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Reformation Sunday, October 29, 1961 October 25,1961 By W. T. PURKISER

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way. It is easier to drift through the wide gate Some Things We Can't Afford and down the broad way. As water flows ever “I can’t afford it.” downward, so the gravitational pull of the world Most of us often use these words about the spend­ draws the unregenerated mass of mankind ever ing of dollars and cents. Desires have a way of lower. outrunning ability. Our purposes may outstrip For this reason, matters of right and wrong can our means. It doesn’t take long to reach the limits no more be decided by majority vote than can the of our financial resources. truth of a scientific formula. Here only the con­ In other areas of life than the monetary there science (|uickened by the Spirit of holiness and are some things we can’t afford. None of us can trued by the eternal Word of God can give us aftord popularity at the expen.sJesus strongly urged His disciples to "count the many, “the land of the Reformation," in 1958 when Rev. and Mrs. Jerald D. Johnson sailed cost” of Christian discipleship. This is right and for Europe and located in Frankfurt. We now proper, and the principle works in reverse too. have churches or missions in Frankfurt, Kai­ The unfinished tower and the defeated army are serslautern, Hanau, and Wuppertal, with an actual church membership at last report of monuments to the folly of failure to reckon on the eighty-six. Your Thanksgiving offering on expense of an undertaking. Before setting out on November 19 will help support holiness work the paths of popularity without principle, success in this and other overseas home missions fields around the world. without integrity, or victory “at any price,” let’s “count the cost,” and recognize that there are some things we can’t afford. (Please turn to page 12) G en e ra l Superintendent Vanderpool

the Gospel

THE GOSPEL is the revelation of The simple gospel preaching of Billy Christ and His work of redemption, Graham has turned thousands to whether given in sermon, song, testi­ Christ, and has made his name a mony, or by the printed page. The household word around the world. gospel has unmeasured power in As ambassadors for Christ, both changing lives, communities, cities, ministers and laymen become trus­ and nations. Broken, despairing, and tees of the gospel. To give the gospel sin-blighted men and women have releases rivers of living water, while advanced to lives of peace, useful­ to withhold the gospel leaves lives ness, and triumph by its power. unfruitful, parched, and dry. We The gospel is bread for the disciples must give account of whether we of the Lord, giving strength to the have dispensed the gospel joyfully or weak and satisfaction to the hungry. hoarded it in smug silence. The gospel gives comfort to the sor­ “We are debtors to every man to rowing and guidance to the frustrated give him the gospel in the same and bewildered. It gives assurance measure we have received it.” “Free­ of victory over every foe in any gen­ ly ye have received, freely give” was eration. The gospel discovers the sin­ Christ's measure for giving the gos­ ner’s hiding place and sounds the pel (Matthew 10:8). alarm bells in the ears of the wicked. To mouth and parley over fringe The gospel reveals the panacea for the and mediocre matters while men per­ world’s ills—Christ, the Redeemer! ish, or to substitute a stone for bread, A skeptical, immoral, liquor- or a scorpion for an egg. is a crime drinking, Sabbath-desecrating society against God and the race. As trustees was transformed by the gospel of the gospel, how dare we “fiddle” preaching of John Wesley in his day. while the world burns?

OCTOBER 25, 1%1 • (683) 3 C o n t e n t s ... General Articles 2-3 Editorials 4 Holiness: T h e Ancient and Modern Road, J . V. W ilban ks Telegram s . . . 5 In the Land of Luther . . . Today, Jerald D. Johnson Conway, Arkansas—North Arkan­ 6 The Challenge of Being a Protestant, Mendell Taylor sas District convention and assembly 7 The Protestant Grotto, Frank Howie a tvonderful time of victory and 8 Empty Religion Made Reformation Inevitable, blessings. Dr. Samuel Young at his Albert AI. Wells best and appreciated [or his beautiful 9 A Leaf from a Rogue’s Book, T. Crichton Mitchell spirit. Good gains in every phase of 11 Tell Them to Stand Tall! Milo L. Arnold work. District united with forward 12 All Out! or All Out? Jack M. Scharn look for another year. Love offering of $2,386 raised for District Superin­ Poetry ten d en t J . VF. Hendrickson.— Clyde 10 The Water of Life, Flora E. Breck Montgomery, R ep orter. Departments 13 Foreign Missions Kingston, New York —The fifty- fourth annual assembly of the New 14 Home Missions York District teas held at Kingston Servicemen’s Commission First Church, September 29 and 30. For Christian Action Dr. V’. H. Lewis, general superintend­ 15 District Activities ent, presided with grace and efficien­ The Local Churches cy. God's presence u-as apparent 10 T h e Bible Lesson from the starting service to the co n ­ 18 News of the Religious World clusion. Rev. Robert Goslaw’s inspir­ T h e Answer Corner ing report as district superintendent was enthusiastically received by more HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; than 120 delegates and many more Velma I. Knight, Office Editor; Dave Lawlor, Art Direc­ friends. At the conclusion of his re­ tor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Wil­ I lei-ald of liamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Vanderpool, Hugh C. Benner, port the delegates showed their ap­ ' \ f T l ' T f l A A Lewis, General Superintendents, Church of the Naza- preciation by casting a unanimous ■ 1 B H h I rene‘ Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned unless I I I !» postage accompanies the material. P u b I i s h e d eveiy one-year call and nearly unanimous B I I \ l ^ Wednesday, by the N AZAREN E PU BLISH IN G HOUSF, three-year call. A spontaneous love /■ il I l l Ji / A‘ Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, offering u-as given the Goslaws, who mtm i I / Kansas City 41, Missouri. Subscription price, $2.50 per OCTOBER 25, 1961 year, in advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas have sewed faithfully [or nine years. Vol. 50, No. 35 Whole No. 2583 City, Missouri. Printed in U.S.A. The total giving of the district showed PHOTO CREDITS: Cover, Screen Traveler, from Gendreau. Page 19: No. 2, Francis Sheidegger; an increase of $10,000; 122 members No. 4, Kyle Studio. were received by profession of faith, giving a net gain on the district of 42; and $31,593 was given to general interests, making the New York Dis­ trict a 9.7 per cent district, this being the “ancient paths.” Surely God would the highest in the history of the dis­ HOLINESS: not have man go back to oxcart methods; trict. The assembly closed will a note but whereas the human race has dis­ of optimism for the future and the The Ancient and Modern Road covered inventions to facilitate travel tremendous need in this great area of and increase material production, we And an highway shall be there, and the church.—Willis K. Scott, R ep orter. seem, on the other hand, to have re­ a w ay , and it shall be called The way wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww of holiness (Isaiah 35:8); . . . to stu m ­ sorted to "walk in paths, in a way not Pastor A. E. Woodcook sends word ble in their tuays from the ancient cast up." T hat is, man is seeking hap­ from Muncie, Indiana: “Evangelist C. B. paths, to walk in paths, in a way not piness and righteousness in crooked and Cox and Singer Norman McCoy used of cast u p (Jeremiah 18:15). irregular paths. It is a good deal like God in revival at Muncie First Church; A FEW WEEKS AGO Major Titov of Denverites trying to reach Los Angeles 80 seekers. Closed on Sunday, Septem­ the Russian Air Force circled the globe by traveling rough mountain terrain in­ ber 24, with 570 in church and Sunday seventeen times in twenty-five hours. stead of modern highway, railway, or school.” Clearly this is a degree of advancement airway. over the horse-and-buggy days. What at one time in the ancient past Rev. Wally Erickson, of Winamac, has However, such spectacular accomplish­ was good for man to pursue to obtain accepted a call to pastor First Church ments as tliis push the modern trend of and hold this high goal is necessarily in Hammond, Indiana. thinking to extremes so that we are still the same. Constitutionally the likelv to view all old-fashioned methods human race is the same and its need the Rev. L. A. Bolerjack. retired Nazarenc and means with an attitude of rejection. same. This way that has always been elder, died from a heart attack at his Really, though, Titov’s accomplishment prescribed by the God who made us, home in Cushing, Oklahoma, on Sunday is just another step of progress in that the Author of all spiritual and physical evening, October 1. He had pastored realm of human contrivance which be­ law, is holin ess. According to the well- for many years on the Kansas, Kansas gan with the invention of the wheel and known text, it is a p re p a r ed way—a way City, and Joplin districts. Funeral serv­ is confined within the limits of physical prepared by God himself and not a ice was held in the Cushing church on science, which in itself is as old as the human contrivance. Let all those who Friday, October 6, with Dr. \. C. Mathis, hills. It cannot add and has not added disparage it beware that they set not superintendent of Northeast Oklahoma one essential solution to man’s basic and up their own crooked and irregular doc­ District, and Rev. Dean Baldwin, super­ eternal problem of sin—the great prob­ trines in contradiction to “Thus saith intendent of the Joplin District, offi- lem of the universe. the Lord.”—J. V. W ilbanks, Nazarenc. < iating. Jeremiah, in the above text, speaks of Layman, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

4 (GM) • IIKRAU) OF HOLINESS the breaking down of these teligious barriers with­ in the Western sectors. East Germany was known as being primarily Protestant, and as the refugees have streamed across the borders by the hundreds of thousands, all sections of the West have been forced to take their share of them. The natural result of this has been the mixing of the population religiously. Behind the barbed wire, and the more recently In the erected “Chinese Wall,” protected and guarded by the Vopo’s, is a Russian satellite known to be bank­ rupt. Their poverty is an indication of the utter failure of communism in rebuilding a war-torn country. On this side one is impressed with the Land modern buildings, much automobile traffic, and general signs of progress and prosperity. At the recent K irch en tag held in Berlin, just of prior to the latest crisis, one of Germany’s Protes- Luther . . . TODAY

B y JERALD D. JOHNSON tant bishops prayed a most interesting and note­ Pastor, Frankfurt am Main, Germany worthy prayer. His petition was, “O Lord, save us from unbelief in the East— and from materialism IN T H E H EA R T of Worms, Germany, stands a in the West." most impressive and unusual monument. Stairs in The word that has reached the West among the center lead to a large and imposing statue of Christians from Eastern Germany who have fled Martin Luther. Other famous religious leaders of is that there is an undercurrent of genuine revival the Reformation period are seated about him. Un­ behind the iron curtain. It seems as though per­ der Luther’s figure are found these immortal words, secution is bringing Christians closer to God, and "Here I stand, I can do naught else. God help me. spiritual life has been intensified in spite of efforts Amen.” This of course commemorates the famous to erase it. Diet of Worms, and the monument is located near But in the churches on the Western side of the where the Diet took place. boundary the general complaint is that, although Another historical spot in Germany related to memberships arc large and impressive, running the Reformation is in Wittenberg. However, the into the thousands for nearly each congregation, Westerner is not permitted to visit this place of the percentage of this membership which actually sacred memory, as it is located in East Germany. attends worship services is frighteningly low. It is this division of modern Germany that causes This then is the Germany in which the Church so many frustrations, not only on an international of the Nazarene finds itself today. Our church and national scale, but also on a domestic level. does not accept this unique challenge with any But that their country is divided is no new experi­ false notion that we are the only solution to Gei ence to Germans. History records many European many’s spiritual problems. Nor do we move for­ wars with Germany either directly or indirectly ward with egoistic disregard and lack of appreci­ involved, after which there would lie a reestablish ation for the faith and heroism of the reformers rnent of boundaries. and of other Christian leaders throughout the ten Ever since the famous lhiity Years' War, Ger­ lurics. many has been religiously divided. As many people But we are convinced that the Church of the turned toward Protestantism, the Catholics fought Nazarene does have a God-given task, and it is against them to retain control of certain areas. The our prayer that we will be used of Him in bring­ result is that some sections of the country have ing about a revival of the principles of the Refor­ been known as being practically entirely Catholic mation in the “land of Luther.” These principles and other areas Protestant. were: (1) the recognition of the absolute suprem­ But the interesting thing is that the present acy of the Bible as the Norm for life and doctrine; division of Germany has had much to do with (2) the proclamation of justification by a living

