Herald of Holiness Volume 45 Number 48 (1957)
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Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 1-30-1957 Herald of Holiness Volume 45 Number 48 (1957) Stephen S. White (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation White, Stephen S. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 45 Number 48 (1957)" (1957). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 1096. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1096 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. with our whole hearts. Thy blessings are new every morning and fresh each day. Thou hast given even before we have asked and hast provided so often be yond our requests. Forbid that we should take Thy gilts tor granted or forget Thee, Thou source of all our bounties. We thank Thee for this dav's food, lor the clothes we wear, lor the shelter of home, for those that love us. and whom we love, for Thv Church, and i'or a place to work and help build Thy kingdom. General Superintendent Young Let not our hearts become attached to Thy material and earthly gilts. May we seek Thy kingdom first and trust I’liy wisdom for all things. \fav Thv spiritual benefits be our supreme and constant desire. Love divine, all love Let our lives show forth Thy praise today. We bless Thee for excelling, Thy Son, whose death has accomplished our redemption. Make us Joy of heav’n to earth effective witnesses to Thy grace. Show us the path to the hearts of come down! men. Fix in us Thy humble Even for the unanswered problems and for the cares that vex dwelling; us, we give Thee thanks. May they teach us what it means to bring All Thy faithful mercies evervthing to Thee *n prayer. Let us not seek the easy way out. Only croum. be our Guide and Portion. May Thy name be glorified even by our very weaknesses and insufficiency. We confess our needs daily. Accept our thanks now in advance for the victories that are yet to come. Be pleased to shine through the dark places today; but if not, speak in cpiiet reassurance to our troubled hearts. We dare to trust Thy kindlv wisdom and Thy holy love. Thou art the strength of our life. We bless Thy name, for Thou alone art worthv. Forbid that we should oiler man the honor that belongs to Thee. We praise Thee for thyself, revealed through Jesus Christ our Lord, infinite in com passion and with great mercy. The purity of Thy holiness and the unfathomed depth of Thy love are the source of all our hopes. We bow in adoration. "How great Thou art!” Only be our Friend and Companion all through this day. All praise to I lice, the Father; to Thee, the Son; and to Thee, the Holy Spirit. “Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory," both now and forevermore! Amen. MAKE UP YOUR MIND Cntmid ofJ-toliness God forbid! (R om . 11:1.) I like prejudiced people, in one way. L l Ja n u a ry 30, 1957 I like people who, when they have Vol. 45, No. 48 thought a thing through, no longer Telegram Whole Number 2336 need to keep debating it. When it is Pasadena, California— O rganized 1 A Prayer of Praise, ('•eneral settled, it is settled. The man who has Whittier Heights Church Sunday Superintendent Young the nervous breakdown is the one who morning, January 6; forty charter 3 W hat Is Your I ife? David J. still has two minds about too manv members, Rev. W. I. DeBoard, pas Tarrant things. 1 "H e Shall . keep I bee." tor.—W. Shelburne Brown, S upe rin For instance, I have a closed mind tendent of Los Angeles District. A. 1. Harper ."> I he Light of the World! about whether to use a ra/oi or an Wanda Milner electric shaver. I debated the matter Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Park of Clearwater. My Thanks, l.nola Chamber about ten years ago, and decided. What Morida, will celebrate their sixtieth wed lin that decision was is not important. It ding anniversary on February 10; which (5 Putting God to the Test, is important that I added how-to-shave will also mark Mr. Park’s eighty-first Hazel E. Howard to the growing list of items I no longer 7 God’s Raven May Be a Para birthday. They have been active Naza- concern my mind with. Like St. Paul, keet. Genevieve Thompson renes for forty years, have helped to there are some propositions, both mun establish Na/arene churches in