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He held a good revival meeting with some fruits.
It seemed, however, as if there was always a fuss in reference to something. The folks were stirred up about tobacco, or worldliness, or something else. But many friends rallied around them. They met with good success, and the church grew and prospered.
Bresee put it, "Nobody got sancitfied but myself, and I did not know anything about it. But, as Brother Bresee preached a more spiritual gospel, there was more antagonism.
Remember me on this computer. A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage. He preached to them one morning on their idolatry, and told them that they were worshipping the world, and were without God. Close Report a review At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. Meeting in Chicago for their First General Assembly, the two groups formalized their merger, adopting the name Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene and electing two general superintendents bishops —one from the western group and one from the eastern body. As there was no parsonage, they moved into a part of a house, where they had the use of one room and a little bedroom, which had been changed into a kitchen.
The two years pastorate at Chariton was a trying time. When the Bresees went there, they found no proper conditions for a minister's family. As there was no parsonage, they moved into a part of a house, where they had the use of one room and a little bedroom, which had been changed into a kitchen.
A young woman of the family lived in the other room, taught music, and played the piano to the point of distraction. The members of the family were fine people and the mother, Mrs. Mitchell, was a mother in Israel.
Her son was a Methodist preacher, who in , was still living in Northwestern Iowa. His name was Bennett Mitchell, and he was then Presiding Elder of the district in which Chariton was located.
Often the mother and her daughters would take care of the baby while Mrs. Bresee went to church at night. The room occupied by the Bresees was their bedroom, study, dining room, parlor and everything but the kitchen.
They were compelled to make beds on the floor. Shortly before leaving Chariton, in the autumn of , their daughter, Bertha, was born. Bresee served as the senior general superintendent of the church until his death in During these years, Bresee continued serving as pastor of Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene until , when he retired from that position.
And he edited the Nazarene Messenger , a large weekly paper, from until Through the paper, he rallied his people and knit strong familial bonds among the Nazarenes. When a group of women wanted to create a Bible school in Los Angeles, Bresee consented somewhat grudgingly to assist them, and became the president of the college, serving in that capacity until That school became known as Pasadena College until , when it moved to San Diego.
His health deteriorated in his later years from injuries suffered in a near-fatal electric car accident in Bresee died in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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Phineas F. Bresee (December 31, – November 13, ) was the primary founder of the . Phineas F. Bresee: His Life in Methodism, the Holiness Movement and the Church of the Historical Statement of the Church of the Nazarene · Dorli Gschwandtner, Biography of Dr. Bresee, Southern Nazarene University. The publication in Carl Bangs's biography of Phineas F. Bresee moves our understanding of early Nazarene history forward a giant step. Bresee has been.
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