OCTOBER 25, 1961 • (685) 5 l'aith in Jesus Christ, and (.‘5) the priesthood of Jt was Luther’s “Battle Hymn,” and we claim the all believers. truths of it today as we too endeavor to fulfill a A lady from the East Zone knelt at our altar God-given assignment in Germany— the "Land of and found Christ as her personal Saviour before Luther.” she returned to her family on the “other side.” I mighty fortress is our Goil. Her correspondence, which comes to us indirectly A bulwark never failing: lest it be traced to an American in the Western Our helper He, amid the flood sector, indicates that Reformation principles have Of mortal ills prevailing, become practical realities in her life. (1) She lor still our (indent foe returned to find the Communists had stripped Doth seek to work us woe: her home of everything except her Bible, declaring His craft and pow’r are great, it to be useless to them. How joyful she was to be And, armed with cruel hate, entitled to this one treasure! (2) She says that On earth is not his equal. Christ still meets the need of her heart, and (3) she is enjoying wonderful fellowship with Him. Did we in our own strength confide, We dare to accept this as an example of how Our strii’ing -would he losing. our church has been and will be used of God to II ere not. the right M an on ou r side, help meet the spiritual needs of today’s Germany. The Man of God's own choosing. Visitors dropping in on our services may be Dost ask who that may be? privileged to hear a Nazarene congregation very Christ Jesus, il is He; enthusiastically sing “A Mighty l-'ortress Is Our Lord Sahaoth is His name, God.” T o hear it sung in Germany, by Germans, From age to age the same, in the German language is a blessed experience. And He must win the battle.

The Challenge of Being a Protestant

By MENDELL TAYLOR, Dean, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri

TH ESE ARE DAYS when Protestants need to do “ fesits, the Light of the World.” Straws are already some soul searching. Recent developments in the in the wind to indicate that the emphasis will be religious and political spheres force us to re­ on the formal and organic union of all churches examine our position and reaffirm our faith. into a single body. Protestantism was born in the furnace of religious The St. Andrew’s report of the World Council ferment when the fire was seven times hotter than of Churches’ Commission on Faith and Order was usual. A Protestant was one who stood for some­ recently released. It contained the following dec­ thing, witnessed to something, and dared believe laration: “It is affirmed that we must take ever something. more seriously the union and reunion of churches, In contrast to this, the modern age is character­ else we shall continue to make of Faith and Order ized by an easygoing accommodation to what is an ecumenical merry-go-round which, no matter expedient; a sweet tolerance that gi\es everybody how long and how far we ride, we always dis .i light t<> make his unii m ln t>1 living: and a mount at the same: place where we got on . . . hollow broad-mindedness that condones everything The achievement of unity will involve nothing and condemns nothing. less than a death and rebirth of many forms of lhis condition was highlighted in the iccciit c hutc h life as we have known them. There is a political campaign. Where there was a choice danger of the member churches being satisfied with between a Protestant candidate and a Catholic for brotherly collaboration and with a federal type of president, Protestant leaders took the stance that union which would leave its full autonomy to it was bigotry, naive, and blind prejudice to con­ each church . . . In the ultimate achievement of sider religion an issue when a ballot was cast. Christian unity all the presently precious distinc­ These conditions also show up in the church tive names and all the nice, neat distinctions in world. Within a matter of days the Third World doctrine will have to be laid on the altar.” Council will be meeting at New Delhi, India. The Doctrinal issues are whitewashed for the sake theme of this ecumenical convocation will be of uniformity and co-operation. All denominations

6 (680) • IIEKALD OF HOLINESS wliirlt do not “follow (lie: crowd" along lliis l>ro;id the liiblical injunction, "l.et \ottr yea be yea; and way will eventually be branded as irresponsible, your nay, nay" (James f>:r_’). 1 lie challenge of untrustworthy, and cancers in the body of Christ. our clay is to have a rugged enough conscience that Back of the one-church accent is an overtone that we can peal out a healthy “No,” which indicates is occasionally articulated. This is the call to put that we stand for something, instead of falling for all of the living religions of the world in a system everything. that is called the “Higher Religion.” This made a dramatic appearance last year when the Unitarian church officially requested the religious world to refrain from referring to it as a part of Christianity. The To call them Christians would indicate that they considered Christ and His teachings the only wa\ to find salvation. They did not want to be classi­ fied as that narrow or intolerant. They insisted Protestant that when they sent representatives to foreign coun­ tries they went to help the Buddhist become a better Buddhist, the Hindu become a better Hindu, Grotto the Shintoist a better Shintoist. Thus, to main­ tain their broad view of truth and life, they have a religion that is comprehensive enough to include By FRANK HOWIE all souls and positive ideas and exclude none. Pastor, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland Another expression of this approach is that we ". . . and the Roman Catholics in the area call are all headed to the same goal, and we should the Memorial the 'Protestant (irotto.’ " go together rather than compete with one another. My informant was one of my own Nazarene The claim of the exponents of this position is members, and president of the fortnightly Meet­ that truth is one. There can be no such thing as ing which was held in the David Livingstone Jewish truth, or Moslem truth, or Christian truth. Memorial, Blantyre. 1 had just been preaching For truth is universal and it is only partially real­ at the meeting and was retracing my steps back ized in each of these religions. But if all the living to the manse, which was but a short distance religions of the world were shaken together, a from it. common denominator would be found that would The “Protestant Grotto,” 1 thought, as I walked embody the whole truth. beside my companion. IIow strange! What is the These trends threaten to cut the heart out of secret of this quaint old Scottish house? Wherein Christianity in general and Protestantism in par­ lies the magnetic fascination that draws Christians ticular. The heroic and challenging term Protes­ from all over the world? Its secret is a baby born tant is rapidly losing its identity. It has become there on March 19, 1813, a baby with Africa in Pablum-like in content and diluted in meaning. his heart. For David Livingstone, world-renowned Protestantism no longer has fundamental prin­ missionary and explorer, lived and died for Africa, ciples which deserve a full measure of dedication, it was his land; the Africans were his people. but all things are in a state of flux. Its modern Who can measure the dedication of this man genius is like the note attached to the fares listed with the burning heart? Who can estimate the on airplane schedules: "Subject to change with­ influence of his life and work? His own words out previous notice." were at once his unswerving purpose and the spon­ The crux of the problem is that if one starts taneous expression of his unquenchable spirit: “I shifting his ideas he never gets one staked down will open a way to the interior or perish.” He did until something new comes along, and then he both. tries to give it a place in the thought pattern, and Determined to penetrate the African interior for by the time that is settled something else new- Christ, Livingstone journeyed through malarial comes along to displace it. Such manipulating of swamps and disease-ridden forest, enduring the mental processes weakens our punch power until spoliation of his meager and diminishing supplies we have nothing convincing or persuasive to offer. by unscrupulous natives, the perplexity of unfaith­ In spite of these easygoing accommodations to ful guides, unceasing harassment from hostile prevailing cultural contours, I think that it is now tribes, and murderous threats evoked by his bitter time for all of us who make Christ King of every­ and unrelenting opposition to the slave trade. thing to stand up and be counted on the side that Under such conditions, with dysentery and fever says that truth is immutable, right is immortal, and exacting their toll, it is not surprising that his the authority of God’s Word is infallible. We need body was soon reduced almost to a mere skeleton. the moral stamina that enables us to avoid an­ One stands in awe at the unbelievable courage and swers that have a double meaning. We must follow stamina of such a dynamic personality and is re­

OCTOBER 25, 19G1 • (687) 7 minded ol another of Cod's gieat ;i< 1 \entuieis 1 >\ ilie name ol 1’aul. Through the untiring labor of God’s servant, Livingstone, a continent was beginning to awake, and from the debris of heathenism the Sun of Righteousness was beginning to arise with healing in His wings. Through the lips of the “white doctor” the deathless music of the eternal gospel was going forth on its errand of healing, and the Balm of Gilead was applied to the open wound and the festering sore. Around him were blinded minds groping in a starless night; before him was the break of day. The night was receding, and in the far horizon was the Hush of dawn. "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up” (Matthew 4:16). As I bade my companion good night and crossed the main Blantyre road, my mind went back to the events surrounding the death of Livingstone. I seemed to be transported to old Chitambo's vil­ lage, and stood in the hut in which a figure knelt in the attitude of prayer before a rough bed. But it was a lifeless figure. For David Livingstone was By ALBERT M. WELLS dead. Pastor, Sidney, Nebraska Livingstone's body was interred in Westminster Abbey, London. But who can ever forget the heroic story of how these bones were brought there — the impressive feat, so unique in the annals of exploration or mission work, which stirred the imagination of the world? For the body of the missionary was carried by faithful native hands, through terrible danger and privation, to the OF T H E EVENTS in the history of the Christian coast, where it was shipped to England. Ah, dear, era there are three which stand out with great simple souls, how you weep for your departed significance, f irst was the invasion of the bar­ leader! How your mourning hearts cry . . . barians into the Roman Empire, which subjected O for the touch of the vanished hand, new nations to the influence of Christian culture. And the sound of a voice that is still! Second were the Crusades, which struck a crucial An impressive and deeply moving spectacle? Un­ blow to the feudal system. Third was the Refor­ doubtedly. Vet how much more poetically beauti­ mation. which helped to purify religion and eman­ ful that these same black men, before setting out cipated modern man from Catholic control. on their journey, should bury their master's heart The Reformation, like these other movements, on African soil! Every throb, every pain, every was a long time in the making. On October 31, 1517, sorrow of his great heart was for Africa; the in­ Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Castle domitable pioneer who cut a highway for God Church in Wittenberg, Germany, his ninety-five across the Dark Continent had one all-consuming theses, protesting against certain practices of the passion— to stay the bitter fountain of African church. This act of Luther’s is usually regarded as misery. the beginning of the Reformation. But seldom, if By this time I had reached the manse and, open­ ever, do single events or individual men bring ing the door, I closed it on another day in the about such a significant and world-shaking change life of the Nazarene pastor in David Livingstone's as was created by the Reformation. home town. Tomorrow I would open it again to Prior to Luther’s initial step, acts of oppression, minister the same gospel that sounded through injustice, and tyranny had been heaped one upon the kraals and villages of the African jungles. For the other until the limit of endurance had been my God is the God of David Livingstone. reached. The very Early Church was characterized by few organizational demands. But by the third century P a ren ts: Plan with your children for the Church had become a visible, organized com­ the Thanksgiving Offering on November 19. Teach them early the joy of sharing. monwealth. This was made quite apparent when a significant churchman of earlv times, Irenaeus, said

8 (688) • HERALD OF HOLINESS that where the Church is (meaning the visible body pope to give. The popes began to act as il they with its clergy and sacraments) there is the Spirit possessed an unrestricted lordship over divine of God; and where (he Spirit of God is, there is favors. the Church. As time went on, this system of indulgences By the latter part of the twelfth century the deteriorated even more, until in the fourteenth pope of Rome seemed to have the governments of century they came to be granted for money. When the world at his feet. The vicar of Peter had be­ the church placed a monetary value on forgiveness come the vicar of God and Jesus Christ. But and heaven, when the church and the papacy even in these early years there was a power at persuaded people that they could buy their way work in society which was destined to deal the into the presence of God, there was born a con office of the papacy a bitter defeat. fidence racket that would make any grossly im­ Notice one example of the unjust practices of moral confidence game of the twentieth centurv the Catholic church which motivated men to pro­ look innocent by comparison. test and reform. “Indulgence” was a word which The granting of indulgences took the form of a originally meant the remission of ecclesiastical mercantile transaction, and in many places a price penalties. The Early Church exercised a very strict list was drawn up and circulated among the people. watch over the purity of its members, so as to ex­ One wonders if there were week end specials when clude from communion all who were openly guilty you could buy two for the price of one, or if there of disobedience and sin. If the excommunicated were discount houses that would undersell the person desired readmission to the church, he had price list. At any rate, the whole affair was in the to submit to severe discipline. These disciplines truest sense of the word a “black market.” consisted of voluntary abstinences, good works, The Roman church succeeded in fooling some prayers, and almsgiving. of the people all the time, and all of the people But in time this system deteriorated until indul­ some of the time; but the name of Martin Luther gences came to be granted, not only to the ex­ stands as a memorial to the fact that it did not communicated, but to all delinquents. From the fool all of the people all the time. Thus a re­ beginning of the thirteenth century, indulgences ligion of spiritual emptiness made the Reformation were regarded as the privilege exclusively of the inevitable.

