Death of Brother Ernest Raessler

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1911

Death of Brother Ernest Raessler

The mail from Europe brings word that our German brethren are once again called upon to suffer the loss of a valiant soldier fighting the battles of this missionary cause in tropical Africa. Elder G. Dail, secretary for Europe, writes that by cable from German East Africa they have the report of the death of Brother Ernest Raessler, of the German Victoria Nyanza Mission. He died of the blackwater fever. Mail news had previously brought information that Sister Raessler was ill with the same fever. Evidently she made a recovery, and her husband, who later took the disease, has fallen at his post. Our hearty sympathy goes out to Sister Raessler and the little band of workers in the Victoria Nyanza Mission. Experience shows that none are more earnest to hold to the field, and see still more workers associated with them, than those who are fighting the battle of this message in the most unhealthful regions of the world. And the wonderful development of the school work in Central Africa shows that the Lord of the harvest is blessing the self-sacrificing laborers.