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Nazarene Messenger - March 18, 1909
Nazarene Messenger - March 18, 1909
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Vol. XIII.
Los Angeles, Califomia, March 18, 1909 No. 38
in Prayer.
get iii. " Within twenty minutes the
street door was opened. In that case
the shortest way to the top of the build-
ing was vi:i" Manchester . The shortest .
way to anywhere is via heaven. Get
into touch with heaven and all the rest
[':j(]UST about the timc. whcn the dif-
ferent holiness now
fonning the Pentecostal Church
ol' 1 he Nazarene began their work in
1.111' tast, west and south of th is eonn-
1r,,, there c6llllnenccd in
England, a holiness callc9
1 II 1'\'nt.eeostal J_jeague, under the lead
.. ,. a sanetificd htwycr named lVIr.
Hl'<tdCJ' Harris. The work has now
sptad over En glanJ, so t hat nearly all
la.rgt towns ha vc what is c;alled
"('entre," which holds ail-day monthly
nH e1 ings l ed by some one of the many
"ohes under the l1cague. _The League
is now a great praying body of Chr is-
1 ians, but who hold their m.cmbership
in the Uiffercnt evangelical churches.
Header Harris, K. C., is sti ll at the head
of t he League, and we give herewith
extmcts from an address r ecently de-
li,mecr by him on "Prayer and Revi-
vals,:' r eported in the Tongues of Fire;
the offi cial organ ' of the movement:
Now what is the divine method and
ortler 1 I believe the order of revival
is first intercessory prayer. "Tf two
of yon shaU on earth concerning
an,v1hing tl!ey shall ask, it shall be done
l'tir them.''
The Supreme Power.
God wanf<; to deliver us from sin, to
fill . ns with Himself, and t h en to turn
11s to accotint in the most g lorious s.cr-
l" itt that 11w nor women can ev er pe t-
l'ot'lll. This wonder-working power in
ptaytJ; the greatest power that this
lllli ntsc has ever seen in human hands.
1 h1 JHlWel; . to move the arni that.
1 ht world-God offers. t hat. powe r . . ''If
of yon shall agree." .Agreement
\\"il"h heaven, agrect.Jl ent among your-
SthPs, and ye shall" ask what ye will
and it shall be done nnto you . God
to go to the
and no other remedy is v/orth luning.
Dif6culties! Thank God for difficnl-
!.i ls! Some of us would never have
ht' Pil the God has made u.s
will come into order. s
if we 11ad not had difficulties. It was
difficulties that opened our eyes heav-
enward; it was troubles and sorrows
that drove us to God. Have you seen R.evivals of the Past.
lately what have. been doing in God has done it before. Two hun-
H.ussia ? 'rhey have discovered a way dred . years ago, when religjon Jay a-
of getting .thousands of ears of, _:wheat dying in England, worse than it is now
out of one car sown. Do you lmow with an awful dearth ana an awful
how they do it1 By difficulties! 'rhis death. God raised up W esley , White-
is what they do. They sow the corn field and others. They were laughed
eighteen inches deep. Directly it comes at; they were scoffe'd; they were de-
to the surface they put six inch es ricled; they were persecuted; but they
earth on }he top, and they wait. \-Vhen triumphed. Yes, by t h.e grace of God
it comes 1 o the surface again they put they brought about a real revival. At
six inches more, and during all that ... the same time Joriathari Edwards, .of
time the root. is made strong and virile America, issued his appeal for
and reproductive. And "\vhen it comes an invisible union of all God's people
again they. put six inches more of earth in earnest prayer for a world-wide dif- '
on top and so they go on. until the corn fusion of the Holy Ghost. issued
becomes strong and powerful, and even that appeal. God answered it. Men
perrennial. Each little grain sown they began to pray, and a wonderful spirit
hope '':ill bring thousands of grains -in of enquiry spread the world over.
return. What do those six inches of Come and do the same thing today.
earth represent to us 1 Difficulties! We thank God for the evangelistic
difficulties! Thank God for the diffi- movements of the past, for Finney, for
eulties, for _with every difficulty God Moody, for what we ourselves have
will show His mighty power. se(ln. But what we now need is a revi-
val of vital godliness aniong ourselves
The Supreme Method. and our own people. _So I ask you to,
The divine method is to pnite men - join the League, to claim the $pirit of
l God. We want more prayers, more
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prayer. That is the way dividual men to pray. We want more
to bring about a revival; that is the individual prayers. In a galvanic bat-
way to do everything. You can do t ery an increase of power cannot be ob-
things b;.r prayer that yon can do no tained by in.crcasing the s ize of the
othe1 way. 'rhc
1
e is, I am told, a news- cells, but by increasing the number of
L the cells. And so we want to increase
paper m ondon which ha& a private
the number of the praying people.
wi1e between I1onclon and :Manchester.