So I say to you, use your worldly wealth to ivin bailiff for acting so astutely. For the worldly are friends for yotirselves, so that when money is a more astute than the other-worldly in dealing thing of the past you may be received into an with their own kind” (v. 8) .* And then comes the eternal home (Luke 16:9, Neiv English Bible).* verse that appears at the head of this column. Jesus says, in elfect, “ l ake a leaf from this rogue’s book! Separate his foresight from his fraud, his /eal from his dishonesty, his daring from his r A LE A F deviltry, and as he for his own base ends was astute,7 resourceful, J and foresiffhted, O 7 so for the high and noble ends of righteousness and holiness employ sanctified sagacity, astuteness, foresight, from a and daring like his.” Forget for the moment the many mighty mar­ ginal meanings and messages of this story and ■ Rogue's Book nail down the central point, which is undoubted­ ly the relationship between the pocketbook and the eternal home. Read that text again and face By T. CRICHTON MITCHELL the facts as realistically as this fraud of a factor Thomas Memorial Church, London, England did. “Money,” said Jesus, “will become a thing of T H E STO R Y from which these words are taken the past.” This rogue reasoned thus: What I is a proper rogues’ gallery! Read it for yourself control today will have passed out of my con­ and see. In it, it took rogues to help a rogue, trol by tomorrow; when it thus passes I will have and a rogue to catch a rogue I The bailiff was a less than naked nothing— unless— unless I so use rascal; the tenants were rascals; and the boss too it today that it will provide for me tomorrow-! was a bit of a rascal— at least he had a keen So, with commendable realism, astute maneuver­ eye and a winking smile for the man who pulled ing. resourceful zeal, and venturesome foresight, lie a fast one and fiddled the books. made lifelong friends by means of his master’s Yet Jesus says about the biggest rascal of them * © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the all, “And the master applauded the dishonest Cambridge University Press, 1961; used by permission.

OCTOBER 25, 1901 0 (689) 9 We look forward to the time when the love of his father’s good; this rascal of a steward also power will be replaced by the power of love.— was a waster (v. 1) . Anyone, that is, who ex­ E. Wayne Stahl. pends goods entrusted to him by God upon selfish or unworthy ends, or upon acts or courses that cash and credit. Each one of those friends believed do not further the purposes of God, is a prodigal. himself especially favored by the rascally bailiff, “The Pharisees, . . . loved money”— perhaps after for he had the astuteness to deal with them “one all there was not so much to choose between the by one” (v. 5), thus wiping out witnesses to fraud prodigals, for, as Augustine says, “It is not by our and forging personal bonds! “One by one”— al­ feet, but by our affection that we leave God or ways a good method of dealing with men. return to Him." Jint before you pick up this central point and In the light, then, of these immortal stories we stab your spirit awake, go back a wee bit in the see, among other things, that money is the acid story and focus a twin point that is not quite so test of a man's religion. apparent. This story was told at the same time Digged from the mountain, washed in the glen, and to the same people as the story of the two Servant am /, or the master of men: prodigals, namely, the Pharisees. They were the: Use me, I bless you; abuse me, 1 curse you; “older brethren” who squinted down their noses Servant or master, I am what you make me! at the ragged ruin who had returned from his Jesus tells us that tomorrow, in eternity, we shall sins; and now Jesus, who had sketched their pro­ come into possession of those things that are really files in Luke 15:25-32, draws another lesson from ours, that is, our real estate; that at present we them for the sake of 11 is disciples (see 16:1), but “the Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and scoffed at him” (v. 11).* When you give to the great cause of And what is this “twin point” of which we speak? world evangelism, you become a fellow This: that that younger prodigal was a waster of worker with those on the field. We are "labourers together with him,” and with His missionaries. Let’s do our share on Thanksgiving Sunday, November TO. The Water of Life are bailiffs of that which is not our own. He says, “For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light “Get ready for the eternal home and provide your shall we see light” (Psalms 36:9). own welcoming committee by a wise, astute, and adventurous use of your pocketbook t io w .” There is a glad salvation fount ft may turn out that our pocketbooks have more T o slake the thirsty soul. of heaven and hell in them than some of our That all who seek forgiveness songbooks. The rich man in this selfsame chap­ May drink—and he made whole. ter (v. 25) found that out just sixty seconds too late. Upon the tree at Cah’ary Further, the Lord has desperate need in our day Christ ivent — in love to die, not only of young people who will gamble their T o plan for man's redemption — lives on God and become the cutting edge of To save and sanctify. His kingdom as missionaries, evangelists, minis­ ters, and teachers; but He has desperate need also And those who follow Jesus of an army of middle-aged wage earners and in­ Are set apart by Him, vestors who will be smart enough to see what To walk the lighted pathway real estate really is— and why! Instead of roadways dim. If you would prepare for eternity, you must not only seek forgiveness and cleansing through

Accept today salvation's way— Christ, but through Him also you must help to So freely offered all. feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, The Lord of life with joy is rife— lift the fallen, teach the ignorant, rescue the per­ lie ansivers those who call! ishing, enlighten the darkened— and lo! these very people, redeemed and transformed personalities, will one day cry in the eternal home, “He’s here!” By FLORA E. BRECK “So I say to you, use your worldly wealth to win friends for yourselves, so that when money is a thing of the past you may be received into an eternal home.”*

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C NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS G BIBLE DOMINOS Appeals to all ages. From two to ten players. Includes 81 This Christmas, give your four- to ten year-olds a game that's cards with idea to eliminate your cards by placing them on both so simple and so much fun they'll play it often! No other players' cards in proper order. Boxed. (ZPj score to keep. Seven Biblical designs Bible, cross, church, GA-9565 S1.00 shepherd, etc. -2 8 pieces, 134 x 3>/2 inches. Heavy, durable board included a lasting gift! (WA) D NOAH'S ARK GAME GA 3840 In full color, varnished $1.25 Ideal Preschool Game! For ages three to six. No knowledge of reading or numbers is needed. Spin to put colorful animals H BIBLE CHECKERS in three-dimensional ark. Boxed complete. 20 " x 10" x 1*4". An unusual Christmas gift like regular game but you move (CEI) checkers into 'Fruits of the Spirit" squares, remembering the GA-179 $2.00 "Fruits"— love, joy, peace, long-suffering, etc. Includes 18 wooden checkers, red and black. (WA) E BIBLE TIT-TAT-TOE GA-3842 $1-00 Fun for the whole family, for church parties, and for youth groups. Bible Tit-Tat-Toe is a game, based on the age-old BIBLE GAME CHEST pastime of tictacktoe, adapted for use as a stimulating Bible This captivating game chest contains two complete Old and game for all ages over eight years in family, party, or New Testament games: "Travel to the Promised Land" and church use. "Travel with Jesus." Printed in four colors, these progressive- Each game contains a Tit-Tat-Toe Board, with movable type games for children ages six through fourteen make an category slide; a question rack with space for 10 categories; exciting and appreciated gift. One game is mounted in the 9 playing sguares; and 1,000 guestions taken from the Bible. lid and one in the base. The game ensemble contains two 500 of these questions are difficult; the other 500 are easy. spinners and two sets of plastic movers. Size 934 x 13Vi x 34 (BG) inches. (WA) GA-398 $3.98 GA 3843 $1-00 10-G A CLAY CRAFT BIBLE PICTURES For young creative artists. Easy to make. Fun to do. Just like paint-it-yourself pictures except you work with colorful sculptor's clay and make a beautiiul three dimensional picture (7" square), framed and ready to hang. Kit contains pre-framed, molded plastic picture, lour cups of nontoxic clay in different colors, one sculptor's tool. (ST) H-6366 Baby Jesus in Manger H-6367 Noah's Ark 98c each H-6368 "God Is Love" plaque

B TEN COMMANDMENTS PENCIL COLORING SET Pencils with different-colored leads in packet with Bible coloring book and pencil sharpener. Book is filled with illustrations for children to color by number. Each pencil has printed on it one of the Ten Commandments. (CTP) H-358P 59c; 6 for $3.25 C LAST SUPPER BIBLE PENCIL PAINTING SET An ideal gift. Includes: mammoth 17" x IOV2" picture of the Last Supper to color and paint, plus 6 other beautiiul pictures; 10 water coloring pencils each engraved with one of the Ten Commandments; pencil sharpener; paint dish; paintbrush; all in a large, beautiful gift box, 14" x 11" x P i" . For youth and adults. (CTP) H-1400 $1.75

f PAINT BY NUMBER SET Fun for all ages. Spill-proof containers of oil colors and solvent, brush, and four numbered plastic pictures for finishing attractive scenes with Biblical themes. (ST) H-6370 98c

f PENGUIN PETE SCISSORS The ideal scissors lor the small child. They work under the paper without obstructing the view', Steel blades reinforced styrene body. (AJ) HS-12P 29c 1 BIBLE COLORING BOOKS FOR THE YOUNGER CHILD Each book contains sixteen full page, simple outline pictures for the kindergarten child. Short, descriptive title for each picture. Scripture reference for each design. Size 81.4 x 11 inches. SGB H-4606 Old Testament H-4607 New Testament H-4608 Bible (8 ea. Old and New Testament subjects) H-4609 God's World NEW TESTAMENT H-4610 God s Children Around the World 25c; 12 for $2.75

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G ABC COLORING BOOK A big book with a gaily colored cover and full page for every letter of tRe alphabet to be colored and studied. Each letter is associated with an appropriate illustration and has a selected scripture reference. Includes pages illustrating animals, Easter. Jesus, Moses, prayer, witnessing, Zacharias, etc. Thirty-two large pages 8*2 x 11". (GB) H-4622 40c

H NEW FRAME -A-PICTURE COLORING BOOKS New and different! The child punches out the die-cut front cover picture, and he has a built-in frame when he colors the outline pictures. Eight full-color pictures in each book and eight corresponding black-and-white outline pictures to color. A simple explanation telling the child, ages 3-7, about Jesus' love or about a Bible story, is included. Size 8 14 x 10 - 1". (CO: H-1060 Happy Children H-1061 When Jesus Was Born H-1062 We Love Jesus H-1063 Our Best Fiiend 35c; 6 for $1.95 I BIBLE PLAY HOOK By Francis W. Keene. An activity book based on stories and verses of the Bible, presenting imaginative and varied things to do cutouts, games, coloring pages, toys to make, stories, puzzles, dot pictures all planned and created in the language boys and girls understand. Large size, 8 1 1 x 11 U ”. Ages seven to thirteen. 128 pages. Paper. (SEA) H-107 SI.00 A NOAH S ARK INLAY PUZZLE HIDE GOD'S WQRD Both color and shape are clues for assembling. Colorfully silk-screened and die-cut of 9" x 3 2 " heavyweight board. IN THEIR HEARTS For preschool age. (JC) GA 150 SI.00 < iin.nuflM yUH yl MEMOJRpIEST B JUVENILE JIGSAW PUZZLES Cor. tains 80 Bible memory Designed for children three to six years, this puzzle packet verses plus 80 simple contains two six-piece designs laminated in a ls-inch, tern prayer thoughts for chil­ pered, hardboard base. Each assembled puzzle measures dren. Card size, 3 x 25s 8*2 by 9 14 inches. Two puzzles in each box. Designs are inches, printea ______in maroon delightful; colors, appealinq. (SI' on white Bristol. 80 cards. GA-7J1 I Can Say My Prayers SI.00 (WA) GI-9610 srwH C H E R E I G RO W A Child's Growth Chart from Birth Through Early Years. A useful and colorful decoration for a child’s room. This gay chart will graphically record a child's growth as his age is entered at the appropriate inch mark on the tiee trunk. Space also provided for snapshots, child’s name, and birth information Printed in full color on heavy board and designed to be hung on the wall. Measures BN x 1] inches. Gift-boxed. ;g b GM IB SI.00

