Vol. VIII November 1959 No. 11

1-f. Annstrong Roberts Pilgrims Going to Church

"'~['HEY ARSFJI\IBLE by bent of dru1n. euch with his musket or firelock. in front of the G(tptnin's door; they have their cloaks on, and place themsel·1.•es ·i.H onlcr, three abreast, and rue l£'d by a sergeant withont beat of dniln. Behind comes the Gm:­ enwr in a long robe; beside hi·m_, on the right hand. cornes the Preacher with his cloak on, and on the left hand the Captain u:ith his sidearms and cloak on, and with a small cane in his hand,· and so they march in good order, and each sets his arms down near hi·m. Thus they are constantly on their !lWlTrl ·wight and day."

Fron1 an eye\vitnt~ss dt>sc:ription by a d..siting Du'teh official, Isaack de Rasi(~res. 1627. folks have prayed all night and some marvelous experiences (salvations, baptisms, etc.) have taken place. * * * We just loved the people in Austria. They reminded us of the German people when we first came. They don't seem to have much of this world's goods but seem to have hungry hearts which, of course, is real riches. They complained that the meet­ ings were too short; and when we came to the meetings, most of them were there on their knees praying. There were three meetings a day and they were always there, when we all came, praying for God's blessing upon the meeting. Salzburg, Austria, "City of the Alps" * * * Just finished our meetings in Salzburg. It was the most won­ Notes of Thanksgiving derful time we have had. Peo­ from ple got saved, baptized, and Bremen and Salzburg Campaigns healed. At first there was no pra1smg at all, but you should The following brief report of meetings held in Bremen and Salzburg, Octo­ have been there the last two meetings! ber 5 through 18, by Pastor Hans Waldvogel and party are edited excerpts from various letters received from the party.-EDITOR. * * * The conference was really out of the ordinary. It appears the fROM the very first service in cle Hans" or Walter Waldvogel Bremen we all knew that the preached. Lord has a ministry for us in meetings were in the plan of Sister Klemm told us that she Austria. God and were timed by Him, was so happy to have us come, * * * too. but she had worried a little bit Karl Sailer stayed on a few that folks would not respond to days with Pastor Betchel and * * * freedom in praising. That sur­ visited the outstations of the We found Pastor Klemm an prised me because we had such Salzburg assembly. extremely ambitious fellow. He glorious times of worship that has twelve outstations connect­ * * * I thought they were used to it. A two-week Bible conference ed with his work and has almost However, it seems that it was that many young men working opened in Kirchheim on October just a m~ghty act of God and 25. God willing, there will be a under him. Most of them have that the people responded to it been in the Erzhausen Bible report of this convention in the as though it had always been next issue of BREAD OF LIFE. School. During the conference their way of worship. he had them all attending the * * meetings of which we had three * * If you don't keep the joy in your a day. In each meeting another The presence of God has been heart, you dethrone Jesus. That's the of the young fellows would give so greatly with us in Salzburg Kingdom. There is :no one who re­ a short message and then "Un- it is a real feast. Some of the joices as much as he ought to.

Published monthly by RIDGEWOOD PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, 457 Harman Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Bread of Life Editor: Gordon P. Gardiner. Ass't Editor: Caroline Gardiner. Contributing Editor: Hans R. Waldvogel. VoL. VIII No. 11 Office Manager: Eleanor Perz. Photoengraver: Bingham Photoengraving Co. Printed in the U.S.A. Second-class postage paid at Brooklyn, N. Y. Address all correspondence to P.O. Box 11, Brooklyn 27, NOVEMBER 19'59 N. Y. Make all subscriptions payable to Frank G. Posta, Treas. Annual Subscriptions: United States and Canada $1.75; Foreign, $2.00. Single copy-15c. 2 Bread of Life, November, 1959 Beh,old, God Is My Salvation!

