame, and is set down at the right hand of And I besought Him, “Take this cross the throne of God” (Heb. 12:2) ; “But God for from me, bid that I should glory, save in the cross of our That I may serve Thee better!” But He Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified answered, unto me, and I unto the world” (Gal. G: 14). “Nay. Rather—I will come and walk The power of the Cross in preaching was un with thee; deniably pointed out to Paul, for when he failed For in the twilight valley, near to death, to mention the Cross in his message few converts My children find the star of brightest were won. Overwhelmed with disappointment and faith.” self-reproach, he later wrote to the Corinthians that when he came to their city lie would not rely 1 know that all things work for good upon the “wisdom of words” (I Cor. 1:17), “lest together the cross of Christ should be made of none effect,” To those who love Him and His wisdom but would not “know any thing among you, save own, Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (I Cor. 2:2). That what He doeth shall stand firm for Through faith in the Man who had gone forth ever, to die for them, the first Christians found courage And that His purposes shall be made to endure hardship for the gospel’s sake, to zealous known, ly expand His sphere of influence, and if necessary That all who come to Him, He will receive. to face martyrdom for the sake of the hope of These are God’s promises—and I BELIEVE! eternal life. With no less gratitude, twentieth-century men living in the shadow of the Cross by word and deed express the language of Isaac Watts: 11 the dying Christ had spoken all of His thoughts, would they have been prophetic? “I see the eleven When / survey ihe wondrous cross who bear My name. 1 see them foremost of evan On which the Prince of Glory died. gelists and men of honor, bringing others to this My richest gain I count but loss. place—then fair to look upon, with not a trace of And pour contempt on all my pride. t his day’s disfigurement—and I hear them tell My Were the -whole realm of nature mine. story with tender and faltering voices. I see gen That were a present far too small. erations yet unborn—black, yellow, red, and white, Love so amazing, so divine, come unto Me. In their own tongues I hear them Demands my soul, my life, my all. say, ‘My Jesus, I love T hee.’ ” SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (673) 5 God and my dad joined in OPERATION PUNISHMENT By CLINTON J. BUSHEY Professor, Biology Department, Olivet Nazarene College, Kankakee, Illinois ‘'Spare the rod and spoil the child” was never instructed us to go to Sammy's and stay only a little practiced in our home. When my younger brother while before going on home. I remembered, all and I needed correction, we got it; yet our parents right, that I wasn’t supposed to go, but it didn’t were not tyrants. I often recall one “whipping” take much urging from the others to influence I got when I was attending a country school in me to go anyway. I knew I could get home by the the mountains of Colorado. regular time anyway, and nobody would be the Sammy Powell was one of the boys who also wiser. 1 went. Not knowing what else to do, it was attending our little log-cabin school some three wasn’t long before we were out playing ball and or four miles from Victor, Colorado. He was not time slipped away rapidly. However, I got home very popular, and some of us boys tormented him on time. considerably. ]f I remember correctly, I was one The weather was just a little cool and I was of the older boys and .was in the sixth grade. One wearing a pair of gloves which Father had loaned day Sammy’s father was killed in an accident in me. That is, I was wearing them, until I discov the gold mine where he was working, and almost ered just before I got home that I had only one immediately we boys were all sympathy and wanted of them in my pocket. Where was the other one? to do something to encourage Sammy. The “school- I recalled using it as a catcher’s mitt, and after marm” perhaps sensed our attitude and suggested that what? The next day I tried to get word to that we go to see Sammy the next day after school Sammy and did all I knew to do to trace that was out. other glove, but I never did find it. I walked some two miles down a draw from It was several days later that Father wanted the our home to the schoolhouse to school, and Sam glove and I could find only one. I never was good my’s home was some three miles in another direc at falsifying, and he soon discovered that I had tion. But distances in, through, and over those been where I should not have been. Right then mountains didn't mean much to us boys then. and there 1 knew I was to get a good whipping, and Should I go to Sammy’s home it would mean an I deserved it. Father looked at me and slowly extra three miles’ walk for me. When I told my turned away without saying a word, and that was father when I got home what the plans were, he all he ever did about it; but I sensed that I hadn’t objected; not on account of the distance, but he only done wrong, but also had failed his trust in thought it wouldn’t be the thing to do under the me. It wasn’t the value of the glove at all. circumstances. B ut- I never got away from that look on his face. I Next day the teacher let school out early and would time and again have gladly furnished him Luke 12:27-32 By Letta J. Sigler Consider the lilies how they grow; Be not of little faith today: They toil not, spin not, neither sow. Seek not what ye shall eat or wear Yet Solomon in all his glory Or drink; nor be of doubtful mind— Was not arrayed as one of these. Your Father knowcth all your need. If God so then doth clothe the grass But rather seek God's kingdom fair Which today is grown in the field And all these things shall added be. And tomorrow is cast away— Fear not; it is the Father’s joy How much more will He too clothe thee! That His bright kingdom you shall share. 6 (674) • HERALD OF HOLINESS the wherewithal to administer the whipping I de served, just to get away i'rom that look. But he left it just that way, and I never forgot it. The Tender Mercy Why did he “whip” me that way? I don’t know exactly, but I do know it was most effective. It was the worst “licking” I ever got, barring one Of Our God perhaps which the Lord administered to me years later in life. Somehow the two occasions are linked By June Pittman together in my memory. Parsons, West Virginia # * * Through llu; tender mercy of our God; 1 had only recently been saved and more re -whereby the day-spring from on high hath cently sanctified. I was attending a revival meeting visited us, to give light to them that sit in being held in the Free Methodist church in Everett, darkness and in the shadow of death, to Washington, and the Spirit was there in consid guide our feet into the way of peace erable demonstration. The one outstanding man "(Luke 1:78-79). whom I observed was a prominent Christian lum beryard owner in the city. He was in high stand The unfathomable “tender mercy of ing in the community as a Christian gentleman; our God” has sought a way to bring us he was active in his church and definitely a man light and peace. How measureless is His of God. love! How rich and tender! My spirit is 1 noticed that every so often this man would overwhelmed at the very thought of the get happy, shout, and (above all things) throw lengths to which He has gone to reveal his songbook in the air as far as he could. At 11 is tender mercy unto me. Truly, Lie tending that demonstration, the whole congrega has brought me out of the darkness anil tion would get blessed, and the Spirit wras there. condemnation of sin and has, oh! so pa So I decided that, since it worked with him, why tiently and lovingly, guided my feet into wouldn’t it work with me? I loved the Lord and the way of peace. Who can tell of His I wanted to do something to show that love. Sev long-suffering! Who can describe His in eral other rationalizing ideas came to me, so I de finite kindness! How tenderly, how ten cided to try it. One night I got everything all set, derly, He deals with us! How gently He my book included, and just at the right time and leads us along! just as it should be done, I yelled at the top of When 1 think of how He reached me, my voice and threw the book up. But nothing I am reminded of all the others who “sit happened! in darkness and in the shadow of death” As I looked at it afterwards, I don't think any —of my neighbors across the back yard body ever heard me nor saw me throw the book, who have no time for God, who do not and I’ve often hoped no one did! Yet the Lord attend church anywhere, and for did, and He just “looked” at me, and immediately whom God is just as concerned as He I saw what I had done. Oh, how miserable I felt! was for me. His “tender mercy” longs to 1 tried to hide in my seat—I felt so “little” that reach them, too. that shouldn’t have been difficult, but I felt every O kind and loving Father, the God of body was looking at me in disgust and disappoint tenderest mercy, help me to help my ment. The Lord's “look” was the worst thing I neighbor to Thee. Enlarge my vision, in ever experienced at His hands, a terrible “licking.” crease my faith, give me a greater reali Thank God, I saw the point. “Others may, you zation of Thy compassionate love to all cannot.” Ever since then, although I enjoy true who are without light and peace. O God, demonstrations of the Spirit, I’ve just let God Thy tender mercy is longing, yearning, do with me as He wanted to and I won’t put on. reaching out great fingers of divine con Properly administered, punishment gets results. cern to my own neighbors, striving to Whom He loveth, He punisheth. break through their indifference and re Do you see now why these two occasions are so mind them that Someone cares. Dear closely linked together in my memory? Two of God, may I somehow reach them for the best “friends” I ever had loved me so much Thee. Let me be the channel through that they administered punishment in the most which Thy tender mercy may flow'. Let effective manner: and, like Peter, I went out and me bring to them the thought of a loving “wept bitterly.” I am positive I loved both my God. father and the Lord more because they chastised Father, help me as 1 go next door! me. I didn't enjoy either of the experiences at the time, but tliev were worth it all. SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (6751 7 Is What You Have Worth Sharing? By C. B. Strang Pastor, First Church, Chicago, Illinois A lew days ago I read this sentence regarding After examining the goods on the shelves of your what a missionary said of her religious experience: soul, do you honestly believe they are worth shar “Sharing it seemed to be the most important thing ing with others? in life.” If you are not satisfied with what you find in After all, that is the only thing to do with ex your heart, a period of Bible reading, prayer, and perience. To mean anything to the one who has meditation is the starting place. Great reservoirs it, it must be shared. A missionary does not go of grace are available. But do not make the mis to a foreign field merely as a preacher, a teacher, take of thinking you are merely a reservoir or that or a doctor. The preaching missionary goes in the heart is a sort of silo. Our hearts are more like deed to preach the great truths of the Bible; but channels. We are branches attached to the Vine. he goes primarily to say, “This happened to me,” Eternal blessings come to us to be channeled out and I wish to share it. The teaching missionary again to very needy neighbors. does not go merely to display knowledge; he goes First, make sure that what you have is worth to say, “This truth transformed my own life. I sharing! wish to tell you about it, so that we may mutually Sharing is the most important thing in life. share it together.” The missionary doctor does not go merely to give medicine, reduce fractures, and bind up wounds. He goes to say, “I do this for you because I met a great Physician who bound up the wounds of my heart and made it well. I The Perfect Center want to share Him with you.” By MRS. EVELYN GLADDING I believe our missionaries are all thusly moti Vincennes, Indiana vated. They are not off on grand, extended vaca tions. They are committed to a ministry of sharing. But how about you and me? Are we engaged God’s power is unlimited, and when He accom in the same character of activity here? plishes a thing it is done perfectly. There are no It comes down to this: Is what we have worth “seconds,” no imperfections with God. sharing? How long has it been since we examined The duty of a Christian is to be Christlike. We our inventory? I am writing this in the last week are human and encumbered by human frailties, of 1955—a time when commercial concerns are shortcomings, and blunderings; yet the will to busily engaged in taking stock. There should be please our Lord can be made perfect. One can no guesswork at this point. reach the perfect center if he chooses to do so. The The other day in the barbershop I heard a fel Bible states that David was a man after