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D MIC. & ( EREAI. SET Soft plastic mug and bowl impregnated with glittering tinsel. A delight to children! Heat treated for permanency A s­ fot the children sorted pastel colors. Gift-wrapped. (DP) AW-4380 Mug 30c AW-4385 Cereal Set (Mug & Bowl) 75c

E PLASTIC DRINKING GLASSES G SNAP \ PLAY BLOCKS This Christmas you can give every child at home or in a Just snap click and they're fastened! Colorful wooden class his own drinking glass with design and verse in color wheels and blocks snap together. Wheels rotate. Fourteen — a gift to cherish! Lightweight, durable, pliable plastic; pieces with construction suggestions to challenge the imagina­ assorted colors. 3 3 4" tall. tion of any child. Ages 18. (BKI) AW-151 Give Thanks GA-40 Set, $2.00 AW-152 The Good Shepherd AW-155 He Careth for You H CHILD'S DESK LAMP AW-156 Teach Me Thy Way Created on a metal scroll base, trimmed in silver-fleck paint, 20c; 6 tor SI.10 this lamp-picture combination will add grace and warmth to your child's room. In one picture panel is a picture of Christ F BEDTIME PRAYERS as the Good Shepherd, and the other may hold a snapshot For children of all ages. These bedtime prayers will help of Grandmother, Daddy, Mother, or even the child. It is also inspire reverence and gratitude and help teach self-expres­ available with only one picture panel. The lamp shade has sion in communion with God. There is a different prayer "Now I lay me down to sleep'’ inscribed above a child saying each night for an entire month. Printed in 4 colors and gold. his prayers. (DIN) 16 cards. Each card is folded and has 2 prayers and illus­ GI-2L Lamp, girl's, single picture S3.95 trations. Packaged in hinged, clear-top plastic box with red GI-3L Lamp, boy's, single picture $3.95 base. Size 4*2 x 3 l 4". (WA) GI-4L Lamp, girl's, double picture $4.75 GI-9700 75c GI-5L Lamp, boy's, double picture $4.75

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F PRE-FOCUSED READING AID Doubles the size of type without distortion Those who find print difficult to read will find the answer A MUSICAL PIANO PROMISE BOX to these difficulties by using this pre-focused, unbreakable A small grand piano of ivory plastic. When lid is opened, magnifying glass. Developed by scientists. Made of crystal a Swiss movement plays "Standing on the Promises." Con­ acrylic. No focusing necessary; just lay flat on the page. tains about 150 cards with a scripture promise on one side 5 ]/2" long. Complete with carrying case. (PCI) and poem on the other. Gift-boxed. Size 6” long, 4" wide, U-198 $1.98 3" high. (CS) GI-168 $5.95 G INSPIRATIONAL BILLFOLD Beautifully made of 14-gauge Polyvinyl Choloride, in three B BREAD OF LIFE lovely pastel colors. Has electronically welded seams for Something unique in the religious gift line! Miniature, plas­ strength and permanence, an expanding coin compartment, tic, shaped, and colored loaf of bread containing some 150 a removable plastic holder for eight photographs or cards, cards, each with a scripture promise and poem. Boxed. (CS) regular and "secret" currency compartments. The portrait GI 162P $1.75 of Christ, protected by lasting lamination, is painted from the only known eyewitness description of the Saviour. Truly C DEVOTIONAL MEDITATIONS a gift you will be proud to give. (SAN) Set of 52 cards plus a title card. Each card bears seven GI-201 Assorted colors: Blue, Ivory, and Pink $1.00 ea. scripture selections on the back for use each day of the week. Using 13 different designs, each design with 4 different medi­ H HEAD OF CHRIST'’ BILLFOLD tations. Size 4 1/2 x 3 V4." Comes in plastic box. (WA) A beautiful, vinyl plastic billfold with the "Head of Christ" GI-9800 75c on the outside bordered in gold. An attractive and practical gift that contains comb, mirror, pencil, change pocket, identi­ D “WHAT GOD HAS PROMISED” BOOKMARK fication, snapshot windows, billfold, and gold clasp with key Each of these gold-finished metal disks is stamped with copy chain attached. Color: Red. Gift-boxed. (SAN) from the poem "What God Has Promised." Linked together GI-200 $2.00 with clips and chain on the end. Size, 9 V2 inches long with slide clip on one end. Comes in two-piece gift box. (WA) I FRANKINCENSE and MYRRH KEY CHAIN BM-3901 $1.00 Symbolic of the Christian Faith. Gold-finish key chain. Myrrh is the symbol of wisdom. Frankincense is the symbol of E PERPETUAL CALENDAR praise, heart adoration, and worship, indicating the wise men Tells the date, day, and month— moves on with time by rolling knew Christ would have all the wisdom possible and would to new setting. Serrated wheels click and lock in position. someday rule the world as Prince of Peace. Each carded Colors: assorted. Scripture text. (EPN) and plastic-wrapped. (SCE) AW-39 39c GI-375K $1.00

10-j PEARL OF GREAT PRICE i IYIILE O TAG K E Y CHAIN Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The spiritual truth Every auto driver will appreciate one of these novel contained for us in the parable of the pearl of great key chains. Shows actual miles per gallon at a glance price is that the possession of God's grace in our simply match 'miles driven" on outside rim with lives is the most important thing in the world. These "gallons used" on in s ic ie rotating disk, turn tag "Pearl of Great Price" personal gift items are sym­ over, and presto you have your gas mileage. Im­ bolic reminders of this great truth. Each item con printed: "God is our refuge and strenqth." (NZS) tains an imported cultured pearl. Metal part, 16 carat AW 600 25c gold-plate. (WA) f LIGIIT-GOLD CUFF LINK SET A Tie Slide Alligator-grip tie slide on hand-polished, 16-carat Beautiful three-piece, light-gold finish set with gold plated tie bar. "shorty" alligator tie clip. Attractive design is en­ GI-4902 SI.10 hanced by the w’ord ' FAITH.'' Offered for those who want a quality set for personal use or to qive as a B | Key Ring qift. In simulated leather gift box. (GH) Men's and boys' key ring with sturdy, 16-carat, GI-42 $2.50 gold-color "snake chain." GI-4903 $1.10 G SYMBOLIC SHORTY TIE C LIPS For father or son. layman or minister, choir member “PRAYING HANDS*’ CAR PLAQUE C or musician—these ' shorties'1 are popular gifts. Their This item will modestly decorate your car's dash alligator clips hold the tie firmly in place Distinctive board, leaving a constant testimony of your faith. and attractive. Gold-plated. The "Praying Hands" emblem is in a pearlized set GI-6331 Yoke Tie Slide (Boxed) (WA! 75c ting, surrounded by a metal frame which matches the figure. It has attached a magnet, which serves to H “PLASTIKEY” KEY HOLDER hold the plaque to the dashboard. 158 x l 1a". (NZS) A new idea in key holders. Made of smooth, soft, GI-19 $1.00 sturdy plastic with convenient "squeeze open'' de­ sign, it eliminates snaps and flaps. Keys not in use D MAGNETIZED HANDS OF FAITH cannot scratch smooth finishes. Exclusive "Good For your friends with a car— give them this auto dash Shepherd" design and text will not wear off. Holds plaque. The scripture, "Lord, Teach Us to Pray," is six keys. Assorted red and black colors. (WA) stamped on the base of these "Praying Hands.” The AW-4129 39c full-dimension plastic mold is mounted on a circular base containing a magnet. Hands are ivory and DE LUXE TWO BLADE KNIFE the base is black. Individually boxed. Size 4 12 inches All metal, gold-finish knife. Ideal gift for men. Each high and 2 V2 inches in diameter. (WA) is individually gift boxed. Size, 2 34" long. (GH) GI-5783 $1.25 GM2K $1.00

i SILVER CROSS STATIONERY Everyone can make good use of this! The ex quisite white paper is complemented by a silver cross at the top of the page. 24 letter sheets, 24 note sheets, and 48 envelopes. Attractively boxed. (WA1 with eve r of * 4 .0 0

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B y MILO L. ARNOLD, Pastor, Moses Lake, Washington

BOYHOOD M EM ORIES sharply outline a couple barrassed about them. It woidd of old saints who taught me the “facts” of the be more embarrassing to be a Christian life. Soon after my conversion they member of a church which had took great pains to tell me that Christian young no demands. The church does people were “speckled birds”; they were unwel­ not need to compromise her come, unwanted, and unappreciated. They taught holiness message or dilute her me that the holiness people were holy living. She needs only to scorned, ridiculed, and looked upon stand tall in the lofty dignity as the trash of the religious society. of her unspotted garments. They taught me that we as Christians Our young people need continually to be im­ must expect to take the way with “the pressed with the fact that being a Christian is a Lord’s despised few.” noble thing. It is a respecied position and is gained In those days I went to school lov­ by taking a step which many weaker persons wish ing my Lord but not proud to belong they could take. This tallness of stance is impor­ to Him. I went loving the Christians tant to their personality development. We dare of our religious community but not not teach them to pity themselves or to 1 eel in­ proud to be one of them. I was a ferior before the world. If we do, we lastingly real Christian, but I did not stand blight their lives. We dare not teach them to think tall, for 1 thought the whole social the whole of society is against ihem and will not pattern of the community did not give them a fair deal. If they become persons who include me. 1 was a lone wolf. live insecurely in society their health, their effec­ To love a person of whom you tiveness, and their usefulness to God will be di­ cannot be proud is to endure a pain­ minished. We must teach them to have attitudes ful and injurious inner conflict. When pride and which will enrich them in body, mind, and spirit. love are not joined, the structure of both tends to Truly, they must know that sometimes people disintegrate. l<’or a person to express love for a will laugh, but there have always been small, ig­ person or institution of which he cannot be proud norant people laughing. They will need to know does lasting injury. He is then required to force that sometimes ridicule will be hurled at them, but a loyalty which should be eager. what man of history has lifted his head above the Fortunately for me, the years taught the error of crowd without its being used as a target for an my sincere informers’ concepts. They were good occasional over-aged egg or tomato? Christian men, but they too had been taught wrong attitudes. young people must be humble, meek, modest, Looking back, however, 1 am sure the injury they and genuinely Christlike, but they must not be did to my Christian life took years of painful effort apologetic. The gospel was less popular in Paul’s to overcome. Possibly I can never overcome their clay than now: still he cried out, “I am not ashamed influence entirely. of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God I wish I could shout to every young Christian unto salvation” (Romans 1:16). of the land to stand tall! The world is glad the Young people who stand tall spiritually will Christians are there. They need not live in the have an advantage in their education, for they cramped position of loving Clod without being will enter mote rcadilv into their school activities. proud of Him. They need not live in the church, They will become part of the team and will take loving it without being proud that they are mem­ their place in legitimate functions. With this bers of it. If they are in a church for which they wholesome outlook they will learn more from both must apologize, I hope they will either correct it books and people. or leave it. It is unwise for them to live constantly They need to feel the stalwartness of their full with love clashing against humiliation. The church must give her young people every With .sin cere thanksgiving to God for aid and reason for standing tall. The church must all our benefits, let us give in full have its standards, its rules, its convictions, and its measure this Thanksgiving season—V. II. demands. These are fine and nobody need be em­ L e w is .

