…The Nazarene…taught that the law of greatness was service, and the world looked and has seen that is true. That a man is great because of birth or inheritance, or becasue he exercises power, is but a surface thought.
– P. F. Bresee, Sermons from Matthew’s Gospel(Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, nd), 70.
Bresee died this date in 1915. He founded the Church of the Nazarene. E. A. Girvin wrote his biography, Phineas F. Bresee A Prince in Israel, Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1916.