David Livingstone : First to cross Africa with the Gospel – Mrs. J.H. Worcester, Jr. Alleen Vandaag

Beschrijving

Fascinating biographies of men who lived for God.

This book was published in 1888. it is a biography of David Livingstone, David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.

Discusses the explorer’s formative years in Scotland, training as a missionary, expeditions to Africa, and many discoveries there.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Without a doubt, David Livingstone was one of the greatest pioneer missionaries of all time. He was also one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. He and his wife gave their lives serving in Africa, all the while exposing and opposing the cruelty and inhumanity of the slave trade which was decimating parts of Africa. When Livingstone died, his native helpers removed his heart and buried it in Africa, while they carried his body to the coast so it could be carried back to England for burial. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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