. chosen. His ways are not like ours. The practical man shows himself in the boy. Young Living-stone felt that whoever ministers to the souls of the peoplemust reach them through their bodies. He reasoned that theconfidence to be desired, as a spiritual teacher and helper, wouldbe most easily secured by attention to the humbler is like seeking interview with a lord: it is easier if theattendants are first won. Christ paid much attention to thebodily necessities of people. So have all the best and wisest ofhis servants. L
. chosen. His ways are not like ours. The practical man shows himself in the boy. Young Living-stone felt that whoever ministers to the souls of the peoplemust reach them through their bodies. He reasoned that theconfidence to be desired, as a spiritual teacher and helper, wouldbe most easily secured by attention to the humbler is like seeking interview with a lord: it is easier if theattendants are first won. Christ paid much attention to thebodily necessities of people. So have all the best and wisest ofhis servants. Livingstone studied medicine in preparation forhis missionary work. His first book led him deeply andanxiously into the perplexing profundities of astrology;and he only paused in his investigations when, to his youthfulmind, the ground seemed to be perilous, and, in his own words, when the dark hint seemed to loom toward selling soul andbody to the devil, as the price of the unfathomable knowledgeof the stars. He would wander, delighted and wondering, through. lin1:; ^%j\\ j //:il)^^,KV, ,,,, AFRICA AND PREPARATION. 51 Blantyre and Cambuslang, collecting shells and stones longbefore geology was as popular as it is now. As a specimen ofthe help and encouragement he received, when the curiouschild one day asked a quarryman, How did ever these shellsget into these rocks ? he was told, When God made therocks, He made the shells in them. And when his honoredfather found his preference for such study, he insisted on creatinga fondness for such books as Fourfold State, by Boston, Practical Christianity, etc. It is almost incredible that such varied and profound readingas filled these early years of Livingstone could have been donein the midst of such daily work in a factory. He really accom-plished all of his reading by placing his book where he couldcatch a sentence, as he passed backward and forward at his continually in his factory, he studied Greek at Glasgow,and Divin
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