The cl_erks at the London office were 1 Your Responsibility.
late one
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ight ver y busy at the top of Look at this world today, wit h its nine
hundred millions of heathen for whom
the fourth story. and a man with im- . J esus om L?r?-
portant news arrived at the street door, t here; wattmg. wa1tmg, wa ttmg. \Vhat
bu1J could not get in because the street for 1 H e could sweep away the sin
d.oor was closed, a nd the cl erks at the ins.tant}y, if He liked ; H e could re-
top of t he could not his vive ns instantly, if IJe liked; btit He
is waiting for what in this dispensation
lmoek at the door in th.e street. Then at lenst He never wOI:ks without, the
a th ought struck him, and he went to co-operation of His people. Shall we
. a tel 0grnnJJ offi ce nud . .ltlil .. t elegx.nphed __ give lli!n .. our . co-operation L How can ...
to the l\Ianche::;ter agen.cy, '' \Vill yon best do it ? !Jy l etting God . come
communi cate by your private wire to mto our hearts and give us His Holy
Spirit to work in ns both to wi ll and.
t he. London office a nd say- t hat i am to do tn . -a ccordance : with His .good
down at the street door l1iHl want to pleasure. ,...
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Contributed Articles-
YOU AND I.
MRS. J. WILSON.
\Ve are going homa :some day,
Yon and I.
We not going home to die;
Each possess a .mansion fair :
\Ve have titles to them there,
You and I .
\V e 've an Elder Brother ther'e,
. You and
Counselor for every heir ;
His is yonder eastern gate;
Enters there the whole estate,
You and I.
These are princes all by birth,
You and I .
Seed more r oyai than of earth;
Children of t he King of Kings;
Covered by His sheltering wings,
You and I.
So we'll travel OH together,
You and I .
Sometimes through sunshiny weather,
Sometimes when the clouds stoop low, .
vVith the fury bolts of woe,
You and I.
If we fail and naught 1s paid,
You and I.
All to his account is laid;
Abide in me is all He asks;
Mine the cost s and . mine the tasks;
You and .I.
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WANTED-POWER.
C. V. LAFONTAINE.
"\Va nted - Large Factory with
Power. Apply at once and give loca-
tion.'' This newspaper caption is often
seen when large firms or corporations
want to enlarge their factory so as to
increase their business. It is the cry
of the world. Power is needed every-
where. The steamship lines want power,
and appears 'lhe great ''whale-
backs'' to ply up and down the l akes,
and carry the commerce of a nation.
The railroads want power, and soon
that magnificent . Engine '' 590'' comes
out of the shops to haul the miles of
freight cars from ocean to ocean. The
printing offices want power, and
''Hoe's Perfection Press'' is installed.
The astronomers want bigger telescopes.
'fhe government want s .larger sear ch-
lights. The navy must have more
powerful battleships. Even the elect ric
lines want cars with heavier motors,
and dynamos with greater capacity.
The cry on every.hand is power, power,
power. The cry of the world is the cry
of the power needed.
The cities must be evangelized The
gospel must be preached .. Souls must
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.be rescued fro:rii .. sin and started ori the
highway of holiness . . The sal:vation of
the city is the sal{ration of the country,
and the downfall of the centers of popu-
lation is the destruction of the n ation.
'l' h e demon of intemperance must be
overthrown. ''The saloon must go.''
Prohibition. is but it must .
prevail c.onquer. The victory of
the mass is the victory of the individ-
ual, and without the p ersonal equation
the masses will never gain the battle .
God has the power to do all that is
n eed ed. His forces are all about us on
every hand. All one n eeds to do Is -s im-
ply to r each out and b1k e of_ Omnipo-
tence all t hat is r equired. How can it
be appropriated'! Come in contaet with
God . . To become surcharged witl1
tricity one must be on an insulated
stoql with no connection with the eai.th.
To r eceive the power of God one must
be altogether on the altar of eOiJSCera-
tion with no worldly touch.
. Why so many without
power 1 The ex-planation is easy. Con-
t.act with the world. Even a tow string .
is to take electricity from _a
per son on an insulated stool, and any
small thing in contect with the world
will cause .. one to ' ' leak out a"nd loose
power. " Not more Christians but more
powerful ones. The same ones will do
the work, but not in their present con-
clition. They must be empowered from
on high. But the way t o be empower ed
is to be cleansed from all wenkness.