By GOTTFRIED A. WALDVOGEL

"BEHOLD, God is my salvation. does it mean? It n:eans this­ tion mean? There is another I will trust and not be God loves me. I am in His love. word that would just as well afraid, for the Lord God is my God Almighty loves me. He translate that expression. It is strength and my song. He also loves me and because He loves deliverance, deliverance) victory. is become my salvation." That is me in the name of Jesus He Oh, He saves me, as Zacharias the testimony of the redeemed saves me. in his prophecy said, "from all ones. I wonder how many have We sometimes think that we my enemies, from all them that caught really that vision, have have to prevail upon God to give hate me." Yes, there is an en­ found this one light, and can us His blessings, and yet His emy of my soul and he is the look up and say, "Behold, God Word tells us that He loves to god, the prince of this world, but is my strength and my song." save and He loves to bless, that God saves me from my sins, Have you come to the Lord He has prepared salvation for from all my enemies. He saves Jesus Christ? Have you seen us because He loves us, and now me. He gives me victory. I will Him? He makes that salvation an ex­ trust. I will trust. The Lord Jesus is our Sa­ perimental reality because He The enemy may tempt me and viour. God the Father brings loves us. It is all love, the love God permits that I am tested to us, gives to us, a full and free of God. God is my salvation. and tried. Why does God the salvation when Jesus becomes He is love and He is mighty. Father permit it? Why does He revealed to us, when we really God would like us to come to not let me go through life, on see Him, the One who died on Him in this condition-"! will my way to glory, without test­ Calvary and is alive forever­ trust and not be afraid." I will ings, without trials, without more. Oh, when He is revealed trust. I have seen it. I have temptations? He tells me, that to us, then we say with the caught the vision. I know that I might become rooted and Apostle Paul: "If God be for the Father did not spare His grounded in His love. Testings us, who can be against us? He only begotten Son, but in infin­ and trials purify and strength­ who spared not His own Son ite and unfathomable love for en. They strengthen our con­ but delivered Him up for us all, me He delivered Him up for me, fidence in Jesus. We are so root­ how shall He not with Him also and now He gives to me in Him, ed in our own selves that we freely give us all things?" 0 be­ the risen Christ, all things, all need testings and trials to de­ loved, there is a wonderful sal­ things. Hallelujah! The full­ tach us from ourselves and to vation prepared for each one of ness of His grace is mine in the attach us to our God, and if we us in the love of our God. name of Jesus, and how the Fa­ trust Him, every testing and tri­ I am so glad that salvation is ther longs for us to say with al will become an occasion for not only a gift of God, but Him­ determination, as the prophet the manifestation of His love. self is our salvation. When sal­ says, "I will trust. I will trust The Apostle Paul speaks about vation is called God's gift, it is and not be afraid." He is mighty temptations and trials and says, called God's gift because God's to save and He loves me, loves In the light which God has giv­ Son is God's gift to us. He is me. He has purchased my sal­ en to us we glory in tribulation our salvation; He Himself, the vation at an infinite cost, and because tribulation brings to us Lord Jesus Christ, is our salva­ He is the same in His infinite an experience and confirms in us tion. Have your eyes been love today, and in the name of an experience which is indeed opened to this fact? What as­ Jesus that love reaches me. He very wonderful. The love of surance comes into the heart, is mine. He loves me. He loves God is shed abroad in our hearts what victory when we really can me. HE LOVES ME. through the Holy Spirit which say, "God is my salvation!" What does it mean that He is is given unto us. God is my salvation. What my Saviour? What does salva- But here the prophet express- 3 Bread of Life, November, 1959 es a determination, "I will trust Gcd loves me. God loves me. I It is so important, beloved, and I will not be afraid." The am surrounded by love because that we learn to sing, sing) SING. world is full of fear today. It God is present, and He loves me S~ng, it says in the song, when must be so. It is so. Fear is and He is with me in the storm. your trials are greatest. How a bondage of Satan and his He is with me in the testing and can I sing? Shouldn't I dump? slaves are filled with fear, but I say, "I will trust. I will not be Oh, no! That won't help me to oh, beloved, we are delivered afraid." get deeper if I dump, but I will from fear, we are saved from "Let not your heart be trou­ praise the Lord and proclaim fear. If I really trust, I will not bled." Twice the Lord Jesus His faithfulness and His unfail­ permit the enemy to scare me says that in His last conversa­ ing love and His presence and and to put fear into my heart. I tion with His disciples: "Let not the fact that He is my strength, won't let Him. your hearts be troubled." When hallelujah, the Lord is my Fear-what is it? It is un­ ye hear of wars and rumors of strength. He is my song, and belief. Perfect love casteth out war, be not afraid. Oh, what He is become my salvation, my fear. Perfect trust in His love an admonition! deliverance, my victory. delivers us from fear. But here "Fear not." How often we In Psalm 32 we read that He we must be determined-! will read that in the Book. Don't will compass me about with songs of deliverance. is a trust. I know God is faithful. I let fear come into your hearts. It know He loves me. I know He Look up. I will trust and not be wonderful truth, beloved. Let us is my salvation and I trust. I afraid. The Lord Jehovah is lay hold of it. Let us put every­ w:ZZ trust. my strength. thing out of the way and reach out for this blessing, this light I often wondered about the What does it mean when we words of Jesus to His disciples -God loves me. I am the ob­ read, "Finally, brethren, be ject of His love. I do not have when the boat had been filling strong in the Lord.'' How can with water. They were scared to persuade Him to save me and I be strong in the Lord? It can­ to bless me, but He wants me to and they finally woke Him up, not mean anything else but that and He said, "0 ye of little throw open my heart and let the Jesus wants to impart to me His sunshine of His love come in. faith!" And in another Gospel strength and I have to believe He said, "Where is your faith?" He wants me to be in that atti­ Him. What else can it mean? tude where I say, "I will trust They were learning to trust in It is a command. His strength Him, but here a storm was up­ and I will not be afraid." As I is at your disposal. Be strong take that attitude, with determi­ on them; it looked pretty bad in the Lord and in the power of and they forgot Jesus had said nation, His light will shine in His might. "Behold, God is my and the shadows will flee. I to them, "Let's go over to the salvation, and I will trust and other side." They ought to have will say, "He is my strength. He not be afraid, for the Lord Jeho­ is my song. He has become my known that that word implied vah God is my strength." they would get over to the other salvation." Oh, have you looked? Behold, Beloved, it is true. It is true, s~de if Jesus said so. Beloved, our Saviour is faith­ He is my strength. He is my the light is shining. All the glo­ ful. He said, "I will never leave song. How important it is that rious light of the love of God is nor forsake you. You shall not we keep on singing. Praising is shining from the face of Jesus be tempted above that which ye the exercise of faith. God is Christ. Let the sunshine come are able to bear. God can make my salvation. I will declare it in. Let it in. Turn away from with the testing a way of es­ in the face of every foe. God is your fears and look unto Jesus cape." He is faithful. His love my salvation. I will trust and and say, "He, the Lord, my is ours. "I will trust," and when not be afraid. He is my strength, Christ, my God, is mine, and He that determination is in our and He is the cause of my sing­ is my salvation. I will trust. I hearts, "I will trust, I will not ing and the theme of my song, will not be afraid. He is my be afraid," the Lord will mani­ His love, His faithfulness, His strength. He is my song. He fest Himself, and He will shed unfailing grace. has become my salvation." abroad in us the love of God. That is victory, Hallelujah! He loves me. He loves me. He is with me. He is mighty to save. ,~-~~::;:::~:::;:;:~:;:=-·~1 He is in the boat. The storms may rage without me; my heart may be laid low, but if God is r Ch,istmas GUt ca,d Sent on Request I with me, how can I be afraid?

