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The First JAC 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL
SALVATIONISTS LIST
The Barmy Army readers of our armybarmy.com
blog will know that this exercise was inspired by a feature in
The Atlantic Monthly that created a list of the most
influential Americans. Only a few of those on the list are
alive today. While Christian modesty might add some
challenges, we decided that a list of the most influential
Salvationists might provoke an interest in our history and
stir us on to love and good deeds today.
So, we created several categories and invited veteran
Salvationists, including professors, colonels, commissioners,
and generals to nominate names of great hearts in each
category. The only hint offered was the expectation that most
of the names would be people already promoted to Glory. This
happened. And it makes sense for three reasons:
1. those people lived their whole lives to spread their
influence;
2. it allows us a little generational modesty in recognizing
the great exploits of those gone before;
3. though many believe our best days are ahead (and we hope
so) our best days to date are behind.
Now, a couple of caveats:
- We’re not rating the best people; we’re recognizing those
through whom God has influenced many for His glory; this is
not a popularity contest;
- Though we tried to cover the world in the selection process,
most of those who responded are from the West. Thus there are
a lot of Western names here. We know that there are a lot of
non-Western names worthy of being listed, but we need to
spread the net. Maybe you can help. If you have names not
listed that you’d like to nominate, please email revolution @
mmccxx.net and put ‘Influential Salvationists’ in the subject
line.
We received 197 different names. After collecting the
selections, we collated, juggled a bit to avoid replication
(you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Railton found his way
onto the list in several categories) and here, emphasizing
that these people represent countless others who have left
their mark on history and eternity, present the first version
of the JAC’s 100 Most Influential Salvationists List.
Music
Dean Goffin – 1st grand productions; composer
Eric Ball – composer
Charles Fry – 1st Brass Band
Eric Leidzen – composer
Sidney Cox – song writer
Richard Slater – Father of Salvation Army Music
Bill Himes OF - composer
Arthur Gullidge – composer; bandmaster of 2/22 Battalion Band
of Salvationists that died in WW2 battle
Joy Webb OF – Joy Strings
John Larsson – musicals - 10
Evangelism
Lyell Rader Sr. – open-air evangelist
Elijah Cadman – invented uniform
Mary Styles – nurse evangelist in South Africa
Joe the Turk – novelty genius pioneer
Catherine Booth Jr. – ‘La Marechale’
Clarence Wiseman – Evangelist General
Catherine Bramwell Booth – widespread television interview
evangelism in her nineties
Frank Bradley – combined love and humility in Central and
Southern Africa
Andy Miller – one-on-one evangelist and preacher - 9
Preaching
Allister Smith Jr. – worldwide revivalist
Gypsy Smith – popular evangelist
Rhoda Sainsbury –Newfoundland legend; “Miss Salvation Army”.
Samuel Hurren – ‘wonderful orator’
Margaret Hay – UK Preacher of Year
Arthur Pitcher – holiness story teller
Israel Gaither – craft weds passion - 7
Heroes
Harry Andrews – SA medical pioneer; received the Victoria
Cross
William Evans –Australian in Zambia, overcame cancer and
effects
Anna Beek –Dutch in the Congos for life
Jean Caldwell – principal of the Usher School under fatal
attack; continued service in Zimbabwe after the event
A. Bramwell Cook (OF) Kiwi medical officer in India for more
than 20 years
Charles Pean – Devil’s Island - 7
Writing
Frederick Coutts – international Bible lessons material
Catherine Baird – ‘The Army’s poet laureate’
Gunpei Yamamuro OF– Japanese ‘Common Peoples’ Gospel’
Albert Osborn – Poet General
Henry Gariepy – 26 Books and counting
John Gowans – poetry/musicals
Milton Agnew – holiness teaching
Edward Read – holiness teaching
Sallie Chesham – poet - 9
Leadership
William Booth
Edward Higgins – guided Army through 1929
Evangeline Booth OF– established The Army in USA
Frederick Adlam –much loved leader in Africa
Joel Mbambo Matunjwa OF- ‘Zulu Apostle of The Salvation Army’
Eva Burrows – eastern Europe Vision
Paul Rader - internationalism
Brian Tuck – South African leader
Albin Peyron – ‘to the French, Peyron was The Salvation Army,
and The Salvation Army was Peyron’ - 9
Expansion
George Scott Railton – instigator
Henri Becquet – Congo, now the country with the highest
percentage Salvationists
Karl Larsson – Eastern Europe and Russia
Fred Clark – contributed significantly expansion in Central
Africa
James Barker – Australia
Hanna Ouchterlony (OF) – Sweden
Henry Bullard – India & Japan
Francis Simmonds – South Africa
Tom Lewis – mid-century missionary in South Africa expanding
through that continent - 9
Sacrifice
Arnolis Weerasooriya – Buddhist convert family in Sri
Lanka, PtG in service to the sick; first Indian CS
Narayana Muthaiah – Hindu convert in South India; persecuted
Herbert Lord – Korea and Singapore prisoner
Sara Broadbent – Early Martyr (represents all the martyrs)
Eva Den Hartog – Africa, India, Asia medical work
Alida Bosshardt OF – Holland
Harry Williams OF – India hospitals
Dudley Gardiner MBE – India; Mother Teresa said, “Major
Gardiner is known in Calcutta as ‘the father of the poor’.”
Rin Iwasa – Japan; tuberculosis medical work
Brigadier Joseph Korbel - Czechoslovakia prisoner
Bartholomew Siebrits – traveling WW2 international auditor -
10
Innovators
Herbert Booth – cinema
Arnold Brown – radio and television
David Lamb – restructuring of The Army's social programme,
internal governance system; established the migration
programme
Mary Murray – early officer involved in SA Red Shield Services
Elizabeth Cottrill – SA social work pioneer
Joe Noland – injected creativity and resource into mission - 6
Doctrine
Catherine Booth
Samuel Logan Brengle (OF) - holiness
Erik Wickberg – in whose honour a Salvation Army theological
festschrift was published.
Roger Green – author of theological histories
Phil Needham – Ecclesiology
Earl Robinson – Doctrine Council; new Handbook; Ecumenism - 6
Pioneers
Frederick Booth Tucker – India
Kawl Khuma OF –Mizoram, India
King Hudson – Ghana
Philip Rive OF – pioneer officer in the Rhodesias (now Zambia
and Zimbabwe)
Allister Smith Sr. – consolidated The Army in Zululand;
pioneered the work in East Africa
George Pollard - New Zealand
Leonard Kirby Sr. OF - Africa
Eliza Shirley – USA - 8
System/Administration
Bramwell Booth – system
Arthur Carr –legal secretary and chief of staff
Ron Cox – revision of Netherlands governance and O+R for
Officers
George Carpenter – post WW2 unity
Paul DuPlessis – hospitals and world evangelisation - 5
Prayer
Flora Larsson - Books
Check Yee – China
Solomon Perera – Ceylon For Christ
Albert Pepper – holiness teacher
Mina Russell OF – Russell declared that “the Army’s greatest
need is prayer…. Prayer is the source of spiritual power. The
more simply we trust prayer power for guidance in planning,
inaugurating, and sustaining our work, the more personally and
collectively we will fulfill God’s plan and enjoy His
blessing.” – 5
100 – glory to God!
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