Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1907

THAT tree in Africa under which the natives buried the heart of Livingstone at the time of his death, through age is dying. It is now proposed to cut down this tree, and build upon the spot a monument to the memory of the missionary. The tree is to be cut up into souvenirs, and sold to raise funds to build a memorial church to Livingstone at Chitambo, Central Africa.

ONE writer, after describing the death of Confucius, who at the grave had no ray to cheer its dark gloom, says: “So down through the centuries have died his followers—in doubt, in darkness, in fear; for there is not a line in the Confucian classics which sheds a ray of light on the valley of the shadow of death. China still waits to hear the great message of Christ to man, ‘I am the resurrection, and the life.’” Really, is anything worthy the name of “great”—so often applied to Confucian classics—in the way of intellectual learning, if at the grave the interests of the soul—the life capable of being extended to all eternity—have been overlooked, so that at that supreme moment the life goes out in gloom, in darkness, in fear, in eternal night? China needs the light of God’s Holy Word pointing the soul to Jesus, the world’s great Light. “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”