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Phineas F. Bresee
A PRINCE IN ISRAEL
By E. A. Girvin
CHAPTER 27
Echoes From the Chicago Meeting -- The Ninth Anniversary -- The Ninth General Assembly
-- General Superintendent's Report -- A Chinese Mission -- The Pressure of Fanaticism --
Progress of the Church -- The Superintendency -- The Greatness of the Work -- Other
Proceedings of the Assembly -- The Home Campmeeting
Echoes From The Chicago Meeting
Among those who united with the church at Chicago as charter members, were Rev. F. C.
Bingley, a converted Jew, and his estimable wife. Rev. L. A. Townsend, a minister of the
Congregational church, preached several times, and united with the church. He was a brilliant man,
who some time before was gloriously sanctified in his pulpit, and lay quite a while under the mighty
power of God. Rev. E. A. Burlison and wife also enrolled their names; and Brother and Sister E. I.
Ames, well known in California, for several years officers in the Salvation Army, and at that time
residents of Chicago, also belonged to the happy company who were charter members of the Chicago
church.
One Methodist minister was sanctified in the meetings. He had attended regularly, and at last
came to the altar. He prayed through to glorious victory, and went home to his own people and told
them the wonderful things that God had done for him. He was about to be transferred to one of the
Dakotas, and promised to be true and definite as to holiness.
An elderly Presbyterian minister was also swept into the fountain of Jesus' blood. While Dr.
Bresee was dwelling upon the inheritance to which we come, and quoting the words, "We are come
unto the spirits of just men made perfect," as having reference to the perfection of justified men
through the blood of Jesus by the baptism with the Holy Ghost, this Presbyterian minister asked how
about Paul's declaration in the epistle to the Philippians that he was not perfect. When shown that
the writer of the epistle spoke of resurrection perfection, immediately afterward proceeding to
declare his present Christian perfection, the minister asked what John meant when he said: "If we
say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves." He was shown that this referred to any man who said he
did not need sanctification after he had been converted, and after a few more questions, he came to
the altar, and by faith entered into the promised inheritance.
The Ninth Anniversary
On Sunday, October 16, 1904, the ninth anniversary of the organization of the Church of the
Nazarene, was observed at the First church, in Los Angeles. In the morning Brother and Sister Leslie
F. Gay sang a song of triumph, after which Dr. Bresee spoke of the "Providential rise and work of
the Church of the Nazarene." He called attention to the special preparation for this movement
through the years which preceded it, to the circumstances that led necessarily to the withdrawal by
himself and others from previous church relationship, and later, the organization of the church. He