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SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, 1983 FRANCIS ASBURY: PREACHER OF HOLINESS 16 Too many today have substituted an office for the study. The study is the mountaintop where the minister has a vision of lost humanity; of the crucified and resurrected Lord; of burdened, suf­ fering, sin-sick people. The study is the minis­ ter's inner secret room where he keeps tryst with his Lord Jesus Christ. It is his holy of holies. Mere he will meet God! Here or nowhere! Here he is to receive uplifting and inspiration. Here he will be caught up into the third heav­ en. Here he will bring to God the needs of his people— their hunger, their battles, their de­ feats, and their heartaches. Here he is to pre­ pare his bow and select an arrow from the quiver, and get it winged of the holy and loving God, that it may go straight to someone's heart. Oh, what throes of labour: what toil of brain; what struggle and anguish of spirit; what ago­ nizing prayers; what joys unutterable; what vi­ sions of God; what victories of faith have toiling, wrestling ministers of Jesus Christ experienced in their studies! — Phineas F. Bresee \ ft iiHam»il»i trnmm: EDITORIAL A HERITAGE IS FOR OWNING by Wesley Tracy ver notice the varied ways we use the term own? Money- existence of sin, dares not proclaim anything close to the grubbers want to “own" the world’s supply of bank purity preached in entire sanctification. Our Wesleyan- Enotes, unenlightened marriage partners may want to “own"Holiness Movement heritage proclaims a redemption by grace their mate (or someone else's). The life ambition of one young that boggles the mind of those who hear about it— and, come man I know is to “own" a red Corvette. Others dream of a to think of it, those who experience it too, for they never sweetheart of their very own as James Mangan dreamed of cease to marvel that “such love” could so redeem a “sinner “My own Rosaleen . my life of life, my saint of saints . my such as I.” flower of flowers."1 The second thing my heritage has been lecturing me about We use “own” in yet another way. To own something is to is its thoroughgoing practice of Christian nurture. Wesley embrace, claim, and cherish it. In this issue we hope to help tossed some tough words at “vagabond preachers” who you own your holiness heritage. We hope you taste again the preached and then hit the road, leaving the new converts to flavor of those “sweet years, the dear and wished-for years perish. Wesley majored in Christian nurture. Each Methodist ... the sweet sad years, the melancholy years”2 that legacy was a member of a society, and a “class’’ of 12 persons who that enriches the holiness movement. looked after each other spiritually under the direction of a Think about: Wesley teaching coal miners to read the Bible class leader In addition many Methodists were also members and preaching in Newgate Prison, Adam Clarke writing the of a “band," a small group of some five persons committed to last sentences of his commentary on his knees, the Meth­ God and each other. Also, materials were provided for family odists pushing through Parliament the Child Labor laws, As- worship that was to be held twice daily. And then there were bury in camp meeting, Phineas Bresee crying out for "a place the schools— in a day when schools were scarce the Wes- in the heart of the city, which could be made a center of holy leyans provided schools of every sort. To be true to our heri­ fire, and where the gospel could be preached to the poor,” tage, we must be willing to do whatever it takes to get the Seth Rees taking yet another offering for a rescue home. task of Christian nurture done. Does your heart say. “These are my people”? Will you own The third lesson that my heritage is making me write on the this heritage? Not so you can worship history, but learn from board 50 times lest I forget it is that at the heart of my holiness it? If you own your heritage we may hear God's future thunder heritage there is a conscious option for the poor. I see Wesley in your past.3 gathering ragamuffins off the street in order to feed and teach You may feel that your forebears prayed too loud, preached them. I see the teachers at Kingswood teaching illiterate min­ too long, made too many mistakes, lived on the wrong side of ers to write their names and then, later, John 3:16. I see Su­ the tracks, and were overzealous. Yet, in looking back, we sanna Wesley turning the parsonage into a school for 200 discover that “in this moment there is life and food for future children. I see Adam and Mary Clarke turning their home into years."4 And he or she who is ashamed to call them brethren a hospital for cholera-stricken children. I see holiness people Drobably doesn't deserve them. establishing the Stranger’s Friend Society for the destitute. Three things have surfaced in my own ruminations of my And I say, “These are my people.” John Wesley looks down holiness heritage. First is what Wesley called the “grand de- from the picture on my wall. He seems to be asking if I really positum” of Methodism— entire sanctification. I am coming to need monogrammed shirts and Florsheims for every day. appreciate this as the most radically optimistic hope in the Owning one’s heritage isn’t always easy, but it may give you world. In the doctrine of entire sanctification we have the the golden gift Mangan received from Rosaleen: radical statement that the springs of the human heart from which flow love and motive can be pure and Christlike— in this Your holy . hands life. This experience is wrought as the Holy Spirit cleanses the Shall girdle me with steel... beliving heart by grace through faith. [And] give me life and soul anew.5 $ Those in Wesley’s time, drunk on the doctrine of intensive total depravity, could not hear him. It is about the same today. NOTES The behaviorists tell us that the psyche is so complex that we 1. James Clarence Mangan (1803-49), “Dark Rosaleen.” will never know the source of any act or motive, or that we 2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnets from the Portuguese,” I. 3. Ibid., XXVII, a paraphrase of Browning. can be reduced to predictable “conscious automata.” 4. William Wordsworth (1770-1850), “Tintern Abbey." Even the most optimistic humanist, who sins by denying the 5. Mangan, “Dark Rosaleen." 1 THE PREACHER’S MAGAZINE Proclaiming Christian Holiness Volume 59, Number 1 September/October/November, 1983 IN THIS ISSUE Wesley Tracy Editor EDITORIAL 1 A Heritage Is for O w ning............................................................................ Wesley Tracy Nina Beegle Assistant Editor HOLINESS HERITAGE Consulting Editors 3 Practicing Holiness in the Great Tradition..................................... Paul Merritt Bassett Bill Sullivan 4 Come Alive, James Arminius.............................................................. J. Kenneth Grider 6 A Profile of John Wesley................................................................................ Tom Findlay Director of the Division of 10 John Wesley on Preaching Church Growth 13 Adam Clarke: Holiness Saint and Scholar......................................Herbert McGonigle Church of the Nazarene 16 Francis Asbury— The Difference One Person Can M ake.........................Donald Irwin 20 Phoebe Palmer: Ambassador of Holiness............................................ Harold E. Raser Wilbur Brannon 24 The Transfer of Power....................................................................... Alex R. G. Deasley Director of Pastoral 27 The Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, Ministries 1982— A Review and Evaluation........................................................ Timothy L. Smith Church of the Nazarene REVIVAL George E. Failing 32 Revival in the Holiness Movement in the Nineteenth C entury............Paul A. Gilbert General Editor The Wesleyan Church CHURCH FINANCE 35 Professional Expense Reimbursements Are Not Salary................... Joe Huddleston Contributing Editors THE MINISTER’S MATE V. H. Lewis 36 Let the Pastor’s Wife Do I t ............................................................................Anne Elver 37 Time to Rest....................................................................................... Sharon L. Bushey Eugene L. Stowe Orville W. Jenkins Jerald D. Johnson WESLEYANA Charles H. Strickland 38 Ascending to the Source ..........................................................................Donald Wood William M. Greathouse General Superintendents Church of the Nazarene CHURCH ADMINISTRATION 40 Church Insurance— Have You Reviewed Yours Lately? ... Walter and Lola Williams