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family, but he felt that his work was only beginning.
"I am a missionary, heart and soul,"
he wrote to his brother Charles in 18jU. "Uod
had an ouly iSon, and He was a Missionary and
a Physician. A poor, poor imitation of lliin 1
am, or wish to be. In this snrvino I liwo.
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in it I wish to die." So lie turned to the fever.
stricken lands in the north, ottering hunself as
a forelorn hope, and comforting himself with
the thought, "A great honor it is to be a i'eilowworker
with God."
FJKST VISIT 110ME.
It was not till December, 185G, that he reached
the shores of England, on his lirst memorable
visit home. In the interval of three years he
had crossed the African continent between St.
Paul dc Loanda and Qudimane, had made many
great discoveries, and had established his fame
as the first of modern explorers.
Honors of many kinds now poured upon hiiu.
He received the freedom of Edinburg, Ulasgow,
and of the City of London, and the D. C. L. of
Oxford. A testimonial of 2,000 pounds was
raised by public subscription. Chambers of
Commerce welcomed him and listened cordially
to his schemes for the development of Central
Africa.
JlIOBBED IN LONDON.
His amazing popularity reached its height in
these years. Once he was mobbed in Kegent
otreet, and did not know iiow to escape till lie
saw a cab, and took refuge in it. lie hardly
dared to go to church for the same reason. On
cne occasion the preacher caught sight of him,
and rather unwisely made a reference to him.
This gave the people the knowledge that he was
in the buiidiug, and after the service they came
trooping towards him, even over the pews, in
their anxiety to sec him and shake hands.
AN INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN VICTORIA.
On February 13, 1858, he had the honor of an
interview with t^ueen Victoria, lie attended
Jler Majesty in his black coat aud blue trousers,
and his cap surrounded with a strip of gold lace.
The Queen conversed with him for halt an hour
on the subject of his travels, and Dr. Livingstone
told her that he would now be able to say
to the natives that lie had seen his chief, lie
added that the Africans were in the habit of inquiring
whether his chief were wealthy, and
when lie assured them she was very wealthy
tlicy would ask how many cows shb had got, a
question at which the Queen laughed heartily.
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aijumau an mesc nonors mvingstone remained
the same simple, true-hcartecl Christian man.
Friends who entertained him noted his habits
of early rising. He usually conducted family
worship in any house where he was staying, and
on Sunday mornings gave the children a text
for the day. "Ilis prayers," says one friend,
"were very direct and simple?just like a child
asking his father for what he wanted."
"MISSrONARY TRAVELS."
In November, 1807, Livingstone published his
"Missionary Travels." A second edition was
called for before the first of 12,000 copies was
issued, and the generosity of Mr. John Murray,
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mu cuiiucub xmuusner, cnaoicti tne autlior to
secure a small fortune by the work. About this
time he severed his connection with the London
Missionary Society, an act which called forth
some unfriendly criticism from narrow-minded
people.
Livingstone sailed on his second voyage to
Africa on March 10, 1858, and spent four years
in fruitful discoveries. In 18G2 the great sorrow
of his life fell upon him in the death of his
devoted wife. Henceforth he was a stranger
and a pilgrim on earth?
"Lone on the land, and homeless on the water,
Pass I in patience till my work is done."
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
lie wrote on May 31, 18G2, soon after the
death of his beloved partner: "The loss of my
ever dear Mary lies like a heavy weight on my
heart. In our intercourse in private there was
j_;ui-u mail nnut wouiu oe mougiii Dy some decorous
amount of merriment and play. I said
to her a Lew days before her fatal illness, 'We
old bodies ought now to be more sober, and not
play so much.' 'Oh, no,' said she; 'you must
always be as playful as you have always been. 1
would not like you to'be as grave as some folk
1 have seen.' This, when I knew her prayer was
that she might be spared to be a help and comfort
to me in my great work, led me to feel what
L have always believed to be the true way, to let
die head grow wise, but keep the heart ever
young and playful."
Surely it was for children of all ages that
the prophet's words were written; "The streets
ci the city shall be full of boys and girls playing
in the streets thereof."
LIFE AT HOME.
After a linal visit to England (1864-65), Livingstone
set fortii on his last journeyings to
Africa. Lord and Lady Eakncrston had entered
whole-heartedly into nis schemes lor the
abolition of the slave-trade, and soeiety had
opened its doors very willingly to this traveller.
The dress suit he needed for evening receptions
and dinners was bought, as an alter-thought,
from a West End iinn. Of the Duchess of Wellington's
reception lie wrote: "Ladies wonderfully
beautiful?rich and rare were the geins
limy wore. IJe visited the Duke of Argyll at
Inveraray, "the most delightful visit i ever
made." Keturning to Glasgow, he met Dr. Dull:,
whom he describes as "a hue, tail, noble-looking
man, with a white beard, and a twitch in his
muscles which shows that the Indian climate
has done its work on him."
THE SOURCES OP THE NILE.
