Stanley and Livingstone.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1464, 25 September 1885, Page 4

Stanley and Livingstone.

Mr Stanley, t c celebrated traveller, said m the course of a recent interview : — I have been m Africa for seventeen years, and I never met a man yot who would kill me if I folded my hands. What is wanted, and what I have been endeavouring to ask for the poor Africans, has been the good ounces of Christians ; ever since Livingstone taught me, during tho3e four months that Twas with him. In 1871 1 went to him as, prejudiced as the biggest at'ieist in'Lbudon. To a reporter and correspondent, such as I, who had only to deal with" wars, mass meetings, and political '.gtith'Qrmnpi.isentimental matters were entirely out of my province. But there 'cams for nvi a long tim 3 for reflection. I was out there far from a worldly world. I saw this solitary old mm there, and asked myself, " How on earth doa* he stop here ; is he cracked or what ? What is it that inspires him ?" For months after we met I simply toun.l myself listening to him, wondering at the ol I man carrying out all that wis said m the Bible— " Leave all .things : and follow Me;" But little by little my 'sympathy was aroused; seeing his piety, his gentleness, his zeal, his earnestness, and how he quietly went a,b.Qiit-his business, 1 was converted 'b/ Mra; : although he had not tried to d6liti' ! ->He converted people by example. - How sad that the go >d, oil man should hive ' died so' ! s6mi. How j iyf ul ha would have, been if he could have seen what has since happened there. *