Show STRONG ADDRESS ON fISSION WORK Life of Livingstone Subject o of Sermon by the Rev P. P A. A I Simpkin THE FORCE 9 OF EXAMPLE Africa Today Is Realization pi pf Ambition of Great I Explorer In a a. S sermon lm n at nt Phillips Congregational Congregational church Sun Sunday a evening tho the pastor pastor pas pas- tor Rev ne nep P P. A. A Simpkin continued his Interesting Interesting- series on tho the lives hives of oC great greal missionaries H He lie took the life liCe of or David ld Livingstone and presented present lIthe the Ideals lenla to tobe be je found In It it In part as aa follows follows- Tho Tim secret ecret of ot this wonderful life lire I that hat b began begaii g-an g In obscurity In tho the mill milltown milltown milltown town of ot that was reared In Inho Inthe ho tho narrowest circumstances that had hado I Ln C o fight t terrifically for tor evor bit of ot cul- cul i r ll l de def f pr nt It Jt I ca-I earns came e- e to fo possess hat tt-at ended In a service that has fixed him ilm In the time palace of ot undying fame Came Is simple It Is much like that of ot our Roosevelt Livingstone in fn speaking In 1865 to a school where one of or his children children children chil chil- dren was a student was unable to say Ray much ranch for the grief that was In his heart He had load just juat learned that his lois eldest son sois Robert had died In the hospital hos hos- pital of the federal army arm In America l where he had hind boon beon giving his service service- Words came camo but haltingly I hut but he ended end end- I ed with this Fear God and work hard hoard From the thc time limo that Livingstone at nt 23 3 with Ms his education as theologian and physician felt Celt the thc call to give I his I life to missionary work ho Iso seemed to have possessed definite sense of ot relation rela tion to and specific service for God Work Vork of IU one Prevented from working In fn China by the opium war var hearing the appeal of ot Robert Moffat for tor Africa he gave 11 himself i m sd f th through rough h his is Cm Congregational I onal church to the African work vork Ills Hla 23 I years of or missionary service there thero are i unexampled In endurance herol heroism m and In the annals of ot modern rn I missions Not r content to lArry 5 rJ at I in the time building of a n single Jc mission he early arly faced the necessities In ministering to the thc great re t need of ot the Dark Continent The Thc horrors rs of ot slavery and horrors of slave trade appalled him He Hea wa was j conscious that the finding find tind- ing of ot highways s Into the center of the continent was a 0 prime necessity H He became convinced that a scientific ex exploration exploration exploration ex- ex of t and logy l- l o ogy y was bound to precede the Inflow f nf the tho Influences of ot Christian civilization tion From his second year ear In Africa ArICI he ho was n a great explorer From his lois discovery discovery dis dis- co covery of ot Ns and the n nb n b by the Boers of ot his lois mission planted at because forsooth the natives had bad no souls SOLOISt and were of It use only as al slaves his work had two passions passions' Ono to effort to aW awaken k n Europe to the tho evils of ot the slave tra trade e carried on by the Portuguese tho the other to make mako a path paths for for fortI tI tIe tle p. p feet reet of Christ's Christs messengers Africa was graven on his heart and service to her became the tho consuming power of oC his life And who shall tell teU tellof tellof of his hla service its heroism Its love its endurance its agony America P rt The Tho speaker then outlined the e ex explorers explorer's ex- ex work In the tracing tracing- of or tho to lo Its source and th the carrIn carryIng carry carry- In lug Ing of or the expedition to the western rn sea with It its itu It missionary enthusiasm Its UK hunger and sufferings B. B Its sickness and discouragement ement and along U-so U long Journey hock hack to the time mou mouth h from St St St. Paul do de Loando An And after his vl visit to England his lois quickening f t the life and thought of ot church college cOllego missionary society und and government to In Africa b by speech and book bool b by plea pen and prayer the last long f fight ht to do do- term nine the watersheds of oC Africa discover this dis cover cr the Nile sources make e a L. L Lest vest est free tree In the use interior which would kill saver slavery and anti Its KB horrors to find him sick starving dying la is a pitiable stor story The Tho reaching o of Americas America's hanoi hand to save him in the of ot Stanley Stanle la Is a n beautiful bit of history The Tho heroic persistence nc l of Livingstone In taking D UD the work the thc farewell to and his lois leave of Stanley Is pathetic and Inspiring F For iless i- i less than a year afterward ho he olid on his lois knees knoes at praying for tor his Africa And when his black servants servants ser ser- had borno borne him over a thousand miles to tho time IH seacoast ast tho tim dust was carried car car- I nod ried to England Englund and he ho lay la In III Vc Westminister Ms lois work was but boot l For or through h the roads he be had hewed across Africa a there poured a n stream of ot Interest and service that began to r real alIzo al- al Izo ize his MB dream An And tho the new Africa 13 is being Ing which was ever looming up before the vision of oC the man who came from poverty po to power and who vho vho spanned the gulf between the c mill and tho tue stately minister b by the nobility of ot a life In which a vision of ot duty was carried through the fear Crar of ot I God and tho the heroism of oC simple fidelity I to a black continent over ove which gleam deam m. m the thc morning morning- ll light ht of nr hope through his hlo service e and sacrifice c rI |