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Chapter 1

1. E. J. Fleming, "Delegates and Visitors, Attention!," Herald of Holiness, September 10, 1919, 11.

2. News item, "Obituary," Herald of Holiness, February 9, 1955, 23.

3. Bud Robinson, "Minister's Mutual Aid Society," Herald of Holiness, February 5, 1919, 10.

4. Board of General Superintendents, "The Fifth General Assembly Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene," Herald of Holiness, September 10, 1919, 11.

5. Staff writer, "The President Here An Hour," Kansas City Times, September 27,1919, 1.

6. Associated Press, "Wilson May Take a Rest," Kansas City Times, September 27, 1919, 1.

7. Staff writer, "Rioting At Omaha," Kansas City Times, September 29, 1919, 1.

8. B. F. Haynes, "Where Responsibility Rests," Herald of Holiness, September 10, 1919, 1.

9. B. F. Haynes, "In the Middle of the Current," Herald of Holiness, October 1, 1919, 3.

10. Ibid.

11. B. F. Haynes, "An Epochal General Assembly," Herald of Holiness, October 8, 1919, 1.

12. Ibid.

13. Directory item, "General Officers and Boards, 1919-1923," Herald of Holiness, October 8, 1919, 10.

14. General Report, "First Annual Meeting of the Correlated Boards, Church of the Nazarene, Being the General Session of all the General Boards," Herald of Holiness, February 25, 1920, 8-9.

15. Ibid.

16. John Gould, "Our Calling And Election," Herald of Holiness, September 15, 1920, 7, 9.

17. F. M. Messenger, "The General Board of Mutual Benefit," Herald of Holiness, October 20, 1920, 10.

18. F. M. Messenger, letter to E. J. Fleming dated October 12, 1921. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

19. E. J. Fleming, letter to C. Mann dated September 19,1922. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

20. Cf. various letters between E. J. Fleming and George Huggins spanning several years. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

21. E. J. Fleming, "Ministerial Relief," Herald of Holiness, September 20, 1922, 10.

22. Ibid.

23. Timothy L. Smith, Called Unto Holiness (Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1962), 338-339.

24. Ibid.

25. Ibid.

26. E. J. Fleming, letter to Rev. John Gould dated February 19, 1924. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

27. Ibid.

28. E. J. Fleming, letter to Rev. John W. Oliver dated May 7, 1924, in response to Oliver's inquiry regarding aid for another minister. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

29. E. J. Fleming, letter to Rev. O. L. W. Brown dated June 25, 1925. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.


Chapter 2

1. M. Lunn, second tribute under "On Laying the Foundation," Herald of Holiness, February 9, 1955, 22-23.

2. Amy Hinshaw, "The New Manager," unpublished manuscript, n.d. Lunn file, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

3. Advertisement under Publisher's Notes, "Bookkeeper Wanted," Herald of Holiness, May 21, 1913, 16.

4. Hinshaw manuscript.

5. A heritage feature, "M. Lunn: A Sound Investor," P&B News Notes, October 1986, 2-3.

6. News item, "M. Lunn Elected Manager," Herald of Holiness, July 4, 1936, 23.

7. News item, "General Officers Accept Election," Herald of Holiness, July 4, 1936, 23.

8. D. B. Bulkey, "Report of the Superintendent of City Union Mission, October 1, 1924," and letter to E. J. Fleming dated September 27,1924. Fleming correspondence, City Union Mission file, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

9. Private mailing in honor of the 100th anniversary of M. Lunn's birthday. Lunn file, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.


Chapter 3

1. Manual/1989, Church of the Nazarene, (Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1989), 405.2, 179.

2. Ibid., 143.3, 83-84.

3. E. J. Fleming, "Pensions for Ministers," Herald of Holiness, April 10, 1929,16.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. P. F. Bresee, "Editorial," Nazarene Messenger, October, 1898, quoted in Timothy L. Smith, Called Unto Holiness (Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1962), 114.

7. E. J. Fleming, "A Live Faith: The Minister's Call, His Field, His Work, His Consecration, His Old Age." Undated brochure, Fleming Correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

8. Letter to E. J. Fleming dated June 8, 1936. Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.

9. Letter dated 1989. Pensions office correspondence files, Kansas City, Missouri.

10. Letter dated 1990. Pensions office correspondence files, Kansas City, Missouri.


Chapter 4

1. Material drawn from E. P. Hennock, British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance 1880-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).

2. W. T. Purkiser, Called Unto Holiness, vol. 2 (Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1983), 86.

3. Ibid., 87.

4. J. B. Chapman, "The Question Box," Herald of Holiness, October 28, 1939, 13.

5. E. J. Fleming, "Discussion, Committee on Relief and Pensions, April 11, 1939." Fleming correspondence, Nazarene Archives, Kansas City, Missouri.


Chapter 5

1. See Calvin D. Linton, ed., American Headlines: Year by Year (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985), 368-369.

2. Dean Wessels, interview by members of the Pensions office staff. Transcript from the tape recording, Pensions office files, Kansas City, Missouri, October 25, 1991.

3. Mark Graham, "T. W. Willingham Goes Home," Nazarene News, May 5,1989.

4. Minutes of the "Department of Ministerial Benevolence: Meeting No. 1," in Proceedings of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene And Its Departments containing records of meetings held June 15 and 23, 1956, and January 11-14, 1957 (Kansas City: General Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene, 1957), 37.

5. Report on "Ministerial Benevolence" in Proceedings of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene And Its Departments containing records of meetings held June 15 and 23, 1956, and January 11-14, 1957 (Kansas City: General Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene, 1957), 123.

6. Ibid., 124.

7. Ibid.

8. Dean Wessels, "Annual Report to the Board of Pensions and Benefits USA" as recorded in the minutes of the "Board of Pensions and Benefits USA: Meeting No. 1," in Proceedings of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene and Its Departments containing records of the meeting held February 20-23,1987 (Kansas City: General Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene, 1987), 64-65.


Chapter 6

1. Report on "Ministerial Benevolence" in Proceedings of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene And Its Departments containing records of the meeting held January 9-12, 1959 (Kansas City: General Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene, 1959), 84.

2. Report on "Ministerial Benevolence" in Proceedings of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene And Its Departments containing records of meetings held June 22, 1968, September 16, 1968, and January 13-15, 1969 (Kansas City: General Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene, 1969), 128.

3. "Report of the Pension Study Commission" as recorded in the minutes of the "Board of Pensions and Benefits USA: Meeting No. 1," in Proceedings of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene And Its Departments containing records of meetings held February 27-28, 1989 (Kansas City: General Headquarters of the Church of the Nazarene, 1989), 85- 86.

4. Pensions office advertisement, "Together We Can Make It Work!" a four-page unnumbered insert in Herald of Holiness, October, 1990, page 4 of the insert.


Chapter 7

1. Randy Attwood, "The Nazarenes," a reprint of a ten-part series appearing between June 3, and June 15, 1982 in The Daily News (Olathe, Kansas, n.d.), n.p.

2. "The 1993 Plan, Board of Pensions and Benefits USA/Pensions and Benefits Services USA," Pensions office files, Kansas City, Missouri.

3. The General Superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene (1985-1989), Sanctify Them . . . That the World May Know (Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1987), 105.


Epilogue

1. B. Edgar Johnson, ed., Journal of the Twenty-Second General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene, 138.

2. Dean Wessels, open lefter announcing his impending retirement, P&B News Notes, April 1993, 1.



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