Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-19
ONE HUNDRED YEARS Ago TODAY
EXPLORER LIVINGSTONE WAS BORN

last sunday evening, wnen ne took as
, the subject of his sermon, The White
Man Who Would Go On" Choosing as
text, He steadfastly set his face to
90 TO Jerusalem" Luke 9:51, DR..
Scudder- spoke in part, as follows:
! For Of all the noble men who have
died for Africa Livingstone was pre-
. emineHtly and typically white. His
/ lineage was of the Clean-handed sort
without record of dishonest man and
witkal as poor as honest, His concep-
ton OF the meaning of a bargain led
him in later years when he resigned
from the London Missionary Society
The had enlisted for lifeD TO provide as
substitute his wife's brother, whom he
outfitted and paid from his own purse.
Money never meant aught to him but
means for more unselfish service.
+ This cleanneSs of soul was reflect
cd in his dress, always scrupulously
neat, his one luxury change of raj
ment even in the midst of trackless
swamp and unspeakable jungle. 1t
lowered in pellucid clarity of life
always the wonder and JOY of the ma
tive tribes wherever he went. No
one, he writes. ever gains much in
fluence in this country without purity
and uprightness. >"
How the Africans loved him. In
all the annals of. human friendship
there is no chapter that will ever out
shine the story of his six comrades
Susi, Chumah, Amodah, Abram, Ma
bruki and Jacob Wainwright. With
rarest poetic insight they bury his
heart in the very heart of the CONT
nent he loved, while his body, wrapped
like a cotton bale to deceive supersu-
tious tribesmen along the way, they
carried on their own shoulders thou
sand miles across river and trackless
swamp, over mountain chain and
through untrodden forest, amid fierce
beasts and wilder men, their lives In
their hands every moment. They near
the coast and meet his own country
men, who beg them to bury him. Nay;
he took our Africans home and home
we will bear him. ...... -..@..
Il recall as a boy how their deed
stirred the world England had al
ready loaded him with honors, but she
reserved her proudest reward for that
poor frame when she gave it sepulture
in earth's noblest mausoleum, West
minister Abbey. ~.
: His tombstone bears these words: -
Brought BY Faithful Hands 4
Over Land and Sea
Here RESTS =
David Livingstone, Missionary, " !
Traveller, Philanthropist." -.
For thirty years his life was spent
in an unwearied effort to evangelize
the native races, to explore the undis-
covered secrets, to abolish the devas-
tating slave trade of Central Africa,
where, with his last words, he wrote:
"tAll | can add in my solitude is,
May heavens rich blessing come
down on every one, American, Eng
lish or Turk, who will help. to heal
this open sore of the world" i. 4
The world heard that prayer and
answered it. His farewell message to
the Christian church was, DO you
carry out the work which ! have be-
gum | leave it with you" -. i
Nephew Once Here .-... f..
A nephew of DR.. Livingstone was
resident of Honolulu for some years.
This was Charles Livingstone, who
was a clerk in the office of w. G.
Irwin & Co. in the eighties. In
features he born considerable re-
semblance to the great explorer. He
came here from Canada, where his
father, a brother of DR. Livingstone,
made his home in early life. i