Editing George MacDonald (section)

==Early career ==
[[File:Former Trinity Congregational Chapel (now Nineveh House), Arundel (NHLE Code 1277924).JPG|thumb|MacDonald was the pastor of [[Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel]] from 1850.]]
MacDonald was appointed minister of [[Trinity Congregational Church, Arundel|Trinity Congregational Church]], [[Arundel]], in 1850,<ref name="PoemHunter" /><ref name="WheatonCollege" /> after briefly serving as a locum minister in Ireland.<ref name=":0" /> However, his sermons—which preached God's universal love and that everyone was capable of redemption—met with little favour<ref name=bbc>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/N8DKT5rH8rhHmygmpwqSl7/george-macdonald|title=BBC Two – Writing Scotland – George MacDonald|website=BBC}}</ref> and his [[stipend]] was cut in half.<ref name="PoemHunter" /> In May 1853, MacDonald tendered his resignation from his pastoral duties at Arundel.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker|last=Hein|first=Rolland|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|year=2014|isbn=9781625645074|location=Eugene, OR|pages=88, 123}}</ref> Later he was engaged in ministerial work in [[Manchester]], leaving that because of poor health.<ref name="PoemHunter" /> An account cited the role of [[Lady Byron]] in convincing MacDonald to travel to [[Algiers]] in 1856 with the hope that the sojourn would help turn his health around.<ref name=":1" /> When he got back, he settled in London and taught for some time at the University of London.<ref name="PoemHunter" /> MacDonald was also for a time editor of ''Good Words for the Young''.