From Far Formosa - The Island, Its People and Missions #254966

For several months I was in constant and intimate associa tion with Dr. Mackay, coming into closest touch with him, coming to know him as one is known only to the nearest and most sympathetic friends. To see the man of indomitable en ergy, unflinching courage, and iron will shrink from anything like self-assertion, and yield without dispute to another's judg ment, would be a revelation for which they are not prepared who know him only as a man of speech and action. To see his modest self-effacement, and to know how real his faith is, how personal God is to him, is to grasp the secret of his suc cess. Few men in any age of the church have had a vivider sense of the divine nearness. The God he serves is a pavilion ing presence and a prevailing power in his soul. Such a prophet is Christ's greatest gift to his church. To him there can come no failure whatever ought to be can be.