God’s own low customer profanely saying that he couldn’t heart. There is a heart perfection. lie bothered with detailing all the goods on the If one were to study carefully the construction shelves of this establishment. He took one quick of this object called “center,” he would find a estimate! I predict ultimate failure for him! surrounding area very near the mark, yet not the On the Christian, individual level we should perfect center. take stock. What is your experience? Do you know A man at a shooting match was seeking to win now that Christ is your Saviour? Are you sure you the prize. He had a good gun and was an expert arc sanctified wholly? Have you an up-to-date ex marksman. He raised his gun, took careful aim, perience? Have spiritual things become stale? Is and shot. Everyone shouted—he had hit the bull’s your testimony trite? Are you ready to give an eye. The prize is his, they thought. Surely no one accounting of your stewardship? Is your tithe paid could do better than that. up to date? Do you have any unpaid obligations Another marksman took aim and shot. To the to creditors? Are there any debts of love to family surprise of everyone, the second marksman had hit or neighbors overdue? center also. Now it was up to the judges to decide 8 (676) • HERALD OF HOLINESS the winner. To the human eye, both shots were perfect. The judges had a more exact way of measuring. They had instruments that could see what the human eye could not. These revealed that the first man had hit the mark very near the edge. The second man with his shot had hit perfect center; he won the prize. God’s instruments measure correctly, lie knows when we are trying, with all our power, to please Him. Certainly, nothing short of his best should be the aim of every Christian. When one thinks how the heart of our Lord is bleeding over a lost, suffering humanity, surely he will be pushed to do everything he can to please God. A true Christian does not want to grieve the heart of God. Perhaps it is a habit that is keeping you from the perfect center. If so, correct it. Resolve not to speak unkindly of anyone. Try with all your might, and the help of God, to control your tongue. God’s heart aches because of human conceit. Strive to please God instead of people. God sees into our hearts—people do not. As wonderful as it is to be able to work for the Lord, and as surely as it belongs in the Christian life, there are times when working becomes a pri mary aim, and adoring the Lord secondary. God wants first a melted heart in complete abandon ment and adoration to the great Creator of the universe. When He finds a soul thus before Him, God knows it is clay that can be molded and formed for the Master's use; and His heart is made aMfi glad. DEVASTATING FIRE DESTROYS OKLAHOMA CITY Let us remember the words of the Apostle Paul FIRST CHURCH. Thirty firemen narrowly escaped death when he said: “I press toward the mark for the when the roof collapsed. One estimate set the replace prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” ment cost at nearly $100,000.00. Rev. R. T. Williams, pas tor, and his people plan to rebuild. Remember them in (Phil. 3:14). your prayers. CjocI t^sun.S a $3cciiihj J \ir(or By W. EVERETT HENRY McMinnville, Oregon A college professor once said, “God runs a east is from the west, east into the depths of the beauty parlor.” He may have been speaking sea. and remembered no more. facetiously, but he uttered a great truth. God is As after a wound is cleansed the healing process running a great, world-wide beauty parlor. begins, so alter the soul is cleansed the healing of In God’s beauty parlor the emphasis is on soul the personality begins. The healing of the mind beauty rather than body beauty. Rut soul beauty and the soul is not visible to others until it reveals affects the whole person, producing also beauty itself in changed conduct. The healing of the body of mind and body. God uses two processes in His becomes quickly evident. The reformed cigarette beauty parlor. The first is the process of healing. smoker begins to eat as if he again enjoyed good This process of healing begins with the removal food. The alcoholic not only loses his foul breath, of the defilement which inheres in sin. Sin must but also begins to lose his base and ignoble ap be forgiven, blotted out, removed as far as the pearance. The physical transformation of the al SEPTEMBER 19, 195fi • (fi77) 9 coholic and the narcotic addict is often astonish ing. Then in God’s beauty parlor the process of healing merges into the process of building. The new birth brings a new view of life and its pos sibilities. The fog of the sinful life is blown away by the truth as it is in Christ Jesus, and all things become new. The mind is lifted from the plane of the material to the plane of the spiritual. Trivialities give place to eternal realities. Thought CUP OF FURY is no longer “cribbed, cabined, and confined,” but By Upton Sinclair (Channel Press, §3.00) challenged to climb to the heights of God’s self W hat a burning indictment of strong drink! revelation. Written by a literary master, it will hold you to The affections are detached from the things of the last page. And it tells the soggy story in its the world and securely attached to the things of sordid details of alcohol and its grip on “bright the life that “is hid with Christ in God.” Self slips lights” in the realm of literature and movies. away from the center of thought and activity and It will be shocking to read how some who are others take its place. Gain is no longer represented “NAMES” on the tongues of old and young alike by tangible things, the wealth of the world, but have gone to grovenly despair by the demon of by intangible things, the wealth of the soul. Our drink. Youth who see the “social glass” advertised love of Christ penetrates, purifies, and invigorates so temptingly on TV and ads in magazines wdll our love of others. find an antidote, strong and lasting, in this blunt Judges, psychiatrists, doctors now generally ad story of the ruin made by John Barleycorn. mit that our thoughts and affections have much If the author had just given God a larger place, to do with bodily health. More and more the and called drunkenness sin instead of disease, this medical profession is putting its fingers on worry would be terrific. I warn you that you will not as the archenemy of physical well-being. How to easily lay this book down once you have begun free people from worry is becoming one of the reading. urgent questions of this modern age. —N o r m a n R. Oke, Book Editor And where is the cure for this destroyer of hu Head discriminatingly! Order all books from Nazarene man health to be found? Certainly not in drugs. Publishing House, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri. It can be found only in something far deeper than the bodily tissues. The mind and the affections must be reached and changed. And what is better adapted to do this than the Christian gospel? She Shuddered at What can lift our thoughts to higher and holier things than the gospel of Christ? In it is spread before us the creative and redemptive activity of " 1 9 5 3 " the infinite wisdom, power, love, and holiness of God. As the mind thinks on these things, the By E. WAYNE STAHL peace of God steals into the heart, and the as Nazarene Elder, Lowell, Massachusetts surance deepens that one can do all things through One evening twenty years ago a little company Christ, who strengthens us. In such an atmosphere of friends were gathered around a supper table worry can no longer flourish. of a home in the city of Lowell. Mr. W. was the What can better purify and strengthen our af host. Though not a member of the church where fections than the indwelling love of God which I served as pastor, he had been attending some comes into the heart with the realization that God of the revival meetings which were in progress for Christ’s sake has forgiven us our sins and wel there. So great a liking had he taken to the evan comed us into the household of saints? From that gelist that he had invited this gospelizer and myself moment our affections become fixed on “those to enjoy his hospitality that night. One or two things which are above, where Christ sitteth on other friends of Mr. W. were also present. He the right hand of God,” and the power of this love lived in a large, beautiful house very near the city of the highest and best moves through the body line; his street number was 1953. with “healing in its wings.” As we sat there at the table, glowing under the Yes, in the highest possible sense of the words, rich incandescence of electricity, the table with its “God runs a beauty parlor.” He transforms the furnishings of snowy linen, crystal, china, and mind and the heart: and as the mind and heart silver, the conversation was as sparkling as that take on beauty, the physical body becomes radiant equipment. “W hat social jovs [were] there,” at with the beauty of the soul. our sumptuous supper! in (678) • HERALD OF HOLINESS 1 recall that, during a lull in the talking, 1 re they should “eat, drink, and be merry” while they ferred to the fact that the street number of our could. host’s home was 195;!. Then I said, somewhat By contrast, I think of another meal at which meditatively, and in effect, "I wonder where we I was present in the long ago, out in northern all will be in the year 1953, and what we will be Illinois. A saintly old man was one of the guests; doing.” soon he expected to be departing for a distant Though a score of years have passed, I clearly point, with no certainty that he ever would be see and hear the lady who sat to my right, a again in that town where we were then meeting. middle-aged widow. A little shudder passed over I can see the look of peace and victory on his face her, as she spoke, with a look of distress, like this, as he said, at the close of the dinner, “Well, when “Oh, don’t talk about it!" we all eat together again, it will be in glory!” Perhaps that question of mine was a somewhat His words have haunted me all through the gruesome one for the cheerful occasion, although intervening years like sweet, triumphant music. I had no thought of interrupting the flow of in No trembling for hint as he faced the unknown nocent gaiety. I had no intention of being like days to come. He knew that his Father’s love the old Egyptians who, at their feasts, would have would lie in them still, since he had said, “My a mummy brought in to remind the guests that times are in thy hand,” and that he was on the it should say to them: “As you arc now, so once way to the celestial supper where partings are no was I; as I am now, so you shall be,” and that more and time shall be no longer. A Salute to a Church By One of the Members It is my privilege to belong to an unusual church. A missionary on the field belongs to our church. The building, a memorial to one of our late general Her tithe is paid into the local church treasury superintendents, was built with money a large part every month. She prays for us and frequently writes of which was personally solicited by his widow. expressing her interest in “our church.” His picture hangs in the sanctuary. It is a large Our folks are a Sunday night crowd. Everyone picture and his eyes have that appearance of fol attends the Sunday evening service and the mid lowing one regardless of position in the room. week prayer meeting as faithfully as the Sunday Whether one is standing, preaching, or testifying, morning service. Our Sunday-school superintendent, the expression on the face seems to carry an ex young people's president, and president of the hortation to be true to the doctrine and experience N.F.M.S. are pushers in their respective fields and oil which our church was founded. co-operate in the whole program of the whole Many people who belong to this church once church. belonged to other large Nazarene churches; some members are evangelists; some local people belong The pastor is a scholar and a gentleman, but or attend. The prayer meetings arc often graced first of all a devout Christian. Someone remarked, by the attendance of the evangelist members who “That must be a hard crowd to preach to, with so attend services faithfully when home from the many ministers in the congregation.” It is the un field. The general president of the N.F.M.S. is usual to have no ministers present. Usually there always at every service when she is home from are from two to five ministers present, and we her labors, which are world wide. No church have had as many as nine at one regular service. Hard to preach to? They are the finest group to member is or could be more loyal than she is. If anyone has justifiable excuse for being too tired preach to you could find anywhere. to attend church, it would be she. In the local This church group, most of whom held promi church she is a sacrificial giver, does visitation when nent places of leadership in larger churches to home, brings children to Sunday school, is ready which they belonged, work together in love and to assist in any task however menial, is an example harmony, proving once again that perfect love, to