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of all Scripture," an Act Sermon preached in the chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, June, 1860 ; " The Gospel and the Age," preached at the ordination in Whitehall Chapel, 1860 ; and " The Church's Fear and the Church's Hope," preached in Wells Cathedral, 1864. At Oxford Dr. .Magee on several occasions preached one of the Lent lectures, and in Aug., 1861, he delivered a powerful address to the clergy at Eadley on '* The Belation of the Atonement to the Divine Justice." At Cambridge, and in London too, he very frequently took part in preaching and speak- ing on behalf of church societies, and published several lectures delivered at their meetings on "Scepticism," "Baxter and his Times," " The Uses of Prophecy." The Bishop of Bath and Wells con- ferred on Dr. Magee the honorary rank of Prebendary of Wells some time before he left Bath. In 1860 he succeeded Dean Goulbum as minister of Quebec Chapel, London, and in the following Feb. he was appointed to the rectory of Ennis- killen by the University of Dublin. In 1864 he was appointed Dean of Cork, and shortly afterwards Dean of the Chapel Eoyal, Dublin. He was appointed Donnellan Lecturer for 1865-66, a position in Dublin analogous to that of Bampton Lec- turer at Oxford. Dr. Magee was frequently selected as one of the special preachers at St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey, and the Chapel Eoyal, Whitehall, as well as at Windsor, before Her Majesty. He was also selected, in 1868, to preach before the British Associa- tion at Norwich and the Church Congress at Dublin. Both these sermons were published, under the resi)ective titles of " The Christian Theory of the Origin of the Chris- tian Life," and "The Breaking Net." Dr. M^igee was appointed Bishop of Peterborough in 1868, on the death of Dr. Jeune, beinff, it is said, the only Trinity Cofiege

Dublin man ever appointed to an English see. Bishop Magee has from time to time taken part in the debates of the House of Lords, and his speech against the Bill for the disestablishment of the Irish Church was a remarkable specimen of imi>a8sioned eloquence. Four sermons preached by him at Nor- wich, in " Defence and Confirma- tion of the Faith," attracted much attention, and were translated into several continental languages. In 1871 he delivered and published a "Charge," in which he treats of the Athanasian Creed with great force and ability. He presided over the Church Congress at Lei- cester in 1880.

MAGUIEE, The Rev. Egbert, M.A., son of William Maguire, Esq., Inspector of Taxes of the city of Dublin, born in that city in 1826, was educated at Trinity College^ Dublin, where he graduated in first-class honours in 1846, as a moderator and' medallist of his class. Having been ordained, he held the curacy of St. Nicholas, Cork, from 1849 till 1852, when he became Clerical Secretaj^r of the Islington Protestant Institute. He was appointed Sunday afternoon Lecturer of St. Luke's, Old Street, in 1856; Vicar of Clerkenwell in 1857; and Early Morning Lec- turer at St. Swithin's, London Stone, in 1864. After the Fenian Explosion at Clerkenwell (Dec. 18, 1867) Mr. Maguire was appointed Chairman of the Belief Committee, which raised upwards of J£10,000 for the relief of the sufferers. In June, 1875, the Queen, on the reoommen- dation of Mr. Disraeli, presented him to the rectory of St. Olave's, Southwark. He has written several controversial and other religions works, including "Perversion and Conversion ; or. Cause and Effect," 1854; "The Seven Churches of Asia," 1857 ; "Expository Lectures on Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress,'" 1859 ; " Things Present and Things to Come," 18S)> since re-issued (2nd