Post on 29-Jul-2015
February 15:
California as a Mission Field on the Far Side
of the World
Occidental College in 1910
March 1Progressive Protestants:
Christian Liberal Arts in Southern California
Aimee Semple McPherson , Angelus Temple and Life Pacific College , founded as
Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute
March 8:
Southern California’s Leadership in Holiness and Pentecostal Movements
Samuel H. Willey (b. 1821)-Grad Dartmouth in 1845-Ordained Presbyterian - American Home Missionary Society, Willey, at age 27, was appointed to Monterey, California- Chaplain at the 1849 Constitutional Convention of the State of California.- Deep interest in education, especially for girls, Indians, and Mexicans - Moves to Benecia and helps found Young Ladies Seminary that is now Mills College.- In San Francisco helps found Hamlin School for girls.- 1853, in Oakland, he and the Rev. Henry
Durant (a Congregationalist minister) founded the Contra Costa Academy. In 1855 the Academy became the College of California and in 1868 the College become University of California.
-The college town was named Berkeley.
Westward the course of empire takes its way. Time’s noblest offspring would be the last.
-Bishop George Berkeley
Congregationalist/Presbyterian College becomes University of California in 1868
Founded by Methodists Founded by Presbyterians
1870s-1880s Booming Growth: Progressivism in Southern California
Bible Institute of Los AngelesFounded 1908 Funded by Lyman Stewart, co-owner of Union Oil Company of California
Phineas Bresee : (1838 – 1915)-1883 comes to LA as Methodist minister -He was trustee of University of Southern California.-Social Gospel-Founder of Pasadena College in 1902 and Church of the Nazarene
Methodist Reform and Social Gospel Founding of USC, PLNU and Church of the Nazarene
Joseph Pomeroy Widney (1841 – 1938)-Followed Brothers to “Garden of Eden” in Calif-With brother he founded USC and became its 2nd president-A founder with Bresee of PLNU (1902) and then the Church of the Nazarene (1907).-Wrote Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (1907)
best-selling, two volume work,about history of Aryansand responsibility to world uplift, a type of “White Man’s Burden,”
On each of the four facades was an inscription to remind the colony of its ideals. On the West: “Great Nature, refuge of the weary heart and only balm of breast that have been bruised.” On the North: “For lasting happiness, we turn our eyes to one alone, and she surround you now, Mother Nature.” The South: “Let us keep our faces to the sunshine, and we will not see the shadows.” And most practically to the East: “The most valuable of all arts will be that of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil.”
Atascadero Women’sColony(near San Luis Obispo)
Palos Verdes Estates: Plan for a Mediterranean Ideal Town by founder of Atascadero Hire a great architect and planner (Myron Hunt and Olmstead) and Environment will create better people (nature/nurture).
The Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, Point LomaEnvisioned in 1896 by Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (1847-1929) - without distinctions of race, creed, sex, caste, or color,- study of Aryan and other Eastern literature, religions, and sciences- investigate the hidden mysteries of Nature and psychical powers
Bible Study at the Asberry home on 216 North Bonnie Brae Street. Growing church purchased the old African American Methodist Church on Asuza Street.
Aimee Semple McPherson , Angelus Temple and Life Pacific College , founded as
Evangelistic and Missionary Training Institute
International Church of the Foursquare GospelFour-fold Ministry of Christ: Savior, Baptizer with Holy Spirit, Healer, Soon-coming KingFounded in 1923 in Los AngelesOver 8 million members and growing in apx. 150 countries