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be lost, and seeds of religious and moral truth have been 
sown in the public mind which are destined to bear ripe 
fruit another day. Says one missionary : " By our daily 
intercourse, by fair dealing, and by medical aid, we have 
won the hearts of these natives, and they are ready to hear 
the Gospel message. Alphabet-sheets are issued from our 
printing-press in Uguha, sheets which are nothing less than 
the first leaves of the Bible itself, brilliant with a promise 
of more and yet more to follow, until each man shall read 
for himself the good news of salvation through Jesus 
Christ." 
The Free Church of Scotland has established a mission 
on the shores of Lake Nyassa, called Livingstonia, in 
memory of Livingstone, who first discovered the lake, and 
then, when in Scotland, requested the Free Church to found 
such a mission there. Only a little time before his death 
he gave utterance to such words as these : The spirit of 
missions is the spirit of our Master, the very genius of His 
religion. A diffusive philanthropy is Christianity itself. It 
requires perpetual propagation to attest its genuineness." 
I shall make this beautiful land better known, which is 
an essential part of the process by which it will become the 
pleasant haunts of men." " All I can add in my loneliness 
is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on every Ameri 
can. Englishman, or Turk, who will help to heal the open 
sore of the world." In 1874, public enthusiasm was aroused 
on the subject Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dun- 
dee, united in subscribing funds necessary for the under- 
taking. The members of the Free, and Reformed Presby- 
terian Churches united to fit out the first expedition to the 
Shire district, and to despatch it under the care of Lieu- 
tenant Young, of the Royal Navy, with the consent of the 
Admiralty, and the Foreign Office. In 1875, mission 
