Voices and influences
David Livingstone
The Scottish mill-boy who walked across Africa, fought the slave trade with a map and a pen, and died on his knees.
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- Lived 1813 to 1873, Scottish.
- Quoted here most in Luke: 1 of 1.
David Livingstone
- Lived
- 1813 to 1873
- Nation
- Scottish
- Tradition
- Congregationalist
1 of 1 quotations
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“All I can add in my loneliness is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on everyone, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal the open sore of the world.”
The Last Journals, volume 2 (1874), entry of 1 May 1872, 1872
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, BSB
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David Livingstone worked a Scottish cotton mill from age ten with a Latin grammar propped on the spinning jenny, and arrived in Africa in 1841 as a missionary doctor. Convinced that the interior would never hear the gospel while the slave trade bled it, he spent thirty years walking it open — crossing the continent coast to coast, mapping the Zambezi and Victoria Falls, and writing dispatches that made the East African slave caravans a scandal Britain could not ignore. He made few converts himself and knew it; he called himself a forerunner, opening the road. Found by Stanley in 1871 after years out of contact, he refused to come home. His men found him dead kneeling at his bedside in 1873, carried his body a thousand miles to the coast — and buried his heart in Africa first.
1 quotation across 1 book