OF HOLY TESTIMONYTHE SCRIPTURES make very clear the privilege and power and the necessity of verbal testimony on the part of God’s children.

Of course, a holy life is indispensable. To fail at this point is to neutralize the testimony. We must be holy in all man­ner of conversation and living; but a holy life, according to the Scriptures, is not enough. The redeemed of the Lord must say so. Verbal testimony to both the saving and sanctifying grace of God must accompany and complement a holy life.

Scriptural illustrations are abundant even in the Old Testament. David, the sweet singer of Israel, said: “The spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue” (II Samuel 23:1-2).

And again, “Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad” (Psalms 126:2-3).

The Psalmist’s invitation was, “Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue” (Psalms 66:16-17).

This same truth is taught everywhere in the New Testament. It is stated in Matthew 10:32-33 and again in Mark 8:38. And on one occasion Christ in a direct exhortation said: “Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, hut saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. And

he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did m arvel” (Mark 5:19-20).

On the Day of Pentecost the promise was, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem , and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

In Romans 10:10 the apostle very pointedly states the necessity of verbal testimony. “For with the heart man be- lieveth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salva­tion.”

In the building of strong Christian character the faith of the heart and the confession of the mouth are like Siamese twins; they must both live or both die

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together. The outward conduct can never be a substitute for the verbal tes­timony, for it cannot report the spiritual work wrought in the heart. This verbal testimony scripturally given does make high profession, but it attributes nothing to self, and gives all the glory to Christ. Happy, victorious, verbal testi­mony backed up by a holy life is God’s method of reaching a godless generation.

A HERALDPERSO N A L-EXPERIEN CE FEA TU RE

THANK A

By JA M ES BARTZ, Pastor, Lander, Wyoming

On a good horse—Montana ranch days.

R O D E O —dust—ex­citement—a c t io n — —and through all of it—ego! I loved it! W ild sport for rugged men, and self! My name over

the speaker system, all eyes on bull—and clown. Everyone cheers the clown!! My name—watching me! The old Jim Bartz!

The statement has been made many times, “A long way from an arena to the pulpit.” One of my former contesting friends asked, “W hen did you see the light?” My answer, “One night in my sleep, an angel” . . . but I ’m getting ahead of myself.

There was the Voice. It seems now as if there always had been. It came to me once when I was just a boy on a farm driving a team of horses. Again when I was a teen-ager employed in a riding acad­emy in Illinois; a ranch in Montana; armed ser­vices basic training in Kentucky; service in Eng­land, France, Germany, and Austria.

The Voice was recurrent in good times and bad, in peacetime or on the battlefield. Thank You, Lord—for the Voice. He was with me in an air­plane and when I was in the deepest mines in Butte, Montana. (When one is running he will go anywhere!) I ’m so glad for the truth of Psalms 139!

I came in contact with the Church of the Naza- rene after my return from World W ar II . My fian­cee attended our Billings, Montana, church with her mother. I went along with her once before we were married and they seemed like a friendly, sensi­ble people. (I had been warned in advance to ex­pect the unordinary from them.)

After marriage, we moved to Sidney, where I was employed by the Montana Livestock Commission as an inspector of cattle brands. Here I first got

saved because a group of Nazarenes held out in prayer and faithful visitation in our behalf. It was glorious and I felt called—to what I did not know.

I inquired of God in prayer, and that very night He sent an angel, who sat on the foot of my bed. His light was so dazzling I could not look directly upon Him. He told me I was to preach the gospel. My only regret now is that, unlike Paul, I was not true to that heavenly vision. Due to circumstances and my own folly, I backslid, and was in that state for some time, fighting the call to preach. T h e Voice came again.

The Cover . . .The M ackinac Bridge, built at a cost of $100 million, is a five-m ile span which connects M ichigan’s upper peninsula with the mainland. The bridge is the third longest suspension bridge in the world. In addition to tieing the state together, the bridge also links the work of the C hurch of the N azarene on the M ichigan District, which is composed of the w estern part of the m ainland and the eastern half of the upper peninsula. The M ichigan District has 105 active churches and m ore than 7,000 m em bers. T he Sunday school enrollm ent is m ore than 16,000. T he district during the past year raised approximately $1.4 million. Dr. F red J . Hawk is the district superintendent.

Volume 54, Number 30 SEPTEM BER 15, 1965 Whole Number 2786 HERALD OF HOLINESS: W . T. Purkiser, Editor in Chief; Elden Rawlings, Managing Editor; Velma I . Knight, Office Editor; B ill Lakey, Staff A rtist. Contributing Editors: Hardy C. Powers, G. B. Williamson, Samuel Young,Hugh C. Benner, V. H. Lewis, George Coulter, General Superintendents, Church of the Nazarene. Unsolicited manuscripts w ill not be returned unless postage accompanies the material. Opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Church of the Nazarene. Published every Wednesday, by the NAZARENE PUBLISHING HOUSE, M. A. Lunn, Manager, 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri. Subscription price, $3.00 per year, in advance. Second-class postage paid at Kansas City, Missouri. Address all correspondence concerning subscrip­tions to: Nazarene Publishing House, P.O. Box 527, Kansas City, Mo. 64141. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Send us your new address, including " Z IP '' code, as well as the old address, and enclose a label from a recent copy. Printed in U .S .A . PHOTO CRED ITS: Cover, Michigan Tourist Council, Lansing, Mich.; page 15, bottom, Jack and B ill Levy, Homestead, F la .; page 16, bottom, Dave Lawlor.

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After numerous jobs, each a different kind of work in which I grew increasingly dissatisfied, and after having returned to rodeo, 1 was reclaimed un­der the anointed ministry of my good friend and then pastor, Mendal Collins. After some time the urgency of the (till to the ministry returned and I promised God, if He would give me a sign that He could still use me, I'd try to prepare myself for fitting service. He gave me such a sign in the form of souls at the altar when I preached in our Butte church soon after.

I hadn’t finished high school (it didn't seem too important during the war years) , but Rev. A. L. McQuay, my wonderful district superintendent, told me I could go to Northwest Na/arene College and encouraged me to write for admittance. It is all a wonderful dream from there.

College with little money and a wife and four children, despite the fact of no high school diploma. Dedicated, understanding professors. T h e help of the Holy Spirit. T h e encouragement of Christian friends. And the Voice! Our needs were many but always God saw to it that necessities were supplied and finances stretched so as to be ade­quate. I finished the academic requirements for ordination, and the district superintendent gave me a church. God saw me through a two-year pas­torate there and into the fifth year of my present tenure. Through four years as district N.Y.P.S. president, and the wonderful abiding of the voice of the Holy Spirit of God leading, opening doors, providing thrills, encouraging, saying, “This is the way, walk ye in it."

I am sure that the dust of a rodeo arena, the swelter of a copper mine, the din of a life-and-death struggle in war, all gave me some experience—but I am glad that God persisted and prevailed. I will never be able to repay what He has done for me and my family, though I am determined to burn out for Him. “Thank You, Lord, for the wooing, directing Voice that changed my life, my appetites, my very self—and finally my destiny.”

The Jam es Bartz family. Back, Pam, Connie, and Diane. Front, Mrs. Thelm a Bartz, Tim, and Rev. Jim .

LOYALTYIN THE DAYS OF

MR. M.By Evangelist PA U L MARTIN

MR. M. I N T R I G U E S ME. And I like him. Ziba, that intrepid self-made farmer, got away with the burros, so Mephibosheth had no way to join David in retreat before Absalom. He couldn’t march; he was lame in both feet. And to add to his problem, Ziba, whose idea of truthfulness was based on ex­pediency, gave David a funny answ'er about Mr. M.

But in all of this confusion and disappointment, Mr. M. found a way to show' the invader, Absalom, and the weak-hearted who remained, on whose side he was! “And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed hit feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes from the day the king departed until the day ht came again in peace” (II Samuel 19:24) . In the language of his time, he found a way to show hi: loyalty. At first glance, David saw' Mr. M.’s protest This was no quick work of a make-up artist. Hi had been a man in mourning from the dav Davit, left.

I c;m look loyal. If common knowledge tells me that a certain aspect of my appearance tells others that 1 am of Christ, I will want to do that. First impressions are not always valid, but they are im­portant. So when first we meet, I want them to say, “He’s a Christian.”

I can talk “loyalty.” Uncertainty, a little ques­tion mark, hesitancy—these hardly speak of real support. Many think intelligence is expressed in vagueness, compromise, and postponement. But when you really know, and really care, and really love, you sound very certain.

1 can trust my Lord and my church. This is not blintl support. It is love support. Without Him I would be hopeless, lost, and perhaps in hell. The church patiently told me of Jesus, showed me the spirit of Jesus, and pointed to a place of prayer. Now I have the privilege of making my church effective, of keeping its message clear, its spirit warm and kind. Since I can help plan, help pray, help work—I can trust the church, and encourage others to trust it. Love demands it!

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ONE DAY A V I O L I N I S T Tvno" played each week on a nationwide broadcast received a letter from an old mountaineer who lived back in the hills. It contained a request: “I've got an old fiddle. I t ’s out of tune and I don’t have anything to tune it to. Next time you play, would you mind sounding me a good, strong A } ”

The letter appealed to the musician, and on his next broadcast, before he played, he made this announcement: “Old-timer, I got your letter. Get your old fiddle out. Before I start my program I am going to sound for you a good, strong A. ’’

Paul, the peerless professor of the Early Church, applauds his prize pupils at Thessalonica for sounding a good, strong A. They were living such radiant lives that their witness rang clear to all with whom they came in contact.

In fact, the appreciative apostle commends their performance by dting them as pattern believers, the kind he would urge others to copy. So true was their testimony that Paul writes: “You have become a sort of sounding board from which the Word of the Lord has rung out, not only in Macedonia and Achaia but everywhere that the story of your faith in God has become known” (I Thessalonians 1:8, Phillips*). T h e ir inner Ghristlikeness was the sounding board ing the true tones of their faith outward.

A sounding board is an indispensable part of a piano. It solid piece of wood located back of the strings inside the i producing a true tone by reflecting the sound of the notes as t keys are struck and the strings within vibrate. I f the sounding board develops the slightest crack, the quality of the notes is affected. A piano must be kept in tune, and its sounding board must be intact, if it is to produce pleasing music. T h e sounding board is internal, but it dictates the tone heard without. It is hidden from view. It does not advertise its merits, but it is essential to the perfect performance of the instrument.

Too many professing Christians have a cracked sounding board! They just don't ring true. T h e tone of their lives doesn’t harmonize with the testimony of their lips. They sound flat. T h e ir performance is short of their profession. T h e need of our turbulent world today is for Christians who ring so true that others may be led to Christ by their godly example.

The dominant chords that produced a clear ring in the lives of the Thessalonian Christians were threefold: (1) “work of faith,”(2) “labour of love,” (3) and “patience of hope” (1 :3) . G. Campbell Morgan observes that each of these cardinal Christian graces is more fully defined in verses 9 and 10: (1) F a i t h —"ye turned to God from idols,” (2) I . ov c—"to serve the living and true God,” and (3) H o p e — “and to wait for his Son from heaven.”

