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Vol. XIII. Los Angeles, California, June 10, 1909 No. so
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. \Yhy the Eradication of Sin? R. Pieree.
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there should be any _two opinions as to the real As weare responsible for per-
m! getting rid of sin as quickly as possible, by those sonal failure when we can be successful so the Church is
who are professedly and really its enemies, the writer responsible for leaving this world "lying in the arms_ of
cannot understand. By all earnest and . true men and the wicked one," when it can and should be in a condition
women it is denounced and hated and considered that to rapidly bring it to the feet of the Lamb.
"abominable thing ... which God hates, arid that which 3. The eradication of Sin is also a Sour'ce of Success.
destroys the purity and happiness of the human family- Getting the enemy out of the way opens the door to the
the robber of heaven, the supplier of hell. From the taking possession of his territory. The very absence of
standpoint of philosophy and logic, apart from experience, sin is victory. The "goods" of the "strong man" cannot
it would seem to any thinking mind that sin. ought to be be "spoiled" until the strong man himself is dealt with.
got rid of at any -cost and as quiCk as possible. But when Let what will be said, yet the fact remains that the
we consider God's attitude toward it, His plan and prom- inroads being made upon the kingdom of Satan in these
ises in reference to it, and His provisions through atoning days is mainly being accomplished by those who rejoice in
blood to deal effectually with it, we stand in amazement a clean heart and the fulriess of the Spirit. If church
at the sight of th.e Church of Chri_st to a great statistics prove anything-and they' do-those compiled for
clinging to it, and in many cases denying the possibility 1908 by Dr. Carrol show that the gains in this country are
of getting rid of it. By .eradication we mean, to plgck it over half-a-million be;hind those of the year previous. Is.
up by the roots, to extirpate it, to destroy_ it thoroughly. there not a Thank God for a church and condition
Therefore we believe that the eradication of sin is . . in which from the commencement of every service to its
1. A Saving of Time: _ A remedy that will instantly close the purpose is the salvation or sanctification of men.
cure a disease is a far .blessing than a lingering What else is the Church for? Eradication is to
process, or a process that merely allays' the fever but success because it leaves the Holy Ghost right of way to
stops not the inroads of the disease. While the disease is flow through clean hearts.
there the victim is helpless and cannot take his place in 4. Eradication; or purity, is a source of Personal Vic-
the world's advancement. At the longest this life" is tory. Sin is a hinderer so long as 1t remains in the heart,
short, and to win this world for Jesus we need to be "all and to retain its presence in any degree is to militate
_at it and always at it." . Sin scotches- the wheels of the agai:p.st that power which is so . desirable in the Christian
gospel chariot and even makes the drivers of the chariot life. It not only robs of outward liberty in serV.ice and
believe that it is going forward when it is standing still. testimony, but saps the joy -and peace which rightly
The will, plan and' promises . of God in reference to sin belongs to the child of God. Real victory is more to be
point to the fact _that we should at once get rid of it, so desired inwardly than outwardly, and the soul rejoicing
that we can take our place in the ranks of those whom He and triumphant in the realms of purity is a healthier con-
can use to rapidly accomplish His purpose. This world diiion than shouting "Hallelujah" from a lifeless source.-
"lietl)__:in the arms of the wicked one," and rio one is pre- . The thrill of purity, the sweet assurance that comes from
pared to rescue it for Jesus save those who are cleansed being right with God, the triumph of faith that springs
from sin and filled with the Holy Ghost. So that the from being in harmony with God, has never been exper-
eradication of sin is a great savi-ngof time in the salva- . ieJ,lced save by those who have had sin eradicated and the
tion of .this world when compared with the theories of Holy Ghost enthroned to reign supreme. It is worth all
suppression or gradualism. the world to have inward holy victory, and yet thousands
2. It is a Saving from Spiritual Failure. While are turning away from it for the baubles and pleasures of
there is a great show of work and seeming succe_ss in the world; yea, the Church itself in its attitude toward it
the churchly activities of these times, yetwhen compared is saying, "It is a worthless thing."
