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10-1-1983

Herald of Holiness Volume 72 Number 19 (1983)

W. E. McCumber (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House

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AN EDITORIAL

CENTERS ^ F FIRE he celebration of our dia­ love as broad as the gospel— to What are carved marble and over­ mond anniversary calls for preach holiness and organize the laying of gold and trimmings of T a return to our roots— to results of our ministry for ag­ silver; what are arches and turrets the vision God gave Dr Phineas F. gressive and continuous work. and spires, in comparison with Bresee as he was thrust out by “Every holiness center estab­ the beauty of the Lord and the God under the stars to call into lished,” he continued, “is the glory of the Divine Presence?” being the Church of the Nazarene. springing forth from the skies of From a thousand such centers of Addressing the uniting assem­ rivers of life to men. . . . Whatever holy fervor and spiritual devotion bly of the western Church of the else we do we m ust possess this our founder foresaw “rivers of love Nazarene and the eastern Associ­ land, both for its own sake, as well and salvation flowing to the ends ation of Pentecostal Churches at as for the condition of service to of the earth, and as long as time Chicago First Church of the Naza­ every land." To this end he envi­ endures.” rene on October 10, 1907, just one sioned “a thousand centers of Seventy-five years later those year before the historic General holy flame” from which would flow streams are flowing into 70 na­ Assembly at Pilot Point, Tex., Dr. “streams to the world.” tions on every continent of our Bresee issued a clarion call for “a “Centers of holy flame”! Of the globe. And wherever these center of fire in every city in Amer­ original frame structure of the streams flow, “holiness unto the ica,” as the first step toward mother church in Los Angeles Dr. Lord is our watchword and song”! launching a worldwide mission to Bresee could write: “It was the O Nazarenes, keep the glory penetrate the entire world with fire that burned within that gilded down! Sound forth the message the message of scriptural holiness. its boards with glory and made of free and full salvation in the "Time emphasizes the fact that them shimmer and shine with the power of the Spirit! Rise up, O our first great mission field is this light of heaven. When the multi­ men and women of God, and let us country,” Bresee said. “There is a tude is gathered, and there are pay the full price of devotion to very great need everywhere of this hundreds of one mind and heart, see that the vision glorious be­ church— not narrow, nor partisan, and the Holy Ghost descends in comes ever-increasing spiritual re­ nor sectarian, but in the spirit of His plentitude and power, that ality! □ place is garnished with a beauty and glory in comparison with which the adornings of Solomon's temple would be barrenness. Ev­ ery board shines with the jeweled beauty of the new Jerusalem.

By General Superintendent William M. Greathouse

HERALD OF HOLINESS A CELEBRATION OF

OUR HOLINESS HERITAGE

he Church of the Nazarene is now celebrating its 75th anniversary. Obviously, vve cannot cram a history of the church into this "heritage is­ T sue" of our magazine. A bare-bones tabulation of names, dates, figures, and events would be interesting to few, edifying to none. We have attempted, instead, to capture the flavor and spirit of our early years, and to indicate the continuing commitment of the church to the vision and mission of its founders. We hope it will be of interest and inspiration to our people and to their neighbors. Many other people, places, churches, and colleges could have been written about instead of those mentioned in the issue. Our selection is not intended to value some over others but to give samplings of our heritage rather typical of it all. Those who wish more detailed and more comprehensive treatment of our heri­ tage can find it in the volumes of Nazarene history available in books and in the archives. W. E. M cC um ber, E d ito r HERALD

g3HOLI\ESS ~ Cover Photos: Max Tharpe, Nazarene Archives, W . E. M cCUM BER, Editor in Chief and Crandall Vail IVAN A. BEALS, Office Editor MABEL ADAMSON, Editorial Assistant Cover Design: Crandall Vail

Pnnfrihi it-inn I V. H. LEWIS • ORVILLE W . JENKINS Magazine Design: Rick Day FHitnrc CHARLES H. STRICKLAND • EUGENE L. STOWE taitors. | W |LUAM M GREATHOUSE • JERALD D. JOHNSON HERALD OF HOLINESS (USPS 241-440) is published semimonthly by the NAZARENE General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene PUBLISHING HOUSE, 2923 TROOST AVE., KANSAS CITY, MO 64109. Editorial Office at 6401 The Paseo. Kansas City. MO 64131 Address all correspondence concerning subscriptions to Nazarene Publishing House. P.O. Box 527, Kansas City, MO 64141 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send us your new address, including ZIP code, as well as your old address, and enclose a label from a recent copy SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $5 50 per year Second-class postage paid at Volume 72, Number 19 October 1, 1983 Whole Number 3383 Kansas City, Mo. Litho in U S A.

SPECIAL ISSUE

“ALL OUT FOR SOULS” ...... 4 “BY THE PRINTED PAGE” ...... 16 Our Evangelism Heritage Our Publishing Heritage

PLANTING NEW CHURCHES...... 6 “UNTO THE POOR ...... 18 Our Home Mission Heritage Our Social Services Heritage

MISSIONS FROM THE WORD GO!...... 10 “A SINGING HEART” ...... 21 Our World Mission Heritage Our Music Heritage

INTELLECT SERVING S P IR IT ...... 13 KNIGHTS OF THE C RO SS...... 24 Our Educational Heritage Our Youth Heritage 3 Reuben “ B ud” Robinson, 0 verted while a cowboy in Tei Our Evangelism from a background of ignora and poverty, became our bi Heritage known evangelist. Under S p irit-a n o in te d ministry, th sands of people were conve an d s a n c tifie d , hundreds churches revived. In additio his evangelism , he was dee interested in our educatio work and helped finance the lege education of scores youth. “All Out For Souls” ne of the deepest roots of the Church of the Evangelist C. W. Ruth was one Nazarene is evangelism. Some would regard our w idely traveled early pre# ers, whose ministry of evl this as our taproot. We have lived to evangelize, O gelism and writing touched thl and we have evangelized to live. Evangelism has been sands for Christ. Here he more than an adjunct with us; it has been a passion, a seated on the steps of H.; mission. Trum bauer’s home in Louisnj Ky. Our traveling ministers wi People are lost in sin. Jesus Christ is the only Savior entertained in private hon from sin. These essentia], biblical facts have stirred men most of the time in those day and women among us with a consuming desire to herald the gospel everywhere and by all means. Evangelists played a major role in our early days. Traveling from city to city, from church to church, they were a force for binding our small bands of people to­ gether. Along with preaching Christ, winning souls, and reviving churches, they promoted unity, a sense of "fam­ ily," among Nazarenes. They supplied living contacts be­ tween regions and churches. But most of all, and best of all, they thundered against sin, summoned to repen­ tance, proclaimed the possibility of forgiveness and cleansing, prayed with seekers, and organized many of the "finders" into new churches. Through it all, they in­ Many People, Many Places fused a concern for more evangelism into the believers everywhere. Evangelism took place wherever we could get a hea The spirit of evangelism and evangelists is well caught ing for the gospel, from street corners to ornate sanc­ up in these impassioned words of J. B. Chapman, spo­ tuaries. Wherever people were, there came the messei ken while he was a general superintendent and con­ gers of Christ to press His claims. They weathered cerned lest the fires of evangelism and revivalism be ex­ storms of criticism, opposition, and downright persea tinguished among us: tion, but nothing could stop them. And if some hoote . . . my own soul is lonesome for the company of and scoffed, others listened, hoped, wept, repented, those other souls which I am to have with me when praved, and were born again. 1 come at last to heaven's gate. And I expect the Our people were not content with the joyful cries c ticket I hold to read, not "admit one," but "admit newborn souls. Holiness evangelism was characteristi two," or "admit ten," or "admit a hundred." And it We had a message of salvation for the church as well will be embarrassing if the Chief Shepherd must the world. God had provided, in the atoning blood oi ask, "Where are the other nine?" or "W here are the Christ, for the sanctification of His redeemed people. other ninety and nine?" Believers could be cleansed from all sin, including the Brethren, I was born in the fire, and I cannot en­ deep-rooted and long-standing corruption of the heai dure the smoke. I am a child of bright daylight, and that theologians called "inbred sin." So we sang and mists and fogs and depressing gloom are not to my preached and testified about "second blessing holines liking. 1 want to go all out for souls . . . More than slogan or cliche, it became living reality as All out for souls! That was the thrust and drive that thousands sought and obtained this experience. marked evangelism in our beginning years. We are de­ In the revival meetings and evangelistic campaigns termined that fires of revival and evangelism shall burn that were so vital to our history, an endless stream of upon our altars until our Lord returns. □ saving miracles occurred. Here is a sample, from the

