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

Rev. Alpin M. Bowes, writing to the Nazarene Messenger in regard to the first session of the
Rocky Mountain District Assembly, at Denver, Colo., said: "We especially rejoiced in the high
privilege of the presence and ministry of our beloved Dr. Bresee. He proclaimed the Word with great
unction and power, and delivered such advice and instruction as will strengthen the cause and
encourage the laborers. God was with us in much power, and a deep spiritual atmosphere
characterized the entire meeting."
His Presence A Benediction
We next hear of Dr. Bresee at the Chicago Central District Assembly, in October. Rev. J. F.
Harvey said: "Dr. P. F. Bresee, our senior General Superintendent, was present and presided. His
very presence was a benediction. His sermons and addresses were all under the anointing of the Holy
Spirit. He has the fire and the glory, and, though three score and ten, his natural force does not seem
to be abated. May God give him strength for many more years to push this work that is so dear to
his heart."
While in Chicago, Dr. Bresee presided at important meetings of the General Missionary Board,
and the Board of General Superintendents. It would be interesting to tell of his trip to Ponca City,
Okla., where Brother and Sister McIntyre were leading a faithful band, of his dedication of the new
church building there; and of his great meeting at Oklahoma City, where he first met Dr. H. H.
Miller, later of Berkeley, Cal.; but other events crowding each other in his busy, strenuous life,
demand attention. His homeward journey was brightened and cheered by the companionship of
Brother and Sister Leslie F. Gay.
During the closing weeks of the year, Dr. Bresee devoted much of his energies to the rapidly
expanding missionary interests of the church.
The Nazarene University
In the course of a somewhat extended editorial in the Nazarene Messenger of January 20, 1910,
Dr. Bresee says:
This year is the best of the years thus far for "The Nazarene University and Deets Pacific Bible
College." The larger attendance the new dean, Rev. W. W. Danner, who is doing especially excellent
work, with a fine corps of professors; and the added Academic Course, with Miss Professor Cora
Snider, an especially cultured and adapted preceptress, with exceptionally excellent professors, have
brought us on a goodly way.
A still further advance is now planned. It has seemed providential to change its location. After
careful and prayerful study and examination into possibilities, a large and beautiful tract of land has
been purchased at Pasadena--a city of about forty thousand inhabitants, which is far-famed, its
attractions being world-wide, because of its beauty and healthfulness, the people loving to emphasize
what its name suggests, that it is "The Crown of the Valley." It is a suburb of Los Angeles, and seems
to have every advantage for such an institution.