Paul mentions a m a jo r t he me of his gospel preaching. T h e Christians at Thessalonica had experienced more than a synthetic ialvation. It was thorough and went deep enough to change their lives completely: “For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance”

ByPastor, Ancon

•From the NEW TESTAM EN T IN MODERN ENGLISH, © J . B. Phillips, 1958. Used by permission of The Macmillan Company.

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(I Thessalonians 1 :5). Paul always insisted on this.Could it be that the Modern Church has opened

the door to too many “word only” Christians? Paul was careful to demand a testimony “in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.” Cracks such as worldliness, faithlessness, and fruitlessness will ultimately produce defective tones from the sounding board of the “word only” Christian.

Paul’s final point of praise for the Thessalonians was a tribute to the projecting power of their wit­ness. It extended beyond the borders of their own communities, reaching “everywhere that the story of your faith in God has become known” (v. 8, Phillips) . Do our lives reverberate fact or fiction?

If we ring true, there will be a reverberating echo that will resound triumphantly under any circum­stances. It will touch people we do not even know. The Thessalonians did, for their conduct was con­vincing those beyond their conscious influence. Not that they went everywhere preaching, but that their lives rang out a genuine sound.

Jenny Lind, the celebrated operatic soprano, was known as the “Swedish Nightingale.” It was said to be her custom, before singing in any concert, to go to a kind of upper room offstage. After dismissing her secretary and maid, and locking the door against all visitors, she would stand resolutely alone in the middle of the floor and lift her voice to strike a certain note. She would listen intently as the tone filled the room. Then, closing her eyes, she would pray, “Master, Master, let me ring true tonight.” And, invariably, as she opened the door to appear before her audience, she felt the mystical presence of Christ preceding her across the platform. To a close friend she once confided, “Sometimes I hesi­tated and could not sing on the instant, because I was waiting for Him to smile and say, ‘It’s all right. Go ahead, Jenny.’ ” And individuals who heard her sing declared that when those wonderful tones came ringing out, strong and true, it was as though her audience were witnessing the transformation of a human voice into that of an angelic messenger come from God.

“O God, help me to ring true! May I often enter the closed room of prayer to check the tone of my testimony. Give me Thy smile of approval, so the effect of my influence upon others will be a rhap­sody of righteousness. Grant that I may ring true before others here, that I may reign triumphantly with Thee hereafter. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

By WALTER W. SMITH 'Pastor, Beloit, Wisconsin

RECEN TLY the weather services of our area sent out warnings of the possibility of an approaching tornado. The men who have made a study of weather knew that conditions were present in the heavy thunder clouds to make a tornado. As the dark storm clouds gathered and moved nearer to us, it looked as if at any moment the dreaded tor­nado could swoop down and bring its powerful wrath to our community.

The civil defense men were alerted; all police and firemen were called to duty. The radio stations kept us up-to-date on the activity of the approach­ing storm. The police began calling out warnings through the loudspeakers in their cars, for people to prepare for the storm. Then came the cry to “take cover”—a funnel cloud had been sighted!

Many folks wisely sought cover in their base­ments or in areas where the most protection could be found. Still there were people who paid no attention to the warnings, and went about their business as usual, seeming to pay no heed. A local radio announcer was amazed at the number of people in the downtown area who failed to make any effort to seek protection—too busy going about their business or unconcerned even for their own safety.

The apathy of these folks graphically portrays the picture of many today who have been warned, preached to, and pleaded with, to prepare their hearts for the soon-coming wrath of God. Yet they continue on in their sinful paths as though they will somehow escape the great and terrible day of the Lord. The Bible says: “As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Romans 14:11- 12).

We appreciated the good work of our civil de­fense group and all others who worked together to alert us of the possible danger ahead from a tor­nado. True, no tornado came that day, and some may laugh at those who made every effort to pro­tect themselves and their loved ones. Those who laugh are much like the ones who say, “Aw, preach­ers have been preaching the soon coming of Christ and the great day of His wrath too long for me to believe it.”

' B u t now in Chr i st J e s u s y e w h o s o m e ­t im es ire, -.1 f a r o f f a r e m a d e nigh hy theb lo o d o f Christ . For h e is o u r p e a c e , w h o hath m a d e hath one . a n d hath b r o k e n d o w n the m id d l e wal l o f par t i t ion b e ­tw ee n us . . . F o r through h im wi both h a r e ac ce s s hy o n e Sp i r i t uv.to tin F a ­ther" ( E p h e s i a n s 1 Id- lSi .

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No matter what men may say or do, they cannot change the facts of God's Word. This world is rapidly moving toward its final day. Christ's hand of love, protection, and mercy will soon be lifted and the wrath of God be rev ealed. T h e day is soon coming that men shall cry for the rocks and moun­tains to fall upon them to hide them from the face

of Him “that sitteth on the throne” (Revelation 6 :16).

Let each one seek the only cover and protection that can be found for that day. Seek the forgive­ness of Christ for sin, and believe in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to cleanse away sin. Then begin a new life today, one that is dedicated to serving Jesus Christ.

The Sin of MaterialismBy Evangelist J . J . STEELE

Major Alexi Trifo loff of the Bulgarian army marched his soldiers to the summit of a hill, where he took advantage of the view of Sofia to deliver a Communist lecture.

"Comrade soldiers,” he said, “do you see Sofia?” "We see it.”“Do you see the Cathedral of Alexander Nevski?” “We do.”"Do you see the mausoleum of the leader and

teacher of the Bulgarian people?”"We do.”“And do you see God, comrade soldiers?”“We do not see Him, Comrade M ajor.”“Well, then, this means, comrades, that there is

no God. W hat cannot be seen does not exist. Sofia, the church of Alexander Nevski, the mausoleum— they are all there. You have not seen God; there­fore He is not there. He does not exist. Under­stand?”

“We understand, Comrade M ajor.”Private Stoil Bojinoff from the village of Dra-

galevci requested permission from the major to say something. Comrade M ajor granted him permis­sion. Stoil Bojinoff stood at attention in front of the soldiers.

“Comrade soldiers, do you see our major, Com­rade Alexi Trifoloff?”

“We do see him.”“Do you see his head?”"Yes, we do.”“Do you see his boots, his sword strap?”“We do.”"Do you see his mind?”“No, we do not see it.”“So it is, comrade soldiers, as Comrade M ajor has

told us: ‘What one can see exists; what one cannot see does not exist.' Understand?”

“We understand, Comrade.”*All things created by God or made by man are

the extension of what existed previously in an in­visible state.

*As reported in "Guideposts" magazine.

An invisible idea existed in the mind of the architect before the great building became visible. T h e same is true of the thousands of manufactured items in a great market. Everything made by man existed first as an invisible idea; and yet no dis­sector’s scalpel ever has located an idea in the human brain.

Nothing visible in the universe “just happens.” Every massive planet and every tiny atom existed first as an invisible idea in the mind of the Creator. So that which is seen or seeable is but the extension of the mind of God.

This is completely contradictory to the material­ism of Communism. Matter is all that matters to the atheist. He denies the reality of pure thought and will not believe anything existed first as an idea. He says all existing things came into being by pure chance, a claim which is completely absurd.

Thought or idea is the first reality and exists in a completely invisible state. This makes the mind of the inventor far superior to what is invented. Thought is impossible without personality; and personality is always superior to substance. T h e person is or should be master of what is made. And if ever he bows down to what he has made, he becomes an idolater, a slave, a worshipper of the works of his own hands.

Nothing is more insulting to the author or creat­or than to make more of what is produced or created than of its producer or creator. T h e painter is greater than his paintings; the inventor, than his machine; the author, than his works. T o think otherwise is to exalt matter above personality, to make less of God than of His works.

T o entwine our affections around visible things, whether created by God or made by man, is to worship the creature rather than the Creator. It is to deny the existence of the Originator and Father, to idolize the created while we despise or deny the Creator.

This is the sin of materialism spoken of by Paul in Romans: “For the invisible things of him from

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the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are with­out excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thank­ful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing them­selves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen” (1:20-25).

\\ re are all affected more by materialism than we realize. This form of idolatry has permeated our generation, and we’re sucked into the massive movement and forced along with the tide, hardly realizing what is happening to us. Many are bow­ing down to the gods of materialism while pre­tending to worship the true God.

T h e drive for material affluence has destroyed treasures of the spirit far greater in value than all visible wealth. Family life suffers when both par­

ents must work to meet payments of household gadgets, cars, and expensive homes. T h e faraih altar, private devotions, public worship, and peace and quietness of soul are far too often sacrificed in the mad rush for more and more things that onli perish with the using.

It's the same old sin of idolatry, or evaluating the visible above the invisible. It is the worship of the substance, the created, rather than the Creator.

Never have the words of John been more needed than now: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (I John 2:15-16) .

T o overcome the pull of this materialistic age demands utmost care and concern for spiritual values. T h e invisible God and His kingdom ot never-perishing treasures are only for those who cultivate the rich realities of the unseen. T he Holy Spirit can make the hidden things of the Kingdom real and precious only to those who seek “first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness,” believing that “all these things shall be added” (Matthew 6 :33).

By A. A. E. BERG, Superintendent of Australia District

A FAMOUS G ER M A N F IE L D M A R SH A L of the last century said, “Everything in military history is judged by its results.”

If this statement be true in the realm of con­flict between nations, it certainly is also true in the realm of the spiritual, in that warfare between good and evil, between God and Satan.

In the successful deployment of the forces under his command, a tactically shrewd general is ever alert to guard against flank, as well as against frontal, attack, while maintaining aggressive war­fare where possible. His bane is, of course, to be forced by the enemy into warfare on two fronts, thus to divide and weaken the effectiveness of his combat armies.

Yet beyond this plight, there may exist a most insidious enemy, the traitor within the ranks, the spy, the soldier who has transferred his loyalties to the enemy, the “fifth column” in the country, the “quislings” of the underground movement, who undermine the nation and work incessantly

for its downfall. By their very nature these forces call for solid unity and purpose of heart for their ultimate defeat.

During World W ar II theorists expressed their views on how to effectively defeat this kind of enemy. But wisdom and loyalty ever have sug­gested that merely to rebuke, suppress, or counter­act such a foe is to fall hopelessly short in removing the cause. W hile the underground movement re­mained, subversion was ever at work. Devoted men in leadership had but one plan for the prob­lem—the complete destruction of such a foe. No quarter was to be given until that end was realized.

While there are undoubtedly enemies within the ranks of the Visible Church, the Lord Jesus Christ reminds us, “I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Mat­thew 16:18). T h e final triumph of the true Church, which is His body, is never in doubt, and that “great day” will declare it to be so.