OCTOBER 25, 1961 • (691) 11 stature when they go out to find employment. Thus they will aim high, apply for the bigger job, and enter more important situations because they be­ ALL OUT! lieve God will help them. Holiness is noble. Holy people are admired. Dedicated lives arc attractive lives. The world will or always have room for the genuinely godly person. Let us then as a church and as mature Christians ALL OUT? pull our shoulders back and lift our heads high. The young people are watching us to set- what out By JACK M. SCHARN relationships in society are. Pastor, Lone Pine, California Let us live as those who Icel with John, ''Heboid, JESUS SAID, “No man can serve two masters: . . . what manner of love the Father hath bestowed Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew upon us, that we should be called the sons of God" f>:21). (I John As never before the world is Avail­ Christ was presenting a clear policy pertaining to ing for the Church, the Christians, the dedicated the dynamic, personal experience of Christianity. people to speak. The stalwart life is in demand in This was a simple, practical truth which He em­ these times. The world is sick of sham and pre­ phasized many times. An individual is either all tense. Holy living is esteemed by people who know out for Christ or all out of spiritual grace. The values today. It has always been so. “all out” ol the gospel is a determining factor. Let God’s people rejoice in their Lord. Let them Salvation is a free gift of God, but Christianity recognize that they can have both love and self- is lived through the avenues of surrender, sacrifice, respect. Their God deserves it all, and they will and service. never need to stoop their shoulders because of their religious profession. The world today looks with "All out for Christ” does not mean— respect upon churches which have a stand, a de­ to be ou t from Sunday school and church, fined way of behaving, a purpose, and a vital life to be out from the place of responsibility and of victory. We can love our church and be humbly service, proud of it. Let us tell our young people that they to be at outs with your neighbor, can love their God and their church without timid­ or to be out where the secular destroys the ity. Let them aim loftily, hope daringly, plan spiritual. hugely, and stand tall! “All out for Christ” does mean— to be out to every service unless providentially h i ndered, \ EDITORIALS ! to be out on the front lines of responsibility and • Continued from page 2 I service, to be ou t to overcome hatred and misunder­ standing through the channel of brotherly love, Reformation Sunday and to be out to put spiritual values in front of Next Sunday, October 29, is Reformation Sun­ secularism. day, again calling to mind the Protestant “declara­ How does your Christian experience measure up? tion of independence” in the posting of Luther's Are you "all out” for the Lord Jesus Christ? This theses on the door of the Wittenberg church. As factor alone sums up the standard for the Master’s Bishop J. Paul Taylor reminds us, this event was measuring of spiritual life. not only a “declaration of independence”; it was Jt is all or nothing— also a “declaration of war,” not only on Leo, but completeness or incompleteness, on Lucifer. obedience or disobedience, faithfulness or unfaithfulness, The principles of the Reformation may be lost a Christian or not a Christian. by default after four centuries if Protestants in The truth is not confused. "Yre cannot serve God this day are not thoroughly awake. An American and mammon.” Christ calls His followers to whole­ cardinal of the church of Rome has loudly pro­ heartedness. Let’s be all out for Him! claimed that any federal aid to education would be “anti-Catholic” if it did not provide assistance Why A ll? for parochial schools. By the very same token, any II7//)', through surrender, this heart of mine? diversion of public funds for parochial education That God might touch it with grace divine. would be “pro-Catholic.” This, of course, the cardinal understands, and this he wants, even in Why on the altar of sacrifice? the face of the position of the Catholic president, T h is is God's plan and salvation’s price. whose legal training convinces him that such would Why through the fire? For it purifies, be unconstitutional. Fitting the soul for the heavenly prize.

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FOREIGN MISSIONS CEOROE COITI.TER, S ecretary

Africa Is Still Africa 1’liner shot :i stray lion just off the mission property. They say the lioness U still roaming around here, so we are all reluctant to go far at night, or even • luring the day. T h e lions evidently strayed out of the game reserve and came our way.—M ary Schm ii.zi:nbach, A co rn h o ek , A frica.

Back on the Field I am settled into the work again after a very wonderful furlough. 1 have ap­ preciated being able to return to the same mission station where 1 labored be­ fore and to the same work. We now have our native nurses' home entirely completed and all the nurses living un­ der one roof—a great improvement. I also have a full-time registered native nurse to assist with the teaching. As the hospital building program progresses, The pastors of the Australian District u-itli General Superintendent Samuel it gives us better facilities in all the Young early this year. Standing next to Dr. Young is Rev. A. A. E. Berg, wards. It is remarkable what has taken district superintendent. On the far right is Rev. E. E. Young, principal of place here at Acornhoek in the last few Nazarene Bible College in Sydney. Australia. Fifth from the left is Rev. Taids years. W e give God praise and thanks Manetas, who is pastoring a new work among Greek people in Australia. for it all. We now have a resident native staff T h e line group of pastors in the missionary to Africa and another to New nurse at our newest clinic at Welver- accompanying picture is but one evi­ Guinea. A Bible college trains pastors diend. She is one of our graduates from dence of the value of the General and Christian workers for both Australia the training school here at Acornhoek. Budget. This year is the fifteenth anni­ and New Zealand. Australia is a “10 She is a full member of the church and versary of the year Dr. K. 1.. Zachary per cent’’ district and the churches are has had one year of Bible school. We was sent to Australia to open the work paying back into the channels of the are praying that God will make her a of the Church of the Na/arene. Now general church regularly. great blessing to the people in that area. there are 17 organized churches, ap­ Australia is one of eight overseas We are praying and believing for a proximately 450 members, a Sunday areas assisted by the General Budget revival here at Acornhoek and feel that through the Department of Home Mis­ it is near. In the N.Y.l'.S. service last school enrollment of over 2,000. Sunday evening the altar was lined with Churches are located in all the major sions. We are in Australia in obedience seekers.—Ruth M atchi it, Republic of cities of this great continent and to our commission to preach full salva­ South Africa. "Showers of Blessing" carries the mes­ tion around the world and because of sage of the church throughout the land. our responsibility in a day of fear and A Chance Remark T he Australian churches have carried on war tensions. May our faithfulness in a missionary work among an isolated the Thanksgiving Offering help bring Builds a Church colored population and have recently about a world wide revival before Christ B y DORIS BROWN, South Africa started a church in a concentration of returns again. Some time ago a chance remark to a Greek people. They have provided a patient from Koelemanrust, about twenty miles from here, brought the information that there was no church anywhere near station here, said that when the Wesley How strange and wonderful are the his home where would-be hearers of the Meeks were here in Africa as mission­ workings of God when we commit the gospel might go. Right then and there aries. Brother Meek went all around the results of our seed sowing, in faith, to we arranged a meeting, and from that countryside on a bicycle, through the Him! seemingly casual beginning a work has deep sand, up and down the hillsides, grown till now we have a Sunday con­ visiting the kraals, and lie had gone as Special Blessing at Coroial gregation of around ninety, and a day far as Koelemanrust with his message of school has been opened with our evan­ salvation. From this visit and his prayers Sunclav morning was an unusually gelist as teacher and some fifty or more over the years, the "bread cast upon the blessed time here. Samuel Gillette, one pupils. T here arc already some converts waters" is now being found. Praise the of this year’s Bible college graduates, in the probationers’ class. Lord! who has come here as my assistant, It all opened up so wonderfully that T he farmer-owner of the land where preached his first sermon. T he Lord set we have just been amazed, and I re­ we have our meetings is going to build His seal in a very special wav. T he text marked to someone that somewhere the schoolhouse and we will use it for a he used was, "This is the will of God, someone must have been praying for church also. He is the grandson of one even your sanctification.” this place. Then Mrs. Theron, whose of the German missionaries who worked 1 he first to respond to the altar call husband gave the land for our mission on the first translation of the Pedi Bible. speaks only Spanish, and Samuel had

OCTOBER 25, 1961 • (693) 13 pleached in Fnglish. hut the seeker s;iid. though he didn't understand the mes­ Nazarene Chaplain Receives Army Commendation Medal sage. the Spirit had struck his heart with such blows that thev were irresistible. He testified to being sanctified wholly. 1 wo others who received victory also testified in Spanish. It is a real mark of the Spirit's working when those re­ ceive xictorx in a service where preach­ ing is in a language thev do not under­ stand. One seeker at the altar was from our new outstation in \aibe. a Mavan Indian \illagc where Toother juan Guerra has just retentlv begun serxices. Fmv \un Wxnixx. lU itish l l i ’iiihn tis. HOME MISSIONS

KOY I . SMI I S ecretary New Church News l ight indies of rain which fell during Saturdax night and Sunday morning last June 2r> did not dampen the enthusiasm of the new llaltom ( itv Church of the Nazarene. At the (lose of the morning service Rev. Raxmoud \\ . 11 urn. super- intendent of the \lnlene District, con­ ducted the official organi/atiou meeting in the new church building. It is re­ maiked with an amiable personality and ported that the I oil Worth pastors and SERVICEMEN'S straightforward Christian living. He their congregations have shown a most willingly gave much of his time beyond beautiful spirit in helping to launch this COMMISSION normal expectations to counsel and as­ new church. In a survey of nearly fifteen sist those in need of guidance. He made hundred homes during the week prior PAUL SKILES, D irecto r e very effort to join the men of his unit to the organi/,it ion. thirtv-six families when they were absent from garrison for were found that art* prospects for the Captain (Chaplain) CLIFFORD F. training or exercises. Much of his effort church. Rev. Dec Freeborn is the pastor. KF.YS, 07.“>(> to 10 June 19(il. His outstanding performance of duty re­ of the- Nazarene at Hattie ( ’.reck, with As battle group chaplain. Chaplain flects great credit upon himself and the sixty-six charter members, is now com­ Kc*xs gained the respect and confidence I'nitcd States Army. pleting a beautiful building which will ol the men and officers with whom he Chaplain Keys entered the Federal be one of the finest on the district. There sencd. His spiritual leadership was service from the state of Tennessee. were ninctv-five in Sunday school and ninety in the morning sen ice on organi­ zation Sunday. Flic* congregation has been affiliated with another church as­ organi/ed 111c* ( Icxcland Road Church at June I. Service's arc being held in a sociation. Rex. Herbert W. Nessetli is InicI. 1‘ropcrtx has been purchased in rented building, but the purchase of pastor. a choice location of a new development property in the near future is con­ Our second church at Jackson, Michi area, and a new building is to be erected templated. Rex. Tom Nccs was installed gan. grew out of a rexivai held bv Fxan- with assistance from the District Re­ as pastor. gelist George* Anderson. T he meeting voking Fund. Rev. Lewis Patterson is was sponsored bv some' holiness people pastor. Rev. Rax Block is pastoring the Com­ with the assistance of our First Church munity Church of the Nazarene, which and her pastor. Rev. Gerald Laing is From Colorado comes word of the new was organized on July 2 at Glielelen. pasturing the newlv organized church. Dcnver-Fakerielgc Church of the Naza­ Iowa. 1 his brings to four the number of rene. It was olfic ialh organized on June c hurches organized on tlu* Michigan Dis­ IS bv Rev. F. L. Coinelison. district su­ Dr. Paul C. Updike, district superin­ trict this vcar. perintendent. Sponsored bv the district. tendent of Northeastern Indiana, reports the1 church is pas-ored b\ Rex'. R. F. the official organization of the Minnie* On June 13, Rev. J. I . Gassctt. district Kcalihcr. Burlington Heights Church of the Naz- superintendent of Northwest Oklahoma, arenc on July 2. Sponsored by the dis­ Sponsored b\ the- Tennessee District, trict. the church is pastured bv Rex. the Ashland ( itx church was organized CIvde Gunn. on Julx 9 bv Distric t Superintendent C. F. Demand for church building Shiiniake. Rev. Farrv I.eej)c*r is pastor- loans continues great. Appli­ ing the new congregation. cations for long-term loans FOR CHRISTIAN ACTION now in process total more Services which were started last March It is evident that the liquor indus­ than $100,000 above funds on in Garrett, Kansas, and a rexivai meeting hand. October 30 is semi­ try is determined to fasten the drink held at the beginning of June resulted annual interest-paying date. habit on the people of our nation. It in the organization of the Garrett Church has steadily increased its advertising This would be a good time to of tin* Na/arenc. Rev. Dean Baldwin, send in your savings deposit. budgets until nearly $413,000,000 per superintendent of the Joplin District, year is now spent on various types conducted the organizational meeting on of advertisments to encourage drink­