Oh, shall we behold it anew? ~N:"·~~\~~~~.~~.~,~~\~N:';~,~~\~~N:';N:';~~

Bread of Life, November, 1959 I Would Gather Children'

Highlights from Talk Given to Sunday School Workers At Pilgrim Camp, Brant Lake, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1959

By HELEN W ANNENMACHER

Some would gather roses along the path of life; Some would gather rnoney and rest from worldly strife. But I would gather children frmn off the paths of sin; I would seek a golden curl, a toothless, freckled grin, For money cannot enter in the land of endless day, And the roses that are gathered will soon wilt along the way; But oh, the lau.ghing children, as I cross l'ife's sunset sea, And the gntes swing wide to heaven--! can take them in with me.

}T HAS BEEN MY PRIVILEGE to gather the children, them. Sometimes it is only that little thing that and I remember very well the first little tots I will turn the tide and open the door and make the gathered. I remember one particular little boy­ lesson go in-your little act of love. Some of these and I think that was where the real love for the children come from homes where they never know children came into my heart, and I really felt love-they don't know one thing about it-they're there the concern of Jesus over these little chil­ not loved. They're shoved around, they have to dren. He was a poor, neglected waif, very ema­ look after themselves. And oh! how the world is ciated. He came in one Sunday before Sunday yearning for love-not only these little waifs­ school began. I had a little story book of Jesus, everybody needs a little love and a little tender­ and one story had a picture of Jesus, and He had ness and a little encouragement. a halo over His head. And he said, "Oh, I know The world is plenty hard. There are many that guy." things that are discouraging, even among the "Do you? Tell me about Him." best. Trials come, sicknesses come, deaths come, "Well," he said, "one night my mom and dad disappointments come. And oh, to be able to love were not home" (I guess they weren't home much them, to mother them, to turn the tide of that of the time. His home was dark; it was a big, old hard heart and let it feel Jesus. place right near the church). "I had to go in, be­ And if we're Spirit-filled (and that is a requi­ cause I couldn't stay out any longer, and I was site for a teaching job), not only do we have the scared. It was dark. I had to go through, past burning love of Jesus in our hearts, but we are the big room, into my bedroom. At the other end filled with the fruits of the Spirit-the peace and of the room, just by my bedroom, He stood there. the joy. No grouches ever have a place in the He was so beautiful and He had a cap on His Sunday School. You come in grouchy and you head." (Of course, that was the halo.) "And He might as well go home. If you come in all in a put His hands out and He said, 'Don't be afraid,' turmoil, you might as well go home, or your class and so I wasn't afraid." ~s just going to be that. For we have to have the It struck my heart. I knew that Jesus had peace of God abiding in our own hearts if we want great concern over even the tiniest, even the most peace in our classes. forlorn. And so the fire began to burn in my own Introduce Jesus to Them heart. I have been gathering them ever since. One thing, and that is the most important of Dove the Ch·ildren all, is to introduce Jesus to every one of our boys How the love of God for these children must and girls. Some of them come from places-you be there! How you must yearn after them! How know where-you've visited-you've found them. you must mother them, shall I say? You must, But that doesn't make any difference. That makes when they come, make them to know you love it so much more wonderful, that we can present 5 Bread of Life, November, 1959 Jesus, and not only present Him but make Him that there is only one man-one "key" man-in so real and so wonderful and so desirable-and every Sunday school, and that is the teacher. You their own needs so great-that there is not a are the most important person in the Sunday thing in the world those boys and girls want to do school. as much as to find Jesus Christ for themselves. "Why?" After all, what are we doing in Sun­ day school. Who takes the most time with the Molding Character children? Who meets them face to face each We are molding character; therefore the teach­ Sunday? Who has them under their care? There­ er must be a man or a woman of character. We fore, knowing the job that we have to do-and I are producing character, Christian character; say that the call of God to teach is a serious call teaching the principles of Christian character. I -it shouldn't be entered into lightly. The call wish we would always remember that. And that to teach in Sunday school should be just as im­ which they see in us is that which is going to be portant and entered into with just as much re­ produced in them. Therefore we must be men and sponsibility felt as anything else-even as a pas­ women of character. 0 God, help us! We are tor, for in a small sense you are a pastor. molding lives and we are shaping destinies. Teaching is really a life. Teaching is the life Prayer of the teacher. I think you will find that your There is nothing else that will do for you and children will remember you many, many years do for your Sunday school and for your children after they have forgotten everything you said. as prayer. There is nothing like prayer that will They will remember that which you are. And bring forth that which we want and that which after all, "What you are speaks so loud I can't we are aiming for. Every day should see a faith­ hear what you say." And the impression that any ful teacher weeping. "He that goeth forth and dear, humble, holy teacher makes upon his chil­ weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless dren is the impression that is going to last. They come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves do remember you--the unconscious training, the with him." There should be weeping, weeping, unconscious influence, that thing a teacher teach­ because only that will bring forth the fruit that es most when he is not teaching at all. I think God wants as Sunday school teachers. he has more weight as he walks down the street or walks before his class than probably the words A Shepherd Heart that he utters. Naturally, we teach them truths. The teacher should have a shepherd heart. He Naturally, we bring forth the Word. Naturally, should be able to know his sheep, as the tenth of we present Jesus. But if we don't present Him in John brings out. He should know them by name. a consistent fashion, then it isn't much good. It is an insult for any teacher to have to refer to a boy-"Well, you in the last row-you/) We The Key Man should know their names. We should know all In every Sunday school there is a "key man." about them. You may have the best methods-! would say Jamie was really a disturber in the class; the methods are to be the best suited to your partic­ teacher stood it as long as possible and was about ular