David Livingstone
David Livingstone
David Livingstonewas a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth19 March 1813
CityBlantyre, Scotland
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
I am a missionary, heart and soul.
He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.
I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.
This generation can only reach this generation.
Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.