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Other significant influences in his early life were Thomas Burke, a Blantyre evangelist and David Hogg, his Sabbath School teacher.

At age nineteen, David and his father left the Church of Scotland for a local Congregational church, influenced by preachers like Ralph Wardlaw who denied predestinatarian limitations on salvation.

Influenced by American revivalistic teachings, Livingstone's reading of the missionary Karl Gützlaff's " Appeal to the Churches of Britain and America on behalf of China " enabled him to persuade his father that medical study could advance religious ends.