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Central Africa. 
and mission pioneers have since died in the same region. 
Still, the work is going on ; missionary explorers are at the 
task, opening up different parts of the country, and con- 
structing roads, over which mission stores, and the appli- 
ances of civilized life shall be safely conveyed to the 
interior. Messrs. Hore, Hutley, Thomson, Mullens, and 
Dodgshun, did pioneer work of this kind between the 
coast and Tanganyika; and although some of them laid 
. down their lives in the attempt, to a very large extent 
success has crowned their efforts. Stanley has returned to 
the Congo, resolved to do his best towards opening up 
that part of Africa to civilization ; while the agents of the 
Congo (or Livingstone) Inland Mission, are working with 
self denying zeal for the material and spiritual good of the 
natives in the Congo region. 
In looking back upon Livingstone's explorations, one 
cannot but feel that, above all things else, he was a Mission- 
ary explorer. He could, and did, serve the cause of 
science ; he could, and did, act as the apostle of humanity, 
and civilization \ but he never forgot that his first aim was 
the evangelization of Africa. At first it seemed as if he took 
the most roundabout way of attaining this end. It might 
have seemed best to some minds, had he continued at the 
routine work of a mission station ; but he was too much a 
missionary to sit down contented until he had opened up a 
new world for mission labour. In order to do this, many 
kinds of work were needed, many faculties had to be exer- 
cised, so that he could be all things to all men. His own 
words are : " My views of what is missionary duty, are not 
so contracted as those of persons whose ideal is that of a 
dumpty sort of a man, with a Bible under his arm. I have 
laboured in bricks and mortar, at the forge and carpenter's 
bench, as well as in preaching, and medical practice." 