HERALD OF HOLINESS Will Huff, one of our earliest and most elo­ quent evangelists. Huff preached his last sermon in a revival m eeting in S eptem ber ^significant revival method, past and present, is the camp meeting, an annual gathering of 1928 from the text, “Now if any man have not wplefor the express purpose of holiness evangelism. Here is an early camp meeting scene the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." Those pPasadena, Calif. The preaching and living was done in tents. Today’s facilities are more who labored with him testified to his Christ- wnfortable and permanent, but the spirit and results are like those of our pioneer days. like spirit.

fbaptismal service in Durant, Okla. The minister, standing in the An early camp meeting scene showing the tents in which the people Later, is James B. C hapm an. Dr. C hapm an w as a leader in the Holi- camped during the days of this intense holiness evangelism. In the less Church of Christ, one of our parent groups, and served our foreground, left, is Dr. P. F. Bresee, who founded the first Church of the church as pastor, evangelist, college president, editor, and general N azarene in 1895 in Los Angeles. superintendent. memoirs of our best-known early evangelist, the unique Essential Message, Rational 'Bud" Robinson. The incident took place in Escondido, C a lif. Methods I referred to praying with a dying Christian Sci­ Evangelism at white heat never fails to attract a few entist and a ladv jumped up and said, "I see now "crackpots," whose ignorance or fanaticism hurts the that a man can profess holiness and lie at the same work. Unfortunately, critics seize upon the follies of a time. For," she said, "Christian Scientists don't die." I few to tarnish the labors of many. We have been along told her that was very strange, for they took the that road, too, but reputable evangelists have urged man out and buried him and I couldn't believe an commonsense methods and essential truths throughout undertaker would knowingly take and bury a live our history. man. She walked out of the church and said she j. O. McClurkan's Pentecostal Mission, before it be­ would never darken that door again. came part of our church, issued a booklet on Open-Air But the next morning she came to the parsonage Meetings and How to Conduct Them. Among other in­ and brought a couple of fine Belgium hares dressed structions, it contains this paragraph of advice: nicely for a love offering to the Nazarene pastor and We must remember that (1) we must draw the family and the evangelist. She met us at church that people, (2) interest and hold them, and (3) impress afternoon and got up publicly and begged pardon them so as to lead to immediate decision for Christ and came to the mourner's bench! She did some and salvation. Therefore, make the opening exer­ good digging. We prayed loud and long; she wiped cises brief and lively A short praise service, brief the tears off her face and said she knew that the Scripture reading and prayer, then a spirited gospel Lord had saved her. address, with a pointed appeal to accept Christ. With variations of detail, that motif of opposition, That, for intent and content, message and method, is a ionviction, prayer, and victory is threaded throughout good description of how public evangelism was done, jur history of intense evangelism. □ indoors and outdoors, by our people. God helping us, 5 This “Gospel Wagon” was used by our Chicago First Church of the In this blacksm ith’s shop, our church in Durant, Okla., Nazarene in its early days. Zealous musicians, preachers, and other beginnings! Standing at the far left is James B. Chapman,! witnesses were transported to street meetings, jail services, etc. organized and pastored the Independent Holiness ChureB “Open air” evangelism was frequent and fervent in those days, reach­ Durant, which becam e a Church of the N azaren e following! ing hundreds who never would have entered church buildings to hear union of 1908. the gospel. Similar “Gospel Wagons” were used in several cities.

Radio has been a tool of evangelism since its— and our— beginnings. “Showers of Blessing” is a weekly broadcast, carried around the world, and produced by our Communications Division. Broadcasts are made in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This photo, from the ’60s, shows Ray Moore conducting the radio choir, accompanied by Jean Parker at the piano and Eleanor Whitsett at the organ. Standing in the background is Dr. T. W. W illingham, then director of our radio work. To his left is Stanley Whitcanack, who served with the Nazarene Radio League from 1945 to 1974.

we drew the people, preached the Word, and rejoiced with the thousands who responded in penitence and This simple storefront mission, facing on a boardwalk andi faith. paved street, was our early preaching place in Stettler, Albert And this we continue to do, in the name of Christ and Canada. From such humble beginnings have come most OB in the power of the Spirit. God continues to burden us churches that date to that era. for evangelism and to bless our obedience and trust. A corps of 578 registered and commissioned evangelists serve the Church of the Nazarene today. Thousands of Tevival meetings, augmented by a growing measure of Our Home Missio personal evangelism, take place annually. Churches are warmed and enlarged, individuals are converted, re­ Heritage claimed, and sanctified wholly Impetus is given to every other phase of our work and witness through evan­ gelism. 1983 has been a vear of Simultaneous Revivals on our districts. This report is tvpical: The Craig, Colorado, church had a fruitful reviv­ Plantinj al with evangelist Robert Morris. The meeting cli­ maxed a two-month period of continuous revival, during which 15 persons had been saved. More were converted, and several Christians sanctified Neq wholly, during the revival services. A new atten­ dance record was set and the whole church was strengthened. □ Churchd 6 HERALD OF HOLINESS In this log cabin home, holiness preaching was pioneered in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

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Lone Pine Church Mo. Calif. District Rev, " h W i l c o x . -pastor

! mission work in the U.S. and Canada has increasingly involved This Long Pine, Calif., church was typical of the hundreds of small, : minorities. Here is a photo of a young Chinese woman, Helen frame buildings utilized by many of our congregations in earlier days. ek, who was called to preach. The church is in Los Angeles.

en several holiness groups were sent of God, or we would like the tent was full. Every were merged in 1908 to have moved on. No brass band morning we went to the news­ form the Church of the met us at the depot; no com­ paper offices. There we boosted arene, we had 288 local church- mittee was there to welcome us our converted vaudeville singer, Today we have 7,547. Behind ev- to that hustling, busy rubber Fred Canady. Soon we had a one of them lie stories of devo- city. We were unknown, un­ good hearing. God sent a reviv­ on and sacrifice and prayer. None announced and not wanted. We al, souls prayed through. Peo­ (them were easily created and sus- looked up a few holiness peo­ ple became interested in our ined. ple. They informed us that church. At first we organized An early days, our home mission nothing could be done. . . . them into a Nazarene mission, but soon we had a preacher on lategy was relatively simple, We looked around, rented a the job. Before the revival lrdy souls with daring faith in- room, paid board for the singer closed we had paid all our bills; ided a new area, held services, and myself, found an old show- the rent on the tent; paid back leached Christ, won souls, and or- ground and rented the lot. No the money we had borrowed; ized the converts into a church, one donated lot or lumber or and received a good offering e while weathering opposition anything. Our money was go­ for the singer. We left a little overcoming hardship. This re- ing fast. We got the tent up and Nazarene band that has flour­ from J. W. Short, recounting our some bills struck off, stood in ished and borne fruit across the ;innings in Akron, Ohio, could be front of the great rubber plant years. It was a small beginning. licated by hundreds. and gave them to the men Behold the harvest! . . . God as they came out. We watched We rented an old tent, bor­ was in it. many throw them on the rowed some money, engaged Yes, God was in it! His presence ground and sneer at us. Fred Canady as a singer and and power sustained those who de­ one day unannounced we land­ At the opening service a few voted time, energy, and funds to ed in Akron, Ohio. We felt we came in. We sang and preached plant new churches everywhere. □ Housing the Congregations The church has prospered. We have graduated from a "sect" to a recognized, respectable denomi­ Our home mission campaigns were held in all kinds nation. Our churches are no longer situated on til of places— tents, homes, vacant stores, theaters, brush wrong side of the tracks. Our "store front" places arbors, abandoned nightclubs, schoolhouses, Grange of worship are almost a rarity. We are constructing halls, borrowed churches, garages— you name it, we churches that are a credit to the best neighbor­ used it. For years the most frequently employed shelter hoods. . . . There is not a thing wrong with that— was the gospel tent. Tent evangelism spawned new SO LONG AS the poor are welcome and the ill-cta churches by the hundreds. E. O. Chalfant told of one made to feel at home. There is no virtue in a pla^ such tent, purchased for $230 and donated to the Chi­ weather-beaten, run-down-at-the-heels, eyesore cago Central District by a concerned layman. The tent place of worship. But if our progress is marked bj was used for several years, and out of the meetings con­ conformity to the ways of the world and the easy­ ducted in it came several churches. Its demise was as going practices of thousands of church members, dramatic as its use— a tornado destroyed it while it was our improved status is subject to question. being used in Chicago. Wrote Chalfant, The quality of worship and life that goes on in our I have known of tents to be used for some five to buildings is more important than the buildings. Our ten vears and as many as six home missionary buildings, like our people, should come "not to be serw churches established through one tent, and hun­ but to serve." dreds [of people] having been saved and sanctified, and the gospel has been preached to thousands. Many of us can still smell the sawdust and recall such services! To us, the canvas seemed to be the sails by which the Ship of Zion caught the winds of the Spirit and bore precious human cargo to God. You can start in a tent but you can't stay there long. The task of housing congregations required the purchase of lots and the erection of buildings. From this dimen­ sion of the task, added chapters of God's faithfulness and the people's sacrifices have been written. Limited re­ sources demanded simple structures. As the church grew, these were crowded out, enlarged, and replaced until beautiful, functional edifices dotted the map. The original Church of the Nazarene, organized by Dr. P. F. Bresee in 1895 in Los Angeles, was first housed in "a plain board tabernacle." This historic "glory barn" was soon inadequate, and the first of a series of larger and lovelier buildings was completed and occupied in 1903. This has been the typical experience of our congrega­ tions. Our first church in Phoenix, Ariz., is an example. In 1918 its early history was reported in the Herald of Holiness by Orval J. Nease, who later served as a general superintendent. A revival in "the old Majestic theater building" led to the formation of a band of holiness peo­ ple in 1912. Their first meeting place was the "Sheep Pen," a lot enclosed by a high board fence with one cor­ ner roofed. Their next move was to a partially burned building, which they repaired in lieu of rent. Soon the growing work compelled them to buy a lot and erect "a humble brick building." A period without a pastor di­ vided the flock and stalled the work. However, another revival— this time in the old "Wigwam" theater— pro­ duced 150 seekers and a reorganized People's Mission. Under the pastoral leadership of O. j. Nease, this mission was organized into a Church of the Nazarene. A lovely church property, vacated by another group, was pur­ chased and our work in this area really got under way. As our churches grow and our buildings improve, we have need for caution as well as cause for praise. We should avoid the "edifice complex," being sure that our buildings are contributions to our mission, not m onu­ ments to our pride. One of our laymen, M. A. Lunn, wrote something 25 years ago that needs to be repeated today.

