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

them into association together, get a place for them to worship and carry on the ordinances of
religion, and make of themselves centers of fire to push the work of holiness. Nevertheless, as is
always the case, while a great degree of force must be expended in Jerusalem and Judah, there are
spirits that long for the wider sweep s of the world beyond; so from the beginning there were those
that yearned for the possibilities of preaching the gospel to those that were without.
"Early in the movement, work was begun in Los Angeles, among the Spanish-speaking people,
who, though they were Roman Catholics, were neglected on account of their poverty, and were as
really pagan as though they lived in Africa or China. Among the early trophies of the work of full
salvation here, was Sister A. F. McReynolds, who, immediately after her sanctification, began to
study the Spanish language, under the impulse of a call to labor among these Spanish or Mexican
people. She soon afterward left her secular work, being in the employment of a railroad. and entered
upon her missionary activities. The church made some provision for her and her fellow workers,
establishing a mission in the heart of Los Angeles, and carrying on the work in various other portions
of the city, and of Southern California, reaching out beyond as far as El Paso, Texas. A Spanish
school was organized in Los Angeles, which has been carried on for several years, with a fair degree
of success, a goodly number of persons having been saved and sanctified through the agency of this
mission.
"It has been a difficult task because of the migratory habits of most of the class of Spanish people
whom it has been possible for us to reach. They have mostly been laborers on the railroads, and
while here, they would be in one place for a time, and soon would be changed and gone away.
Hence, it was difficult to keep track of them, and thus the work was rendered very hard."
The Work In India
Dr. Bresee gives the following interesting and vivid portrayal of the singular manner in which the
Church of the Nazarene was led to take an active part in the redemption of India:
"In 1906, through a very strange and mysterious providence, the mission work was opened up at
Calcutta, India. Some years before that time, a high-caste woman of India, Mrs. Banarjee, whose
relation was such as to bring her into great sympathy with the child widows of that country, had been
led to begin a work among them in a small way, she herself having been, like most of the girls in that
heathen land, married in her babyhood, and compelled to live with her mother-in-law from an early
age. She became a child mother, and was sent with her two children to the jungle to be destroyed by
the wild beasts, according to the custom of the country, but in a marvelous manner she escaped with
her little ones. Falling in with pilgrims on their way to the sacred river Ganges, she went with them.
As a result, she finally came in touch with some Christian people, through whose instrumentality she
was converted. Soon afterward she interested herself actively in the rescue of those who were
sufferers like herself.
"In the early nineties she came to the United States with some American ladies, and in her
endeavor to secure some funds to help in the conduct of the enterprise which was so near her heart,
she succeeded in interesting some Christian women in Portland, Oregon. Among these was Mrs. E.
G. Eaton. Having secured from them quite a sum of money, she returned to India, and established