It was Sir Roderick Murchisou, one of Divingstonc's
earliest ami most loyal friends, wiio
advised liim, in lbtij, jo examine the watersheds
of South Africa, with special reference to the
sources of the Kile. The hint was given that Dr.
Rirk might be willing to undertake the geographical
work if Livingstone failed, and Sir Roderick
added this sentence, which sounds like an
echo from Leuuu's pocni, ' The Enlistment":
*1 have heard you so often talk of the enjoyment
you feel when in Africa that I cannot believe
you now think of anchoring for the rest of your
life on the mud and sand Dunks of England."
These were strange words indeed to be written
In till* llOIV. AT niAj "* ?1
?W vr*. tuuuv,iu QCUpia^/IllCUI dClL'liCC} W11U
had left Jus dear wile ami child iu African
graves, and had travelled in physical sintering
across an unknown continent. Meed we add lhat
Livingstone sprang to the challenge, as the Hungarian
lad responded to the call of the recruiting
sergeant.
lie assured Sir Roderick that lie never contemplated
settling down quietly in England; it
would he time enough for that when he was iri
liis dotage. In his diary he wrote: "Answered
Sir Roderick about going out. Said I could only
feel in the way of duty by working as a missionary."
lie was warned by the British Foreign
Office that he must expect no pension, and that
his rovinc pnmmkcinn nmnn<? fho A fi-inon oliI/vF
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was to carry no salary. Livingstone, the most
disinterested of men, had never sought money or
titles for himself, and he resented, very naturally,
the suggestion that his African explorations
were undertaken as a money-making concern.
TITE LAST JOU11NTSY.
So we meet him at Zanzibar in January, 1866,
setting forth on his solitary way. The Bible was
his closest companion in the last years, and his
favorite Bible hero was Moses. "We remember
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his familiar wordy, "1 read the Bible through
lour times whilst 1 was in -Manyueina.'' The
books of Genesis and Exodus were constantly in
iiis mind. \\ e think of him now as a modern
Aloses, setting forth with the rod of God in lus
iiand to deliver the enslaved children of Africa.
Ancient Jewish legends tell us that the rod of
Moses, which struck the hard rock uutii the
waters gushed forih, was not made of any soft,
common wood, out of the sapphire, the hardest
of ail jewels, except the diamoud. Dr. Livingstone,
who carried with him a diviug rod which
unlocked the blue waters of unknown lakes and
rivers, lifted up his glancing weapon of sapphire
against the hoary iniquity of the slave-traders
"The sweat of one's brow," he wrote, thinking
of Genesis 3: 9, "is no longer a curse when
oue works for God; it proves a tonic to the system,
and is actuailv a blessiner. No one enn
truly appreciate the charm of repose unless lie
has undergone severe exertion."
DREAMS OP TILE NILE.
Like Pharaoh in the old records, Dr. Livingstone
"dreaiued, and behold he stood by the
river I"
Sir Harry-Johnstone exaggerates in saying
that when the Doctor refused to return to
Europe with Stanley, he was mad with the idea
of finding the Nile sources, but it is certain that
Livingstone believed that the Lualaba must be
the Upper Nile. In the journals of his closing
years, we lind many references to "Egypt's
heaven-descendc-d stream." While waiting in
13(>8 to set out for Ujiji, he noted in his journal
that Sesostris, Alexander the Great, and the
Caesars hod gazed wistfully southwards towards
the fountains of the river, lie quotes on Lucan's
authority, the words of Julius Ctesar that he
would give up the civil war if he might but see
the springs of the far-famed Nile. Nero sent
two centurions to examine the caput Nili. They
reported that they saw the river rushing with
great force from two rocks, and beyond that it
was lost in immense marshes.
Such reports reached Europe about Dr. Livingstone's
wanderings. The life of the prince
of travelers was lost for many montlis in immense
marshes. His friends could not sec him
in the hut at night, often fever-worn and sleepless,
but comforting.himself with the promises
of Uod. After reaching Lake Tanganyika, he
wrote: "I feel deeply thankful at having got
so far. I am excessively weak?cannot walk
without tottering, and have constant singing in
the head, hut the Highest will lead me further."
Writing in his Journal in 1870, the Doctor
said: "Ail the hardship, hunger, and toil were
met with the full conviction that 1 was right
in persevering to make a complote work of the
exploration of the sources of the Nile. Mine
lias been a calm, hopeful endeavor to do the
work that has been given me to do, whether I
succeed or whether 1 fail." He confesses that
for the first years of his lonely travels he had
oeen haunted with a presentiment of failure;
but he sums up his noble ambition in these
words: "An eager desire to discover any evidence
of the great Moses having visited these
parts bouud me, spell-bound me, I may say, for
if I could bring to light anything to confirm the
Sacred Oracles, I should not grudge one whit
all the labor expended."
Think of Livingstone, in his hut at Bambarrfc,
dwelling continually on the career of Moses, "a
man of transcendent genius," and looking northwards,
as if in his weakness and suffering he
might grasp the rod of sapphire. lie recalls
references to Closes in the New Testament, lingering
specially on the honor paid him by St.
Stephen.
The words that recur most frequently in his
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