Alexander Mackay, pioneer missionary Africa - Missionary Biographiesmissionary biographiesby Eugene Myers Harrison. After many perilous and harrowing experiences, Alexander Mackay, a young Scotsman, at. Lake Victoria, in Central Africa—Uganda. Henry M. Stanley, as "the pearl of Africa.". The young Scotch missionary was eager to win as a Christian the powerful King M'tesa [or Mutesa]. Uganda and over the people known as Waganda [or Baganda]. Soon. after his arrival at the capital, he wrote in his diary of an important appearance.
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Sunday, January 2. Held service in court. Read Matthew 1. 1: 1- 3.
Jesus and John the Baptist. The spirit of God seemed to be working. I never had such. The young missionary's favorite Bible character was John the Baptist, and he. Matthew 3: 3 and other passages which tell of the prophet's commission to. Saviour."Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before.
Jesus stated it, quoting from Malachi. In the words of the angel, "He shall go before him .. Lord."In the words of Zacharias, "Thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to. As announced by John the Baptist himself, "The voice of one crying in. Prepare ye the way of the Lord" (Matthew 3: 3). To King M'tesa. [photo of Kabaka Mutesa I, who reigned from 1. When, in ancient days, the people failed.
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God and continued in their sinful ways, God determined. His only Son to earth to redeem sinners and sent John the Baptist to prepare. His coming. I am here, O King, to prepare a way for the coming of God's. Son and I want you to join me in pointing the people of this land to the Lamb of God. The white man, however, was not the only person who appeared before the king and. Into the audience chamber walked a tall. Arab in flowing robes and a red fez, followed by a number of black men.
I have come," said. Arab, pointing to the bales on the floor, "to exchange these things for men. I will give you one of these links of red cloth for one man. The missionary knew that the king was accustomed to sell his own people, as well. He could see that the cruel and ambitious king was especially. Should the missionary risk the king's disfavor, and even hazard his own.
He remembered that, though it cost him. John the Baptist did not hesitate to reprove a king. Nerved by this. courageous example, the white man declared: "O King M'tesa, the people of this land made you their king and look to you as. Will you sell your children, knowing that they will be chained, put into.
Can you be a party to these. Will you sell scores or hundreds of your people. God, for a few bolts of. The Arab slave- dealer scowled. If only he could plunge his dagger into the white.
No man had ever dared talk to the king like this before and the chiefs. M'tesa would imprison the bold foreigner or perhaps. Instead, he dismissed the angry Arab and announced, "The white. I shall no more sell my people as slaves."With joyful, grateful heart the missionary went to his hut. Later the same day he. Afternoon. The King sent a message with present of a goat. I read today.""A blessed passage!" said M'tesa, the heathen king of Uganda, thinking.
God's Son."A blessed passage!" agreed Alexander Mackay, to whom the passage. Indeed, the purpose of his life, as he conceived it, was. Christian road- maker, preparing a way for the coming of Christ. I. The Road- Maker's Call to Make a Highway for the Gospel in Africa.
Alexander Mackay was born in Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, October 1. He was a. bright, earnest lad and early surrendered his heart to Christ. His father and mother. He loved the long. Carey and Martyn, Moffat and Livingstone.
Very early the lad began to show unusual interest in mechanics. When a small boy he. Free Church of Rhynie, and it. Well, laddie, gaen to gie us a sermon the day?" He would reply, "Give me a trowel. The villagers were one day startled to see Mr. Mackay, the minister of the Free. Church, and his thirteen- year- old son gazing down at the road, while the father drew.
Fat's the minister glowerin' at, wi' his loon Alec, in the dust o' the. If they had been near enough, they would have heard the father saying: "You see. Alec, this is the Zambesi River, and here, running into it from the north is the Shire. Here is where Livingstone was surrounded by infuriated savages.
There he met a slave. That was all very thrilling to young Alec, but the next day he walked four miles. Alec trudged homeward as soon as the train had. When he got back to Rhynie he had walked eight miles in order to look at.
He liked to linger around the. Thirteen years went by, during which he completed a two year's teaching course. Aberdeen, made a thorough study of. Germany for further study. He had read avidly all he could. David Livingstone, and on the anniversary of that great man's.
Livingstone died—a Scotsman and a. Christian—loving God and his neighbor, in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do. likewise.'"But how could he ever go to Africa? What could an engineer do there? As he was. pondering these questions in Berlin on the night of December 1. Edinburgh Daily Review which home- folks had sent him and read.
