MACKINTOSH, CHARLES HENRY: Plymouth Brother; b. in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1820;
d. at Cheltenham (7 miles n.e, of Gloucester) Nov. 2, 1896. He was schoolmaster
at Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, for a few years. But for the greater part
of his life he devoted himself to evangelism and pastoral ministry as well
as to religious journalism, as editor of the monthly periodical Things
New and Old; and to religious literature. He was the author of the Notes by
C. H. M, on all the books of the Pentateuch, which enjoyed great popularity,
being sold in enormous quantity, especially in the United States; so that
the initials "C. H. M." under which they were issued were very familiar while
probably the name they stood for was not. Mr. Gladstone commended his English
style; Spurgeon, while dissenting from their "Darbyism," commended the Notes,
especially the volume on Exodus. —EDWARD E. WHITFIELD.
From The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge... New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1910.
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