Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-22
Here Rests
David Livingston,
Missionary
Philanthropist
Dow, Ndo~aL 10 1919

At Blantyre, Lanarkshire
Died May /, 1873
At Chitambos Village, Ulala
For Thirty Years His Life was Spent
In an Unwearied Effort
To Evengelize the Native Races
To Explore the Undiscovered Secrets
To Abolish the Desolating Slave Trade
OF Central Africa
Where With His Last Words He Wrote
All Can Add in my Solitude, 1c,
May Heavens Richest Blessing Come
Down On
Everyone American English, or Turk,
Who Will Help to Heal
This Open Sore of the World
When stated with inanities of many
current books, one can do not better
If in search of information, entertain
ment and thrill than to read Stan
ley's TN Darkest Africa" or Living
stones own volumes. There arises a
real hero. a great man indeed, whose
character is best revealed by his own
message to the directors of his home
society, II am ready to go anywhere,
provided it be forward 1t is in an
altruistic service that character
comes to its greatest possible heighth.
An editorial in a Toronto paper, COM
quence of the speakers at Canada's
Missionary Congress. pointed out that
the members of Parliament and poll
ticians generally. seldom attain such
power of platform utterance. 1t was
his motive and mission that trans
formed the Scotch mill boy into the
immortal Livingstone, to whom Punch
bore this tribute:
open the Abbey doors and bear him
in
To sleep with king and statesman,
chief and sage;
| The missionary came of weaver kin,
But great by work that brooks no
lower wage.
HE needs no epitaph TO guard name,
Which men shall prize while worthy
work is known;
He lived and died for good-be this
his fame;
Let marble crumble; this is Liv-
All the while I am writing of Liv-
instone, Africa's most famous mission
ary. there persists before my menta
vision the figures of a young man anc
his charming bride, whom l met {
few weeks ago in the southern city
This young man went to Africa II
| 1903; disinherited by his wealthy faith
| er because he persisted in becoming {
missionary Even upon his recent fur
Tough the father, blind to the notable
work the son has done and the char
acter he has achieved, so that men nov
call him great, has refused to be rec
onciled to him who preferred the call
ing of missionary in Africa to tina
Of a lawyer in the United States Now
after brilliant and powerful addresse
throughout the south, the young mai
has started back to Africa, accompa
MED by his beautiful bride. OF all tn
friends whose loving good wishes fol
low them, none find in their hearts t
do other than envy them their oppor
tunity.
1t was in April, 1876, that Alexande
Mackey sailed to Africa, to become tn
mechanic missionary. helping to con
struct a new Christian nation by tn
tools which he welded SO skillfully
For a diversified. interesting life story
of more compelling and absorbin
; character than the creations of fictior
commend young and old to "Macka
of Uganda Within the memory q
multitudes now living Uganda was
horrible example of barbaric cruelt.
, treachery and savagery; and the mar
row escapes Of some missionaries, an
the slaughter of others, like Bisho
Harrington, make a thrilling story. To
day, Uganda is Christian kingdom
: with a religious activity and spir
/ putting to shame many communitie
, that have possessed the Gospel fc
centuries.