DAVID LIVINGSTONE’S HOUSE

Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 2

DAVID LIVINGSTONE’S HOUSE

A SCOTTISH MEMORIAL The house where David Livingstone spent his early years is threatened with demolition. An appeal mad© through the British Press states: That humble home at Blantyre, on the banks of the Clyde, with the old school;and cotton mill near by, holds too many associations of simple and heroic endeavor for this age to allow it to disappear. With it would go our most iital personal link with the great missionary explorer, leaving a gap which no other memorial could possibly fill. A movement to save the house has met with widespread approval, and a committee has been formed in Scotland thoroughly representative of church, national, university, civic, geographical, and commercial interests. It is proposed to purchase the house, to restore it to its original state, and to make it and its surroundings into a worthy place of pilgrimage. A permanent homo for the many scattered relics and an cx j hibifc of African development are integral features of the scheme, so that it may be at once a fitting memorial to one of the greatest of men and an abiding inspiration to succeeding generations. To enable it to carry out this plan arid to provide, a modest endowment, the committee is now issuing an appeal' for £12,000. More could well be used. The appeal is made to fel-low-countrymen at home and overseas, and is signed by. Field-Marshal Haig, Sir James Barrie, Mr John Buchanj Sir John Scott Keltia, and the Moderators of the Church of Scotland General Assembly and United Free Church General Assembly*