But on the level of personal experience the

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battle also wages. All of God's children are, or have been, painfully aware of a traitorous element within the heart called in Scripture “the carnal mind,” which weakens and harasses their noblest efforts to keep true to Christ and maintain the blessedness of the justified state. Our fully ran­somed powers are needed to engage the devil on all fronts, for he attacks the Christian incessantly with cunning and ferocity peculiar to his own diabolical nature. How cruel an experience it is to attempt to wage such holy war and maintain clear victory, when there lurks within the heart an enemy who takes sides with the devil in tempta­tion’s hour!

Far too many of C od’s children have struggled hard to rebuke, suppress, and counteract this “car­nal mind,” which is “not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be,” this “old man,” “the body of sin,” only to continue in painful defeat at points where they long to triumph. They plead for deliverance and strive to maintain good grace, only to fail again and again until the cry, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24) is wrung from their anguished hearts.

With our hallelujahs we want to stress that there is complete deliverance at hand. This subtle enemy can and must be removed, destroyed, by the al­mighty Christ of Cod in response to the pressing plea of faith.

Back to our opening remarks. “Everything in military history is judged by its results.” And we must add, “Everything in professed Christian ex­perience is judged by its results.” Did not the Lord say, "T h e tree is known by his fruit” (Mat­thew 12:33) : and also, “Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up” (Matthew 15:13) ?

From the time of the apostles down through the centuries of church history to this very day, mul­titudes have professed and enjoyed the grace and blessing of a pure and undivided heart. Those who have sought and found Christ in His sin- purging baptism are legion. T h e nature and ex­perience of this grace may be judged by its results, in those whose lives bear the clear stamp of Christ- likeness of character. Thrill ing reality is the only worthwhile test.

Note these gracious provisions: “T h e very Cod of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray Cod your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blame­less unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it" (I Thessalonians 5 :23-24). “But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end ever­lasting life” (Romans 6 :2 2 ) .

The onus rests squarely upon each honest soul to seek for this inward freedom, this purity of heau, this state of undivided love and allegiance

to Christ until he is in full possession of the bless­ing. Nothing but the experience of a clean heart will rid the soul of its bitterness and fill it withsweetness of divine love.

Charles Wesley wrote, and multitudes have ex­ultantly sung:

Let others h u e their chains,For sin and Satan p l ead ,

And say f ro m sin’s remains They never can be freed.

Re jo i c e , rejoice icith me,We shal l f r om al l our sin be free.

NARROW(WAY)-

MINDEDBy CLAYTON BONAR

Pastor, F irst Church, Pocatello, Idaho

S T E R E O T Y P IN G is the error of the age. It is much easier to categorize in broad terms and by means of generalizations than to take a really criti­cal look at an idea, person, or philosophy. It is said that 5 percent of the people think, 15 percent think they think, and 80 percent would rather die than think.

For instance, this is the day of relativity. It is said that nothing can be known as an irrevocable cer­tainty. At the cost of respect, reputation, and fine reasoning, the Christian stands as an opponent against such false doctrine. Children sing, “I stand alone on the Word of God, the B-I-B-L-E.” Such should be the theme song of every child of God.

When the Christian begins speaking in terms of certainty in his relationship with Cod, he is often branded as being narrow-minded. Affronted by such brands, the temptation may arise to bend just a little in favor of concession and relativity.

T h e Christian will never become confused to the point of backsliding so long as he resists every attempt of the tempter to put question marks be­fore him. Question marks are the fishhooks of the devil to snare the believer.

Some feel that Christianity, like Santa Claus, is nothing more than living in the spirit of the thing, rather than possessing the Holy Spirit—Third Per­son of the Holy Trinity. Such heresy is to be shunned like the plague by each born-again Chris­tian.

Others have confused being narrow-way-minded

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with being narrow-minded. There is a difference! Without being brittle, the child of God must nevertheless he fully concerned about staying in the w ay—God’s way. Christ stated clearly, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me” (John 14:6). T h is means just what it says. There is only one avenue to eternal glory.

T h e Holy Scriptures are filled with precautions against taking the life “in Christ” too lightly. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able” (Luke 13:24). St. Paul tells the church at Philippi, as he tells every Christian, to “. . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13).

But why must the Christian live in such sobrie­

ty? Again one hears the Master say, “Because strai is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leaded unto life, and fewr there be that find it” (Matthet. 7 :14).

Yes, one can know Christ. He must live in the area of daring certainty while the rest of the world around says that nothing can be known absolutely,

T h e way of the world is wide and wicked. Tht way of the born-again is narrow', with certaintiesd a faith come alive in the person of Jesus Christ the only begotten of God.

Again, St. Paul w'ould rather stand by a few cer­tainties than all the doubts in the world when he says to Timothy, his son in the faith, “. . .for! know whom 1 have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I hat e committed unto him against that day” (II Tim othy 1:12).

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TrailsTrials andT h e words “trial” and “trail” are made up of

the same letters. T h e only difference is the trans­position of a and i. And the great lesson of life is that trials can be made into trails through the grace of God.

T h e Lord showed this to His prophet in the Old Testament: “And I will make all my moun­tains a way, and my highways shall be exalted” (Isaiah 49 :11).

This is the very last thing we wotdd ordinarily expect. Mountains are normally barriers to man’s travel. They are obstacles, sometimes all but im­passable. Yet God says two surprising things about the mountains. They are His, for He calls them “my mountains.” And He turns them into high­ways for pilgrim feet.

This does not happen by accident. Trials do not become trails by any magic of their own. T h e best translation of Romans 8:28 is not, “All things work together for good,” but “God works in all things for good.” God makes the difference.

T h e trials will come. This is one thing we can surely count on. God has never promised His people immunity from life. W hat He has prom­ised is that He will give us grace for adequacy in life.

Trials, to be sure, are not the special property of the people of God. They come to all alike. How we differ is in the way we meet them.

While we can’t always see it at the time, trials

are good for us. Peter said that the trial of faith was like the purging flame that frees the gold ot its dross. Only a tested and tried faith will "be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ” (I Peter 1:7).

T R IA L S B E C O M E T R A I L S because successful endurance strengthens the spiritual muscles. With­out exercise we should grow flabby and soft, unfit for the tasks of the day.

While perfection of motive is the gift of God in a moment of time, there is a perfection of character that comes only through times of testing. “T h e trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (James 1:3-4).

Nor does there seem to be any shortcut possible in this process. A mushroom may spring up over­night. An oak wins rootage and sturdy growth only with the struggle of the years.

There are no trails without trials. T h e path that leads to life is a narrow way reached through a small gate. Those who seek only flowery beds of ease do not travel a difficult way.

When trials come, let us not despair and think ourselves forsaken. Let us rather look for the hand of God reversing the a and the i and turning our trials into trails. “I will make all my mountains a way,” He says, “and my highways shall be ex­alted.”

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Priming Pumps on Dry WellsWells and pumps have always had a certain fas­

cination lor a small-town boy. I am very rarely able to pass an old-fashioned pump without giving the handle a try, “just to see." Sometimes the ef­fort is rewarded with water from the spout. More often it is not.

Some pumps, I have learned, are self-priming. That is, they are so built that the plunger is always sealed and creates the conditions that lift the water from the well to the surface.

Other pumps have to be primed. T o get results, one must pour some water into them in order to provide the seal and create the vacuum that does the work.

So “pump priming" has become a rather com­mon expression for any kind of action that is designed to produce greater results in kind. We are particularly familiar with it these days in the use of public money to “stimulate the growth" of the economy.

But there is also such a thing as “spiritual pump- priming." Some people are self-priming reli­giously. T o change the figure, they have spiritual self-starters. T h e ir Christian lives have enough dy­namic to work without pressures from the outside.

For many more, however, the pump has to be primed. Since they lack self-starters, it takes a “crank” or a push to get them going. T o use Henry Hitt Crane’s comparison, they respond to outside conditions like a thermometer responds to the temperature of the air, not like a ther­mostat that controls the temperature of the air.

BUT T H E R E A R E A M U L T I T U D E of good people who cannot seem to work even when they are primed. For it really doesn't do much good to prime the pumps on dry wells.

Wells are usually dry because they are too shal­low. They do not get down deep enough to tap the underground flow.

That ours is a shallow age is beyond the need for proof. Education is shallow. Homelife is shal­low. Morals are shallow. Even religion is shallow. Far too many people tend to live on the surface of life without depth and stability.

But shallow people miss so very much. T h e dependable sources of happiness lie deep. God rarely sprinkles His resources and His treasures on the surface of the ground. Fie buries them deep in the earth, where they are found only by those who are willing to dig.

So it is with the gifts of grace. They are given to those who not only ask, but who also seek, and knock. T h e kingdom of Heaven is such that only the desperately earnest find its highest values.

Before the pump will work, there must be water in the well. So very much preaching and religious exhortation is trying to prime the pump on dry

“Every man needs to be born again. Only the power of Christ can work such a miracle. Christ is the secret of the new man. Therefore, ‘if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new .’ ”

w'ells. So very many promotional plans, drives, and devices fail because it is futile to prime the pump on a dry well.

What is needed is to drill deeper. Let the drill bit of God’s truth, activated by His mighty Spirit, go down through the accumulated trash, the gravel, the hardpan, and even the rock, until it reaches the streams of living water.

T h e result will be some artesian wells, that need no pump. It will be many more of the self-priming sort. And even the pumps that need to be primed will deliver some return on the water poured into them.

Ten Sunday Nights of SalvationT here is a sense in which the fall months are

the beginning of the church year. While there is no necessary “summer slump,” it is true that the regular round of church activities is interrupted by assemblies, camps, conventions, institutes, va­cations, and the generally more relaxed pace of summer.

But with the coming of September and the be­ginning of the school year there is a quickening of the whole tempo of life. For the church, this is a natural time of harvest, a time to “thrust in the sickle" and reap.

Dr. Edward Lawlor and the Department of Evangelism are calling the Church of the Nazarene to “T e n Sunday Nights of Salvation” as a special emphasis of “T he T en Sundays of Unique Evan­gelism." All of the departments are being asked to share in the overall thrust of the weeks between September 26 and November 28.

October 17, for example, is to be “Youth Day.” T h e special October evangelism issue of Conquest , Nazarene youth magazine, will have been dis­tributed and will be used as part of a drive to have 100,000 persons of N.Y.P.S. age in attendance Sunday night.

Overall, it is hoped to reach an average attend­ance of 250,000 in church during the ten nights, and to enlist 10,000 new members in the Church of the Nazarene during the period. There is cer­tainly nothing unrealistic about goals like these.

It probably isn’t necessary to say it, but we should remind ourselves that these weeks will be just what we sincerely and wholeheartedly set out to make them. T h e best plans possible will come to nothing unless we work them. Whoever said that success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 per­cent perspiration didn’t miss it far.

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Less than two years a Christian . . .

Lay Leader Energizes

Others to EvangelizeBy ELDEN RAWLINGS

Managing Editor

“W e have in our possession the g rea t­est d octrin e in the C h ristian fa ith ,'' the handsom e, dark-h aired m an said at the close o f the N .Y.P.S. service, “ but for the m ost part w e’re keeping it to o u r­selves, when we should be sh arin g it with the w orld .”