Have every evidence of spiritual dis-
ease eliminated and health will beeofne
strength. Cleansing wjll become power .
Whatever cleanses will make strong in
the divi ne life. The power of the Chris-
tion 's life is the power of a sanctified :
heart filled with perfect love r eceived
through the baptis m with the Holy
Ghost and power.
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EFFECTS OF LOVE.
ALPIN M. BOWES,
Love is the essence of Christianity.
'rhe Bible plainly declares that it is the
indicative evidence of conversion. "He
that lovetl1 not knoweth not God. " 1
Jno. 4:8. "By this shall all men know
that we are my disciples, if ye have
love one to another . " Jno. 13 :35. But.
who are we to love? Only those who __
l ove us ? No, "For if ye love them
which love you, what reward have ye?
do not even the publicans the same?''
Matt. 5,:46. "But I say unto you love
your enemies, bless .. them that curse
you, do good to them that hate you,
and pray for them despitefully
use you, and persecute you. '' Matt.
18
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5 .. :44. Alas, but the human heart is cer-
tai.n to hate its enem1es, and to prey on
them. which despitefully us e yon a nd
persecute .you. Yes, but that same h eart
will when :filled with . Div.ine Love be-
come a loving, lovable exriinple of l ove.
The inference is unmistakable, that if
there. is any_.hate in the iieart. _yon are
in darkness. "He that hateth his
brother is in walketh in
darkness, and knoweth not whither he
because that dnikness hat h
blinded his 1 .J no. 2:11 .
'fhe love of God dispels a ll darkn ..
and r e moves every stumbling hlodc
"He that foveth his .brother abidcth in
t he_ light, and t heie is none o.ecasion of
stumbling in him." 1 Jno. 2:10. This
r eveals the secret cause of the gross
darkness and spiritual
of those who stumble over oth er s, to be
a lack of love within their own bosom.
Is your .soul darkened by hatred ? Then
love will cause you to see the value of
that never dying soul, and long to see
it reached by quickening grace. Do
the faults of others awaken f eelings of
criticism within you 1 Then love will
enable you to overlook t heir faults.
Do the inconsisten cies of others make
you dislike them? Then love will eausc
you to pity them. Do car es in ' life ag-
gravate and .annoy you ? Then l ove
will make the life sweet in t he Jnnst
unfavorable circumstances. Do yon
have no compassion a nd coneern fo1 the
'fhen l ove will melt your col<l.cl is-
pos ition until you will deli ght in the
salvation of the
Certainly love will receive some
abuses. How could a more love a hie
character than ..Joseph be imagined?
-Yet he was hated and :ahu'sed most un-
mer cifully by; his own hrothGrs. Enu
the inost beloved dis1:iple, John, was
cursed by bitter enemies. So you must
not expect that the sweetening of :vout
: life and disposition by divine love "ill
make all -mm Y<?lll' fri ends. However
any persecution that may come wi ll he
falsely for Christ's sake.
And then love must he cherished , for
it may easily be lost. John's sad mes-
sage to the church at Ephesus was,
" Thou hast l eft they first love. " Only
by careful and continued faithfulness
and obedience can love be r etained.
After long years of patient dealiug
with the complaining Isrcalites, :Moses,
in . unguarded moment , sinned by
-impatiently striking . the r.ock and de,_
claring the popple rebels. Y.ou were
t empted to speak loose, damaging
words about another's faults; the Holy
March 18, 1909]
. Spirit restrained you: You
wer e invited to a . worldly gathering;
the . Spirit whispered . in oisapproval.
Or you considered buying. some worldly
apparel, which in the presence of spir-
itual people w,ould make you feel Wl-
. comfortable. Did you mind the checks
and obey the restrainipg voice 1 Or did
yon disregard the We cannot
bn loose and retain our love. .
'l'herc will be many deficicnc'ies iu the
lives of those perfected in love, such as
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tmtal and physical infirmities.
But should the deficiency be a marked
laek of love the question is natural-
! v suggested; "Are yon not mistaket;
in your profession of entire sanctifica-
tion 1'' We have this evidence ''By
1hcir fruit ye shalllmow them." 'l'here-
''lie that feareth is uot ma<le per-
fect in love." 1 Jno. 4 :18; or " Whoso
. hath this world's goo'd, and seeth his
lnother have need, and shutteth up his
howels of dnnpassion from him, how
dwclleth the love of God in him?" 1
.fuo. :{ :17; or ''If any man among you
setu1 to oc religious, and bridleth not
his tongue, but deeeiveth his own heart,
this mall ' s icligiou is vain." Jas. 1:26;
m ' If any man love tht> world-the love
of the l<'ather is 110t in )tim. " 1 J1.10.