HERALD OF HOLINESS J £ Our church in Nome, Alaska, was organized in 1945 and utilized this building.

Somebody failed to "come up to the help of the Lord" and many souls may forever miss Heaven be­ / cause they were not worth 75Mexico, Japan, India, China, Africa, and islands of the sea, as well as to people of other nationality within our own coasts. This passion for the lost, this sharing of resources, response to human suffering, and the mysterious provi­ Missions dences by which God engineered it all, is superbly illus­ trated by the Church of the Nazarene's initial involve­ ment in India. A Hindu woman, Mrs. Sukhoda Benarji, and hertwa from little children were deserted bv her husband and left to perish. She was only 15! She escaped death miracu­ lously, came in contact with Christians, and was con­ verted. Later trained as a nurse, and eager to help des­ the Word perate girls, she dreamed of opening a home for them. She visited the U.S., enlisted the support of some Chris­ tian women in Oregon, and returned to found "Hope School" in Calcutta, "an asylum and mission for child Go! widows, where they could be taught and led to the Sa* ior." Mrs. Benarji made another trip to Oregon in 1906. Among those who befriended her work was Mrs. E. G. Eaton of Portland. While praying for guidance, Mrs. Eaton sensed the Lord saving to her, "Go to Dr. Bresee, in Los Angeles, and he will help you." She didn't know Bresee and he didn't know about Hope School, but the Lord was insistent. She had no monev, but shortly afterward a total stranger dropped some gold pieces into her hand, ex­ plaining that it was from the Lord. The trip to Los Angeles followed hard on the heels of the earthquake and fire that virtually destroyed San Francisco. When she and Mrs. Benarji talked with Dr. Bresee, this was his reaction: It seemed a very inopportune time, as the earth­ quake sufferers were being shipped into Los An­ A family in India, en route to a camp meeting geles bv trainloads. We had taken a large offering for them . . . and had turned our church building r. P. F. Bresee could say truly, "Our whole work is into a receiving station, putting up many beds. ... missionary." Establishing churches— "centers The city was full of refugees, and the offerings of of fire"— across America called for "a degree of our people were seemingly exhausted. heroism and sacrifice, on the part of ministers and the Nevertheless, Bresee called his Board of Missions to­ little bands of laymen, rarely excelled." Our people were gether, discussed the matter, and they agreed to support poor and their mission opposed, so there were few re­ I lope School. sources available tor fields beyond the home front. On the Sabbath a public statement was made. Mrs. Benarji, Mr. Biswas (an Indian preacher], and Nevertheless, we were involved in world missions Mrs. Eaton were received into the church, and from the earliest days. The experience of grace we pro­ at the evening service an offering of $1,200 was claim— a heart cleansed from sin and filled with love— is by its very nature missionary. God gave to our fathers made toward this new missionary undertaking. We marched around and placed it on the table. and their helpers a vision and concern that were global in dimension. So the meager resources were shared, and Other Nazarene churches were visited and enlisted in workers were sent and supported as funds were sup­ the project. In a short while, 1 lope School was expandec plied. into Hallelujah Village in the suburbs of Calcutta.

HERALD OF HOLINESS ramework for an “outstation” church in Africa. In such humble struc- ires, a great host of people heard the gospel, came to Christ, and stablished the flourishing church we now have in Africa.

L. S. Tracy, one of our early, heroic missionaries to India, is shown baptizing a convert. Tracy went to India in 1904 and his personality, administrative skiils, and faith played a dominant role in the development of our work there. The turning point of our work was the recovery of Rev. Tracy from near death as a typhoid victim. God I “much needed ambulance” is admired at the Raleigh Fitkin Memo- raised him up and the bars of official opposition to our ial Hospital in Africa. To this m edical mission, Dr. David Hynd and his mission came down as a result. on, Dr. Samuel Hynd, from Scotland, devoted their lives. The hospital S a memorial to Raleigh Fitkin, son of the first Women’s Foreign lissionary Society president, Mrs. Susan N. Fitkin. A Pioneer and His Legacy God put Africa in the heart of a student at the old Texas Holiness University in Peniel, Tex. His response to God's call made him a historic "dropout" from college. With the school's blessing and support, Harmon Schmel- zenbach left college and went to Africa, there to invest his life for its people in Swaziland. He entered that field in 1907 and did not have a convert to report until 1913, when a mother and daughter began a lifelong journey with Christ, praying through in the missionary's home. From that small beginning have come churches, schools, and hospitals where thousands of people have found Christ and a place of service in His kingdom. Al- wavs, their first concern has been to turn men from darkness to light, to get them saved from sin. Our mis­ he Hepzibah Faith Missionary Association congregation in Chiba sion task there, and everywhere, has been a lengthening en, Japan, 1917. This independent holiness association was head- repetition of Harmon Schmelzenbach's nickname— uartered in Tabor, la. The church, Bible school, and annual cam p "Pendukani"— which translates "Repent ve!" eeting in Tabor w ere added to the Church of the N azaren e in the late Os. Other churches and their Haiti mission became part of the Wes- Schmelzenbach died in 1929, broken bv work and fe­ yan Methodist Church in 1948. ver. He was buried beside a stone church he had erected 11 20 years before. Missions historian Fred Parker, in his re­ cent book Into All the World, exclaimed: But what God had wrought in those 20 years! The work had spilled over into neighboring Trans­ vaal to the west and north and to Mocambique on the east. Twenty-four missionaries, located at seven mission stations, plus 143 African workers, were preaching, teaching, and nursing for the Lord. There were 110 organized churches with an estimated membership of 3,000. A hospital, several day schools, two Bible schools, and four annual camp meetings in various areas were reaching many thousands of people. The true monument to Schmelzenbach (and any other pioneer missionary) is not the stone that marks his grave, but the ongoing task, the spreading flame, the In 1914 Dr. H. F. Reynolds, general superintendent and missi growing church, all to the glory of the Lord who called secretary, made a world trip in the interests of our missionary« him, sustained him, and made him fruitful. □ He is pictured here in China.

