David Livingstone
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
DR LIVINGSTONE
...I PRESUME
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
David was born to Christian parents in Scotland in 1813. His mother's name was Agnes and his father Neil was a Sunday school teacher and traveling tea salesman.
Though Neil had the opportunity to pass out tracts as he went door-to-door selling tea, he did not earn much money.
DAVID AND HIS BROTHERS HAD TO HELP SUPPORT THE FAMILY
THEY WORKED TWELVE HOUR DAYS IN A COTTON FACTORY
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Still, David's parents recognized the value of education.
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HE ENROLLED IN CHARING CROSS MEDICAL SCHOOL
These three areas of study would help him care for African natives and make inroads on the mission field.
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Curiosity was also valued in the Livingstone household. David became an avid reader,...
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...and often scoured the countryside for interesting animal, plant, and geological specimens.
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After reading Karl Gützlaff's "Appeal to the Churches of Britain and America on Behalf of China, Livingstone became convinced that medical practice could advance religious ends.
And, as he continued his medical schooling, Livingstone had a devoutly abolitionist professor, Joseph Wardlaw.
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Although David too had a heart for the enslaved people of Africa, he still felt compelled to go to China as a medical missionary.
Remember, he had first become interested in merging medicine and religion after reading a book by a missionary to China.
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He was soon accepted to the London Missionary Society (LMS) and applied to go to China. However, because of the Opium War raging in 1839, no missionaries could be sent to Asia.
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ROBERT MOFFAT
GAVE LIVINGSTONE THE EXTRA PUSH HE NEEDED TO GO TO AFRICA
Not only did he persuade Livingstone that the slave trade might be destroyed through "legitimate trade and Christianity," he also told David that he was just the man for the job.
HE ALSO HAD A DAUGHTER...
MARY MOFFAT BECAME DAVID'S WIFE AND ACCOMPANIED HIM
So, in 1840, the Livingstones went to Africa.
HE HAD A DREAM TO GLIMPSE
"THE SMOKE OF A THOUSAND VILLAGES NO MISSIONARY HAD EVER BEEN"
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Livingstone became one of the first Westerners to make a transcontinental trip across Africa, fulfilling that dream.
Livingstone travelled lightly, without the armed men that other Europeans brought along, and used the medical skills he had learned to reassure Chiefs that he was not a threat.
ONCE HE HAD BUILT RELATIONSHIPS, DAVID PREACHED THE GOSPEL
BUT HE NEVER FORCED HIS VIEWS ON UNLISTENING EARS
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Dr. Livingstone has become famous for many of his discoveries in Africa along the Zambezi and Nile Rivers, and for looking for solutions to the problem of the slave trade, rather than for his mission work.
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As he searched for commercial trade routes to replace the slave trade, he decided to leave LMS, trying to prevent concerns that his scientific work might show that LMS was "departing from the proper objects of a missionary body."
HE IS NOW MOST FAMOUS FOR AN ENCOUNTER WITH HENRY MORTON STANLEY
WHO UTTERED THE MEMORABLE WORDS, "DR LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME!"
HE HAD A TOTAL OF
These factors have led people to question the true meanings for his journey to Africa. Now, however, the fact that Livingstone was a missionary first of all is widely accepted. And though he had only one convert,...
"I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow."
1 Corinthians 3:6
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