Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 5-28-1969 Herald of Holiness Volume 58, Number 22 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 22" (1969). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 1618. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/1618 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]. May 28, 1969 Just Another Holiday? (See page 3.) herald OF HOLIN ESS Church of the Nazarene . that these dead shall not have died in vain/' Thirty Men Plead for a Missionary! General Superintendent Coulter TT WAS a long “talk-talk.” Thirty Nazarene Most of these 30 men wore badges indicat­ A men from Jimi Valley in New Guinea had ing that they were “councillors” in the local come to meet and to talk to “Number One Big government being established by the Aus­ Fella” (pidgin for general superintendent). tralia government officials. Here a nation is Time is never too important in New Guinea. emerging and Nazarenes are helping to lay But on this occasion, 30 men wanted to be the foundations! doubly sure that I got the message. Their Not just once or twice, but many times they words were translated by a “turn-talk” (in­ repeated the words: “For many years we lived terpreter) into pidgin and then translated into in New Guinea as a primitive people. We English by Missionary Wallace White. My had no schools, no church, no hope. But Naza­ words to them followed the reverse procedure. renes sent a missionary. He loved us. He told Sitting on the floor, drinking gulps of hot us of a Jesus who loved us. Now we are tea, listening, looking, and emphasizing a Christians! Missionary Bromley has worn point over and over again, they were an in­ himself out for us. Most of us cannot read teresting group. Why were they here? Why or write. We want to learn. We want to read were they so anxious to talk to “Number One God’s Word. Will you please send a mission­ Big Fella”? ary to help Missionary Bromley?” It all started with a Nazarene missionary My answer was long—and difficult. I want­ by the name of Will Bromley, who obeyed ed to tell them we would send a missionary the call of God to go into the Jimi Valley. immediately who would preach. Perhaps one For years he lived in a tent, walking the whose wife could teach. I longed to tell them mountain trails, talking and preaching by day, that a young couple was ready to come. But praying and crying out to God by night for I had to tell them that we were carrying on the salvation of these people. For seven long, missionary work in 55 countries in the world. agonizing years he labored—without a single I had to tell them that of the 17 missionaries convert! And then revival! Two hundred of appointed in 1969, only three evangelistic these New Guineans in one great ingathering! couples were included. Then I made an ap­ Thirty of them were here today for the “talk­ peal to them! talk.” Many more were on the grounds of the mission station. “You men are now a part of the great inter­ Now, replacing that lone tent are a mis­ national Church of the Nazarene. Will you sionary home, a dispensary, a “house-sick,” a pray that God will call young couples into school for the first two standards, grass huts, missionary service? Will you pray that Naza­ and above all, a lovely church where the glow renes will provide the money to send them?” of revival still lingers. (Continued on page 4) • By W. S. Muir Crawfordsville, Ind. Just Another Holiday? EMORIALM DAY! We look forward to it Many died in places like Gettysburg, Antietam, every year with excitement, for it means Bull Run, and Manassas, in the Civil War. many things to all of us. Many died in the Spanish-American conflict at To everyone it is the first holiday of the ap­ places like San Juan Hill. proaching summer season, announcing to all that vacation time is approaching. A taste of that will Many died in Flanders field and in the trenches be sampled today perhaps by swimming, boating, of France in World War I. fishing, and camping. Many died in Normandy, Anzio, Iwo Jima, Ba­ To almost everyone, but especially to those in taan, and Corregidor in World War II. the Midwest, and more so to those in Indianapolis Many died on Old Baldy, at Inchon, and on land, the day means but one thing, Race Day. Yes, Pork Chop Hill in Korea. it is the long awaited day for the running of the Many died and are still dying in faraway Viet­ annual 500-mile classic when men will compete nam in places like Khe Sahn, the Mekong Delta, against each other and the clock in a test of speed and AnKhe. and of motor-racing equipment. About 300,000 The creation and the maintenance of our liber­ people will jam the racetrack, and millions will be ty came about much as the words of Winston listening around the world on radios to the Churchill in the British survival of World War II, “greatest spectacle in racing.” with “blood, sweat, and tears.” All of these no doubt are significant, but the In the midst of a troubled world, the freedom celebration of the day should take our minds lives on. How exciting a beginning! back to the real meaning of the day. It was origi­ nally Decoration Day, when the graves of the The first issue was independence. A long, lanky soldiers of the Civil War were decorated, and Virginian, Thomas Jefferson by name, was ap­ has now been traditionally set apart for decorat­ pointed to frame a document which, when read ing the graves of soldiers of subsequent conflicts. today, sends chills up and down the spine. In cemeteries across the land, people will gather Many notables were there in the historic gath­ to pay respect to the honored dead, those who ering, among them John Hancock, who led off have given their lives for their country. The with his signature, writing it so boldly that creation of this concept did not just happen. George III might be able to read it without “put­ Many died in the struggle of the Revolution ting on his specs.” from Valley Forge to Yorktown. The old bell-ringer was pessimistic about the Many died in the struggle of 1812 at places like whole affair. Edgar DeWitt Jones tells us that he Fort McHenry. said, “They’ll never do it! They’ll never do it!” MAY 28, 1969 • 3 Then suddenly a boy appeared, Who lives pure life and doeth Now, more than ever, those men running and shouting, “Ring! Ring! righteous deeds, in the Jimi Valley are praying, pleading—and waiting. □ j Ring!”—and the event was history. And walks straight paths, how­ We of today might well dedicate ever others stray, ourselves anew to the ideal of And leaves his sons, as utter­ keeping the Liberty Bell ringing. most bequest, God Has Promised Ralph Barton Perry has written A stainless record, which all that “the Puritan philosophy has men may read; When heavy-laden and weary, formed an important part of that This is the better way. □ No sunlight can I see, fundamental agreement of mind I hear Him say, “If you want rest, and purpose by which the United My child, come unto Me.” States has played its peculiar role Thirty Men . in the modern world.” (Continued from inside front cover) When there seemed no place of Our forefathers were certainly quietness, I waited for a reply. Grunts, nods, men of integrity and honor, people On this noisy path I trod, of a great compulsion. They would and, I thought, sounds similar to an “Amen” billowed about me. I heard Him say so gently, certainly agree with the Psalmist “Be still, and know that I am The “talk-talk” closed with prayer. that “except the Lord build the God.” house, they labour in vain that If I ever prayed in earnest, I did build.” that day. Those 30 men are still praying— And when my heart is burdened, At the focal center of their faith and waiting. No help there seems to be, stood a living and almighty God Somewhere there is an answer to Then—“Let not your heart be whose will was sovereign in the their prayer. A young couple to troubled— affairs of men and nations. Benja­ supplement the labors of Will and Just believe in God—and me.” min Franklin said, “I have lived, Margaret Bromley—preacher and sir, a long time; and the longer I nurse! A young couple, not afraid And when in need and it seems so live, the more convincing proofs I of isolation, to help build the king­ hard see of this truth, that God governs His promises to believe, dom of God in a new and promis­ in the affairs of men.” Then I hear Him softly whisper, ing nation.