Into New Fields The China lesson is obvious. A Door Opened In 1931 a pitched battle between While doors are open, we must bandits and government troops work with haste to evangelize pei and Closed turned our compound at Tamingfu pie, organize churches, educate into a fortress under shellfire for 10 preachers, disciple laymen, and In 1912 Rev. and Mrs. Peter Kiehn days. Dr. R. G. Fitz and his family ate a national force that can carry and Miss Glennie Sims were sent to were mercifully preserved from on its worship and witness when China to open mission work for the death. missionaries are recalled or expell Church of the Nazarene. In 1915 In 1941, with the outbreak of war Political fluctuations, along with tl they baptized the first group of con­ between Japan and the U.S., the Ja­ ever-present threat of death, give verts and organized the first church panese, already in China, arrested urgency to the mission's task. in Ch'ao Ch'eng. Churches, schools, and imprisoned our missionaries as Our people can still be effectivi and a hospital followed within a enemy aliens. Mary Scott was a challenged by that urgency and few years. prisoner of war for four years. need. Recently we decided to open Across three decades the China In 1949 our gallant missionaries work in Venezuela. Nazarenes were mission prospered, despite all dif­ were forced to leave China. The challenged to give $200,000 in a ficulties that arose. Other mission­ Communist takeover committed special offering in order to seize tl aries were sent, other areas were China's government to atheism. We opportunity. Over $500,000 came a invaded, other thousands were know that some of our heroic Chi­ and the field has been opened! evangelized. nese pastors and people have been Nazarenes around the world be­ The expanding work survived jailed, tortured, and martyred. But lieve in missions, pray for mission famine, smallpox, and political up­ others have survived, and the give to missions, and intend to con heaval until 1949, when the Com­ church, though driven under­ tinue this support as long as histoi munists brought down the Bamboo ground, cannot be destroyed. It is endures. The high point of each an Curtain upon China. built upon the Rock, Jesus Christ, nual General Board meeting is the and the gates of hell shall not pre­ presentation of new missionaries In 1920 Peter Kiehn cabled Head­ vail against it. As Fred Parker has appointed to service abroad. Noth­ quarters, "Famine terrible, Naza- written: ing quickens a Nazarene pulse or renes help." When three cents a day . . . there is unmistakable evi­ loosens a Nazarene purse more rap would keep a person alive there, our dence that the work is still very idly than missionary appeals. people responded with $25,000. much alive. The day may not In 1908, we had missionaries In 1926 a smallpox epidemic took be far off when information working in 6 countries. Today, the medical missionary Dr. Charles West will come out concerning the Church of the Nazarene is at work to the doors of death. God raised outreach of the gospel even un­ in 70 countries and world areas. We him up, and he spearheaded a min­ der persecution and trial. The are now challenged to be operating istry of prayer and fasting that re­ total harvest from the seed in 75 world areas by our next Gei sulted in a tremendous revival. sown is yet to be reaped. □ eral Assembly. W hy not?

HERALD OF HOLINESS Ityping class at Olivet College, now Olivet Nazarene College. The Hurlet College, in Scotland, was the forerunner of British Isles Naza- fcoto is of the 1914-15 class, when enrollment was just over 200 in rene College, now located in Manchester, England, te whole college.

In early leader, teacher, and preacher was Bertha Munro, veteran educator, invested The dean of Nazarene educators was Dr. k A. M. Hills. He authored a w idely used her life in the founding and development of H. Orton Wiley. He served as teacher and ho-volume Fundamental Theology. Hun- Eastern Nazarene College at Wollaston, president of colleges, as editor of the Herald (reds were converted and sanctified wholly Mass. Her faith, courage, integrity, and pro­ of Holiness, and was our leading theologian. ander his preaching in revivals and camp fessional skills inspired succeeding gener­ Part of his legacy to the church is his three- Ketings. ations of students until her death this year. volume Christian Theology.

r. Phineas F. Bresee stood in the chapel of Naza­ rene University in Pasadena, Calif. The founder Our Educational D of the Church of the Nazarene was there to give his final public address. The gist of his speech supplies a Heritage guide to our task of higher education. The verv first thing for this institution and for all our institutions is to see that our students are led into the holv of holies and filled with all the fulness of God. . . . Your supreme work is to see that the voung manhood and womanhood of this institution get to Intellect Calvary and the upper room. A man is far better off as a child ot God without anv culture than he is with all the culture that all the schools can give him without being a child of God. Serving . . . It is not our job to turn out worldly men. There are a thousand institutions in the United States that are engaged in that business; it is our Spirit business to turn out men and women of God. Nazarene Bible School and Academy, Hutchinson, Kans., 1920. Founded in 1905, later named Bresee College, it was absorbed into our preset Bethany Nazarene College in Oklahoma.

Bresee was not an advocate of easv courses and re­ Such viewpoints and arguments carried the day. Out stricted knowledge. In the same address, he declared, of our commitment to college education has come eight "All branches of knowledge, God helping us, we pur­ fully accredited liberal arts colleges in the United States pose to teach to men and women, that thev mav be at and smaller but solid colleges in Canada and the British their best advantage for God." But intellectual life was to Isles. What these have meant to our church cannot be be servant to the spiritual life, and that is the philosophy measured or described. Without them we could not be of education that prompted our fathers in the faith to what we are. Probably we could not even be. found colleges. As we continue to grow, our challenge to maintain A concern for colleges has marked us from the start. the balance of the best in scholarship and religion re­ In our exuberance, we misnamed some, calling them mains. universities when thev were, at that point, hardly even colleges. But the exaggerated labeling indicated some­ Foundations in Sacrifice thing positive and right in our vision— the desire for complete quality education. As Bertha Munro said of Establishing our colleges was not easv. Sometimes Eastern Nazarene College's early days, "If we could not thev were shaken by internal dissension, often they be large, we would be genuine. Genuine in scholarship, were threatened bv external factors. genuine in religion— the two in balance, each truer be­ Dr. Bresee, recounting one crisis in the life of Deets cause of the other's truth." Pacific Bible College, which became Pasadena College! Perhaps "us" is overstated in the opening sentence time, wrote: of the previous paragraph. If some wanted "universities," Toward the latter part of 1908, a very serious which was impossible, some wanted mere "Bible matter occurred, which threatened the life of the schools," which was inadequate. In 1922, reporting to Bible College, and serious injury to the church. the General Boards, Dr. James B. Chapman scotched Through a misunderstanding a schism took place, both concepts and pled for "a FEW GOOD COLLEGES" which carried with it some of the teachers of the Bi­ as our goal. Even as training centers for preachers, he ble College and many members of the First Church, warned, Bible schools were not the answer to our needs. who seceded from the church and organized an in­ Our task demands an educated ministry . . . dependent mission. But through the good provi­ Workers who have no more than a three year's Bible dence ot our God, the church was sheltered from Course are not educated and are not in demand in ultimate serious harm, and the matter was overruled our, or in any other church. Garfield said, "You can to the larger outcome and service of the college. grow a pumpkin in a season, but it takes a century There is no point in masking history. All was not to grow an oak." The day for the success of preach­ peaches and cream, unitv and peace, in the good old ers and missionaries of "pumpkin" season training is days! But our colleges survived and prospered because past. WE MUST EDUCATE. God overruled, raised up competent leaders and teach­