needs. You may have the best equipment­ to dismiss him. So the superintendent said, "You and you need that- good blackboards, good had better go and see Jamie. You had better go books, good illustrations, globes, maps, and any­ and see his mother." So he did. thing else that you can get. Of course, for the He went to Jamie's house and knocked, and younger tots we should have everything that Jamie's mother came to the door. When she found would hold them, keep them, interest them. You out that it was Jamie's teacher, she was all smiles may have all of that-you may have the best of and enthusiastic and said, "Ain't Jamie a won­ everything-the most beautiful building ( unfor­ derful kid? Ain't he wonderful?" And the teach­ tunately, I haven't had the most beautiful build­ er's mouth dropped open because he wasn't quite ings, especially in the very beginning days-we so wonderful in Sunday school and he didn't know had one great room; some of you perhaps are ac­ what that mother was talking about. But the quainted with such a Sunday school), you can mother rattled on as any mother would who is have the best) but the Sunday school rises or falls proud of her son. Jamie was wonderful to that with one person. mother. Then she went on, "I lost my husband. You may say, "That must be the superintend­ I have to do the washing. Jamie goes after the ent. I think that must be the general superin­ clothes, and he takes care of the baby while I do tendent." Well, I want to tell you it isn't. Be­ the washing. He takes back the laundry when it cause if a Sunday school is well arranged, well is done, and be-well, he's just wonderful!" planned for, the staff well taught, know their Well, the teacher found out that Jamie was place, do their work, it will go on. But with all really wonderful. The only reason he was so very, 6 Bread of Life, November, 1959 very naughty in Sunday school was that he had opportunity for an altar call, make it. We have no moment to play when he was home. He did had more than one altar call given in our classes. have to do all of those things. He was so occu­ More than one boy or girl has been saved right pied that he couldn't do anything else. there because there was interest. The truth was So that teacher and that superintendent got illustrated-it was received-it was accepted, and their heads together, and they said, "All right, the moment was there. Strike while the iron is Jamie is going to have a little opportunity to hot. Get them right there as they respond. Don't have a little fun too." So they saw to it that wait. When they mix with the other boys, all Jamie's outlook was different. He didn't have to that impression is gone. sit down on that chair all the time. There were If you want to keep your class, you had better things that Jamie could do. There were outings feed them. "If you want your pigs to stay at that Jamie once in awhile could take. There were your own gate, feed 'em at home." (Marion Law­ treats that that teacher could supply. And Jamie rence, not my quotation.) Feed 'em. I don't mean really was wonderful. But you don't know all the children are--. I'm only saying that you'd about them until you go and find out-find out better feed 'em. the background-find out what they are like. The teacher with a shepherd heart will lead Visitation Work them out of bad habits into habits that are good. Then the Sunday school teacher will seek out Lead them into habits of prayer and into habits the lost. I love visitation work. I still do it. There of giving. Surely any child could bring a couple is no royal road to Sunday school enlargement. of pennies. If there isn't anything but pennies, There really isn't. well, all right, but don't you think it is a good Of course, there is a way to lose the children. idea for that child to learn to give a tenth of a They say, the turn-over in every Sunday school dime for Sunday school? is 259(, in every year. That is an awful thing, Then the Sunday school teacher will feed his isn't it? But there ought to be some way to stop children. He will feed them with good food, well­ those leaks. And do you know that one of the proportioned. Not very much, maybe. I will say ways to hold your children, increase your Sun­ that it is a good idea to feed them in good pro~ day school, is the work of visitation? portions. Don't try to stuff the whole lesson I think at every teachers' meeting I ever have, down. Don't try to cover too much ground. Give and I sometimes almost apologize when I start them the portion that is "gettable" for them. You to talk about it, I say to the teachers, "Visita-' know how it is-sometimes you can't take in a tion." We have real visitation methods. My as­ real long sermon, yourself. Sometimes there is a sistant is the superintendent of records and visi­ limit to the capacity of that which you can take tation and absenteeism, and she really is a good in. And it is true in our teaching-there is a one. And we require the teachers to make re­ limit. ports, etc. That is the one way to build up your As you prepare your lesson, think of your own Sunday school, and believe me, if you are not will­ children. Think of their needs. Think of Jamie. ing to do that as a teacher, I think you had bet­ Think of that little Skippy. ter-ask God to help you; I won't say, quit. Ask We had a Skippy in our Sunday school. He was God to make you a shepherd that really goes out really some problem. He was the terror of every after those sheep. And oh, how they are won! class. Every teacher kind of wished he would We have families upon families who have been be promoted, but he wasn't promoted until his brought in because someone persistently called on time, when his age came when he should be. But the children. We have one family-the father Skippy went to Youth Camp and was really saved. and mother are now our janitors in our church. He found Jesus in a very wonderful way. Now They said, "Sister Wannenmacher, if you hadn't he is one of my teachers, one that you can de­ come-." And oh, how I came! I never let them pend upon, one that has found God, and is able go. Every once in awhile I would go after them to really be a blessing because we were patient until they were almost weary of seeing me, but with him. He was really born again. I went and knocked on that door: "Will you We have to feed them but we have to, as we come?" They came finally. They didn't come reg­ give the lesson, be sure that we apply it. That is ularly at first, but now they are some of our finest the main thing. We have to make the applica­ folks in our church. What was it? It was per~ tion. As you teach, don't wait for the final ap­ sistently going after them. I was seeking them plication, the final summary of the lesson, but out. It was all that and more. apply it as you go along, as the opportunity is afforded. They say you should catch fish when Not Afraid of Toil they bite, and when there is an interest, when The Sunday school teacher must not be afraid the truth has gone home, grab it. If there is an to work. Don't be afraid of the toil. Don't be 7 Bread of Life, November, 1959 Death!

