A VOW — ALBERT SCHWEITZER
In the ’50’s, Dr. Schweitzer was on his way to speak to a Conference in Aspen, Colorado, but had to change trains in Chicago. As he was standing on the station platform being questioned by reporters, a woman carrying a heavy suitcase walked past. Immediately Dr. Schweitzer excused himself. He walked over to the lady, took the heavy suitcase from her, and accompanied her to the car of the train she was boarding. Then he turned and walked back to where the clustered group had been. They were no longer there. Each one of the reporters, seeing Albert Schweitzer’s helpfulness, had started to look for some lady with a heavy suitcase to assist onto the train! It was forty years before this Chicago episode when Dr. Schweitzer and his wife were being moved from one prisoner-of-war camp to another. He reported in his autobiography: “At the station at Tarascon we had to wait for the arrival of our train…
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