Their Work Closed by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1907

Their Work Closed

By W. A. S.

In a letter from Hamburg, Brother Guy Dail gives some particulars regarding recent losses among the workers in Europe:—

Dr. A. W. George died in Friedensau at 2 A. M., February 13; Sister Rosa Ehlers (the wife of Brother J. Ehlers, who was our first missionary in German East Africa) died at 4:30 that same afternoon; and Brother G. Hantzsch at 5 P. M. the following day. Brother George died in Friedensau; Sister Ehlers at Ellerau, near Hamburg; and Brother Hantzsch here in Hamburg.

Thus the workers fall asleep, and others must take up their work. The mission work especially loses in Dr. George’s death, as he had just got nicely started in Constantinople. The death of Sister Ehlers is the most sad, as she leaves behind her a husband still weak from the effects of the African experiences, and two little children. Brother Hantzsch has done much for the cause in Germany by his means and his devoted service to our two institutions—in Friedensau and in Hamburg.

As the cause spreads out into all the world and the laborers multiply, we have more frequently to record these breaks in the ranks abroad. But whether at home or abroad, as the workers fall, there is the blessed assurance that “their works do follow them.” The laborer may rest, but the influence of the life goes on working. W. A. S.