174 APPENDIX. [sect. 



Missionary societies and the friends of missions, may well 

 remember his urgent recommendation to push on to the un- 

 taught heathen. There is every reason and encouragement for 

 this. In parts where the earlier missionaries laboured, the 

 work is become entirely self-supporting , as far as aid from 

 England is concerned. 



Surely, then, the missionary work is real, and the mission- 

 field among the heathen, is no barren waste. These truths are 

 forcibly stated by Sir Benjamin Brodie 1 , in the following 

 passage: " But Dr Livingstone is also presented to us under 

 another aspect, as a Christian missionary, using his endeavours 

 to extend the advantages of civilization, not after the fashion 

 of the Roman conquerors of Gaul and Britain, by transplant- 

 ing, at the cost of rapine and bloodshed, the arts and sciences 

 of an older and more civilised people into the conquered 

 country, but by communicating knowledge, promoting educa- 

 tion, and inculcating the principles of a religion which enjoins 

 the exercise of kindness, charity and justice, which tells us 

 that we are to forgive our enemies, and do unto others as we 

 would they should do unto us." 



Missionaries wanted more than means, to carry on the work. 



"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bring- 

 eth good tidings, that publisheth peace ; that bringeth good tidings of 

 good, that publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reign- 

 eth ! " Isaiah lii. 7. 



The cry for men does not proceed from one society, but 

 from all. The supply hitherto has by no means been equal to 

 the demand. This need of men must be more and more made 

 known and discussed throughout the length and breadth of 

 the land. It must be more prayed over, preached about, and 

 made the subject of earnest concernment both with ministers 

 and people. 



A call came to Paul, in a midnight vision, stealing up 



1 Speech at the Farewell Festival. 



