Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 2-27-1963 Herald of Holiness Volume 52 Number 01 (1963) 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 52 Number 01 (1963)" (1963). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 724. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/724 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]. we can do in an effort to discharge our debt to our Lord. He gave Easter to us, a glorious day. Let us who know its worth give it to others who have not yet G e n e ra l Superintendent L ew is heard. As we give it to others we keep its reality for ourselves. Easter is a costly day, but worth it all EVERY YEAR Easter comes with the to God and to us. With the strength of regularity of the calendar. It willour con­ hands, in the deep appreciation of tinue to occur because Christ came our to hearts, we can make ready our this earth, and because He arose againEaster offering. On this wonderful day triumphant over sin, death, and hell.we can join with the rest of our church Many things are ours because to giveof the largest offering yet. Easter. All the really important thingsWe can worship God more fully of life are in their time and place knowingbe­ our Easter offering has been cause Easter is coming again. made. We can supplement our financial Christ made a tremendous invest­investment with our prayers, so that it ment in Easter. He gave His life and speeds on swift and strong to the salvation Easter arose from the grave thatof souls we far away. might have all that Easter means.Let’s begin that great offering today All the investment in Easter must not by laying some aside now. Then we can be left to Christ. Easter is for our bene­keep on adding to it, until April 14 fit. All its meaning is ours. So let comesus and we sing “He Arose’’ with prepare now to make an investment gladness, in and give with gratitude, for the Resurrection day. This is the leastEaster will be here! group, a Mmday school class, or individuals work­ ing under the guidance of the pastor. There is a The Cover . .special blessing promised to those who “sow be­ The sanctuary of the New Cumberland, Penn­ sylvania, First Church of the Nazarene is de­ side all waters” (Isaiah 32:20) . Although not all signed with continuously sloping roof, with the seed will find good soil, some of it is sure to front of native stone and vertical siding. The "bring forth fruit unto salvation.” interior features laminated beams, walls of natural wood, and plexiglass windows set in the roof. The platform and the altar extend the full width of the auditorium. _ The educa­ tional wing includes a chapel with adjacent A Laymen’s Book Column . classrooms. The entire structure plannedis in On page 18 of this issue, we begin the contemporary triangle and straight-line design. 'Herald" Book of the Month selections for Rev. John M. Gardner is the pastor. laymen. As we explore interesting and in­ spiring Christian literature, we invite pas­ His will. Only by listening can we magnifytors the to look over our shoulders, and en­ “still small voice" until it is heard above ihc roarcourage us to read more. Many laymen of the crowd. have reqnested suggestions of good books with a Nazarene "flavor.” Here they are, An Excellent Idea beamed particularly for you! We trust you Rev. M. M. Snyder, pastor ol the New Orleans,enjoy them, and, as a result, excel in the Louisiana, West llank Church of the Na/arene, hasfaith of our Lord Jesus Christ.—Ei di n for years maintained a literature display in theR awlings . railroad station in New Orleans. He recently re­ ceived this card from a gentleman in California: "Dear Pastor Snyder: "Recently 1 visited New Orleans. While waiting at the train station I noticed your good display of Nazarene church periodicals.Contents . 1 selected several pieces to take with me toGeneral Articles read on the train. Your display was the best ‘J-‘> Kditorials I saw among the other churches. Thank your» Praver Hindrances,James .1. Hamilton for providing Christian literature for visitors('* toThe Bible in the Home 7 "I Shall Live to See Mary //. Augsburx New Orleans to read. S Silence . Man’s Golden Sin,fames H\ McXeelx “Sincerely yours,” (signature) (.> Stewards ol God’s Manifold (irate, Rev. M. M. Snyder has used literature distribu­ Vernon L. Wilcox tion in his ministry since 1932 with good success.10 I he Consequences of Closed Doors, Jack M. Sc ham He makes it a point to keep the displays in good11 I here Is Nothing Too Hard for God. order, and stamps each piece with the name and Eric E. J or den address of the church he serves and his own name 1 - "Majestic Sweetness,”Ot'eHa Satre Shafer and telephone number. He has had many telephonePoetry calls, letters, cards, and visitors in church as a re­ ”> God’s Lo\e,I.uvonne Morse sult. S Guidance.W in. II. Tibbetts Departments Such a project could be undertaken by a youthl.'i I ale News I Ionic Missions “Intolerance, however, is of two kinds. 11 Foreign Missions There is an intolerance which springs The N.Y.P.S. from a narrow mind and a cold heart, 1 The I.oral Churches and the deeds born of it are without jus­ Hi The Bible Lesson tice and without mercy; there is another 17 News of ihc Religious World intolerance, however, tvhich has its IS Hrnild Hook of the Month source in a genuine hatred of evil, and 1 lie Answer Corner ivith a passionate desire to see it over­ Volume 52, Number 1 FEBRUARY 27, 1963 Whole Number 2653 thrown and the good established . HERALD OF HOLINESS: W. T . Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Velma I . Knight, Office Editor; Dave Lawlor, Art Director. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Pow­ There are times when to be tolerant is ers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young, D. I. Vanderpool, Hugh C. B nner, V. H. to commit the unpardonable sin; when Lewis, General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts v.ill not be returned unless postage accompanies the materia!. Published every men, if they have anything of God in Wednesday, by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, M a n a g e r, them, mtist be intolerant; when the evils 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City. Missouri. Subscription price, $2.50 per y e a r , in advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Address all around them become such a menace that correspondence concerning subscriptions to: Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box men lose their sense of proportion in 527, Kansas City 41, Mo. Printed in U .S.A . their passionate desire to end them.”— Janies Burns. I • HERALD OF HOLINESS The poet-clergyman John Donne, who lived in the time of James I, has given a true picture of the distractions of the mind: “I throw myself down in my chamber and call in and invite God and His angels thither, PRAYER and when they are there I neglect God and His angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. 1 talk HINDRANCES on in the same posture of praying, eyes lifted up, knees bowed clown, as though I prayed to By JAMES A. HAMILTON God, and if God or His angels should ask Pastor, Morgantown, West Virginia me when 1 thought last of God in that prayer I cannot tell. Sometimes I find that I had forgot what I was about, but when I began to lorget it I cannot tell. A memory of yesterday’s WHEN the disciples asked Jesus, “Lord, teach us pleasures, a fear of tomorrow’s dangers, a straw (o pray" (Luke 11:1), they sounded the deepest under my knee, a noise in mine ear, a light in and most universal cry of the human heart. Men mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, in all ages have instinctively felt the need of a a chimera in my brain troubles me in my personal encounter with God. prayer.” Yet few Christians have an effective prayer life. 1 hese straying thoughts arc the interruptions There is no doubt that the greatest need in mod­ from within. But what about the interruptions that ern Christianity is an effective prayer life among are from without? These outside interruptions laity and ministers. Kagawa once said to a group can come from disturbing events or persons. If ol American Japanese Christians: “Your greatest these interruptions do come, don’t be upset by lack is that you do not know how to pray.” them, but use them. When Jesus crossed the lake E. Stanley Jones said, "If I had one gift, and only to get away from the multitude in order to pray, one gift, to leave to the Christian Church, I would the people ran around, and when He arrived for offer the gift of prayer." Prayer has a way of toning up the entire life of the one who prays.