Christian History Magazine—Issue 56: David Livingstone: Missionary-explorer in Africa
Overview
A 19th century explorer par excellence, David Livingstone entered Africa with intentions to trail blaze, evangelize, and civilize. He further hoped to eliminate the slave trade on both ocean coasts, a difficult task considering the British kept to the Atlantic. By the end of his life, he was hailed a British national hero for his winding jungle explorations and a failure as a missionary. Unbeknownst to him, his expeditions would glorify One greater than himself in the years to come. Open this issue of Christian History and Biography to encounter a man who was a failed missionary, a lost explorer, and one of the monumental figures of the 1800s.
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Top Highlights
“Though Livingstone did little traditional missionary work while he was alive, after his death, he inspired hundreds of men and women to give their lives for African missions. Mary Slessor, for example, decided to follow in the footsteps of her hero and, in 1875, arrived in Calabar (in present-day Nigeria). She quickly became a living legend as an explorer and evangelist—and vice counsel for the British Empire. Peter Cameron Scott, founder of the Africa Inland Mission, was inspired to return to Africa after his first mission failed when he read the inscription on Livingstone’s tomb in Westminster Abbey: ‘Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring.’” (source)
“Livingstone was the first European to feast his eyes on the great Victoria Falls: ‘Five columns of smoke [i.e., mist] arose.… The whole scene was extremely beautiful; the banks and islands dotted over the river are adorned with sylvan vegetation of great variety and form … scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.’” (source)
“Mary, lived in the same house together only four of the seventeen years of their marriage.” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 56: David Livingstone: Missionary-explorer in Africa
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Missions › 19th century--Africa; Livingstone, David
- Resource ID: LLS:CH56
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:40:22Z