Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 7-30-1958 Herald of Holiness Volume 47 Number 22 (1958) Stephen S. White (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 White, Stephen S. (Editor), "Herald of Holiness Volume 47 Number 22 (1958)" (1958). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 966. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/966 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]. The United States of America has just celebrated the one hundred eighty-second anniversary of Independence Day. By lavish gifts of Providence and through creative and dedicated leadership, we have prospered until we lead the world in wealth, industry, and military might. We boast a standard of living that is the envy of all nations. We hold a vantage position which imposes upon us the gravest ^ J lie Strength to £ndia re General Superintendent Williamson responsibility any nation has ever borne. We are at the threshold of the space age, the revelations of which are unpredictable. Here is the searching question by which we should examine our­ selves. Do we have the moral and spiritual strength to bear long the burden thrust upon us by inescapable destiny? The military might of the United States of America can be eclipsed. Her powerful industrial system can be equaled. Her superiority in scientific development is now challenged. But the endurance of our beloved country is rather a question of character than of outward show. That we shall continue to produce men of strength is more important than that we explore outer space. Has our wealth led us in the way of indulgence until we have grown soft, smug, and weak? Are we inert because “our veins are full of fat”? Do we yet have capacity for great convictions for which we willingly hazard our lives? Or do we buy leisure, pleasure, and luxury at the price of moral collapse? History testifies that nations grown rich also grow weak by indulgence. Their most destructive enemies are those within themselves. They become easy prey to those who are inspired by jealousy and hate. Fear may restrain the vultures for a time, but toughened by enforced discipline they no longer restrain themselves. They move in to devour. Our theory of government is sound but we are invincible only if we are guided by its basic principles of honesty and moral integrity. A nation is powerful when its character is free from corruption. In such a time of imminent peril Isaiah spoke for the Lord. “O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea” (Isaiah 48:18). Mr. and Mrs. John Banz, well-known laymen on the Kansas District, will cele­ brate their golden wedding anniversary- kmLtcfjiolmess on August 3, at 427 S. Buckeye, Stafford, July 30, 1958 Kansas. They have been serving the Vol. 47, No. 22 Lord and the church since 1909, most of Whole Number 2414 their married life. The family, seven Telegrams . sons and three daughters, will all be Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—Melvin home. Riddle, former district N.Y.P.S. pres­ 1 The Strength to Endure, ident, and elder on our district, General Superintendent Wil­ passed away following heart surgery liamson After serving as pastor of the church on July 2. Pray for Mrs. Riddle and 3 The Cry for Spiritual Beauty, in Melbourne, Florida, for four and one- their two small children.—J. T. Gas- Harry E. Jessop half years, Rev. Clifford Weller has sett, Superintendent of Northwest 5 1 Joined the Church, Louis resigned to accept a call to the Thomas- Oklahoma District. McCurdy boro Church in Charlotte, North Caro­ 6 The Finished Product, Haldor lina. Pasadena, California—Our thou­ Lillenas sands of friends will rejoice in the 6 The Parable of the Revival Rev. A. W. Campbell has resigned as news that Pasadena College summer Christian, E. R. Houston, Jr. session enrollment is the largest in 7 The Secret of the Holy Life, pastor of First Church in Bristol to history, and 17 per cent increase over Reuben R. Welch accept a call to the church in Mary­ last year. Prospects for fall are ex­ 8 Feeling Sorry Isn’t Enough, ville, Tennessee, effective at assembly- Grace V. Watkins time. cellent. Please keep Pasadena Col­ 8 Why Worry? C. W. Davis lege on your prayer list.—Russell V. 10 Report from the Editor DeLong, President. 