14 HERALD OF HOLINESS ers, and helped churches to realize the value of provid­ ing thorough education in a Christian environment. Our crises were usually the product of economic forces. Our people, for the most part, were poor. Many came from backgrounds where higher education was deemed a luxury. Providing it for others had low priority with them, so they were slow to respond to our schools' needs. Others, however, kept combining vision and faith with dollars, and that combination has proved invinci­ ble. During the Depression, we nearly lost Trevecca Col­ lege a number of times. Internal feuding and sheer pov­ The faculty of Texas Holiness University, 1907-8. located at Peniel, erty brought us to the brink of ruin, but we never went Tex. Founded in 1899 by E. C. DeJernett, its first president was A. M. over the edge. Amv Person tells of a time when the Hills. THU was one of the “ancestors” of Bethany Nazarene College. school was forced into bankruptcy and receivers were about to claim the rented furniture. One evening after supper, a student mounted a chair in the dining room An Ongoing Commitment and addressed the other students. The spirit of sacrifice and gallantry of faith that If they take out the tables and chairs, how many poured the foundations of our colleges still lives. Our of vou are willing to sit on the old pews (which be­ colleges have survived, enlarged, and attained accred­ longed to First Church) and hold your dishes in itation because throughout these years, people have your hands? Everybody voted "yes." If they take the been willing to prav, work, and give in the face of every furniture away would vou be willing to sleep on the new crisis and threat. floor? They said they would. If they take the class­ In I 71 our Bethanv Nazarene College faced a severe room equipment would vou be willing to sit on the financial crisis, a 5600,000 debt. To cope with it, oper­ floor during classes? "Yes, Yes," was the reply. A. B. ating expenses had been pared and faculty salaries re­ Mackev later said it sounded like the "yea! yea!" at a duced. God’s answer to people's prayers involved the football game. student body in a thrilling way. Evangelist Charles Mill- In those same lean times the students, who were in­ huff, on campus tor revival services, challenged the stu­ credibly poor themselves, voted to "adopt" and support dent body, 1,700 strong, to raise $100,000 toward the two orphans on our mission field in India. Mildred YVvn- elimination of that debt. He asked for 1,000 students to koop, in The Trevecea St on/, writes, give $100 each within 30 days— and they did! When this kind of spirit prevails among students in the midst of the kinds of adversity we had been Ruth Vaughn collected a sampling of their stories in a wading through, it is positive proof that somebody book titled Tools Have No Minn ies. Here is one such had better keep that school going. And they did. story. Rick pledged $100 on Friday morning. That night Yes, they did— at Trevecca, and at all of our other col­ his grandmother died. He was at the hospital, heart­ leges. Heroic sacrifice was needed and provided bv fac­ broken and protesting the approach of death, praying, ulties, students, parents, and churches. "Grandma, please don't die." But she did, and lie found When our Canadian college needed to purchase comfort in the Christian hope of the resurrection. ground in Red Deer, Alberta, back in 1929, District Su­ The next morning mv grandpa pulled the china perintendent C. E. Thomson sold his Model T Ford to sugar bowl from the cupboard. He put it in front of help make the purchase possible. me on the table. When james B. Chapman was president of the old "Rick," he said, "your grandmother saved her gro­ Peniel College, his children went from house to house cery money leftovers in here. Whenever she knew selling whisk brooms, made in the college's broom fac­ of a worthy cause, this is where she found money tor,', and copies of Chapman's book, Ten Little Sermons. for it. Now that she's gone, I'll let vou choose the Proceeds from the sales went into the school's treasury. last worthy cause." From such meager beginnings, despite every con­ With trembling fingers I counted out the dollars, ceivable handicap and hardship, our colleges have quarters, and dimes. It came to exactly $93.97. 1 emerged as stable institutions where sterling education pulled six dollars and three pennies from my pock­ with a spiritual dimension can be obtained. et. Here was mv miracle $100. Mv grandma's last To our liberal arts colleges, we added, in 1445, Naza­ gift! rene Theological Seminary, and in ll*h7, Nazarene Bible That is how we have done it— through hardworking, College. As institutions of the general church, and more sacrificial administrators and teachers, through praying recent in date, they do not have the same background of and believing students, through saintly and generous struggle for survival, but they have exhibited the same parents and grandparents. And the "bottom line" has al­ sacrificial dedication of officials, teachers, and students ways been the faithfulness and goodness of our gracious that has characterized all of our schools. Lord. Similar stories ot blood, sweat, and tears in the inter­ Our heritage is our investment in the future. The edu­ est of education can be duplicated in our schools on cational task continues around the world, feeding into mission fields around the world, where we are educating the litestream of the church thousands of its choicest our youth in order to serve our world. preachers and laymen. L the baptism of the Holy Ghost which the churches so largely Our Publishing ignore or oppose. To so preach it, and testify to it, that the Heritage hungry hearts may be fed. To so proclaim it that those who U are born into the Kingdom may also find their inheritance By the among them that are sanctified From the beginning it was clear that our publishing work would serve our larger mission, a mission Printed Page that centered upon the proclamation and exposition of the doctrine, ex­ he power of the printed page tire sanctification mav be perience, and life of holiness. was recognized at the onset taught and enjoyed and testi­ As a merger of groups, not simply T of our church. P. F. Bresee be­ fied to, as an experience, and of local churches, our denomination gan a paper in 1895, the year in the people be led into this in­ had several publishing offices and which the first Church of the Naza­ heritance ot rest and peace and products at its birth. Chief among rene was organized under his lead­ love, without let or hindrance. these were the Nazarene Messenger, ership. We are in antagonism to published in Los Angeles; the Beu­ The first issue of Bresee's paper, nothing but sin. We seek to co­ lah Christian, published at Provi­ affirming the purposes for which operate with all who love our dence R.I.; and the Pentecostal Advo­ the church was founded, declares: Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. cate, published at Peniel, Tex. We seek the salvation of the Elsewhere in that first paper, the The General Assembly of 1911 lost, to go to those who need us mission of the church is further ordered a Board of Publication. most, to seek out the needy, the elaborated: Kansas City Mo., was chosen as thi sick and the dying, to minister The Church of the Nazarene location for a publishing house, and to them as we may be able, and has a mission in the midst of the various regional periodicals gavj bring to them the blessings and the other churches: To preach way to the Herald of Holiness. Since consolations of the gospel of and bear its testimony to the that time the publishing ministry of our Lord and Saviour Jesus cleansing blood of Jesus as a our church has been the storv of Christ. second distinct experience of Nazarene Publishing House, which To provide a blessed Chris­ grace; to make new the old linked itself to the stated mission of tian home for those who really Pauline, Wesleyan doctrine and the church by adopting as its motto, seek Christian fellowship . . . experience of entire sanctifica­ "The full gospel to the whole world To open up a wav where en­ tion after conversion through by the printed page."

C. J. Kinne was the first manager of NPH. He Mervel S. Lunn was manager of NPH from M. A. “Bud" Lunn has been manager of NPH was a charter m em ber of Dr. B resee’s church 1922 until his retirement in 1960. He began since 1960. Though a man who dislikes in Los Angeles and was actively involved in his work at NPH in 1913 as a bookkeeper, travel and avoids vacations, he is well known its mission work. hired, they told him, “temporarily"! He also personally to thousands of Nazarenes. Un­ served the church as its general treasurer der his hardworking leadership. NPH has from 1926 to 1945, and for 16 years was grown steadily in volum e of business, acqui­ executive secretary of the Nazarene Minis­ sition of property, and influence among re­ terial Benevolent Fund. Many thought of him ligious publishers. and referred to him as “Mr. Nazarene.”

HERALD OF HOLINESS grow and prosper without resorting to commercial print­ ing for outside, secular interests. Something of the nature and scope of our ministry of publication may be seen by gleanings from the last an­ nual report to the General Board. In l c)82 a total of 801,624 books were printed, along with millions of peri­ odicals and music items. In cooperation with Media Ser­ vices, over 51,000 tapes were sold for ministers' and lay­ men's tape clubs. Since its founding, NPH's annual sales have increased from less than $50,000 to $14,000,000. NPH is now publishing literature in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. On various mission fields, the Church of the Nazarene produces literature in other languages. Under the blessings ot God, we have become a publisher and Pictured above is the printshop at Pilot Point, Tex. Here the Holiness supplier of literature for other evangelical and holiness Evangel, a forerunner of the Herald of Holiness, was published. churches, in addition to servicing our own needs. NPH is a humming, thriving place of business, but its first business is identical with the priority mission of the church it serves— winning people to Christ and disci- pling them in Christian living. Evangelist Bud Robinson, reporting a meeting at Kansas City First Church years ago, said: While in the great citv we had the privilege of visiting the Publishing House almost every day. One day at noon we dropped in on the boys and they were praying a fellow through at their noon prayer meeting and then 1 wrote these lines on the Pub­ lishing I louse: 1 found by observation That our house of publication, Keeps up its reputation As a soul salvation station; And as a bureau of information

Headquarters truck and gospel team, with the Nazarene Publishing On the line of full salvation, House behind them . It is the fairest in the nation Or in all God's creation. NPH— Nazarenes No one can accuse "Uncle Bud" of being a poet, but Publishing Holiness his whimsical doggerel catches the spirit and commit­ ment with which NPH has pursued its ministry for The first manager of NPH was C. J. Kinne, and the Christ and His Church. □ first book printed by NPH was Prayer, by Kinne. The subject was not only pertinent to the life of all Naza­ renes, it was prophetic for the work of NPH. Like all of our general institutions, the Publishing House had a rockv, uphill climb for survival in the early years, which called forth praver and sacrifice. In 1923 a "Victor}' Campaign" was launched to raise over$41 ,tHH) to bail out NPH. May 20 was set as "Pub­ lishing House Victory Day." By this time, Mervel S. Lunn had become manager of NPH, and since the $100,000 deficit that greeted him was wiped out, NPH has never been "in the red." God has signally blessed our publishi­ ng work, and NPH has poured money back into every area of the church's operation. In 1958, when we were celebrating our 50th anniversary, M. A. "Bud" Lunn, who would succeed his father as manager of NPH, could write: Our publishing house is highly regarded in the business world and its patronage eagerly sought by the largest religious publishers in the nation. Praise In its early years, NPH housed general offices as well as its own God for all of this! operation. At the side desk is E. J. Fleming, who was general secre­ An additional cause for joy and praise is the fact that tary for the denomination. At the fourth desk back is J. G. Morrison, God has enabled NPH and our publishing ministry to who served as a general superintendent from 1936 to 1939. 17 Our Social Services Heritage