believers, and also a living proof that a foreign holiness, or whatever you call this experience of missionary enthusiast is first of all a home mis- one filled with the Holy Spirit, is the most unify sionai \ . ing force in the1 Church. SEPTEMBER 10, 1956 • (079) 11 ness, keep you from going to church. You need What Must I Do the worship with others which will be yours in To Be Saved— Finally? the house of God. Occasionally someone asks me if it is possible to be a Christian without going to Recently, Dr. Roy F. Smee taught the Sunday- church; my answer always is, “No”—unless you school class I attend at First Church in Kansas City. are situated so you cannot go. God w'ill take the During the class session he said, “What must I do place of the church if it is impossible for you to to be saved?” And then he added, “You are not get there, but even then you will be deprived of saved yet.” He meant that none of us is finally one of the greatest means of grace. If you can go saved yet, beyond the possibility of backsliding. to church, my Christian friend, you’d better go, These words gave me the idea for this editorial. if you expect to make it through to heaven. The A few weeks ago I wrote an article on “What blessing of social worship is one of the greatest Must I Do to Be Saved?” Later, I wrote one on means for keeping spiritual life active. What must “What Must I Do to Be Sanctified?” These you I do to be saved, finally? Go to church. should have already read. Now I discuss the ques tion, “What Must I Do to Be Saved—Finally?” What must I do as a Christian to keep from back sliding? It is very important to get saved, and the 0 same is true of getting sanctified; however, it will not do us any good at last to get saved, or to get both saved and sanctified, if we fall by the way. It is the person who is faithful unto death who wins the crown. What must I do to be faithful unto death? Fourth, fulfill your obligations to the church. First, I would say, read your Bible; that brings Don’t just go to church, don’t just warm a seat, do to us the “Word” which can become the Bread of something. Enter into the church service, sing the Life to our souls. Read your Bible every day, hymns, be reverent in the house of God, give your whether you want to or not. If you can’t give a lot tithes and offerings, co-operate with God in the of time to Bible reading, give some time to it. work of the church in every way that you can; fulfill Every minute you give to it will help to stabilize your obligations to the church. The Christian you and keep you from backsliding. How7 can I Church is the one organization which is especially live and keep from dying? By eating wholesome designed to help the Christian be faithful unto food. Your body just can’t survive without nourish death. Therefore, be sure to fulfill your obliga ment; and neither can the Christian life survive tions to the church. without nourishment. The chief nourishment for Fifth, fellowship with Christians, make Chris the soul of the Christian is the Bible, the Word tian friends. You won’t be a Christian long if you of God. Read the Bible! find your social life among those who are not Chris Second, pray. If you can't give a lot of time to tians. As you meet with Christians, you will be prayer, give a little time; give as much as you can. associating with those who have your ideals, your Jesus was on the right track when He said, “Men outlook upon life. Man is a social being, it is his ought always to pray” (Luke 18;I). Pray at least nature to have friends, to fellowship with others; some every day; do it whether you feel like it or not. but if he finds this association, let me say again, In prayer you commune with God, and if you ex among those who do not care for Christ and the pect to be finally saved, you must commune with church, he’ll soon be back in the world. What must God. I knowr of no “ought” in the Bible anywhere I do to be saved—finally? Fellowship with Chris that is more significant than the “ought” in these tians. words given to us by Jesus. “Men ought always to Sixth and last and, in a sense, most important pray.” And the verse continues, “and not to faint.” of all, is this admonition, Walk in the light. You The implication of these words of Jesus clearly is can’t live a Christian life walking back of light. that if you don’t want to fall by the way, pray. You say, “What is light?” Light is apprehended Pray—at least some every day; the more the better. truth. As you pray, read the Bible, go to church, Third, go to church. T he Church is not a perfect fulfill your obligations to the church, and fellow institution; it never has been and never will be. ship with Christians, you’ll get new light, you’ll To some extent, it is of the earth and therefore apprehend more truth, you’ll learn more about “earthly.” Nevertheless, it is the best institution what it means to be a Christian. And, as you appre that society has, and it is especially the organiza hend that new truth, you’ll have to walk in it. or tion for Christians. If you want to keep saved and else backslide. Nothing will wreck a soul so quickly avoid backsliding, go to church. Go to church as deliberate refusal to walk in the light. In many CTery time the doors are opened if you can. Don’t respects, there are no more important words in let friends, neighbors, loved ones, work, or weari connection with the Christian life than “walking 12 (680) • HERALD OF HOLINESS in the light.” The Bible tells us, “The path of the famous football coaches of our day has said as to just is as the shining light, that shineth more and his choice of men: “I count ability 20 per cent, more unto the perfect day” (Prov. 4:18). Most of and character 80 per cent. I depend more upon the time we think of these words as meaning that what a fellow is than upon his ability to play the the Christian life becomes more glorious day by game. A man to succeed in playing the game day, and that is true. Nevertheless, there may be must be able to discipline himself, and he can’t another meaning to this text, and that is that the discipline himself without character.” A man was “light” in which the just walks becomes more applying for the job as assistant coach. He had bright all the time, “shineth more and more unto plenty of recommendations, but in the course of the perfect day.” As you grow in grace, the grace the interview he swore—and that settled it, for the increases; as you walk in the light, the light shines football coach. He turned him down immediately. more brightly, and thus there is more light in The swearing indicated to him a lack of discipline which to walk. This process never ends until we in that man on which he wasn’t ready to take a have fought the good fight and won the battle. risk. There isn't too much difference in the two standards, that of the personnel director and that of the football coach. T he gospel of Jesus Christ if heeded can help men to discipline themselves to attain to emotional stability better than any other instrumentality of which I know. STEPHEN S. WHITE Why Not Be a Sunday-School Teacher? What must I do to be saved—finally? For we are A Sunday-school teacher said to me the other not yet saved. I must read the Bible, pray, go to day, “Why don’t you write something on the need church, fulfill my obligations to the church, fellow of being a Sunday-school teacher? It is getting ship with Christians, and walk in the light. more difficult to get people to teach a Sunday- school class. We need our laymen stirred up along The Most Important Personality Trait this line.” I agree with this person. Our people ought to Some months ago I was flying from St. Louis, be willing to serve as Sunday-school teachers, and Missouri, to Peoria, Illinois. During the flight, I to teach those classes as they should be taught. sat by a man who is a personnel director. After Many people say they can’t teach, when die facts learning this fact, I plied him with questions. I of the case are, they mean they don’t want to wanted to find out how he chose men to work for give the time necessary in order for them to teach his company. Finally, I concluded that his de as they should. I’m of the opinion that most of cisions were based chiefly on two things: intelli our people could teach a Sunday-school class if gence and personality. they were willing to prepare themselves for that The thing which most interested me was this: work. He said that personality was more important than We have made wonderful provision in our intelligence. Then he went on to explain that church for Christian Service Training courses. You he meant by personality, not physical personality, can learn how to teach a Sunday-school class, and nor genialness, nor what people often think of as you ought to be willing to do it if you are needed. personality, but rather, “emotional stability.” Of course it takes time to learn to be a Sunday- He was with a company which employed a num school teacher, to prepare to teach each lesson, and ber of salesmen. He declared that when it comes to keep up with your class during the week. A to being a salesman there is nothing else quite so Sunday-school teacher can’t be the kind of Sunday- important as emotional stability: men who can school teacher he ought to be and not give some take anything and not get upset. They needed time during the week to those who may be in his men who could take many orders or be turned class. Teaching a Sunday-school class is not just down and have people get rough with them, and a “Sunday job”—it’s a round-the-week task. still not get ruffled themselves. If you arc really needed to teach a Sunday-school Then I began to think of what helps most 111 class, and you arc saved and sanctified, I think it’s emotional stability, and I decided that it is charac a shame and disgrace for you not to do it and do ter. If a man is what lie ought to be, and knows he it successfully. This doesn’t mean that you’ll be is what he ought (o lie, lie can face the world with able always to fill the place as well as you would more emotional stability than lie could if he were like to: but it does mean that you will assume the afraid of himself, or knew tleep down in his heart responsibility and do your best week by week. God that he was not what he ought to be. give us more people in our churches who are will This made me recall what one of the most ing to be Sunday-school teachers! SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (681) 13 THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING . . . he giveth more grace. Wherefore By EVA V. BEETS he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giv- Columbia, Mississippi eth grace unto the humble (Jas. 4:6). THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING: How to get what you want through laws of suggestion, or how you can put the powerful force of faith to work to change dreams into realities, is only a small part of the modern trend of the teachings being spread HE throughout the world today. To achieve success in business and personal life COULD one has only to combine Christian faith with the insights of modern science. If by faith in a su by preme power one can achieve power, wealth, health, Ernest AFFORD and friends with nothing to lose and everything to Moore gain—well, why not gamble? Thus the sinner may Jr. ask himself while toying with the idea of drawing TO Pastor, Cumberland Church of upon that higher power. the Nazarene, Waco, Texas To harbor thoughts of commercializing God’s WAIT! divine power would be despicable, let alone foolish, in that Christ has commanded us: “Lay not up We know that all things work together for for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth good to them that love God, to them who are and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break the called according to his purpose (Rom. 8:28). through and steal” (Matt. 6:19). The perfect plan of God is working out in the In Hebrews we read of faith as a mystery through lives of all of His children. He makes even the which “the worlds were framed by the word of wrath of men to praise Him. This includes in God” (11:3). One has only to turn the pages of justices caused by evil intentions as well as errors the Bible to find evidences of this great mystery. in judgment. We see through a glass darkly at It was faith that inspired Abel to offer the excel best, but He sees clearly with divine perspective. lent sacrifice of his choicest lamb. Enoch knew We know in part now, but then shall we know through power of faith that he should not see as we ourselves are known. death; and it is impossible to think that Noah Joseph had an injustice heaped upon him by would have built the ark in which to save his jealous brethren, but God worked it out for his household from the Flood w’ithout faith in the good. He allowed a group of Midianite merchant power of God. Sarah, though past the flower of men to come by just in time to deliver Joseph youth, would not be denied her child because she down into Egypt, where He could use him best. knew, through faith, there would be an answer to Then when Potiphar’s wife falsely accused him, her prayer. he