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Death of Sister W. H. Anderson

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 13, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 7.

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Death of Sister W. H. Anderson

By African Cable

By African Cable
ON the sixth a cable message came to the General Conference Office from South Africa bringing the sad news of the death from blackwater fever of Sister W. H. Anderson, of the Northwest Rhodesia Mission. In a letter recently received from Elder W. H. Anderson, dated December 16, he reported his wife's serious illness, she having been attacked with the fever November 25. He felt for a time that she would be unable to live, but she revived under treatment, so that he took her to the hospital at Livingstone, and later to Kimberley, where, as she was making progress, Brother Anderson left her, returning himself to the mission at Pemba. He expected her to go on to Cape Town, and then, as medically advised, return home for a sea voyage and a furlough in America. The doctor said, however, that if a relapse occurred, he would not expect her to recover. This relapse must have come. On January 8, writing from Cape Town, Elder Hyatt reported that Sister Anderson was at our Claremont Sanitarium, near Cape Town, and planning to sail in March. Her letter to her parents told how she regretted leaving her husband and the mission, but she consented to it in order to make the quicker recovery, so as to be able to engage again in the work. Now comes the brief cable telling of life's work ended. We assure Brother Anderson and little Naomi, in Africa, of the prayers and sympathy of all the believers; the same assurance also to the aged parents and family of Sister Anderson in this country. Again it is a sad reminder that the missionary advance is a constant conflict. The workers in unhealthful climes, battling with fevers, sound no wavering note, but they do long to see the reinforcements pressing in. Pray for this also. It is in the "blessed hope" of a work soon to be finished that believers are ready to lay down their lives in service. Sister Anderson rests from her work, but her long and loving labors for darkest Africa will follow her. Read Brother Anderson's article on page 15.