with what God calls success, it bec.emes a successful fail- Brethren, beloved! there may be more glittering pros-
- ure. There is not an honest-hearted man or woman in pects calling you, but there are none so precious and
the churches today but who will admit th.at when brought freigh'ted with eternal verities than to preach a gospel
face to face with God's purpose through the church-the - that saves men, now, quickly, h;om all sin. Let us stick
salvation of men-there are very few results for eternity to our job. To make men holy-with all its attendant
in all .the busy life of Churchianity. only blessings-is the only gospel of Jesus Christ and should be
one save the .church ,.,as the :_and shall be,-do we say-the one aim" of - every sermon,
from failure, and that IS_ the eradication of that wbtch the outcome of every service. Say; Amen!
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Nazarene [June lQ; 1909
The Thing that Tickled Him So.
:H. E. Fitch.
T.he devil climbed up in a Sycamore tree,
And he laughed and laughed in upt,oarous glee.
He la ughed out so loud and kept at it so iong
He attiacted an imp who was passing along.
But one thing is .laoking, I very well know;
And that's why I'm laughing, it tickles me so.
Said the imp . "What's the news? Has some suint gone astray
That has caJ,Ised you to laugh in. this boist:erous way?"
Then.he laughed all the louder and answered, "Oh no;
"He shows them they're sinnt>rs and doomed to despair ;
They see they need mercy, their hands raise for prayer,
The n kneel at the altar, a few Christians pray,
They rfse to their feet and then go tlfeit own way.-.
It's the !lleetings up yonder that tic.kle me so.
"No heart-cty fot pardon-no penitent's plea-
None ea r nestly pleading, 'Have mercy on me.!'
''They wished a r evival up there on the hill
No clear testimony- no 'witness' . from heaven-
And sent for a preacher the pulpit to fill.
No persottal knowledge that sins are forgiven.
I knew that this preacher was true to his .God;
If sin need exposing, he!d spare riot. the rod.
"Just a Bible verse quoted-why, I could do that,
' With a face as a ngelic as e'er you looked at.
" I heard he was coming. 0 how I was scared!
My bravest of Legions I brought, well prepared
They think they' re converted, that's just what they do.
They're only 'convicted,' and never 'pray through. '
To fight 'gainstthese meetings their good to o' erthrow;
. But now I am. laughing, it tickle!! me so.
"They think they are saved, and most folks think the same,
Pat them all on the back- they are Chl'istians in name .
"His heart is aglow with a love for lost men;
To bring them to Christ he will d6 all he can.
But the fact of it is-and that's what tickles me-
They are blind to the truth, just as blind as can be.
He is fervent in prayer and is full of God's love.
He tells men of hell and of heaven above.
"I saw how 'twas going, and, hless me, I know
I have most die.d a-laughing, it tickles me so.
"His preacbi.ng is weighty and powerful enough;
'I;o damage my kingdom ' tis just the right stuff.
The preacher may preach and pray on all he please,
For we've plenty of room for such converts a" these. "
Contribtited Articles
C. HOWARD DAVIS.
It is most certainly a S<Hl sight to see .
any bling so depraved as to h a, ie a dis-
position to hinder any worthy
but no words ean be f ound to describe
the of hindering t he work
of G91-L ant! standing in t he way of
soub. There is no neutral gr ound. vVe
. eithtr help 0 1' hinder in the matter of
saYing. In the prayer meeting, many
" ait. wait till this one, that one, speaks.
till t he la ttcr pa rt--;-yes, to the e1Hl of
the sl'rYin-beftnc t hey speak or pray.
81lllletinws t hey say, as au exeuse for
ily prayer autl in secret before you start
for chur ch ? It is easier to lay the
bliune. of a meeting that should have
been better, on some one . else, rather
than take a share of it on one's own
shoulders. But possibly, ,ve will have
to take our own r esponsibility, and suf-
. L't' r the p enalty when we are judged
ri ghteously. One hinders with a long
faet>. by indifference, lukewarmness,
\'Oolne;;s, by doing nothing whi ch you
glt out of. But time .forbids; seek
not to hin(ler. bnt avoid the way of
h in (ltrers; pass not by it, bnt seck t o .
hrlp. the Lmt! in t he work of r edeeming
tlu: lost.
