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He knew not that the trumpet he had blown 

 Out of the darkness of that dismal land, 



Had reached and roused an army of its own 



To strike the chains from the slave's fettered hand. 



Now we believe, he knows, sees all is well ; 



How God had stayed his will and shaped his way, 

 To bring the light to those that darkling dwell 



With gains that life's devotion well repay. 



Open the Abbey doors and bear him in 



To sleep with king and statesman, chief and sage, 



The missionary come of weaver-kin, 



But great by work that brooks no lower wage. 



He needs no epitaph to guard a name 



Which men shall prize while worthy work is known ; 

 He lived and died for good — be that his fame : 



Let marble crumble : this is Living — stone." — Punch. 



Eulogiums on the dead are often attempts, sometimes 

 sufficiently clumsy, to conceal one half of the truth and 

 fill the eye with the other. In the case of Livingstone 

 there is really nothing to conceal. In tracing his life 

 in these pages we have found no need for the brilliant 

 colours of the rhetorician, the ingenuity of the partisan, 

 or the enthusiasm of the hero-worshipper. We have 

 felt, from first to last, that a plain, honest statement of 

 the truth regarding him would be a higher panegyric than 

 any ideal picture that could be drawn. The best tributes 

 paid to his memory by distinguished countrymen were 

 the most literal — we might almost say the most prosaic. 

 It is but a few leaves we can reproduce of the many 

 wreaths that were laid on his tomb. 



Sir Bartle Frere, as President of the Royal Geographi- 

 cal Society, after a copious notice of his life, summed it 

 up in these words : " As a whole, the work of his life will 

 surely be held up in ages to come as one of singular noble- 

 ness of design, and of unflinching energy and self-sacrifice 

 in execution. It will be long ere any one man will be 

 able to open so large an extent of unknown land to 



