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Show Dk. SiTin kk, of New Vo;k, in a! recent sermnn on the niiion of IV. Living?U.ne to Africa, ftatcd tlit the renowned traveler Jiad enilurel the ravngcs of the malicnant fxr no fewer than 75 times,'' "yet he give not up hisehr:.-hcd p-irpase t-" s-tve Africa t..T Clirbt." Tiie IU t. Judder Jud-der rclaUtl many inci'ivnn of the personal per-sonal valnrof I'r. l.!ing-t"ii', when attacked by hostile naiivt-a, and ehowtd that t!;e Christir.n minister was no mean -trnt---:.-t. (ne ca.-?e he related w'uerc ti.e debtor d'ctivcrtt I a plot for his munh r. As the mrw?acrc w,is to tike plrtce al-.r.it midnight. Livingstjiii: kept w.ileh hiinslf, and just before tin: appointed hour he railed all his JttendanLj to-jflli'-r, went to the river nr.d c.ipttirrd all the I -oats of their cncinit and tc-rik tl-eni acrr-s.-to the other fide, leaving hi? wouid-bc wouid-bc murderers on th? wron si l- !" tiie river and withv'it ny nifni of CSC.lf. The d-th i-f IV. T-;ii,g.t.-i;p i a cauo nf univernl mcurning "II Jnvftr tiie touutiy: had iic but lived to revisit re-visit K.irope he would pmbably havo l- t n iionuixd mrr than any man ol iis generation. Witlisut ha lifo of advL-nl'ir' and nncca-in tf:d, and with a L ii.ir.i- r and lif d-vnted U the. ad van '. ..I'.nt nf civil: aion, the greatest and tf- ip"I w.f.i'd have Mir.tvcred ujm.h l,ini the tokens of their nd:niratii -n yet he failed wlieu tiie b.ntle w.'t almost won. |