598 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D> 



" To the last the great heart of Livingstone was fired with inextinguish- 

 able, immeasurable wrath against this diabolical system. He gives the lie to 

 much thoughtless talk by declaring that slavery is not good, not natural, in 

 any state of society. The man who finds himself a slave often loses his hold 

 on life, and dies with his hand on his heart where the death pain struck him. 

 Is it not pathetic that Homer should have said something very like this 

 nearly three thousand years ago ? We have advanced, however ; for it never 

 occurred to Pagan Homer to denounce slavery, or to plead for the slave, 

 whereas Christian Livingstone was glad to give his life to break his fetters. 



Of all the tributes which have been paid to the memory of Dr. Living- 

 stone there is none which reflects greater lustre on his Christian heroism and 

 self-sacrificing labours, and which is more likely to produce important results 

 in the regeneration of Africa, than the founding of an Industrial Mission 

 Station at the southern end of Lake Nyassa, in connection with the Free and 

 Reformed Churches of Scotland, as a Memorial to Dr. Livingstone ! The project 

 has not only been definitely adopted, but an expedition will shortly be equipped 

 to proceed by the Zambesi under the command of Mr. Young, the successful 

 leader of the Search Party to the same region in 1867, who will make the com- 

 mencement of a town to be called " Livingstonia," with the view of encouraging 

 trade, suppressing slavery, disseminating the arts of industrial civilisation, and 

 opening the southern interior of the Lake country to commerce. At a meet- 

 ing recently held in Glasgow, liberal subscriptions were made towards this 

 good purpose, including the following : — Mr. James Young, of Kelly, 

 £1,000 ; Mr. Jas. Stevenson, Glasgow, £1,000 ; Mr. W. Mackinnon, of Balma- 

 kill, £500 ; Mr. P. Mackinnon, £500 ; Mr. Geo. Martin, of Auchendennan, 

 £500 ; Mr. Jas. White, of Overtoun, £500 ; Dr. Joshua Paterson, £100 ; 

 and Dr. Hugh Miller, £100. Five thousand pounds of the ten thousand re- 

 quired have already been collected ; and it is to be hoped that all the Christian 

 Churches and the British public generally will gladly take part in furthering 

 so promising a work, for which purpose we give the following interesting 

 particulars. 



The locality of the proposed settlement will be at the southern end of 

 Lake Nyassa. Probably on the promontory known as Cape Maclear. At. this 

 point the Shire River leaves Nyassa at a distance of about sixty miles above 

 the Murchison Cataracts. The distance to the sea is about three hundred 

 miles; there is also water communication for flat-bottomed vessels, drawing 

 from two to three feet, all the way, with the exception of these cataracts, 

 which extend over a distance of between thirty and forty miles. 



With regard to the nature of the proposed Mission — In addition to the 

 ordinary evangelistic or preaching work directly connected with the formation 

 of such a project, it is intended to establish an industrial institution similar 

 to that already existing at Lovedale, in which the arts of civilised Life as well 



