Excerpt from Memorials of Parents and Grandparents: With a Sermon on Christ's Love to the Church Without any further doubt he prepared to leave the land of his birth to seek a home in the wilds of America. He came outwith his family in 1830 and settled in West Zorra, where through industry, patience and perseverance, they soon had a comfortable home hewu out of the dense forest. John Mackay was straight and over six feet tall, and though he never learned to read, was nevertheless an intelligent man a man of deep thought and an eloquent speaker. He was often chosen a chairman in political meetings and on one occasion at Woodstock, was the only man who would attempt publicly to answer Hon. Francis Hincks and to support the needed reforms. He reared a God-fearing, intelligent family and was a wise ruler as elder in the Presbyterian Church and, though forty years have passed away since his death, there are still many who can call to mind his eloquent addresses in religious meetings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.