2:15; or "Love envicth not; lovt! vannt-
t!th not. is not puffed .np, doth uot.
htha\'1' itself Hlls<'t'n!ly. scckcth not he r
own. is not provoked , think(>th 110
P\il. " l Cor. 1:! :4, 5.
C;onld it be possible that a heart in
which "the love of God is shed abroad
hy 1 he Holy Ghost'' could manifest un-
holy j ca.lousies, rcvili ngs, touchi11css,
nlalitt. fattlt-fiuding, erncltics, Vl'n-
geancef Nay; they do not. exist in 11w
pure hee.rt. "If a man say, I love G()d.
and hateth his brother. he is a liar: for
he that loveth not his brother whom lw
hath seen, how can lw love God whom
lw hath not seen '?'' l .Jno. 4 :20 ; and
' ' Doth a fountain scud forth at. 1 he
same plact SWCl't water and bitter ?
('an the fig tree, my brethren, bear
olive herries 'l t>ithet a \ ine figs ?'' .Jas.
:! :11, 12. .
Oh, beloved! Hav(! you that .
1 hat r:aused a we<>piug J errmiah to long
fo1 t lw salvation of a. sinful people '!
That c:onstrained the GoOf! Samaritan
to . bind the wounds and affectionately
<'a r c fm the fallen stranger? That
Joseph to freely forgive his
<ruel brothers, and even the designing
false accuser, Poffphar's wife? That
enabled Moses to suffer long with a
complaining, murmuring 'fhat.
kept .. Stephen : so swem -in the hour of
. - J!is stoning fhat he prayed .for his lntlr-
tlerers, "Lord, lay not this sin to their
<hargE>"Y .
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'OUR MISSIONARY
WORK .. - Christians she was very nervous of get-
. tirig COntalliillllted and wa11-ted- to run
away quickly. But they made arrange-
THE POWER OF CAST. IN INDIA.
! wrote some ago about our con- ments for .her . to cook her own food
vert preacher, Barna Churn Babu. Now ap(l keep away from pollution in every
I want to write about a Hindu sister way. It was, however, the hardest job .
of his. Her name is Sharoda, .and she we have ever bad; I think, to keep her,
is about twenty years of age and a Jmtil her brother could., arive from the
child-widow. Her brother-, .sinee his village by the next steamer. She re-
eonversion, had lost sight of her alto- .. fuRed to eat for two days, and how }Ve
eth f
' t k longed for the arrival of that ate ame:;I
g er or years, uu some wee s ago,
in his vilhtge work, he heard . of her express. She did .not what
again in a pecu.Jiar way. He was called \\ e were detaining her for, but we all
to see a sick Hindu man, who turned -felt that the only chance for her was
out to be the very man who had elope<;! to see her brother, apart from }!indus,
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. . X . and for him to try orwe more to' ex-
wit 1 his wtdowcd sister and who had
'plain his object and love. in an atmos-
siuce deserted her, with a bahy a
months old, in Calcutta. On hearing
all this. Barna t:h nrn emne at onec to
town to search amongst the outcasts
for his lost sister , for he know that her
caste peopl e must have cast her out.
For days he searched and pr.ayed:_ for
guidance. He had .no time or to .
eat or sleep. ,One his search proved
successful. - He-::- found her with her
baby girl in an evil house, aJHl althoug h
she did not know him he gr;ul11ally r e-
vealed . his identity to her. The resul1
was startling. He was,J.he hrothei who
had d'Jsgraced the family. He was a
< 'hri st ian- a hated. <l cfil efl <reature.
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not worth,\' the name. of man. rrc " as
filth- a How dart he come be-
fore lwr to defile her! She poured a
\olunw of abuse upon him and said she
would never go near him for the world
as long as she> live>1l. He was an outcast
and no words eould 1he nttPr
loathing slw for hi111.
It was pitiful to sec his t1a ts and
ht>a1 his pra_rl' l'S for lw1. But shl' was
stnrnful atHI urimo\'l'<l. The strang<'
part. was that she IHrself wHs !'OIIsid-
Pred to be an outcast by all l'ast.e Hiu-
dus. hut sh1 considered that. although
she ha!J, lost hE'r original ,aste. shl hHd
!'lltt'rec . another lowet onr. "whith \\ as
to her sl1 rl'C} thing. Lo'y as slH;
smik. sl!'e herself vcr\
ml:wh. to ( .brothl'; ..