14 (094) • HERALD OF HOLINESS ing. This amount is for time and 1\S. reported a membership of 1.9.V2. space alone and does not include the Superintendent Morgan told of the high production costs for television organization of the West I a layette commercials and full-color printed Church in Lafayette. Indiana, home of advertisements. Purdue University. Four Purdue staff Here is the way the alcoholic bev­ members are included in the charier of Nazarene Sunday school litera­ erage industry spends its money in this baby church. ture is prepared by Nazarene advertising: I'm lcr the leadership ot our good dis writers who emphasize the doc­ ti'ict superintendent, we mo\e forward Newspapers ...... $ 62,801,000 trines and standards of the National magazines .. 40,719,490 with faith and assurance.-Haroi d I.a- Network television .. . 6,288,987 IIIAM, R ep orter. Church of the Nazarene. Spot television ...... 44,214,000 North Arkansas District Network radio ...... 3,000.000 anew upon the service. Spiritually Spot radio ...... 10,500,000 N.Y.P.S. Convention challenged and refreshed, we returned Point of purchase .... 207,500,000 1 he ninth annual young people's eon to our places of labor.—R o h i . r t St a i., R e­ O utd oor ...... 37,779.000 \enlion of the North Arkansas District porter. T o ta l ...... $412,802,477 was held on September 1 at First Church Christian homes must be on guard in Russellville. Arkansas, with Rev. Jew­ against the pressures of the alcohol ell N. McKinney as the host pastor. THE lOCAt CHURCHES industry. Christian parents can safe­ T h e convention was marked by a guard their children from drinking strong sense of district unitv and a gen I lint, Michigan—“Kvangelisin First,” and its attendant evils. Here are a nine desire on the part of everyone to tlie cpiadrcnnial theme for our church, few ways to safeguard our children: advance the cause of scriptural holiness. became more than just a theme for Cen­ 1. Parents can provide an example T he convention was directed through tral Church here. T he month of Jan­ of total abstinence. its business !>v District Superintendent uary, 1961. opened up a w-hole new 2. Parents can give their children J. \V. Hendrickson and the N.Y.P.S. world for the pastor. Rev. Harry W. a wholesome social atmosphere. president. Rev. F.ugcnc Hulsey. Dickerson, and his people as the word 3. Parents can acquaint their chil­ T he dear. forceful message of “evangelism” began to take on a new dren with the facts about alco­ Rev. Haivcv Ralhbun. pastor of the meaning in the soul winning program hol and the harmful effects of Beebe church, increased our vision ot of “Tr\ Christ's Way." T o “evangelize” d rin k in g . the greatness of our spiritual heritage became the all-important first around 4. Parents can be alert to point out and the importance* of sharing it with the church not for four months onlv; examples in society of the trage­ otheis. hut pastor and people began to ask God dy of drinking alcoholic bever­ P»v a strong vote of conlidcnce the: to dite c t (hem that the spirit of evan­ ages, such as an intoxicated man convention re-elected Rev. F.ugene Hul- gelism might not die*. A weekly visita­ staggering down the street or a sev to serve another vcar. Others chosen tion program was started with a visitor, newspaper picture of an acci­ for district leadership include Rev. I d an absentee, and a Itiendship call being dent caused by drinking. die* Abla, Mrs. Bertha McKinney. Rev. made In each visitation worker. 1 he 5. Parents can set strong examples Mike Courtncv. Sergeant Nick Kiriluk, ‘ l ight of !\\angclism” began to burn of good citizenship. I raiu is Sharpton. Neil Stallings. Yonda on Sunday night. January 22. and at fi. Parents can lead their children this writing has completed its twenty- to Christ and help them to find W atson. Steve Hulsev. Dale W ebster, and seventh week. I he “light” continues to a vital faith. Bobhv Miller. North Arkansas Distiht voutli are burn so long as there is a new person in —EARL C. WOLF, S ecretary attendance at tlie Sunday evening evan­ Committee on Public Morals going forward for God and holiness. - Ji wi ij. M. Mc Ki.vm v, R ep orter. gelistic set vice. Many Sunday evenings the church was filled to capacity (sec Missouri District Assembly picture, page 19). located in a declining DISTRICT ACTIVITIES I lie1 Missouri District Assembly was neighborhood, the church was faced with held August 17 and 18 under tlie lead main new problems, as many members Northwest Indiana nship of Dr. Ilardv C. Powers, the |>rc- and Sunday school children began to siding general superintendent. T he site move awav. But we asked God for guid­ District Assembly was again Pine C rest Camp near I red ance’. and on last June* 1 we broke ground I lie nineteenth annual assembly of eric ktown. for a ejuarlcr-of i-million-dollar church i lie Noi l Invest Indiana District, was held Our district superintendent. Dr. I-'.. I*. edit ice now under construction in a new August 23 and 24 in the Indiana Univer­ Simpson, reported advances ol the work housing area. Amid the many problems sity Auditorium in Gary, Indiana, with of the church through Missouri Naza- the* church has grown spiritually, nu­ l)r. G. B. Williamson as the presiding rencs. I he benders of the Kingdom were merically. and financially. Twenty-seven officer. He gave unto us a vigorous lead­ enlarged with gains shown in every de­ members were added to the church roll ership, presiding with poise and confi­ partment and over all increase in fi­ as a result of the evangelistic program, dence. His challenging messages will live nances. In sincere appreciation the* as­ and the Sunday school has grown, averag­ on in our heaits. sembly gave D i. and Mts. Simpson a ing 296 fur the assembly year, a gain of The fine report of mu distiht supn love offeiing. 1 he uuitv and gcneiosiiv I $ ovei tin pieceeling vcar. A total of imendent, Rev. Arthur ( . Morgan, was »»l tin* people at this time aie testimony ■sj.1.100 was icteived ten all purposes, a one of I lie high lights of the assembly. to the splendid leadership ot our be loved gain ot SI9.000 ovci (Ik previous veai \\ t* appieciate our leader, and the dis disim i supe \ intends ut. Dr. Simpson is In addition, the pcopU set new and tliet expressed their love with a gen presentlv serving on a three-vcar call. higher goals for foreign missions; these n ou s love oiler ing in cm css nf SHOO. t'ndei the minislrv of hi. I’ouers and goals were c m ceded, as an amount of Brother Moigan reported a giand total 1 )j . (.coige ( M id ler, the people weie v e I \ SI. 100 was icceiwd through ihe N.F.M.S. giving of so;:,.f u . of which s.^o.ioo was cmiimioiis mI tlie challenging;, comfojting In putting ” Fv angclism I iist" the church paid for general iutciots and missionatv I lc snie c of the l|o|v Spirit in the* serv­ has enjoyed ilic* rich blessings of i.hc specials. 'I lie district membership now ices. I he sweetness of His sacred pres­ Ford. - Ueftorter. stands at 4,690. ence was easily sensed in the assembly T h e district Sunday school average at­ sessions also. Fverv significant note struck McMinnville, Tennessee—First C hurch tendance was 6,186. This phase of the during the assembly was in a spiritual closed a thirteen-day revival on Septem­ work was boosted greatly by the stirring key. ber 10. witli Evangelist C. F. Haden. message of the Sunday school convention In the closing service of the assembly T h e Holy Spirit was present in the speaker. Rev. Carl Clcndenen, superin­ Flovd Brown, pastor of the Ballwin services, and thirteen souls praved tendent of Northwestern Ohio District. Church, was ordained by General Super­ through at the altar, three of whom The district N.F.M.S. reported a mem­ intendent Powers. As the elders of the weici men past middle age. T his was bership of 3,188, and giving in excess of district gathered about for the prayer, the greatest revival our church has had. >20,000 o\n last year. T h e dish it t N.Y il seemed the Heavenly lather bicatliecl Olil ti(:w pastor. Rev. (.ceil (!. Hood,

