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

"In connection with the consideration of this report, there occurred another service of wonderful
interest and spiritual power. The students of the Pacific Bible College were gathered together on the
platform, as noble a band of young men and women as it has ever been my privilege and pleasure
to look upon. Miss Leora Maris, the principal of the college, led the service, and gave a brief but
comprehensive and lucid history of the college. She told of how God had put it on her own heart, and
the hearts of Mrs. Seymour, and Brother and Sister Johnson, and how, through prayer, faith, and
self-sacrifice, the college had become a reality. She told of the missionaries and martyrs who have
already graduated from its curriculum, and of the future preachers and missionaries who are now
enrolled as its students. She told of its course of study, of its daily routine, of its atmosphere of
devotion, and of the spirit of holy zeal and love which characterized and animated its teachers and
students. And then the students gave their college yell of 'Hallelujah!' and sang and prayed.
The State Of The Church
"The work of the great committee on the state of the church, was truly soul-stirring and inspiring.
It showed how our God is leading us on to victory in different parts of this continent, and how he is
beckoning us upward and onward to further and more fruitful fields of spiritual usefulness. This
report gave rise to one of the most interesting and helpful discussions of the entire session, and
brought to his feet Brother Creighton, whose sanctified eloquence, varied experience, and bright and
forceful way of putting things, have constituted one of the landmarks of the Assembly. With a few
strong, striking, words, he spread before us a vivid reproduction of the vision which God had given
him of the divine origin, present status, and future destiny of the Nazarene movement, which he
believed in the purpose of God would belt the globe with apostolic churches, and fight and win
battles for God in every country in the world.
"Too much can not be said in favor of the work accomplished by the commission on legislation.
It will prove to be historic, and much of it has been built into the organic structure of our church. The
commission came to the Assembly with matured ideas, armed with weapons forged in the fires of
long and sustained reflection upon the needs and genius of our church. They perfected our profession
of faith, elucidated and elaborated our statements of moral issues, strengthened and energized our
ritual, and gave us a closely-knit, logical, and consistent scheme of polity and government. The
report of the commission was very carefully scanned and scrutinized by the delegates, and on the
floor of the Assembly its minutest details were subjected to painstaking analysis. With one
exception, it may be said that the report was entirely adopted, and that exception dealt with the most
pivotal point and vital issue which came before the Assembly, namely, whether the Church of the
Nazarene should be Congregational or Episcopal in its polity, or whether a middle course could be
found, free from the flimsiness of Congregationalism, and safe from the perils of Episcopacy. At last,
that middle course was found, and it was decided by a large majority that the local church boards,
after consultation with the General or District Superintendent, should call their pastors, subject to
the approval of the General Superintendent.
The New Song Book
"The new church hymnal, just from the press of the Nazarene Publishing Company, beautifully
and appropriately called 'Waves of Glory,' is just what we all needed and wanted. Its name seems