A Faithful Worker Fallen
By I. H. Evans
BROTHER W. M. LEE, secretary-treasurer of the Florida Conference, was instantly killed Sunday morning, November 15. The following, taken from a letter written by Elder B. W. Spire, is the only information at hand at this writing: “The conference office was on the fourth floor of the Yowell-Duckworth Building in Orlando. Brother Lee went up on the elevator. There being no one to operate the elevator on Sunday, those on the fourth floor were permitted to use the elevator, running it themselves. Brother Lee seems to have reached the fourth floor successfully, and wishing to return the elevator to the first floor, he turned the handle to send the elevator down, but as he was in the act of passing from the elevator door to the fourth floor, he was caught with his head between the top of the elevator door and the floor of the building. Death must have been immediate, as his neck was broken; but there was no evidence of any broken skin or crushing of the body, as the elevator stopped itself before he was mangled in any way.” Brother Lee leaves a wife and a daughter in Florida, and two sons, Howard Lee, the head of our educational work in Korea, and Fred Lee, in charge of the work in the province of Honan, China. Brother Lee was widely known, having served as secretary-treasurer of the Pennsylvania Conference, as treasurer of the Melrose sanitarium, as bookkeeper several years in the General Conference Office, and as secretary-treasurer of the Florida Conference since the last General Conference. He was greatly beloved by all who were closely associated with him. He was honest, open-hearted, always pleasant, and commanded the respect of his associates. He will be greatly missed, not only by his wife and children, but by all who knew him as a worker in the cause of God. The bereaved family have the sympathy of God’s people.