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the and <strong>of</strong> 1886,<br />

192.<br />

(1)<br />

and commamoratory sermons were still<br />

being pro&rbad in Undringhao Church in 1899.4)<br />

Gordon represented a number <strong>of</strong> trends in Imperial<br />

thought; he option,<br />

with Christianity.<br />

African missionary<br />

was conventionally<br />

"Cordon#n pl<strong>ac</strong>e in<br />

A beseeching voice<br />

ized responsible Empire and its links<br />

lie was frequently compared with the<br />

Livingstone, though neithor <strong>of</strong> them<br />

Imperialist. It was thought that<br />

history will be by Livingstone's side..<br />

Asking for pity for these people comes<br />

from Ilaln and now from Khartoum also; the fate <strong>of</strong> Africa<br />

hangs on the reply. 't (3)<br />

he appeared to fit into the<br />

philanthropic anti-slave trade tradition, which was by<br />

1885, turning to Imperial vxpnnoion to <strong>ac</strong>hieve its<br />

objectives.<br />

Be also personified adventures bravery and romance, the<br />

qualities which pervaded Imperialist literature. One<br />

popular view <strong>of</strong> Gordon was tii t "Arthur an4 the Iound Table<br />

had no more blameless knight. He was Lancolot and Galahad<br />

I ýýýý IIi 11 ýýIII ý ý 1ýý ý r tf / I 1 ý 1 ýi<br />

i1) Church Alms ionarv Inte1lieencer, Ilovember 1886.<br />

William Sinclair ti<strong>ac</strong>donald,, <strong>of</strong>f .<br />

(3) cwuoted in Quaterly RAview, April 1865, ppa, 45O-79v<br />

reviewn <strong>of</strong>"livoa <strong>of</strong> Uordon, p. 479,

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