DEATH! Does it mean just this, Death, did I say? Nay, beginning of Life, That my very self shall die? The birth of a B'in-cleansed soul; Tha.t all the hopes and plans of years Life, springing up in Divine overflow I shall sternly mortify ? Of spirit and body rnade whole.

Dead to myself-Crucified Spend, did I say 1 Yea, of abundant supply, On the Cross of sacrifice Give? Yea, of what we are given 'Til out of the ashes of that old life By the Father of Hirn with whom we're co-heirs A strange new life shall rise. From the inexhaustible storehouse of Heaven.

Must I die ?-Die to all To leave at the cross the best of onr gifts? That has made my life most dear? 'Tis to empty o·urselves for H·is own, The hopes and pla.ns and the cherished ties Cast aside all our plans, and our hopes, and our ,joys? Formed through each passing year? Yea, for greater, For we have not known,

Yea, it means just this,-My Death! Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, Dying with Him! Casting down Neither hare entered the heart At the foot of the Cros.s where I'm crucified Those things which God hath prepared for that life All earth's gifts. To wear the crow1t Where self hnth no lot nor pnrt.

Of thorns of the scorn of thi.s world, Death? Nny, Life! Abundant, Divine! To live to myself no rnore; For who hns thought for the .scorn To spend and be spent; to g•i!tJe and to lore, And the pa.in a.nd the woe and the a.nguish of denth Day by day, hour by hour, to pour On the Resurrection Morn?

O·nt for others; To give no heed Abunda.nt Life! For this purpose He came, To my heart, or its self-seeking cries. For this He d·ied on the tree: Yea, this is Death. The passing of self, That I, through Him, shall li:ve, yet not I, The acceptable sacrifice! But Christ Jesus shnll live in me.

Death to self-Death to sin-­ Tread·ing the path that He troll, Wi-th up-springing joy in that newness of life, Hid with my Christ in God.

--~MARTHA W. ROBINSON.

