Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today Church of the Nazarene 11-10-1965 Herald of Holiness Volume 54 Number 38 (1965) 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 54 Number 38 (1965)" (1965). Herald of Holiness/Holiness Today. 553. https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/553 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]. November 10, 1965 Church of the Nazarene *f!IC WfJ H[5f * THE PHARISEES had developed an amazing ability to condemn other peo­ ple. They were strict in matters of re­ A ligion. In their system of religion they \ had passed through a period of proba­ tion. They had successfully completed the certain examinations. Having done so, yy they felt superior. They actually “de­ spised others” who had not reached this high standard of performance. CAPACIT Jesus repeatedly warned His dis­ ciples about the temper and spirit of the Pharisees. In the Sermon on the Mount, He specifically stated the char­ acteristics of the citizens of His king­ TO dom. He required an uncritical temper. His standard and command are this: “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1). CONDEMN The tragedy of the Pharisees was the fact that they became critical with regard to others and hypocritical with regard to themselves. Critical and hypocritical—the two denounced their moral hollowness! So in the lives of Christ’s followers there must be the spiritual quality of love. Growth in grace is always accom­ V JSW- General panied by deep humility. Progress in S uperintenden t spiritual things is always manifested Coulter by a charitable spirit toward others. “Judge not.” “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye?’’ “Cast out first the beam out of thine often go hand in hand! Exacting and own eye.” demanding of others, but lax and un­ Spirituality does not consist of the scrupulous in examining oneself! capacity to condemn—but rather, the Jesus did not denounce the high capacity to discern, to forgive, to help, standards of the Pharisees. But He and to love. Was Paul Carlson A Martyr by Choice? ON MEDICAL Hamlm. missions By HOWARD HAMLIN, M.D. Medical Missionary IT IS ONE HOUR AFTER MIDNIGHT Sunday. door: The dying coals in the fireplace probe my numbed • an infant with tetanus (lockjaw)—the product feet with friendly fingers of warmth. I am munch­ probably ol the cow dung smeared on the umbilical ing gratefully as I begin to eat the Saran-wrapped cord at birth seven days previously; cold chicken, cheese, and apple pie which Maxine • a strangulated hernia, requiring immediate has thoughtfully arranged lor me. bowel resection; Certainly it is not the optimum time for writing, • a man with multiple stab wounds; but I didn’t plan it that way. I had sat down at my • .1 woman who had been hit on the head with desk immediately after Sunday lunch to write the an iron bar; article about medical missions which had been re­ • a British soldier, struck by a car, unconscious quested several months ago. Its publication date and dying; was to coincide with the anniversary of Dr. Paul • a sucking stab wound of the chest with a lung Carlson's martyrdom in the Congo. whic h required immediate suture; But before I could write a line, the jangle of the • a European man assaulted and stabbed; phone tit my elbow broke into my review of the • and a score of others with varying complaints accounts ol that ironic Congo massacre. It was the nurse on duty calling me to the hospital to see Using the open end of his Landrover as a medi­ emergency patients. From that moment until the cine shelf, Dr. Howard Hamlin treats hundreds midnight watch a continuous stream of the mangled of African hushveld patients, some of which are and the ill poured through the reception room pictured helow. who needed care between the cases in the Decision Magazine, Feb., 1965) he w’rote: operating theater. “Pray that through the trials we face # # # # * here we may be an effective witness for And now, to my article. What could Christ, and that through the trials being I write which would characterize medi­ faced we may see growth in the Con­ cal missions? What appropriate eulogy golese church. [They] . do not could I add to the thousands already realize that in this century more people offered to the martyred Paul Carlson? have died for Christ than in the early Suddenly “the penny fell”—my article centuries, which we think of as the had been in the making all afternoon davs of the martyrs.” and evening. The day had written a poignant page in the autobiography of medical missions. The Landrover was bouncing over the But first I needed to define or identify washboard roads of the Swaziland deep my subject. What is “Medical Mis­ bushveld. Mv Sw’azi driver and I were sions”? What characteristic does the on a double mission: to give medical medical missionary career have which evidence in a border police post con­ correctly sets it apart from other medi­ cerning a murder, and to visit one of cal practices? Is there any basic differ­ our farthest dispensaries. ence between my day here and that of The shade of a scrubby tree forms a Suddenly my driver broke into the thousands of busy medical doctors in canopy for the open-air dispensary as steady staccato of the wheels with his Chicago, New Orleans, Toronto, or Dr. Hamlin treats an ill patient. Two halting English, “Docktela, I believe you Glasgow’? African medical aides are nearby. must be like Jesus!” • Long hours, very little personal I started with the impact of his words freedom to pursue hobbies, greet the probably is: and wanted to remonstrate emphati­ family, or eat a home-cooked meal; The divine compulsion (or call) to cally, “No! No! Don’t even say such 9 a steady stream of “nuisance cases,” devote one’s life to a people who other­ a thing. Please don’t compare me to of inconsequential problems, interspersed wise would have no chance for spiritual my blessed Lord!” with really needy ones; or physical health. But he continued without a pause, 9 chronic fatigue- It was this divine compulsion which “Two vears ago mv mother was suffer­ all of these seem to be endemic first took Paul Carlson to the rain for­ ing from a very large tumor in her for medical practice anywhere in the ests of the Congo in 1961 for a five- abdomen. She could not work; she world. month short term of service. It was the could onlv drag about painfully from However, there are some differ­ desperate need of the people and the place to place. Then you removed the ences: thumb of God in his back that took him tumor and now she is healthy and The medical missionary— back again in 1963. And it was this happv again. She runs at her work like 9 receives less monetary remunera­ same divine compulsion which made a voting girl. This is the picture I tion; him return to his patients in the face have in mind of what Jesus did when 9 has usually more primitive working of desperate danger. He was on earth. He healed the sick.” environment and equipment; The rains have washed the blood Then it was clear—the eulogy was not 9 is an intruder into another man’s stains from Lumumba square in a city for me personally. It was a vote for country, a stranger to the customs and called Stanleyville, in a country called medical missions—for the compassionate mores of his adopted people—and for the Congo; but the work which Or. ministries. that reason is often resented. Carlson founded lives on as others with To this simple, uncluttered mind was But these are marginal differences; that same burning heart nurture it. equated what had happened to his they are quantitative rather than quali­ This is medical missions. Dr. Carlson mother with the great heart of com­ tative. was not a martyr by choice. He wanted passion of Jesus, who coidd not pass by One cannot talk accurately even about to live and continue the work which human suffering and do nothing about the spiritual emphasis of the two ca­ possessed his very being. But he cour­ it. reers; for to the Christian medical doc­ ageously faced martyrdom rather than “Now when the sun was setting, all tor, the spiritual welfare of his patients give up the work which he felt was they that had any sick with divers is his first concern, be he in Los Angeles God’s delegated responsibility to him. diseases brought them unto him; and or Nairobi. In his last message home before his cap­ he laid his hands on every one of them, If there is a basic difference, then it ture in September, 1964 (as reported in and healed them” (Luke 4:40) . Twelve months later Dr. Howard Hamlin, a About This Issue . Nazarene medical missionary also in Africa, Last November 24 a hail of bullets from Con­ comments on the philosophy which he feels led golese rebel guns cut down a missionary doctor.