xiv LIFE OF DR LIVINGSTONE. 



Livingstone's own character ; for he is ever desirous to appear 

 himself, and to place all else with which he has to do, in a 

 truthful unadorned light. His grandfather removed from his 

 farm at Ulva to the Blantyre Cotton Works, near Glasgow, 

 where he and his sons found employment. Dr Livingstone's 

 father alone remained at home, and gained an honest liveli- 

 hood as a small tea-dealer ; the others all became either 

 soldiers or sailors in His Majesty's Service during the late 

 French war. All parents may well learn wisdom by the 

 example and influences exercised by those of the Doctor on 

 himself. Hear what he says of his father especially : — " He 

 deserved my lasting gratitude and homage for presenting me 

 from infancy with a continuously consistent pious example, 

 such as that the ideal of which is so beautifully and 

 truthfully portrayed in Burns' ' Cotter's Saturday Night.' 

 He died in February 1856, in peaceful hope of that mercy 

 which we all expect through the death of our Lord and 

 Saviour : I was . at the time on my way below Zumbo, 

 expecting no greater pleasure in this country than sitting 

 by our cottage- fire, and telling him my travels. I revere his 

 memory." 



Dr Livingstone became a " piecer " in the factory at the 

 age of 10. Now notice an instance of " the boy being the 

 father of the man." With part of his first week's wages he 

 bought Ruddiman's ie Rudiments of Latin," and studied this 

 language afterwards at night for a long time. In this dis- 

 advantageous manner he made steady progress. Surely 

 hereby many a poor aspiring student, who is perchance 

 engaged in " the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties," 

 may take courage, and keep in mind the end achieved by this 