T h e h ou r-lon g discussion was the kick- o ff for a series o f young ad u lt services d ealin g w ith lay evangelism in F irst C h u rch o f the N azarene in K ansas City, M issouri.

Jo h n P etreh n , a th irty-tw o-year-old form er salesm an who has been a C h ris­tian less than two years, was speaking to m ore than tw enty N azarenes who had attended a citv-w ide lay in stitu te o f evangelism in w hich m ore than seven hun dred persons attended from fifty- five chu rches in K ansas City. T h e ir purpose was to gain a w orking kn ow l­edge o f the fou r sp iritu al laws w hich a laym an m ay use in lead in g a person to C hrist.

T h e se laym en, spurred by C harles K raft, a N azarene bu ild er, and V ernon L u nn , a Sears execu tive, purposed to translate th eir newly found u n d erstand ­in g o f the Scrip tu res in to an appealing testim ony to unsaved persons. Jo h n P e­treh n, one o f the w orkers in the city- wide class, helped them to do that.

On la ter Sunday n ights these lay men and wom en recou nted howf they had presented C hrist. T h e re were m ore than a dozen who told how the persons they talked with prayed and becam e C hristian s in th eir homes. T h e chu rch has conserved the results o f several such conversions.

O th er N azarene chu rches in Kansas City subsequently asked P etrehn to visit th eir chu rches to train and encourage lay m en and women to becom e involved in personal evangelism .

“ I was raised in the trad ition s o f the Rom an C ath o lic ch u rch ,” P etrehn said. “ My p rim ary ed ucation was in the p a­rochial school system. I can vividly re ­call taking p art in the w orship services, m arch in g in the processions, and re ­ceivin g C om m u n ion .”

A fter persuad ing his p arents to allow him to a ttend a p u blic high school, he m et and la ter m arried Ja ce ly n , a L u ­theran girl. A fter graduation they eloped and were m arried by a ju stice o f the peace. Jo h n began college and took a p art-tim e selling job.

“ I started out m akin g $42.50 a week plus com m issions, and said to m yself, Boy, if I could only m ake $100.00 per wreek, I would really have it m ade. I

m ade $100.00 per week and then said. I f I could only m ake $150.00 p er wreek, I would really have it m ade. I got up to $150.00 per week and was still d is­satisfied. I have m ade as m uch as $1,000.00 per day and still was unhappy.

I know w hat it is to have my own business. I also know w hat it is to be ban kru p t.

“ I developed an u lcer, and found m y­self sm oking two packs o f c igarettes a day. C utty Sark Scotch whiskey and I becam e close friend s. O u r m arriag e had d eteriorated to the poin t o f despair. I was im p atien t, irr ita b le , and constantly fin d in g fau lt. In sp ite o f the fact th at we had accom plished some degree of success fin ancia lly , we had fa iled w here it co u n ts.”

O n New Y e a r’s Eve, D ecem ber 31, 1963, Jo h n and Ja ck ie were to present a sales film to a chu rch . T h e pastor assured them they would be ab le to show the film in tim e to get to the party they had p lan ned to attend .

How ever, a fter th e p resen tation , the pastor said, “W e have seen your p ro ­gram ; now we would like to have you

EXPLA IN S PERSONAL EVANGE­LISM LAWS— Jo h n Petrehn talks about the fou r steps to salvation which he has discussed with m ore than 50,000 laym en in the last 18 months.

see o u rs .” O u t o f courtesy and curiosity, th e young cou p le stayed.

“ As this m an o f G od spoke,” John said, “ I soon realized th at I had not been in te llectu a lly honest regard ing the claim s o f Je su s C h rist. H e told us that Jesu s C h rist was m ore than w illing to take upon h im self all o u r problem s.

" I fe lt ill a t ease. Sh ortly we slipped out o f o u r pew and le ft .”

“ T h a t evening, ra th e r th an going out on the tow n, we w ent hom e. I had to m ake a decision co n cern in g Jesu s Christ. A fter fo u r h o u rs o f d e lib e ra tio n , I slipped to my knees and pou red ou t my h eart to H im .

“ W h at a ch an ge H e has w rought, not only in my life, b u t in the lives o f my w ife and fam ily as well! W ith in twenty- fou r hours, all the m oral p roblem s and physical a ilm en ts that had plagued me just seem ed to d isapp ear. I have not had a sm oke o r a d rink since th at time, n o r do I have the desire. My wrife ac­cepted Je su s C h rist tw enty-four days later. O f ou r e ig h t ch ild ren (six boys and two girls) , those who are able to understand th e cla im s o f C h rist have accepted H im on th eir own.

“ A fter my conversion I m ade attempts to share C h rist w ith o th ers I m et. How-

THE CHURCH AT WORK

ever, 1 had little success. I m et a man on the U n iversity o f K ansas cam pus who exp la in ed to m e fo u r sp iritu al laws w hich a person follow s to fin d Christ.”

T h e laws, scrip tu ra lly based, are:1) G od loves you and has a wonder­

fu l p lan for you r life (Jo h n 3 :16 and Jo h n 1 0 :1 0 ) .

2) M an is sinfu l and separated from G od ; th us he cann ot know and experi­en ce G o d ’s love and plan for his life (R o m an s 3 :23 and R o m an s 6 :23 ) .

3) Jesu s C h rist is G od 's only provision for m a n ’s sin. T h ro u g h H im you can know and ex p erien ce G od 's love and plan fo r your life (R om an s 5 :8 ; John 1 4 :6 ) .

4) W e m ust receive Jesu s Christ as Saviou r and L ord bv personal invitation (Jo h n 1:12; R ev elation 3 :2 0 ) .

“ W ith these sp iritu a l laws at our com m and, w e led th ree persons to Christ that day on th a t co llege cam pus,” Pe­trehn said. L ater, the couple visited the h ead q u arters for C am pus Crusade for C h rist In te rn a tio n a l, an organization beam ed to h elp college students find C h rist. T h e r e he was tra in ed to become a teach er to train o th er laym en how to w ork w ith the unsaved. A lay training d ivision o f th e C am pus Crusades was developed, and P etreh n w orked writh the organization for seventeen months,

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READY FOR A PICNIC—Jo h n and Ja ck ie Petrehn and their eight children pose just before getting into their station wagon for an afternoon together. Left to right are: Jackie, with three-month-old Philip; Stephen, thirteen; Becky, twelve; Cindy, ten; K enny, eight; K evin, six ; Tony, fou r; and John, holding M aurice, who is two.

until after he visited Kansas C ity a year ago.

W hile con d u ctin g th e city-w ide lay institute, Jo h n becam e acq u ain ted w ith Rev. C larence K in zler, p astor o f the Shawnee (K ansas) C h u rch o f the Naz- arene in the su bu rbs o f K ansas City. The two had m u tu al in terest in p er­sonal evangelism , and soon becam e close personal friends.

“Clari has been in stru m en tal in e n ­lightening m e in th e d o ctrin e o f h o li­ness,” Jo h n said. “ I received the in ­filling of the H oly S p ir it in a d efin ite second work o f g race .” T h is happened in the Kansas C ity D is tric t cam p m eet­ing. T h o u g h the serm on D r. Ja r r e t te Aycock p reached was n o t on the su b ­ject of en tire san ctifica tio n , Jo h n said, “I went to the a lta r to fin d G o d ’s p er­fect will for my life . He revealed to me that H e w anted my total w ill tu rn ed

EVANGELISMEdward Lawlor, secretary

EVANGELISTIC HONOR ROLLEvangelistic Honor Roll Certificates were presented during recent 1965 district assemblies to the following pastors, whose churches received the required number of new Nazarenes.

AKRONJ o h n W. E p p le r , A k ro n A rlin g to n —

R alph L. M o u lto n , A k ro n T r in ity — P a u l M erki, A k ron W est— D e a n R a n k in , B y e s- ville—L e n a T ic e , C h estn u t G rove— P a u l S. B ow en , C lev elan d W est S id e— M e lv in R . Ja m es , D over— B . E d w in M c D o n a ld , E ast Liverpool L a C ro ft— N o rm a n J . S to v e r , Goshen—M. L e R o y H a s t ie , M assillo n — Philip P. E d w a r d s , N ew ton F a lls— K e n ­neth S c h a a l, O rw ell— J . T . H o ls te in , S a lem First—M. E. B a r r o w s , S to w — D o n a ld W. M acNeil, T a llm ad ge— W illia m G . H ill, Warren C ham pion— R o b e r t R a e , W arren Morgandale— E s te l l e C r u tc h e r , Y ou n gsto w n

over to H im . H e d id n ’t w ant my a b il­ity ; H e w anted my av a ila b ility .”

W h en n ot in crusade services, Jo h n an d Ja ck ie , w ith th e ir eight ch ild ren , a tten d th e Shaw nee C hu rch o f th e Naz- arene.

S in ce May, P etrehn has been involved in lay evangelism train in g. H e is in the process o f form in g w hat w ill be know n as the L ay m en ’s C rusade for C hrist. I ts purpose w ill be to train lay m en and wom en how to be m ore effectiv e in sh arin g C hrist, w ith special em phasis on the m inistry o f the Holy S p ir it in the life o f the C h ristian .

“ My p u rp ose,” Jo h n said, “ is to do an y th in g I can to h elp fu lfill the G reat C om m ission .” H e is cu rren tly p lan n in g city-w ide lay institu tes o f evangelism , and is co n d u ctin g ind ivid u al chu rch sem inars.

F irs t— H. 5 . M ills , Y o un gstow n W ic k lif fe — R o b e r t J . S m ith , C an ton F a irm o u n t.

CENTRAL OHIOR o b e r t L . C la y , B ru n sw ick — C la r e St.

J o h n , B u cy ru s— E llis T e a s d a l e , C ard in g- to n — R ic h a r d S t r i c k la n d , Colum bus D istric t — M iles S im m o n s . Colum bus F irs t— E. K . R ic h e y , C olum bus Sh ep h erd — C. W. B r o w n , C olum bus W h iteh a ll— D. E. C la y , C olum ­bus W ilson A v enu e— J . N. L a k in , D a rb y - d ale— C a r l E r w in , F re d er ick to w n — A lb e r tE. M ille r , F u lto n — B . R. K e a n , G a len a— D a le E. G a llo w a y , G rov e C ity — H a r ley D u n c a n , Iro n to n C oal G rove— F r a n k A. N o e l , S r., L a n ca s te r— T h o m a s M. S ta y n e r , L e x in g to n — V er n o n S t im p e r t , L ith o p o lis— R o y E. K lin g le r , L o g an — L . L . Z im m e rm a n , M arion F irs t— C h e s t e r S id le , N ew ark East S id e— F r a n k l in M. D u n k le , New L e x in g ­ton— D a n ie l E. W o o d w a r d , O rrv ille— R . W a y n e S h a r p e s , P ly m o u th H eights— R o b e r t J . R it t e r , Po rtsm o u th N orthside — A u d r y W . M ille r , P o rtsm o u th W est— I s a a c J . R a t c l i f f , P ro c to rv ille — M o rr is M. W o lfe , R a c in e — H illa rd B r a d l e y , Sou th A m h erst— V er n o n C. S h a fe r , W ellsto n — J a m e s L . H o n a k e r , So u th Z anesville.

