Maclean, Archibald, an English Baptist minis- ter, was born JMay 1, 1733 (O. S.), at East KUbride, in Lanarkshire. He was for many years pastor of the Baptist Church in Edinburgh, and was founder of the Baptist congregations in Scotland. He died in Edin- burgh Dec. 12, 1812. Mr. Maclean published Para- phrase and Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Edinb. 1811-17, 2 vols. 12mo ; Lond. 1819, 2 vols. 12mo ; Aberdeen, 1847, 2 vols. 12mo). A collective edition of Maclean's works, including the above work, sermons, etc., with a memoir of his life and writings by Rev. W. Jones, was published (Lond. 1823, 6 vols. 8vo ;. vol. vii, 1852, 18mo ; Edinb. 6 vols. 12mo). — Kitto, Cyclop, of Bill. Lit. vol. ii, s. v. ; Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A m. Authors, s. V.
Maclennan, James, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a native of Scotland, came to the United States m early manhood, furnished with a good classical education. He had been brought up in the bosom of the Established Church of Scotland, and fidly believed all its doctrines, but, owing to his Calvin- istic views, had given himself no personal concern about his salvation. He was, however, awakened and con- verted during a revival of religion in Pontotoc, jMiss., joined tlie iMethodists, and, feeling it to be his duty to preach the Gosjiel, entered the Mississippi Conference Dec. 3, 1840, He took position at once in the Confer- V.-Rr
ence on account of his educational advantages. His tirst appointment was Jackson Station, then he preached in Lake Washington country, on the Mississippi River, and in 1849 was elected secretary of the Conference. For several years following he located; from 18G3 to 18G7 he was presiding elder of the Granville District, and in 1865 was elected a delegate to the General Con- ference held in New Orleans in 1866. At the time of his death, in 1870, he was supernumerary on the Lake Lee and Leota Circuit. " Brother Maclennan was a man of strong character, ... a simple-hearted Chris- tian, dearl}' loved the Church of his choice, and literally laid his life a ' living sacrifice upon her altars.' " — 3Iin- utes of ike M. E. Church South, 1870.
Macmillanites. See Scotland, Reforjied Presbyterian Church in.
Macneile, Hugh, D.D., an Irish divine of note, was born in 1793, at Ballycastle, in the county of An- trim, Ireland; was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received both the degree of A.M. and D.D. ; also the appointment of canon of Chester. In 1822 he married the daughter of Dr. jMagee, late archbishop of Dublin, in whose family he had been tutor. After preaching for some years in London, where he attracted large congregations, chiefly at Charlotte-Street Chapel, Fitzroy Square, he became successively incumbent of St. Jude's, Liverpool, and of St. Paul's, Prince's Park, near Liverpool. In 1868 he was made dean of Ripon. He died in 1872. He published The Church and the Churches, or the Chuixh of God in Christ militant here on Earth (1847, 8vo) : — Lectures on the Church of Eng- land (12mo) : — Lectures on the Prophecies of the Jews (1842, 12mo) : — Lectures on the Sympathies, etc., of our Saviour (12mo) : — Inters on Seceding from the Church (12mo) : — Sermons on the Second Advent (12mo) : — Sev- enteen Sermons (12mo). He also published several sep- arate sermons, addresses, and controversial pamphlets. — English Cyclopcedia, s. v.
Macon, Councils of (Concilium Matisconense). Ecclesiastical councils were held in this city of Bur- gundy in 584 and 585. At the former there were enact- ments to regulate the clerical dress, and forbidding Jews " to appear in the streets from Maunday Thursday until Easter Monday;" at the latter, over which Priscus, arch- bishop of Lyons, presided, enactments were passed — me- morial in the history of the Church — on the conduct of the laity towards the clergy. Among other things, it was required that whenever one of the laity met one of the clergy in the public streets, the former should make a lowly and reverent bow ; if both parties are on horse- back, then the layman should take off his hat ; but if the layman be on horseback and the clergy on foot, the for- mer is to dismount and make his obeisance. See Riddle, Hist, of Papacy, i, 240 ; Landon, Man. of Councils, i, 386-9.
Macrobius, an ecclesiastical writer, flourished in the lirst half of the 4th centurj-. He was a preacher in the Church in Africa after (iennadius became entangled in the Donatist heresy, and as a Donatist bishop secretly labored at Rome at one time. Before his separation from the orthodox he composed a discourse. Ad confes- sores et viryines, in which he insisted principally upon the beauty and the sanctity of chastity. After his union with the Donatists he addressed a letter to the laity of Carthage, De Passione Maximiaid et Isaaci Donatis- taruni (published by Mabillon, Analecta [Paris, 1675], iv, 119, and Optatus [Paris, 1700, Amst. 1701, Antwerp, 1702]). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, sxxii, 607.
Ma'cron {MuKpojv, i. e. long-head; \\i\g. Macer), the surname of Ptolemreus or Ptolemee, the son of Dory- menes (1 JNIacc. iii, 38), and governor of Cyprus under Ptolemy Philometor (2 IMacc. x, 12).
Macurdy, Elisiia, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 15, 1763 ; was educated at the Academy of Cannonsburg, and was licensed by the Pres- bytery of Ohio about 1799. His first labors were as a missionary in the regions bordering on Lake Erie. In