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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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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    only, but to search, and then he would meet her again in glory! I had several opportunities of bringing before him his mother’s anxiety about his salvation ; but although evidently much impressed he said little, and as he returned to Aberdeen to school I never saw him again. But some twelve years afterwards, in a letter I had from him while I was in New Zealand, he remarks, ‘You have more to do with my coming out'to East Africa than you know of.” From this time forward the Bible became his greatest treasure ; and as he made it his counsellor, and gained skill in the study and use of it, there came to him, and sradually grew upon him, a sense of wonder and admiration at its perfect fitness for his necessities. — 1 “ Many thanks for the copy of the Revised Version of the New Testament. It has a most peculiar interest for me. Perhaps you do not remember that when Bernard Tauchnitz published in Leipzig his 1oooth volume of British authors, viz., the New Testament with notes on the text by Tischendorf, you presented me with a copy. I was attracted by the various readings, and partly from the remembrance of my dear mother’s dying message to ‘search the Scriptures,’ and partly from my curiosity to catch preachers in mistranslated texts, I made myself familiar with it. I next got Alford’s translation. From curiosity and criticism God led me to see the beauty of His own Word, and applied it to my heart. I would never be without my Alford ever since, and my first copy fell to pieces in my hands through constant perusal. Here I got another, and that has served me until now, when through your kindness the Revised Version has reached me, and I anticipate much plea- sure in examining it in every verse and line. It will also be of great service to me in the translation into Luganda.”—Lef/ler fo his father, March 13th, 1882.
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