David Livingston - Chapter 1 (sample)

This is the first of 8 chapters on the biography of David Livingston.  To give you a glimpse into the life of thiis servant of God, the entire chapter is availabe on the sample audio stream.

This biography includes 1.8 hours of audio arranged in 8 chapters, each 14 minutes long.

DAVID LIVINGSTON (1813-1873) was born the son of deeply religious but humble parents who lived near Glasgow, Scotland. He studied medicine and theology at the University of Glasgow. Livingstone tried to go to China as a missionary in 1838, but when Opium War in China closed the doors, he went to South Africa. He had been challenged by Robert Moffat, a missionary to that country, who said, "On a clear morning the smoke of a thousand villages could be seen where the name of Christ had never been heard." He joined Moffat and married his daughter. Livingstone pushed two hundred miles north of Moffat's assigned station and founded another mission station, Mabosta. Livingstone continued on the mission field and advanced fourteen hundred miles in to the interior in spite of hardships. His purpose was to open the door of Africa to the gospel. He was attacked and mained by a lion, his home was destroyed, and his wife died on the field. One morning in May, 1873, a faithful native found Livingstone by his bed, kneeling and dead. The natives buried his heart in Africa as he had requested, but his body was returned to England and buried in Westminster Abbey.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Huxley, Elspeth, J.G. Livingston and His African Journeys. Saturday Review Press, 1974. Worcester, Mrs. J.H. David Livingstone. Moody Press, 1980.