CHICAGO CENTRALH u b er t K in g , A u ro ra 111. A v e.— R o b e r t

V. L a y m a n , C hicago C e n tra l— S h a d H o w ­a r d , C restw ood— P e a r le H a ss e lb r in g , H oop- eston W est— R a lp h R ic e , R ich to n P ark — R o b e r t V. L a y m a n , C hicago M id w est— P a u l S m ith , C ry stal L ak e— G e o r g e G a l lo ­w a y , K a n k a k e e C e n tra l—J a m e s R o b b in s , L a n sin g —L in d y R u ss e ll , W aukegan — V. E. B l a c k e t e r , L om bard — F r e d M acM illan ,M u n delein — I. C. C o llin s , D an v ille S o u th - side— L a w r e n c e J a n t z , Jo l ie t— C e c il E w e ll , C hicago F irst.

COLORADOW . R. D o n a lso n , C olorado Sp rin g s

P a lm e r H eights— J e r r y H u ll, D en v er A u ­ro ra — N. W ise m a n , D en v er W estm in ster— C. J e n n in g s , L am ar— D a le K in g , L as A n i­m as— J . L u n d y , M o n trose— T h o m a s F lo y d , Pu eb lo F a irm o u n t— D ell K e l l e y , Colorado Sp rin g s P a rk H ill.

DALLASC ly d e E. A m m o n s , D allas C e n tra l—

J . L . In g le , G ran d P ra ir ie — T. C. P o tts , Ja ck s o n v ille — B . A. P a tto n , M esquite.

EASTERN KENTUCKYN. A. R it c h i e , A shland G ra ce— F . F.

I c k e s , B a rn es M ou n tain — C. W ells , J r . , C a tle ttsb u rg S .S .— C. E . C o p le y , S r ., D u r­b in — A. O. L it t le , Lu d low — C. D e B o rd , M ay sv ille— Wm. E. M ays, S r., R u ssell—G. H a rv e y , W aco.

EASTERN MICHIGANW. O. W e lto n , A d rian F irs t— W illis

S c o tt , P o rt H uron E v an g .— B e r n a r d G ill , F lin t S o u th — M. H. S to c k s , R o ch este r— J o h n W . M e ll is h , W ay n e— R o n a ld M oss, H ighland— H o w a rd R ic k e y , D etro it B e th e l — A d r ia n K e e t o n , M arin e C ity — R. J . S ta n le y , A u burn R o ad — fa m e s K r a u ss , Im lay C ity— J o h n E . M e ll is h , L ak e Louise — J a m e s M e ll is h , W arren W oods— F . I. R o u s e , L ap eer— E. H. D a v is , S an d u sk y — O. E . B u r to n , M illin g ton — W. E. V ar ian , F lin t C e n tra l— A. B . M c F a r la n d , L in co ln P a rk — A lv in D. R ic h a r d s , T em p eran ce— H a ro ld H a rr is , R ich fie ld — R ic h a r d L a s h - le y , F a irg ro v e— J a m e s A . W e e k s , A nn A rbo r U n iv ersity — P a u l C o le m a n , W il­liam s L ak e .

ILLINOISJ a m e s R e d d in g , A lb ion — W illia m H.

L o n g , A ssum ption— W ilson B a k e r , D e­ca tu r F a rie s P ark w ay — L e o n C. M ille r , D upo— F r a n c is W a lte rs , E. S t. Louis M aplew ood— A rn o ld R o la n d , J r . , G rig gs- v ille— A . L . T a y lo r , H om e G ard en s— K e ith K e l ly , Je r s e y v ille — J a m e s C a m p b e l l , M an s­f ie ld — R a y Huf f , Mt. S te r lin g — H a ro ld N e w b y , P a r is F ir s t— D o n a ld U n d e rw o o d , Sesser— H a ro ld C a n a d a y , S p rin g fie ld Sou th S id e— J a c k J o n e s , U rban a F a ith .

IOWAS a m G o w a n , A lb ia— J a m e s A . A d a m s ,

A m es— J o h n F r ie n d , B u rlin g to n F .H .— F. E. W h it la t c h , C edar Rapids F irs t— C h a r le s B y e r s , C edar R apid s O ak lan d — G e n e C. P h ill ip s , D es M oines E ast— L y le B o y e r , F o rt D odge— Ja m es D ieh l , In d ian - o la — K a th r y n - L a n tz e n h e is e r , Iow a F a lls— R e x L e e D o u g la s , L e M ars— P a u l C li f - f e n g e r , M aren go— W. E. B u r d , M ason C ity — R. V. S c h u ltz , N ew ton— S. M. A b e l , O ttum w a F irs t— T h e o d o r e C o n w a y , S io u x C ity H ighland P ark .

KANSASW m . H a rr is o n , A b ilen e— M. H u x m a n ,

H utchin son B e th a n y — B . C a n tr e l l , H u tch ­inson W estsid e— J . F a r r o w , K in sley — M. E s ta b o , P eabo d y — C. P it t e n g e r , P r a tt— L . H in d m a n , S a lin a B e lm o n t— W. M iller , S a lin a F irs t— P. V a r c e , S te r lin g — D. H all, W ellin g ton — G. G o u g h , W ich ita F irs t—H. M err itt , W ich ita W est S ide.

MICHIGANE ld o n S c h r a m , B a tt le C reek F irs t— J o h n

R. H i e f t j e , B a y C ity F ir s t—J . A. W rig h t, C o ld w ater— D w ig h t K e l la r , D urand— C. H. S y m o n s , E ast T aw as— J a y B u c k , G ladw in R ile y — K e ith S t. J o h n , G r. R apids C lyde P a rk — F le t c h e r G a llo w a y , G r. R apid s F irs t — K e n n e t h C u lv e r , G r. R apids W est— R o n a ld S m ith , H art— D a le H a rv e y , H as­tin gs— H. L. J o h n s t o n , Ja ck s o n F irs t— G e r a ld L a in g , Ja c k s o n G ra ce — K e n n e th A n d e r so n , L a k e L an sin g — E lw y n D ie t r ic k , L a k e O dessa— H a ro ld P o t te r , L u d in gton —- A ld w y n R . C a r p e n te r , M arsh all— R a y H u ffm a n , O w osso— C a r o l N o ffs in g e r , P o r t­lan d— F r a n k l in W a rd , Sag in aw C en tra l— H. T. S ta n le y , S tu rg is— W a y n e W elto n , T h re e R iv ers— J a m e s B a y n u m , T ra v erse C ity.

NORTHWEST OKLAHOMAM. H a ro ld D a n ie ls , B e th a n y F irs t—

M a rv in T. C o c k m a n , E n id C leveland Road — F r a n k ie C h o p l in , G eary —J . R e y n d a l

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.An nou n c i n gSIXTEENTH OF "SO HOLY WATCHNIGHTS"Friday, October 1, 1965

TEN SUNDAYS OF UNIQUE EVANGELISMSeptember 26—November 28, 1965

MID-QUADRENNIAL CONFERENCE ON EVANGELISMJanuary 11-13, 1966Music Hall, Kansas City, Missouri

R u ss e ll , G uym on— B ill D r a p e r , O. C. L a k e - v iew P a rk — M erv y n L . G oin s, P o n ca C ity S t. L u k e ’s— C a r l P o w e r s , S tillw a te r F irs t— H ira m E . S a n d e r s , S tillw a te r U n iv ers ity — H a ro ld B la n k e n s h ip , W oodw ard— M rs. L o u ie D . B o o m e r , O livet.

PITTSBURGHG le n n P r o p s t , A tlasb u rg — R . F . H o w a rd ,

B e a v e r F a lls C ollege H ill— S a n t fo r d B l a c k , B ro w n sv ille— G le n n E a g le , B u n o la — E llis H o rto n , C oraop olis— J o s e p h K a n z e le m a r , C o rry — H. W. D ie h l , Ellw ood C ity — R u s­s e ll L e w is , O il C ity — L a w r e n c e M artin , P a r is — L u t h e r P ie r c e , L in co ln P lace— E a r l H u ston , S ax o n b u rg — H a rr y H a ll, Sh arp s- v ille— H a ro ld M a rsh , S t. P e te rsb u rg — L e m u e l R o d g e r s , U nion C ity— W a rd S a t- t e r l e e , W aterford .

SOUTHWEST INDIANAA .rthu r H ill, B o rd en — G a r la n d J o h n s o n ,

Colum bus F irs t— J o h n E. S m ith , C y n th ian a — J a m e s P . M a h a n , E v a n sv ille N orthsid e— S a m u e l P . S m ith , F o r t B ra n ch — C h a r le s M. S c o t t , F ra n cisco — J o s e p h A. V est, G eorg etow n — E u g e n e F r a m e , H u n tin g bu rg — R o b e r t O. G o d b y , J e f fe rs o n v ille G race— R a lp h B a i le y , S r ., L in to n — E . R . M cC lu re , Odon— C a r lto n H a n s e n , R o ach d ale— B . G. W ig g s, Sey m o u r F irs t— W a u n n itta A d a m s , T e rre H au te E ast Side— C. N . P e r s o n e t t , V a lley M ission — E liz a b e th E s te p , B a in - bridge.

TENNESSEEW m . E. N a ill , D a le ’s C h apel— C a lv in

M ilan , G ra y ’s C hapel— W a d e P o w e r s , H en d erso n ville— R o n P e lto n , Jo e lto n — G e o r g e P itz e r , M adison— T. J . D a g g ett , M em phis N orthsid e— T e d D e B o lt , N ash­v ille B o rd ea u x — T. E. M artin , N ashv ille F irst.

VIRGINIAR o b e r t G r e s h a m , C a tle tt— J . V. R o b e r t s ,

C h esap eak e F irs t— J . H. G a r r iso n , C rew e — A. T. U n d e rw o o d , E s ta lin e V a lley — A. W m . E r ic k s o n , H am pton— J . J . W h e e l- b a r g e r , M anassas— H. H a ro ld C a lh o u n , Po rtsm o u th — V. J . S h e t l e r , R o an o k e E ast G ate— W m . B a i le y , S a ltv ille — B e n J . B ix b y , Sp rin g C reek — W . F . M a ste r s , T id ew ater C en tra l— S id n e y F . M ays, T im b erv ille— P a u l E . L o c k h a r t , W aynesboro— W illis D. N a ill , W illiam sb u rg .

