The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"Carpenter, Minnie Lindsay Rowell
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The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
Carpenter, Minnie Lindsay Rowell
Lee, Kate; Salvation Army
Labourers are wanted who will dig right deep down into the heart of
sorrow, and find those desires and longings after purity and goodness
which even the heart itself scarcely realizes are there.
In the man of the world, though one would hardly believe it as one
sees the cynical look and sneer and hears him say, 'I don't want your
church--your Army!' there is underneath, in spite of his apparent
indifference, a longing after God and a disgust of the world.
Men and women are wanted to grapple with the vast harvest--this great
opportunity--and to gather in God's sheaves. Oh, to leave the world
of vice and folly as naked as the earth is after the harvest! Empty
public-houses! Empty gambling dens! Empty abodes of impurity! Empty
slums! Empty all places where God is not! But thanksgiving in the
home; the House of God filled with rejoicing people, telling out of
hearts of gladness that labourers came into the fields of sin and
gathered them in.
Many letters, folded and handled until almost worn to pieces, but
treasured above gold, lie before me. They are addressed to Kate Lee's
spiritual children, to the sick, the discouraged, or those living far
from an Army hall and rarely able to get to the meetings. These letters
are short, often mere notes of one page, rarely running into more than
two or three folios; and they are not clever. Kate had little imagination
in her make up; she did not see pictures wherever her eyes lit, and never
had time to give to studied composition. The value of these letters to us
is that any ordinary girl, anyone with a heart 'at leisure from itself'
could write such letters. Over and over again in The Army Founder's life
we find him saying, 'It is _heart_ work we want. HEART work.' It is
because Kate Lee's letters came from a heart full of love that they
reached hearts and never failed to bless them.
She had a delightful way of remembering the anniversary of some of her
trophies' conversion. She called them birthdays. Here is a little scrap
to a man battling bravely against ill health and other adversities:--
I am enclosing a Money Order for five shillings so that you can get
some little thing for yourself or your wife. Just a little birthday
gift for _your twelfth birthday_. God bless you! Keep near to
Jesus and do all in your power to lead those around you to Him.
Praise Him that He has kept you all these years. He is a wonderful
Saviour and worthy of our praise.
No work of art was so beautiful in the eyes of Kate Lee as the
photographs of men and women to whom God had given 'beauty for ashes.'
She writes to one:--
The photo is lovely--I am proud of you. It gives me real joy to hear
that you are still wheeling your barrow around and reminding souls of
Eternity. Give my love to your precious wife.
To a man just lifted from a pit of sin, and whose feet still tottered,
she wrote:--
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