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Title: The black bearded barbarian; the life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: MacGregor, Mary Esther Millier, 1876- Subjects: Mackay, George Leslie, 1844-1901 Presbyterian Church in Canada Missions Publisher: New York, Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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Text Appearing Before Image: EARDED BARBARIAN with acclaim in his native land, his Formo-san friends welcome was not less warm.Crowds of converts, all his students whowere not too far inland, and among them,Mr. Junor, his face all smiles, were throng-ing the dock, many of them weeping for joy.It was as if a long-absent father had comeback to his children. The work went forward now by leaps andbounds. Mackay s first thought, after a hur-ried visit to the chapels and their congrega-tions, was to see that the hospital and collegewere built. All day long the sound of the builderscould be heard up on the bluff near the mis-sionaries houses, and in a wonderfully shorttime there arose two beautiful, stately build-ings. Mackay hospital they called one, notfor Kai Bok-su—he did not like thingsnamed for him—but in memory of the hus-band of the kind lady who had furnished themoney for it. The school for training youngmen in the ministry was called Oxford Col-lege, in honor of the county whose peoplehad made it possible.

Text Appearing After Image: REENFORCEMENTS 221 Oxford College stood just overlooking theTamsui river, two hundred feet aboveits waters. The building was 116 feet longand 67 feet wide, and was built of small redbricks brought from across the FormosaChannel. A wide, airy hall ran down themiddle of the building, and was used as alecture-room. On either side were roomscapable of accommodating fifty studentsand apartments for two teachers and theirfamilies. There were, besides, two smallerlecture-rooms, a museum filled with treas-ures collected from all over Formosa by Dr.Mackay and his students, a library, a bath-room, and a kitchen. The grounds about the college and hos-pital were very beautiful. Nature had givenone of the finest situations to be found aboutTamsui, and Kai Bok-su did the rest. Theclimate helped him, for it was no great taskto have a luxurious garden in north For-mosa. So, in a few years there were magni-ficent trees and hedges, and always gloriousflower beds abloom all the time around themissionary

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