LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 3

LIVINGSTONE CENTENARY

David Livingstone, the world's greatest missionary explorer, and one of the most heroic figures in the history of Britain in the nineteenth century, was born at the little town of Blantyre, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 19th March, 1813. On Sunday, the 16th March, reference will be made in the churches of the English-speaking world' to the work- of Livingstone, moTe particularly as a Christian missionary. But Livingstone- was great, not only as a missionary, but also as an explorer, a scientist, and a humanitarian. It is, therefore, considered fitting that the centenary of his birth should be commemorated by the citizens of the Empire in some* more public manner. March 19th has been set apart throughout the world for this purpose. A local committee, which is thoroughly representative, has arranged for a mass meeting in the Town Hall on the evening of that day, when short addresses will be given on various aspects of Livingstone's life and work by well-known" local citizens. There will also be appropriate music rendered by a united choir under the conductorship of Mr. Horace Hunt, Mus.Bac.