was put into the prison, where God could use Then, why should I, the child of a King such as him to tell first the interpretation of the butler’s He, commercialize on that great storehouse of and then the baker’s dream, and finally of the power when our Christ has said, “Seek ye first the dream of Pharaoh himself. This was all part and kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all parcel of the plan of God. these things shall be added unto you”? As one layman put it recently, had God allowed Joseph to leave the prison immediately after he To walk close to His wounded side, to hold had correctly interpreted the butler’s and the His nail-scarred hand, and to be always welcome baker’s dreams, he would have been just another to draw oil that divine power so great there is no man out of jail. But by waiting until God saw- shortage, is enough for me. Praise FI is name! fit to release him, Joseph became prime minister As a strong, steady breeze shatters the petals of of Egypt, the greatest nation on the face of the a rose, so the power of the living God disperses earth at that time. And, more important, he be the sorrows of the human heart, working out each came the savior of God’s chosen people, the Israel problem that may face those who love Him. Let’s ites; and, ironically enough, he fed the very brothers have faith in God and in His mighty power, re who many years before had thrown him into the membering that Jesus said, “Therefore take no pit. thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall Joseph could afford to wait! For “all things we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? work together for good to them that love God, . . . for your heavenly Father knoweth ...” (Matt. to them who are the called according to his pur 0:31-32). pose.'’ 14 (682) • HERALD OF HOLINESS give His own personal witness lo the fact Church is, finally, evangelism. Unless that the work is done. Following this, men and women are brought into the He will guide us into the experience of saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, the heart holiness if we meet the condi Church has failed. The Church must The tions He lays down. never come to believe that it is an end The Bride says, “Come.” The Church in itself. Even keeping the church spirit Sunday-School has only one mission in the world, and ual is not a primary end. Unless our Lesson that is to carry out the purposes of definition of spirituality is such that we Calvary. That purpose was to save men are getting more men and women and FLETCHER from their sins. The Church has car boys and girls to God, our definition GALLOWAY ried on a great educational program. is unscriptural. It has had a great healing ministry, through hospitals and dispensaries. It has been a great social influence, lifting Lesson material is based on International Sunday- School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for Topic for races and nations to a higher plane of Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Septem ber 30: Council of Religious Education, and is used by its life. But the great mission of the permission. The Great Invitation ScRH’TiiRi.: Rev. 3:20; 21:1-22:21 (Printed: Rev. 22:1-5, 14-21) Coi.niN T i n t : The Spirit and the bride say, dome. And let him that heareth sax, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And juhosnci’er will, let REMISS REHFELDT, S ecreta ry him take the irater of life freely (Rev. 22:17). Village Life in India Many times when I have not under stood, when paths seem dark, w’hen the Salvation is the costliest commodity By Mary Harper future looms an uncertain mist before in all the universe. It cost the blood hi a simple, much-worn purple sari. me, I think of little Beekabai, and I of the Son of God; but it is yours free Bcekabai made her way into the small pray, “O Lord, make my raw heart ripe. for the asking. The plan of redemption tent that hot afternoon in Shindkhe- In everything teach me the leadings makes the sharpest and most severe dis ilraja. She had come to the little and guidance of the Holy Spirit.” criminations—those who receive it are prayer meeting that Mcriam Sahib eternally saved and those who reject it My scripture for this time and since are eternally dam ned; but the worst Anderson had imited the lay women has been . . the Holy Ghost, . . . of the church to attend. 1 had watched sinner can be included if he will. It he shall teach you all things. . . .” Bcekabai alter the morning service dur is a gospel for all, but there is only (John 14:26). However complex the one way to get in. Anybody who tries ing the special meetings when she had process, we can have a heart “ripened” given her heart to the Lord. From bits to climb up some other way is a thief and fit to translate Jesus to the hungry and a robber. Its fundam ental issue is of conversation I had learned that she millions in our world today. so sharp and rigid that it is “life” or had never had the privilege of a “death,” but its great saving factor is Christian home. She could not read Revival in P.E.A. and write. And always, wherever she love. Just recently we have seen a real out went she carried a small girl on her The Book of Revelation was the last pouring of the Holy Spirit here in the hip, and always she was smiling. book of the Bible written; it ended llible school. One morning at the open divine revelation. The divine Spirit Today was her first chance to attend ing of theology class, our national pas who inspired John to write told him to a prayer meeting like this. tor told of how Cod had been dealing write, “ I inis.” “If any m an shall add 1 was in my own small tent—baking with him and had showed him his un- unto these things. God shall add unto under the heat of the afternoon sun. sanrtilied heart. '1 he struggle was bitter, him the plagues that are written in this and 1 listened to the words coming from for Satan reminded him that he pas book: and if any m an shall take away the prayer tent closeby. In simple, toral our largest church, but he settled from the words of the book of this clear language Mrs. Anderson gave the it that he would pay the price at any prophecy, God shall take away his part lesson to the little village women. The cost to go all the way with God. There out of the book of life” (Rev. 22:18 19). Holy Spirit hovered over as she prayed was a hush over the room as we Evidently Mary Baker Eddy, and Joseph for God to guide and help each one. listened to his words. We made an Smith, forgot that this was in the Bible. Then the prayer meeting was over altar right then and there, and he came To me, it is a glorious fact, however, and the ever-important moment of and prayed through to a definite ex that after having put in the glorious serving tea to our guests arrived. I perience. His face was radiant as he gospel invitation of verse 17. God closed came out of my tent for tea. We served, told of what God had wrought in his the Book. T h is is it! and then Mrs. Anderson called upon heart. The Spirit says, “Come.” The great Bcekabai to pray. I glanced at the Two days later Pastor James asked ministry of the Holy Spirit in the world women seated on their little mats on lo testify in another class. Conviction is first of all to “take the things” of the ground. Beekabai’s eyes were open came upon hearts and in just a few Jesus and “shew them” unto us. Jesus and she had a very surprised look upon minutes we had placed benches for an even said of Him, “He shall not speak her face. “But, Mcrtam Sahib,” she ex altar and twelve rushed to the front of himself.” He makes the words of claimed, distressed, “I have never prayed lo pray. The service lasted for nearly Jesus living words. H e makes the death before in my life. I don’t know how an hour and a half. Victories were won and resurrection of Jesus a vicarious re to pray.” that morning that we had longed and ality to us. H e quickens our consciences Mrs. Anderson encouraged her to bow prayed for during many long months. and convicts us of sin. If we will co her head and just talk to the Lord. The following Monday in chapel God operate with Him, He will guide us How simple and sincere was her short again broke through in another glorious through all the factors and issues in prayer! One phrase at the closing I altar service with four of our fine young volved and lead us right into the ex cannot forget—“Lord, make my raw men praying through to a definite ex perience of regeneration and then will heart ripe . . .” perience of heart holiness. How we do SEPTEMBER 19. 195B • (083) 15 praise God for these victories! He is L orraine Sch u ltz, Portuguese East of holiness as You would if You were building His Church for tomorrow!— Africa. District Superintendent.” Looking for leads may cause us great inconvenience. One December a Mrs. Baird called me. She told of a friend HOME MISSIONS who had $500.00 he would like to invest in a holiness church in Moore- _ 4 j ______i* it jhJ__i_fix__ l____ IL NEW CHURCHES OVERSEAS FIELDS CHURCH EXTENSION MINORITY GROUPS IN U.S. land, Oklahoma. I had written Mrs. Baird frequently about a church in ROY F. SMEE, S ecreta ry this town of 811. I had m ade six visits and sanctified, and then organize them to the com m unity trying to find leads New Churches into a new church. When we reach our for a new church. W hen she told me On August 19 Dr. V. H. Lewis or 1.000 goal, we will have that many more of this individual wishing to make a ganized a new church at Columbus, pulpits for the preaching of the Word; contribution to the church. I immedi Texas, at the request of District Super 1.000 m ore Sunday-school units for the ately endeavored to reach him. intendent Leon Chambers for the Gulf teaching of the Word: another 1.000 The country was under the grip of Central District. A pastor has been places for the purpose of religious serv a blizzard. It was two days before appointed and the Houston District is ices; facilities for many thousands of Christmas, yet I drove the round trip assisting in the purchase of property revivals; a greater opportunity to reach of about five hundred miles over ice for a church building. This is our the unchurched for Christ; and 1,000 and snow, across dirt roads and icy first new church in our Negro work more congregations to shoulder a world hills, and once at the man’s home I for this new quadrennium. wide responsibility for the lost. New explained to him what we were en churches for this purpose arc not sinful, deavoring to do in home missions. I District Superintendent \V. E. Albea for in this our motive is pure. showed him our plan for raising money, has organized a new church at Wren. If we are to find leads lor new what we had planned to do in his Ohio, on the Western Ohio District. churches we must be looking for them. community, and what we could do if A fine group of holiness people have One reason we do not have more he started our fund with this generous been conducting their own services for churches—the reason we do not see and contribution, lie was convinced that about three years and have erected a find more leads—is because too many we meant business and did not require lovely church edifice at a cost of .815.- of us have not looked for these leads. us to sign a contract. T h is lead not 000.00. Their association with Nazareue True, they are covered. Often they are only opened up the field to this new ministers brought about a decision to shrouded by a cloak of mystery and church, but the man united with us unite with the Church of the Nazarcne it will take real endeavor to uncover and pledged his tithe, which averages and the details were worked out by them. Many of us could pray the fol about SI.000.00 a year. His wife and Rev. J. Wesley Sherrill, chairman of lowing prayer with profit: “Lord, give their fine familv have all joined the the Lima Zone. Rev. Floyd A. Simian me a deeper insight into the spiritual Church of the Nazarenc. They are is pastor of the new church and the needs of the communities near me. helping us carry on the work in their prospects for the future are very good. Open my eyes, mind, and heart to see, community. It was at great incon At the Superintendents’ Conference to understand, and to make use of the venience that I followed the lead, but in January, 1951, Rev. M ark R. Moore, open doors about me. Do not let me the results were well worth it. who was at that time superintendent stumble haphazardlv over pleading pos I am convinced that if we look for of the Northwest Oklahoma District, sibilities. Give me grace and courage leads we will find them. read an excellent paper in the field to establish the Kingdom for the spread (To be continued, October 3) of home missions. We anticipate the greatest home missionary strides the church has ever made in the quad rennium that has just begun, and the ideas of this paper are timely and pertinent for our present effort. We are therefore presenting the paper in several installments through this column of the H erald o f H o i.inf.ss with minor editing to fit our present quadrennium. A Great Big Thanks! You have given me far more of love Finding Leads and consideration than I have ever been