PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 6
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purity with all the power and skill at command. See Adam, Vitm Theol. Germ. p. 457 sq. ; Eettemeyer, Kir- chen-hisiorie, iii, 207 ; Salig, Historic der A ugshurg Con- fession ; Naton, Gesch. der Concordienformel ; Schrockh, Kirchengesch. seit d. Reformation ; Planck, Protest. Lehr- legiiff, iv, 291 ; v, pass. ; and his…
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Morlot, Francois Nicolas jMadeleixe, a French prelate of note, was born at Langres (department Ilaute- Marne) Dec. 28, 1795. His father, a modest mechanic, sent him to the college of his native town. Having afterwards passed through the course of theological studies at Dijon, before reaching the age required for priest…
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MORMONS 619 MORMONS not rest contented. To trust to the decisions of fal- lible man, and build his hopes upon them, without any knowledge of his own, would not satisfy the anxious desires that pervaded his breast. To decide without any positive and definite evidence on which he could rely upon a subject involving th…
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promise which he had received in the former vision. While he thus continued to pour out his desires before the Father of all good, endeavoring to exercise faith in his precious promises, " on a sudden, a light like that of day, only of a purer and far more glorious appearance and brightness, burst into the room — indee…
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" As you pass on the mail-road from Palmyra, Wayne County, to Cauandaigua, Ontario Clounly, Xew York.'bc- fore arriving at tlie little village of Muucliestei-, about four miles n-om Palmyra, you pass a large hill on the east side of the road. Why I say large is because it is as large, perhaps, as any in that country. T…
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1 his s [■fore, : able train of associates. All this passed before him, and the heavenly messenger said, ' All this is shown— the good and the evil, the holy and the impure, the glory of Godand the power of darkness — that you may know hereafter the two powers, and never be influenced or overcome by the wicked one. Be…
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MORMONS 621 MORMONS The above quotation is an extract from a letter writ- ten by elder Oliver Cowdery, which was published in one of the numbers of the Latter-day Saints' Messenr/er and A dvocate. Although many more instructions were given by the mouth of the angel to Mr. Smith, for which we have not space here, ye…
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Mr. Smith continued the work of translation, as his pecuniary circumstances would permit, until he finished the unsealed part of the records. The part translated is entitled the Book of Moi'inon, which contains nearly as much reading as the Old Testament. This volume purports to be a history of ancient America, from it…
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for these ancient mounds, filled with human bones, so numerous at the present day both in North and South America. The second colony, which left Jerusalem eleven years after the remnant of Joseph left tliat city, landed in North America, and emigrated from thence to the northern parts of South America; and about four …
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Mormon had made an abridgment from the records of his forefathers upon plates, Avhich abridgment he entitled the Book of Mormon ; and (being command- ed of God) he hid ia the hill Cumorah ail the sacred records of his forefathers which were in his ; except the abridgment called the Book of Mormon, which he gave to his…
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Editorial Appendix and Criticisms. — Mr. Pratt's ac- coont stops with the o^anization of the Saints as an ecclesiastical body. AVe supplement it with the later history. Joseph Smith seems at first to have had vague and confused ideas as to the nature and design of the Church Le was about to establish until he found a …
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MORMOXS 625 MORMONS success and perpetuity. As heads of the Church he ap- ' poLated a presidency' of three (and this remains the practice of the Mormons), assigning to himself the first place, and associating -with himself the Eigdon of whom we have had occasion to speak before, and one Fred- erick G. Williams, a "r…
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therefore not to be wondered that there was constant quarrelling and fighting l>etween Saints and Gentiles, until the contest amotmted to civil war, and called for the interference cf the state authorities. That such a step was really necessary became clearly apparent when on Oct. 24, 1838, Thomas B. March, himself the…
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from generation to generation, saith the Lord; and let the name of the house be called the Nauvoo House, and let it be a delightful habitation for man" {Dodr. and Cov. sec. 103). Thus the spiritual and temporal power of Smith increased until he founil himself absolute ruler of over 20,000 persons, besides having many s…
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This manifestation of complete organization aroused the people of Illinois once more to a sense of the dan- ger of constant strife with the settlers at Nauvoo. In 1845 the state Legislature revoked the charter given to the city of Nauvoo, while the citizens banded to- gether for possible contingencies. Open and severe …
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opposition that he found it expedient, after wintering in Salt Lake City without receiving the governor- ship, to formally resign his post, and he removed with his battalion of troops to California. No wonder that Young declared in a sermon to his people, " I am and will be governor, and no power can hinder it until th…
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Ishmael goes with Nephi. Nephi's brethren rebel, and bind him. Lehi's dream of the tree, rod, etc. Messiah and John prophe- sied of. Olive Branches broken off. Nephi's Vision of Mary. Do. the Crucifixion of Christ. Do. darkness and earth- quake. Great abominable church. Discovery of the promised land. Bible s…
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Moroni's stratagem. Slaughter of Lamanites. Moroni's speech to Zera- heninah. Prophecy of a soldier. Lamanites' covenant of peace. MORMONS G30 MORMONS Alma's prophecy 400 years after Christ. Dwindle iu unbelief. Alma's slraujre departure. Amalickiah leadeth away the people, destroyeth the church. Standard of…
