Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 12-14-1960 Herald of Holiness Volume 49 Number 42 (1960) 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 49 Number 42 (1960)" (1960). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 873. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/873 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]. HOLINESS■*— December 14,1960 Official Organ o£ the Church of the Nazarene For the Days Just Ahead For the days just ahead there is great apprehension; Many hearts are afraid—ev’ry morrow they dread. But our God holds the reins of this world filled with tension, And His own He’ll prepare for the days just ahead. For the days just ahead—there’s a hand that will guide you Through the long, weary night till the darkness has fled; And when dangers press hard, in the Rock He will hide you. Be not anxious but trust Him for days just ahead. What tho’ sorrows may come—tho’ hard trials come stealing? By the hand of the Saviour His children are led; He will comfort and keep; there is balm for our healing, And His grace is sufficient for days just ahead. Then look up and take heart when the battle is pressing; Keep your eyes on the Cross, where the dear Saviour bled. There He died to redeem and to give us His blessing, And there’s vict’ry in Jesus for days just ahead! Copyright © 1960 by Lillenas Publishing Company. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. By FLOYD W. HAWKINS Music Editor, Nazarene Publishing House Hints on Personal Evangelism: <^ralicffblmes$ THE POWER OF A CHILD'S PRESENCE ^4^3' |C December 14, 1960 Whole Number 2538 By J. KENNETH GRIDER Vol. 49, No. 42 Associate Professor of Theology After serving the Mifflin Avenue Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri Church in Lansing for over three years, 1 For the Days Just Ahead, Floyd W. Hawkins On the first Sunday of the November Rev. Russell E. Spray has resigned to 3 Perfected Holiness, Lawrence witnessing thrust, I hit upon a way of accept the pastorate of the church in li. Ilicks breaking down barriers in house-to-house Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Priceless Plan, Jack XI. visitation. I took along my nine-year-old Scharn I Our Church and Her Min­ daughter. Pastor C. L. Rodda sends word from isters, I.. E. Humrich It is amazing what that did. Standing Huntington, Indiana: ‘ First Church in :> 1960 Chadwick’s Centenary, on porch after porch with her, as people an inspiring Thanksgiving Sunday gave Evangelist Robert Emsley came to the door, I was not someone S3.900 for world missions, and had 519 6 God’s Multiplication Table, who could harm the family. Wide open in Sunday school, to lead the North­ Andrew F. Cone the doors went, more than at any time eastern Indiana District." 7 Saints for Supper! Evangelist when I have visited alone or with anoth­ Nettie A. Miller er man. Wives alone in the home were The Requests, Grace V. Wat­ Pastor Charles E. Ballard sends word kins free to invite us in for prayer. My from Los Angeles, California: “The 8 God of the Second Chance, daughter would thank the Lord for the Los Angeles Marshall Memorial Church, Celia AI. Wright doggie there in the living room, and for working among the colored population 9 Marriage with Love, Wm. ]. suchlike, which did not exactly make the of Los Angeles, has had a spectacular Nichols people unfriendly toward the evange­ growth. On October 14 we had 41 in Endless Tragedy, Jean Leath­ listic party. ers Phillips Besides the entrance it gave and the Sunday school, and on November 20 we 10 News in Picture blessing of a child’s leading out in prayer, had 958 in attendance. In order to Revival in Our Day, Evan­ accommodate the crowd, Sunday school gelist Harold L. Yolk it must be quite good training for the was held all day in forty-fivc-minute 11 I Give Thee Thanks! Enoia child who accompanies the adult. Our sessions. Our building seats only 100. Chamberlin daughter is wide-eyed with her request Pray with us that God will help us H e a v e n , Evangelist James to go out again next Sunday. provide adequate housing. This har­ Robbins If a considerable segment of our Sun­ vest is a cumulation of three years’ 12 Editorials, W. T. Purkiser day school children were schooled in work due in large measure to the labor HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T. Purkiser, this way, the new generation of Naza- Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Ed­ renes might not be as reticent about visi­ of Rev. Elwood Mungcr.” itor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Van- tation evangelism as so many of us adults derpool, Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, Gen­ are at present. At a recent meeting of the Roswell eral Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Published every Wednesday by the NAZA­ (New Mexico) Ministerial Association, RENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Rev. Ronald Rodes, pastor of Central Manager, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, Missouri. Subscription price, Church of the Nazarene, was elected to $1.50 per year, in advance. Second-class serve as secret a ry-t rcasu rrr of the group postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Pastor Lewis A. Posey sends word for the new year. Printed in U.S.A. from I’ineville, North Carolina: “God moved mightily upon the church and Rev. and Mrs. James II. Garrison will people and there was $977.26 in cash celebrate their fiftieth wedding anni­ Rev. Robert W. Taylor has resigned placed in the offering plates on Thanks­ versary early in January. They were as pastor at St. Charles, Illinois, to re­ giving Sunday. We give God praise, married January 4, 1911, in Dorset, Ohio, enter the field of evangelism as of honor, and glory for His wonderful at the Methodist parsonage. Mr. Gar­ February 1, 1961. blessings.” rison has been preaching for almost fifty years, and in the Church of the Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hoffman celebrated Nazarene for forty years. He pastored their golden wedding anniversary at the at Brazil, Indiana, building their first Maplewood Church of the Nazarene, church; also at Seymour and Oakland St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday evening, HOLY IS THE HEART City, Indiana; and Framingham, Massa­ October 24. A beautiful candlelight By CHRISTINE WHITE chusetts. He was head of the science de­ ceremony was sponsored by their sons, partment at Eastern Nazarene College Albert and Kenneth, with Rev. J. W. There's nothing like the Bible 1928 through 1939, then pastored at Burch officiating. After the ceremony, To stir the deadened soul, Rochester, New York, and Norfolk, Vir­ dinner was served to 189 guests, among And light the narrow pathway ginia. He served as superintendent of whom were ;"> ministers and their wives, Toxcard the heavenly goal. Virginia District for two terms, then and numerous out-of-town guests. Their pastored at Titusville, California; and Sunday school classes presented money Words of men may charm us Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Although trees, which were graced by telegrams, With their earthly grace, now retired, he is pastoring a home stacks of cards, and a score of packages But the Word of God remains mission work in Williamsburg, Virginia, conveying congratulations to this Chris­ A beacon to the race. helping to establish the first holiness tian couple who through the years have Words of love and mercy, work in that historic city. They have been true to the church and each other. Power may impart; two children, Mrs. Donald E. Coombs The Hoffmans were charter members of Holy is the life that hides of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and J. W. First Church, and in 1935 became mem­ Its message in the heart. Garrison of Williamsburg, both Naza- bers of Maplewood Church of the Naza­ renes. rene. 2 (1022) • HERALD OF HOLINESS Perfected Holiness By LAWRENCE B. HICKS, Pastor, First Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified (Hebrews 10:14). An analysis of this text will reveal that two saying. The Holy Spirit informs us through St. parties arc spoken about, “he” and “them.” Of Paul in II Corinthians 7:1 that to be included course the “he” is the Lord Jesus Christ; the finally under the promises of full redemption we “them” are all the saints who will “receive him” must “cleanse ourselves” from certain worldly af­ (John 1:12); will do His “will” (I Thessalonians fairs. About the same thing is restated in II Tim­ 4:3); will walk in His “light” (I John 1:7); and othy 2:21. While the being perfected is in the “hold fast the confidence ... to the end” (Hebrews past, we receive it now. 3:6). Thirdly, let us notice the future. Surely holiness Further, the text reveals that whatever “he” did will be perfected in the eternal regions of heaven.