Spokanr . \VasiL
.!:' ' $ $
doing nothing to help. ''I . was .tired. "
As for singing. thP-y will not so mueh HOME AND FOREIGN DEVELOPMENT.
as filid the hymn, but '"ill put their L. E. TRACY.
hand oYer a part of their long face, . .-\ suggestion ha;; tioat cd to om ears.
possibly to make some unspiritual one on'r here . in India. t hat it would he
think they an' praying, though at that wise not to deYelo.p tJ.ie forei gn mission-
pr esent moment it was time to sing. ary work of the chur'ch Yery much unt il
\Yhile the l_eader is reading, even t he t he home woik is stronger. \ve r efer
\Yort! uf God. they are turning the to it because we believe it is a question
l eaYes of the hymn book, watching late of great imp'ortance to the whole
comer s who '"alk meeting as if church and not because the matter con-
they had done nothing of w.h.ich to be cerns us. Vve r ecognize that a strong
ashamed. I mean both watcher and home constituency will make a good
late comer . How lateness on the means base for a strong foreign work, btit
of grace. when there is not a sufficient there is danger of oncsided d evelop-
excuse. hinders the work of God. ment. There cannot be mnch fear of
. ::\Iany hinder the work of the. Lord the foreign work outgrowi.i1.g the hoJne
and assist in making the meeting drag work, it usually ;.eceives its
and hea...-y. They spend all the time support from the home church, lnit it is
bef_or e going to prayer meeting, either easy for the church at i10me to rather
with a paper, or in trifling conversation. neglect the foreign work-and not
How many of you who read these lines ,;much persuasion is n ecessary to bring
are in the habit of praYing both at fam.,:} .. such a result.
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It is plainly demonstrated in nw
Acts of t he Apostle;;. a nd from the hi s-
tory of the early Christians, that t he
missionnry s pi1i t is Psscnt.ial to .the life
of t he church. In Yi<'w of t his, t he
<!\Iestion is. can we r efrai n from d cvel- .
oping for eign missions perma-
nentl y cri ppling that vital life 'l If so,
Lht>n to what extlnt '/ Jf I am working
for the sa lnttiotl of my next-door IH'i gh-
bor, I am a fort>ign missionary just 1J11
saHHl as though I we1e in A.ftica. !'or
no language or geogt'<iphi fal houndar il'S
al't reeogni ztd in Clnist 's plan of re-
demption. How can the.;;onl-s<'ckPt: be
dist omagell f l'Om going after the soul
in Indi a and yd maintain a bui'Hing,
at'ting dC'sire for hi;; nPxt-door neig-h-
bor ? The spirit of so-call ed home a nd
fo r rign wotk is the sa me. 'l'o tr,v to
l'Ut it i.n two wi ll mean death. vVc ar e,
like the trne motiHr. pleadi ng fot the
I ife of t he 'I'o dcYclop " home"
work and neglc<t '' for eign'' ,work wi ll
give ns a OIH'"Sidcd deYclopment, whi ch
is crippled dc.vPiopment.
There is nothing much mQre dead
than a well founded, p erfectly or gan-
ized church, center ed in itself. It soon
has nothing left but form and organiza-
tion. How often have we seen a small,
struggling church spenu and he spent
for the sal vation of the lost in their
own town and in missionary fields,
while God poured great blessings upon
that chm:ch until it ,Sfl.nd
s tro.ng. Later,. it was necessary to have
a church edifice, w,as built, .but
the members put most of. their effort
and money into their to the n e-
June 10, i909] . Me8.senfier.
.a.
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. .glect cff their former activities.
'l'hat church lost spiritually and
numerically. 'l'he building of the church
was not the cause. They got self-cen-
tered.
Pittsburg . District
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As.sembly-.
.We .knew a body of people who
erected their church and .increased
their missionary activities at the same
time. 'l'hat church is now one of . the
most spiritual and prosperous in . the
whole connection.
1'he missionary spirit cannot be bot-
tled up without permanent loss. De-
v-elop the home and foreign work simul-
taneously.