At last Bama Churn Babu lame to us.
t!'lliitg us that it was evident that h e
!'Oi.tld do nothing more, but begged of
us to continue to pray, and to try to d o
something to entice her away, not let-
ting her know' that we hau t.o
do with him. After prayer and wateh-
ing we found . that. she was looking for
work, as she was d estitute and in d ebt.
l\[rs. Bani trjce and 1\fr, Bis";as. as
straugcrs, offered to mnploy: .her and
she innocently went with them to Hope
school. \-Vhen she found they w-ere
phere of prayer: At he arrived .
and she then the
bctwe1m 11s, and at .fitst was very, very
augty. \-Yhcn she had exhausted her-
self with anger, she began pleading
ueseeching. She sa'id to her brother
. . . . '
"You say you want to do the best you
<:an for me. 'l'he best I want is this-
give me enough money to buy me back
into my lost caste and t _hat is the only
'best' I want or ask of you." She
tlu:Pw herself on th.t!,..ground and plead-
ed with liS all to do this for her - to buy.
her atonement, as it is cailcd in Hindu-
ism. '!'here was a momrnt of silent
prayer. Then her brother began to see
his way out. lie told her that our
'' best'' for nfened to her
and that .we Wl' r c not satisfied for her
t o r e main in sueh a low easte any more
than _she was. \Ve wanted her to be
raised to a better as soon as possible,
uut could only do our best for h er if
she agreed to with us for the pies-
ent. She did not like this, but in the
end she agreed, saying, ''I am polluted
already aud mote or less will not make
any differetH'!'. I if J g.et
tleansed by the atonement in the e1id."
After a time het brother left for his
work in the villages. He almost danced
in . the road for jO,\". Now his sister.
Sharoda, is waiting for his ''best'' to
tonw to pass. and it is gmdnally com- .
in g hy her ereeping up. an inch at a
time every day nearer to the Bible lcs-
son. \Ve see it coming but she. does not
at JH' csent r eali ze that hE'r "best'' is not
his. hut hy Got! 's it soon will bt>.
C. A vetoom.
JA JA :,JA .
SPANISH EL PASO, TEX.
'riH' work is progressing finely with
afternoon allll night services daily.
Yesterday ,\e had an all-llny meeting
wit h a -number and sanctified and
gr eat liberty of the spirit in prayer,
praise and pi;Pnchiug. Two t>rt>achers
were sanctified aml a Baptist man
prayed like .Jaeoh. ''I will not let Thee
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go .. except Thou bless men . . Now, sane-.
tify me now. I want to tell. 1TIY people.:
Oh Mexico, beloved Mexico. Sanctify
me now . Father, that I may tell my
people."' He had believed th'at we get
all in conversion. Santos' son also, and
three others, were...sanctified. Another
yotlng man ' on Wednesday night was
awakened in the night and the Spirit
witnessed to his sanctification. Men'
have been saved in their scats during
service and come forward to stand and
give testimony with those who had
been saved at the altar. God has mar-
velously manifested Himself to this
people in these days. A young man a
long way from the mission saw in his.
dream an open Bible so different than
any he had ever seen; Sunday morning
he was passing the mission, stopped to
h.!3ar . the hymns that penetrated his
heart, and entered with two others.
They were all converted. he said
"he found the open Bible he had seen."
So many of them have said, "Oh. what
a change in these six clays; we do not
seem to be the same. One said, '' l\fy
vision is so fixed on Jesus that I don't
see things that I used to see.''. Santos'
son is a preacher-as is Santos-with
natural ability and power, and undet:
the Spirit's power moves and holds. his
audience. He wants to go to Los An-
geles to study; he ought to be in our
college. vVe need him for our work.
I am praying that it may be arranged.
Oh, to look on these "whitened fields"
and to hear Him say, ''Who will go for
us?" \Ve have heard them say, "vVe
are not to blame that we do not know
'this no one has told us." In
this city alone there are 25,000 of these
lost souls groping in darkness . . They
seem as ignorant of the true light as
if they had never heard of the Bible.
They seem to come from everywhere in
Mexico and to have no fixed destina-
tion or thought except to find work;
many have families and all are very
poor. Our mission is between two
"rancheros," or places that employ
these men and here they congregate by
the hundred-here we can give out
gospels and tracts and testaments and
preach the gospel and have salvation
every day in the year.