OCTOBER 25, 1%1 • (G95) 15 •••••••••••••••••••••ft Cabot. Arkansas—During August, Rus vision! God forbid I And that we arc sell Chapel Church had a wonderful to care lor one another as we care for revival. Wc appreciated the work of ourselves! "SHOWERS of BLESSING" Rev. Forrest McCullough as evangelist. Lesson material is based on International Sunday God blessed and gave ninety-eight seek­ School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for Program Schedule ers. and twenty new members were added Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its October 29—“The Wages of Sin,” by to the church, with thirty-one being permission. Wendell Wellman baptized. We give God praise for an­ November 5—“What Shall It Profit?” swered prayer and all His blessings.— Deaths R. H. Z iJ M A t .T , Pastor. MRS. CECIL TEISINGER (Lucille), age fifty-three, by L . G u y N ees a lifetime resident of the Kingsley vicinity, died N ovem ber 12— “T h e Disturbing in a hosp;:^. in Sioux City, Iowa, May 10, 1961, C h rist,” by L. Guy Nees after a lony iilness, the result of a heart condition. November 19—“Religion You Can’t She was born January 28, 1908. She was married THE BIBLE LESSON to Cecil Teisinger in 1937 at Sioux City. She was Go Along with,” by Wilson R. a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Pierson, L a n p h er B y J . W. E L I J S Iowa, and taught junior Sunday school classes there for about thirty years; also served as secretary of Topic for October 29: the church board for several years. She is sur­ vived by her husband, and a daughter, LaDonna, at The Church home; also her father, Julius Kehrberg, of Kingsley; cautc to its in August. W c praise God and two brothers, Harland and Verl. Funeral serv­ and Christian Growth ice was conducted in the Methodist church with f o r llis blessings,—I.ee W hitworth, S c r i p t u r e : 1 Corinthians 12:1-30 Rev. Gaylord Rich, Nazarene pastor at Pickford, Secretary. (Printed: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27) Michigan, and former pastor at Pierson, officiating. Burial was in the Kingsley cemetery. Goi.di'N T kxt: Hut grow in "race, ami Broken Bow, Nebraska— September 3 in the know ledge of our I.ord and Sai'- MRS. A. M. STAGER (nee Rosa Ella Adams), through 10 proved to be a real harvest­ iour Jesus Christ (11 l’etcr3 :1 8 ). age cighty-six, died July 11, 1961, at Newport, time in our church, with Evangelists And now the Church! Kentucky. She was saved and sanctified in the 11. A. and Helen Casey as the spceial Shiloh Church of the Nazarene in Cullman, Alabama T h e mystery of it excites me—"Christ (in 1 9 1 0 ); a devout Nazarene for fifty-one years. workers. T h e services were well at­ . . . loved the church, and gave himself She moved to Newport in 1927 and joined the tended. God's presence was manifest in for it: that lie might sanctify and cleanse church there. She lived her religion in thought, word, a marvelous way, and souls prayed and deed, and was loved by all who knew her. ii with the washing of water by the Although ill for some twenty years, she never through to a definite experience of re­ word, that lie might present it to himself questioned the Lord. She married A. M. Stager in generation and entire sanctification. We ;i glorious church, not having spot, or 1892; he died some years ago. She is survived by appreciated the special musical program three sons, two daughters, also four sisters, and wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it five brothers. She made her home with her youngest of the Caseys. New members were added should be holy and without blemish” daughter, Mrs. Helen Lawson, of Newport, Kentucky. lo the church and our people encouraged (Ephesians r>:2r>-27). to press on into a building program ERNEST H. WELDAY, age seventy-six, of Smith- T he strength ol the Church amazes Held, Ohio, died May 28, 1961, in the hospital, which is much needed. We extend our me—"And I sav . . . unto thee. That following a lengthy illness. He was a faithful mem­ thanks and gratitude to those in other thou art I’cter, and upon this rock [the ber of the Church of the Nazarene in Cadiz, Ohio. prayer groups who prayed for us in this Although a semi-invalid, he made a great contri­ revelation of Jesus Christ as the Son of bution to the pastor and people by his prayer life revival.— M yrna Van Ostrand. Reporter. God] I will build my church: and the and tithes. He was born June 11, 1885, in Smith- gates of hell shall not prevail against field, and was a lifelong resident of the community. Evangelist Orville Firestone writes He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Florence Welday; it" (Matthew 16:18). The ingenious de­ also two brothers, Wheeler and Wilbur. Funeral that he will be closing a meeting in vices of the devil will be thwarted and service was conducted by his pastor, Rev. Philip Council Bluffs, Iowa, on November 12. the hordes of devils will be turned back Edwards, with interment in the Northern Cemetery, Smithfield. then has an open date, November lfi when they advance against the Church! to 2(>. He will be glad to slate this time \ he v ictory of the Church thrills me MRS. MARY A. ISAAC was born April 27, 1877, as the Lord may lead. W rite him, 31 <» —“Ye arc come unto mount Sion, and in Devonshire, England, and died July 10, 1961, in Edwards, Bossier City, Louisiana. a hospital in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She was a unto the city of the living God. the resident of Fitchburg for many years, and joined the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumer­ Church of the Nazarene there in 1907. She was Evangelists Dee and Bcrnadenc Hush­ able company of angels, to the general consecrated a deaconess at the annual New England ing writer: "Due to a change of pastors District Assembly in 1919, with General Superin­ assembly and church of the firstborn, tendent John W. Goodwin presiding. During the wc have a choice date open, the last of which arc written in heaven, and to God early years of her deaconess work she rendered an November and first of December. We the Judge of all. and to the spirits of outstanding Christian service. She was a victorious would like to slate this time in Kansas, Christian, a loyal church member, faithfully discharg­ just men made perfect" (Hebrews 12:22- ing every responsibility assigned her in Christian work. Missouri, or Oklahoma. Also we have 23). She was a godly woman of great faith and courage, an open date the first part of Februarv, T h e reality of the Church satisfies me and was a great blessing in her home, church, and l!)fi2. that we would like to slate in community. She is survived by one daughter, one —“Except a man be born again, he can­ brother, and two sisters. Funeral service was con­ Honda. Write us. King City. Missouri." not sec the kingdom of God. . . . The ducted by Rev. Curtis L. Stanley of Bath, Maine, wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou a former pastor, assisted by Rev. Charles J . Wash­ Rev. L. T . Edwards writes: “As of burn, pastor. Interment was in Forest Hill Ceme­ hcarest the sound thereof, but canst not tery, Fitchburg, where a committal service was con­ December 1. I have resigned as pastor tell whence it comcth, and whither it ducted by the Reverend Mr. Stanley and Rev. M. here in Slayton, Oregon, and am re­ goeth: so is every one that is born of Washburn. entering the evangelistic field. Mrs. Ed­ the Spirit" (John 3:3-8) . W. GEO RGE P E T E R S , age twenty-nine, and son, wards will travel with me, and we have T he nurture of the Church helps me Brent, age three, died July 23, 1961, in an auto­ our much-enlarged and up-to-date pro­ —"Now therefore ye are no more stran­ mobile accident near their home at Fredericktown, gram featuring the second coming of the gers and foreigners, but fellowritizens Ohio. George was a member of First Church of the Nazarene in Kankakee, Illino is. They are survived Lord, using charts and colored slides. with the saints, and of the household of by the wife and mother, Ruby Peters, and son and Also we earn object lessons for the God; . . in whom all the building fitlv brother, Norman; and George is also survived by hi:- Sunday school and youth services. Wc tramec! together growcth unto an holv parents, nine sisters, and two brothers. Funeral service was conducted by Rev. f; . L . Jefferson, have some open time in the spring and temple in the Lord: in whom vc also assisted by Rev. T . B. Spence, in the Frederick lall of T>2. Write us as per our slate are btiilded together lot an habitation town Church of the Nazarene, with burial in Forreit in the Herald of Holiness.” ol God through the Spirit” (Ephesians Cemetery, Fredericktown. 2:19-22) J E F F R E Y BRIAN , six-month-old son of Rev. and Rev. Loy Snow writes: "I am making It is within this dynamic structure Mrs. D. Paul Ray of High Springs, Florida, died plans to enter the evangelistic field that we are to grow in the grace and July 6, 1961, at the University of Florida Medical Center. He was born November 25, 1960. He is also after January 1. and until that time knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. And survived by a brother, Gary Paul. Funeral service am open for calls for week ends or standing in the midst, wc marvel that was conducted by Rev. Craig Blanchard of Gaines­ revivals near my home. I am an elder in a true spiritual sense we are one. ville, Florida. Interment was in Clinton, Illinois, with Rev. Orville Shrout, the baby's grandfather, and commissioned evangelist on the And that we comprise the body of Christ! officiating. Southwest Indiana District. W'rite me, —what a beautiful mystery it is, and how Till:) South Heights Avenue, Indianapolis deeply grateful we ought to be! And KENNETH A., 3^-year-old son of Warren and Jo Ann Lowry, of Portland, Oregon, died June 2, 27, Indiana.” that in this body there is to be no di­ 1 9 (,i, several hour? after having been struck by a lfi (696) • HERALD OF HOLINESS mail truck. He is also survived by two sisters, Vicki and Gail; grandmother, Carol Vaughters Lowry; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S towel I. Kenny loved Jesus, and loved to go to Sunday school. His pastor and Sunday school teacher were among his most-loved friends. Funeral service was in charge of his pastors. Rev. and Mrs. Noble BerryhiII, with Announcing interment in Lincoln Memorial in Portland. Announcements RECOMMENDATION — I would like to recommend to all of our peo­ ple the Weaver Evangelistic Party for revivals and CROSS-COUNTRY CONVENTIONS camp meetings. For many years Rev. W. E . Weaver pastored successfully and faithfully on this dis­ trict. He is a good preacher and evangelist with a burden for souls. The members of the party sing Date Location Participating and are musicians. Their slate is filling up as they now enter full-tim e evangelistic work. Here is October 30-31 Nashville Grace George Coulter, a fine opportunity to slate a good evangelistic party. 2518 Gallatin Road Executive Secretary They may be addressed, c/o Wm. P. Browne, 149 Nashville, Tennessee George Hayse, A frica E. Randall, Coopersville, Michigan.-— Fred J. Hawk, Superintendent of Michigan District. Bob McCroskey, WEDDING BELLS Philippine Islands Miss Alice Jean Figg of Bismarck, North Dakota, Neva Flood, N icaragu a and Mr. M. Kenneth Lourwood of Missoula, Montana, w e e united in marriage on September 1 at the Bismarck Church of the Nazarene, with Rev. Harry F. Taplin, district superintendent, officiating, as­ sisted by Rev. David E . Figg, father of the bride. OPENING SERVICE, 7:.i0 p.m. (First Day) THREE SERVICES ON THE SECOND DAY Miss Carol Cathryn Collins of Danville, Illinois, and Roger Dean Kennedy of Flin t, Michigan, were 10:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. united in marriage on August 4 at South Side Church of the Nazarene in Danville with Rev. Lester Ruegsegger, uncle of the bridegroom, and Rev. J. C. Collins, father of the bride, officiating. BORN — to Alfred Jay and Alice Ann (Stone) Norris of Poneto, Indiana, a daughter, Toni Arlette, on August 30. COLORADO - L. L. C cn eliio n , 1/65 Dover Street, NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA— I. C. Mathis, 6502 West — to Donley and Carol (W alters) King of Bour- Denver 15, Colorado 51st, Rt. 9, Box 656-C, Tulsa, Oklahoma bonnais, Illinois, a daughter, Dawn Renee, on A u­ D A LLA S— Paul H. Garrett, 2718 Maple Springs NORTHEASTERN INDIANA— Paul Updike, 840 Kern gust 28. Blvd., Dallas 35, Texas Road, Box 987, Marion, Indiana E A S T TENNESSEE---Victor L. Gray, 4000 Sunset NORTHERN CALIFORNIA— E. E. Zachary, P.O. Box — to Rev. W alter and Irene MacPherson, J -., of Avenue, Chattanooga 11, Tennessee 6 7 , Fast Santa Cruz Station, Santa Cruz, California Gastonia, North Carolina, a son, Walter Scott III, EASTERN KENTUCKY— D. S. Somerville, 2717 Iro­ NORTHW EST— Raymond C. Kratzer, 4305 Snow on August 11. quois Ave., Ashland, Kentucky Mountain Rd., Yakima, Washington ADOPTED E A S T E R N MICHIGAN— E . W. Martin, 450 Eileen NORTHW EST IN DIAN A— Arthur C. Morgan, 60 — by Kenneth and Gayle Angier of Mobridge, Drive, Pontiac, Michigan Northview Drive, P.O. Box 350, Valparaiso, South Dakota, a baby boy, on August 28; he was FLORIDA—-John L. Knight, 2115 Hawthorne Trail, Indiana born July 18. They have named him Thomas Wesley. P.O. Box 464, Lakeland, Florida NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA— Jonathan T. Gassett, 4505 N. Donald S t., Bethany, Oklahoma SPECIAL PRAYER IS REQUESTED GEORGIA — Mack Anderson, 927 S. McDonough St., Dccatur, Georgia NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS— Lyle E. Eckley, 116 W. by a Christian mother in Texas for "the salva­ Beverly Court, Peoria, Illinois tion of our teen-age son; the devil is fighting hard GU LF CEN TR A L— Warren A. Rogers, 7429 Wykes NORTHW ESTERN OHIO— Carl B. Clendenen, J r., Box to wreck his life and damn his soul." Ave., Detroit 10, Michigan HAWAII— Melza H. Brown, 2311 A la Wai Blvd., 286, St. Marys, Ohio Honolulu, Hawaii OREGON P A C IFIC — W. D. McGraw, J r., P.O. Box Directories HOUSTON -W. Raymond McClung, 525 Hohldale, 5205, Portland 16, Oregon GENERAL SUPERINTENDENTS Houston 18, Texas PH ILA D ELP H IA — Wm. C. 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BEN N ER KAN SAS— Ray Hance, 457 Lexington Road, Wichita wood Dr., Little Rock, Arkansas 8, Kansas SOUTH CAROLINA— Otto Stucki, 635 Glenthorne V. H. LE W IS KANSAS CITY— Orville W. Jenkins, 2923 Troost Ave., Road, Columbia, South Carolina P .O . Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri SOUTH DAKOTA— Albert 0. Loeber, 715 W. Haven, District Superintendents KENTUCKY— D. D. Lewis, 2230 Alta Ave., Louis­ Mitchell, South Dakota A B IL E N E — Raymond W. Hurn, 3515 43rd S t., Lub­ ville, Kentucky SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA— Glen Jones, 1020 East bock, Texas LOS A N G E LES— Shelburne Brown, 1601 E . Howard 6th, Ada, Oklahoma AKRON— C. D. Taylor, Nazarene District Center, S t ., Pasadena 7, California SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA— Nicholas A. Hull, 1235 E. 8063 Columbus Rd. N .E ., Louisville, Ohio LO U ISIA N A —-T . T. McCord, 1611 Henry S t., Pine- Madison, Orange, California ALABAMA— L. S. Oliver, 5401 Tenth Ave. South, ville, Louisiana SOUTHWEST INDIANA— Leo C. Davis, 228 West­ Birmingham 6, Alabama MAINE — Joshua C. Wagner, 72 Purinton Avenue, wood Drive, Edgewood Addition, Bedford, Indiana ALASKA— Bert Daniels, 106 W. King Edward Ave., Greenwood Acres, Augusta, Maine SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA—W. T. Johnson, 7313 S. Vancouver 10, B.C., Canada MICHIGAN— Fred J. Hawk, 734 Griswold, S.E., Douglas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ALBANY— Renard D. Smith, 5216 South Salina St., Grand Rapids, Michigan SOUTHWESTERN OHIO— M. E. Clay, 3295 Glendale- Syracuse, New York MINNESOTA-- Roy F. Stevens, 6224 Concord Ave., Milford Road, Cincinnati 41, Ohio ARIZONA— M. L. Mann, 6801 East Coronado, Scottc. S ., Minneapolis 24, Minnesota T E N N E S S E E .....C. E . Shumake, 1342 Stratford A w ., dale, Arizona MISSISSIPPI W . Charles O liver, 2003 Wisteria Nashville 6, Tennessee AUSTRALIA— A. A. F. Berg, 69 Grenfell St., Mt. Drive, Jackson A, Mississippi VIRGINIA ....V. W. Littrcll, 710 Prosperity Avenir, G.-avatt, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia M ISSOURI - L . D. Simpson, 12 Ridge Line Drive, Fairfax, Virginia BRITISH ISLES NORTH— George Frame, 126 Glas­ S t. Louis 22, Missouri WASHINGTON— E. L. Grussr, 144 Cleat view Road., gow, Garrowhill, Bal 1 ieston, Glasgow, Scotland N EBR A SK A — -Whitcomb Harding, 803 North Briggs, Hanover, Pennsylvania B R IT ISH IS L E S SOUTH— J. B. Maclagan, 48 Lox- (B ox 1 95) Hastings, Nebraska WASHINGTON PACIFIC— B. V. Seals, 12515 Marine ley Road, Wandsworth Common, London, S.W . 18, NEVADA-UTAH— Raymond B. Sherwood, Box 510, View Drive, Seattle 66, Washington England Fallon, Nevada W EST V IR G IN IA — H. Harvey Hendershot, 5008 V ir­ CANADA ATLANTIC— Robert F. Woods, 594 St. N EW ENGLAND— J . C. Albright, 19 Keniston Road, ginia Ave., Charleston, S.E., West Virginia George Blvd., Apt. 1, Moncton, N .B., Canada Melrose, Massachusetts W ISCON SIN — D. J. Gibson, 5709 Pleasant Hill Rd., CANADA CENTRAL— Bruce Taylor, 31 Prospect Ave. NEW MEXICO— R. C. Gunstream, 215 57th Street, Madison, Wisconsin North, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada N.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico Foreign Mission Districts CANADA PACIFIC— Bert Daniels, 106 W. King Ed­ N EW YORK— Robert Goslaw, 1115 Woodrow Road, NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN— G. H. Pearson, 4229 ward Ave., Vancouver 10, B.C., Canada Staten Island 12, New York North 16th Drive, Phoenix, Arizona CANADA WEST— Herman L. G. Smith. 2236 Capitol NORTH ARKAN SAS— J. W. Hendrickson, 1922 Je f­ SPANISH EAST, U.S.A.— Harold Hampton, 16-09 Hill Crescent, Calgary, Alberta, Canada ferson, Box 907, Conway, Arkansas Georgia Street, Fa lrla w n , New Jersey CENTRAL OHIO— Harvey S. Galloway, 4100 Maize NORTH CAROLINA— Lloyd B. Byron, 1240 Pine- SOUTHWEST MEXICAN— Ira L. True, 1490 North Road, Columbus 2 4, Ohio crest Ave., Charlotte 5, North Carolina Wesley Avenue, Pasadena 7, California CHICAGO CEN TR A L— Mark R. Moore, 1394 Blatt NORTH DAKOTA— Harry F. Taplin, 30? W. 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Greater Freedom for Italian nswer comer Protestants Reported Torri. Pi.u.ice— Protestants in Italy arc enjoying more religious freedom, according to a report presented to a Conducted by W. T. PURKISER, E d itor recent meeting of the synod of the What is your opinion of the method used to finance the great Pentecostal Waldensian church. T he report said revival, and why was it never used again? the “usual campaign" against Protestants I presume this means the* common ow n power?" I he* sin of Ananias and had almost ceased and that the' Fanlani turn! described in Acts 'J: I I - 1*> and l:.‘U Sapphira was that of pretending to give government is “no longer living to :r>. I would concur with the general all while* keeping back part, and thus ignore the Protestant minoritv." It conviction that this was a local and lying to Cod. noted that government officials have temporary arrangement made ncccssarv There is only one other mention of received Protestant delegations “with by the* conditions of the dav in Jerusa­ the* common fund after the death of courtesy” and that Roman ( atholic lem. It would seem liom Ac ts I that \nanias and Sapphira, and that is in priests and Waldensian pastors haw* while* the* selling of possessions and plac­ \e is t>: 1. w here its administration became been able to have private conversations ing the* proceeds in the common fund burdensome* to the apostles and was and Bible st ud\. was the general thing, it was not re­ turned over to seven “men of honest I he report attributed tlie change to quired of all Christians; for Pe ter said I.) report, full of the Holy Ghost and wis­ “the ecumenical attitude's" of Pope John Ananias concerning his land, “Whiles it dom" (v. 3) . And there is no mention w in . (KPS) remained, was it not thine own? and of its being used anywhere else in New alter it was sold, was it not in thine Protestant Family Murdered I c stamcnt times. in M exico O a x a c a . M ixtco (F,P)- Seven me in Personally, I do not belong to any lodge or secret society. Of late, material hers ol a Protestant familv of Ma/atcca has come into my hands, the reading of which has made me feel glad that I never joined. Many eminent clergymen and distinguished evangelists, in­ Indians were murdered here July L!,» bv cluding William Booth, Dwight L. Moody, and R. A. Torrey, were all opposed a mob of fanatics. 1 he slaughtei ex to secret societies or lodges, and condemned them as unchristian and detri­ c urred at night when armed men lorced mental to the home, the church, and the community. Will you kindly state their wav into the house and killed your stand on this question? Would you advise your son or any other young these people who were membeis e>t a man to associate himself with these organizations? family associated with a Pilgrim Holiness \s is the Church of the* Na/arcnc bcrs bv oat But if they mean just mission chuff h. ollicialh. ) also personally am opposed half of it. it's too much. T here are Rev. I. II. Soltero, head ol tin de­ to membciship in oi alliliation with minx community service organizations nomination's church in Mexico, reported oath-bound secret orders of anv kind. whose rituals and membership require­ in Valles, Mexico, that he had known I should ccitainly not advise any voting ments are matters of public record of persecution and opposition among the man to associate himself with organi through which Christians may discharge twelve small Ma/atcca congregations in /ations of this sort. It could be that all their obligations for civic better­ the mountains round about, but he said secret orders do not mean all that lhc\ ment. the people had been encouraged to go are alleged to sav in binding their mem on. "W e had one large familv in San In my opinion, a Christian secretary who is asked to type a script which Miguel that was converted about two uses slang and profanity (especially profanity) should inform whoever is \ears ago," he said. "For the past vear. concerned that she does not use profanity in any way and therefore cannot type the script—even at the risk of losing her job. Do you not agree, or the authorities in that town had been just what do you think a C hristian secretary should do in such a situation? bothering them and had often called There are no doubt others faced with this evil. the men to the city hall and ordered I quite agree. I here is far too little* involving the name of Deity or religious that they leave the Protestant wav and sturdy protest against such common evils terms in a vicious context. On the go back to the Catholic church. as profanity. other hand, the term “slang” is some­ “ Last month [July], the authorities As to the* slang, much would depend times used for a lively and colloquial thought that by naming one of the upon one’s definition. Some slang is sort of discourse which, while it falls men of this familv to be- the steward little1 more than disguised profanitv. shot t of the standards for immortal in the Catholii duiieli. no doubt the using espiessions lh.it come .is i lose l<> piosc- is vet not particularly evil. whole* lamiI\ would letnm t«* the c Imre h swearing as possible wiihmit a<(uall\ When «*ui hiolher ret used to accept this appointment, saving that he was not Please tell me how Methuselah could have lived 969 years when he was 309 a Catholic., the authoiinYs hreamr angi\ years older than his grandson Noah, who was 500 at the time of the Flood? and tin catened him . . Does the Bible give names of other people than those listed in Genesis 5 who \r the film* ol the massacre. the eldest lived in the days of Methuselah? You have apparently misundei stood and youngest sons were outside* guarding Some have calculated that Methuselah Genesis which does not sav tli.it their field of corn. I hev returned to died in the Flood, but how they get this Noah was 500 years old at the time of the horrible spectacle and then were from the figures given, I am unable to the Flood, but that he was this age when say. ordered to pay a big price for the God began to deal with him. Genesis burials. If they did not, the government Genesis 5 gives the only list of names 6:3 would seem to imply that the Flood officials said their crops and everything of those living before the Flood, al­ diel not come until 120 years later, or else they had would be confiscated. though some of the same names are 20 years after the death of Methuselah “Our hearts are heavy over this crime." listed in other genealogies (namely. at the age of 960. savs Pastor Soltero, “but we I now Cod 1 Chronicles I; Luke 3). i nblr tn see* u» t hi oiigh .**