For New Churches As most of the readers of the H erald able to repay. know, I bowed out at the recent General Twelve years is a big chunk out of By Mark R. Moore N.Y.P.S. Convention as general youth one’s life. There will not be many more When we talk of new churches, our secretary. We are in the process right such periods to give to God and the immediate task is to find leads for now of turning the reins over to the church. I shall never expect to live one thousand churches, and, following very capable and youth-loving, newly through a like period that will bring these leads, organize new churches until elected secretary, Rev. Ponder Gilliland. any more happiness and more sheer we reach our goal. This is not the end I should like to take this opportunity joy of service than these have brought. within itself, neither as to number nor to thank vou. the N.Y.P.S.. and the* as to motive. We must not cease our church for the privilege which has been When 1 stop to think that there will labors with one thousand. We must mine the past twelve years to serve you. be those entering the N.Y.P.S. this year continue our program of evangelism You arc a wonderful group, you have who were born the first year I was in until every city, town, and hamlet has been patient, you have been thoughtful, office, it makes me realize that the years been given a thorough opportunity to you have been co-operative, you have have slipped by. There is no argument respond to the teachings, experience, and made my job easy because of your spirit I can find which will justify my claim life of holiness. and your enthusiasm. You have been ing to be a youth am ong you any longer. Our primary purpose is to lead peo gracious and generous to me as I have Any that I have used w ith the passing ple into salvation, see that they arc saved had occasion to come to vour districts. of the years just will not work now. lfi (684) • HERALD OF HOLINESS courageously elected me as the General young people iu about every situation, N.Y.P.S. secretary, this was one problem in their local churches, at camps, at which bothered me. 1 knew that one conventions, at zone rallies, at our You and your of my responsibilities was to represent schools, and in their homes. I want the General N.Y.P.S. on all of the dis to report that I have not in these twelve tricts to which 1 was invited, and I years run into the kind of situation dreaded getting into some of the areas about which I had been fearful. It tells that I had heard about. What will I do? me this: it just docs not exist! Our W hat will I say? IIovv will 1 handle a young people love God; they love the situation such as this? church with its beliefs, its standards, its 1 want to report that long since I quit history, its emphasis. We are doing a worrying about this. In these twelve better job today, I am convinced, of years I have been on all but three of saving more of our young people, a the sixty-six. districts in the United greater percentage of our young people, States and Canada, and several places to Christ and the church than ever be outside of this area. I have seen our fore in our historv. The December 22 issue of “Life” magazine was devoted entirely to Christianity—and there was not a liquor ad in it. Why? Maybe the editors thought it would be inappropriate, as indeed it would have been. At any rate, write and "SHOWERS OF BLESSING" Stations congratulate them on this issue on Christianity and ivithout liquor. In Southwest Educational Zone Tell them that liquor ads are in appropriate in any issue of any mag azine concerned with the public welfare. They would not promote the Communists or peddlers of narcotics merely because there ivas money in it. Promoting the distillers and Call Letters City Kc or Me". Time breivers is just as bad, maybe icorse. A rizona Ask them to join Reader’s Digest KCKY Coolidge 1150 kc 9:00 a.m. Sunday (American issue), Ladies’ Home KDJI H olbrook 1270 kc 9:00 a.m. Sunday jo u rn a l, th e Saturday Evening Post, KY l'M Yuma 560 kc 7:15 a.m. Sunday and others in refusing liquor ads. C olorado W rite to: KRLN Canon City 1400 kc 9:00 a.m. W ednesday Henry Luce, E d ito r, “L ife” M agazine KWBY Colorado Springs 710 kc 7:30 a.m. Sunday 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20, N.Y. KDTA Delta 1400 kc 9:30 a.m. Sunday Kenneth S. Rice, S ec reta ry k lT M Fort Morgan 1260 kc 8:15 a.m. Sunday COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MORALS C alifornia RlliS Bishop 1230 kc 12:30 p.m. Sunday KYOR Blythe 1450 kc 9:45 a.m. Sunday KROP Brawley 1300 kc 8:15 a.m. Sunday It has been aptly said that old soldiers R C H f Delano 1010 kc 9:15 a.m. Sunday k 11 M Eureka 1480 kc 8:30 a.m. Sunday never die. I surely hope that this law KR1.D-FM Eureka 96.3 meg. 8:30 a.m. Sunday applies to me. 1 am sure you will all KCHV Indio 970 kc ' 9:00 a.m. Sunday readily admit, however, that this one K Ii I I'.-I'M Modesto 103.3 meg. 2:30 p.m. Sunday has definitely already faded. KSll. Needles 1310 kc 8:45 a.m. Sunday * I should like to report that I believe K SIiW Salinas 1380 kc in the young people of our church. I KRNO San B ernardino 1240 kc 8:45 a.m. Sunday KTKR Sunday am not discouraged; I am optimistic. T aft 1310 kc 8:30 a.m. KAGR Yuba City 1450 kc 10:30 a.m. Sunday I see many evidences which prove to KUI1A Yuba City 1600 kc 6:00 p.m. Sunday me that they love God and love the N e w M exico church. Allow me to describe it this ROUE A lbuquerque 860 kc 8:15 a.m. Sunday way: I was raised in the Northwest, was KAVE Carlsbad 1240 kc 8:45 a.m. Sunday saved and sanctified, received my school RLMX Clayton 1450 kc 9:45 a.m. Sunday ing, and began my ministry there. On KOBE Las Cruces 1450 kc 9:00 a.m. Sunday two or three occasions there were those KEUN Las Vegas 1230 kc 8:15 a.m. Sunday who came out our way who implied KI.E V Lovington 630 kc 8:45 a.m. Sunday that there were areas of our church KENM Portales 1450 kc 7:30 a.m. Sunday KCHS Tuesday where the young people were backslid Truth or Conseqiuences 1400 kc 3:00 p.m. KTNM T ucum rari 1100 kc 7:30 a.m. Sunday den, where they were living below the standards of the church and were not H aw aii KH15C H ilo 970 kc 12:00 m. Sunday being true to the heritage of the church. KHBC, Hilo 970 kc 9:30 a.m. Sunday Frankly, I was bothered. I had not been KGMH H onolulu 590 kc 9:30 a.m. Sunday around the church and I thought maybe WTTV Johnston Island 1250 kc 2:00 p.m. Sunday this was so. I did wonder, however, WTTV Johnston Island 1250 kc 11:45 p.m. Sunday what kind of religion it was that these RAM Kaneohe, Oahu 1150 kc 12:00 m. Sunday Nazarenes preached when I was the KMVI Wailuku, Maui 550 kc 2:45 p.m. Sunday only one who could get it and keep it. Consult local newspaper or radio station for exact information. When the General Convention of 1944 at Minneapolis so graciously and SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (685) 17 Servicemen's Corner 4 ••a Conducted WHITE, Edit or What became of Mary, the mother of Jesus, after the Ascension? I can find no account of her whereabouts after this event. A lso , I would like to know Chaplain Leroy A. Bevan from Merccr who Mary’s mother teas. Island, Washington, who is serving as a There is no mention of Mary’s mother when or how she diet!. Many legends transport chaplain, was recently pro in the llible. We hear nothing about have grown up about her. but. they moted from Lt. Jg. to l.t. (Senior Marv, the mother of Jesus, after the gi\e us no authentic information. C.rade) . This official word was received Ascension (Acts 1:11). We do not know prior to his departure from Seattle. W ashington, Julv 31, 1!V>(>. What is the interpretation of Heb. 12:17? * * * One authority would conned the would connect the statement with ac Chaplain Albert /,. Gamble writes words “though he sought it carefully tual, evangelical repentance; would in from Korea: with tears” with the first part of the sist that Esau, though he sought it with "I must tell you of a miraculous an verse, and it would read like this: tears, failed to get it. I cannot accept swer to prayer in regard to three of our “For ye know how that afterward, when the last interpretation, for it takes the fellows who had been court-martialed he would have inherited the blessing, verse completely out of its context. for an offense and received the sentence he was rejected: though he sought it Dr. H . O rton Wiley discusses this verse of one year and a bad-conduct discharge. carefully with tears.” In the light of in the Herald of Hoi.im ss for Novem All of them turned to Jesus Christ in this interpretation, this verse would ber 10, 1954. H e begins his explanation their hour of desperation, and it was refer strictly to the blessing, or in thus: “Whatever mav have been the my privilege to lead them into an ex heritance, and have nothing to do with eternal destiny of Esau, this is not the perience of salvation and to baptize the relation between God and a lost subject of discourse here. The question them. All of them seemed like good soul. Then there are those who would here is the sale of his birthright, which fellows who had just forgotten God and say that these words have to do with a having disposed of in a moment of got all mixed up. Through prayer, change of mind in Isaac; that is, Esau weakness, lie could ne\er again obtain, clemency was granted and the whole was seeking for it, and sought for it in however bitter his repentance.” l)r. sentence was suspended. Two of these vain. Isaac had come to the conclusion Wiley and 1 do not exdude the pos fellows have walked consistently with that it was God’s will for Jacob to sibility of committing the unpardon Christ for the past two months and the have the blessing, and he refused steadilv able sin, but we do not believe that other, who was saved just three weeks to hear Esau’s plea, even though it this verse about Esau means that he ago. has given a wonderful testimony was made with tears. A third group was guiltv of it. in almost everv service of His faith and salvation. They have brought many Will a person in the darkest part of the lands which have never been reached of the other fellows in and have been by the gospel of Christ go to hell if he dies? instruments in others finding Christ. Not if he followed the light of nature, would have been no light of conscience, Despite the fact that the number of or conscience. However. 1 believe that or nature, and no power to follow that personnel on this base is being reduced, the chances that he would do this are dim light. Apart from all of this, we our attendance is holding up and in almost zero. But someone might say are obligated to give the full revelation the one chapel it has steadily risen over that to open such a possibility is to of the gospel of Jesus Christ to him the past three months from an average hold that there is salvation ap art from who has not yet received it. because of twenty-five to fifty or more on Sun Jesus Christ and 11 is death. I do not of his desperate need and our inability day. We started an evening service for agree with this contention. If there had to make it to heaven without doing it. evangelistic purposes two weeks ago and been no grate through Christ, there had twenty-two and thirty respectively for the first two services. All of our men What teas Paul's infirmity? W as it his eyes? Gal. 4:13-15 reads like it might are praying for a spiritual awakening have been. Does he refer to the same thing when he mentions a thorn in in our revival or preaching mission.” the flesh in If Cor. 12:7-9? Are there other references U'hieh give light on * * + this? “In regard to your sending the papers Undoubtedly Paul’s thorn in the flesh holding that it was a form of recurring to me, I am a long way from home is the same as his infirmity of the flesh malarial fever. However, the explana in the United States Air Force, and am —the first referred to in II Corinthians tion which has been most widely ac very happy to get the literature. I ap 12 and the second in Galatians 4. Prac cepted attributes it to a diseased con preciate it very much. It is very hard tically all Bible authorities believe that dition of the eyes. People base this living a Christian life, but I find I can Paul is talking about a bodily ailm ent conclusion largely on (ial. 0:11: Acts with the help of Cod. Even though in these references. One man has tried 23:5: and Gal. 1:13-15. I like this theory life is hard at times, Christ always at some length to prove that it was best. T h is much we do know for certain, seems to be there with us day by day. epilepsy—that Paul was at limes subject Paul asked to be delivered from this I also find that by giving Christ my all to epileptic attacks, but there have infirmity three times, but God did not 1 have been much happier. Praise Him been few who have accepted this view. grant his request Mf ( or. 12:7-9). for all He has done for me! Even in Some have joined Sir Wm. Ramsav in the service He helps us to grow closer to Him each day. Thank you all very Are the words “Spare the rod and spoil the child” in the Bible? much for sending the literature.”