David Livingstone #261813

ON March lgth, 1913, a hundred years will have passed since David Livingstone was born. It is only forty years since his body was carried by faithful hands from the centre of Africa to the coast that he might be buried among his peers in Westminster Abbey. In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame. The campaign he fought against the slave-system that desolated the vast district drained by the Zambesi had to be renewed to free the population on the banks of the Congo. Southern Africa has been reconstructed and consolidated. The Upper and the Lower Nile have witnessed many strange vicissitudes of history. Other names have become great in men's mouths. Some have been associated with vast political enterprises; while some with a disinterestedness as noble as Living stones, have been at once the pioneers and the martyrs of a Christian civilisation. But nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single.