afraid of the cross. They pay well in Sunday A Serio,us Responsibility school work. It means toil. It means work. But Let us ask God to make us real teachers. Let do you do it? Have you been in your working us ask God to make us real and let the things of schedule? God wants you to be. God wants all God be real. Let them be wrought out in our lives, of our hearts to be in tune with that which He and never forget that teaching is the teacher, and has for us. you are the one that makes the teaching. You are We have a "tops" job. I have said I would ra­ the one that is held responsible. You are the one. ther build a fence at the top of the precipice than If we fail in our office, we are going to have to build an asylum or a hospital or a jail down at answer to God. There is going to be a judgment. the bottom because many a life would have been I firmly believe that. We cannot be careless in spared that sad experience, had they in their our lives. We cannot be careless in any way, but youth found Jesus-had they learned the Word. our influence and all about us has to be Jesus. It Had there been put into their hearts the love and isn't enough to talk about it, but it is enough if the fear of God they would never have come to we live Him and keep bdnging forth Him in our such an end. teaching through the Word. 8 Bread of Life, November, 1959 these are certain to lead us into serious trouble sooner or later. Importance of the Devotional The heart is like a garden and must be kept free from weeds Mood and insects. To expect the fruits and flowers of Paradise to grow in an untended heart is to mis­ By A. W. TOZER understand completely the proc­ esses of grace and the ways of lV1 AINTENAN?E _of ~he devotion­ around us-that is a distrac­ God with men. Only grief and . al mood IS Indispensable to tion; and the world is full of disappointment can result from success in the Christian life. them. Our science-based civili­ continued violation of the divine Holiness and power are not zation has given us many bene­ principles that underlie the spir­ qualities that can be once re­ fits, but it has multiplied our dis­ itual life. ceived and thereafter forgotten tractions and so taken away far The multiplying of artificial as one might wind a clock or more than it has given. objects of attention has not take a vitamin pill. The world One thing is certain, however: made people happy; it has made is too much with us, not to men­ we cannot turn the clock back them quite the opposite. Think tion the flesh and the devil, and to quieter times, neither can we of the contented grandmother of every advance in the spiritual hide from the persistent clamor American tradition, a look of life must be made against the of the twentieth century. We sweet serenity on her face, qui­ determined resistance of this must learn to live in such a etly knitting on a hollyhock­ trinity of evil. Gains made must world as this and be victorious fringed porch, and compare her be consolidated and held with a over it. with the nervous, exhausted resolution equal to that of an In the normal course of things housewife of today, moving army in the field. a certain number of distractions tensely among her laborsaving To establish our hearts in the are bound to come to each one devices trying to get her work devotional mood we must abide of us; but if we learn to be in­ finished in time to keep an ap­ in Christ, walk in the Spirit, wardly still these can be ren­ pointment with her psychiatrist. pray without ceasing and medi­ dered relatively harmless. It These pictures may be slightly tate on the Word of God day would not be hard to compile a overdrawn; the grandmother be­ and night. Of course this im­ long list of names of Christians ing, possibly, not quite so con­ plies separation from the world, who carried upon their shoul­ tented and the modern house­ renunciation of the flesh and ders the burden of state or the wife not as frustrated as we obedience to the will of God as responsibilities of business and suppose, but there is a lot of we are able to understand it. yet managed to live in great in­ truth here nevertheless. Things And what is the devotional ward peace with the face of the cannot bring happiness; they mood? It is nothing else than Lord in full view. They have can only add more weight to the constant awareness of God's en­ left us a precious legacy in the already too great burdens of folding presence, the holding of form of letters, journals, hymns the heart. inward conversations with and devotional books that wit­ The remedy for distractions Christ and private worship of ness to the ability of Christ to is the same now as it was in God in spirit and in truth. Pub­ calm the troubled waters of the earlier and simpler times, viz., lic worship embraces the com­ soul as He once calmed the prayer, meditation and the cul­ munity of believers and is gen­ waves on the Sea of Galilee. And tivation of the inner life. The uine only as the individuals who today as always those who lis­ psalmist said, "Be still, and compose the company assemble ten can hear His still, small know," and Christ told us to en­ in the mood of reverent devo­ voice above the earthquake and ter into our closet, shut the door tion. Anything short of this is the whirlwind. and pray unto the Father. It sheer formality and must sure­ While the grace of God will still works. ly be unacceptable to God. enable us to overcome inevitable "Let us return to ourselves, Among the enemies to devo­ distractions, we dare not pre­ brothers," said the Greek saint tion hardly another is so harm­ sume upon God's aid and throw Nicephorus, " ... for it is im­ ful as distractions. Whatever ex­ ourselves open to unnecessary possible for us to become rec­ cites the curiosity, scatters the ones. The roving imagination, onciled and united with God if thoughts, disquiets the heart, an inquisitive interest in other we do not first return to our­ absorbs the interests or shifts people's business, preoccupation selves, as far as it lies in our our life focus from the kingdom with external affairs beyond power, or if we do not enter of God within us to the world what is absolutely necessary: (Continued on page 11.) 9 Bread of Life, November, 1959 The Life of Song

On August 18, at the age of 13, Dr. Haldor Lillenas, a.uthor of over 3,000 gospel songs, died a.t his summer home in Aspen, Colorado. Perha.ps best known for his hymns, "Wonderful Peace'' and "Wonderful Grace of Jesus," Dr. Lillena.s has enriched our hymnody with the words and music of "Don't Turn Him. Away," "How Can I Be Lonely?", "Soldiers of Immanuel,'' and "Wonderful'' with its familiar chorus:

"Wonderful, wonderful, Jesus is to ,me, Counselor, Prince of Peace, Mighty God is He,· Saving me, keeping me from all sin and shame, Wonderful ·is my Redeemer, praise His name!"

