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

divided into six great divisions, and one minister and one layman are chosen from each. Rev.
William Howard Hoople, of New York, is president of this board, and Rev. H. F. Reynolds is the
General Secretary. Rev. Lucy P. Knott and Mr. Leslie F. Gay represent California on the board.
The Board of Church Extension hereafter will do much of the work which heretofore has been
done in this country by the General Missionary Board.
The great holiness university of Peniel, Texas, representing an investment of $100,000, has been
turned over to our church. Hence forth it and all the other educational institutions of the Pentecostal
Church of the Nazarene will be under the general control of our Board of Education.
Statistics
The report of the Statistical Secretaries showed a total membership of more than twenty thousand,
and nearly a million dollars worth of church property. Our church has practically doubled in
membership and property during the last three years; and during the last year we have devoted about
$25,000 to missions.
The General Assembly at Nashville marks a great historical epoch in our movement. It was great
in its personnel, great in its spirituality, great in its purpose, great in its work, and great in its
influence upon the future. Dr. Bresee's report, in part, was as follows:
The third General Assembly of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, held at Nashville, Tenn.,
is not to be soon forgotten, especially by those who had the privilege of being present and taking part
in its work. It was far from being a holiday. The eleven days were full of toil and devotion. Great
questions were grappled with, the best methods possible devised, and the Lord's own way of carrying
on the work most carefully sought.
That all personal training, sectional prejudice, and individual notions melted into perfect oneness
as easily as would have been ideal, might be too much to say; but that there did prevail an
over-mastering spirit of love and unity that did melt all before it, is true. All seemed filled with the
one desire: to find the Lord's pattern for the work, and to carry it out in the earth. That perfection was
reached, or the very best possible results found in everything, might be too much to claim; but the
work done forms a body for the great spirit and purpose of the church to work in and through for the
next four years, to which all agreed, and the promise and expectancy of great success rests upon it.
Some things pertaining to the Assembly impressed us.
Its Personnel
It was a striking assemblage. In it were many men of power. One could easily count up more than
a dozen men of national reputation as preachers, and while many more of the same class could be
counted in the denomination who were not present, yet it seemed remarkable that so large a number
should be gathered in the Assembly. As a result, the preaching was mostly excellent, some of it
touching the very highest line of pulpit effort. And yet there was nothing for show, or for literary or