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
The first time she insisted upon my taking the Sunday night address,
in spite of having laboriously prepared, I was so nervous that I
stopped, fairly played out, in the middle of my talk, but she got
up and encouraged me, and asked the comrades to pray. She helped me
so much that to give a Bible address is not a difficulty now. I
learned to forget myself.
Had she a weakness? Well, it may seem much to say it, but though I
lived with her so long, I cannot think of one; she was an all-round
conqueror.
Writes still another lieutenant:--
How I love her memory! My Bible was her parting gift to me, and in
it she marked the text: 'In all thy way acknowledge Him, and He
shall direct thy paths.' She passed on to me the method that
governed her own life.
In nothing did Kate Lee show her likeness to her Lord more than in her
practical unselfishness. He wanted nothing from the world. He came to
give Himself to save it. It was so with her. A woman so popular could
have drawn to herself the homage and service of the crowd; but here she
stood aloof. She welcomed, indeed she sought, gifts and service for the
work of The Army and the poor, but she wanted nothing for herself. When
she and her lieutenant were so pressed with work that they scarcely had
time to eat their food, her eye would rove over the corps, and she would
select a girl whom she felt had a true appreciation of the Kingdom of
God, and ask her if she would like to come to the quarters to help with
the house-work, so that the officers might be freer for soul-saving. Many
a girl counts it the honour of her life to have shared that saintly
woman's home, sat at her table, joined in the prayers, and done the work
of the house. The Adjutant and lieutenant paid her out of their small
allowance.
To her soldiers, Kate Lee delighted to preach the doctrine of Full
Salvation from sin, and greatly she rejoiced over those who entered into
this glorious experience of freedom and power.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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