WISCONSINR. K in n e r s le y , C olum bus— S ta n le y L e w ­

is , E ag le R iv e r— E . C o o lid g e , F o rest C en ter — H u g h H ill, In g a lls , M ich .— Ironw ood , M ich .— M. S u r g e s , L a C rosse— D. B lo d g e t t , M arsh fie ld — J . T h o rn to n , M attoon — B . H ill, M ilw au k ee S . 60th— C. M u rra y , M ilw a u ­k e e S. 95th— E . S c h u ltz , S h eb oy g an — W. S c h w o b , R ich lan d C enter.

DISTRICT ACTIVITIES

Wisconsin per Capita Giving Increases $6.00

C h u rch m em bersh ip and per capita giving both increased am ong W isconsin N'azarenes last year, accordin g to Rev. R . J . C lack, d istrict su p erin tend ent, in h is rep ort to the th irtie th annu al dis­trict assembly.

D r. G eorge C o u lter was th e presiding general su p erin ten d ent o f the assem bly

w hich was held at C am p B y ron , B row n s­ville, W isconsin , August 5 and 6.

D istric t m em bersh ip is 1,974, an in ­crease o f 104; and the p er cap ita giv ing is up from $170 to $176. T o ta l raised fo r a ll purposes o f $350,845 is an in ­crease o f m ore than $32,000. T h e d is­tr ict reach ed a record high in giving for others, reach in g again the 10 p ercent bracket.

Jo h n E . R cm m en ga was ord ained an eld er; D r. M endell T a y lo r , N azarene T h e o lo g ica l Sem inary dean, served as evangelist in the cam p m eeting w hich is held con cu rren tly w ith the d istrict assem bly and conventions, accord in g to Rev. D avid C raig , reporter.

Eight New Churches Dedicated in Iowa

Iow a D istrict Su p erin ten d en t G en e E. P h illip s reported to th e fifty -th ird a n ­nual assem bly th a t e igh t new chu rches were dedicated on th e d istrict last year, and th at Iowa N'azarenes gave 10.8 p e r­cent o f th e ir incom e to w orld ev an ­gelism .

New chu rches dedicated w ere: A lgona, A tlan tic , B r itt , B u rlin g to n F lin t H ills, C larin d a, C lin to n , C ou ncil B lu ffs , and D eep R iver.

G eneral Su p erin tend en t V. H. Lew is, in ad d ition to presid ing over th e as­sem bly, also ord ained T e d Conw ay and

C h arles Hodges in to th e C h ristian min­istry.

Mrs. G en e P h illip s was reelected NAV.M .S. presiden t, Rev. A. D . Foster, N .Y.P .S . presiden t, and R ev . Aleck G. U lm ct chu rch schools ch airm an . Rev. Paul M cG rady, B e th an y N azarene Col­lege re lig ion professor, served as camp m eetin g evangelist, accord in g to Report­er E ld on Shields.

Pittsburgh Superintendent Elected to Four-Year Term

A fter serving for one year, D r. Robert I. G oslaw was elected to the district su p erin ten d ency fo r a fou r-y ear tern d u rin g th e fifty -e ig h th assem bly of the P ittsb u rg h D istrict.

D r. H ardy C. Pow ers, general super­in ten d en t, presided over the two-da) assem bly, Ju ly 22-23.

P ittsb u rg h D is tric t ch u rch es gave 10.41 p ercen t for w orld evangelism .

R ev . and M rs. P au l H etrick , mission­aries to A frica , spoke to th e NAV.M.S. conv en tion . W est V irg in ia D istrict Su­p erin ten d en t H . H arvey Hendershol preach ed in a hom e m issions service.

In pre-assem bly conventions, Rev. R. R. M errim an was elected C h u rch Schools ch a irm an ; R ev . D ale B issell, N.Y.P.S. presid en t; and R ev . E lsie Neiderhiser, NAV.M.S. presiden t.

D r. Pow ers ord ained E . H . Stenger, whose ch u rch won the "small church ach iev em en t” aw ard, C harles H arris, and B ria n M cC u tch eon in to the Christian m inistry , accord in g to R ep o rter George E m m itt.

Illinois Sunday Schools Up 7.5% in Enrollment

I llin o is D is tric t Sunday schools in­creased in en ro llm en t alm ost 7.5 percent over last year to 18,865; chu rch mem­bersh ip gained 70; and the 7.274 Naza- rcnes and th e ir frien d s gave m ore than 10 p ercent to w orld evangelism , accord­ing to D r. L. S. O liver's rep ort to the tw enty-second d istric t assem bly.

D r. G . B . W illiam so n , general super­in ten d en t, presided over the assembly, w hich m et a t N azarene Acres near

NEW CHURCH SEATS 200—T he recently com pleted Ephrata (Washington) church , which was dedicated by Dr. Hardy C. Powers, general superin­tendent, and Rev. Raymond C. Kratzer, Northwest District superintendent, was built at a cost of $30,000, with an indebtedness now of less than $10,000. The building, according to Rev. Jo h n R. Kell, pastor, is valued by an insurance com pany at $60,000.

14 (634) • HERALD OF HOLINESS

TWO RECEIVE C.S.T. AWARDS—Two of the first Nazarenes to receive Christian Service Training citations for being certified church schools administrators are above congratulated. (L eft picture) Jam es W. Carleson (right) receives from his pastor, Rev. Don Jenk ins, the award. In the picture on the right, Rev. M. G. M artini, N orthw estern Ohio church schools chairman, presents L eroy H unt with his administrative certificate.

Californian, Ohioan Given C.S.T. Award

A N orthw estern O h io .Sunday school su p erin ten d en t and a re tired navy com ­m and er are am ong th e first to receive the C h ristian Service T ra in in g C om ­m ission ’s c ita tio n for certifica tio n in chu rch school ad m in istration , according to B e n n e tt D udncy, C .S .T . director.

T h e “ ce rtified ” ra tin g is the highest in a three-step program recently started to ed ucate chu rch lead ers in Sunday school ad m in istration .

Ja m e s C arleson, who is associate su ­p erin ten d en t in charge o f personnel and tra in in g in the San Jo se (C alif.) C am ­brian P ark C h u rch , received his award A pril 30. C arleson, in add ition to h av ­ing earned m ore th an 150 C .S .T . units, is the teach er o f sen ior high boys, c h a ir ­m an o f the board o f trustees, and serves as the chu rch p u rchasin g agent. H e is em ployed at the S tanford R esearch In ­s titu te as a p ro ject ad m in istra tor in the C om m u n ication L aboratory .

Leroy H u n t, Sunday school su p erin ­tend en t o f the W auscon (O h io) chu rch , received h is aw ard Ju ly 8. Rev. O live H arrison is pastor o f th e W auseon chu rch .

Springfield, Illin o is , Ju ly 28-30.Completing his firs t year as su p erin ­

tendent, Dr. O liver was given a u n a n i­mous recall, and la te r an exten d ed in ­vitation for th ree ad d ition al years.

The district becam e th e first in the denomination to re p o rt a C .S .T . class was held in every ch u rch d u rin g the year, and also won th e top h o n o r in its division d u rin g th e 1964 H e r a ld o f Holiness subscrip tion cam p aign.

Ray H uff, W a lte r Jo h n so n , D avid Moore, A rth u r C arl O d le, Jo h n R u zich , arid Jerry M . W h eeler w ere elected to elder’s orders, accord ing to R e p o r te r C. Neil Strait.

270 Children at CampTwo hundred seventy M issouri boys

and girls atten ded the an nu al d istrict camp held at P in ecrest C am p n ear Fred-

ericktow n , M issouri.R ev . Am os S e lf was the cam p d irec ­

tor and ch ap la in . T h e cam p was sp on ­sored by M issouri D is tric t C h u rch Schools.

THIS SUNDAY'S LESSONBrian L. Farmer

Topic for Septem ber 19: Growing in Understanding

and PatienceSc r ip t u r e : G ala tian s 6 :1 -10 ; P h ilip -

p ians 4; Colossians 3 :12-15 (P rin ted : P h ilip p ian s 4 :1 -7 ; C olossians 3 :1 2 -1 5 ).

G o i .i>en T e x t : L e t us nr,: b e w eary in w e l ld o in g : f o r in d u e s ea so n w e s h a l l r e a p , i f w e fa in t n o t (G alatian s 6 :9 ) .

“ C h arity . . . is th e bond o f p er­fectness.”

M ercy, kindness, h u m ility , meekness, long-su ffering , forbearance, and forgive­ness are all held tog ether by love. T h e m an who is perfect in love has little d ifficu lty in bein g p atie n t and u n d er­standing.

O u r archenem y here is prid e—prid e as a people and prid e as persons: an in ap p ro p ria te estim ation o f ou r own im p ortan ce. A d m itted ly , some people are stupid, and it is ju s t possible th at we m ay be am ong the wise of the w orld. I f , however, we are convinced th a t th is la tter possibility is true o f ourselves, it is proof th at it is not. God h ates conceit. H e chooses the foolish things o f the world to confound the wise, and the weak th ings o f the world to confoun d the m ighty. Socrates claim ed th at he knew m ore than o th er m en in th at he knew th at he knew n oth in g . O thers did not even have this know ledge; th erefore he knew m ore than they. C ertain ly , at best, W'e are a ll u n p ro fitab le servants.

All com ers are w elcom e in the C h ris­tian C hurch . T h o se w ith a low I.Q . are as w elcom e as those w ith a h igh ; G od does n ot ju d g e according to in te l­ligence. Som e who would have d ifficu lty being accepted elsew here m ust be m ade to feel a t hom e w ith the people of God. T h e rep u tation o f the C hurch of Jesu s C h rist rests m ore heavily on lov- ing-kindness th an it does on worldly wisdom and efficiency.

I g ath er from betw een the lines of the P h ilip p ian passage th a t Paul feared a g a th erin g storm of m isunderstanding and im p atien ce am ong the C h ristians at P h ilip p i and th at his words were de­signed to qu ell it. Euodias and Syntyche were beseeched to be of the same m ind in the I.ord . W h at good advice this is to the tem p eram en tal opposites and the belligeren t board m em bers o f our chu rch , and to those who get “h ot u n ­der the co lla r” abou t the p r in c ip le o f

YOUNG DEDICATES FLORIDA CHURCH—G eneral Superintendent Sam uel Young dedicated in M arch a $176,000 church plant in Homestead, Florida, which has a sanctuary seating capacity of three hundred persons and an overflow capacity of two hundred m ore. Fully air-conditioned, the church accommodated about seven hundred people for the dedication. Rev. W. L. Chambers has been pastor since 1952, following graduation from the Naza­rene Theological Sem inary. The population of Homestead is 7,000.

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"SHOWERS of BLESSING" Program Schedule

September 19—“Who Controls the W orld?” by Russell V. DeLong

September 26—“Do You Know Him, or Only About H im ?” by Russell V. DeLong

October 3—“What Does Conversion M ean?” by Russell V. DeLong

th e th in g , when in reality it is the pride ra th e r than the p rin cip le th a t is injeop ard y!