El Paso is . a great open gateway to
New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico it-
self. No other point, I believe, is so
important to us as is El Paso for a cen-
ter of operatic;ms in our great work
among this people. Lift your eyes of
faith, brethren, and let us have a
school, a printing press to print holi-
ness literature to be put in the hands
of every Mexican that can read that we
can reach from this point; and teachers
and' workers to -.occupy this place for
God. Santos has worked here for
nearly two years free, except five dol-
lars per month on rent of house where
she gathered the ' 'little flock.'' Now
she. does not have this, as it goes to
rent of mission. She ought to have at
least ten dollars per month. . I believe
God will drop it down from somewbere.
Amen. Santos is a true . Nazarene.
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.No.h1ng has J:>een abl e,'to move her.
solne aie coming_to .us from other de-
nominations, two liave come }}).0 have
been praying for some time for some
one to show them the way of holiness;
a number have come from Mexico say-
ing ''we heard of this work in Mexico
.and we Want to be members. " One
. inml' sent his sister and .her two chil-
dren on ahead and he walked , from
some point in Mexico. He .just ar .
rived as I writing this, to join \vith
us here, the si_ster and daughter being
converted after they came. We have
not kept an exact count but believe
some seventy or. more have been seek-
ers for either pardon or purity. So far
thirty-five have given their names de-
siring membership in our .church. There
have been seekers a.t every On
Sunday we expect to receive new mem-
bers and have baptismal and commu-
nion servi ce. '\Ve have felt the prayers .
of onr friends,who have been praying
for us.
Mrs. M. :McReynolds.
$ $ $
(}orrespondence
FROM THE FIELD.
Oak Cliff . .
The writer l eft Goldthwait Friday
night and arrived in Oak Cliff Satur-
day, February 13. We found the rally
already on the go. District Superin-
tendent J. D. Scott and our singing
evangelist, Rev. Nelson, had arrived the
night before and made a good start.
The attendance was light owing to a
sudden and . extreme change of the
weather. The Sunday services were
full of grace and glory and some souls
sought and found pardon and others
cleansed. The pastor, Rev. Ralph
Keisler, has the work of this charge
well in hand, having already installed
the envelope system for missionary
work Our people have a good church
house that will hold over six hundred
people.
Rescue Work.
vVe had the privilege of meeting Rev.
J. T. Upchurch and wife of the Ber-
. achah Home, located at Arl-
ington, 'l'ex., about half way between
the large cities of F't. '\Vorth and Dal-
las. Our church at Oak Cliff is a hearty
-supporter this great work.
Peniel.
. .
Owing to the severe illness of Sister
Scott, our district superintendent re-
turned home from Oak Cliff on Monday
morning, l eaving Brother Nelson and
the writer to go on to PenieL We were
met by General Superintendent Elly-
son's team at Greenville, and were soon
conveyed to his pleasant home at
Peniel.
. We were delighted -to have the .pt:iv-
ilege of meeting Brother C. J. Fowler,
who had just closed a veiy precious
holiness convention under the auspices
of the Texas Holiness Association with
the Texas Hoiiness ' UitiVer$ity. 'rhe
convention was one_ of the best held
there, -the work going very deep; which
is characteristic of .Brother Fovder 's
conventions.
Monday Night Service.
The missionary meet'ing was favored
with a good number of the members of
the Southern Branch of the Gencl'al
Missionary :Board, and two distri ct
superinten'dei1ts, Brother Bud Robinson
and other wQrkers. Revs. Sheeks, onr
treasurer and Rev. J. N. Spcal!:es,
tary, made brief and helpful remarks.
The writer also made a few rcrni11ks
with reference to the relation of the
baptism of the Holy Ghost to home and
foreigi1 missions. vVhen. we gave 1'hc
altar can seven or. eight carne scrl\ing
the baptism with the Holy Ghost. \\'ho
s'a,ys missionary meE)tings hinder , the.
work of holiness 1 It does not kill , hnt
wonderfully makes alive.
Southern Division of. the G. M. Board.
In response to a call from- Gene1al
Superintendent Ellyson, chairman of
the Southern Division, Revs. Brother
Sheeks, Speakes, DeJernctt, l\IcCon.nell,
Guy, Jernigan, Sister Fisher and the
writer met at Brother El1yson 's home
and carefully considered all the inter-
ests pertaining to our missionary work
in Mexico, Japan, Africa (a work just
turned over to us) and India. This
meeting lasted a clay and a hal when
it was decided to adjourn to Pilot
Point, where most of the above-named
committee met the following day and
finished up the work the best t he_,.
could at the home of Brother ,Jernigan.
