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The War Cry | JULY 2015
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The following year, he began studies at Boston
Theological Seminary, coming into the experience
of entire sanctification under the influence of
Professor Daniel Steele in 1885. In the same year,
Brengle met a young Salvationist named Eliza-
beth "Lily" Swift, whom he would later marry.
Brengle's attraction to
ministry within The Salva-
tion Army came through
hearing William Booth
speak in Boston in 1886 and
reading books by Catherine
Booth. Immediately following
his marriage to Lily in 1887,
Brengle traveled to London to
meet with the Booths and offer
to join their movement. He
finished his training in London and became a
cadet before assuming command of various corps
in the United States as a Salvation Army officer.
After a near-fatal encounter with a thrown brick
in Boston in 1888, Brengle used his long recuper-
ation period to write a series of articles for the
War Cry
called "Helps To Holiness" expressing his
passion for holiness evangelism. By 1897, Brengle
received his ideal appointment of Spiritual
Special, a position he held until his retirement
in 1931, allowing him to travel around the coun-
try and the world as an apostle of holiness.
As a convert of the American holiness revival
during the late 19th century, he became the
major exponent of its theol-
ogy in The Salvation Army.
Joining the Booths' move-
ment in 1887, this Ameri-
can Methodist advocate of
Christian perfection helped
further the influence of John
Wesley's holiness teaching
on the Army. Although
developed and espoused
as central to the "disci-
pline, devotion, and dynamic" of The Salvation
Army from its beginning, Brengle explicated holi-
ness doctrine even further in the 1890s and early
decades of the 20th century.
Brengle's books helped promote and further
institutionalize the Army's doctrine of entire
sanctification. His Helps to Holiness (1896),
Heart-Talks on Holiness
(1897), The Way of
G
rowing up within American Methodism, Samuel
Logan Brengle was converted in 1873. Upon the
completion of his B.A. at Indiana Asbury (now
DePauw) University in 1883, Brengle began his ministry
as a circuit preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church
in the Northwest Indiana Conference.
"
One wondrous
morning He...
bent my will into
loving harmony
with His will.
"
Samuel Logan
Brengle,
o.f.
Advocate
of
Holiness
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