'Go thou and do likewise.'"
Mackay wondered. Could it ever be that he would go into the heart of
Africa like Livingstone? it seemed impossible. What was the good of an
engineer among the lakes and forests of Central Africa?
On the table by the side of Stanley's _How I found Livingstone_ lay a
newspaper, the Edinburgh _Daily Review_. Mackay glanced at it; then he
snatched it up and read eagerly a letter which appeared there. It was
a new call to Central Africa--the call, through Stanley, from King
M'tesa of Uganda, that home of massacre and torture. These are some of
the words that Stanley wrote:
"King M'tesa of Uganda has been asking me about the white man's
God.... Oh that some practical missionary would come here. M'tesa
would give him anything that he desired--houses, land, cattle,
ivory. It is the practical Christian who can ... cure their
diseases, build dwellings, teach farming and turn his hand to
anything like a sailor--this is the man who is wanted. Such a one,
if he can be found, would become the saviour of Africa."
Stanley called for "a practical man who could turn his hand to
anything--_if he can be found_."
The words burned their way into Mackay's very soul.
"If he can be found.
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