OUR MISSIONARY -WORK.
._.,ROM ,SISTER AVETOOM.
'i'he Second Annual District Assem-
bly of the Pfttsburg District, Pente-
costal Church of the Nazarene, was held
in East Palestine, Ohio, May 19-23. It
was a great Assembly and did 'much,
we believe, to further interests of
organized holiness in this great district.
Many of the pastors and delegates
artived Wednesday afternoon, and Sis-
tf,}r Curry, pastor at East Palestine,
had planned . a meeting which
proved to be a. t:eal good ''starter'' for
the Bless ' God ..
After an address of welcome by Sis-
ter E. Curry, which made us
nll feel that we were indeed welcome,
Bto. J . H. Norris, District Superintend-
ent for the past two years, was intro-
lluccd and very fittingly responded to
the add-ress of welcome. Our beloved
General Superintendent H. F . Reynolds
was then introduced to the Assembly,
n-nd r esponded in a most charming and
helpful way. We all rejoiced, and tes-
tified, and shouted, and gave God the
glory.
The Assembly.
You will be glad to hear that one of
our cholera patients ha('! recover ed. 1'he
other one, though sliC is still living, we
fenr will not recover, ns she has got
blood poisoning, which is one of the af-
ter effects. 'l'hc doctor in t;hc case says .
she may linger on foi some time . . Vlc
have had a good many cases of influ-
enza, but as we isolated them all nt
once, it did not spread as it did last
year, and they arc all better now. General Superintendent H. F. Rey-
l think I told you that wn have a nolds took the chair after the d evo-
holiness meeting amongst our worl<crs tional setvice conducted by Bro. Nor-
on Friday afternoons and we arc hav- ris, und the business of the Assembly
ing some. gtand times. Yesterday, a wus begun. Bro. James Davidso;n,
high caste Brahmin man sought our our pastor at Lincoln Place, Pa., was
preachers at a street corner, telling elected Secretary, and Bro. C. A. 1m-
them he wished to have a conversation hoff, his assistant and reporter to our
with them. They recognized him as papers. Both these brethren are lay-
one whom they ha.d visited and spokeri men from our Pittsburg church. The
to in the . hospital for the last two remainder of forenoon was
months. They took him into the hall over to the makmg of the roll and h e1tr-
and he told them that he was dis- ing r eports front pastors. If space
charged from t h.c .hospital in a very would permit, we would like to tell of
weak conditioli t he day before, and that the victories and achievements of these
he l1ad bc<>n going nbont the street try- dear brethren, through the power of
ing to find them to tell them that he . the Holy Ghost, during the past year.
wanted to be a Christian. He said that They were reports of victory and had
he had heard the Gospel befor e from a t he ring of Holy Ghost freedom and
preacher, who lived at a place twenty- power all through.
four hours ' journey from here. hut this On ... Thursday afternoon
prcaeher had suddenly died of cholera. session of one hour was
Since then, in the hpspit.al, the kindness reports were heard and .
of our prcache.rs in visiting him had named.
a business
held, and
committees
sttuck him at first, as no Hindus had At 3 .o'clock; Bro. James M. David-
taken the least notice of him. Themes- soil preached from Jer. 18:2. God
sage too of ''Come unto me and I will blessed both the preacher imd the hear-
give yon r est" had made him compare Prs, and gave victory at the altar ser-
Hinduism with this. Hinduism alwavs vice following.
said "Go. " Go atLd bathe in t.iw The preacher of the evening was our
Ganges, or go here or there on pilgrim- pastor at Warren, Pa., Bro. E. B. Fish,
age. But he was too weak and ill to who spoke .with much power and lib-
do any of these things, and the "come" <>rty from Matt. 3 :11.
.of the Lord Jesus, who has done all The devotional service on Friday
Himself for the sinner, had greatly at- morning was conducted by. Bro. S. W.