Because of its author, the place. It was written by the daring. Henry M. Stanley, in Ulagalla, Uganda, April 1. King M'tesa. More than seven months transpired before it appeared in the Daily. Telegraph of London and then in other papers.
When one thinks of its history in. England at all. It is the story of a pair of boots, owned and worn by a Frenchman, Colonel Linant de.
Ballefonds, to whom Stanley entrusted the letter. Marching northward from Uganda, the. Frenchman and his caravan were proceeding along the bank of the River Nile, when they. Gondokoro by a band of savage tribesmen. Having killed the.
Frenchman, they heartlessly left his body lying unburied on the sand, where it was. English soldiers who happened to pass that way. Before. burying the Frenchman, they pulled off his long knee boots and in one of them found. Stanley's letter, stained with the dead man's blood. They forwarded it to the English. General in Egypt, who sent it on to the newspaper office in London.
This was the letter which attracted Mackay's attention that cold December night in. In part it read as follows: "King M'tesa of Uganda has been asking me about the white man's God .. Oh that. some practical missionary would come here!
M'tesa would welcome such. It is the. practical Christian who can cure their diseases, build dwellings and turn his hand to. Such a one, if he can be found, would. Africa."How marvelous, thought Mackay, that the king of Uganda desires a missionary and. Being just that sort of.
Livingstone and Stanley, this was for him a call from on high. Immediately he wrote to the Church Missionary Society: "My heart burns for the. Africa, and if you can send me to any of those regions which Livingstone. Stanley have found to be groaning under the curse of the slave- hunter, I shall. Within four months Mackay, along with seven other young missionary volunteers, was. Zanzibar and Uganda, saying: "I go to prepare the way by.
He had given his best, his. Christ in the Dark Continent. II. Making a Road through the Jungles of Heathen. Superstition. After securing large supplies of necessary equipment, the missionaries set out. Zanzibar on an overland journey of eight hundred miles to the south end of Lake. Victoria. Mackay was smitten down with a severe attack of fever and returned to the.
Lake and put together the Daisy, the. Uganda. Having recovered, Mackay undertook to build a wagon road from the coast to Mpwapwa.
He writes: "Imagine a forest of lofty, slender trees, with a cop. Through it winds a path. Now the. densest jungle has yielded to the slashing strokes of a score of Snider sword bayonets.
This was to Mackay something more than an ordinary road. His vision is indicated by. This," he states, "will certainly yet be a. King Himself; and all that pass this way will come to know His Name."The jungle through which the missionary had cut his road was symbolic of the dark. Lake Victoria, which was larger in area than. Scotland and famed as the source of the Nile River. The people lived in.
Every person wore charms on his. Every calamity—such as famine. A Waganda would usually wear a. Mackay sought to teach the Waganda from God's word the evil of practicing or. He also sought to give practical demonstrations on the. One day he bought a very potent charm and said to a crowd. Since I bought this charm, it is mine and I can do with it as I.
I?""Yes, indeed," they answered."Will it burn?" he asked."Oh, no. But you better not try it. The god will be very angry."By means of a small lens and some wood, Mackay soon had a blazing fire. Now. let us see if there is magic power in this thing," he remarked, putting the charm. It was soon reduced to ashes, whereupon half the crowd ran away in. Upon the death of the king's mother, Namasole, Mackay was requested to build three.
He. undertook to do this in order to increase his influence with the king and people. He. also hoped to have opportunity in this connection to point out the futility of belief. Christ. When, after many days of hard work, he produced the three coffins, beautifully. White- Man- of- Work. On the day of the funeral, about $7.
A little later at a baraza—a council of the king and his court—a. Africa. Some told of. Masudi, an Arab, began to describe how. M'tesa's grandfather died, his father had thousands of victims slaughtered at. Don't mention such things," said Mackay. They are too cruel to be.
M'tesa of today." Turning to the king, he spoke of the. Namasole was buried and of the vast quantity of valuable. Then he continued: "But all that fine cloth and all those. So in Christian countries we say it matters little in. But it matters what becomes of the.
Your people live all their lives in fear of witches and wizards, and at death. Let me have only an old bark cloth and nothing.
I would not exchange my place for all the wealth and. Kyambalango. Why is this? Because all. their greatness will pass away and their souls are lost in the darkness of belief in. I know that my soul is saved by Jesus Christ, God's Son.