A Laborer at Rest

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 2, 1907

A Laborer at Rest

ELDER D. E. SCOLES died in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 12, 1907. About ten days before his death he was suddenly stricken with paralysis; from this he never recovered.

His first public work was in the State of Oregon. He attended the Milton Academy, and during the vacation labored with Elder Decker in tent-meetings. In 1887 he became a regular worker in the Upper Columbia Conference. Later he spent a year in the California Conference. In October, 1890, he went to Battle Creek to attend a ministerial school. While there, he was married, and at the close of the school returned with Sister Scoles to Upper Columbia, where he labored for six years. In 1897 he was transferred to the Minnesota Conference. He labored there for about a year and a half, but on account of the severe climate and the failing health of Sister Scoles they came to Missouri, where he has been engaged in faithful service for the past eight years.

He fell at his post of duty. At the time he was stricken, he was in the midst of a course of lectures at Taneyville, Mo., where the interest to hear was good, and on the increase.

Sister Scoles and her son, Elliott, are the only members of the family left; they feel their loss most keenly, and especially Sister Scoles, as she has not been well for a number of months.

The cause of present truth has sustained a great loss in the death of Elder Scoles. He was the author of some of our best tracts. The body was taken to Washburn, Mo., for interment. The funeral services were conducted by F. F.