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

! gave al tudtesS OF ihteise interest on
the subject
! DAVID LIVINGSTONE. THE MIS-
| SIONARY STAT ESAiAN."
In 1895 Charles Francis Adams delivered
| an address before the Harvard alumni
dinner. choosing for his subject The
lie, Lessons a,S OF LIE II was cali 10 me
| heroism and chivalry. Reverting TO the
beginning OF his college life he remem-
| bered that youth was being Instructed
ed against the materialism of the pres
ent. Yet, he goes on 10 say scarcely did
we stand on the Threshold OF our time.
when modest English naturalist and
observer broke years OF silence by quietly
nttering the word WHICH relegsted TO the
/ domain Of fable that which since the days
| OF Moses had been accepted as the
foundation OF religious belief. In the
time OF our apprenticeship We still read
| OF the
MYSTERY OF AFRICA
In the pages of Herodotus, while the
sources OF the Nile were as unknown 10
| our world as TO the world OF the Pha-
raohs: then one day a patient. long suf-
! fering. solitary explorer emerged from
| the wilderness and the secret was re-
yealed In our own time and before our
| they saw or knowing enough to wonder,
| Livingstone eclipsed Columbus aud Dar-
win re-wrote Genesis.
| IL is difficult for the present genera
ton 10 realize that only 30 years ago Da-
| via Livingstone's heart was buried I'm the
| wilderness OF South Africs and that I'm
| the memory OF some now living there oc-
| CURED the death Of those In the 18th CEN
| tury. whose life and deeds Will serve 10
| light the goth century upon the pathway
The lines OF Milton I'm Samson Agonistes
may well be quoted i'm every age to every
generation.
"All is best, though VIC oft doubt what
| the unsearchable dispose of highest wis
dom brings about, and ever best found In
the close. oft he seems To hide his face.
fAsIlkF nR1 10 10
faithful champion VIII I'm place bear wit
| ness gloriously."
1t is no surprise that the science and
the philosophy OF the last 80 years have
been so long rejected by the church. IL
is as natural az the rising OF the sun.
lt is the result OF principle that reflects
OF religion. The refusal 10 accept a theory
that seems TO have no relation to life. lt
will not be until that time when men
| appreciate that the 'unsearchable unex-
| pectedly returns and Ito his faithful
| champion bears witness gloriously'' that
We shall lay hold upon the practical side
| OF our 10Th century science.
| II is i'm the unexpected unparalleled
and continued revelation of Himself n hui
name personality that we shall continue
to believe In living God and in the
gradual. yet ever constant unfolding of
spiritual and immortal destiny for hui
David Livingstone is a witness 10 the
| growing temple of the spiritual and eter-
| nal In humanity as opposed TO the ma
Serai sns 10 fsmpSrs Mr. Moore Nc IRE; ssys TaIs
tionship with him at the time when bob
were passing through their missionary
PREPARATION; "on MONDAY We passed our
to Westminster Abbey. Who that had
| seen those two young men passing from
OWNED that one Of them would one day
be buried with nations-rather with
the civilized world'sIlsment In that
sacred shrine. The widest fancy could
awaited David Livingstone There GER
| tainly had been nothing In his early en-
eler passing through the tomb OF a ma
tion's immortals, as these youths were
passing, would read on a black slab;
Brought 10y faithful hands over land
stone. missionary traveller, philanthropist.
Born March 10. 1913. at Blantyre, Lanca-
shire. Died May 4, 1873. at Chitambo's vii
For 80 years his life was spent in an
unwearied effort TO
EVANGELIzE THE NATIVE RACES,
to explore the undiscovered secrets and
abolish the desolating slave trade OF Cen
tral Africa, and where with his last words
he wrote: "All | can say In my solitude
is. May heavens rich blessing come down
on every one-American, English, Turk
who Will help to heal this open sore OF
the world
He who pauses today I'm Westminster
Abbey may we'll reflect that In this shrine
OF nations greatness. the black slab
over Livingstone's tomb. records the rest
ing place OF one whose life stands soil
tary, unique. alone in the midst OF all
those who have been deemed worthy of
the nations honor. The poet lies buried
there, but the poet wrote his verse I'm his
own land. cheered by the inspiration OF
friends and kinsmen.
The statesman lies buried there. but
his life was spent under the flag OF his
nation and on the soil OF his birth. The
soldier lies buried there. but whether al
home OF abroad he fought and died with
other men comrades In arms. But on a
foreign soil divorced from civilization,
severed from friendships and loves. in
solitude and alone Livingstone lited and
worked and died
y" His life II the record of soul
dominated bv = sense OF duty. led on ia
the face OF innumersbe obstacles 20
his destiny, dying when. like Moses OF
old, he had sighted the goal OF his effort
IN his youth he knew only too we'll the
meaning of ardous labor The toll that
was meted out without measure IN
Africa was begun In his youth Taboring
in factory there dswned upon him the
| value Of learning He abored with
| book open before him
The Incidence of today ascrihes the
! great deeds of tho past 10 genius let
the young manhood OF this generation
SIT AT THE FEET OF CARLYLE.
and learn that genius IL the capacity for
incessant labor. Let them learn from the
biographies OF great. that that capacity
Is product OF application In this
working age. IN this land where labor u
honorable we have not yet learned the
meaning OF the value OF toll. Men work
for fame and for fortune. We need 20
learn that the true labor Is for tho on.
iargeIncnt OF the permanent values Of life.
Stanley testifies to the Industry OF his
youth when he says that after years
spent I'm Africa deprived OF books he
could recite whole poems from Byron.
burns. Tennyson, Longfellow. Whittier
and Lowell
Devoted 20 the cause OF Christianity
tho appeal from the mission fields led
him 10 ccnsccraic HE life 10 mission
work He studied theology and medicine
with eauni zeal and In 1870 he sailed for
south Africa si.ie~n sesF. 81 inesssant
toll and labor were TO pass away before