T h e m ost p atien t and u nderstand ing o f C hristian s are usually those who have been in “T h e W a y ” for a long tim e. B u t if any m an will becom e sanctified w holly—d ealin g a deathblow to his pride —he will take a big step forw ard. O ne cannot get away from the sign ificance o f the text at the top of the colu m n, “ C harity . . . is the bond o f p erfect­ness."

Lesson material is based on International Sunday School Lessons, the International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its permission.

SCOTTISH NAZARENE VISITS— Miss Vera Hiddleston, director of Scottish Probation Officers Training College, is in the United Slates on governm ent leave to study Am erican penal and preventative services in California. She visited the world headquarters and Nazarene Publish­ing House recently. Miss Hiddleston is a m em ber of the Edinburgh (Scot­land) Albany Street Church, a mem­ber of the trustees board of British Isles Nazarene College, and a layman on the North British Isles District.

DeathsR. C. GUNSTREAM

(The following account was written by Dr. R. C. Gunstream regarding his life . He was killed acci­dentally August 2 on the district campgrounds near Capitan, New Mexico. A house which he was helping to stabilize after recent rains slipped from its temporary foundation and crushed him.)

"R . C. Gunstream, born the first time Septem­ber 29, 1899. Converted and born the second time August, 1910— really settled in my experience and sanctified 1920. Called to preach January, 1921. Entered Pasadena College, February, second semester, 1921.

"Took first pastorate at Roswell, New Mexico, March, 1924— organized the church in my front room.

"Second church, Portales (N. Mex.)— September, 1926— June, 1930.

" E l Paso (Texas) F irst— June, 1930— June, 1935."Pueblo F irst (Colorado)— June, 1935— 1938."D istric t Superintendent, New Mexico D istrict,

March, 1938— appointed by Dr. John W. Goodwin." S t il l in the battle— love God and the church

and its doctrines."R . C. Gunstream.”

(On the occasion of the thirty-fifth birthday of his son, Jarre ll, Dr. Gunstream presented him a Bible with the following note.)

" . . . Please always remember that the Lord giveth and taketh away.

"A ll success you have had comes because of much hard work and faith in the Lord. Keep yourall on the altar. No matter what happens, successor failure. Success, many snares— keep your eyes on Him.

"Th is is 'The Book.' Read it to be wise, that you may eat of the bread of heaven and be strong, that you may know the way of Jesus. He will guide you Home. That you may be the kindof husband and father you should be, that your lifemay be a blessing and benediction to all who know you— Read it, Read it, Read it . Know your Bible. We want to always think of you as a deeply spiritual man of God, a great layman in our church.

"Th is is the most precious gift we humbly present to you.

"Affectionately,"Your Father and Mother.”

Funeral services for Dr. Gunstream were held during camp meeting week at the d istrict camp­grounds and burial followed in Albuquerque. Sur­vivors include his wife, Gracie, of the home; twosons, Jarrell and Nelman; one adopted son, Phillip Crosby; and two daughters, Alberta Rodes and Leta Mae Rhodes.

MRS. ELLA M ARIE SCOFIELD , age eighty-five, died June 17 at her home in Goshen, Indiana. She had been a faithful member of the Goshen Church of the Nazarene for many years. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Roger H. Ward and Rev. Claude Lykins, with interment at the Mt. Zion Cemetery, Rising Sun, Ohio. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, all ministers in the Church of the Nazarene.

M. J . (Mike) BURROWS, age fifty-eight, died June 14 in Santa Cruz, California, of cancer.Funeral services were conducted in Santa Cruz F irst Church, where he was a member, by Rev. JosephF. Morgan. Mr. Burrows and his wife had beenPresbyterians until 1960, when they became Naza- renes. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Braga; a son, Don; seven grand­children; five brothers; and one sister. He had been active as Sunday school superintendent until his fatal illness.

MISS GERTRUDE E . BAKER , age sixty-nine, died June 2 while returning from a vacation trip . Funeral services were held June 5 in the Ridgeway (Michigan) church, of which she was a charter member, and were conducted by Rev. Wade Roberts, pastor. She is su-vived by a brother, Henry Baker; and two sisters, Mrs. Jennie Avery and Mrs. Foster Hardesty.

KENNETH EUGENE HOUCHIN, age thirty-three, died June 10 in Rockford, Illinois, after being ill with nephritis. He is survived by his wife, Hannah; a son, Gregory; and a daughter, Tamre.

MRS. A. B. STONECIPHER, age ninety-two, of Desert Hot Springs, California, was buried follow­ing funeral services on July 11, in Twentynine Palms Cemetery.

AnnouncementsMARRIAGES

Miss Connie J . DuBois and Mr. Phillip A . Wilsey, on July 24, at the church in Portland, Michigan.

Miss Patricia West and Donald E . Graham, on June 26, at F irst Church, Roanoke, Virginia.

Elaine Alice Tozzolina and Dwayne Lee Bounds, on June 30, at Oxnard, California.

NEW FLORIDA C H U R C H—The Ocala (Florida) S i l v e r Springs C hurch, with neir educational facili­ties to accommodate 500 persons, and a sanctuary u'hich seats 450, teas re­cently completed at a cost of $82,000. The church and two Sunday school educational buildings are contem­porarily designed. Pastor Roy M. V aughn served as building super­visor.

Miss Susan Jiminez and John Lunsford, on June 5, at Bourbonnais, Illinois.

Miss Mary Jane Christenson and Larry C. Cary, on June 19, at Bourbonnais, Illino is.

Miss Joyce Beaver and Ronald Sutton, on July 31, at Bourbonnais, Illino is.

BORN— to Arthur and Violet (Southwell) Smith of

Kansas City, Missouri, a son, Timothy David, on August 15.

— to Dr. Leland and Sharon (M iller) Ernest of Iowa City, Iowa, a son, Jeffrey Lee, on July 20.

— to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kidd of Bradley, Illino is, a daughter, Tamra Shon, on June 9.

— to James and Melver (Hodge) Boone of Bour­bonnais, Illino is, twins, James Wesley and Kathy Launette, on Ju ly 21.

— to Mr. and Mrs. Martin J . Bass of Bour­bonnais, Illino is, a son, Timothy Jay, on July 17.

ADOPTED— by Mr. and Mrs. James L . Ewers of Howell,

Michigan, a boy, Brent Alan; he was born May 29, 1965.

SP EC IA L PRAYER IS REQUESTEDby a friend in Kentucky, "for my health, and for

the conversion of my son” ;by a reader in Kansas for the salvation of her

son, also for other "lost loved ones,” for a special unspoken request, and for two friends who are in need.

DirectoriesBOARD OF GENERAL SUPERIN TENDENTS

Office: 6401 The Paseo Kansas City, Missouri 64131 HUGH C. BENNER, Chairman V. H. LEW IS , Vice-chairman GEORGE COULTER, Secretary

HARDY C. POWERSG. B. W ILLIAM SON

SAM UEL YOUNG

16 (636) • HERALD OF HOLINESS

A Story-Note fromHi, vj

Has y o u r —SC HO O L_ i £ 0 _ B B S b T

started yet? Sometimes in © sand # s forget to listen with their % to watch and read with their% s, and to write with theirf)ffi

They daydream, they look out theEE and they doodle A # " © .

Thisyear STUDYwhenit is fine to study. PLAYonly whenit is fine to play. Try to Be the b est student you have ever been!

Love,"Study to shew thyself approved unto God. "

H Timothy 2:15

Gary Moore Follows Kay as Radio Music Director

G ary M oore, m usic m in ister at Kansas City (M issouri) F irst C h u rch , was ap p o in t­ed Sep tem ber 1 as m usic d irector of “Showers o f B lessing ,” weekly rad io program

A 'M C d fc o f the C hurch o f the Gary Moore N azarene, according

to Rev. H. D ale M itch ell, R a d io League d irector.

M oore follow s h is b ro th e r R ay, who had been m usic d irector o f “ Showers o f B lessing " for tw enty years. R ay M oore is now m usic instru ctor at O livet N aza­rene College.

G ary M oore w ill also assume direction o f m usic for the Spanish rad io program , " L a H o rn N a z a r en a .”

H e will con tin u e his assignm ent at F irst C h u rch , w hich he also assumed from his b ro th er R ay, in 1963.

Church Under Construction Destroyed by High Winds

A sanctuary and ed ucation u n it being constru cted by the G ary (In d ian a) F irst C h u rch was heavily dam aged by high winds w hich struck L ak e C ounty, I n ­diana, A ugust 27.

T h e stru ctu re, n ot yet u n d er roof, was covered by insuran ce, and cleanu p and recon struction w ill begin im m ediately , accord ing to L oren W . G ou ld , pastor.

Cross-country Missions Tour Begins in Miami

Five m issionaries and fou r staff m em ­bers o f the W orld M issions D ep artm en t w ill p articip a te in ten m issionary co n ­ventions from M iam i to Fresno, C a li­forn ia , betw een Sep tem ber 30 and N ovem ber 3, accordin g to D r. E. S. P h illip s, world m issions secretary.

H arm on Schm elzenbach , m issionary to A frica ; D onald Owens, K orea; D avid Brow ning, B ritish G u ian a ; Ja m es Kratz, Brazil, and E rnest Eades, C ape V erde Islands, will ap p ear on the tou r. O nly three will p articip a te at each conv en­tion.

Dr. H . T . Reza, Spanish D ep artm ent h ead, will jo in the group for seven o f the conventions.

T h e purpose o f the tou r is to inform and inspire U .S. N azarenes abou t m is­sions. T h e re will be o p p ortu n ity to ask questions abou t m issionary work. Also, tim e has been arranged for in ­terview s w ith prospective m issionary candidates.

W orkshops will be conducted by R . F ran k lin Cook, ad m in istrative assistant

in th e W orld M issions D ep artm en t, and N eil R im in g to n , fin an cia l assistant.

T h e ten cities includ ed and the dates o f the conventions are as follow s: M i­am i, F lorid a , Sep tem b er 30—O cto b er 1; B irm in g h am , A labam a, O cto b er 5-6; N ashville, T en n essee, O cto b er 7-8 ; B e th ­any, O klahom a, O cto b er 12-13; W ich ita , Kansas, O cto b er 14-15; F o rt W o rth , T e x ­as, O ctober 19-20; A m arillo , T e x a s , O cto b er 12-22; P h oen ix , A rizona, O cto ­b er 26-27; Pasadena, C a lifo rn ia , O cto ­b er 28-29; Fresno, C a lifo rn ia , N ovem ber 2-3.

Insurance Coverage Up For 2,500 Ministers

At least th irty districts will p robab ly pay 90 percen t o f th eir N .M .B .F . budget, a standard set by the D ep artm en t o f M in isteria l Benevolen ce, w hich m eans th at life insurance p rotection for m ore than 2.500 N azarene m inisters w ill be dou bled , R ev . D ean W essels, d ep artm ent secretary, said recently.

T h is is the first year o f a program w hich provides an increased am ou n t of life in su ran ce—from $1,000 to $2 ,000— for m inisters on th e 90 p ercent d istricts.

