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

Phineas F. Bresee
A PRINCE IN ISRAEL
By E. A. Girvin
CHAPTER 34
The Eleventh General Assembly -- Report of General Superintendent -- Holy Fire -- Stronger
Pillars -- The Superintendency -- An Inspiring Spectacle -- A Moving Panorama -- The
Pentecostal Churches -- The Three Wise Men From the East -- Church Union -- An Impressive
Scene -- The Victorious Host -- The Home Campmeeting -- A Wise Leader
The Eleventh General Assembly
This great body met at the First Church in Los Angeles, on October 3,1906. Dr. Bresee, as
General Superintendent, presided. Rev. B. Pierce was elected secretary, and appointed as his
assistants Rev. P. G. Linaweaver, and Percy W. Girvin, then a student at the Pacific Bible College.
The report of Dr. Bresee was very able and, among other things, contained the following:
"That our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who has called us into this work, has given us another
year of victory, calls forth our highest adoration. That He is placing before us so many open doors,
and that He is calling so many devoted and gifted men and women to join hands with us, and help
to enter these open doors, fills our hearts with gratitude and joy. And yet, as we lift our eyes,
according to the Master's command, and see the fields white for harvest, it is but to find that the
laborers are few, and we take our place upon our knees, our hearts going out to the Lord, almost to
the breaking, that He send forth more laborers into His harvest.
"We rejoice that, in spite of the onsets of the enemy, and that, though the world, the flesh, and the
Devil, are violently over against us, and that, though we are attacked on one side by formalism,
ceremonialism, and worldliness, and on the other by fads and fanaticism, that our churches and
people have steadily held on their way, in truth and righteousness, and have been generally able to
push the battle on to victory.
Holy Fire
"We rejoice to believe that the holy fire which God has given to our people, in which this precious
work was born and has been carried out, has not burned low, but abides in deepening power and
glory in the older churches, and is found in great blessedness in the new fields, as they have been
opened, and that this gives everywhere a continued tide of salvation. While fanaticism in
ever-changing form, continues to break out in different parts of the land, we rejoice that its attacks
upon us have been from without. That we have not suffered from its inroads, would be too much to
say, but it is a matter of great thanksgiving that our pastors and influential members have stood true
to the truth of God, and have inquired diligently for the old paths, and have walked therein.