Standards of Life and Service

Commissioner Thomas Henry Howard (1849-1923) was a British Officer of the Salvation Army, which he entered in 1881. He was later transferred to Australia, and was also British Commissioner, International Training Commissioner and Foreign Secretary at the International Headquarters in London. In 1912 he was appointed Chief of Staff by General Bramwell Booth. In the Preface to Howards book, Standards of Life and Service (1909), General Bramwell Booth writes that it contains reports of addresses delivered by Commissioner Howard, of our International Headquarters, during an important series of Holiness Meetings held in the Congress Hall, London, principally in 1908. Those Meetings were widely used by God, and at my request the Commissioner has revised the shorthand reports of his words for this volume. We now send forth his messages in the hope of still further extending their usefulness.