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Study Section 8: Heroes between 1813 – 1850s

8.1 Connect.

There was a famous television show in America called Star Trek. It was a fictitious story of a crew
of people who journeyed into space on a spaceship. The theme of the show was that they were
“going where no man had gone before.” Today, we are going to look at some missionary
explorers who were willing to go to new places and to a people who had never seen a white man
before. They were missionary explorers. And in their journeys, they shared the Gospel to those
who were lost. Let’s look into their exciting stories to see how God did amazing things through
their faithfulness to Him….

8.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to describe the journeys of David Livingston and how God used him
to bring thousands to Christ and to halt the slave trading industry.

2. The student should be able to describe the short life of David Brainerd, God used him to win
American Indians to Him.

3. The student should be able to describe Hudson Taylor’s journey to China and how he established the China
Inland Mission.

8.3 David Livingstone 1813 – 1873

https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/missionaries/david-livingstone.html

"[I am] serving Christ when shooting a buffalo for my men or taking
an observation, [even if some] will consider it not sufficiently or even
at all missionary."

With four theatrical words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"—words
journalist Henry Morton Stanley rehearsed in advance—David
Livingstone became immortal. Stanley stayed with Livingstone for five months and
then went off to England to write his bestseller, How I Found Livingstone. Livingstone, in the meantime, got lost
again—in a swamp literally up to his neck. Within a year and a half, he died in a mud hut, kneeling beside his cot
in prayer.

The whole civilized world wept. They gave him a 21-gun salute and a hero's funeral among the saints in
Westminster Abbey. "Brought by faithful hands over land and sea," his tombstone reads, "David Livingstone:
missionary, traveler, philanthropist. For 30 years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize the
native races, to explore the undiscovered secrets, and to abolish the slave trade."

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