McGorrisk, Bernard, a Roman Catholic priest, was born in Ireland in 1818; went to Paris to pursue an academical course, and there also studied theology ; emigrated to this country early in 1842; was engaged for several months as professor of French at St. John's College (Fordham, N. Y.) ; afterwards went as mission- ary priest to the West, where he labored for nearly eighteen years, building fifteen or sixteen churches. About 1860 he removed to Brooklyn, where he built the present church of St. Vincent de Paul. He died Oct. 29, 1865. — Kno Amer. Cyclop. 1865, p. 654.
McGregor, David, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Ireland in 1711, and from 1736 until his death (May 30, 1777) was pastor of Londonderry Church, New Hampshire. He received the degree of A.IVI. from New Jersey College. He published Sermons ami Theolog- ical Treatises (1741-74). See Drake, Diet, of Amer. Biofj. s. V.
McHenry, Barnabas, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in one of the eastern coun- ties of Virginia Dec. 10, 1767 ; was converted when only fifteen years of age, and shortly after joined the Church. Called to preach the Gospel, he entered the itinerancj' in Jlay, 1787, and was appointed to Yadkin Circuit. Thereafter he successively served the cause of his blas- ter in the following appointments: in 1788 at Cumber- land Circuit : in 1789 at Danville ; in 1790 at Madison ; in 1791 at Cumberland; was placed in charge of the district in 1792, and in 1793 of an enlarged number of circuits; in 1794 he was sent to Salt River Circuit; in 1795 was located on account of impaired health; in 1819 was readmitted, and appointed presiding elder of Salt River District, Tennessee Conference, but his health again failed him, and he was finally obliged to retire from active work, and take the place of a superannuate. He died at Mount Pleasant, near Springfield, Ky., June 16, 1833. "Barnabas McHenry," is the testimony of one, '• was a man of strong mind and able in argument.
He stood upon the v/alls of our Zion and defended her bulwarks when slie was assailed by an enemy." Bishop Bascom says, " Of the early years of his ministry but little is known, except vague yet cherished traditions of the beauty, unction, and eloquence of his preaching, together with the dangers and hardships to which he was exposed as a pioneer missionary in the wilderness of the West from 1788 to 1795. . . . Even a century in a single community produces few such men as Barnabas McHenry and Valentine Cook, They were men by themselves, and their memory would adorn the history of any Church or age." See Sprague, vl ?»««?« of the Amei-ican Puljrit, vii, 143 sq. ; Finley, Sketches of the M. E. Church South ; J\Iii)utes ofCorferences, 1834.
Mcllvaine (or Macllvaine), Charles Petit, D.D., an eminent divine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, ivas born in Burlington, New Jersey, June 18, 1798. His father, Joseph Mcllvaine, was a leading lawyer and United States senator from New Jersey at the time of his death, in 1826. Charles graduated in 1816 at Princeton ; was admitted to deacon's orders July 4, 1820, by bishop White, and, having labored in Christ Church, Georgetown, Md., he received two years later priest's orders from bishop Kemp, of Blarvland. In 1825 he became professor of ethics and chaplain in the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 1827 he became rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained until 1832, when he was con- secrated bishop of Ohio. While rector at Brooklyn, he also held the professorship of evidences of revealed re- ligion and sacred antiquities in the University of the City of New York. In the episcopacy. Dr. IMcIlvaine quickly made a name for himself as a man of learning, and of unusual kindliness of disposition, not only in his own Church, but among all Christians, both in this coun- try and in Europe. For the last ten years or more he was looked upon as the representative of the Low Churchmen of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Jn his death (which occurred at Florence, Italy, while on a journey for recreation, INIarch 14. 1873), irenical theol- ogy has lost one of its ablest advocates, and the Evan- gelical Association one of its most active promoters. Bishop Mcllvaine was a large contributor to theological literature. His Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity (9tli ed. 1857, 12mo, reprinted in England and Scotland), delivered in New York University in 1831. were pub- lished by request of the Council, and have gone through many editions. During the early part of the controversy arising out of the Oxford tracts, appeared his Oxford Divinity compared with that of the Roniish and Anf/lican Churches (Phila. 1841, 8vo ; Lend. 1841, 8vo), which the Edinburgh Review recommended as one of the best " con- futations of the Oxford school." In 1854 he published a volume of sermons entitled The Truth and the Life. He also compiled two volumes of Select Family and Parish Sermons (Columbus, Ohio, 1839, 2 vols. 8vo). His other works of a minor character are. The Sinne7''s Justification before God (N.Y. 18mo; Lond. 1851, sq.) :— TAe Holy Catholic Church (Phila. 18mo ; Lond. 1844, 16mo) -.—No Priest, no Altar, no Sacrifice, but Chi-ist (N. Y. 12mo; Lond. r2mo) : — Valedictory Ojfh-ing ; Five Serrhons (1853, 12mo) : — A Word in Season to Candidates for Confirmation : — The Doctrines of the Prot. Epis. Church (IS to Confirmation : — Chief Danger of the Cku7-ch : — The Truth and the Life ; a Series of Twenty-two Discourses (N. Y. 1855, 8vo; Lond. 1855, 8vo ; this volume was published at the request of the Convention of the Dio- cese of Ohio, together with A Memoir of the Rev. Chas. Simeon, both published in New York) ; and contributed articles to the N. Y. ((luarterly) Review, the tfiscojutl (monthly) Observer, the J.ondon (monthly) Christian Observer, the Protestant Chxtrchman (New York), the Ej)iscopal Recorder (Phila.), and the Western Episco- palian (Gambler, Ohio). In 1853 the degree of D.C.L. was conferred on him by the University of Oxford, and in 1858 that of LL.D. by the University of Cambridge. He was distinguished for the soundness and clearness