“Unto the Poor the Gospel

Is Preached A basket of babies— part of the rescue wort done by the pioneers of Bethany, Okla., who he Church of the Nazarene a holistic ministry into Churches of laid out a town, founded a college, organized was born from the desire of the Nazarene everywhere they a church, and operated a rescue home and P. F. Bresee "to have a place sprang up. In those churches, social orphanage, all under the leadership of Rev. T and Mrs. C. B. Jernigan. Bethany, sited in the heart of the city, which could work, organized and spontaneous, be made a center of holv fire, and was carried on to the extent— and Bethany Nazarene College, became the Nazarene center of the southwestern U.S.A. where the gospel could be preached beyond that extent— of the people's to the poor." ability to finance it. I j in Pilot Point, Tex. This home was The poor were his constant bur­ founded bv I. P. and Minnie Roberts den. He wanted houses of worship Caring for the in 1903. The Roberts were pioneers to be "plain and cheap" so that "ev­ in the 1 loliness Church of Christ, erything should sav welcome to the “Kicked Around” one of the parent bodies of the poor." One of the thrilling social minis­ Church of the Nazarene. Roberts We went feeling that food tries supplied bv early Nazarenes was a farmer in Oklahoma. At the and clothing and shelter were was Rest Cottage, a rescue home for Lord's direction, he sold out and the open doors to the hearts of unwed mothers and fallen women went to Pilot Point, not knowing the unsaved poor, and that through these doors we could bear to them the life of God. Bresee would not demean the poor by treating them onlv as mouths to feed, minds to train, and bodies to shelter. Their paramount need was deliverance from sin. Let the poor be fed and clothed, let us pour out of our substance for this purpose; but let us keep heaven open, that thev mav receive the unspeak­ able gift of His love, in the transforming power of the 1 lolv Ghost. If he would not debase them to the level of animals, neither would he insult them bv ignoring their ma­ terial and physical needs, offering onlv tracts and sermons. He sought A N azarene storefront mission in Los A ngeles, 1921. In rescue m issions like this, indigent and to infuse this vision and passion for homeless people who never entered regular churches were reached for Christ.

HERALD OF HOLINESS ky. Here is his own account of his not shrink from tough cases. Girls w'as opened. In 1922, while Rev. Os­ Dto rescue work: came to them from slums, jails, sa­ car and Nettie Hudson had charge After our arrival, we resided loons, and brothels. Some were al­ of it, they received, among other do­ with Rev. VV. L. Rogers and wife coholics, others dope addicts. nations, a check for $39.00 from for awhile, and after three days Let one such case illustrate the H. F. Reynolds, a general superin­ fasting and praying, God gave rescue work. Her name was Helen. tendent and missions secretary in my wife a call to rescue work. Married at 14, she was forced to those days. Hudson's thank-you let­ He had not vet shown me my leave her husband, a drunkard and ter said, "Were it not for just such life's work. gambler, who beat her and tried to substantial friends to the helpless of When she opened up her kill her. She drifted to the slums of our country, the high prices pre­ heart and revealed her call to Dallas, Tex., where she learned to vailing would force us to close our me, the burden came on me drink and smoke. Venereal disease doors and leave them crying for until 1 was prostrate on the destroyed her sight and wracked her bread." The closing appeal of the floor for several hours. Then whole body. She arrived at Rest letter reads: God revealed to me His will, Cottage on a stretcher, and there she Nearly twenty children are and made it as clear as the found Christ. I lere, in part, is her knocking for admittance now. noondav sun that 1 le wanted testimony, recorded in The White We have room for them, but me to open up a home for er­ Slaves of America, a book on rescue our beds are full. Shall we let ring girls. w'ork published in 1909 (revised them stay out in the cold? No, I seemed to be in a building, edition, 1914) bv Rest Cottage Asso­ No. Join with us in prayer, will on a stairway, when eight or ciation: you, that the Lord will supply ten girls came and knelt and For seven long months after I our needs until we can give begged for admittance. Then came I was confined to mv bed them shelter and proper train­ and there I said one eternal ves as helpless as a babe; but God, ing. If they are left to be kicked to God's will. Waves of glorv in His infinite mercv, healed me and neglected they will de­ flooded mv soul and we wept in answer to prayer, after three velop, through ignorance and and shouted for hours. Mv call of the best physicians had said vice, into imbeciles, thugs, and to rescue work was as clear as I could never recover. I am still criminals. mv conversion. blind, but I expect to see Jesus Hudson later authored a book of Life 's work, indeed! Roberts su- face to face some time and be­ sermons titled Gospel Dynamite. Like ■vised Rest Cottage until his hold Him in all His beauty. I re­ other holiness leaders, he was con­ ■thin 1937. During its first 11 alize from day to day the sav­ vinced that the power of the gospel ■is of operation, 600 girls had ing and sanctifying power of demolished selfishness and gener­ ■n sheltered, most of them beau- mv Christ. ated compassion for the whole fclly transformed. Rest Cottage did In Peniel, Tex., an Orphan's Home range of human needs.

C O T T / 1 C £ c h ild re n s home

st Cottage in Pilot Point, Tex., where hundreds of unwed mothers and destitute women were cared for and led to Christ 19 Samaritan Hospital in Nampa, Ida., under construction Nurses reading Scripture to a patient at Samaritan Hospital in Nai Ida. A Good Samaritan Hospital

In 1920 the Samaritan Hospital was founded in Nam­ pa, Ida.— "A hospital built, directed and operated under Social Work Today the guidance and direction of the Holv Spirit." It cared The uninformed will be surprised at the for "surgical, medical, obstetrical and pediatric patients" amount and variety of social ministry going under the supervision of Dr. T. E. Mangum. on among our churches now, not only on An adjunct to the hospital was a school of nursing, of­ mission fields abroad but also in the English- fering a bachelor of science degree— and a challenge to speaking areas. serve the suffering in the spirit of Jesus Christ. Since its A recent survey was conducted by Rev. chief aim was to prepare young women for nursing ca­ Jerry Appleby, coordinator of our ethnic/ur­ reers "in the foreign and home missionary fields," its first ban ministries. In the U.S. and Canada, our qualification for admission was religious. churches in urbanized areas were queried The applicant must have a definite experience of about 10 areas of social service ministries, salvation and be in harmony with the doctrine of placed on a scale from 0-10. Of 2,034 who Sanctification as taught by John Wesley. . . . Each responded, 621 congregations were involved student is expected to attend church services on in some form of social service ministry at a Sunday and nurses' prayer meeting unless on duty level from 6-10. Here is the number of or ill. Each student is also expected to maintain a vi­ churches that indicated a high involvement tal personal Christian experience manifested in her in these 10 areas: daily walk. 1. Job placement— 87 This was important, for more than physical healing 2. Housing renewal— 34 was expected to take place in the hospital. "Bv the effec­ 3. Housing placement— 68 tive service and prayer of sanctified doctors and nurses 4. Medical service— 51 many patients are either saved or sanctified while recov­ 5. Day care or child education— 213 ering from their physical ills." 6. Adult education— 114 7. Clothing and food distribution— 275 Ministry to the whole person has been the aim of 8. Immigrant counseling— 51 Nazarene doctors and nurses across the years and 9. Alcohol/drug rehabilitation— 85 throughout the world. In hospitals, dispensaries, and 10. Legal counseling— 56 clinics, the desperate and hurting have been treated for physical and spiritual illness and injury. The shadow of More needs to be done and will be done. the Great Physician has been cast over heroic men and We thank God for what is being done to per­ women who gave themselves to healing work. Many of petuate a heritage of commitment to the our choicest, ablest servants to human injury have been whole range of human needs. Q| graduates of Samaritan Hospital and similar institutions in various parts of the world. T 1

