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MACMILLAN, HUGH: United Free Church of Scotland; b. at Aberfeldy (22 m. n.w. of Perth) Sept. 17, 1833; d. in Edinburgh May 24, 1903. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was minister at Kirkmichael (1859-64), Glasgow (1864-78), and Greenock (1878-98). He made his reputation by his first two books, Footnotes from the Page of Nature, or First Forms of Vegetation (Cambridge, 1861), and Bible Teachings in Nature (London, 1866), of which 30,000 copies had been sold in Great Britain up to 1907, and which had been translated into French, German, Italian, Danish, and Norwegian,, and reprinted and widely sold in America. In these two books he first revealed his ability to interest persons in his favorite theme, the intimate relations between the natural and the spiritual. This was the theme of many subsequent volumes, some of which were travels and many of which were collections of sermons and essays. Of these may be mentioned: Holidays in High Lands, or Rambles and Incidents in Search of Alpine Plants (1869); The Sabbath of the Fields (1876); Two Worlds are Ours (1880); Roman Mosaics (1888); Gleanings in Holy Fields (1899); his book of verse, The Christmas Rose (1901); his two volumes of collected addresses to children; The Gate Beautiful (1891), and The Corn of Heaven (1901); posthumous were Rothiemurchua (1907), and The Isles and the Gospel (1907, with a prefatory memoir by George A. Macmillan).

M'NEILL, JOHN: Mission Preacher; b. at Houston (11 m. w, of Glasgow), Renfrewshire, July 7, 1854. He received his early education in the Free Church schools at Houston and Inverkip, after which he was in the railway service from 1869 to 1877. In the latter year he resolved to prepare for the ministry, and studied successively at Edinburgh University (1877-80), Glasgow University (1880-$1), and Free Church Divinity Hall, Glasgow (1881--85). In 1886 he was ordained to the ministry and became pastor of M'Crie-Roxburgh Free Church, Edinburgh, where he remained until 1889, when he went to London as minister of Regent Square Presbyterian Church. In 1892 he left the regular ministry to become a mission preacher, and in this capacity traveled throughout Great Britain, in addition to visiting India, South Africa, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, the United Staten, and Canada. In 1908 he became pastor of Christ Church (Congregational), London. He has written: Sermons (3

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vols., London, 1890-91); The Brazen Serpent, and other Addresses (1893); and The Lord our Shepherd, and other Addresses (1898).

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