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MACLAGAN, WILLIAM DALRYMPLE: Church of England, former archbishop of York, primate of England, and metropolitan; b. at Edinburgh June 18, 1826. He received his early education is his native city, and from 1847 to 1852 served in the Indian army, retiring with the rank of lieutenant. He then entered Peterhouae, Cambridge (B.A., 1856), and was ordered deacon in 1856 and or dained priest in the following year. He was cur ate of St. Saviour, Paddington, London (18b6--58), and St. Stephen's, Marylebone, London (18580), after which he was secretary of the London Dioc esan Church Building Society for five years (1860 1865). He was then curate in charge of Enfield (18659), 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 arch diocese of York, from which post he resigned in 1908. In addition to editing, in collaboration with A. Weir, The Church and the Age, Essays on the Prin ciples and Present Position of the Anglican Church (London, 1870), he has written Pastoral Letters and Synodal Charges (1892).

MCLAREN, ALEXANDER: English Baptist; b. in Glasgow Feb. 11, 1826. He was educated at Stepney (now Regent's Park) College, London, and from 1846 to 1858 was minister of Portland

Chapel, Southampton. He then served as pastor, later as pastor emeritus, of Union Chapel, Manchester, and in 1909 retired and moved to Scotland. He has written: Sermons Preached ire Manchester (3 series; London, 1864-73); Week-Day Evening Addreasea (1877); The Life of David as Reftected 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 her Sermons (1889); Holy of Holier (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 Senrwna (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, rhcdgea, Ruth and 1 Samuel (1906); The Books of Exodus, Letiticus, and Numbers (1906); The Second Book of Samuel and the Books of Kings to 11 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).

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