Called Unto Holiness : The Story of the Nazarenes the Second Twenty-five Years, 1933-58

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At the camp meeting where she was sanctified entirely, Norris met Abram Fitkin , a Quaker evangelist. Fitkin were married by William Thomas Willis born October , [34] [35] a Quaker minister, [36] former pastor of the Clintondale Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends at Clintondale, New York , [37] and then resident Quaker minister, [38] [39] [40] at his home in Clintondale [10] [41].

After their wedding, the Fitkins continued to hold revival meetings "throughout the eastern states in campaigns when hundreds were converted and many led into the experience of full salvation ". Reynolds , then a Methodist minister, deciding to join at that time. In October the Fitkins rented a former blacksmith shop in Hopewell Junction, New York , where they conducted their services, with the result that "scores were converted", and on November 1, , sixty of the converts were organized into a church, [44] with the Fitkins agreeing to be the pastors.

As a consequence of the depressed economic circumstances caused by the Panic of , Abram Fitkin struggled financially while serving as a pastor and evangelist, with little financial support possible from the church.

There were times when the food on the parsonage table had literally been prayed in by Abram and Susan. Week by week a soup-bone graced the parsonage larder, the meat of which served the first day or so, the bone at length, mixed by a skillful hand with vegetables, becoming soup to end the week.

Susan Norris Fitkin

During Abram Fitkin left pastoral ministry and ceased his evangelistic work [53] to devote his attention to making sufficient income to support both his family and his future ministry. Anderson, that at first he only aimed to make enough to be independent in God's work. The goal he set was a half million. In the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America merged with the Church of the Nazarene founded in California in October by Phineas Bresee and Joseph Widney to form the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene since renamed Church of the Nazarene , automatically making the Fitkins members of the new denomination.

By the end of the Fitkins and their two children moved to Brooklyn, New York because of Abram Fitkin's increased business activities. Despite being set apart for the ministry 18 years earlier as a Quaker recorded minister, on May 8, at the New York District Assembly at Brooklyn, [61] Bresee ordained Susie Fitkin and her husband as elders. For years before, He had definitely spoken these precious words to my heart, 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. After a fishing trip with his father in August , [64] Raleigh Fitkin was thrown from their car after its axle broke.

The next day when Raleigh said that he had a severe abdominal pain, the family at first thought it a mere recurrence of appendicitis attacks, which previously had passed off with no after effects. The death of their oldest son Raleigh Fitkin was the primary factor in the missionary and philanthropic enterprises of the Fitkins. According to Basil Miller: Reynolds , Susan Fitkin dedicated her energies to promoting the missionary program of the Church of the Nazarene in her capacity as the unpaid founding president of the Nazarene Women's Missionary Society for almost 33 years from September 30, Fitkin's missionary travels as president of the W.

In addition there were large gifts directly to missionary causes, these amounts going far over the ten thousand mark in some years". Early in Susan Fitkin began dreaming of building a missionary chapel in Africa in memory of Raleigh. Abram Fitkin provided the funds to construct the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial church, "the first tangible memorial to that would-be child missionary, Raleigh", [69] at Piggs Peak , Swaziland.

In October the Fitkins advised Hiram F. Reynolds , a general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene and head of its foreign missionary program, that they would "provide the money for the erection of a memorial hospital in Africa. Fitkin married Helen Shubert at the St. The outpatient clinic had 20 examining rooms on the third floor of the Clinic Building. There were two pediatric infectious disease wards on the second floor of the Isolation Building.

This set-up remained essentially the same for the next 25 years". By May , in order to honor his deceased son, and also A. By August Mary-Louise had married Dr. Karl Josef Deissler born June 29, in Heidelberg, Germany ; died August 15, in Bern, Switzerland , [] [] [] a German physician, [] who had fled Germany for the USA in because of his liberal ideas and fears of Nazi persecution, [] and had been a fellow of the Mayo Clinic from to , [] who was excluded from the US western defense area on September 4, until November 17, as an enemy alien , [] During their period of separation, Mary-Louise and her daughter lived in Illinois.

By June Mary Louise had become a Quaker. Hooper returned to Stanford University in to complete her degree, majoring in German, graduating with honors in June Willis Carradine "Bud" Fitkin born October 10, in Hollis, New York ; died November 8, in Meredith, New Hampshire ; [] attended Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn; [] In July Willis, then aged 15, was the driver of a car that was involved in a collision in New Jersey with a truck loaded with eggs, that damaged both vehicles severely but left both drivers uninjured.

Fitkin married Helen E. Fitkin was a vice-president, director and stockholder in A. Ralph MacFarland Fitkin March 7, - July 16, , [] attended Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn until , attended Yale University in , [] married Lorene Billie Hastings born November 6, ; died on February 13, in Elkton, Maryland with no family members present; and had three sons: Just as everything in my life, from the human standpoint, looked blackest, a new interest was suddenly awakened.

A traveling Quaker preacher held some cottage meetings in our town. I attended and began to realize that even though I was a consistent church member, I was not a Bible Christian. I went to the altar seeking God, but was ignorant of the way of faith and did not get through to victory, but continued to pray and search the Scriptures for light and blessing.

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I began now with new interest to attend the Quaker meetings in the old Meeting House, which was up on a hill almost directly across the highway from my home. My grandparents had been consistent members here all their lives. Many aged saints still gathered there and gave wonderful testimonies about knowing their sins were all forgiven and their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life.

The Grace of conviction deepened in my heart. I found only warnings as I read my Bible. I became very miserable and knew I was a lost soul and on my way to hell. Finally I found some comfort in the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, and began to realize a little of God's gracious provision for lost souls in the tragedy of the cross, portrayed by the prophet, and the goodness of God led me to repentance.

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I was not only sorry for the past, but gladly forsook all worldliness and sin, and continued earnestly to seek God. I had not yet learned the way of faith, but one day, when turning the pages of my Bible and praying for a message, these words seemed to stand out in raised letters: I was a new creature; everything seemed new, — the sun, the trees, the green fields, the birds, all seemed new.

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