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Title: David Livingstone: the story of one who followed Christ
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Houghton, Louise Seymour, 1838-1920
Subjects: Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
Publisher: PHiladelphia, Presby. Bd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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bedside, the face bowed uponthe clasped hands, the spirit gone to God. No, surely that had been no hour of. conflict, nowrestling of the parting soul for faith. He knewthat the prayer of long years was answered—not inhis life, but by his death. 326 DAVID LIVINGSTONE. To finish his work—that was his long desire.And it was finished. In that last hour, when faithwas brightening into sight, he learned the meaningof his thwarted plans. He may even have foreseen,with the swift intelligence of eternity, how his dyingbreath would send a thrill through Christendom,prompting missionary, explorer, man of wealth,philanthropist, to labor to make good his place.He may have seen how the nations, so long deaf tohis pleadings, should leap into action at the trump-et-call of his martyr death, and unite together toheal the open sore of the world, to suppress theslave-trade, to establish lawful commerce, to plantChristian missions, to build highways in Africawhich shall be called the Way of Holiness.
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The Body borne to the Coast. Page 327. CHAPTEK XXIX.THE LAST JOURNEY. THE worn and wasted body which so long hadenshrined that precious soul was not to be laidaway in the dark African forest. The devotedcompanions of nine weary years and the faithfulattendants of the last arduous journey were alikedecided in this. Ignorant as they were of the bestmethods of carrying out their plans, well aware ofthe difficulties in their way, they resolved to carryit hence to rest in England. Before daylight the irreparable loss was knownto all, and, quietly assembling, the men placedthemselves under the orders of Chuma and Susi.The boxes which contained their dead mastersproperty were examined in the presence of themall; Jacob Wainwright made an inventory, andthey were sealed up. Then came the preparationof the body. A hut was built, open to the sky, but securelyguarded all around, first by the huts of the men,and then by a strong palisade around the wholeencampment. In this the body was prepared and

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