— The words “Spare the rod and spoil his son: but he that lovetli him F i .o r f.n c f R iv e r s. the child” are not in the Bible. How chastcncth him betimes.” The second ever, Prow 13:21 and 29:15 express reads thus: “The rod and reproof give somewhat the same thought. The first wisdom: b u t a child left to himself says: “He that sparcth his rod hatctli bringcth his mother to shame." 18 (686) • HERALD OF HOLINESS NEWS Dr. and Mrs. A. S. London report: Menomonie, Wisconsin—T h r o tigli - served successfully for over twenty years. “Pastor Milton Poole saw 2(54 in Sunday o u t the \ear at Forest Center Church I am now available for Bible conferences, school at our J irst Church in Lubbock. we have seen God meet the needs of revivals, etc. God has blessed our min Texas, during our convention. The many people here at the altar of prayer. istry in the past in this our chosen field, church is now located on a $30,000.00 During Youth Week, Rev. and Mrs. and our messages along holiness, pro lot with a S I75,000.00 property; it is a James Raniiin of Fan Claire ministered phetic, and evangelistic lines have been credit to the city and our church. to us in song and message. In July, appreciated. I am an elder on the North Pastor Poole is courteous, kind, and l.vangelist John W. Flarrold was with west District, and have evangelistic com highly appreciated; an excellent pastor. us lor a meeting. T he Holy Spirit hon mission. I am now making up my slate It was a thrill to see more than twenty ored his unique illustrations, holiness- for the fall and winter and through '57; people pledge to help build, or teach, centered. heart-searching messages and will be glad to go anywhere the Lord in new Sunday-school classes. Mrs. deep passion for souls, and many souls may direct. Write me, 2417 ‘C’ Street, Poole is the granddaughter of our late found definite help in God. The church Selma, California.” ‘Uncle B ud’ R obinson; her m other, board gave him a unanimous call to re ‘Little Sally’ as ‘Uncle Bud’ used to turn. We praise God for these good folk Rev. L. M. Seay writes: ‘‘I am an call her, was in our convention.” and their ministry. Forest Center is ordained elder, also a commissioned again more than a "10 per cent” church. evangelist on the Dallas District; have Our people have been good to us and served as pastor in Texas for some fif Evangelist Jimmie Allen writes that he have given us another fine vote to stay teen years, and also as an evangelist is now returning to the U.S.A. and will on.—D a m Sidle, Pastor. part time. I am now working full time resume his regular revival work, begin in the evangelistic field, and making up ning with a m eeting in Lawrence, Kan Rev. Maurice F. Gordon writes: “Alter my slate. 1 will be in my home church sas. in September. Write him, c/o the serving our church in Colfax, Washing in Garland for a meeting closing Octo publishing house, P.O. Box 527, Kansas ton, for several years. I am re-entering ber 7. Write me, 105 Washington. Gar City 41, Missouri. the evangelistic field, where I have land. Texas.” T uesday: reports of others' findings, but you will "How do 1 know there is a God? do your own exploring and make your And il there is. w hat does He expect own rich discoveries. (Luke 11:9-10.) of me?" The one way to find out— jh ou qh t and incidentally to learn whether your F riday: question is "honest doubt” or evasive "Fine ideals, but not practical— quibbling—is to come straight to Him Christ's standards.” “I'd rather not pro to listen (not argue) and obey. He fess anything than be a hypocrite.” will deal personally—surprisingly—with “People who don’t claim to be religious for the^)ay you if you will deal personally with live better than a lot of . . Don't Him; He will not answer a mild idle cheat your Lord, nor let yourself be curiosity. (John 7:17.) cheated, by secondhand stuff. Take Jesus' twofold law of love in earnest. W edn esday: It is workable, to His honor, when you "How do 1 know Christianity is the work it. (Mark 12:29-31; M att. 7:24. 29.) by BERTHA MUNRO one Wav, superior to other world re ligions?" One approach is to look at ils S atu rday: claims as compared with theirs. Why “Entire sanctification—a big word—is Hearsay? take the partial, the shadow, when the there stub an experience? If so, how perfect, the substance, is available? But and when?” No need to wander in the Monday: this leaves you still an outsider. The rat-maze of what others say about it, "Sayest tliou this thing of thyself, proof is the complete transformation whether rejecting or accepting. Open or did others tell it thee?” (John 18: that simple trust in the person Christ your heart and life directly to God. 34.) Dorothy Sayers, well-known liter will make in you. Jesus himself said lake every step He lets you know. ary critic, points out that the essence this new birth is the one road in. Don’t be pushed into any insincere act, of Christianity is “particularity.” Christ's (John 3:3.) but don’t lag behind. In His time and His way you will see for yourself your Church is m ade up of "single and p a r T hursday: ticular persons," each one related to need and His willingness. Put these to Prayer—what is it, and what does it Him by way of a firsthand encounter gether, and you have the experience do? Shelves of books analyze prayer. ‘‘Is with a personal God. that is knowledge. (Rom. 12:1-2.) prayer just a steadying, morale-building Too many even of us who tall our exercise? Or a rapid SOS convenience Su nday: selves His are still living on other peo for tight spots? Does God really work Everyone is entitled to his own "unc ple's knowledge—only half certain. miracles in response to prayer? Even tion." He can know for himself the (Af er all, to learn to swim you have the miracle of changing a stubborn things that really matter. This is the to jump in yourself.) This matter of man’s mind?” Try and see. When glory of our wonderful salvation. We your soul's eternity is too important to prayer becomes your “vital breath,” you have access by faith—the faith that in be left to hearsay. will be encouraged and challenged bv sists on proving. (I John 2:20.) SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (687) 19 Columbia, Sou t h Carolina—Grate as president; Rev. G ordon Belzer, vice- Church enjoyed an annual home-coming president; Mrs. Gordon Belzer, secretary; What an array of clay on August 5, with special all-day and Rev. Rudy Sauter, treasurer. Re services. A revival began in the evening ports of the societies were all character with Rev. Hugh Hill of Charleston Cen ized by higher goals being aimed at for Mu$ic and tral Church as the evangelist. His in the coming year. spirational messages were of great help Special speakers for the convention to the church, and several souls prayed were Evangelist Clayton Bailey and Rev. Program Materials through at the altar. On Sunday after Eel. Dowel, paslor at N ew port, Oregon. noon, August 12, our church had a joint Brother Dowel was the institute instruc for Fall and Christmas baptismal service with West Columbia tor. using the book The (.olden Stairs. First Church. A nursery has been added bv John E. Riley. Brother Bailey brought PROGRAM BUILDERS • SERVICES to the church, and the church audito message's daily, both m orning and eve rium painted. We hope to go to the ning. The institute was climaxed with PAGEANTS • CANTATAS assembly with all budgets paid.— H. (i. more than one hundred young people CAROL BOOKS • PIANO MUSIC Ci. \v io \, Paslor. rising and marching single file up the A ll described in F R E E 12-page booklet hill early Friday morning for a great Send for your copy now Pastor Herbert Thompson writes: communion service.—J o h n A. F i.oyvi.rs, Ask for "FALL & CHRISTMAS 1956" "Coming to Jackson alter the Alabama Rc porter. District Assembly we found a group of NEW PUBLICATIONS faithful Nazarcncs who were carrying a burden for lost souls. In our first board Cullman, Alabama—In August our for Thanksgiving . . . meeting we made plans for a revival church had a very successful revival with meeting with Rev. J. 11. King. God Rev. V. S. Rushing as special worker. used the Spirit-anointed messages of God honored Brother Rushing’s minis OUR GRATITUDE Brother King, and some twenty people try and twenty-nine souls sought the 20c praved through to victory. with five Lord at the altar of prayer, (iod gave A 16-page booklet of care joining the church. T h e people* gave wondc'rful victory, and we have received fully selected and graded the* paslor a love.* offering of fillv dol a good number into church membership. Thanksgiving recitations, ex lars. and the* board voted us an increase We thank (iod for His blessings on First ercises, and songs for all in salarv. Our church is united and we C hurch.—A. M. P r i t t t . Paslor. ages are going forward to win souls lor C hrist.” North Carolina Boys’ and Girls’ Camp South Arkansas District The fourth annual North Carolina for Christmas . . . . N.Y.P.S. Camp and Institute Junior camp for boys and girls was I he fourth annual South Arkansas held July ‘>0 to August 3 at Lake Lure- THE BELLS District N.Y.P.S. camp and institute was crcst. North Carolina. We had an en RING OUT 20c held August 1 to 17. at ( amp Couch- rollment of 150 campers; an overflow dalc. Hot Springs. crowd, along with -12 workers who were Pageant particularly suit Rev. Curtis Smith, field representative interested enough to give of their time able for Junior and Intermedi for Bethanv Nazarene College, was I lie and talent for the work of the Lord. ate ages. Requires approxi special speaker for the camp, and was Rev. Allen Richardson, camp direc mately forty children, of mightily used of (iod as 110 young tor, was at his best, working out all which twenty are used in people bowed at the altar of pravcr the details beforehand, so we had a the choirs. Time, one hour. seeking (iod for salvation or sane til na smooth-running camp. tion. Our speakers were two of the very Rev. and Mrs. George Andrews were best: Rev. William Ardrv, chapel CHRISTMAS in charge of the music, with one of the speaker and planner of the Bible study PROGRAM Bethanv Nazarene College quartets as to be followed, and Rev. John Soloky, guests for two da vs. night speaker. Both are pastors on the BUILDER No. 9 35c The N.Y.P.S. convention was held tlu* district. More than one hundred boys The new book in this first day of camp and moved along ven and girls bowed at the altar of prayer, famous thirteen-year-old smoothly. With District Superintendent seeking (iod for saving grace or sancti series. Graded spiritual ma fying power. All o u r boys and girls terial for all ages from four W. L. I rene h presiding. Bob Linellcy years to adult. Songs, reci was elected as district president, with went home testifying to victory.—D a v id tations, exercises, readings, a good margin on the second ballot. M. Cox. Reporter. etc., compiled by Grace Ram- quist. Oilier officers elected were: Eugene Twining, vice-president; Robert Nye. Iowa District treasurer; Jack Abbott, secretary; Dick Young People’s Convention Jarrell, teen-age supervisor; George An Our district N.Y.P.S. convention was By popular request, we have held on August 11. in conjunction with reissued drews, supervisor of boys’ and girls' work; Harrell Clinton Lucky and Ruth the annual assembly and camp, on the CHRISTMAS Ann Me Clung, teen-age representatives; district grounds, near West Des Moines. PROGRAM and Wavman Davis as chairman of in Rev. F. E. W hit latc h ably presided. Rev. James Adams delivered the BUILDER No. 1 35c stitute and camp.—J a c k A b b o t t . Secre tary . morning dc*votional message, and Rev. One of the most useful and (.cue Phillips, our district superin satisfying program aids ever tendent. introduced the new quadren printed. Now available after North Dakota District an absence of ten years. Just Annual N.Y.P.S. Convention nial them e in a stirring message at the as valuable today as when it I he forty-second annual meeting ofopening of the afternoon session. was first published. Complete your "Program Builder" li the North Dakota District young people Rev. F. E. W hitlatch was re-elected brary with this book. was held at Sawyer. June 30. in conjunc district president with a splendid vote tion with the district camp meeting and of confidence; Rev. A1 Foster was re young people’s institute. elected vice-president; Miss Irene Many other interesting items listed in " F A L L & CHRISTMAS 19 5 6 ." A postal card w ill The convention and institute were Greenlee was re-elected secretary; and bring your FR EE copy. carried on under the able leadership of Rev. Walter At tig is the treasurer. Rev. Claire W. Kern, district N.Y.P.S. Fhis has been a good year for the president. Mrs. Harrv 1’. Taplin, wife Iowa young people; 3 new societies were Nazarene Publishing House of our fine district superintendent, organized, with a net gain in member 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri brought a brief devotional message at ship of 82. and a total of SI0.505.00 was Washington at Bresee, Pasadena 7, California the beginning of the morning session. raised. 