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that he should go and settle in America, he had said : 

 " I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only 

 Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. A poor, 

 poor imitation of Him I am, or wish to be. In this 

 service I hope to live, in it I wish to die." The spectre 

 of the slave-trade had enlarged his horizon, and shown 

 him the necessity of a commercial revolution for the 

 whole of Africa, before effectual and permanent good 

 could be done in any part of it. The plan which he had 

 now in view multiplied the risks he ran, and compelled 

 him to think anew whether he was ready to sacrifice him- 

 self, and if so, for what. All that Livingstone did was 

 thus done with open eyes, and well-considered resolution. 

 Adverting to the prevalence of fever in some parts of the 

 country, while other parts were comparatively healthy, he 

 says in his Journal : — " I offer myself as a forlorn hope in 

 order to ascertain whether there is a place fit to be a 

 sanatorium for more unhealthy spots. May God accept 

 my service, and use me for His glory. A great honour 

 it is to be a fellow- worker with God." "It is a great 

 venture," he writes to his sister (28th April 1851). 

 " Fever may cut us all off. I feel much when I think of 

 the children dying. But who will go if we don't ? Not 

 one. I would venture everything for Christ. Pity I 

 have so little to give. But He will accept us, for He is a 

 good master. Never one like Him. He can sympathise. 

 May He forgive, and purify, and bless us." 



If in his spirit of high consecration he was thus 

 unchanged, equally far was he from having a fanatical 

 disregard of life, and the rules of provident living. 



" Jesus," he says, " came not to judge — icpivco — condemn judicially, 

 or execute vengeance on any one. His was a message of peace and 

 love. He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall His voice be heard in 

 the streets. Missionaries ought to follow His example. Neither insist 

 on our rights, nor appear as if we could allow our goods to be destroyed 

 without regret : for if we are righteous overmuch, or stand up for our 

 rights with too much vehemence, we beget dislikes, and the people see 