Ashtabu 8 The Cornerstone of Christian Faith, Ralph A. Micktl dane and spiritual, about which I am la, Jefferson, and Medina, Ohio: and 9 God’s Call Is for Progres narrow. Mention certain ideas and the are now members of the church in sion, Sylvester A. Smith apostle and I respond, "God forbid!” Clearwater. Their six sons plan to be 10 "O Happy Day.” Justa Lee Make up your mind! When Caesar with them when they hold open house Allen changed all subsequent history bv cross February 12 at their home. 1207 1 wing 10 Bv the Wayside, Mary Anne ing the Rubicon, he d id n ’t cross halfway \venue. Clearwater. Honda. Miller 1 1 \ Real Going Concern. Mrs. and look back. Some people decide to IYarren Holcomb be Christians, about halfwav. They are Rev. George \V. Carrier writes that he 11 Pray for Those in Authority, like the boy who became a Christian resigned as pastor of the church in ('•race Wilson when he went into the army, and de Ashtabula to accept the pastorate at cided to keep it a secret. He staved in rhrichsville, Ohio, as of January 1. Next Week . the army four years, and sure enough, His Voice Speaks Today, K a th nobody ever found it out. Rev. Melvin W. Quick has resigned erine Bevis Hear Martin Luther as his positive- the pastorate of the Croydon church to Needed—One Hundred Ex ness echoes down the centuries, ‘‘Here accept the call to the Morlcy church, millionaires, R. L. Lunsford stand I; I can do no other.” Yorkshire, and was inducted into his Christian Giving for (he new work by District Superintendent Church Age, W arren JV. Clay Stand behind Arthur Moore as he rises from the* altar in a tabernacle in J. B. Maclagan. He succeeds Rev. Leslie HERALD OF HOLINESS: Stephen S. White, Roberts, now pastor at Skcgoneill, Bel Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Ed Way cross, and says he is giving his life itor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, to God! fast. in the British Isles North District. G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Van- derpool, Hugh C. Benner, General Superin Notice B. I. Thornton, recently a tendents, Church of the Mazarene. Published lay leader of a Methodist Annual Con Pastor J. Russell Brown sends word: every Wednesday by the MAZARENE PUB ' F.mmett, Idaho, church had just com LISHING HOUSE, M. Lunn, Manager, 2923 ference. as vears ago he looked at his Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Christmas liquor bill, the while remem pleted an extensive remodeling program Missouri. Subscription price, $1.50 per when burned January 10; building a year, in advance. Entered as second class bering the1 look of fright in his child’s matter at the post office at Kansas City, total loss. People believe God is able M issouri. Printed in U .S .A . eves, and hear him say, “I’m done and are rebuilding immediately.” with it!” Learn to say, "God forbid!” Rev. J. B. Maclagan, superintendent with the wonderful pastor. Rev. Barrett —C i i a s . A. J a c k s o x , J r ., in Wesleyan of British Isles South District, has ap Kirby, and the good people of Sacra ( 11 rist ian A dvocat e pointed Mr. Fred Upton, a local preacher mento First Church. of the Dewsbury Road Church. Leeds, to the lay pastorate at Qucensburv, Rev. John R. Baillie has resigned the Yorkshire. The announcement was made pastorate of the Blantvre church (Brit to the congregation by the district su ish Isles North District) to accept a I Stood at the Door perintendent at the close of a very suc unanimous call to tlu* pastorate of the By ILA R. MONDAY cessful holiness convention conducted bv Lancaster church, Lancashire-, British Revs. Maurice Carlilc and Thomas Isles South District. / stood at the door with a trembling Food. soul. Rev. Russell M. Quant/ has resigned And I shook so with fear within, Rev. F. J. Duke has resigned as pastor his pastorate at I.oughced. Alberta And with weak, blind faith fumbled at of the church at Sweet Home, Oregon, i Canada West District), to accept a the knob, and moved to Minnesota to enter the unanimous call to the* pastorate of the I ill God beckoned me on in! evangelistic field. Sheffield First Church, Brilish Isles Sontli District. There’ve been many doors since where After an absence of ten months from I have stood. the active pastorate due to the need of Professor and Mrs.