McLean, Charles G., D.D., a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Armagh County, Ireland, Jlarch 17, 1787 ; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1808, and studied theology under the Rev. Dr. John M. Ma- son, of the Associate' Reformed Church ; was licensed in 1812, and ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church near Gettysburg, Pa., during which pastorate he became an Independent. In 1844 he accepted a call from the Reformed Dutch Church at Fort Plains, N. Y., and in 1852 emigrated to the West, and, in connection with his son-in-law. established a female seminary at Indianapo- lis. Ind. He died July 4, 1860. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1861, p. 101.' (.L L. S.)
McLeod, Alexander, D.D., a minister of the Reformed Presbvterian Church, was born in the Island of Mull June 1 2,"l 774. H is father and grandfather were ministers of the Church of Scotland. In 1792 he came to America and entered Union CoUege, where he gradu- ated in 1798. In 1799 he was licensed by the Keformed Presbytcrv at Coldcnham, and in 1801 was installed pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church. His first publication was Ket/ro JSlarcri/ Unjustifiable (N. Y. 1802). In 1803 appeared Messiah <iovernina the Na- tions; in l^id. Ecclesiastical Catechism: — The Gospel
Ministri/: Lectures on the Prophecies: — Sermons on the
War:— Life and Poorer of True Godliness. He was the chief organizer of the American Colonization Soci-
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ety in 1816, and wrote its constitution. During his pas- toral career he received various calls to other churches, to colleges, and to editorships ; but he declined them all, and remained in his charge until his death, Feb. 17, 1833. See Wiley (Sam. B.), Memoir of A . McLeod, D.D. (N. Y. 1855, 8vo); Wilson, Prcsi. Ilisf. Almanac, 18G-2, p. 261 ; Sprague, Annals of ike Amcr. Pulpit, ix, 9 sq.
McLeod, Cornelius, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born about 1820; joined the Church when but a boy ; entered the South Carolina Conference in 1837, and for nearly tliirty years labored I'aithfully and zealously for the cause of the lledeemer. His last appointment was Kichland Fork Mission. He died April 9, 1866. " McLeod was a successful laborer, and was much beloved by those for whom he labored. Remarkably amiable, he won without effort the affec- tions of those with whom he was associated ; and now, though he has passed away, he lives in the hearts of his people." — Covference Minutes of the M.E. Church South, iii, 17.
McLeod, Norman, D.D., one of the most noted Scotch divines of our day, was born at Campbelltown, Argyleshire, June 3, 1812. He was early destined for the ministr}' by his father, who was at the time of Nor- man's birth parish minister of Campbellto-\vn, and Nor- man was to make the fourth generation of the McLeods in the ministry of the Scotch Kirk. To fit him properly for the responsible position he was to occupy in the near future, his father accepted a parish near Glasgow, and Norman made his preparatory studies for college at Glasgow. His academic education he obtained at Edin- burgh, and he then travelled for some time in Germany and the northern countries of Europe. On his return to Scotland he studied theology at Edinburgh, enjoying especially the counsel and instruction of the celebrated Dr. Chalmers. He was licensed to preach in 1838, and " with the Norse tongue in him, and a vigorous Celtic im- agination," he soon found a ]iarish ready to receive him, and was ordained pastor of Loudon, in Ayrshire. Here he labored faithfully until 1843, the year so eventful to the Scotch Kirk. See Scotland. Though Norman McLeod had been a pupil of Dr. Chalmers, and greatly esteemed the doctor, he refused to leave the establish- ment, and even opposed the Free Church movement. In consequence of this decision to remain a Churchman many offers of promotion came to his door, and he finally accepted the parish of Dalkeith, where he resided un- til 1851, when he was called to the Barony Church of Glasgow, whither he removed, and " substantiall}' began the real work of his life," among a membership of from eleven to twelve hundred adults, who by his guidance not only walked themselves in the path of righteous- ness, but were the means of promoting Christian holi- ness and ameliorating the condition of the poor and the forsaken. " Commonly," says his biographer, Dr. Wal- ter C. Smith (in Good \Vo)-ds, Aug. 1872, p. 513), " he preached thrice every Sabbath, besides conducting a large class of his own ; and his preaching was no mere stringing together of theological commonjilaces, but the expression of earnest thought about the highest things, full of practical help and counsel for living men. . . . Neither did he regard his congregation merely as a company of people to be preached to, but rather as a body of men whom he had to lead unto every good work." Aside from his parish work, extended as it was far beyond the labor usually performed by three minis- ters, he edited for ten years the Edinhurc/h Christian Magazine, a periodical of the old religious type, which, while it existed, did much good to the people who read it, but proved a heavy loss lioth to publisher and editor. In spite of McLeod's conncctinn with this literar}- vent- ure, Mr. Strahan, the noted British publisher, hesitated not to court the services of Dr. McLeod when in 1860 the publication of Good Woi-ds was projected. The manner in which the doctor replied to the invitation is well worthy of the Christian minister of Glasgow (comp.