[The Personal Life Of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie]@TWC D-Link bookThe Personal Life Of David Livingstone CHAPTER II 26/40
God desires that.
He can do all the rest.
After all, He is the sole agent, for the 'willing mind' comes alone from Him.
This is comforting, for when we think of the feebleness and littleness of all we do, we might despair of having our services accepted, were we not assured that it is not these God looks to, except in so far as they are indications of the state of the heart." Dr.Livingstone's sisters have a distinct recollection that the field to which the Directors intended to send him was the West Indies, and that he remonstrated on the ground that he had spent two years in medical study, but in the West Indies, where there were regular practitioners, his medical knowledge would be of little or no avail.
He pleaded with the Directors, therefore, that he might be allowed to complete his medical studies, and it was then that Africa was provisionally fixed on as his destination.
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