While in Africa he introduced schools which came to be welcomed by many of the tribal chiefs and which the young Africans came to grow very fond of.

Springer is noted for exploring and journeying 1500 miles across central Africa on foot in 1907, along with his wife Helen.

In 1905, Springer had become mission superintendent of Old Umtali where he married Helen Emily Rasmussen, whoalso did missionary in Southern Rhodesia.

On December 1, 1963 Springer died in the Congo and was buried at the United Methodist mission station in Mulungwishi, Katanga Province, DRC.

During their voyage they found accommodations at Cachoa in a house where the explorer and missionary David Livingstone had stayed some years before.

He held various appointments between 1910 and 1915, including Kalalua in North Western Rhodesia (1910–11), Lukoshi in Belgian Congo (1911–13), and Kambove (1913-15).

Springer became superintendent of the Congo Mission Conference, helping other medical missionaries, such as Dr. Arthur Lewis Piper, get acclimated.

Another transfer occurred in 1924, when Springer joined the Congo Mission Conference a second time, again appointed Superintendent.