Bonham ..
\Ve joined Evangelist Nelson at Bnn-
hame, some miles east of Pilot
Point, on Thursday, where we were met
by our pastor, Brother Hubbarrl and
his right hand man, Brother Coopel'.
This <;!ity seems quite like some of onr
New Englai)cl towns, as the coun tl'y is
rolling ancl a cotton factory is furnish-
ing work and music for the citizens.
'\Ve had two good services with our
church. They will adopt the envelope
system. Brother Hubbard and wife
have been .on this circuit only a f ew
months but the Lord is blessing thC!m
and giving them. the confidence of the
. people, which is quite necessary if "e
are to do the people good and build np
a strong work. We have a church prop-
. and hope to enlarge it soon.
Texarkana.
We arrived at Taxarkana, February
19, a city of about 12,000 people, with
half of the city in Texas and the other
half in Arkansas. Our church is one
mile west of the state line.
Rev.- '\V. I. Phillips, our pastor, . has
put in more than three years of ha l'd
work in Texarkana circuit and is now
seeing hopeful sig.qs . of a good work in
Texarkana. He and the people- have
got the .exterior of a church building
up and are worshiping in it, but the
r ecent blizzard struck it and it is badly
wrenched out of proper shape,
they. and complete It
soon . . The one service was well attend-
ed and the blessing of the Lord was
with us. Brother Nelson was at his
best in song, and the saints prayed and
testified and all seemed much interested
in the progress of our work as shown
.by the map. The envelope system wi_ll
be adoptE:d here.
Bivins.
Brothers Nelson, Phillips, .and the
writer with others from Texarlmna
l eft for Bivins and were joined on the
way by Rev. L. L. Gaines; pastor of
Slough and Collingsburg Circuit
iu Louisiana, and .several others who
were on the way to the Bivins rally.
We had a good rally at this point; the
weather was very warm, the attend-
ance was large at night and good in the
day time. Vve assisted in five services
autl took part in a church business
meeting.
Bivl.ns is a part of Brother Phillips'
cil' CUit, and they are planning f_or ag-
gressive work Tpey h a':e a . large
tabernacle, right m
Yi llacre and our people own their
house and have a good sized
membership, with a growing Sunday
school. They adopted the envelope
t em. elect ed the Church Missionary
Boa.l'd and promise good things for
missions.
Important .church matters necessi-
my returning to Peniel for con-
sultation with General Superintendent
Ellyson, so that I was obliged to leave
Bivins a day ahead of my slate. I was
disappointed in not having District
Superintendent Scott with us more on
the district, but serious illness of his
wife and other unavoidable circum-
stances prevented him from being with
us after we left Pilot Point. We en-
joyed his presence very much the short
t ime he was with us and pray the Lord
wi ll give him a great r evival on his
large district . We are much indebted
to Brother Nelson, Brother Scott's as-
f;istant and singing evangelist, who is
one of our promising young preachers,
fnt his ass.istance as guide, preacher,
and singer .
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Jonesboro.
I fiiTivecl at Jonesboro, Ark. , F ebru-
a t,, 26th, and was met at the station by
the pastor , R e'v. J . N. Speakes. vve were
soon seated at a bountiful breakfast
with our. brother's wife, mother and
t wo lovely littl e girls. A part of the
(lay was occupied in company with
Brother Speakes and other brethren
looking over some very fine blocks of
land that Bro. Speakes and the saints
on Arkansas di strict hope to secure
fm a camp ground, orphanage and r es-
cue home. We have at one
of t he strongest church es and one of
t he best church buildings on the Ar-
kansas district and located in a city of
nhont 14,000, and on the steady growth.
J.(' the camp shall be establi shed at this
point with the other lines of work men-
tioned above we can see no reason why
it shall not b ecome a great center for
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holiness work. we- had a good service .
at night. Brother Speakes has the en-
velope system in hand and will push
Malden; Mo.
The writer arriver at Malden on Sat-
urday about 10 a. m., where we found
Brothers La.wrence and ' Hudgings of
Coruthersville, Mo., delegates to the
rally, waiting to accompany me to the
parsonage, where. we found our pastor,
Rev. c, L. Vlilliaths, quite aftlicted from
the effects of a recent attack of period-
ical headache.
Pastor williams has without doubt
one of the largest, if not the largest,
circuits in our connection, extending
from 'Malden to the Mississippi river,
embracing Coruthersville, a distance of
about sixty miles, and Beech Grove and
Callas Springs, Ark., some eighty miles
south in the opposite direction, making
a distance of 140 miles to the extremes.
