RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
McAuley M'Cabe
his secretaryship: In 1862: 150 members, two small rented rooms, and an annual expenditure of $1,700; in 1897: 7,309 membership, work conducted at fifteen points, nine buildings valued at $2,000,000, annual budget $175,000.
McBurney was for thirty years a member of the Y. M. C. A. International Committee; and as its corresponding member he in 1866 called the first New York State convention which he for three years served as president. He was seven times a delegate to the triennial World's Conference, held in Europe; in 1871 he was one of the founders and till his death was a leader of the Association of General Secretaries of North America. He was active outside of the association; he was a lifelong member and for many years an official of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church; from 1867 an active member of the executive committee of the Evangelical Alliance. Besides these activities, he was an active participant and director in many enterprises and institutions directed to philanthropic and religious ends. He was not a college graduate, but he read widely and carefully. He was a close student of the Bible and a successful teacher. He traveled extensively in America, visited Europe many times, and made a tour of Egypt and the Holy Land. He was distinguished for his sturdy Scotch character, strong common sense, energy, tact, and executive ability, with an integrity and conscientiousness that were never questioned. He was above all a lover of young men and his largehearted and practical sympathy never failed. Perhaps no other man in his generation touched and helped so many young men. Richahd C. Morse.
Bibliography: L. L. Doggett, Life of Robert R. McBurney, Cleveland, O., 1902.
McCABE, CHARLES CARD WELL: Methodist Episcopal bishop, better known as Chaplain Mc- Cabe; b. at Athens, O., Oct. 11, 1836; d. in New York City Dec. 19, 1906. He entered Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., in 1854, but did not complete the course, which he frequently interrupted to do evangelistic work. His health gave way and on his recovery he taught the high school at Ironton, 0., 1858-60. He joined the Ohio conference and was ordained deacon Sept. 23, 1860, and appointed to Putnam, since incorporated into the city of Zanesville, O. He pleaded the Union cause so vigorously and successfully that it was largely owing to him that the 122d regiment of Ohio Volunteers was raised. He was ordained elder at Zanesville Sept. 7, 1862, and appointed chaplain of the regiment on Oct. 8, 1862. He proved himself efficient; indeed has been styled " the most popular and distinguished chaplain " in the volunteer army. He was during the rest of his life called " chaplain," whatever other designation his office entitled him to. On June 16, 1863, he was captured on the field of battle at Gettysburg, Pa., and sent by Major General J. A. Early to Libby Prison, Richmond. He did much to relieve the tedium of confinement, showed himself indefatigable in getting up entertainments, a son of consolation to the downcast, and ardent in impressing religious truth upon his associates. But
on Sept. 25 he came down with typhoid fever and was very ill. In October he was exchanged and allowed to leave the prison. He resigned his chaplaincy, Jan. 8, 1864, received his commission as a delegate of the United States Christian Commission (Mar. 29, 1864) and was one of its most active members. '' Whether pleading for money throughout the North or singing (he had a remarkable gift of song) and preaching to the soldiers in Southern camps, he was equally happy and successful." At the close of the war he was appointed (Sept., 1865) to Spencer Chapel in Portsmouth, O., and had a series of revivals until he left it to be centenary agent of Ohio Wesleyan University in 1866. He exhibited great ability as a money-raiser and was continuously employed by his denomination for this purpose. In 1868 he was elected financial agent of the Church Extension Society, in 1872 the title was dropped and he was elected assistant corresponding secretary. In 1884 he was elected secretary of the missionary society of his church. He stirred great enthusiasm by proposing that the society should raise a million dollars for missions, foreign and domestic, in 1885. Unsuccessful in the first effort, although nearly $96,000 advance had been made, he renewed the effort and reached his point in 1887 In 1896 he was elected a bishop. To this office he brought his great popularity and tireless energy, his spiritual enthusiasm and Evangelical fervor. He did noteworthy service in Mexico and South America in 1899-1902. In Dec, 1902, he was elected chancellor of the American University. But under this accumulation of duties and under the strain of trying to finance his gigantic schemes he sank and died of apoplexy. He was able to raise large sums by his lecture, frequently repeated and yet never wholly repeated, " The Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison."
Bibliography: F. M. Bristol, The Life of Chaplain McCabe, New York, 1908 (it contains a summary of the famous lecture) .
M'CABE, JOSEPH: English ex-Franciscan; b. at Macclesfield (15 m. s.e. of Manchester), Cheshire, Nov. 11, 1867. He was educated at St. Francis' College, Manchester (1883-84), Holy Trinity, Killarney (1884-85), St. Anthony's, London (1885-91), and the University of Louvain (1893-94). In 1891 he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood and appointed professor of scholastic philosophy at St. Anthony's College, London, where he taught in 1891-93 and 1894-95. In 1895-96 he was rector of St. Bernardine's College, Buckingham, but in the latter year abandoned the Church on account of his adoption of agnostic views, and since that time has been a private secretary, lecturer, journalist, and author. Besides translating E. Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe (London, 1900); Wonders of Life (1904); Evolution of Man (1905); and Last Words on Evolution (1906); F. K. C. Btichner's Last Words on Materialism (1901); and W. Bolsche's Haeckel (1906), he has written From Rome to Rationalism (London, 1896) ; Modern Rationalism (1897); Twelve Years in a Monastery (1897); Life in a modern Monastery ( 1898); Can we Disarm? (1899); The Religion of the Twentieth Century (1899); Peter Abe-
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