McKenzie, Alexander

MACKAY, ALEXANDER MURDOCH: Missionary to Uganda; b, at Rhymie (31 m. n.w. of Aberdeen) Oct. 13, 1849; d. at Uganda Feb. 4, 1890. He studied at the Free Church Training School for Teachers at Edinburgh, at Edinburgh University, and in Berlin. He displayed a great aptitude for mechanics, and spent several years as a draftsman in Germany. In 1875 he offered his services as a missionary to the Church Missionary Society, was accepted, reached Zanzibar on his way to his field May 30, 1876, and Uganda in Nov., 1878. There, largely through his knowledge of practical mechanics, he enjoyed the protection of Mutesa; but when Mwanga came to the throne in 1884, Mackay's position becape difficult because of the king's opposition, arid there was little change when Kiwewa succeeded to the throne in 1888. Mackay still held on, however, and it is largely due to his courage, energy, and devotion that the mission in Uganda is in its present flourishing condition (see Africa, II., Uganda). He fell a victim to malarial fever, and succumbed after four days of illness, having spent fourteen years in Africa, without once having visited his native country.

Bibliography: Alexander M. Mackay, Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society in Uganda; by his Sinter, new ed., London, 1899; Alexander Mackay, Missionary Hero of Uganda, ib. 1893.

MACKAY-SMITH, ALEXANDER:. Protestant Episcopal bishop-coadjutor of Pennsylvania; b. at New Haven, Conn., June 2, 1850. He was educated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. (A.B., 1872), and received his theological training partly in the General Theological Seminary and partly in England and Germany. He was ordered deacon in 1876 and advanced to the priesthood in the following year. After being successively curate of Grace Church, Boston (1877-80), and St. Thomas's, New York City (1880-86), he was first archdeacon of New York from 1887 to 1893, and from the latter year to 1902 was rector of St. John's, Washington, D. C. In 1902 he was consecrated bishopcoadjutor of Pennsylvania, after having declined the coadjutor-bishopric of Kansas.

McKENZIE, ALEXANDER: Congregationalist; b, at New Bedford, Mass., Dec. 14, 1830. He wag educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Harvard College (A.B., 1859), and Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1861. Ordained in 1861, he became pastor of the South Church in Augusta, Me., in 1861, and of the First Church in Cambridge, Mass., in 1867. In 1882 he acted as lecturer on theology of the New Testament in Andover Theological Seminary and in Harvard Divinity School. He wrote: Two Boys (Boston, 1870); History of First Church in Cambridge (1873); Cambridge Sermons (1883); Some Things Abroad (1887); Christ Himself (1891); A Door Opened (1898); Divine Force in Life of the World (1899); and Getting One's Bearing (New York, 1903).