The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-05-31
Where the Difference Lies.

Where the D11erence Lies.
Judge Goodwin, editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune, IN speaking of Stanley,
says:
In reading accounts of Stanley, be-
tween the hines, pretty good testimony
is supplied that he is not the Stanley
that he was when he started out 10 lind
DR.. Livingstone not the Stanley men
tally, we mean. the African climate
and the African surroundings have had
their effect upon him. He IS no longer
this sensitive, high minded American
who has an undying respect for woman,
and who believes in the sovereignty ol
mind. The barEarlans OF Africa have
drawn him down, and their indecent
customs have no longer any horrors for
him. The chances are that in his Sc
cret soul he chafes at the restrictions OF
civilization. He has got into thattrame
of mind that Gordon got into at last.
We rather suspect that he prefers lite
in that wilderness to the life hedged
about with the restrictions which per
tain to decency and civilization. We
rather hope that he will renounce his
allegiance to the government of the
United States and become real Brit
lsh subject. He is no longer The San
ley of old.
There is no doubt that these state
ments are true, and We suspect that any
man like Stanley, who might mingle for
months and years with savages, would
be gradually drawn down from his ex-
allied position in sympathy with his bar
barous surroundings. But there have
been men who have spent years among
such people without losing any part OF
their civilized culture-without having
their characters dulled in any degree
and it is interesting to glance at the
record, and discover, if we can, where
the difference lies.
DR.. Livingstone, IN search of whom
Stanley first penetrated the wiids of AT
RIGA, was never accused of having grav-
ltated toward the savage state. The
great Christian explorer spent the great
er part of his life among those savages,
but he never changed. Others like
| DIR. Livingstone have gone through SIM
liar experiences, without Undergoing
any change of character. These have
all been Christians, not only in name
but in heart, and in that fact lies the
| difference between such as they and
men like Stanley.
Mr.. Stanley is great explorer but
his chief supports on his journeys have
been cunning where it could be en-
ployed, with the rifle as a handy and
ready resort. Stanley is not Christian
IN the sense in which the term applies
to men like Livingstone and, without
the ennobling spirit that belongs to de-
vout Christianity, he was left in a posi-
ton where sayagery could impress
itself upon his character. You may
place any dozen of our modern infdels
amid savage surroundings for ten years
and not one of them will come forth
,unscathed. Place ten men like Liv-
ingstone in similar surroundings-ten
men who would carry the spirit Of
Christianity with them into the wilder
ness-and after ten years they would
all step into a civilized drawing room
with the same refined impress upon
their faces that characterized them when
they went forth to exile.
The men who tell you that modern
civilization has made Christianity IN
stead of having resulted from it, nigh,
be asked to explain the different per
sonal results that follow in such cases
as those of Stanley and Livingstone
among the barbarous savages of Africa.
There is no philosophy that will sup
port the infdel's refinement when he is
thrown amid such people !; and there is
no barbarism so horrible that 1t can
leave a mark upon the character of the
high minded, sincere Christian gentle
man.-4sbeu Times.