Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 7-18-1962 Herald of Holiness Volume 51 Number 21 (1962) 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 51 Number 21 (1962)" (1962). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 588. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/588 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]. -■ * ~ * i£ § 3 $**S! m -JS* Village Street Scene By W. T. PURKISER know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh "Shall He Find Faith?" as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, That the Lord Jesus Christ will personally re­ Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh turn to this earth is the 'most certain fact about upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; the future God has given us to know. Many of and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are the details are half-revealed and half-concealed. not in darkness, that that day should overtake you The day and the hour are marked on God’s calen­ as a thief” (I Thessalonians 5:2-4) . When Jesus dar alone. But of the fact itself there is no ques­ comes again, He will find a great host wrho love tion. It will not be long delayed. It may be very and wait for His appearing. soon. In its context, “the faith” may well be the kind The real question does not concern the certainty of faith that persists in prayer until the answer of Christ’s coming. The real question is one He comes. The Lord was talking about the widow and himself asked at the conclusion of a great parable the unjust judge. If for no other reason than that on prayer: “When the Son of man cometh, shall she troubled him by her frequent coming, the man he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8) It is even would give her what she asked. If an unworthy more definite in the original: “But when the Son and unscrupulous magistrate would do this, “Shall of man comes, will he find the faith on the earth?” not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and It is right to consider what kind of faith is meant night unto him, though he bear long with them? by the phrase “the faith.” It is not the Christian I tell you that he will avenge them speedily” (Luke faith in general, for Jesus clearly promised that He 18:7-8). would found His Church on a God-inspired rock Let’s be honest and admit that there isn’t any of faith in His deity, and that the gates of hell too much of that kind of faith around today. In should not prevail against it. The Church, which so much of what we pray for, we give up too easily is His body and bride, will be found on earth un­ if the answer does not come soon. “Praying it til and when He comes. through” and “taking it by the job” are not as Some have felt that “the faith” was the un­ common with any of us as they ought to be and as shakable confidence in the certainty of His second we wish they were. coming. But this, too, is assured. “For yourselves But when we think how vital faith is in all our relationships with God, we come to see more clearly the reason for our Lord’s concern. Faith is an essential part of all personal fellowship. No home, for example, can be happy if the members of the family cannot trust each other. Suspicion and doubt destroy the very basis on which our liv­ ing and working together must be built. The Cover . The faith by which we are delivered from sin The work of the Church and sanctified wholly is a confident dependence of the Nazarene in Peru on the trustworthiness of God. “If we confess our dates back to 1917 and sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins” the work of Rev. and Mrs. Roger Winans, who even prior to that (I John 1:9). “And the very God of peace sanctify date had been laboring there as colporteurs you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and for the American Bible Society. The Winanses soul and body be preserved blameless unto the later opened a pioneer work among the Agua- runa Indians in the Andes Mountains, as well coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he as laying foundations for our future work in that calleth you, who also will do it” (I Thessa­ the lowlands. Peru is a country with 10 million lonians 5:23-24). inhabitants. The Church of the Nazarene has 15 missionaries and 34 national workers on the And it is by faith that we live from day to day. Peruvian field, serving a total of 115 churches “The just shall live by faith,” is a note often and preaching points. Members and proba­ tioners number 2,374, with 5,179 enrolled in sounded in the Word of God. The faith by which Sunday school. Rev. Clyde Golliher is the we live must be a growing faith. It must face new field superintendent. challenges unafraid. It must tackle new' and more difficult tasks in the name of the Lord. It must come to grips with great forces of entrenched evil (Please turn to page 12’ TOO MANY have overworked the idea Concerning the ignominy and shame that Jesus was “a man of sorrows, and that was His at Calvary, the Word points acquainted with grief,” and make it out that Jesus despised the shame in descriptive of His total life and per­ view of the triumphant joy that was to sonality. Actually these words are not be His when His assignment was com­ an exhaustive description of Him; they pleted. In similar vein, the writer in the indicate the depth of His suffering at Book of Hebrews records that Moses pre­ Calvary in bringing about our redemp­ ferred the persecution that comes to tion. Even in His darkest hour the God’s people rather than the temporary, Master proclaimed with triumph, “I have sinful pleasure that accompanies sin. overcome the world.” But he too had a long-range view and The inspired writer, in the Book of was counting on the final reward of Hebrews, wrote clearly on this when he obedient service. related Jesus’ love of righteousness and Have we been tempted lately to de­ hatred of wickedness to gladness of heart spair because of piled-up circumstances rather than to a personal glumness or beyond our control? Does dejection sadness. He wrote, “Thou hast loved overwhelm us at times like the waves righteousness, and hated iniquity; there­ of an incoming tide? Arc we tempted fore God, even thy God, hath anointed to feel that these biting distresses may thee with the oil of gladness above thy yet separate us from the love of Christ? fellows” (1:9). In similar vein the Psalm­ ist wrote, “Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased” (4:7). The most casual reader of the Gospels General is convinced that Jesus’ life was radiant and overflowing. He was a conundrum Superintendent to the legalists and those who followed Yonni) ceremonial religion. Hear them com­ plain bitterly about Him, “This man re- ceiveth sinners, and eateth with them.” But this inner gladness that accompanied If so, this is a good hour to hold a solilo­ Jesus came as a result of spiritual fel­ quy with our own heart and adopt the lowship and was born of obedience to language of the Psalmist, “Why art thou the Father’s will. The same irrepressible cast down, O my soul? and why art thou spiritual overflow is afforded us today disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for through faith, by the power of the in­ I shall yet praise him for the help of his dwelling Spirit. His inner presence also countenance.” speaks of the ultimate triumph of God’s The believing heart is a glad heart to­ truth and righteousness even in a sinful day; the sullen heart is guilty of emo­ world. tional unbelief. JULY 18, 1902 • (403) 3 Contents . General Articles U-3 Editorials 4 “Give Us . Our Daily Bread,” Brian L. Farmer a “Let a Man Examine Himself,” IT. D. McGraw Telegram . (i He Prayed Up a Storm! Delmar Staller Melrose, Massachusetts—New Eng­ 7 As Is . So Are, Ruth Teastlale land District Assembly, held June 20 8 T he Christian’s Sunrise, Donald K. Ballard and 21, at the College Church on !l Buried to Blossom, Clayton D. Bailey campus of Eastern Nazarene College, Wollaston, Massachusetts, with Dr. 10 Invalids or Builders? A. J. Fount Samuel Young presiding. Rev. Fletch­ Poetry er Spruce welcomed to hearts of New 11 Intercession for Sanctification, Kenneth log I England people as new district super­ Departments intendent, receiving 152 votes of 154 13 Evangelism cast.