A.M. MacKay, pioneer missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda / by his sister ; with etched portrait by H. Manesse.

  • Alexina Mackay Harrison
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A.M. MacKay, pioneer missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda / by his sister ; with etched portrait by H. Manesse. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a him attention on the holidays could seldom induce him to join their young people in little excursions into the country, as he was invariably either getting initiated in the art of photography in Gordon’s photo- graphic saloon, or busily engaged in watching the workmen in one of the large shipbuilding yards to which he had contrived to gain admission. Little did any one think then how the observations he made in that yard, Saturday after Saturday, would one day help to further the Master’s Kingdom on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza! In the early summer of 1865, the boy sustained a ereat loss in the death of his dear mother; and as “knowledge by suffering entereth,” he felt then for the first time the influences of Divine love warming his heart. In connection with this event, a godly relative, who proved herself a ministering angel to the stricken family, writes: ‘“ Twenty-five years have come and gone, and much has transpired in my life since then; but I shall never forget the mother’s earnest prayers for her boy—more than for any of the rest of the family. He was the only one absent from home at the time, and she seemed to fear that his abilities and attractive manners would become a snare to him. As she felt death approaching, she charged me to give him her Bagster’s Bible (her husband’s wedding gift), and to write on it certain portions to be especially studied. When he came to the funeral, I gave him the Bible and her dying message—to ‘search the Scriptures, not to read
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