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Stoves,
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HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
HARDWARE, CUTLERY,
FARMING TOOLS,
IRON AND STEEL,
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Scotland, an aged man said TO his son:
'sDayid, you will have family prayer to-
day, for when we part we shall never
meet again until we meet before the great
white throne" David Livingstone read
the 34th Psalm, the keynote of that won
derful life and then poured out his heart
to God in prayer, threw his arms around
his fathers neck and kissed him and so
they parted, never to meet again in this
world and he went to Africa. He did
wonderful work in the Bechuna coun-
try. He was a carpenter, blacksmith,
teacher, laborer, physician and minister
to these poor souls, but the mans heart
was in the interior of Africa. One day, |
with about as much preparation as l take |
| when l go to the north woods of Mime |
sofa, he left for the interior of Africa.
His route was along the path of slave
1 traders and, every few days, he came to
| some place where poor woman mad
tainted in the chain-gang and had been
strapped to tree with her babe at her
breast and left to be stung to death by
insects. No wonder that he wrote in his
journal and blotted it with tears: "Oh
God, when will the great sore of the
world be healedg'
When you remember that the follow
ers of the false prophet are the only peo-
Pile engaged in this traffic in human flesh
and that to the poor African it means
slayery or death, you have the answer to
the stories of the progress of Mohamme-
? danism in Africa.
cannot tell the story of his life. One
day he was found dead on his knees in
prayer in an African hut. That life had
!, so impressed itself upon the heather folk
!, that they did what will always be mar
vel of history. They wrapped the body
in leaves. They covered it with pitch.
e They carried it nine months on their
shoulders. They fought hostile tribes.
J. They swan swollen rivers. They cut
their way through impenetrable thickets
and at last stood at the door of a mission
house in Zanzibar and said: 1--WE have
brought the man of God to be buried
d with his people, And so David Living
stone sleeps in Westminster Abbey.
= Our Stanley took up Livingstone''
work and he laid Africa open TO the gaze
of the world. He travelled 800 days ant
the l000th day reached the seacoast. II
i all that Journey he did not meet Il single
"A solitary soul who had heard that Jesu
ar Christ had come into the world. Stan
! lev tells the reason why he went back t,
q Africa. He said:
4 ssWhen / found Livingstone, | cared H.
more for missions than the veriest athe
% ist in England. had been a press re
y porter and my business was to follow al
mics and to describe battles; to atten
conventions and report speeches, but IN
heart had not been touched with sym
pathy for missions. When found tn
or grand old man / asked: What is he her
for? Is he crazy? Is he cracked? | sat q
his feet four months and | saw that
power above his will had taken possess
ion of his life, a hunger to lead this poo
q. heather folk out of their darkness.
-, have heard the same voice speaking t
ISL my heart, Follow me- and go back
100 Africa to finish Livingstone's work.
OIL This was few years ago. To-day thel
are Is Christian bishops of our commuI
a ion in Africa. Eight were present Mt tt
,xt Lambeth Conference. One OF then
of Bishop Crowther, was captured when
100 boy 10 years of age on a slave shi
nd placed in mission school, transferre
to high school, then to the uniyersit
in graduated with honors and went back
its Africa as n bishop. AS looked in IL
III face of that black man and thought
at his wonderful history, | remember
nb- another man from Africa that carried Il
cross of my blessed Master up the hill
eo- Calvary and that this aged servant
1917 Christ was following in His blessed TO
IN steps.
rly Another of these bishops was one
fill the manifest men that / ever looked U
on. Bishop Smythies, the picture
the manly beauty, honored by his universit
is beloved by friends, face gentle and L
has ing as that Of st. John. When thong
mes of this man going on foot in the inter-
and of Africa, perhaps to die for Christ
and could not keep back the tears and We
to him and said, My good brother
ow- cannot tell you how my heart goes {
iew to You in loving sympathy. He smil
! to and said, Bishop, when the Church
the Jerusalem had more work than it KIN
eres how to do, the Holy Ghost sent one
are it's ministers upon long journey to g
700; vert one African. Surely it is not mt
Ids, for the Christians Of Christian Engla
has to send Christian bishop 20 milli'
the who never heard there is a Saviour.
900 Bishop Whipple.