...possible by the fact that he was a missionary. In 1857 ne said — almost in Vasco da Gama's words — ' I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity.' Four years later the Universities Mission to Central Africa was founded. In 1813 Wilberforce carried,...

...tremendous effect upon men and movements in after days : " I beg to direct your attention to Africa. I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that...Christianity ; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I leave it with you." For as long as I can remember, David Livingstone has been my hero — my master....

...there are postal evidences of Livingstone, who in 1857, when at home on a visit, said at Cambridge: "I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country [Africa], which is now open. Do not let it be shut again." When on a stamp of Rhodesia (1905) you look...

...commerce help, not hinder, the kindly purpose of Missions. " I go back to Africa to make an opening for Commerce and Christianity. Do you carry out the work which I have begun ? I leave it with you I " It was with such glowing words as these that David Livingstone enforced on...

...force and startling effect, he literally shouted his final message at the crowded benches round him. ' I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that...Christianity. Do you carry out the work which I have begun. I leave it with you.' Out of that appeal, that command, the Mission was born. The latent idealism of...

...sound of the call that David Livingstone gave to youth before he went out on that long last journey: " I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity. ... I leave it with you." Those other words too, written out there in Africa, face to face with the...

...perhaps no orator has ever swayed a university gathering. His final words were long to be remembered: "I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for...Christianity. Do you carry out the work which I have begun ; I leave it with you." His appeal was not fruitless. The first fruit was the Universities' Mission...

...was a missionary and a physician. A poor imitation of Him I am, or wish to be?" "I go back to Africa to make an open path for commerce and Christianity; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I leave it with you?" "My Jesus, my King, my Lord, my All, I again dedicate my whole self to thee?"...

...1857, in a speech at Cambridge, Livingstone exhorted his audience "to direct your attention to Africa. I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that...to make an open path for commerce and Christianity. . . . "7 Economic determinists of the Leninist persuasion find the hand of the financier everywhere,...

...know that in a few David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857), 24. years I shall be cut off in that country, which is...do not let it be shut again! I go back to Africa to make an open path for commerce and Christianity; do you carry out the work which I have begun. I leave...