Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-15 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1857.

DR. LIVINGSTONE AT HOPE HAIL

CHRISTIAN

Yesterday, at noon, a very large and highly fa •hiinabls assamb!y
was held at the Hope Hall, Hope-street, fo: the purpose of hearing
that eminent and renowne I Africsn traveller, Dr. Livingstone,
debar an adiress on his rase:fiches and tratel* in that quarter of the
gl..be. The Rev• Dr. R sfilai took the chair. Amongst the company
present w 3 observed Dr. Taylor, the Revs. W. Graham, Coward,
Kel y, a d Rots ; Messrs. J. Dawson, Wright. J. D.Grashing, J.
Mann. W. Hareas, W. Pennington, W. Crossfield, A. C. Stewart, &c.
&c , and a very laroe number of ladles.
Th 3 mee•ing was opened by singing and prayer.

The Pre 'dent said—Ny Christian &hada, it w ,uld indeed be un-
gracious h me to occ apy your time by any iztrod•actory remarks on
the p-esant occasion. particularly when I tell you th A Dr. Livingstone
has engage Ito appear at a meeting iu Birralaglastn t night, there-
fora we mast not detain him long, and as we are met to hsar Dr.
Livingstone, and to listen to hi.n a' one, I shall not make any further
remarks. He than canc'uded by introducing Dr. Livingstone, who
was mast cordial y raceived.

The applaase having in souls degree sea sited, Dr. Livingst ne
came forward, and said, that he sopp seed that mast of the-people who
attended missionary me tinge w:shed to know what were the effects
of missions. Wren he (Dr. L'yingstone) first want to
South Africa, about sixteen years ago, he had formed
an exaggerated idea as to what had been effected by missionary
labours, and when he got to Colobla, shout 70) miles from the Cape,
the coa equeuza was that he felt greatly disappointed, from the fact
that he ha I previmsly termed sac aan exaggerated id-a ; bat he had
not then examined the subject from a proper po'nt of view. He ha 3
not camparel the state of the people there with the heathens who
ilhabited the interior of the country; but he found that chnrches
had been established, and to that day he fait grateful that so much
had been do e. He then we t on to compare the state of South
Africa forty or fifty ye rs- ago with what he found it Then, the
Hottentot populatbn ware living in a state of d gradation and slavery,
but now they had church ea an 3 szho ale, and civilisation was spreading
throughout thesonntry, and se lanadreds believing and dying in the
faith th tt their souls weald he saved through the salvation of our
Lord Jesus Christ. His object was to go where no o' her missionary
had ever been before, and he, with the a isistaaco of the London
Missionary Society, went up the country to Baum-tin, wher he fervid
all the people in a state of heathenism, ant who lad, ever seen a
missionary baf ate. When there, ha toutid the chief of the tribe a
most intelligent man, and he re ueoted to put 531113
vestions to him, which be answered. He had explahaed