11 The Story That Made Head­ Anderson, Indiana—The sixteenth lines, John R. Ferguson annual assembly of the Northeastern 11 God Reaches Down—, Frances Indiana District was characterized B. Erickson throughout with a spirit of optimism and a deep devotion to the task as Next Week . we enter this latter part of the Golden God Works in Mysterious Anniversary year of our beloved Ways, Donna Clark Zion. Dr. Samuel Young, presiding, “The Greatest of These Is caused us to realize there can be Love,” James E. Kratz times of God’s outpoured blessing even during the business of the as­ HERALD OF H O LIN ESS: Stephen S. White, sembly. The Treble Tone Trio of Editor in Chief; Velma I. Knight, Office Ed­ itor. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, Olivet Nazarene College thrilled our G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Van- hearts again and again as their sing­ derpool, Hugh C. Benner, General Superin­ ing blended in through the business tendents, Church of the Nazarene. Published every Wednesday by the NAZARENE PUB­ sessions. Dr. Paul Updike, district LISH IN G HOUSE, M. Lunn, Manager, 2923 superintendent, giving his fourteenth Troost Avenue, Box 527, Kansas City 41, report, showed gains along all lines; Missouri. Subscription price, $1.50 per year, in advance. Entered as second-class both numerically and financially sev­ matter at the post office at Kansas City, eral records have been made. Church Missouri. Printed in U .S.A. membership 8,300; N.F.M.S. member­ ship over 5,000; N.Y.P.S. exceeds 2,- 600; Sunday school enrollment passes 20,000 with average attendance 10,358. Rev. Jack Worthy has resigned as Total raised for all purposes $1,033,- pastor of the Capitol Hill Church in 288; general interests $121,000; value Oklahoma City to accept the pastorate of church property exceeds three mil­ at First Church in Ardmore, Oklahoma. lion dollars. Impressive ordination service Thursday evening with After serving as pastor of the Quincy Theron H. Hanes, Harry W. Soword, and Kenneth C. Watts receiving Avenue Church in Tulsa for the past elder’s orders. Four new churches two years, Rev. Clint Mitchell has re­ organized thus far in Golden Anni­ signed to accept the call to pastor the versary year, with others planned in church in Miami, Oklahoma. the immediate future. Lovely new tabernacle nearing completion with After serving in Alaska for a term, dedication planned during camp Rev. Aubrey Ponce has accepted a call New Churches: meeting, August 3. Northeastern In­ to pastor First Church in Montgomery, Eagle Church, near Calgary, Al­ diana moves forward under aggres­ Alabama. berta, and Fort Saskatchewan, Al­ sive, spiritual leadership of District berta, Canada West District; Mar­ Superintendent Paul Updike.—Myron tin Park Church, Boulder, Colorado; C. Morford, Reporter. Evangelist Hugh Slater sent word that Oak Glen Church, Houston, Texas, <\wwvvvwwwvvvwwvvw\\vwv\\w\wwwvv\vvv\\\vvwv\\wv\ on Monday, July 14, he entered Candler Houston District; Truro, Nova Scotia, Hospital in Savannah, Georgia, for sur­ Maritime District; Andrews and Rev. Charles W. Ogden, now in his gery and asks Nazarenes everywhere to Huntington Northside, Northeastern seventh year as pastor of First Church please remember him in prayer. Indiana District. in San Angelo, Texas, has resigned to accept the work of Highland Park After nearly four years as pastor of Church in Portland, Oregon. the church in Okemah, Oklahoma, Rev. C. E. Townsend resigned to accept a FORWARD Rev. Luther Starnes of Bethel, Dela­ unanimous call to the church in Gothen­ ware, has accepted the pastorate of the burg, Nebraska, beginning his work IN HOME MISSIONS church in Evanston, Illinois. there in July. 2 (534) • HERALD OF HOLINESS The Cry for Spiritual Beauty And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us (Psalms 90:17). The psalm from which the text is taken is cap­ Being ‘‘the beauty of the Lord,” it is essentially a tioned, ‘‘A prayer of Moses, the man of God.” Only divi?ie beauty. In it are traits of character and a man of God would voice the concern indicated conduct which distinguish Jehovah himself. These here. Seven petitions are to be noted in the closing are mirrored and reflected in His people, standing verses of the psalm, of which the prayer of the text in direct contrast to the superficial beauty known by is the sixth. The soul desiring all these things—and the world to which God’s believing people are for­ getting them—is blessed indeed. ever dead. They need nothing of the world’s beauty It is at the point of fulfilment of this sixth peti­ to enhance their value. They shine with the reflex tion that so many realize their lack.