Contemporary Review, 1872, July, p. 29 sq.). The suc- cess of Good Wcmls as a literary venture has been al- most unprecedented in the annals of magazine literature. " Wherever the English language is read it has famil- iarized the people with the great leaders of theological thought; has br9ught into the cottage specimens of the pencil of the most eminent artists ; has diffused sound information on secular truth; and has been the means of introducing to the poor, poets of eminence and writ- ers of wholesome fiction. Its pages, too, were often graced with the kindly productions of the editor's own l)en. Blany of his works, now published in book form, and of deservedly high popidarity, first appeared in Good Words.^'' A recognition of his able services caine to Dr. McLeod in his later years from a quarter where, as a member of the Church outside the Anglicait establish- ment, he could hardly have expected so mucli — we refer to his appointment, upon the death of Dr. llobert Lee, to the chaplaincy to the queen of England, a honor which never before fell to the lot of any Scotch minis- ter except William Carstairs. In the midst of these varied labors, while still in fullest sympathy with the great life that stirred around him, and full of hope for its progress, and doing his full share of the task, death came upon him, June 16, 1872, causing a loss deeply felt not onh' by his own Church, but by all evangelical denominations, by the rich and the poor, the high and the low ; for it must be borne in mind that his genial, great, noble nature made its influence felt everywhere ; and " he considered no work foreign to him if it could be called his Master's business." "Perhaps no other minister of the Church of Scotland was so generally be- loved or exercised so potent an influence for good. His charity was remarkable. He extended the hearty hand of fellowship to men of all sects believing in Jesus Christ and him crucified. In the pulpit his utterances were peculiarly fresh and eloquent; and reproof and in- struction, conveyed in a spirit of love, came home with striking effect to men's business and bosoms. He had a holy horror of shams in whatever guise they might be presented ;" and we do not wonder that the man who is most competent to speak of him is constrained to say that Dr. Norman McLeod was '• the most manly man" he ever knew ; " the most genial, the most many-sided, and yet the least angular" (John Strahan, publisher of Good Words, in Contemporary Revietc, July, 1872, p. 291 sq.). " Norman McLeod," continues Mr. Strahan, "was no mere paper, and pidpit, and platform good man, put- ting all his goodness into books, and sermons, and speeches. Where ho was best known — known as stand- ing the crucial test of the 'dreary intercourse of daily life' — there he was most respected and beloved. Glas- gow had known him for many a year as a most unpre- tentious and yet most indefatigable worker for his brethren's weal in this life and beyond this life; and money-making Glasgow struck work in the middle of the week to show that it felt it had lost its best citizen." It should not be omitted here that Dr. IMcLeod strove hard to advance the cause of the Indian Mission scheme of the Church of Scotland by not only obtaining for it the contributions "of the Church, but by inducing men of high Christian and educational attainments to under- take the work of preaching the tJospel to the people of India. He himself visited India only a short time bc- f(ire his death to inquire into the success of the Mission and to advance its interests more ably. His last speech before the last Assembly he attended was to revive the mission zeal of the Church. (J. H.W.)
McLeod, Xavier Donald, a Roman Catholic priest, was bcjrn in New York about 1821, and was the son of the celebrated I'resbyterian divine. Dr. Alexander iMcLeod. He was educated at Columbia College ; studied theology ; took orders in the Episcopal Church in 1845 ; sailed for Europe in 1850, and while abroad embraced Roman Catholicism. After his return to this country he devoted himself to the publication of several works of a secular natiure, besides a Life of Mary Queen of
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Scots (1857). About 1860 he became professor of belles- lettres at Mount St. Mary's College, near Cincinnati; subsequently entered the pricstliood, and died in Au- gust, 1SI)5. — Xcw Amer. Ci/clop. 18G.5, p. G-18.
McLoughlin, F. T., a Roman Catholic priest, was born in the parish of Aglia, Upper Canada, in 1836; was educated at the College of St. Michael, Toronto; studied for the priesthood in the Seminary of St. Mary's, Baltimore, Md. ; was ordained priest in Brooklyn for that diocese; died in New York Aug. 3, 1863. '-lie won, by his attention to the best interests of his people, the sincere admiration of all." — Xew A me?: Cyclop. 1865, p. 645.
McLure, Daniel Miltox, a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born near Flat Rock, S. C, Dec. 1835; pursued his studies at Davidson College, N. C, and subsequent- ly at Oglethorpe University, Ga. (class of 1858) ; stud- ied divinity in the theological seminary at Columbia, S. C. ; and in 1861 was licensed to preach, and supplied a Church in Alabama. In 1.S64 he was regularly ordained and installed pastor of ^yilliamsburg Church, and died Oct. 25, 1865. Mr. McLure's mind was of more than or- dinary strength ; independence and clearness character- ized his thoughts, deliberation and study formed his opinions. See "Wilson, Fresh. Hist. Almanac, 1867. p. 447. (.J. L. S.)