1592 Bloor S t., W ., Toronto 9, Ontario Rev. Claire W. Kern was re* e lec ted Flic presentation of two Olivet Col- 20 (688) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Mrs. Minnie Hoffert and Rev. Marion Holloway were elected as presidents of the district N.I .M.S. and the N.Y.l’.S. ■ i - Notice to Pastors The climax of the assembly came The General Stewardship Com at a most gracious outpouring of the mittee is making available again this Spirit upon the ministry of l)r. Van- | n t R E R S E year a phonograph record (78 rpm) derpool in the ordination service, when for use in local churches. This is de five candidates received elder's orders: signed to aid in publicizing the Paul E. Ambi'o, Richard H. Cochran, your Christian ministry. Thanksgiving Offering. Janies K. Palmer, William S. Pirtle, and S * Darrell W. St. Geimne. "/ Jj On one side General Superintend M issouri District moves on!— Reporter. Through the Distribution of ; ent Young will speak to the church. Christ-honoring Greeting On the other side, Rev. Samuel Bhuj- Cards bal, district superintendent of our Wisconsin District 1957 Scripture Text , work in India, will give his testi Assembly and Camp mony and relate some facts about Calendars our work. It will be a challenge to The twenty-first annual assembly of Table Prayer Napkins. / ; hear these men speak to your people. the Wisconsin District was held August and Place Mats 9 and 10 at Camp Byron, Oakfield. The playing time of the record is For the past nine years the assembly about five minutes for each side. It had been held in conjunction with the W/ufc todaub i ouhmefum , can be used in your church service annual camp meeting. as an announcement, or in Sunday Dr. Hugh C. Benner was the camp school, N.Y.P.S., N.F.M.S., or prayer ditiPiiht/M doicoiudlf evangelist as well as the presiding of f m eetings. ficer of the assembly. His forceful and This record will be sent to you free Spirit-anointed messages proved to us NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE of charge upon REQUEST, provided that our general superintendents arc 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Mq. you will help to get it into three other able evangelists as well as efficient ex nearby churches. Make your request ecutives of the church. * AT ONCE while the supply lasts. Dr. Charles A. Gibson presented his Records will be sent to reach you thirty-fourth report as a Nazarene dis sometime during the week of Octo trict superintendent, his twelfth as banner! After a period of great rejoicing ber 8. superintendent of the Wisconsin Dis it was suggested that we set the new trict. These years have given to Wis goal at $25,000.00, and the assembly SEND REQUEST TO: adopted that goal enthusiastically. At General Stewardship Committee consin a leader with wisdom and unsurpassed experience. The high point a suggestion from Dr. Gibson, the pas 6401 The Paseo tors increased their fixed General Kansas City 10, Missouri of his report was dramatically presented in the N.F.M.S. convention, which pre Budget to a total of $22,000,00. This S. T. Ludwig ceded the assembly by two days. In figure represents a 100 per cent increase Stewardship Secretary the 1955 convention the missionary over the am ount raised in 1954-55. society displayed a banner which pic The true spirit of unity on the dis tured the islands of the sea (represent trict was demonstrated as Dr. Gibson ing the world-wide need of evangeliza was re-elected district superintendent on lege scholarships and a very successful tion) with hands reaching out of the the first ballot, receiving only one neg talent contest were other interesting water; the caption read, “They Reach ative vote. The assembly joyfully pre high lights of the convention. Best of to Us.” Dr. Gibson counted the hands sented the Gibsons with a substantial all was the knowledge of the abiding on the banner—nineteen; then he love offering. Other district officers presence of the Spirit of God through pleaded with the assembly to accept elected were: Mrs. C. A. Gibson, out.—I v an A. B i a i .s, Reporter. the challenge of raising §1,000.00 for N.F.M.S. president; Rev. Edwin Sim each hand. When the report was mons, N.Y.P.S. president; and Rev. D. J. Missouri District Assembly brought in this year we found we had Gibson, district church schools chair raised a total of S21.206.43! W hat a man. The forty-sixth annual assembly of shout of praise arose from the assembly the Missouri District was held at l'ine- The Ambassadors Quartet from Olivet as two more hands were placed on the crest District Center. Frederick town, Nazarene College were the song evan- August 1 and 2. Dr. D. I. Vandcrpool presided with ease and grace, challeng ing the district in his own inimitable way to greater things for God and the church. His anointed messages were an THERE’S STILL TIME inspiration and blessing. Our greatly appreciated district super intendent, Dr. K. D. Simpson, presented TO BE INCLUDED! a wonderful report. In his ten years of superintendency of the district, out Clip and Mail This Order Blank NOW 'I standing accomplislnncnls have been achieved. Gains along every line were NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE 2923 Troost, Box 527 reported by the pastors and district Kansas City 41, Missouri officers, with spiritual advance indicated as well as statistical growth. Dr. Simp Please reserve ------copies of the FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY son received a w onderful vote, and lie JOURNAL to be sent IMMEDIATELY upon date of publication (approximately and Mrs. Simpson were given a fine October 1). Printing to be determined by number of orders received. offering in appreciation of their untir PROPOSED PRICE, $2.00 ing labors. Olivet Nazarcne College was repre N a m e ______sented by Rev. John Swearengen, field secretary; Miss Helen Greenlee, soloist; Street ______and Miss Martha Reed, pianist. 'I'lie total giving exceeded $(570,000.00. C i t y ------Zone______uf which S57.480.00 was for the Gen State ______eral Budget, and the district is now oxer the ">.000 mark in membership. $------Amount enclosed [ j Charge to my accounl SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 • (689) 21 gclists in our camp, and were appre had seen—many limes we were unable present debt of around §10,000.00. The ciated for their talented singing and fine to accommodate the people who came. church enjoyed a healthy and consistent Christian spirit. Miss Helen Greenlee, From the early morning prayer meeting growth during our ministry. We had a Miss Martha Reed, and Rev. John until the last service in the evening, good missionary convention last spring Swearengen presented the news and the people co-operated and a wonderful with Miss Mary Scott, and an evange needs of Olivet Nazarene College. Dr. spirit prevailed. Prayer had been an listic meeting in May with Evangelists Erwin G. Benson was a successful sales swered and the people rejoiced. Harry and Esther Carlsen. The Lord man for our Nazarene Publishing House, Again and again the prcaching and greatly blessed their ministry in music as well as a brother beloved among singing of the special workers lifted us and preaching, and whole families were us. into the heavenlies until, with the vic saved and united with the church. A fine spirit of unity prevailed, and a love Wisconsin is wonderfully united un torious shouting of the people, the evangelist could no longer preach; upon offering from the church made it pos der the leadership of Dr. C. A. Gibson, sible for the pastor and wife to attend and is solidly back of the whole pro invitation, seekers came and filled the long altar. i lie General Assembly. Feeling it was gram of the Church of the Nazarene.— God's will we accepted a call to the D. J . G ib s o n , Reporter. The tide rose higher and higher in each service, climaxing on the last Highland church, and at the farewell gathering about seventy people came to Sunday night in a scene never to be for Western Ohio District Camp wish their pastor God's blessings as he gotten by those present. God’s leader On Sunday night, August 5, Western moved to his new field." Ohio District closed one of the greatest ship was evident from the opening song camp meetings in its history, with Dr. scrvice. The glory of God came upon Mendell Taylor and Dr. L. T. Wells, the people with such shouting in old- Dallas District evangelists, and Calvin and Marjorie time, camp-meeting style and continued Assembly and Camp Jantz as the singers and musicians. until, instead of preaching, Dr. Taylor The forty-eighth annual assembly of The crowds surpassed anything we began to exhort the people, calling the Dallas District was held in conjunc seekers to the altar. They came from tion with the seventieth annual gather all over the tabernacle, filling the long ing of the Scottsville camp at Scottsvillc, altar. As one group of seekers prayed Texas. August 13 lo 19. The presence through, another call was given, others of God's Holy Spirit was felt throughout came and claimed victory, and others the services as God's servants brought came—this continued until it was im messages of truth lo the people. possible lo count the number who camc Dr. Hugh G. Benner presided at the to the altar. The large congregation business sessions with dignity and poise, remained, gazing in amazement at the and won the hearts of the people with scene. Dr. Taylor said he had never his aggressive altitude and spirit. His seen anything like it; and Dr. Wells messages dealing with the Church were said he had not seen anything like it truly blessed of God. in more than thirty years. Our good district superintendent, Dr. Thank God—He is the same today! Paid H. Garrett, was re-elected with a —I r a R. A k e r s, Reporter. strong vole. His report showed gains in nearly every department, and four new Dallas District churches were organized during the N.Y.P.S. Convention year. The Dallas District appreciates The Dallas District N.Y.P.S. conven l)r. and Mrs. Garrett, expressing their tion was held on August. 14. Good love with a generous love offering. reports were received from the local so The assembly was preceded by the cieties. Rev. Lawrence Gholson, presi district N.F.M.S. and N.Y.P.S. conven dent for the past two years, is leaving tions, each of which was a time of bless MAY HAVE ONE us to accept a pastorate on the Abilene ing and inspiration. Mrs. Garrett was District; we regret to lose him from our re-elected as N.F.M.S. president, and Our New 1957 district. Rev. Marscllc Knight was elected as The following were elected as officers N.Y.P.S. president. Rev. H . F. Crews, SUNDAY-SCHOOL for the coming year: Rev. C. M. Knight, district church schools chairman, was president; Rev. Milton B. Parrish, vice- in charge of the Sunday-school conven SUPPLY CATALOG president; and Rev. M. A. Wagstaff, tion. 1 lie convention was blessed by secretary-treasurer. the message of Rev. R aym ond McC.lung, has been sent to The Dallas District young people pastor of the North Little Rock, Arkan • your pastor have accepted the challenge to give sas. church; lie challenged us to greater S2.")00.00 to support a home-mission heights. • your superintendent work in the Casa View area of Dallas The ordination service was the high (a rapidly growing residential section) light of the assembly as Dr. Benner . .. and you may this year, and any other advisable area. ordained four men to elder's orders. Manv of our young people were The presence of God was real as Bobby have one also! established in their Christian exper Collins, A. H. Coston, Lee Hillcrv, and iences in the evening services conducted Robert L. Spinks were ordained. by Dr. Ralph Earle. We all feel we Dr. Roy H. Cantrell, president, and a have grown spiritually for attending the quartet represented Bethany Nazarene convention, and we arc trusting the College. The Dallas District appreciates T z e e Lord for a successful year for the Dallas our college and the wonderful work it District young p e o p le— H a ri a n I I . is doing. S h u ty , Reporter. During the week Dr. Ralph Earle Upon Request preached at the camp meeting. His won Rev. H. M. Dafoe reports: "Six years derful messages on holiness were well ago we accepted a call to pastor our received and owned of God. The hearts Chock-full of many new and church in Wayne, Michigan, where the of the people were thrilled from time profitable items of particular in people were worshiping in a basement to time as the Word of God was opened terest to all S u n d a y-school church which had housed them for fif unto us through the ministry of this workers teen years. After liquidating the debt man of God. on the property it was our pleasure to With a spirit to do more for God, see a fine new auditorium completed and a faith that God will help in the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE at a very moderate cost. The church coming year, the delegates and visitors 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri property, including a very fine parson left the campground feeling. God met Washington at Bresee 1592 Bloor St., W. nic h t Pasadena 7, California Toronto 9, Ontario age, is valued at JSC'),000.00; with a with us.—C. M. K . , Reporter. 