Elder French Returns from West Africa

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1911

Elder French Returns from West Africa

WE are glad to greet in Washington Elder T. M. French, of West Africa, who has returned to America for a furlough, required in order to recover from the malaria contracted on that unhealthful coast. He brings words of courage regarding the work, notwithstanding his own great loss in the death of his companion. It is evident that the workers there must follow the plan of government and commercial residents, and get away to Europe for a change at not infrequent intervals. Elder French will spend a little time at the Seminary, and call at some other schools on his way to his home in the West.

WE are allowed by Elder T. M. French to quote a few words from a letter he has received from Brother F. Peabody, father of the late Sister French. Acknowledging the sad news of her death on the Gold Coast, the father wrote:—

While I have been aware that we might get such news at almost any time, still it came as a shock. I knew when she told me that that was the field given to you, it was nearly sure death to go. But some one had to go, and I could not say, “Don’t go,” just because, she was mine. I gave all my children to the Lord when I became an Adventist, and she was the only one in the message.

Such words are golden, in such a time. While some are giving life and dear ones in the service, how earnestly we should work to give the consecrated means necessary to support the advancing work.