Samuel Logan Brengle

'In the Salvation Army, and in every place where he was known, Commissioner Samuel Logan Brengle was loved.
No name is more revered among Salvationists than his, for there has been no soldier more saintly nor officer more spiritually effective than this quiet-spoken prophet of god.'
They Found the Secret by V. Raymond Edman

Samuel was brought up by his mother. He became a Methodist minister. He decided to join the Salvation Army in his thirtiesand came over to the UK… He met General Booth on June 1st 1887 who thought he belonged to the dangerous classes. He started him at the bottom cleaning boots! he remembered that Jesus washed the disciples feet.
He returned to the USA and was assaulted in Boston - he was hit by a brick. It took him a year and a half to recover - in this time he started writing for the War Cry. The result became a little volume called Helps for Holiness -128 pages. 'Well, if there had been no brick, there would have been no little book.'
He was in the Salvation Army for 30 years. Aged 76 he found that the life of God continued to flow through a cleansed heart.
I have included Wikipedia’s information about Samuel, plus pages for the book The Brick and the Book
(The story of Samuel Logan Brengle) written by Eric Coward.