Besides missions on the old principle, Medical Missions have received a great impulse through Livingstone.  When mission work in Central Africa began to be seriously entertained, men like Dr. Laws, the late Dr. Black, and the late Dr. Smith, all medical missionaries, were among the first to offer their services.  The Edinburgh Medical Mission made quite a new start when it gave the name of Livingstone to its buildings.  Another institution that has adopted the name for a hall in which to train colored people for African work is the Fisk University, Tennessee, made famous by the Jubilee Singers.

In glancing at these results of Livingstone’s influence in the mission field, we must not forget that of all his legacies to Africa by far the highest was the spotless name and bright Christian character which have become associated every where with its great missionary explorer.  From the first day of his sojourn in Africa to the last, “patient continuance in well-doing” was the great charm through which he sought, with God’s blessing, to win the confidence of Africa.  Before the poorest African he maintained self-restraint and self-respect as carefully as in the best society at home.  No prevailing relaxation of the moral code in those wild, dark regions ever lowered his tone or lessened his regard for the proprieties of Christian or civilized life.  Scandal is so rampant among the natives of Africa that even men of high character have sometimes suffered from its lying tongue; but in the case of Livingstone there was such an enamel of purity upon his character that no filth could stick to it, and none was thrown.  What Livingstone did in order to keep his word to his poor attendants was a wonder in Africa, as it was the admiration of the world.  His way of trusting them, too, was singularly winning.  He would go up to a fierce chief, surrounded by his grinning warriors, with the same easy gait and kindly smile with which he would have approached his friends at Kuruman or Hamilton.  It was the highest tribute that the slave-traders in the Zambesi district paid to his character when for their own vile ends they told the people that they were the children of Livingstone.  It was the charm of his name that enabled Mr. E.D.  Young, while engaged in founding the Livingstonia settlement, to obtain six hundred carriers to transport the pieces of the Ilala steamer past the Murchison Cataracts, carrying loads of great weight for forty miles, at six yards of calico each, without a single piece of the vessel being lost or thrown away.  The noble conduct of the band that for eight months carried his remains toward the coast was a crowning proof of the love he inspired.