Angel Adjutant of Twice Born Men

The Angel Adjutant of "Twice
Born Men"
by Minnie L.
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THE ANGEL ADJUTANT
OF
"Twice Born Men"
by
MINNIE L. CARPENTER
INTRODUCTION BY GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH
FOREWORD BY COMMANDER EVANGELINE BOOTH

Introductory Note

There is surely little need for me to commend this so intimate and
living picture of Staff-Captain Kate Lee. It speaks for itself in speaking
of one whose fine character and ceaseless labour were of singular
charm and amazing fruitfulness.
The Salvation Army has been happy in its Women Officers. The
lessons of experience undoubtedly teach us that they are fully qualified
for all the work of the ministry of Christ.
Long denied the right of public testimony as well as the opportunity to
proclaim the truth of the Saviour's mission, women have in the history
of our Movement fully proved that they may be as effective, as
acceptable, and as successful as their brethren, both as teachers and
rulers in the Kingdom of Christ on earth. The extraordinary theory that
the gifts of the Holy Spirit are confined to those who have taken part in
a certain ecclesiastical ceremonial, narrow and mistaken as it may be, is
surely a mild and simple form of error, compared with the appalling
notion that those gifts are confined to men, and are to be for ever
withheld from the other half of the human family. The Churches of the
world seem at length prepared to debate within themselves whether
they should venture to follow our example, and give to woman a place
worthy of her gifts in their various plans of campaign. Perhaps the brief
story of this life may help some of them a step forward.
Kate Lee was an unfaltering believer in the power of God to save from
the power of sin. This was really her secret. That faith dominated her
own frail and often sick body with its nights of sleeplessness--its days
of pain. It conquered the worst in the worst of men whom she
encountered in her work of mercy. It won a multitude of souls to
believe in her and in her message, and then to believe in her Saviour. It
was ever greater than her circumstances. It was greater than herself. It
makes her life, and this story of it, wonderful for us who remain.
And Kate Lee was a Salvationist; that is, she was seized with what we
sometimes call the spirit of The Army--that union of holy love and
fiery zeal and practical common sense which, by the power of Christ,

produces wherever it is found the fruits of Salvation in the bodies and
souls of those who are without. And I feel no sort of doubt that to any
woman, having the opportunity to do so, and to whom she could speak
to-day, she would say--'Do as I have done.' I do not mean by that that
every sincere woman is bound to become a Salvation Army Officer, or
is called forthwith to go to the ends of the earth as a member of our
Missionary Forces. But I do mean that Christian women everywhere
have a part to play in the great Ministry of Conversion--in the glorious
Mission of the Apostles of every age, for the evangelization of the
world.
It behooves them to see that they play their part.
Bramwell Booth, General.

Foreword

The story of "The Angel Adjutant" is sure to continue its