Second Edition LIVINGSTONE’S CENTENARY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 6

Second Edition LIVINGSTONE’S CENTENARY.

EULOGIST 1C REFERENCE

(Received 11.5 a.m.) London, March 18. Many references are being made to the late David Livingstone. Lord Curzon delivered a culogium at the Geographical Society’s commemoration meeting.

A HISTORIC JOURNEY. Livingstone was in his fortieth year when he set forth on Ids memorable journey from Capo Town. After 12 years of ceaseless toil, ho might have claimed a long furlough with his family, but ha felt that his work was umy beginning. “I am a missionary, heart and soul,” ho wrote to his brother Charles in 1800. “God had an only Son, and Ho was a Missionary and a Physician. A poor, poor imitation of Him I am, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it 1 wish to die.” So ,: he turned to the fev-er-striken lands in the north, offering himself as a forlorn hope, and comforting himself with the thought “A great honor it is to bo a fellowworker with God.” The' hero was no Stoic, and his letters home arte full of yearning affection. To his wife he wrote from Cape Town: ‘‘l see no face now to be compared with that sunburnt one which has so often greeted me with its kind looks. . . I never show all my feelings; but I can say truly, my clearest, that I loved you when I married you, ami the longer I lived with you I loved veil the better.’ ’