Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Preacher's Magazine Church of the Nazarene 7-1-1948 Preacher's Magazine Volume 23 Number 04 D. Shelby Corlett E( ditor) Olivet Nazarene University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm Part of the Biblical Studies Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Missions and World Christianity Commons, and the Practical Theology Commons Recommended Citation Corlett, D. Shelby (Editor), "Preacher's Magazine Volume 23 Number 04" (1948). Preacher's Magazine. 238. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/238 This 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 Preacher's Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The PREACHERS MAGAZINE JULY-AUGUST, 1948 W e Would See Jesus! “ We would see Jesus,” said the men who came To worship at the feast so long ago; And still the cry is heard the world around. In every land wherever man is found; "W e would see Jesus, we would see and know.” "W e would see Jesus,” say the worldly throng; "W ould see Him in the lives of you who say You follow Him and worship at His feet, And spend your lives in service glad and sweet. And keep His blest commandments every day!” "W e would see Jesus!” Oh, the yearning cry Of countless thousands lost in misery! Then, blessed Master, dwell so close within That I shall never yield my heart to sin; So shall Thy beauty glow for all to see. y —K a t h r y n B l a c k b u r n P e c k , in Golden Windows, used by permission. D L Preackers W cc t c j c iz u ie V o l u m e 23 July-August, 1948 N u m b e r 4 CONTENTS We Would See Jesus! (poem ), Kathryn Blackburn Peck .........................................................1 Temptations Common to Preachers, Part Two, D. Shelby Corlett.........................................3 The Lord’s Supper, D. Shelby C orlett............................................................................................4 Series on "Eradication,” D. Shelby C orlett....................................................................................5 The Term Eradication, Stephen S. W hite........................................................................................8 The History and Significance of the Lord's Supper, L. A. Reed ................................................ 10 The Lord’s Supper as a Means of Grace, Fletcher Galloway.................................................12 Conducting the Communion Service, C. B. Strang.................................................................... 15 The Truth We Will Not Face, Paul S. R ees....................................................................................IT The Minister’s Call and Commission, George W. Ridout........................................................ 21 Forty Thieves—with Portfolio! H. M. von Stein........................................................................ 24 Some Advice to Ministers, F. Lincicotne........................................................................................25 Departments Searching Truths for Ministers ....................................................................................................... 27 Quotable Poetry ........................................................................................................................................28 (Including Poems and Hymns for use in the Communion Service, James Hudson) The Preacher’s Scrapbook ...................................................................................................................30 A Preaching Program, John E. Riley............................................................................................... 31 Sermon Outline, H. B. G arvin... ................................................................................................... 43 Sermon Outline, H. C. Hathcoat.........................................................................................................43 Communion Sermon Outlies ( Eric E. Jorden, Fletcher Spruce. G. E. Holmes. Ross W. Hayslip, Janies Hudson, W. M. Greathouse, L. B. Mathews, Norman M. Bloore, Vernon L. Wilcox, M. Archie Wilson, Raymond C. Kratzer.....................44 Evangelism ................................. ...........................................................................................................50 Illustrations, Buford Battin . ...........................................................................................................52 Book Notes. P. H. Lunn ...................................................................................................................... 54 A Study of Holiness from the Early Church Fathers, Chapters 4, 5, and 6; J. B. Galloway......................................................................................... 55 D. SHELBY CORLETT, D.D.. Editor Published bimonthly by the Nazarene Publishing House. 2923 Troost Avenue. Box 527, Kansas City 10, Missouri, maintained by and in the interest of the Church of the Naza­ rene. Subscription price: $1.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Kansas City, Mo. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized December 30. 1925. Address all contri­ butions to The Preacher’s Magazine, 2923 Troost Avenue, Box 527. Kansas City 10, Missouri. Temptations Common to Preachers D . Shelby Corlett, D .D ., Editor Part Two ECAUSE of the peculiar relationship a pathway of duty, but He does not assure preacher sustains to life and people, he them of that protection when they engage Bis subjected to a type of temptation not in acts of presumption or engage in a public common to all people, while at the same display of their faith and piety. To endeavor time he is not immune to the ordinary to use God’s promises for one’s own ad­ temptations of life. In the last issue of this vantage and advancement, to make a false periodical, we began a discussion of this use of the promises of God to secure public subject of temptations common to preachers attention, means to yield to this temptation. by drawing somewhat of a parallel be­ Jesus preferred to get His hearing and to tween the three temptations of Jesus in the gain the attention of the people on lines wilderness to the present-day temptations entirely different from these suggested by of ministers; at least we found in them Satan; He would continue upon the basis something that was indicative of the nature of glorifying the Father in all things, in of the temptations to which preachers are seeking and doing only His will. subjected. In that discussion we treated the first temptation as an appeal to selfish­ This temptation, as it is related to the ness, to use power, position, and privileges preacher, is based upon an appeal to vanity, for wrong and selfish ends. We shall now the desire to shine, to get a large hearing study the other temptations, applying their at whatever cost it may require; an appeal principles to the ministerial life. to use sensational and spectacular methods at the expense of true spiritual principles. H o w S h a l l W e G e t a H e a r in g ? No doubt Paul had something of this na­ The second temptation of Jesus (as re­ ture in mind when he wrote about those corded by Matthew) is somewhat based “which glory in appearance, and not in upon His reply to Satan’s first appeal. Jesus heart” (II Cor. 5:12). replied by using the Word of God, “It is There are certain principles upon which written.” Satan, taking advantage of Jesus’ all spiritual activity is based. These are the confidence in God and in His Word, makes principles which were taught and exempli­ his appeal by use of that Word. The scene fied by Jesus in His life: sincerity, unselfish­ is the pinnacle of the temple. The appeal ness, righteousness, sacrificial living, seek­ is to make a display of His confidence and ing always to glorify God and not to glorify reliance upon God by casting himself down self, and the highest type of devotion to from that pinnacle, thus gaining the ap­ God. Any appeal to deviate from these proval of the crowd by a miraculous dis­ true principles of spiritual life is the temp­ play of His confidence in God’s Word, tation of Satan. which Satan quotes thus: “For it is writ­ Preachers yield to this temptation when ten, He shall give his angels charge con­ they make merchandise of their ministerial cerning thee: and in their hands they shall position; when they resort to questionable bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash methods, unethical conduct, and deceitful thy foot against a stone.” practices to increase their popularity with In other words, Satan seems to say, “If the public and with the church and its You have such confidence in the Word of officials, or to gain a hearing. Preachers God as to live by it instead of making have been known to be self-seeking to gain bread out of stones, make a display of it; the attention of the public, or to secure calls show the crowd how much confidence You to larger churches; to employ all methods have in God.” It was an appeal to pre­ available, questionable and otherwise, to sumption, to tempt God, as Jesus indicated gain the attention of the public and to fill in His reply: “ It is written again, Thou their auditoriums with people. shalt