Perhaps you read in your newspaper recently about the St. Louis businessman who visited Albert Schweitzer at his mission hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, in Africa. The American found the good doctor working an 18 hour day in the tropical heat. His routine demands of him that he walk some 5 or 6 miles every day. Remember please that he is 88 years old. He finds time each day to play the piano or the organ and to sing songs. He gives Bible lectures daily without fail. Alone he raises $250,000 to meet his hospital budget. And most important he administers to the sick, regardless of the circumstances, motivated only by a reverence for life. The St. Louis businessman took his son with him to Africa. During his discussions with Dr. Schweitzer, the boy went to brush an ant from the doctors sleeve. Dr. Schweitzer intervened saying, "we might break its legs!" It is hard for us to truly appreciate the greatness of this human being, who's concern extends even to the lowly aunt. Is this little piece is being written, two brave young Americans are somewhere out in space circling the globe. It amazes me that men should be capable of engineering such a feat and still be incapable of learning Dr. Schweitzer’s simple theory of reverence for life. Where is the profit if we learn all the secrets of the universe and still are unable to make our peace with the man down the street whose skin does not match our own. And where better could this lesson be learned than at the knee of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, surely the most godly man who today walks the face of our troubled earth.
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