T h e insurance is free to m inisters, since the Board o f Pensions th rou gh the M in isteria l B enevolence pays all o f the prem iu m costs.

“ I t is the hope o f the D ep artm en tth at in a year or two every d istric t w ill q u alify u n d er the program , so th at all m inisters can have this v alu ab le p ro ­te ctio n ,” W essels said.

Missionary Address ChangeRev. and Mrs. D on D eP asqu ale, fo r ­

m erly m issionaries in Syria, are nowliv in g at B e iru t, L eban on . A ll com ­m u n ication s should be d irected to th eir new address. P .O . B o x 2328, since th ere is no one in Syria to receive th e ir m ail.

Church Schools Leader To New Detroit Job

R ev. G en e H u d ­gens, d irecto r of Sunday school a d ­m in istration w i t h the C h u rch Schools D e p a r t m e n t f o r m ore than a year, w ill becom e, N o­vem ber 1, the ad ­m in istrativ e pastor o f D etro it (M ic h i­gan) F irst C h u rch , according to K enneth A rm strong, pastor.

T h e newly created position w ill be to organize the ed u cation al and ev an ­gelistic ou treach p o ten tia l o f th e ch u rch , D r. A rm strong said. A new assistant m in ister, in add ition to D arre ll T ro tte r , cu rren tly assistant pastor, is T h a ro n D aniels, a student at N azarene T h e o ­logical Sem inary.

M r. H udgens w ill con tin u e to co n ­tr ib u te a new featu re w hich w ill ap p ear Ja n u a ry 1 in the B i b l e S c h o o l J o u r n a l , “T h e A d u lt Lesson P la n ,” and an o u t­lin e for Sunday school teachers of adults.

H udgensD r.

P reviou s to com in g to the general C h u rch Schools D ep artm en t, he was p astor for on e year at O xn ard , Cali­fo rn ia ; was associate pastor at Pasa­d ena (C alifo rn ia) F irst C hu rch for eigh t years; and was pastor for one year in B u rlin g to n , C olorad o. M r. Hudgens is a g rad u ate o f P asaden a College, at­tended the N azarene T h e o lo g ica l Sem­inary . and has a M aster's degree in relig iou s ed u cation from F u lle r Theo­logical Sem inary.

H e and Mrs. H u dgens (the former B a rb a ra F’a irb a irn ) have th ree children; A lan , tw elve; H eath er, e ig h t; and De­nise, four.

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Moody Radio Forty Years OldC h ic a g o (E P ) —A C hicago radio sta­

tion w hich has n ever sold tim e to com­m ercia l sponsors began its fo rtie th year o f broad castin g Ju ly 28. T h e station, W M B I, is ow ned and operated by M oody B ib le In s titu te o f Chicago and is sup ported th rou gh gifts from its listeners.

Begun in 1926, in the early years of rad io , the station was one of the w orld's first Teligious stations. Other stations in the M oody netw ork include the 100.000-w att W M B I-F M in Chicago; W D L M in M oline . I llin o is ; and WCRF- FM in C lev eland , O hio.

Urge End to Death PenaltyE s t e s P a r k , C o l o . (E P ) —T h e Gen­

eral C on feren ce M en n o n ite church re­jected cap ita l p u nish m en t as a deter- ran t to crim e and called upon state and n a tio n a l governm ents in the U.S. and C an ada to abolish th e d eath penalty.

T h e vote, 1,463 to 102, was taken h ere at th e th irty -seven th trien nial ses­sion o f th e ch u rch . M ore than 2,000 persons registered fo r th e convention.

D elegates also voted to urge use of n egotia tion in th e reso lu tion of the V iet N am co n flic t. T h e y also registered d isapproval o f “esca la tio n ” o f the war there.

Issue Statement on RightsR a l e ig h , N .C. (E P ) —T h e National

F ree W ill B ap tist A ssociation, at its tw en ty-n in th an n u al convention here, adop ted a civil rig h ts resolution which said the ch u rch should wrork “ to bring every person in to a righ t relationship w ith G od, regardless o f race or na­tion al o rig in .”

Its sta tem en t recognized “ the right and priv ilege o f th e local church to con d u ct its own a ffa irs in the area o f hum an re la tio n s” but added, “We recognize th ro u g h o u t th e denomination th ere are hum an re la tio n s problem s—we m ust learn to be to le ra n t.”

18 (638) • HERALD OF HOLINESS

Tested b y F ireFOR other foundation can no m an lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any m an build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s work shall be m ade manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be reiea led by fire ; and the fire shall try every m an’s work of uhat sort it is (I Corinthians 3:11-13).

Some years ago while I was in the air force and stationed in Assam, India, an Indian cam e to my tent with some things for sale. He offered me a good-sized sapphire for only ten rupees.

“How do I know that it’s a genu­ine sapphire?” I asked. “Oh, put it on the stove and make the fire hot,” he said: “the fire will not hurt a precious stone. Sahib, but it will melt glass." This certainly was adequate proof of his statement.

A while later I visited the small Indian village of Jorh at. While there I watched a goldsmith making a ring. I watched as the skilled artisan blew gently through a small brass tube directing the air into a tiny, coal-oil flame. The blowtorch effect heated a small ladle of gold. Every so often the goldsmith would take a tiny rodand flick away the dross that hadrisen to the top. In noting my in­

terest, he said, “I must a p p l y just enough h e a t to purify the gold.”

This was a lesson for me. The cleans­ing fire of the Holy Spirit will purify the gold and silverin our lives. The

precious stones will not be damaged. But the fire will destroy the wood, hay, and stubble of our self-righteous works. Wood seems to us to be better than stubble, but God in His wisdom knows just what is worth saving.

“Beloved, think it not strange con­cerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but re­joice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings: that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy" (I Peter 4:12-13).—Sidney E. Jackson, Pastor, Marysville, California.

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C onducted by W. T. PURKISER, Editor

We have a book which says that Jesus was born in 6 B.C. I have heardI like to think that Jesus was born

occu rred some tim e a fter Jesu s was born. T h a t date is ra th e r certain ly known to have been in early A pril in the year 4 b .c . by ou r calend ar, o r in the Y ear o f R om e 750.

Som e New T estam en t scholars believe the ch ild Jesu s was abou t a year old at the tim e o f the flig h t in to Egypt and th e slau g hter o f the babes of B e th leh em . T h is would p lace H is b irth then in e ith er 6 or 5 B .C .

it was in 3 B.C. What do you think? at the beginning of A.D., not in B.C.

A ctu ally , we can n ot be absolutely sure ju s t w hich year Je su s was born. O u r present B .C .— a .d . calen d ar o rig in a t­ed w ith D ionysius Ex ig u u s, a R om an ab b o t who died arou nd a .d . 550. H e fixed on the Y ear o f R o m e 754 as the year o f th e In ca rn a tio n , and worked h is com p u tation from th at date. I t now seems certain th a t he was five o r six years late in his calcu lation .

T h is conviction h inges on th e date o f th e death o f H erod the G reat, w hich

In Acts 10:44-48, the gospel was given to the Gentiles, and immediately, while Peter yet spoke, the Holy Ghost fell on those that heard. Was Cor­nelius a Christian before that time?

T h e r e are two im p ortan t p oin ts to make w ith regard to C orn eliu s and those who were recip ien ts o f w hat has been called “ the G en tile P en teco st” in Acts 10.

First, C o rn eliu s was certa in ly not a typ ical un converted individu al. H e was a devout m an who feared G od and prayed to G od alw ay (Acts 10:2) . His prayers and alm s were a m em orial b e ­fore G od (verse 4) . He was said to be cleansed and not com m on (verse 15) . His pray er was heard (verse 31) . He worked righteousness and was accepted w ith G od (verse 31) . H e knew the word o f the gospel (verse 37) . His w hole a ttitu d e was one o f eager recep ­tivity for the fu ll truth w hich God m igh t reveal to him throu gh P eter. Not manv sinners would m easure up to that descrip tion .

Second, it should be noted th at the accou nt Luke gives in Acts is highly condensed. W h at p robably happened was th at, w hile P eter was ta lk ing, C o r­

n eliu s and those with h im opened their hearts and received the fu ll im p lication o f the gospel by fa ith . W h atev er they m ay have lacked in the way o f forgive­ness o f sins and a new b irth was m et by the grace o f God then and there. As P eter continu ed to talk , in response to th eir continu ed openness to the S p ir­it, they alm ost im m ediately th ereafter received the Sp irit in His fullness.

Since the effect o f the S p ir it ’s fu ll­ness is described in Acts 15 :8-9 as “p u ri­fy ing th e ir h earts by fa ith ,” w hat the Ep istles have to say abou t G o d ’s wil 1 in the san ctification o f H is people is relevant. F irst T h essa lo n ian s is p a rticu ­larly c lear on th is w hole m atter. Any who are trou bled abou t a second work o f grace could well study it carefu lly , n o tin g w hat Paul says abou t the fa ith o f th e T h essa lon ian C h ristians, and the exh ortation s, com m ands, and prayers w hich he expresses fo r th eir c o n tin u ­an ce in grace.

In Matthew 19:12, who are the eunuchs mentioned? What does “He that is able to receive it” mean?

“There is no substitute for C hris­tian example. It must precede and support instruction in both doctrine and morals. Everybody from aged women to young children are in­fluenced by a genuinely effective life. Our precepts cannot ivell extend be­yond our practices, and our instruc­tions must be launched from the pos­ture of our personal Christlikeness. Not all people can becom e able preachers, but all can be good e x ­amples. Not all can be pastors, but all can be patterns. Not all will know theology, but all can knoiv Christ and show themselves a pattern of godli­n e s s —Milo L. Arnold.

T h e verse reads a little m ore m ean ­ing fu lly in the N E B , “ F o r w hile some are in cap ab le o f m arriage because they w ere born so, o r were m ade so by m en, th ere are o th ers who have them selves renou nced m arriag e for the sake o f the k ingdom o f H eaven. Let those accep t it who ca n .”*

“ A ble to receive i t ” is exp la in ed in verse 11, “ All m en can n ot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given .” In o th e r words, celibacy for the sake o f the kingdom o f G od is n ot a universal re q u irem en t, b u t an ind ividu al leading.

As Dr. E arle rem arks in th e B e a c o n B ib l e C o m m e n ta r y , “ In view of w hat

C h rist had ju st said abou t the d ivine in stitu tion o f m arriage, it should be obvious th a t celibacy is n ot G o d ’s usual p lan . A m arried m in ister and fa th er can en te r m ore fu lly and h elp fu lly in to the dom estic p roblem s o f his p arish io n ­ers than can an u n m arried m a n ” (Vol. V I, p. 1 7 8 ).

Paul recognized that for some it was best not to m arry (I C orin th ian s 7 :32- 35) . B u t he w arned against the false teachers who w ould com e “ forbid din g to m arry ” (I T im o th y 4 :3 ) .

*"The New English B ib le/' © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961.

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