22 (690) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Wisconsin District HERE'S HOW YOUR PUPILS Young People’s Convention MAY EARN C.S.T. CREDIT The twenty-first annual convention S. S. TEACHER WITH THEIR S.S. LESSONS of the Wisconsin District N.Y.P.S. was held August 11 at Camp Byron, Oak- By studying your lessons regularly ficlcl. with Rev. Kd. Simmons presiding. By attending 10 out of 13 class periods All of the services and sessions were HOW? blessed with an awareness of the pres By reading the recommended books* ence of God. The emphasis of the en During the next three months (October, November, December), tire convention lay in the direction of a when the S.S. lessons are on "The Doctrine and Experience of more spiritual and active young people's WHEN? Entire Sanctification" society. A greater burden for the young In your regular S.S. class by attending 10 out of 13 sessions er members and contacts was evident In your home by studying your lessons and reading the rec as the reporting leaders of the local so WHERE? cieties told of their successes and plans ommended book’ for the teen-agers. Every youth and adult in the Sunday school. A wonderful One of the high lights of the business way to learn more about the doctrine and experience of holi session was the presenting of the new WHO? ness, the cardinal teaching of the Church of the Nazarene. district honor-rating system by Rev. Don Gibson. Prepared under his direction, he explained how the system, consisting of fourteen points, ranging from ma %ecomm.en.cled Reading terial projects in the local church to spiritual exploits in the realm of prayer, covers every phase of the voting per ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION EXPLAINED son's life. Our spirits were lifted and our wills By C. W. RUTH. Excellent supplementary material to the study ■challenged as Dr. H ugh C. Renner spoke helps outlined in your regular lesson quarterly. to us concerning the theme for this Here you will receive a concise, clear-cut explanation on forty-seven year, "We Ought to Obey God.” different phases of practical holiness living. Ren. Kd. Simmons was re-elected as Unit number "Special A," entitled "Entire Sanctification Explained." president for the coming year. The Ill pages, paper 75c members of the council as determined bv the election are as follows: Rev. Miles Finlev, vice-president; Rev. E. W. Order a Personal Copy for Every Member Pannier, secretary; Rev. Dale Sidle, treasurer: Mrs. Joyce Leth. Junior So ciety director; Rev. R. Brunner, boys' and girls' sponsor; Miss Ruth Enoch, high school supervisor: Miss Marilyn FREE REFERENCE GUIDE Kramer and Miss Dorothy Williams, teen-age representatives.—Ei \ri r W. Pan This specially prepared information, indicating which sections in this book \ i i r . Secretary. should be read with each week's lesson, is furnished FREE to all teachers who reg ister their classes (see below). As lessons begin October 7, it is urgent that regis Houston District tration be made IMMEDIATELY. N.Y.P.S. Convention For any additional information, write the Christian Service Training Office, August 7 was the time and Houston 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City 10, Missouri. Oakwood was the place for the conven ing of the Houston District voting peo CLIP AND MAIL TODAY ple's convention. Rev. Van Turman presided efficiently NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE Date ______throughout the convention. He received 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri a wonderful vote of confidence in his re-election to office. The council, in Please s e n d ------copies of ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION EXPLAINED (75c) to: behalf of the district societies, presented Name -______Brother Turman with a beautiful wrist watch. S t r e e t ______Dr. and Mrs. Janette Aycock were C ity ------Zone ______State ______the special workers, and proved a great $______Amount Enclosed blessing to all. Dr. Aycock’s messages were both practical and inspiring, and CHARGE TO: □ Church Q S.S. □ Personal Account Mrs. Aycock added to the services with NOTE: If charge is NOT personal, give location and name of church the directing of the singing and the Location of C h u rch ______very w onderful solos. Name of Church______Reports from the local societies re vealed a year of progress, for which we SEND BILL TO: humbly praise God. Rev. A. L. Payne was re-elected \iie president, along with Mrs. Marlon S t r e e t ______Salter as secretary, and Mrs. Ralph C ity ------Z o n e______S ta t e ______Wright as treasurer.—llcporter. REGISTRATION FOR C.S.T. CREDIT DEATHS N am e------______------S t r e e t ------REV. VERNON EMOL LEDBETTER Vernon E . Ledbetter, age forty-one, was born at City ------Zone ------S ta t e ______Fargo, Oklahoma, and died June 7 at Hydro, Okla Local C h u rc h ______homa, after being hospitalized for nearly ten months. He married Miss Ada Looper in 1938, and a son, Expected Class Enrollm ent______Jimmie Paul, came to bless their home in 1947. He served thirty-four months in the U .S. Navy and S?nd ------REFERENCE GUIDES (one to each teacher) saw action in several major battles in the Pacific theater in World War I I . He felt a call to preach Vid attended. Bethany Na/arene Colleqe, graduating Lessons Begin in Just Two Weeks—Order AT ONCE SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 « (691) 23, September 19, 1956 =t±±fc bright; three sons and one daughter were born to this union. Some years following the death of his first wife, he was married to Susan E . Horst; four sons were born to this marriage. His second wife FOLLOW THIS SPECIAL HOLINESS SERIES preceded him in death by three months; and a son, Paul, six months earlier. He is survived by seven EACH DAY OF THE QUARTER children: Dr. Roy E . Swim of Kansas City; Floyd, Margaret, Kenneth, E arl, Eugene, J r ., Marvin; a stepson, J . Eber Horst; and two brothers. Funeral service was held in the Newton church with Rev. Clifton Norell, pastor, in charge, assisted by Rev. COME YE APART Wilson R. Lanpher of Hutchinson. Daily devotional comments based on the Sunday-school lessons. "The Doctrine REV. CHARLES 0. MILLER and Experience of Entire Sanctification." for October, November, December. Written Charles 0 . M iller was born in Maine on August 1, 1885, and died June 11 at his home in Los Angeles, by a general superintendent and Nazarene seminary and college faculty. California, at the age of seventy-one years. He had One Year's Subscription (4 issues) ONLY 40c suffered for five years with a serious heart con dition. He was converted in 1912, called to preach in 1914, and ordained in 1916. He was a faithful servant of the Lord. Although he suffered a great n Forthcoming Issues■ deal he never complained and still had hopes that he would be able to preach again. The Lord a l ways blessed his ministry when he preached. He January, February, March was a faithful member of the Eagle Rock Church Public School Educators of the Nazarene. He is survivd by his wife, Mrs. Beulah D. M iller; three daughters: Mrs. Nina L. April, May, June Travis of Las Vegas, Nevada; Mrs. Betty Thomas, of Canadian Contributors Westwood, California; and Mrs. Edna Fahlen, of W hittier; and Ray Johnson, of Azusa. Funeral was July, August, September held in Pasadena, conducted by Rev. John Leih, as Pastors' Wives sisted by Rev. M. Roland and Rev. Don Replogle, October, November, December with burial in Mt. View Cemetery. British Writers ANNOUNCEMENTS WEDDING BELLS C. Dene Simpson of Kansas City, Missouri, and Louise Cline of Gage, Oklahoma, were united in marriage on August 17, at the Church of the Naza Tailor-made COVER rene in Fargo, Oklahoma, with Professor Jack T. Rairdon of Bethany Nazarene College reading the vows, assisted by Rev. Jack Houts, local pastor. A distinctive, handy way to keep your "Come Ye Apart." Grained black leatherette . . . gold imprint . . . silk page marker . . . magazine fits easily and Miss Bythella Jane Theus of Shreveport, Louisiana, and Donald Vernon Peal of Marmot, West Virginia, firmly. were united in marriage on August 17, at Werner Park Church of the Nazarene in Shreveport, with No. 5509 ONLY 50c District Superintendent Elbert Dodd officiating, as sisted by Rev. C. K. McKay. (M r. Peal is student pastor at Hartsville, Tennessee.) DON'T MISS THE VALUE THESE READINGS CAN BE TO YOU SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED by a Naza rene, middle-aged man in Iowa who needs work very badly— he wants God's w ill in his life; Order AT ONCE for Your October 1 Reading by a Christian man in Kansas badly in need of special help from God both physically and ma terially; Washington at Bresee NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE 1592 Bloor St., W. by a Kansas mother, a Christian, for her daughter Pasadena 7, California 2923 Troost, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri Toronto 9 , Ontario and husband to be convicted of sin and given a real desire to serve God and have a Christian home for their family— she needs help in prayer for them; by a Christian in Ohio that God w ill send just the right evangelist for the special meetings in their church, also for healing of body from chronic in 1949. He served the Newkirk, Coleman Chapel, ministry at the age of twenty, and he and his wife illness, and a special unspoken request; and Hydro churches on the Northwest Oklahoma Dis united with the Church of the Nazarene in 1920; by a lady in Colorado for a Christian mother in trict. Funeral service was conducted at Hydro by Rev. both were ordained in 1934. He served several West Virginia whose husband had to be placed in J. T. Gassett, district superintendent, assisted by pastorates in western Oklahoma, Texas, and New a mental institution— he is back home now, but Rev. L. H. Dickerson. Interment was at Fargo, Mexico, and erected new church buildings at Wa- seems unable to trust God and feels God has for where a graveside service was conducted by Rev. W. tonga, Hennessey, and Beaver on the Northwest saken him, and he lives in great fear; B. McCollom, of Larned, Kansas. Oklahoma D istrict. He is survived by his wife; two by a Christian lady for a young man in Tennessee daughters, Mrs. Vera Gilley of Isabella, and Mrs. who has had a very serious operation which was Nina Mann of Bethany, Oklahoma; a son, Paul, a REV. JAMES LANGLEY McLENDON causing paralysis, that the Lord may heal his body, student at Nazarene Theological Seminary; also three according to His w ill. James Langley McLendon of Lakeland, Florida, brothers, John, Herbert, and Otto; and one sister, died in his home on August 6, at the age of Mrs. Nora Roberts. Funeral service was conducted in eighty-six. He was born in Georgia on January 1, Enid First Church by Rev. J . T . Gassett, district DIRECTORIES 1870. At the age of thirty-eight in Seminole, superintendent, assisted by Rev. Bob R. Fetters, Rev. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Oklahoma, he was "marvelously regenerated," as he C. A . Smith, and Rev. Wade Powers, with burial at so glowingly testified, and soon afterward entered the Enid Memorial Cemetery. HARDY C. POWERS the m inistry. He joined the Church of the Naza Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City rene in 1911, was ordained in 1912, and was active REV. EUGENE W. SWIM 10, Missouri. in the organization of Nazarene churches in the early days, especially in Texas and Louisiana. He Eugene W. Swim was born at Rosemond, Illinois, G. B. WILLIAMSON also pastored a number of churches and served as an August 6, 1873, and died at a hospital in Newton, Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City evangelist. He had lived in retirement in Lakeland Kansas, July 25, as a result of injuries suffered in 10, Missouri. for nearly twenty years. Survivors include his widow a car accident the day following his return from Mrs. Jewel McLendon; three sons, Paul, Hiram, and the General Assembly. Son of pioneering, second- SAMUEL YOUNG Milton; and one brother, Professor 0 . H. McLendon. blessing holiness parents, he loved the service of God Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City Funeral service was in charge of Rev. I. W . Justice of from his youth. He joined as a charter member the 10, Missouri. Lakeland First Church, assisted by Rev. C. E . Shaw, Holiness Mission which became First Church of the with interment in Lakeland's Roselawn Cemetery. Nazarene; here he began preaching. He was or D. I . VANDERPOOL dained in 1930. Serving always in humble places, Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City REV. CHARLES EDWARD HAGEMEIER supplying pulpits, pastoring a colored Church of the 10, Missouri. Charles Edward Hagemeier was born at Lansing, Nazarene in Hutchinson, serving in Newton as cus Iowa, August 30, 1896, and suffered a fatal heart todian of his church, he found his highest joy in HUGH C. BENNER attack on June 11, 1956. He was united in mar proclaiming the gospel whenever opportunity was Office, 6401 The Paseo, Box 6076, Kansas City riage in 1919 to Anna J . Devore. He entered the afforded. In 1897 he was married to Effie J. Al 10, Missouri. 24 (692) • HERALD OF HOLINESS