The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-19
MEMORIAL TO
MISSIONARY IS
CHURCH PLAN
Celebrate Birth Date of
David Livingstone
With Gifts.
BIZ Times Special


NEW YORK, March 19-The
birth of David Livingstone, the
noted African medical missionary
and explorer, on March 10, 1913, is
being commenorated today and the
rest of the month by children Of the
Congregational churches in the
United States with gifts toward the
restoration of his birthplace in Scot,
land The gifts are being collecte
by Miss Agnes S. Kelsey of Boston
Mass, children's secretary OF thu
American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, the foreign
missionary society Of the Congre-
gational churches.
Livingstone was born in an old
tenement house among the cotton
mills of Blantyre village, on the
River Clyde. The house is to be
made into memorial museum, with
rooms showing how the mill-wcrk-
ers lived at the time of Living
stones childhood and with other
rooms containing exhibits illustra-
tive of Livingstone's travels in
Africa,
The exhibits will include a life
size tableau which has been given
by King Khama, the sovereign OF
Christian tribe in central Africa.
On the banks of the Clyde river
will be built an out-of-doors amphi-
theater where missionary plays and
pageants may be given.
Died in Jungle
The relief expedition headed by
Henry M. Stanley and sent to Africa
by tho New York Herald in 1869
performed a historic achievement in
Journalism. Stanley returned in
1879 with Livingstone's precious
diary for the preceding six years.
The diary contained wealth of in
formation about countries and peo-
pies hitherto unexplored and un-
known"
Livingstone remained in the in
terror of Africa and died May /,
1873, at Chitambo. His heart was
buried by his native attendants at
Chitambo and his body enlalmed
as best they could was carried nearly
a years journey to the coast at
Zanzibar. It reached England,
April Is, 1874.
The London Missionary Society,
an agency of the Congregational
churches in Great Britain, first sent
Livingstone to Africa in l840. He
originally set out solely to discover
fields for mission work but later
his explorations we're directed to
combat the atrocities of the slave
traffic through opening up the coun-
try to legitimate and productive
commerce.
Sought Nile Watershed
In 1866 he accepted a commission
from the Royal Geographical So
ciety to ascertain the watershed OF
south central Africa and to locate
the sources of discovery he wrote;
Il would not consent to go simply
as a geographer, but as mission
ary and to do geography by the
way" Regarding the number and
accuracy of his astronomical and
geographical observations it was
said: "You can go to any point
across the entire continent along
Livingstone's track and feel certain
Of your position" ,s
A dauntless spirit made Living
stone known as ''the man who would
so on" Once when rounding a
rivers course in an unknown region
de came suddenly upon a great
force of armed, savages. Arrows
sped over his canoe.
aCfo back shouted the chief. But
Livingstone slipped into the water
and with his arms above his head
walked quietly and deliberately to-
ward the threatening warriors. His
audacity and courage held them
spell-bound and he was permitted
to go on.
He went on and on across noun
tains, marshes, mountains, rivers.
Shaken with fever, wounded, de-
serted by his attendants, robbed OF
his medicines, threatened by wild
beasts, human head-hunters and
slave-traders, he would not cease his
explorations. Before he died he saw
the trade struck death blow.
On the site where the slaHe-market
once stood in Zanzibar Is now a
great cathedral built by Negro