Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 2-8-1967 Herald of Holiness Volume 55 Number 51 (1967) W. T. Purkiser (Editor) Nazarene Publishing House Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh Part of the Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Christianity Commons, History of Christianity Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Purkiser, W. T. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 55 Number 51 (1967)" (1967). Herald of Holiness/ Holiness Today. 1393. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1393 This Journal Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Church of the Nazarene at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. February 8, 1967 herald ouw Nazarene Coiieg* Church of the Nazarene Kankakee, ilu O® S’ ’,$7 ON STEWARDSHIP I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. '-KZ-—---------- « —David Livingstone General Superintendent Coulter Capacity to Stand The Strain It’s rock, not sand, that stands the stress that house; and it fell not: for it was founded of storm and flood. This was Jesus’ message upon a rock” (Matthew 7:25). in a distant day as He searched the multitudes Spiritual structures can stand! Spiritual for those who would truly follow Him. structures will stand—if they are founded Multitudes heard Jesus but their enthusi­ upon the rock! asm was short-lived. He sifted out those who Faith and obedience are the necessary in­ were not really in earnest about following gredients in building on a firm foundation. Him. Here is the secret of spiritual stability. Here He summed it up by saying: “Therefore is the capacity to stand the strain of storm whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and and wind and flood. doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, Jesus himself is the Rock on which the which built his house upon a rock: and the Christian stands. Our hope is fixed on noth­ rain descended, and the floods came, and the ing less than Jesus. winds blew, and beat upon that house; and He “is the image of the invisible God.” it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock” (Matthew 7:24-25). He is “the firstborn of every creature.” What a lesson for our day! So much of “All things were created by him, and for what we build is geared to shoddy workman­ him.” ship, shortcuts, laborsaving techniques, and quick sales. “He is the head of the body, the church.” (Colossians 1:15-18). Foundations must have rock in them, not sand, if they are to stand the pressures and With credentials like these, who can doubt the stresses. Sand shifts and buckles under Him? With power like this, who should fear strain. So it is in spiritual structures. the storm and wind? The man who built upon the rock took time The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for for essentials. He paid attention to the unseen repose part of his building. He exerted effort until 1 will not, 1 will not desert to his foes; he dug down to the rock. He paid the price That soul, though all hell should en­ for a solid foundation. deavor to shake, “And the rain descended, and the floods I’ll never, no never, no never forsake; came, and the winds blew, and beat -upon I’ll never, no never, no never forsake. Of Men And Mountains • By Milo L. Arnold Richland, Washington hat an experience! Vaca­ the past. Year after year, millen­ They praise Him even in their ma­ tioning in majestic Gla­ nium after millennium the wise jestic silence. W cier National Park, we old council of the pinnacles has Tonight we are resting in a drove over lofty Logan Pass,read the minutes of the past, then campground, cuddled in the lap of known as the Going to the Sun has sat waiting to read the same a mountain. The very atmosphere Highway. For miles we threaded minutes again and again. is charged with a sense of power, our way among gathered moun­ Scientists come and listen, glean­ of hugeness. God has walked here! tains. ing knowledge of the long, long I kneel and join the pinnacles in I know no other place where so ago. The council points them back an eager paean of silent adoration. many mountains group so closely to ages now out of sight. Each Silence is becoming for such an or surround the traveler so inti­ with its finger of bony crags mo­ hour; words are too weak, too mately. One feels almost shy in tions over its shoulder to a glori­ small, too human. Yet, as I pray, their lofty, intimate presence. Their ous crisis experience. something is lacking. I cannot stay bald-pated domes tower in dignity Gradually, persistently, surely here. This is yesterday, the finger­ above the fringe of timberline. the mountain range over which the prints of God’s work already done. They are very old, very strong, patriarchs preside is eroding. The very solid, very great. They re­ attrition of seasons, the gouging of I am not accustomed to this kind minded me of an august, venerable glaciers, and the clawing of ava­ of patriarchal meeting for reminis­ board of directors. lanches take away a bit of their cing. At home I sit in board ses­ This majestic council has been stature. Their greatest days can­ sions where the reading of the min­ meeting for many millennia. Yet in not be regained. The future has utes of the last meeting is but the spite of its impressive composition, nothing so splendid as what has prelude to new business. it has never made a meaningful been. A church board is made of hum­ decision for the future nor given a I am awed by the bigness they ble men and women, dedicated to pronouncement for guiding the bring out of the past. They tell of God, human, fallible, but eagerly world. Its entire agenda deals with the greatness of God, the Creator. facing ahead. They are not craggy FEBRUARY 8, 1967 • (1007) 3 reminders of a past glory. Tomor­ row is in their hearts. I had rather sit with a council of very human men and women facing tomorrow than in a meeting of grizzled pin­ nacles, looking backward. I must go shortly to a district advisory board meeting where to­ morrow will be the focal point of business. In turn I must go to the meetings of the boards of two of To Pledge or Not to Pledge our great educational institutions and join with them in the thrill of making plans for the unborn fu­ ture. They will not point back to their most glorious days nor seek merely to delay sure erosion by the tooth of time. They will dream To pledge or not to pledge— of bigger things. That is the question. A few weeks ago I sat again with Whether ’tis nobler in a man the general board of the church To take the Gospel free and felt the thrill of newborn And let another foot the bill, plans, ideas, and dreams. That prudent group of dedicated Naza- Or sign a pledge and pay toward renes bore the grave weight of Church expense! responsibility with which the To give, to pay—aye, there’s the rub, church has clothed them. They will To pay— now and then put a bit of memory into the archives and place an oc­ When on the free-pew plan a man casional marble monument to past May have accomplishments. They will read A sitting free and take the Gospel, too, the minutes of the previous meet­ As though he paid, and none be aught ing; then the chairman will say, The wiser “Now we are ready for new busi­ ness.” With that we will be on Save the church committee, who— our eager way into tomorrow. Most honorable men—can keep a secret! Mountains were born in glorious “To err is human,” and human, too, to buy greatness out of the heat of vol­ At cheapest rate. I’ll take the Gospel so! canoes and the frigid gouging of For others do the same—a common rule! glaciers, the shuddering of earth­ I’m wise; I’ll wait, not work— quakes and the fury of elements. However, from the moment of their I’ll pray, not pay, making they began to decline and And let the other fellow foot the bills, will never be so tall again. All And so I’ll get the Gospel free, their wisdom is etched in memory. You see! They have no imagination. This is not my element. I have been permitted by the church and the grace of God to join councils Author Unknown of fragile humans who are com­ mitted to the emerging future rather than the receding past. To­ morrow is in their hearts; the dawn sparkles in their eyes; I can hear the chairman saying, “Now we are ready for new business.” The Church is always beginning! Vo'ume 55, Number 51, FEBRUARY 8, 1967; Whole Number 2859. HERALD OF HOLINESS; W. T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Elden Rawlings, Managing Editor; Bill Lakey, Staff Artist. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, George Coulter, General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene.