812 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



branch institution. The amount of civilising work done by such an institu- 

 tion is incalculable ; and there is every reason to hope that what has been 

 done in Lovedale may, in part at least, be done in Livingstonia — the name 

 of the new settlement. 



What has been done may be learned from the following article in one 

 of our provincial newspapers, and the correspondence from those who have 

 gone out to establish the settlement : — " Edinburgh is about to erect a bronze 

 statue in memory of Dr. Livingstone ; but those who have resolved to honour 

 the name of the illustrious traveller by founding in East Central Africa a 

 missionary settlement, which shall be at once evangelistic, educational, and 

 industrial, have undoubtedly chosen ' a more excellent way.' No one who 

 understands aright the character of him who has been called ' The Apostle 

 of Africa,' will for a moment imagine that his life-work among the degraded 

 inhabitants of that great continent was prompted or sustained by any mere 

 desire for human applause. Livingstone was not the man to waste his time 

 in running about the highways of the world in search of an answer to the 

 question, 



'What shall I do to be for ever known, 

 And make the age to come mine own V 



Therefore we cannot believe that he would approve of any proposal to per- 

 petuate his name by what Milton calls ' the labour of an age in piled stones.' 

 Rather should we expect him to say, with the author of '■ Night Thoughts' — 



* Each man makes his own stature, builds himself : 

 Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; 

 Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.' 



If it be true that the departed spirits of the mighty dead take cognisance of 

 what is going on in this sublunary sphere, we can well imagine Dr. Living- 

 stone regarding with unqualified approval and profoundest interest a move- 

 ment which is now being prosecuted to perpetuate his honoured name, by 

 carrying the blessings of civilisation and Christianity into the heart of savage, 

 heathen Africa. 



" We refer to the effort which, at the present moment, is being vigorously 

 and hopefully prosecuted, to found a missionary settlement on the southern 

 or south-western shores of Lake Nyassa, and to give it the name of Living- 

 stonia. The originator of this movement, which has been heartily entered 

 into by the Free Church of Scotland, is the Rev. James Stewart, M.D., of 

 Lovedale, South Africa. As he has told the world some time ago, through 

 the pages of the ' Sunday Magazine,' Dr. Stewart was with Livingstone on 

 the Zambesi in 1862, and stood beside the missionary traveller when he laid 



