520 LIFE OF DA VII) LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



God, that to him had been given a rare opportunity of preaching the gospel 

 of his Master to thousands of benighted heathens, who bad never heard of 

 their Redeemer. This, and the certainty that, as a result of his labours, the 

 introduction of Christianity and peaceful commerce, and the suppression of 

 slavery among the millions of Central Africa, would be only a question of 

 time, would reconcile him to the laying down the burden of his life far from 

 home and kindred, among the people he had striven so nobly to serve. Of 

 late years, the magnitude of his contributions to our geographical knowledge 

 has all but made us forge?; that he was a Christian missionary to the heathen. 

 From early boyhood this was his cherished ambition, and from his own pub- 

 lished accounts, and through Mi - . Stanley, we know that he never lost an 

 opportunity of going about his Master's work. 