He is also the composer or arranger of the music for "Give Me Oil in My Lamp," "Je­ sus Has Lifted Me," and "It Is Glory Just to Walk with Him." In a.ddition to writing songs, he wa.s the editor and publisher of a. number of song books, among them, WAVES OF GLORY and GLORIOUS GOSPEL HYMNS, which have been used in our fellowship. The following brief biog-naphy is taken from an a.nonymous life sketch of Dr. Lillenas, writ­ ten some yea.rs a.go. wi,th such cha.nges as n,eedful since he has joined "the choir in­ Haldor Lillenas visible."-EDITOR.

[)ESTINED to help set the reli­ bination passenger and cattle dar logs. In this log house Hal­ , gious world a-singing was a boat from Liverpool, England, dor sang his heart out-the Lil­ little Scandinavian lad, born on to Quebec, Canada. lenas family loved music. He one of the hundreds of small is­ The Lillenas family, now re­ began singing, in his native lands dotting the stormswept united, settled on the virgin soil tongue, the Norwegian transla­ coast of Norway. On one of of South Dakota, where a sod tions of the very popular Moody these islands, in a beautiful house was soon completed. In and Sankey gospel hymns. Other fjord thirty-five miles north of those pioneer days, when homes songs he learned were those Bergen, lived the 0. P. Lillenas were scarce and people few, Hal­ brought from Norway and sung family-a plain but God-fearing dor lived close to nature where in the rich contralto voice of his people. In this prosperous com­ it was easy to commune with mother. munity of the Far North, the fa­ God. The seeds of poetry and During the following twelve ther operated a country store song were deeply planted in his years, under the influence of a while his wife dutifully cared soul. It is little wonder that he Christian home, Haldor grew to for the home, singing as she later wrote: young manhood. There was plen­ worked. It was in 1886 that "In the cool of the da.y He walks with ty of hard work and diligent Haldor Lillenas was born-the me, study, but always he had a song boy who was to inspire countless In the rose-bordered wa.y He ta.lks in his heart. At the age of sev­ thousands to sing, "Jesus Has with m.e; enteen he began the study of Lifted Me" ! In lo,ve's holy union, and sacred com­ chemistry and he delved into its In a short time the lure of munion, mysteries for the next four America became so strong that In the ga.rden of my heart." years. After completing this the father closed his business in work he quickly found a posi­ Norway and migrated to the After two years in South Da­ tion in a chemical laboratory. United States, where he soon kota, the Lillenas family moved In response to publishers who made preparations for his fam­ to another pioneer section­ advertised for new songs, he ily to follow. At the age of two, northwestern Oregon-where a wrote his first songs while liv­ little Haldor, with his older new home was established ing in North Dakota, when he brother and sister, accompanied among wooded hills, under the was only nineteen years of age. his mother on their momentous shadows of giant Douglas firs, At that time he was not aware crossing of the mighty Atlantic. Sitka spruce and towering ce­ of the fact that legitimate pub­ This stormy voyage, requiring dars. This house was strong and lishers never need to advertise two weeks, was made in a com- rugged, built of hand-s:twed ce- in order to secure music manu- 10 Bread of Life, November, 1959 scripts. "Needless to say," in Lillenas. The compositions of ing gospel songs and hymns. Lillenas' own words, "these first this noted composer number After much prayer and medita­ songs were not very successful." over three thousand, many of tion, the latter field was chosen. Following the death of his them known and sung around In this way he felt assured that mother, Haldor Lillenas left the world. These gospel mes­ his ministry could touch more home to make his own way in sages have been translated into people and, in the end, be much life. On one beautiful summer many other languages. A few of more fruitful. evening, while in the city of As­ the best loved songs for which The Lillenas Publishing Com­ toria, Oregon, he was attracted Haldor Lillenas is most widely pany was organized in 1924. This to a gospel song service being known are, The City Where concern, located at Indianapolis, held on a street corner. Here They Need No Sun, Wonderful Indiana, grew and prospered for he heard for the first time "Tell Grace of Jesus) I Have Settled six years, and in 1930 was pur­ Mother I'll Be There." Th~ mes­ the Question, Peace That My chased by the Nazarene Pub­ sage of this song brought back Savior H.as Given, It Is Glory lishing House of Kansas City, vivid memories of his childhood Just t.o Walk with Him, Wonder­ Missouri. In addition to secur­ the family altar, the country ful Peace) The Peace That Je­ ing all the assets of the Lille­ church and the Sunday school. sus Gives) Your Roses May Have nas plant, the Nazarene Publish­ God talked to his heart-he was Thorns, The Garden of My ing House also obtained the deeply convicted; he repented, Heart and Jesus Has Lifted Me. services of Rev. Mr. Lillenas as and two weeks later, in a little It was while young Lillenas manager of the Music Depart­ mission, young Lillenas was glo­ was attending the Bible College ment. riously converted. It was not in Los Angeles that he met and We close this little biographi­ long before God bestowed upon fell in love with Bertha Mae Wil­ cal sketch of Haldor Lillenas this young singer-Christian a son, talented daughter of Dr. with an excerpt from the fore­ call to the ministry of the gos­ W. C. Wilson, who later became word of one of his later song pel. He lost no time in obeying General Superintendent of the books, ((Favorite Radio Songs the divine command, resigned Church of the Nazarene. At the and Poems" : his position with the chemical close of the school year this con­ "If any word that I may say laboratory and began to study secrated young couple were mar­ May brighten someone's dreary day, and to prepare himself for his ried. Rev. and Mrs. Lillenas la­ If any song that I may sing new calling. bored together for about forty Can just a bit of comfort bring; Mr. Lillenas united with the years as pastors, evangelists, Then, let me say that little word Church of the Nazarene in 1908, singers and writers of sacred And let my little song be heard and after attending the Deets song until her death. Bertha To help some weary heart today Pacific Bible College, he entered Mae Lillenas was a gospel song Along life's toilsome way." the ministry of the gospel, in writer in her own right. Her California. best known songs include, Jesus Importance of Devotional Took The path of the young and My Burden, He Will Not Mood Forget, Jesus Is Always There, aspiring song writer is never (Continued from page 9.) strewn with roses. Haldor Lille­ Saved by the Blood, and Leave nas proved the truth of this Your Burden at the Place of within ourselves, tearing our­ statement. Over a period of Prayer. selves-what a wonder it is!­ years following his conversion, While Rev. Mr. Lillenas was from the whirl of the world with he persistently wrote songs­ pastor of the First Church of its multitudinous vain cares and mostly sacred numbers-but re­ the Nazarene at Indianapolis, striving constantly to keep at­ ceived little or no encourage­ Indiana, he found himself at the tention on the kingdom of heav­ ment from anyone. Finally he fork of the road in his career as en which is within us." succeeded in selling ten songs to a minister of the gospel. Up to Distractions must be conquered one publisher-for fifty cents that time he had traveled two or they will conquer us. So let each! One of these, "He Set Me highways of Christian service. us cultivate simplicity; let us Free," became very popular. He had divided his time between want fewer things; let us walk In the years that have fol­ song composition and pastoral in the Spirit; let us fill our lowed that first "hit" in sacred work. The magnitude of his du­ minds with the Word of God and song, Lillenas' songs have been ties and responsibilities became our hearts with praise. In that enthusiastically accepted and so great that he felt compelled way we can live in peace even sung by millions of people. To­ to choose between giving his en­ in such a distraught world as day a religious radio broadcast tire time and attention to his this. "Peace I leave with you, is hardly complete without one much loved pastoral ministry or my peace I give unto you." of the "heart songs" of Haldor to the fascinating work of writ- -Allinncc Witness. 11 Bread of Life, November, 1959 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

