A Faithful Laborer Fallen by L. R. Conradi

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 21, 1907

A Faithful Laborer Fallen

By L. R. Conradi

Few as were the laborers in the Levant Mission field, we were greatly rejoiced when Dr. A. W. George offered himself for service in Turkey, in 1903.

The doctor had several severe attacks of la grippe after he came to this country, yet these did not seem serious to himself or to any one else until an attack became so acute that exactly three years after his arrival in Constantinople (Nov. 23, 1906), he left that city to find relief in our sanitarium at Gland, Switzerland. The physicians thought to benefit him by transferring him to a higher altitude, but the mountains of Switzerland seemed too cold. He was invited to come to Friedensau, where everything possible was done for his comfort and help.

While I was recently in Friedensau, I had several visits with the doctor, and he expressed his gratitude to God for the privilege he had had of being connected with his service. He expressed thankfulness to us for all we had tried to do in his behalf.

The doctor's wife came with him from Constantinople, and she was with him much of the time. He was conscious until death, just before which he had gathered the nurses around him for a season of prayer. He died February 13, having fully resigned his life into the hands of the great Life-giver.

This loss is a loud call from a needy field. Who will respond?

L. R. CONRADI.