Of Colonial stock, Commissioner Brengle left the security of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the uncertainties of officership in The Salvation Army.
Return to the United States from training in England brought him his share of that persecution which was the lot of many Salvationists at the turn of the century, and a brick aimed at his head by rough nearly ended his life. During the convalescence which followed he started to write. Since then more than two million copies of his books have been sold.