2 0 HERALD OF HOLINESS from hearts at peace with God, formed such a contrast with their own empty existence that they decided to find out why these people seemed and sounded so different. Music has been a vital part of our Nazarene heritage. Throughout our brief history, we have laid a heavy em ­ phasis upon worship in song; indeed, Worship in Song is the title of our current hymnal. The "Special Issue" of our Herald of Holiness in 1959 was devoted to music; its theme was "Rejoice and Sing!" Writing for the Board of General Superintendents, Dr. Samuel Young declared, "The believing heart has always been a singing heart and the Christian's face a shining face." He quoted approvingly an unnamed writer who said, "He knows little of himself who is not much in prayer, and he knows little of God who is not much in praise." A singing heart . . . much in praise. These six simple words could sum up nicely and precisely our heritage of music. God has raised up in our midst gifted musicians, singers, and writers of music whose ministry has en­ riched the life and work of our church beyond telling. Recognizing our interest in and commitment to the min­ istry of praise, others have assigned their music copy­ rights to our Publishing House. Under God we have be­ come a major publisher and distributor of Christian music. And this we owe not simply to our gifted special­ ■% ists, but to the vibrant, happy singing that has char­ acterized our congregations. khea Miller, wife of General Superintendent H. V. Miller, wrote “I’d Robert Stringfield, who served for years as the m an­ lather Have Jesus." Her lyrics were combined with George Beverly ager of the music division of Nazarene Publishing Rees music to become one of the best loved and often used of |ospel songs. House, illustrated this superbly in an article about the moving song, "The Love of God."* Who among us has not thrilled to that last stanza? Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made; Our Music Were every stalk on earth a quill, Heritage And every man a scribe by trade; To write the love of God above Would drain the ocean dry; Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Tho' stretched from sky to sky. Stringfield wrote: Following its publication in 1917, the song lav A Singing dormant almost twenty years. Then on Sunday af­ ternoon, June 21, 1936, "The Love of God" was sung before the General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene by Rev. W. V. Wiggs of Florida. Heart” When the last stanza fell from his lips, the entire congregation caught the author's concept of God's n Jacksonville, Fla., a voung woman stood on a street love and wept and shouted in the presence of the corner waiting for a bus. She was headed down­ blessed Holy Spirit. Since that service, the song has town to see a movie. Instead, she entered a nearby I swept around the world in many languages, and church, heard the gospel for the first time in her life, millions rejoice in its message. ind surrendered her heart to Jesus Christ. Of the more than 4,000 copyrighted songs and In Atlanta, Ga., a voung married woman, depressed hymns owned by the Nazarene Publishing House, ky her problems and thinking of suicide, was passing a "The Love of God" is doubtless the most widely church where a worship service was in progress. She known. ibruptlv turned, went in, and listened with growing in­ A singing church, alive unto God, filled with praise to kiest and mounting hope. At the altar of praver she the Savior, continues to attract people whose lives are upened her life to Christ as Savior and Lord. empty of meaning and whose hearts are weary of sin. □ In each of these cases, the church was one of ours. In Mth cases, the women were drawn to the services by *' The Love of God Copyright 1917. Ren. 1945 he singing they heard. A note of joyful praise, springing F. M. Lehman by Nazarene Publishing House. Used by permission.

21 The “Pentecostal Brass Band” of the Utica Avenue Church of the Nazarene, Brooklyn, N.Y., was typical of our interest in joyful music as a part of worship and witness.

while preparing my evening $25.00. A quick trip to the bank, Many Singers, Many message, I read in Rev. 21:23, then on to the station to grab the Songs "And the city had no need of train— and Lillenas said, "We sang the sun, neither of the moon, to with unusual blessing and inspin Among those who have provided shine in it; for the glory of God tion during that convention." music for the "holiness movement," did lighten it, and the Lamb is His wife, Bertha, was also a giftj none stands taller than Haldor Lil- the light thereof." The thought musician and songwriter. On her lenas. He was converted in little occurred to me that this might tombstone in Kansas City is en­ Peniel Mission in Astoria, Ore., as a make a suitable theme for a graved a line from her best-knoi young man. Three months later he gospel song. After the service tune: "Jesus Took My Burden anc entered into the experience of heart that night, the words of "Where Left Me with a Song." That line i purity. A call to preach took him They Need No Sun" were writ­ fitting summary of their entire ci from a chemistry lab to the pulpit, ten and the next day the music reer. where his preaching was combined was written. . Another of our songwriters wi with his gifted singing. The song figured in a personal in­ N. B. Herrell. In 1934 a mining c Lillenas became a prolific song­ cident that illustrates the "shoe­ panv urged him to leave the min writer. While pastoring a Nazarene string" existence of many of our try and take a job promoting the church in Indianapolis, Ind., he was pastors and singers in those pioneer business. The more he prayed ab< led to create the Lillenas Music days. Lillenas was invited to direct the offer, the more convinced he Company and give full time to m u­ the music for a Sunday School con­ came that the gospel ministry wa! sic. In 1930 tie sold the business to vention in Los Angeles. His average his lifetime calling. Out of the or­ Nazarene Publishing House and be­ income was $3.00 a week; the fares deal came his song, "Sweeter Th, came manager of its department of for him and his wife were $25.00. Them All." music. On Friday before they were to leave, I have made my choice forever, While serving as pastor in Lom­ they had $4.50. They prayed ear­ 'Twixt this w orld and God's de poc, Calif., in the early 1900s, Lil­ nestly and believed for the rest. On Son, lenas wrote "Where They Need No Sunday, the morning and evening Naught can change my mind, no Sun," a song thousands have sung offerings at their little church to­ never, throughout the years as their taled $2.72! Their train was to leave He my heart has fully won. thoughts and hearts have turned at nine o'clock Monday morning. At Take this world with all its heavenward. Here is his own ac­ 8:30, Lillenas checked his mail at pleasures, count of that composition: the post office. There was a letter Take them, take them, great an One Sunday evening while from evangelist Charles Scoville, to sm all, the sun, like a golden disk, lost whom the song manuscript had Give me Christ, my precious Savi itself in a violet cloud bank and been sent, enclosing a check for He is sweeter than them all

22 HERALD OF HOLINESS er in life, Herrell testified, The song was written by Rhea the fact that Rhea Miller's royalties I have spent more than forty Miller while hardly more than a girl, were contributed to missions. years in the ministry of my She became the wife of Howard V. Ours is still a singing church. The adorable Lord and Saviour and Miller, destined to the office of gen­ music departments are among the His church. The more I hear eral superintendent in our church. strongest in all our colleges. Hun­ I this song, the more I am con- He urged her to publish the song, dreds of our song evangelists, choir i vinced that its contents express and it was first advertised in the directors, organists, and pianists J the consecrated life of all Chris- Herald of Holiness in 1922. were developed in these depart­ ; tians and especially the minis­ In the early '30s, Beverly Shea sat ments. Their week-by-week con­ ters of Christ. I can truly say down at the piano to practice his tribution to our worship and witness that Christ has been no disap­ solo for an eleven o'clock service affects the lives of thousands for pointment to me but in Him I that Sunday morning. Young Shea's God and good. have found the fulness of life, mind was torn between a career in Many singers, many songs, have fes! Our singers, like our preach- secular music and a ministry of gos­ been a great part of our heritage and people, found in Christ a pel singing. His eyes fell on the and history. These have enabled us isfaction that made all their hard- piece his mother had left at the pi­ all to give joyful expression to the ps, opposition, and sacrifice ano: faith,hope, and love that links our mdantly worthwhile. They sang, I'd rather have Jesus than silver or lives forever to Jesus Christ. : out of comfort, pleasure, or g o ld * With Floyd Hawkins, one of our alth, but out of pain, poverty, ill- I'd rather be His than have riches current composers who also served 6, persecution, and other heavy untold. . . as music editor at NPH, we sing, ds—but they sang out of joy, I'd rather have Jesus than men's "I've Discovered the Way of Glad­ ice, and freedom that only Christ applau se, ness." And when trials come and I give the human spirit. They I'd rather he faithful to His dear burdens oppress, we testify with n't have much to possess, but cau se . . . him, "He Helps Us Through." The y had Jesus, and He saved and Improvising his own tune, he Christ who saves, keeps, and leads sfied their hearts. played and sang and decided. His is our song. He created our heritage. I'd Rather Have Jesus" was the tune and her lyrics were joined to He assures our future. □ tto of their lives, and the title to form one of the most beautiful and ither favorite song. Who has not successful songs of this century. *© copyright 1922, 1950. © renewed 1939, 1966 by Chancel Music, Inc., assigned to the Rodeheaver illed to George Beverly Shea's Something of the dedication that Co. (A Division of Word, Inc.). All rights reserved. In­ Bterful rendition of this testi- marked our people shines through ternational copyright secured. Used by permission.

