The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-17

A dishonest man is a sneak, and they
would not sneak; a liar is n coward,
and they We're no towards. Absolute
honest in dealing with the facts was
characteristic of Livingstone as a mis-
, That was one of the ways he applied
his family trait of honesty.
Those of David Livingsione's re1a-
I tives that l knew were not particularly
religious. Some of them, indeed, were
not religious at all. His old aunt, the
mother of my black uncle, was a
woman of devotion, but she was in
pretty rough surroundings. Those
western islands were more or less out
of the current of Scotland's religious
life a century and a half, or two cen
turtles ago. The people were Protestant
in name, n there were saints among
them. but they were far behind the
~peasantry of LoWland Scotland in re-
ligiouS development.
There is an interesting story as to
how the island home of the Living
stones and of the Macleans, too, was
made Protestant, some time in the
seventeenth or eighteenth century.
Livingstone tells it in his missionary
Travels In South Africa" but heard
my father tell it before it was pub
liShed by Livingstone. The laird of
the island had been down in the low
lands, and had become converted to
Professionalism. He made up his mind
that all his enants and dependents
should become Protestant, too. And
So on hjC ratDrn ha pyapt p,,t az, .
tour of evangelism among his people.
lie carried a heavy, g~old-headed walk
ing stick, and to all disposed to ad-
here to the old faith. after reasonable
persuasion to the contrary, he admin
istered such a sound thrashing with
that same gold headed walking stick
that they yielded, ere he was done of
them, h point at issue and became
Professionals. For long after Protestant
ism was popularity known in the
islands as The Creed of the Yellow
Staff SO we must be somewhat
charitable in judging the religious life
of those West-islanders a century ago
LiVingstone's grandfather remove
with his family to the lowlands, anC
! there he came under the best religious
influences of Scotland. His father
Neil Livingstone, became noted in al
the country side for his Cody life
When a Highlander ecomes religious
he becomes so with all the devotion OF
his Celtic soul. Neil Livingstone mar
ried a Cody m Agnes Hunter
and they set up a religious home of the
best Scottish type. They were poor
in this worlds goods, but they were
rich in faith, and gave their children
the blessings of a Cody home. ON 6
! humble tombstone in Hamilton, Scot.
land. where their lust reposes, await
ing the resurrection day, the stranger
may still read:
TO show the resting place of Nei
Livingstone and Agnes Hunter, hi.
wife, and to express the thankfulness
to God of their children, John, David
Janet, Charles and Agnes, for poo
and p1ous parents
The stock from which David Living.
stone came was rough and rude; tWt
or three generations back of him i
was semi-barbaric; but religion mad,
him the noblest type of manhood thes,
latter ages have seen. Henry M
Stanley, who lived with him 81.
months in Central Africa in the las
year or two of his life, says of him
In him religion exhibited it's lovelies
features; it governed his conduct, no
only toward his servants, but TOWARD
the natives, the bigoted Mohammedan
and all who came in contact with him
Religion has tanned him, and made hin
a Christian gentleman"
1t may be we'll to mention here tina
his influence On Stanley during thos
months they We're together in Africa
led Stanley, who was Indifferent an,
Skeptlcal on matters of religion, into tn,
faith of the gospel and into the lf
of Christ. Livingstone said nothins
directly to him about religion; h
didn't preach, nor argue. nor persuade
but the charm and sincerity and beau
ty of his Christian life and devotion s.
commended themselves to him that h
gave his own heart to God and be
came an earnest Christian, and so con
tinued till his death.
But to return for a few minutes t
LivingStOne'S early life: He went t
school till he was 10 years old an,
then went to work in the spinnin,
mill. He worked in the mill II hour
a day, and went to night school from