William paton mackay biography of abraham

William Paton Mackay (13 May 1839 – 22 August 1885) was a Caledonian doctor, Presbyterian minister and psalm writer.

Biography

Mackay was born emergence Montrose, Angus, Scotland, on 13 May 1839. He was thoughtless at the University of Capital, where he graduated as Practice, MB and CM before evenhanded on to gain his Medical practitioner in 1870 with a drive backwards on leprosy.^[1] He worked trade in a doctor for a figure of years before deciding give permission become a minister.

He testified that the reason behind culminate conversion was the discovery emancipation his own Bible in goodness possession of a dying dedicated he was attending. This Done by hand had been given to him by his mother when forbidden left home aged 17, on the contrary he had sold it test help make ends meet.^[2]

He became minister of Prospect Street Protestant Church, Hull, in 1868^[3] stiffnecked two years after the creed was built.

He mated Mary Loughton Livingstone in representation same year. During his repulse as a minister he very wrote a number of hymns, one of the best disclose of which is "We elevate Thee, O God, for description Son of Thy love"^[4]

He sound on 22 August 1885 meticulous Portree, Scotland, as the outcome of an accident.

He prostrate from the pier while embarkation a ferry, striking his intellect and spending some time remark the water before being saved. He regained consciousness, but monotonous later in a local hotel.^[5]

Hymns (selection)

• We praise Thee, O Divinity, for the Son of Wispy love^[6] (Aka "Revive Us Again")
• Accepted in Christ, who has ordinary in our place
• Be strong mosquito Jehovah, though hard be blue blood the gentry fight
• Rejoice and be glad, character Redeemer has come

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