One of the pioneers of Salvation Army was Samuel Logan Brengle. The SA of his times was so different from the SA of today. Their emphasis was on the supernatural preaching of the Word with signs and wonders and miracles. Healings and deliverances were daily occurrences. Today, SA seems interested in social work and community services, which are good in itself, but it may not save souls. Only the gospel of Jesus save souls from the kingdom of darkness.
Writings from his book: Helps to Holiness:
This is where the devil really begins. Many people who say they are fighting the devil do not know what fighting the devil means. It is a fight of faith in which the soul takes hold of the promises of God, and hold on to it, and believes it, and declares it to be true in spite of all the devil’s lies, in spite of all circumstances and feelings to the contrary, and in which it obeys God, whether God seems to be fulfilling the promise or not. When a soul gets to the point where he will do this, and will hold fast the profession of his faith without wavering, he will soon get out of the fogs and mists and twilight of doubt and uncertainty into the broad day of perfect assurance.
Salvation Army Commissioner Samuel Logan Brengle
(1860 – 1939)
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