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

occasion I visited Canada, holding a meeting and organizing a church a Victoria, meeting the
brethren at Vancouver, holding a District Assembly at Calgary, and assisting in a campmeeting in
connection therewith. The District of which this was the center had been organized the year previous
by Rev. H. D. Brown, who had been appointed missionary superintendent to that country. In
conjunction with him I held a week's meeting. I then went to Washington, where I held a
campmeeting at Spokane, and a District Convention at Walla Walla. From there I went to North
Dakota, and held the Dakota District Assembly. Thence I journeyed to Iowa, by way of St. Paul,
Minn., and held the Iowa District Assembly. From there I went to Louisville, Ky., where I held the
Kentucky Assembly. Next I held the Chicago Central District Assembly, at Chicago, going from
there to Tennessee, where I presided at the Clarksville Assembly. Leaving there, I visited Nashville
and Birmingham on my way to Mississippi, where I held the Assembly of that District. While at
Clarksville, I preached two nights. Going to Little Rock, I preached at night, hurried on to another
city, and held the Arkansas District Assembly. Thence I turned my face westward toward my home
in Los Angeles, which I reached after having traveled about eight thousand miles, and preached 120
sermons. I presided at eight District Assemblies, and held a number of campmeetings and
conventions."
Having given this brief synopsis, which I committed to paper as the words fell from the lips of
Dr. Bresee some three years before his death, I will now turn back a little, and take up the events in
his busy and useful life somewhat in their chronological order, beginning with the year 1903, and
immediately subsequent to the dedication of the First church in Los Angeles.
At the time of the march from the old tabernacle into the new one, and for a few days thereafter,
Brother C. E. Cornell, at that time a lay evangelist, conducted a series of revival services in the First
church. During these meetings, which closed on March 30, 1903, there were two hundred seekers
at the altar, and a great tide of salvation.
On March 31st, immediately following Brother Cornell's meeting, a great twelve-day campaign
began in the First church, led by the Rev. C. J. Fowler president of the National Holiness
Association, Rev. Bud Robinson, Rev. Will Huff, and Mr. and Mrs. Harris, the gospel singers.
Although almost incessant rains interfered very much with the attendance at these great meetings,
there was much salvation, and the service closed on Sunday, with twenty-two definite seekers, and
a mighty manifestation of the presence and power of God.
Bud Robinson
From this time on, the relations between Dr. Bresee and the Rev. Bud Robinson, became closer,
and a few years afterward the latter united with the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. I can not
better describe him than in the words of Dr. Bresee: "He is a marvelous exhibition of what the grace
of God can do for a man. The ignorance, suffering, and sorrow of his early life can scarce be
conceived, but the wonderful transforming power which can so lift up and make new and glorious,
is far beyond the grasp of human thought. It is love, measureless love, and grace, boundless grace,
which do these 'greater works.' The conditions from which he has been taken, and the abounding
grace, make possible his unique personality. His other gifts are peculiar, so that when you hear him
with his unpremeditated humor and spiritual pathos, you feel that he is a mixture of elements made