'tracted him. Of <>onrse: t.his onlr:hap- McGarvey, one of our evangelists from
pei1ed yesterday. and time will show Tt-vona, Pa.
whethe1 he is 'villing to give up all for Reports of pastors were finished. and
Christ. The giving up of his sacred a number of committees announced and
thread will mean more to a man of his rep.orts given. . .
caste and standing than The case of Rev. C. G. Buck -came up
can ever realize ..... Rut we me praying here. He was tried and' .expelled from
fo.r a!ld with him, iinrl I lH16\v yon his local church, and appellled the aen-
"'111 JOm m prayer. ' tcncc to the Assembly, and was finally.
dismissed and asked to .return parch-
ments, if he had ,any.
Also, Rev. J. H. Norris asked for a
to the reports,
accusations, rumors, etc., being circu-
lated about. himsfflf relative to his busi-
ness failure. Said. committee was ' ap-
pointed by the :cliair, and after .an all-
night's brought in a
verdict clearing Bro. Norris of any and
all . intentional wrong doing. (See re- '
port of thEY committee in this paper.)
.Qf .course we 'regret these
ha:d to come up, but rejowed w
know that we belonged to a body that
!:\. clean ministry, and imme- .
diately God would bless and the
sembly would move on in the sweetness
and unction of the Holy Spirit. Praise
God! We believe Spirit had His
way.
The afternoon session was taken up
with reports from our evangelists and
committees, all of which were interest-
ing and inspiring. Our three evangel-
ists, Bros. Imhoff, McGarvey al)d Ham-
pie, gave most inspiring reports of bat-
. ties fought and victories won for God
and holiness during the past Assembly
year. Their characters were passed
and continued as evangelists for an-
.other year. At .5:50 o'clock Rev. J . N.
Hampie, evangoelist from Linesville, .Pa.,
preached. The T.Jord blessed and again
gave souls and victory.
Friday evening was given over to the.
missionary interests, and was one of
the best we ever
attended. We were fortunate to have
with us our dear Brother S. M. Stafford,
Superintendent of our Missions in Mex-
ico, who was the principal .speaker of
the evening. Also our pastor and wife.
from Lincoln Place, Pa., who are re-
turned missionaries from India. Bro.
Reynolds, General Superinten.dent, pre-
sided and made some preliminary re-
marks, and then introduced Bro. and
Sister Davidson, who each spoke of
their work in India in an interesting
way, and we were all sorry that they
did not have more time, and would
recommend these dear people to pastors
for missionary meetings. Bro. Stafford
then gave us one of his spiritual, earn-
est appeals for the work in Mexico.
The Lord continue to ,owsk Bro. Staf-
ford and his work. We were especially
glad to hear him tell of the recent re-
vival in Mexico in our work there. .An.
offering was taken amounting to about
$68 for his work, t.o be used to help
buy type and paper for his new pre8s.
Bro. Stafford showed a box of jewelry
which had come off "our folks," and
quite a bit of cast-off jewelry was given
him before leaving. Let us jl,lSt say, it
is Bro. Stafford's plan to gather enough
jewelry' to build a church iri Mexico,
arid any one having these ornamentS
please send them to Bro. Stafford and
build this church.
. . Saturday morning Bro. Reynolds
called the Assembly to order for the
,at-!} - a.
and.<ltey. Wm. H. Nerry, our. pastor
.l\fahaffey; Pa., led.' the devotional ser-
'viee. . . . .
E .- pUbli'c -' press; --we .. that tbi.s ..
Curry; East : _finding be>printed' ill :the East:;_Pafea:.o
LincoP'l Place, Pa,___:_James ).{. tine, and church papei's.:
so:p., Lincoln Place, Pa. . . . S.igned by: .
Further . . work occupied
our time, and .then we listened to some
reports .froin .our goodly- number of li-
censed preachers . . These brothers have
not .. been idle during the year, but their .
"reports showed a spirit of loyalty and
r Lisbon, Ohio;-::-T6 be supplied by Ar- New Galilee, Pa;; Rey. E . B. Fish,,
thur C. Zepp, New Galilee, Pa. . . sistant Secretary; Wat:ren,.Pa'. ; Wrri. _M;
Lithopolis, Ohio:--:A. R Welch, .1301 Creal, Warren, ' Pa: ;:John Gould, . East
W. State St., Columbus, Ohio. .