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

Phineas F. Bresee
A PRINCE IN ISRAEL
By E. A. Girvin
CHAPTER 43
Rev. C. E. Cornell -- Important Happenings -- Resolutions of Appreciation -- Other Events --
Special Bible Edition -- A Marvelous Campmeeting -- The Nashville Assembly -- Interesting
Debates -- A Great Tide of Salvation -- Brotherly Love -- Work of the Assembly -- The Great
Church Boards -- The Work of Missions -- Statistics -- Dr. Bresee's Report of the Assembly
-- Its Personnel -- The Interest Manifest -- The Coming Host -- In Memoriam -- Loyalty
Rev. C. E. Cornell
In January, 1911, Rev. C. E. Cornell, after serving for five years with remarkable success the First
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, at Chicago, resigned his pastorate there, and accepted a call
from the First Church in Los Angeles, coming to the latter city with his family and beginning his
pastoral work in April. This was made necessary because of the constantly growing labors of Dr.
Bresee in the general superintendency, the presidency of the Nazarene University, and the editorship
of the Nazarene Messenger, causing him to withdraw entirely from the pastorate of the First Church,
the membership of that church reluctantly acquiescing in his decision. These circumstances created
the vacancy that was so fittingly filled by Brother Cornell.
Important happenings
Passing hastily over most of the events which preceded the great General Assembly, at Nashville,
Tenn., in October, 1911, I will summarize the most important of them, regarded, of course, from the
viewpoint of Dr. Bresee's biographer, as follows;
Resolutions of Appreciation
Just before Dr. Bresee began to preach at the First Church, Los Angeles, on Sunday morning,
March 19, 1911, Rev. J. P. Coleman arose and read the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, We have had the rare privilege of the continued pastoral relation of the Rev. P. F.
Bresee, D. D., with this the mother church of the denomination, from its organization until the
present time, who under God became the leader in the founding of this church and
WHEREAS, With the increasing responsibilities devolving upon him as General Superintendent,
together with his work in connection with the university, and as editor of the Nazarene Messenger,
with other duties pertaining to his official relation to the church, he finds it a necessity to resign the
pastorate of First Church; and
WHEREAS, We recognize that through the instrumentality of his faithful preaching of the Word,
enforced by his upright and blameless life, he has been made a great blessing, not only to us as a
local church, but through him, aided by the divine Spirit, influences have gone out in streams of