Phineas F. Bresee - A Prince In Israel - Media Sabda Org

was overruled to the larger outcome and service of the college. A complete change was made in the
personnel of the teaching corps of the Bible College Department, and it was at this time that Rev.
W. W. Danner became principal, or dean, and a new force of teachers was appointed.
"But the great result of this upheaval was to change the plan of the location of the school, and
greatly to enhance its scope. This led to the purchase of the magnificent tract of land in the city of
Pasadena, since known as the University Park Tract, of 134 acres, at a price of $165,000. The
campus purchased in Los Angeles previously, was sold for $25,000, and the money invested in this
new enterprise. Fifty acres of this was set aside for a University campus, and the remainder was
platted as a park and subdivided into residence lots, the proceeds of which were to complete the
payment on the property, and make such improvements as were possible.
"This was a very great undertaking, involving the expenditure of a very large sum of money.
Streets had to be opened and paved, gutters made, sidewalks laid, and temporary buildings put up
for the housing of the school, such as dormitories, dining-hall, etc. It was possible, fortunately, to
utilize the old palatial mansion as an administration building. Street cars, also, had to be brought
through the tract, for which it was necessary to raise a bonus of $22,000, of which amount the
University was compelled to pay about $5,000.
"After the removal to the new site, which took place in 1910, the school was opened with enlarged
facilities, consisting of a College of Liberal Arts, an Academy, and a Bible College, together with
departments of music, oratory, and other things essential to such an institution. I remained president
of the school, but the teaching force was under the control of Rev. H. Orton Wiley, who was elected
as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and vice president of the institution. Miss Cora Snyder
retained her position as principal of the Academy, and Brother Wiley also became dean of the Bible
College. A good faculty was secured from different parts of the country, and the first year was a great
advance over all the preceding years in both the number of assistants and the work accomplished."
In subsequent chapters I will describe the growth of the University, and tell something of the great
service rendered it by Dr. Bresee, who to the last, prayed mightily and labored indefatigably in its
behalf.
The Missionary Interests
I shall later take up the missionary activities of the church, especially as they gathered around, and
were connected with Dr. Bresee, but it will be in order at this stage of the narrative, to give his own
account of the inception of the organized work of missions in the Church of the Nazarene.
"This movement was of itself essentially a missionary one. The people who were in it in the
beginning had to go out under the stars, and commence at the foundation of things to go into the
desert, and make a new type of religious life and polity. Hence, necessarily they were absorbed in
getting a roof over their own heads for a place of worship, and the sustaining of men to push the
work at home. This, in fact, all through these years, has necessarily absorbed largely the possibilities
of the church. Everywhere it was new; everywhere there was strong opposition; usually there was
poverty; and it was all that the infant church could do to get the people saved and sanctified, organize