The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-05-16

sad news from JoIlns-H Hopkins Hos
pital in Baltimore that DR.. Charles
W. Ottley was no more. Suffering
from serious malady he had gone
TO that city in the hope that an oper-
alton would prove curative, and he
submitted, hoping that his life and
usefulness would be spared for him
self and his fellow man On We'd
nesday last came the encouraging
and assuring news from his bedside
that he was improving, and his grief
stricken mother in this city and 9TH
er relatives and friends felt that a
great burden had been lifted from
their hearts in his promised recov-
cry. Then on Thursday came the
sorrowful news that death had fol-
lowed on Wednesday night at ten
O'clock shock SO great that it
completely prostrated those whose
loving thoughts and hopes and pray
ers had attended him ever since his
illness. Coming so soon after the
death of his brother, Eugene, which
had occurred scarcely a week before,
his untimely death, the end of a ca
reer so brilliant and SO promising,
brings a burden of additional sorrow
and grief to those already bowed in
anguish. Words are idle in the pres
ence of a sorrow so appalling as this,
yet, if they carry comfort and con-
ISOLATION to those in distress, the sym
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those in grief this morning, and they
are sustained by the love and pray
ers of countless friends of the long
ago.
If ever a life was bright with prom
ise, that life was that of DR.. Charles
W. Ottley. A resident of this city,
born here thirty-six years ago, early
in life he resolved to seek those
fields, those professions, where he
could render the greatest service to
his God and his fellowman, and faith
fully he followed his life purpose.
Graduating at Princeton and other
higher institutions of learning, he
returned to his adopted home, At
Ianta, and engaged in the work of
teaching as a medium of reaching
and getting in touch with young men,
among whom he directed all of his
energies and talents toward leading
them to a better and a higher life.
Conceiving the idea that the foreign
field offered limitless opportunities
for the service of God, he engaged in
the study of medicine and was re-
garded as one of the ablest and most
promising young practitioners of his
day, and then it was that he COM
bined the dual vocation of medical
missionary in the far away East,
spending five years of his life among
the heathens in Turkey, being situat
ed at Constantinople, and working as
a missionary and a physician among
the benighted in that far distant land
1t was while here that his health was
undermined, and when it reached
that point where he could no longer
serve in his chosen work he returned
home in search of health He went
West, but was benefited little 1t
Hopkins Hospital for treatment, and
it was here that his death occurred
Charles w. Ott1ey was one of the
purest and noblest and best of young
men. OF cherry and happy disposi
ton, he never failed to realize the
deep meaning and real purpose of
life, and his talents and energies were
freely given in that cause to which
his life was ecrated-humanity
Whether in the home, in the hospital,
whether leading and counseling the
young men along paths of righteous
ness, whether far-off in a distant land
lending his skill and science to the
relief of suffering and distress and
he was the same manly man, self
poised and possessed, never waver
ing or faltering in the great work in
which he had enlisted. 1t was while |
engaged in hospital work in Constan-
tinople that the foundation of his
health was undermined. and here be-
gan the disease which eliminated in |
his death. As he lived for his fell |
bowman, SO he gave up his life for
them, and no man hath greater love
for his fellowman than this.
The body will reach this city this |
morning, and the funeral will occur |
at four o'clock from the First Pres |
byterian church church.