Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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Rev. M. E. Borders Chairman Olivet University Finance Committee THE AEOLIAN QUARTET Twenty-four MBHB

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1. God ' s messenger, His specially chosen servant, Moses ; and 2. A message for all the congregation , not a part, but ALL, 3. They were all to be holy , and 4. The reason God himself gives for making such demands is, because I the Lord your God am holy. Holiness was God ' s original purpose and highest ideal concerning man. Some very graphic statements are found in Ephesians 1 :4 : According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. In these words of the apostle there are at least three things stated : 1. God made a choice for us. 2. That choice was made before He laid the foundation of the world ; hence before man came upon the scene. 3. That choice was blameless holiness. When we consider that He has infinite resources from which to make a choice for the race, and that from all these He makes the choice of holiness for us, then we more fully appreciate the choice. Hallelujah ! God has commanded us to accept His choice. But as He which has called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ; because it is written be ye holy; for I am holy. (I Pet. 1:15, 16.) Holiness is first of all, a heart made clean by the precious blood of Jesus, under the baptismal fires of the Holy Ghost, and, secondly, a clean consistent life or deportment the result of a sanctified heart. The thing the world needs to-day is men who are holy in all manner of living. (R. V.) Then the conversation will be wholesome and the life transparent. It is the purpose, or ultimate end, of all Bible truth that men should be holy ; All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (II Tim. 3 :16, 17.) In these verses we see that the Bible is not only inspired of God, but that it is tremendously effective, insisting on the perfecting or entire sanctification of, not the world, not the sinner, not the backslider, but the man of God , the regenerated Christian ; hence, it is of necessity a SECOND BLESSING, or a second definite work of Divine Grace. Holiness is a result of preaching Christ : Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom ; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus ; whereunto I also labor, strivin g accord- ing to His workings, which worketh in me mightily. (Col. 1:28,29.) In the above we have the following: 1. A message of warning. 2. A message of wisdom. 3. A message to all or to every man in Christ Jesus, to be perfect. 4. The same desire or working that stirred Him in His ministry is seen to be the same incentive and striving that worketh in us mightily. Hence the beautiful thought, that the effort to get men sanctified is not a human effort alone but His mighty working in us. Continued on Page 26 Tiventy-three

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Y J In M emonam V Miss Viola Willison 1887-1921 Miss Viola Willison, one of Olivet ' s many loyal missionaries, has paid the supreme sacrifice on the Indian mission field. A friend, a more than sister. In the spring And glory of her being she went forth From the embraces of devoted friends, From warm hearts that loved her with a love Deeper than earthly passion, and to whom The beauty of her spirit shone above The charms of perishing nature. She went forth To bind the broken spirit, to pluck back The heathen from the wheel of Juggernaut — To place the spiritual vision of God, Holy, just, and true, before the eye Of the dark-minded Brahmin — and unseal The holy pages of the Book of life. And friends, where is she? She slumbers well Beneath the shadow of an Indian palm — Yet not she. Her Master called her In that quiet, blessed hour. The earthly dwelling she left behind, and above Its sorrows and its clouds her spirit rose, Tearful and yet triumphant, taking hold Of the eternal promises of God. Twenty-five