AS THANKFUL AS HE?

By V. RAYMOND EDMAN

The Lord Jesus Was Thankful in All Circumstances of Life • • E WAS GRATEFUL FOR DAILY FOOD, the evidence of God's concern and provision for • H His creatures. It was perfectly natural that He should give thanks as He broke the • • five little barley loaves and two tiny fish which were to be divided among the hungry • multitude (John 6:11). He did the same when the four thousand were fed on a later oc­ ••. casion (Mark 8:6). He was thankful there was food for others and for Himself, and so • should we be thankful! He was thankful for divine favor that enlightened the understanding of the humble. The worldly-wise were conceited in their learning and contemptuous of the lowly. They were the "enlightened ones," the doctors of the Law, the disciples of Gamaliel; and they scorned the Nazarene teacher and his Galilean followers. "At that time Jesus an­ swered and said, I thank Thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes" (Mat­ thew 11:25). He was thankful that the simple-hearted recognized that they were sin­ ners and needed a Saviour, that the humble were honest enough to admit that He was their only hope of heaven, and that the meek were content to leave life's mysterious and cruel conditions to an all-wise Creator. He was thankful that the keys of knowledge and destiny were in omnipotent hands, and so can we be thankful! He had a spirit of gratitude even in the face of death. Death is a grim enemy, and not an illusion. Death takes no holidays, but is an ever-present specter and shadow. At any moment he may knock at our door, as he did at the lovely haven in Bethany long ago. Lazarus was dead; and of course the hearts of Mary and Martha were torn with grief. • Then Jesus came; and lifting his eyes upward in prayer He said simply and earnestly, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. And I know Thou hearest Me always ..." (John 11:41-42). Jesus did not minimize death; He mastered it. He did not doubt di­ vine providence; He depended upon it. He was thankful that the believing heart can pray when the eyes may be blinded with tears, that the redeemed may know the power of the resurrection-and so can we be thankful! • Our Lord was thankful even in the shad ow of His own decease. The cross had cast its ominous and awful shadow across His heart and mind. He knew that one of His own would soon betray Him. Before Him lay agony and anguish, the spitting and the scourge, the causeless condemnation and the cross; yet in the last supper He "took bread, and blessed it ... took the cup, and gave thanks" (Matthew 26:26-27). He was thank­ ful that His life was in God's hands, that the divine will and purpose for Him would be accomplished, that the wrath of man would redound to God's glory, that the cross would lead to a crown; and so can we be thankful! This thankfulness is not in ourselves, nor because of our goodness, but by the indwell­ ing Spirit of the Thankful One.

-Wheaton College Bulletin.

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