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

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These Nazarenes are a happy host,<br />

Equipped with the fire of the Holy Ghost--<br />

Amen! Amen! Amen! Hallelujah!<br />

While others sleep they are wide awake<br />

To rescue souls from the burning lake--<br />

Praise God! Praise God! Praise God for vict'ry!<br />

And when the battle here is o'er<br />

We'll sing and shout on the other shore--<br />

Praise God! Praise God! Praise God for Jesus!<br />

And when around the throne we meet,<br />

We'll cast our crowns at Jesus' feet--<br />

And shout: Praise God! Praise God! Hallelujah!<br />

<strong>Bresee</strong>'s Impressions<br />

Dr. <strong>Bresee</strong> thus characterizes the Pilot Point General Assembly:<br />

As was expected, this Assembly has been momentous and historic. It has been another epoch<br />

ushering in an era of still greater things. It has been said that "there is no clock in the horologe of<br />

time to strike the passing from one era to another." When history is being made and great things are<br />

coming to pass, those who are in the often hard and difficult places, struggling for the birth of the<br />

greater things, are so taken up with the burden of toil which taxes their being to the utmost, that they<br />

little realize new heights which are being won. Some one or a few may have the vision of what is<br />

really being done; but mostly the actors are covered with the dust and smoke of battle. But they<br />

whom God leads build better than they know, and when the years reveal the unveiled structure, they<br />

are as much surprised as any--possibly the most surprised. Both Napoleon and the Iron Duke were<br />

eagle-eyed, but probably none were more surprised at the results of Waterloo in history.<br />

"God leads in a mysterious way<br />

His wonders to perform."<br />

And it is only as we get a perspective that we can see His marvelous work.<br />

This has been true of this providential movement, in all its confluent streams. The work<br />

began--east, west, south--at about the same time. <strong>In</strong> no place as an ecclesiasticism, but in each case<br />

men were thrust out to preach full salvation and raise up a holy people. And each obeying the divine<br />

impulse, and following the pillar of cloud, they did not realize what they were doing. This impulse<br />

to unity--this answering of the Lord's prayer that they may be one-- from the coming of the "Three<br />

Wise Men of the East" to the borders of the western sea, and the subsequent happy union of the East<br />

and West, and now this confluence of the South: turning us all like the rivers of the south; pouring<br />

much of the holiness movement into an organic whole: no one knows or can realize what it means;<br />

but one thing seems certain,<br />

"Our God is marching on."

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