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David Livingstone: Over Thirty Years Missionary to Africa, 1840-1874
by Julia H. Johnston
People who know but one or two missionary names know this one.
Anybody might well be ashamed not to know the name, and something about the work, of David Livingstone.
David livingstone missionary biography
He was a doctor, an explorer and discoverer, a philanthropist who did much for humanity, and, most of all, he was a missionary hero, who gave his life for Africa. What a splendid story is his.
The little David was born of sturdy, earnest Christian parents in the town of Blantyre, Scotland.
His father, Neil Livingstone, was a traveling tea merchant in a small way, and his mother was a thrifty housewife. Before he was ten, the boy received a prize for reciting the whole of the one hundred and nineteenth Psalm, "with only five hitches," we are told.
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He began early to be an explorer, and went all over his native place. He loved to collect flowers and shells. He climbed one day to the highest