IS (698) • IIEKALD OF HOLINESS Tin* Church of the Nazim*m* in Mul vain*. Kansas, was organized in b\ District Superintendent Hay llnncr The present building was a district NV\ P S. pioject. and lias a lovely sum ■ tuarx and pastor’s study on the main floor, with Sunday school rnoms. re*! rooms, and apartment for the pastoi in the hasement The building is de­ signed so that it may he comerted into a three-bedroom parsonage at a later date The Sunday school has had a record attendance of ninety-fi\e Rev Clarence I. Jennings is the pastor. The new Webster Groves ( lunch of the Nazarene near St Louis. Missouri, was dedicated by (ieneral Superintendent Samuel Voung assisted bv Dr. T W Willingham and District Superintend­ ent F. D. Simpson Max or G. () Nations of Webstei Groves brought greetings to the five hundred people present. The church, formerly known as the Maple­ wood Church, has approximately two hundred fifty member'., of whom forty- seven have been received this year, twenty-five b> profession of faith. The total cost of building, equipment, and acreage was about S2H7.000 Rev. .! 'N Burch is the pastor. A unique Light of Evangelism" in Central Church of the Nazarene, Flint. Michigan, continues to burn as long as there is a new person in attendance at the Sunday evening evangelistic serv­ ice. A strong emphasis on “Evangelism First” in the local church has resulted in notable gains. See the full report in “The Church at Work: The Local Churches” in this issue of the Herald. Pastor Harry W Dickerson stands be­ side the record of twenty-seven con-

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