Missions
Course: History of
Modern Missions
Section
Three:
Lesson
8.
Lesson Title: Foreign Missions to
Introduction: Struggle for
·
European Imperialism
Western Empires -
Colonialism
Main Points:
·
David Livingstone (1813-1873). Explorer and Missionary.
In 1841 went to Kuruman to missionary Robert Moffatt
(1795-1883).
Married
the daughter of Robert Moffatt - Mary Moffatt (1820-1862) in 1845.
Mary Moffatt died of malaria on
Last journey –
tried to find the source of the
His
heart and intestines were cut out and buried where he died in
The inscription says
His body was brought to
Livingstone’s
grave is at Westminster Abbey – ‘to abolish the desolating slave trade of
central
THE INSCRIPTION ON
LIVINGSTONE’S TOMB IN
‘BROUGHT BY FAITHFUL HANDS
OVER LAND AND SEA HERE
RESTS DAVID LIVINGSTONE, MISSIONARY, TRAVELLER, PHILANTHROPIST,
BORN MARCH 19. 1813 AT
DIED
FOR 30 YEARS HIS LIFE WAS
SPENT IN AN UNWEARIED EFFORT TO EVANGELIZE THE NATIVE RACES, TO EXPLORE THE
UNDISCOVERED SECRETS, TO ABOLISH THE DESOLATING SLAVE TRADE OF
"ALL I CAN ADD IN MY
SOLITUDE, IS, MAY HEAVEN'S RICH BLESSING COME DOWN ON EVERY ONE, AMERICAN,
ENGLISH, OR TURK, WHO WILL HELP TO HEAL THIS OPEN SORE OF THE WORLD"’
·
Livingstone and trade
Livingstone
believed that African needed the spread of the gospel and the spread of trade
routes. He directly linked the advance
of the missionary with the advance of trade.
2.
The Arab slave trade in
David Livingstone: Missionary
Travels and Narrative of an Expedition to the
´
‘Two of the women had been shot the day before for
attempting to untie their thongs. One woman had her infants brains knocked
out because she could not carry her load and it; and a man was dispatched with
an axe because he had broken down with fatigue those taken out of the country
are but a very small section of the sufferers. We never realised the
atrocious nature of the traffic until we saw it at the fountain head.
'There truly Satan has his seat.' Besides those actually captured
thousands are killed and die of their wounds and famine, driven from their
villages by the internecine war waged for slaves with their own clansmen and
neighbours, slain by the lust of gain, which is stimulated, be it remembered
always, by the slave purchases of Cuba and elsewhere.`
3.
Rise of Independent nations in
·
The rise of Independent African nations – the
church in
Teddy
Hodgson and Elton Knauf killed in
·
Elim
missionaries massacred - Rhodesian East Highlands,
Summary: