Q Prophet & A of Holiness by BOB HOSTETLER Samuel Logan Brengle became a follower of Jesus Christ in his teen years, and after graduating from college and beginning seminary studies, he met The Salvation Army. Soon after, though he had received offers to pastor large and prestigious Methodist churches in the U.S., he entered The Salvation Army’s Training College in London, England. Upon being commissioned as a Salvation Army officer, Brengle returned to the U.S. and reunited with his wife, Elizabeth Swift Brengle, in ministry. Soon after, the Brengles were appointed to a Salvation Army corps in a rough area of Boston, Massachusetts. One night, while marching through the streets of Boston with other Salvationists, he was struck on the head by a brick thrown by a drunken heckler. His severe injury required a convalescence of 18 months, during which he was not permitted to preach. So he began to write articles on the subject of personal holiness for Salvation Army publications. The articles were soon compiled into a “little red book,” as Brengle referred to it, entitled Helps to Holiness. That book—and eight others that followed in the coming years—were reprinted many times and read by hundreds of thousands of people. Though Brengle was “promoted to Glory” in 1936, his books have since extended his ministry and influence around the world. This “interview” is excerpted from those writings.