We have a good, large church house
at Malden and land for parsonage all
paid for and $600 in the bank to start
the parsonage with. Malden is a grow-
ing city surrounded by a fertile coun-
. try well populated and should become
one of the influential centers out of
which shall flow a constant stream of
holy influence and power. Brother
Williams and his good wife are win-
ning their way among the people and
are planning for a far-reaching work.
.We had five good services with this
people; with the exception of Saturday
morning the attendance was large. Sev-
eral were wholly sanctified, among
them a Methodist preacher and one of
our Sunday school sup-erintendents.
Brother Williams is planning to push
the envelope system on the entire cir-
cuit. Pray for this dear brother and
his family who have just come among
us and whose whole soul and body and
mind is devoted to the spread and con-
serving of scripturai holiness.
H .. F . Re;Ynolds.
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SECOND CHURCH, CHICAGO.
We have just closed our twenty-one
days of speci al meetings. God wa.s .
- with us in every meeting, souls wer e
saved, believers sanctifi ed wholly and
the saints wer e edified. The Friday
meetings were l';Urely a of grace
to the f ew t hat came to . pray. I am.
sure that our su ccess as a church will
depend a great deal upon just such
kind of praying we had at these
special days of fasting and prayer.
Sunday, February 28, the last great
day of the feast, was indeed a great
day. We had with us J . A. Berr;y and
wife; also Stella Brandenburg, . from
Robinson, Ill. (They are members , of
our church but live at Robin.son. )
They came over 200 miles to be with
us, and as they sang, talked, prayed
and shouted, oh how. the fire fell . Three
souls were at the altar. one for pardon
and two for \purity, and so the work
. k eeps moving ; the revival fire is burn-:
ing. We .expect to cat ch our breath in
March, Only holding our regular meet-
ings, and then hold meetings every
5
-night. in April. We hope 'to be abie.:-tq_-
:get I .- G . . Martin or . L. M, .-Williams-.-
We have taken in thirteen new mem-
bers since the 6th of December, 1908,
and have two more coming in next Sun-.
day, making a total of 39 members, ,
with at least six or eight more on the
fence. One sister .had been a Metho-
dist for twenty-three years but she .got
sanctified wholly in the special services,
and after reading over our Manual she
said, "I want to be one of them."
Amen. They say we are in a hard .
place-a Catholic neighborhood. Well,
I'm glad the -Lord is a specialist on
h'ard cases and places. We have four
converted Catholics in our church, and
they are blessedly saved ; one of them
is one of our deacone.sses. We are
praying and believing for the streams
of water to break out in the desert place .
and God is hearing us. If we just keep
our faces in the dust, our hearts on fire
.and our .sleeves rolled up, God will s <';e
us through. We don't purpose to l et
the bars down in or<-ler to increase our
membership; with the aid of the HQly
Ghost and our good membership com-
mittee God is helping us. get into the
fold a band of men and women "whose
hearts God has touched. ''
Francis J . Thomas.
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GARFIELD, WASH.
We closed o:ur _meeting here last
night. . It had been running seventeen
days. Rev. C. H. Davis of Spokane was
down and helped us seven days. He
preached- in the demonstration of the
Spirit and conviction was on, the peo-
. ple. Six were at the altar seeking
sanctification, one of whom was the
pastor of the Methodist church of this
place.
This meeting was held in the Meth-
odist churc:h. this of itself being quite
a victory fol' the Nazarenes here. Two
years ago we were hardly recognized
at all, but we have a+ last made an im-
pression upon the pP.ople. the
meeting commenced the Methodist pas-
tor, a Godly man, said that he r ecog-
nized that we had something that his
heart was longing for. This meeting,
I am forced to believe. was a greater
help to our work h er e than the .
seems to indicate;
We have our property all paid for
now, hence we can wor ship under our
own vine a nd fig tree. J. T. Little.
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GREELEY, COLO.
\Ve are glad to r eport victory atthis
place. Our God is leading His people.
The blessings of heaven are on us ;
. scarcely a Sunday but what some soul
finds Jesus. How we thank God for
the Church of the Nazarene, where peO
ple can come and find salvatjon, The
saints are looking for great things. We
are expecting Bro. Ruth . with us the
last of this month. The church at this
place is growing _in po:wer and numbers .
God has given us a true people, who
stand by the_ i\'Vord. Let all the saints.
pray for us: , E . . :Burge-.
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