Wednesday, June 1, 2016

MY AUNT RUTH

Approximately 1920, at the tender age of five or six years old she gave her heart and life to God after listening to a message preached by Colonel Samuel Logan Brengle at The Salvation Army, 403 Congress Avenue in Austin, TX. In 1933 she entered The Salvation Army Training College in Atlanta, GA. as a cadet in the Do and Dare Session . In 1983,  after forty-nine years of service, she wrote;

"...the little cadet, whose superior officers were told by three different doctors, at three different periods of my life, that she should resign, is still on active duty. They said I was not able to do Salvation Army work as it required more physical stamina than I had, but I am still on the field, working for the Lord. My strength is given by God, who does not make mistakes, and who defies doctors statements and gives strength to the weak to do His tasks, and makes them able to do the work God wants them to do. To God I give all the glory for without His help I could never have made it. He has done many miracles in my life and I know God lives and He hears and answers prayer and this is another chapter of His miracles and power." - - Ruth (Schneider) Breazeale in OUR DWELLING PLACE by Anice (Schneider) Williams


Above photo courtesy of The Salvation Army Historical Center, USA Southern Territory, Atlanta, GA.
http://salvationarmy.pastperfectonline.com/



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