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people for African work is the Fisk University, Tennessee, 

 made famous by the Jubilee Singers. 



In glancing at these results of Livingstone's influence 

 in the mission field, we must not forget that of all his 

 legacies to Africa by far the highest was the spotless 

 name and bright Christian character which have become 

 associated everywhere with its great missionary explorer. 

 From the first day of his sojourn in Africa to the last, 

 " patient continuance in well-doing" was the great charm 

 through which he sought, with God's blessing, to win the 

 confidence of Africa. Before the poorest African he 

 maintained self-restraint and self-respect as carefully as 

 in the best society at home. No prevailing relaxation of 

 the moral code in those wild, dark regions ever lowered 

 his tone or lessened his regard for the proprieties of 

 Christian or civilised life. Scandal is so rampant among 

 the natives of Africa that even men of high character 

 have sometimes suffered from its lying tongue ; but in 

 the case of Livingstone there was such an enamel of 

 purity upon his character that no filth could stick to it, 

 and none was thrown. What Livingstone did in order 

 to keep his word to his poor attendants was a wonder in 

 Africa, as it was the admiration of the world. His way 

 of trusting them, too, was singularly whining. He would 

 go up to a fierce chief, surrounded by his grinning 

 warriors, with the same easy gait and kindly smile with 

 which he would have approached his friends at Kuruman 

 or Hamilton. It was the highest tribute that the slave- 

 traders in the Zambesi district paid to his character 

 when for their own vile ends they told the people that 

 they were the children of Livingstone. It was the 

 charm of his name that enabled Mr. E. D. Young, while 

 engaged in founding the Livingstonia settlement, to 

 obtain six hundred carriers to transport the pieces of the 

 Ilala steamer past the Murchison Cataracts, carrying loads 

 of great weight for forty miles, at six yards of calico 



