Dr. Livingstone's
lecture consisted of facts relating to the country and its people,
their habits and religious belief, with some notices of his travels, and
an emphatic statement of his great object--to promote commerce and
Christianity in the country which he had opened. The last part of his
lecture was an earnest appeal for missionaries.
"It is deplorable to think that one of the noblest of our
missionary societies, the Church Missionary Society, is
compelled to send to Germany for missionaries, whilst other
Societies are amply supplied. Let this stain be wiped off.
The sort of men who are wanted for missionaries are such as I
see before me; men of education, standing, enterprise, zeal,
and piety.... I hope that many whom I now address will
embrace that honorable career. Education has been given us
from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the
knowledge of a Saviour. If you knew the satisfaction of
performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which
the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so
noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in
embracing it.
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