Phineas Bresee: Pastor to the People

In 1895, Phineas Franklin Bresee established in Los Angeles the first congregation of what he envisioned as a new denomination. Its purpose was to conserve and advance the doctrine and experience of entire sanctification as it had been taught in early Methodism and developed in the 19th century Holiness Movement. Just as important, he saw it as a force to minister to the poor of his day.In Phineas F. Bresee, Carl Bangs tells the story of Bresee from his boyhood in New York's Catskill Mounta...