Reported Death of Elder O. E. Davis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

Reported Death of Elder O. E. Davis

The sad news comes by cable from Georgetown, British Guiana, that it is believed that Elder O. E. Davis has been killed in the interior. It was in May, we believe, according to a letter to the Mission Board from Mrs. Davis, that her husband started from Georgetown to visit our stations among the Indians up the Essequibo River. Through these Indians he had received a request from a tribe, still farther in the interior, that had never been visited by the white man, asking that the “God-man” come and teach them the message of salvation. Elder Davis, therefore, planned to visit this tribe, and plunged into the interior, expecting to return about the last of July. Now comes the cable message announcing his death. May the Lord comfort and strengthen his sorrowing companion; and may Elder Davis’s death, in his efforts to reach souls in the regions far beyond, quicken the onward march of the message, and lead many a young heart to consecration to the work of carrying the light of truth into dark lands.

By report of the Ohio camp-meeting by Elder B. G. Wilkinson, received too late for insertion in this number, we learn that Elder E. K. Slade, of East Michigan, has been elected president of the Ohio Conference. Brother Slade’s address hereafter will be Mount Vernon, Ohio.