Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cold Soil. Commissioner Pugmire's plain, earnest, large-jawed face is that of a veteran campaigner. He has been dedicated to the cause for almost half a century. A third-generation Salvationist, he and his forbears-bridge army history from its founding to its present day.
The U.S. was a cold, hard soil for evangelism. In 1880, General Booth's devoted and indefatigable disciple, George Scott Railton,* had landed in Manhattan at the head of seven female soldiers. He moved into Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theater, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery and...
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It was a deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every...
At 18, he entered the army's Toronto training school, left it nine months later to deal with a wayward world. He became one of the army's most accomplished performers on the euphonium. Ernest could make men cry with his deep-throated horn. He married British-born...