or Lillenas served as a Nazarene pastor, N. B. Herrell was a Nazarene pastor and Floyd Hawkins, Nazarene minister, was man­ igelist, and m anager of the Music D e­ songwriter. His “Sweeter than Them All,” ager of the Music Department of NPH from cent of Nazarene Publishing House. He “The Unveiled Christ,” and “God Bridged 1957-76. He enriched Christian life for thou­ :e many songs used throughout the Death’s Stream” were great favorites. sands with such songs as “Willing to Take ches of many denom inations, including the Cross” and “The Crystal Fountain.” His )st the World,” “Up to Date Religion,” “Let Thy M antle Fall on M e ” has been pow er­ s Peace that Jesus Gives,” “Wonderful fully used by God in our churches and camp * of Jesus” (a great choir favorite), and m eetings. ier the Atoning Blood.” Our Youth acteristic of the service, and there were manv cases ol Heritage triumphant conversion and sanctification." These groups were formed in the other Churches of the Nazarene that spread quickly north and east. Thej soon were merged to create the Young People's Society What was affirmed of the original groups was true of them all: "They had found something infinitely better than the w'orld could give, were happy in Jesus' love, and only intent on leading others to the Master." In its pioneer days, the church called its vouth not only to share its joys but also to take their measure of hardships, too. Suffering and sacrifice were expected Knights from the young as well as the old. An early youth col­ umn in the Herald of Holiness, penned by Donnell Smi said: It is not for us to seek a life in which there area of the troubles or suffering, but rather a faith in Godthal will make us overcomers no matter what befall us Not faith in God and love for God because Hewii holds from us the unpleasant, the hard and trying Cross things which are the common lot of mankind; bul faith in God and love for God because Fie makes pecial young people's services and the involvement things that befall us to w'ork together for ourgooi of vouth in the total work of the church is as old as and because in all these things we are more than S our church itself. In the first Church of the Naza­ conquerors. As in the life of the Captain of oursa rene, the young men were formed into the "Brotherhood vation and in the training of the disciples, tempta­ of St. Stephen" and the young women into "Company tions, persecutions, hardship, and suffering had a E." Each wore a silver maltese cross on which 1 Timothy very necessary place, so it is with us. 4:12 was engraved. They held Friday night meetings, Young people were not there to be pampered and en filled with "prayers, songs, testimonies, and a short mes­ tertained. They were there to serve, even when service sage from the Word." In their meetings, according to P. F. required the absorption of hard knocks. They were Bresee's biographer, E. A. Girvin, "Salvation was a char­ knights of the cross.

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HERALD OF HOLINESS Chinese Sunday School class in First Church of the Nazarene, Los Angeles, Calif. The photo is undated, but the Sunday School bus and the rsin the background furnish approximate dating. mowing and Going were. While inspiration and guidance could be imposed from the top, it was at the grassroots level, in the local Youth responded with vigor and enthusiasm to the churches, that the young people made their most signifi­ ills to holiness and service. For the first 20 years of our cant contributions. istorv, the Young People's Society grew from five to In a report to the Herald of Holiness in April 1920, iven times faster than church membership. As historian P. H. Lunn said of the young people of Kansas City First imothy Smith wrote, "Clearly, the Nazarenes were Church, "The society is now devoting two services each ailding a youth-centered denomination." month to the study of medical missions and Bible doc­ Pressure increased for a national youth organization, trine." Thev were gearing up for consecrated service id the first General NYPS Convention was held in wherever God directed. )23. Dr. Shelby Corlett, a product of Arkansas Holiness In the Herald of Holiness for April 13, 1927, the church diversity was elected executive secretary, filling the of- at Hutchinson, Kans., reported an NYPS revival with sfor 13 years. Smith says, Dorothy Wilcoxen. The older people "assisted." Said the His close association with the denomination's report: leaders and his persistence in preaching on the Attendance was good. . . . The last night the theme of entire sanctification at youth gatherings house was crowded to its capacity and the altar all over the nation eliminated all but a fragment of lined with seekers. Seventy-three came throughout the old doubts as to the wisdom of a national or­ the ten davs and many received the blessing for ganization of young people's work. which they sought. Our youth were a part of the church, not apart from You could count on a Spirit-filled group of young peo­ e church— and a vital, vibrant, victorious part they ple to "fire up" a congregation anvwhere. You still can! □ 25 One of the early, ardent champions of Sunday Schoi ministry was A. S. London. In Talks Along Sunday-Sck M O T T O; R ISE ABO V £ CIRC U M S T A N C ES " Highways, he wrote: My mother started me to Sunday school whenl was three weeks old. I did not miss more than a dozen Sundays in attendance in forty-nine years, was a teacher in the school when I was fourteen

A (ilK O \A ( Tl 4 I —For Married People years of age ... a superintendent when I wasfifta President: D. M. Moncton Teacher: Rev. Thos. Keddie . . . the Sunday school is one of the greatest forces on earth for the saving and training of youth.,.. Slogan Others' Mrs. Grace Holman, Teacher MEET ME AT THE 1 believe in the Sunday school because it brough thing's jHauqlitfr’s Class me to a saving knowledge of the grace of Christ when 1 was only nine years of age. ( F O R YOUNS BUSINESS WOMEN) iFu st Church of the The Sunday School has been the ally of the horned Sunday, 9:30 A.M. the family circle itself has been and still is the greatest

S IX T H AND WALL STREETS influence shaping the minds and lives of youth andclA A Warm Welcome Awastb You! LOs ANGELES dren. Timothy Smith, in his history of our first 25 years, re minds us that many of our people attended revivals, camp meetings, and even district assemblies as families Children were affected by the meetings. Their presence also conditioned our preaching: "A preacher with two ^Philadelphian Class rows of children seated across the front of a church ori

A I. I. NOX-MKMBKKS OF OTHKR HIBLE Cl.ASSES campmeeting shed could not afford to get lost in logical

A HE CORDIALLY INVITED TO UNITE W ITH THE abstractions." With the passage of years, our support of the Sunday PHILADELPHIAN CLASS School has continued. For outreach, ingathering, and upbringing, it remains an indispensable part of the in its beautiful room beneath the church's life and mission. We still echo the words of auditorium, for the study of the General Superintendent Orval j. Nease: W ord. Its textbook is the Bible. Its message is the "good news" of . . . salvation from sin here and now, prep­ H. A. (iiiivix. Teacher aration for and enlistment in Christian fellowship Mbs. Herman j. Schutte, Secretary and service, and the rewards of faithful stewardship! here and hereafter.

Convinced that advertising pays, these Sunday School classes sought to attract prospects by invitations placed in the paper published by our “Mother Church” in Los Angeles. Notice that E. A. Girvin taught one of the classes. Girvin is author of A Prince in Israel, the first biography of Dr. P. E Bresee.

Sunday School, the Home’s Ally

Closely allied to youth work, indeed a part of it, has been Sunday School. While Sunday School is for every­ one, traditionally our emphasis has been upon children and youth. Most of us who became Christians in youth can look back to the love and work of patient Sunday School teachers for the foundation of our faith. Most of The Sunday School of the John Wesley Church of the Nazaret the people who joined the church were first members of Brooklyn, N.Y., assembled for an Anniversary Day Parade. In su some Sunday School class. There they found love, ac­ Sunday Schools, most of our dedicated ministers and laymen i ceptance, fellowship, and the message of salvation. ceived their earliest instruction in the Bible and the Christian fait)

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A man 75 years old is near the end of his life on earth.! A church 75 years old is hardly out of knee pants— too busy making history to be obsessed with writing history Nevertheless, a 75-year-old church has enough history to celebrate with gratitude, enough heritage to preserve with joy The past has immense value for the present and the future. That is why the Bible rings with the word “remember!" Our past, as a church, provides criteria for judging j our present. It compels us to ask some probing questions. Are we still faithful to the mission for which God 1 raised us up? Are the vision, faith, and sacrifice of our pioneers j still evident in their children? Does our m essage of biblical holiness still sound j clearly from our pulpits, still produce glorious j life-changes in our people? Our past provides, also, stimulus for the future. It reminds us that: God is able to achieve mighty victories with feeble instruments; great enterprises can emerge from small beginnings; no measure of external opposition can defeat a people internally strong and united; the Word of God borne to the hearts of men by Heritage Spirit-filled w itnesses has pow er to attract, convince, and save! Thus history supplies lessons by which our and tomorrows are faced in faith and hope. The Church of the Nazarene, celebrating its diamond anniversary is eager to exalt its Lord, honor its pioneers, challenge its members to renewed devotion, and introduce its Savior, gospel, and life to its Hope neighbors. This issue of our magazine is one modest contribution to that celebration and outreach. We are celebrating, from thankful hearts, “Hitherto the Lord has helped us." We are inviting, with humble confidence, “Come with us, and we will do you good.” □