Preaching the Gospel as a Campaigner

 Samuel Logan Brengle was an officer with the Salvation Army.  The following is from his pen as quoted in his biography by Clarence W. Hall:

"My light was lit to shine where the darkness is, not where all is light and radiance.  Again and again, I have gone to a corps where the soldiers were all ablaze with light and love, and I have felt:  'I am not needed here.  I should be instead in the hard and difficult corps where I am really needed.'  If our people would see this plainly, it would save them many a heartache when they find themselves in a hard place.  That is the one place where Jesus needs them, and they ought to glory in being chosen to fill it.

". . . One difficulty that I see is that my time is so short.  I must reprove, rebuke, exhort, instruct, inspire--all in a day or two--and then run away and trust the Lord to do the rest through such material as the officers may be.  

"I wound people, amputate arms and legs, and take out eyes, but cannot stay with my patients to see how they will heal.  However, that is the way Jesus went about, and Wesley, and the General [William Booth].

"God can help people without me, and He will. Pray that he will help me to so preach the truth that people cannot escape its power, and that it may so sink into their hearts and lay hold of their understanding, judgment, will and conscience, that it shall have cumulative force and influence in their lives."