LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1694, 10 March 1913, Page 4

LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY.

SERMON BY DR. GIBB. ' St. John's Church was crowded last evening when Dr. Gibb conducted a service in commemoration of David Livingstone, missionary, 'traveller, and philanthropist, the first osntcnary of whose birth occurs on the I'Jth of the present month. The hymns were chosen to illustrate the theme, one of them, "0 God of Bethel," and to tho same tunc, having been bung on the occasion of Livingstone's burial in Westminster Abbey., At tho close of tho sermon the choir gave a fino rendering of Smart's "Te Deum," . Dr. Giub, who spoko for an hour, held the congregation 'enchained as he set forth in a series of word-pictures tho chief phases in tho career of Livingstone, and the salient features in the character of a man who was ouo of tho very biggc6t humans and greatest servants of Jesus Christ. Tho words "For mo to live is Christ" were chosen as the text liecauso devotion to Christ was the key to Livingstone's career and character. One of his biographers had ranked him, as a man, a Christian, a missionary, a scientist, a philanthropist, with the greatest of our ruoß, but it was Christ clone that explained this man's marvellous story. To open up Africa for the Gospel was his master-passioni.. All else, , hisjcxplorations, and discoveries, and scientific observations, • were subordinated to this great end.