Lope S. Nicolas by Frank S. Bond

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 11, 1915

Lope S. Nicolas

By Frank S. Bond

For a number of months our licentiate minister, Brother Lope S. Nicolas, had been suffering healthwise, and when my brother Walter was at Baeza holding meetings, it was decided that Brother Nicolas should soon come to Barcelona to undergo an operation. My brother died at the home of Brother Nicolas. Shortly after my brother’s death, Brother Nicolas, with his wife and daughter, came to Barcelona. Last Wednesday, December 9, he was operated on for cancer of the stomach and small intestine. Our brother did not awaken from the effects of the drug which put him to sleep. Early the next morning he passed away.

Brother Nicolas accepted present truth in Barcelona about nine years ago, and most of his time since was spent in active missionary work. The first years were spent in canvassing and Bible work, and one year ago last summer he was taken on our list as a licentiate preacher. His efforts were blessed of the Lord. He was a great help in developing the work in Barcelona, and also in Murcia. Three of our faithful canvassers are from Murcia, and came to a knowledge of the truth under his labors.

He was a native of Yimena, in southern Spain, and was fifty-three years of age. He leaves to mourn a wife and a daughter in Spain, two sons in Mexico, and one son in Gland, Switzerland. We accompanied him to his last resting place in the Barcelona cemetery, on the afternoon of December 11. There I had the privilege of speaking words of comfort from God’s Word to members of the family and a goodly number of brethren and friends. We hope to meet our brother in the morning of the resurrection.

Brother Nicolas loved dearly the message which we as a people are proclaiming to the world, and labored hard to make it known to others. Who will fill the places made vacant by our fallen brethren in Spain?

FRANK S. BOND.