The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-16

him give a most thrilling account when he was featuring in this country. Again
 he was sent out by the Brussels Inter
 national African association to explore
 the basin of the Congo, the King of Belgium contributing large sums to the enterprise. Out of this exploration and his reports of it came the Congo Free State. Once come Stanley was sent as the leader of ar expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the governor of equatorial Africa. which, with dauntless courage land untiring perseverance and great suffering, he accomplished.
 After meeting Livingston and becom- ing deeply interested in African explor ation Stanley became changed man.
 The reckless adventurer became the ar
 dent discoverer; the newspaper report CT became an explorer of statesmanlike views. The leader of expeditions be- came the advocate of policies looking to the betterment of Africa. To Stan | ley's discoveries, made with heroic en-
 durance and great sufferings, and to his
 books upon Africa the great continent has been opened as never before, and institutions have been established \
 which may prove to be of service to the natives and to the time. The divine plan, if we may draw conclusions from what we plainly see, is to unite the world in common intercourse of trade and the distributions of those things which make for the elevation of man.
 kind
 The moment seemed ripe for Africa.
 Slavery had been abolished, the slave trade suppressed. large number of Africans civilized, some of whom were ready to undertake work for the na- tives; missionary societies organized,
 and the world prepared to do something for the enlightenment and redemption of Africa. Of course, avarice and am
 bition have sought access to Africa and
 great wrongs have been done, but, on
 the whole, the movements toward the
 betterment of Africa have been most
 marked.
 1 If we regard Columbus as raised up
 at the right moment to discover Amer
 ica when the art of printing, the strug-
 gle for religious liberty and for politi-
 cal freedom made a new world for their
 development so great a blessing, who
 can doubt that Stanley was raised up l to do work for Africa which should l open that continent to the light and the
 knowledge and the better civilization of
 the modern world? God, who combined and used the acts of men, good and bad, 1 in the life of Joseph and made him a
 pioneer to benefit his race, has used the desires and efforts of men of different nations and different purposes to open lup q continent to the world
 i The lesson is of value in that it re-
 minds us that God was not only near to
 men in acient times and for the better- ment of a single people, but that God IS near to men now. ruling them for the
 betterment of the world.
 I It is not given to many men to lead lconspicuously in the worlds progress. That is unnecessary. Most men serve the world best by following in the or ldinary courses of labor and ministry. I But it is given to every man who will
 look upon the world with open eyes to
 see something of Gods plan and power and thankfully to believe and gladly
 do his part in the worlds work which may prove to be the worlds salvation.
 On May 1O 1904, Stanley died at the lage of sixty-three years. His desire
 was to lie in his own country place. It would seem fitting that he should be
 buried beside Livingston, whose body flies in westminster, but whose heart is 1 buried in Africa.