David Livingstone
David Livingstone
David Livingstonewas a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth19 March 1813
CityBlantyre, Scotland
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
Fear God and work hard.
Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.
Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
It is far easier to travel than to write about it.
Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond
.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.