The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-25

he must prove his love for his boy by warn
inc him against lcientifc works and books
of travel. which David says were his "espe-
cisl delight" but, his father feared, were
.'inimicaI to religion" and he wanted to see
David Hpouring over the CLOUD OF Wit
res es,' or 'Boston's Fourfold State
Finally the anxious father took the stick
70 DAVID. because he would not read "Wil-
berforce's Practical Christisni.y." That
was using the rod of war to make the rel-
gion of peace acceptable.
But David's father was conscientious in
all this. He had q notion that science vas
irreligious, but true science only brings men
to their Maker.
When holiday came to David, he was
off hunting up specimens of the stones and
plants, and making Investigations also In
zoology.
David the piecer, at the age of nineteen,
was promoted to be David the spinner de-
scribing himself as ''slim, loose-jointed
lad"
From six in the morning till eight a
night he tended spinning fran inthe
cotton-mill. He received better pay, and
he also found that he could get chance to
read in working hours.
His method was to secure his book to the
spinning.frsme, snG then catch the SEN
fences as best he could. A spinning-frsme
in cotton-mill would not then run itself
as now, SO that David's attention to his
book was interrupted. but he could snatch
short extract, and turn it over in his mind
till the opportunity came for another lock.
1t was q hard way to pick up knowledge,
and yet the experience was helpful. He
was known to say that if be had to begin
life again, he should like to begin ''it the
same lowly style, and to pass through the
same hard training"
One book may make a marked corner in
our thinking, and the cotton spinner turned
such corner IN the reading of Doctor
Dick's philosophy Of Future State"
When he was twenty-One, David was
stirred by an appeal for missionary workers
in China, and he resolved to give himself to
the work of preparation for mission service.
In Glasgow, poor and needy, but resolute
and plucky, the young man pushed his
preparatory studies.
Then he went TO live with the Rev. Rich
ard Cecil, 81 Ongsr, where missionary stu
dents were sent to the London Missionary
Society to stand, ifthey could, a three months'
trial, and if successful, they went on to an
other grade of studies.
1t will interest all who are trying to
push forward TO know that Livingstone was
not ranked here as success. He attempted
to preach. He was very successful in CIV
ing out the text, but-but he could give
nothing else. He misers6ly stuck just
there. He exclaimed:
Friends, have forgotten all 1 have to
say"
Out of the pulpit and out of the chspe !
he went. Livingstone was judged, at the
close of the three months, to be failure.
Somebody, though, in power, wanted to
give him another chance. de tried agsin,
and was accepted.
In the winter os 1910 he sailed for Africa.
With Livingstone went, as a passenger in
the same vessel. the old, resoluts, selfdeny-
ing, self sacrificing will. Like a romance
reads the story of his missionary travels,
opening up new river ana lake regions,
making discoveries that have put crown
of laurel about his brow.
One of the great men of this century, the
body that his loyal servants carried month
after month through Africa to the sea, was
laid down TO its honored rest in Westmins-
ter Abbey in 1874.
Like stars to light the way of every
struggling boy, are Livingstones words:
"Fear God and work hard" to be willing
also, "to go anywhere, provided it be for
ward"