Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 10-15-1969 Herald of Holiness Volume 58, Number 42 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 58, Number 42" (1969). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 1638. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1638 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]. OCTOBER 15, 1969 5 '6$ Herald of Holiness KEEPING SPIRITUALLY FIT (See page 3.) The Case for the Organized Church CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE (See page 5.) B raver Tomorrow I shall be braver tomotrtow Because of the trial' todayl For trouble surmounted brings courage and strength some unaccountable way. I shall be kinder tomorrow I'm sure, Because of the careless retort Of someone who loves me, but just did not think How an ungentle answer can hurt. I shall be stronger tomorrow, because I have prayed that my spirit may grow Above all the hurtful and rankling $ Yes, I shall be stronger, I know. Lord, teach me to use all the burdens of life As stepping-stones upward to Thee. Then, seen in the light of the heavenly dawn, How blest that tomorrow will be! Kathryn Blackburn Peck General Superintendent Young Commitment Is Personal Y the ordinary standards of our century answered them, “We ought to obey God rather B it would be difficult to describe the lead­ than men. And we are his witnesses of these ing disciples of Jesus as extraordinary men. things” (Acts 5:29b, 32a). (It could be easy to wonder why He called But what of our twentieth-century witness? so many fishermen.) He seems to have taken Surely we need to improve our techniques in those available, and especially those who had this sacred business. But the heart of the been devoted followers of John the Baptist. matter lies in true motivation and absolute But the subsequent record of the centuries confirms His choices, and we are forced to commitment. In Paul’s Roman letter he ex­ acknowledge that those first apostles rendered horts, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by extraordinary service. Their faith and mis­ the mercies of God, that ye present your sion have survived and prevailed. It was not bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto an accident that so many of the original 12 God, which is your reasonable service” (12:1). sealed their witness with their blood, not only Paul had made such a commitment himself testifying to the nature of the world’s opposi­ and his life demonstrated it. tion, but confirming the validity and virility Genuine commitment is always personal of their own faith. and costly. It must be voluntary. The true Jesus himself had laid the issues clearly on motivation for such a commitment is Calvary; the line in His challenge, “If any man will nothing less will do. William James warned come after me, let him deny himself, and take us at the turn of this century, “Lives based up his cross daily, and follow me” (Luke 9:23). on having are less free than lives based either The record indicates that His chosen band on doing or on being.” Jesus stated it simply, “forsook all, and followed him.” In turn, He “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye rested His own mission and the world’s re­ shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). But this demption on their fidelity and word and upon freedom came through obedient faith. “Then the subsequent followers who believed their said Jesus to those Jews which believed on word. him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye The irrepressible witness of those first- my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the generation Christians is easy to detect in the truth, and the truth shall make you free” record of the Book of Acts. In one instance (8:31-32). Only then do we actually discount when the authorities castigated them for the cost and find the radiance of an inner continuing to teach in Jesus’ name, Peter glow. □ HE experience of holiness does not consti­ Sin’s process must be halted. The source of tute one a spiritual superman. But it does moral infection must be removed. Rebellion must render one a normally healthy Christian. be stamped out. THoliness is spiritual health. The work of sanc­ There is both a negative and a positive aspect tification wrought by the Holy Spirit is the means to the cure. Man must cease to commit sin. But whereby the soul is cleansed from certain moral he must also learn to do righteously. Holiness impurities which render the person spiritually issues in righteousness. The old carnal nature sickly, weak, anemic, impotent, and frail. In this must not only be destroyed, but a new nature of condition he is the frequent victim of spiritual holiness must be implanted. This lapses because his resistance to temptation is fee­ nature of holiness is activated by ble and in the face of trial he wilts. His entire the indwelling Holy Spirit. spiritual constitution is weak because of carnal To one who has gone through infection. the experience of deliverance Carnality is poison to the soul, so that no de­ from sin now comes the pro­ gree of spiritual robustness can develop so long nouncement, “Behold, thou art as it is present in the spiritual system. made whole: sin no more.” This This vicious spiritual infection cannot be coun­ is an unspeakably glorious release teracted by any spiritual exercise howsoever from the tyranny of carnal pres­ vigorously and regularly practiced. It is totally sures. It marks the advent o^ new and glorious immune to any humanly devised specific by liberty—a life more abundant. Now such a one which to neutralize it. Radical surgery adminis­ can sing: tered by the Holy Spirit is the only cure. Well of water, ever springing, “The carnal mind is enmity against God. It is Bread of life, so full and free, not subject unto the law of God, neither indeed Untold wealth that never faileth, can be” (Romans 8:7). It cannot be reduced to My Redeemer is to me. inertia or paralysis. Its resistance to human spe­ But a word of caution must be sounded lest the cifics is total. The body of sin must be destroyed sanctified soul fall victim of the peril of a false (Romans 6:6). presumption. Two trips to the altar will not fur­ God is perennially at war with sin. He makes nish a through ticket to heaven. That the ex­ no allowance for it to any degree. Sin is rebellion, perience of sanctification will guarantee final per­ treason, sedition against the holiness of God. Car­ severance is by no means true. No delusion could nality issues in sin. .“When lust hath conceived, carry with it a greater peril. it bringeth forth sin.” We must ever keep in mind that holiness “Take time and trouble to keep yourself spiritually fit” (I Timothy 4:7, Phillips). mo SPIRITUALLY m • By Ernest E. Grosse Hanover, Pa. Toward a Better Understanding ECAUSE of the confusion and misunder­ the endorsement of the Department of Edu­ B standing, and some division of loyalties, cation and General Board, and without an arising from the promotion of a new college assigned territory and an endorsement by the or group of colleges within our connection, General Assembly, constitutes an infringe­ the Board of General Superintendents issues ment upon the rights and assignments of our the following statement and pronouncement: duly authorized colleges and educational in­ The Board of General Superintendents does stitutions, and is contrary to our accepted not approve or endorse (directly or indirectly) church practices. the organization of the John Wesley Educa­ The solicitation of funds for the proposed tional and Development Foundation or its John Wesley Foundation (or college[s]), even project(s). on a personal or by-mail solicitation and After careful investigation, we are con­ without the approval of the proper authorities, vinced that no authorization or endorsement is clearly in violation of the Manual provision of the above Foundation was given by the and rule concerning the prohibition of finan­ local church board or by the district superin­ cial appeals beyond the bounds of the local tendent or District Advisory Board of the church (Manual, Par. 177). immediate area of our church involved. We We trust that the above summary will assist are also reasonably sure that neither the zone in clearing up much of the confusion that has college president nor the executive secretary overtaken some of our people in this matter of the Department of Education has given and will also assist all of us in avoiding fur­ endorsement or approval of the above Foun­ ther division of loyalties that would hinder dation or its proposed college(s). the work of God among us. The charter of incorporation of John Wesley BOARD OF GENERAL Educational and Development Foundation it­ SUPERINTENDENTS self clearly states that the intention and scope religiously of said corporation is to “provide V. H. LEWIS, Chairman instruction in and promotion of interdenomi­ EDWARD LAWLOR, Secretary national Christianity.” GEORGE COULTER The promotion of the proposed John Wesley ORVILLE W.