RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
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not. Mr. Gladstone commended his English style; Spurgeon, while dissenting from their "Darbyism," commended the Notes, especially the volume on Exodus. Edward E. Whitfield.
MACKNIGHT, JAMES: Scotch divine and Biblical scholar; b. at Irvine (10 m. n. of Ayr), Ayrshire, Sept. 17, 1721; d. at Edinburgh Jan. 13, 1800. He was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Leyden; preached for a short time at Gorbals, Renfrewshire; was then assistant minister at Kilwinning, Ayrshire; pastor at Maybole, 1753-69; at Jedburgh, 1769-72; and of Lady Yester's Church, Edinburgh, from 1772 till his death. His fame rests chiefly upon his Harmony of the Gospels, in which the Natural Order of each is Preserved, with a Paraphrase and Notes (2 vols., London, 1756; 7th ed., 1822; Latin transl., 3 vols., Bremen, 1772-79), a work which for over half a century remained the standard. The notes are very copious and make of the work practically a complete life of Christ so far as the knowledge of the period permitted. He also wrote: The Truth of Gospel History (1763; on the evidences for the Gospels); and A New Literal Translation from the Original Greek of all the Apostolical Epistles, with a Commentary and Notes (4 vols., 1795; subsequent editions varying in the number of volumes, those subsequent to 1806 prefaced by a Life by his son; 7th ed., 1843). The last-named work was printed both with and without the Greek text. Bibliography: Besides the Life by his son, ut sup., consult: S. A. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature, ii. 1188-89, Philadelphia, 1891 (cites several varying opinions of Macknight's work); DNB, xxxv. 184-185.
MACLAGAN, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE: Church of England, former archbishop of York, primate of England, and metropolitan; b. at Edinburgh June 18, 1826; d. at London Sept. 19, 1910. He received his early education in Edinburgh, and 1847-52 served in the Indian army, retiring with the rank of lieutenant. He then entered Peterhouse, Cambridge, (B.A., 1856), and was ordered deacon in 1856 and ordained priest in the following year. He was curate of St. Saviour, Paddington, London (1856-58), and St. Stephan's, Marylebone, London (1858-60), after which he was secretary of the London Diocesan Church Building Society for five years (1860- 1865). He was curate in charge of Enfield (1865- 1869), rector of Newington (1869-75), and vicar of Kensington (1875-78), as well as honorary chaplain in ordinary to the queen (1877-78) and prebendary of Reculverland in St. Paul's Cathedral (1878). In 1878 he was consecrated bishop of Lichfield, and was translated in 1891 to the archdiocese of York, from which post he resigned in 1908. He edited, in collaboration with A. Weir, The Church and the Age, Essays on the Principles and Present Position of the Anglican Church (London, 1870), and wrote Pastoral Letters and Synodal Charges (1892).
McLAREN, ALEXANDER: English Baptist; b. in Glasgow Feb. 11, 1826; d. at Edinburgh May 5, 1910. He was educated at Stepney (Regent's Park) College, London, and was minister of Portland
Chapel, Southampton, 1846-58. He was then pastor, later pastor emeritus, of Union Chapel, Manchester, and in 1909 retired and moved to Scotland. He wrote: Sermons Preached in Manchester (3 series; London, 1864-73); Week-Day Evening Addresses (1877); The Life of David as Reflected in his Psalms (1880); The Secret of Power, and other Sermons (1882); A Year's Ministry (1884); Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon (1887); Modern Miracles: Manifestation of God's Love and Power (1888); The Unchanging Christ, and other Sermons (1889); Holy of Holies (sermons on the Gospel of John; 1890); God of the Amen, and other Sermons (1891); Gospel of St. Luke (1892); Gospel of Matthew (2 vols., 1892); Gospel of John (1893; in 3 vols., 1907); Gospel of Mark (1893); The Wearied Christ, and other Sermons (1893); Acts of the Apostles (1894; in 2 vols., 1907); Christ's Musts, and other Sermons (1894); The Beatitudes, and other Sermons (1896); Triumphant Certainties and other Sermons (1896); The Victor's Crown (sermons; 1897); Leaves from the Tree of Life (1899); A Rosary of Christian Graces (1899); After the Resurrection (1902); Last Sheaves (sermons; 1903); The Book of Genesis (1904); Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah (2 vols., 1905-06); The Books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth and I Samuel (1906); The Books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers (1906); The Second Book of Samuel and the Books of Kings to II Kings vii. (1907); Pulpit Prayers (1907); and Expositions of Holy Scripture (6 vols., 1908); and other volumes, including Psalms in The Expositor's Bible (3 vols., London, 1893-94) and Pulpit Prayers (1909).
MACLAY, ROBERT SAMUEL: Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Concord, Pa., Feb. 7, 1824. He was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. (A.B., 1845). In 1847 he went to China as a missionary, and was stationed first at Foochow, whence he was transferred to Japan in 1872. In both these countries he took an active part in translating the New Testament, besides being secretary and treasurer in both missions. He was one of the founders of the Anglo-Chinese College at Foochow in 1881 and of the Anglo-Japanese College at Tokyo in 1883, and also established the Philander Smith Biblical Institute in the latter city in 1882. In 1884 he began mission work in Korea by permission of the king. He was likewise president of the Anglo- Japanese College from 1883 to 1887 and dean of the Philander Smith Biblical Institute from 1884 to 1887, as well as delegate from Japan to both the Ecumenical Methodist Conference at London in 1881 and the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New York in 1888. From 1888 to his retirement from active life in 1893 he was dean of the Maclay College of Theology, San Fernando, Cal. Besides contributing the sections on the Japanese mission of his denomination to J. M. Reid's Missions and Missionary Societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church (2 vols., New York, 1879) and on Shintoism to the same theologian's Doomed Religions (1882), he has written: Life among the Chinese (New York, 1861) and Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Dialect of Foochow (in collaboration with C. C. Baldwin; Foochow, 1871).
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