The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-03-02


passed through dangers. wars and fever
You can imagine that meeting. on,
reader" says Stanley, "had YOU been At
my side on that day. how eloauently
could be told the nature OF that man
work Had YOU been there but 10 zee
and heart His lips gave me the details
that never lie. He had so much TO say
that he began at the end. seemingly OBJ
livious OF the fact that Ave or six years
had TO be accounted for. But his ac-
count was oozing out. IL was growing fast
into grand proportions-into a most mar
velous history OF deeds"
Stanley also had much TO tell for Liv-
ingstone had heard nothing from the
outside world for two years. Stanley had
done his work. hut Livingstone would
not return. II was necessary. there
fore, that they separate. Livingstone TO
press farther north, Stanley TO come back
TO the world. Stanley has recorded their
separation. I'VE had n sad breakfast
together. I could not eat my heart was
too full. We went out and walked side
by side; finally the men began TO sing
took long, long looks at Livingstone 10
impress his features on my memory"
Now. my dear doctor, the best friends
must part. You have come far enough. Let
me beg OF you To turn back Well Living
stone replied. Il will say this 10 YOU. You
better than some great travellers that |
know. And i am grateful to you for
what you have done for me. God guide
you safe home and bless you. my friend
And may God bring you safe back 10 us
all, my dear friend. Farewell. farewell
But Livingstone was not 10 20 back He
TURNED HIS FACE TOWARD THE
NORTH.
Another year OF struggle and privation
lay before him. The last day of his
travels came TO an end. He had reached
Chitambo's village In Ilala. names destined
10 be engraved on the black slab I'm West
minister Abbey. The natives who accom-
panied him laid him on a rough bed In
the hut where he spent the night. He
had been long weak and III. His people
knew the end was not far off Nothing
occurred TO attract notice in the early part
or the night, bat Al LOO in the morning the
boy who lay at his door called In alarm
Tearing the master was dead. BY the can
die, stin burning, they saw him. not In bed
put kneeling at the bedside with his head
buried In his hands upon the pillow. The
sad yet not unexpected truth soon became
evident he had passed away in the
furthest OF all his Journeys. and without
n single attendant. But he had died An
the act OF prayer-prayer, commencing
mis- own spirit with all bis dear ones as
was his wont. into the hands OF his
saviour; and commencing Africa-his
own Afrfca-with all her woes ana
sins and wrongs to the aveuger of ths
Lost"
once on seeing the grave OF alittle
girl I'm the heart OF tho wilderness he
nad expressed the desire that he might
De buried close 20 the heart OF nature
under the canopy or the Heavens
His heart lies buried in the wilderness
village. but the patient, heroic labor of
the natives. who had learned TO love
him, brought his body down 10 the sea
and finally after months had past he
found his sleeping place and quiet In the
great abbey, where his grave is n re-
minder 10 the world OF tho virtue OF
noble patient, persistent. Christian liv-
ing.
A WISE REMARK
When the minister had finished Tolera-
ton turns to me and says; Mother.
there's a character that could strive for
great things without considering how
much profit he was going to get in money
for HIS labor. Compare him with those
lea and elsewhere who have cornered
wheat and cotton, and the natural re
sources OF our country, thereby boarding
Livingstone towers as far above them as
Mt. Washington does above a mole hill.
They shrink into such insgnihcance you'll
have TO take microscope to find them.
The only great American that can
stand beside him with equal grandeur is
Abraham Lincoln who labored for the lib
erty OF the Africans in America as Liv-
ingstone worked for their protection and
enlightenment in their own dark cont-
nent."
We are going to meeting at the Central
BAPTIST church next Sunday evening on
Weybosset street.
MRS. T. wILBERFoRcE.