Book Review

David Livingstone:

Missionary and Explorer

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Though not all Christians are called to life on the Mission Field, we are all called by God to share our faith (witness) with those who are not Christians (our own "Mission Field" is wherever we happen to be!).  Some Bible verses that you will find helpful for doing this, and that you may want to commit to memory are found on other pages on our  web site (see: Memory Verses; 2nd Set: Salvation!, Plan of Salvation, and Statement of Faith). _________________

Movie Review: Stanley and Livingstone ____________

Celtic Pages

Author: Sam Wellman

The Smoke of a Thousand villages Beckoned Him...and Where there's Smoke, There Someday Would Be Fire

"To go where no missionary had ever been, to smell the smoke of unknown villages, to witness to peoples beyond the vast Kalahari, such were the dreams of David Livingstone.

While perhaps best remembered  as the recipient of Henry Stanley's understated query ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"), the humble Livingstone disdained acclaim during his lifetime.  Born into poverty in Scotland, and educated in medicine, he was first sent to South Africa in 1840 but at once recognized the dearth of missionaries in the northern regions.

Exhaustion, serious illness, and wild animals, not to mention the murderous activities of slave traders, became commonplace as Dr. Livingstone journeyed south to Angola, then to Mozambique, and later, Victoria Falls.  Driven by his faith and his sense of outrage, Livingstone's life and writings would ignite the Dark Continent as ever before. ____________________________

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Cover Illustration © 1997 Dick Bobnick _____________________________

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Related Pages:

• Movie Review: "Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)"

• Movie Review: "Biography: Stanley and Livingstone" (A & E)

• Movie Review: "Stanley and Livingstone" (Spencer Tracy)"

• Mary Slessor: Queen of Calabar _________________________