Out of my life and thought

A Modern Saint This is the inspiring life story of one of the most remarkable men of modern times. A brilliant organist, musicologist, theologian and philosopher, Albert Schweitzer, at the age of thirty, turned his back on the dazzling rewards the world offered him in order to serve his fellow men as a medical missionary in Africa. It is a thrilling account of a monumental personal quest, enormous self-sacrifice and extraordinary achievement, told with simplicity, modesty and humor. Reverence for Life ''Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence for Life". The iron door had yielded: the path in the thicket had become visible." This is the remarkable life story of the extraordinary man whose philosophy of life was illuminated on a river barge in the heart of the African jungle. Yet this reverence for life had influenced Albert Schweitzer's earliest childhood in the small Alsatian village of his birth, and today, as he carries on his work from a hospital on the edge of the primeval French Equatorial African jungle, this philosophy is exerting a humanitarian influence that is felt throughout the civilized world. Medical missionary, philosopher, musician and theologian, Albert Schweitzer's life is an amazing record of achievement in the service of his fellow men. In this absorbing book, he reveals the influences which caused him to desert a brilliant worldly career at the age of thirty in order to spend the rest of his life as a doctor in Africa, and the evolution of his spiritual convictions which have become one of the greatest expressions of a living faith in the modern world. "This small book cannot be urged on the reader strongly enough . . . the book is done with such simplicity and honesty and innocence that Dr. Schweitzer becomes extraordinary once again— though this time by virtue of qualities that are man size rather than superhuman." —New York Times