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botany, and zooldgy ; and grappled with the two great 

 enemies of man and beast that prey on it — fever and 

 tsetse. Yet all these were matters apart from the great 

 business of his life. In science he was neither amateur 

 nor dilettante, but a careful, patient, laborious worker. 

 And hence his high position, and the respect he inspired 

 in the scientific world. Small men might peck and 

 nibble at him, but the true kings of science, — the 

 Owens, Murchisons, Herschels, Sedgwicks, and Fergussons 

 — honoured him the more the longer they knew him. 

 We miss an important fact in his life if we do not take 

 note of the impression which he made on such men. 



Last, but not least, we note the marvellous expansion 

 of missionary enterprise in Africa since Livingstone's 

 death. Though he used no sensational methods of appeal, 

 he had a wonderful power to draw men to the mission 

 field. In his own quiet way, he not only enlisted 

 recruits, but inspired them with the enthusiasm of their 

 calling. Not even Charles Simeon, during his long resi- 

 dence at Cambridge, sent more men to India than Living- 

 stone drew to Africa in his brief visit to the Universities. 

 It seemed as if he suddenly awakened the minds of young 

 men to a new view of the grand purposes of life. Mr. 

 Monk wrote to him truly, " That Cambridge visit of yours 

 lighted a candle which will never, never go out." 



At the time of his death there was no missionary at 

 work in the great region of Shire' and Nyassa on which 

 his heart was so much set. The first to take possession 

 were his countrymen of Scotland. The Livingstonia 

 mission and settlement of the Free Church, planned by 

 Dr. Stewart of Lovedale, who had gone out to reconnoitre 

 in 1863, and begun in 1875, has now three stations on 

 the lake, and has won the highest commendation of such 

 travellers as the late Consul Elton. 1 Much of the success 

 of this enterprise is due to Livingstone's old comrade, 



1 Lakes and Mountains of Africa, pp. 277-280. 



