Samuel Logan Brengle

Samuel Logan Brengle (1 June 1860 – 19 May 1936) was a Commissioner in The Salvation Army and a leading author, teacher and preacher on the doctrine of Holiness.

He would later write of the experience: I walked out over Boston Common before breakfast, weeping for joy and praising God.

I saw a little worm wriggling across my path; I stepped over it; I didn’t want to hurt any living thing.

[1] This experience would become his life's focus as he taught and admonished believers to seek 'the blessing' on an international level.

When he did arrive in England and meet the Founder, the meeting was far from cordial, Booth viewed Brengle with some scepticism calling him a dangerous man in that he had been his own boss and Booth was not sure Brengle would adhere to the discipline of The Salvation Army.

Rather, after an enjoyable ministry in a community, he and his wife received farewell orders and were appointed to the Boston #1 Corps.

It was during this time of recuperation that he began to write the articles that would form the basis of his book Helps to Holiness.

He was asked for his secret of holiness to which he replied: Keep in the will of God, obey Him, seek Him daily, waiting at His gates.