to them the beauties of the Gospel, a•:d what it ta ight.
The Chief fi-sti asked:him if his fo-efathers had known all
these things before him ; and when he to'd him that, th y had, his
reply wai, `• your fo-efathere and my f trerathers ,ived at the same time
how is it hat year brefathers did not re td tows sooner ?" That was
rather a peace, bat he explained to him ths difll mlties of traverinj to
them and that; as they had reached them, they wer going to send
the Gaspe of Christ to all the southern parts of the country. " But,"
sail the Chief, " you can't get vast the great desert ; no person can
do that" D-. Livingstone Vasa explained the geographical position of
this great dezert, and informed the‘c..ief that it cou'd be done, as the
Lord had said the truths of Salvation should be promulgated
throughout al part§ of the earth. Some years after that the great
de ert wee pas ed by Mr. M'Cal33. At Bacq•tain found the pe vie
all liv ng in • heathenlsm, and he blind it impossible to
convince them that their Chief caul I not make rain, and,
after much trouble, he gave it rt t; but he was convince i
that the only way that they con d d 3 it would be to Instruct them In
the knowledge of Go I—let teem once have • that knowledge in their
heads, and that would explain all other matters to them. This chief
had a perfect belief in the gospel, a -al the people thought that he
(Dr. L ) had wove some Bp over him; and they thought that it
was him who prevented him tron making It rain;_ and fro luently—
for there Was a gr ,at drought at the nil deputation of the old
men would call noon him, and say—" Look, our corn is yellow—it
will all be spoilt, if we have not any rain, arid our eh ld ea and cotton
will all die ; only lot him make rain, and than we will come to church
and sing and pray with you as long as you like." The chief had
learned to read, and, from the beAln tin;, loved the gospel ; and
although seine ()this people hat deserted him, he soon commenced
prayer meetin4s at his house, and conducted
.them• himself, and he
had never heard more simple or mere effective prayers offered. up to
God than were by that chief. And frevently as he hat, been pasting
along from thence to his own.heese, he had heard the people praying
in a loud voice from the bushes. He next explained the troubles that
arose from the " bores ". making an attack on that iadependent state
—sad the difference of the lahabitauts of the districts—and sta•ed
hat the people at the Cape were as much against s'avery as the
people of England were. The Chlefvf Bacquain had said he was
mad a chief by God, and he would die a chief ; be, after a time, the

" be,es " same and attacked his people, and took away 20) of the
children f-r slaves. This was after the b,res had been male indepen-
dent by the or der of the governor of the c bony, sad that was their
prat act after their a nancipation. Raving derailed the part calars of
the chief's determioatl m to go at once to the Queen of Kng'and to
tell her of theetteck that hat bees made u, on him. and how he d s-
seaded him of the difficulties that he would hive to encounter, and
the futi'ity of such a proce lure, which even ualV proved corro;t,
he p ocee led to describe his travels from B tcquaha to Lake rgaral, in
whinb he alluded to the worn publiohod In- r—
oo the hunt
faithful doe titioa of the scenes which to ,k place, although some
p 's who had not visited the country co 'id scarc:ly bel'eve it
but that was fr ,m the fact that they ha I no; witnessed
the o; but as he could say woe!, that there might perhaps be some
thin 48 that he might o',ject to, as Mr. Cummins might 'object to
some of his observations ; tut, alto;ether he thought, the book gave a
faithful des riled= of the hanting—such as it was. Ii a nest referral
to the inhabitants of the lek e to which he had been atuding, who
wen, he as d, Unnerly so feroebue, that ha I they no% been a little
civilised, it won d haze been impossible for him to have passed
through the caantrya lo:,t they had already been described by Mr-
Mcffat, and wh-n the chief (Sch aw qua) heard that he (Dr. Living-
stone) was in the country, he sent to the other chief for him
!o go 'and see him. tie di 1 do so, but was o 11; with him four-
teen days, and found him dying. He began to talk to him of an
after Lfc, when the doctor who was la attendance, told him not to
to e, as the chief would never die,. tut son after that he salvd
le ins up iu the bed, and told one of the attendakts to take
his letter bag to one of the wives, and giVe h'm s' me milk,
whi Is we-e the last words he spoke. , He then descri_ed the
gei.rr ;Vale and geological position of the interim* of South Afr ea,
and its resources in cotton and , oa'', in similar lupine to that, used
in the lecture delivered oa the previous day, a d coaclad.d by
exdress.ng it es his opini at, that as soon as its resources were fa Jr
developed, that Africa w lull have a mater.al infiaenco In protecting
titer brethren on the oth r side the;A•lan`e. -The rev.
,doctor
resumed h a seat anal let the most enthusiastic applause.
The Rev. Keil/ briefly meteda vo o f thanks to the le 'throe. ,
and point .d out ,have t fi ad tit re was far ta'l in S mth Africa, in
favour of the mlssion a'y Cause.

The Rev. K. S. B own SOG") AA the initio,a, wlich w.ts carried by
acJamation
Dr. Lising‘to,e having briefly returned thanks, the meeting was
brougat to a e,nehtlion, by she c,mozny singing tho d