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2,000,000 of men slain. Hill Ramah. Cries rend the air. SleiJt on their swords. Coriantumr slew Shiz. Do. fell to the earth. Records hid by Ether. Book of Mokoni. Christ'swords to the Twelve. Sufi'erings of women and Manner of Ordination. Order of Sacrament. Order of Baptism. Faith, Hope, Charity. Baptism nC li…
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I "^ I ^ >-(^ Controversial writers against INIormonism are unani- mous in discarding this whole story of angel visits and gold plates as a pure invention, and brand Joseph Smith as an impostor. Yet there seems to be no ground for such a harsh judgment. That Smith had at one time in his possession metallic plates of …
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Erohably had all that experience: but when he clothed is communications with the sauctity of absolute and di- vine tmth, the acceptance or rejection of which was to be ' the salvatiou or damnation of the world,' it was simply the operation and assertion of that yet uncomprehended mysterious influence that has been 'ie…
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MORMONS 633 MORMONS lieve; and when the origin of some of the great religions of the world is considered, there is not much cause for wontler that those persons who have accepted Mormcm- ism, with all its crudities, should have honestly believed it. Milli(nis have accepted Mohammed and his visions; many millions mor…
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MORMONS 634 MORMONS resurrection of Osiris, a funerary disk, and a painting from a funerary M.S. This deviation of M. Deveria's translation from Smith's would naturally again lead to the supposition that the would-be prophet intentionally played otFa fictitious translation as an exact rendering of the original papyr…
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" We claim the privilege of worshipping Almighty God according to the dictates of our conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may. " We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, nil- ers, and magistrates ; in obeying, honoring, and sustain- ing the law. " We be…
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"We believe that the penalty of this seccmd law can have no effect upon persons who have not had the privi- lege in this life of becoming acquainted therewith ; for although the light that is in them teaches them good and evil, yet that light does not teach them the law against doing evil, nor the penalty thereof. And …
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"They are then required to be humble, to be meek and lowly in heart, to watch and pray, to deal justly ; and in- asmuch as they have the riches of this world, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, according to the dictates ' of wisdom and prudence ; to comfort the afflicted, to bind up the broken-hearted, and to do …
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MORMONS 6J "We believe that preat and terrible judgments await the nations of the wicked, and that after the message of the Look of Mormon has been sufficiently sounded iu their ears, if they reject it, they will be overthrown aud wasted away until the earth sliall no longer be encumbered with them. New and unheard-of…
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6 MORMONS Mr. Orson Pratt's utterances in sermons, etc.) from his appearance to Abraham ; though he has this advantage over his creatures that " he can move up or down through the air witiiout using them." The following is an ex- tract from one of their popular catechisms bearing on the subject : " Q. 28. What is God …
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THE ETERXAL GOD. again, is declared to be the "god" of Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ the god of Joseph Smith; and Joseph Smith is now the god of this generation : but the whole affair is a mass too wild and mystical to be explained in- telligently. The human intellect probably never sank into more abysmal nonsense ; all …
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The tenth article, though it affirms the literal gather- ing of Israel, tlie restoration of the Ten Tribes (the American Indians, who are in consequence treated with considerable humanity by the Saints), and the personal reign of Christ for one thousand years, does not, as has always been supposed, make the in-gather- …
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IV. Ordinances and Practices. — 1. The ordinances of the Mormon (iospel are five: (1) Faith, which is very strangely described in the Doctr. and Cor., as already (pioted. What is really required of a Saint in this respect is "faith in Joseph and his successors," and not aljsolute acceptance of the Scriptures, i. c. the…
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2. Marriage is not a civil contract with the Latter- day Saints, but a sacrament of the Church, and a sacred tenet of the faith. Matrimony, moreover, as practiced by the IMormons, is an institution so peculiar to them- selves, they having introduced into the modern social system the polygamic system, that their marriag…
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"4. Therefore if a man marry him a wife in the world, and he marry her not by me nor by my word, and he covenant with her so long as he is in the world, and she with him, their covenant and marriage is not of force Avheu they are dead, and when they are out of the world; therefi>re they are not bound by any law when th…
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"11. I am the Lord thy God, and will give unto thee the law of my holy priesthood, as was ordained by me and my Father before the world was. Abraham received all things, whatsoever he received, by revelatiou and com- raaudment, by my word, saith the Lord, aud hath entered into his exaltation and sitteth upon his throne…
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"2U. Verily 1 say uuto you, a commandment I give ttnto mine handmaid, Kmma Smith, your wife, whom I have given uuto you, that she stay herself, aud partake not of that which 1 commanded you to offer uuto her: for I did it, saith the Lord, to prove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your …
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Following the revelation is this explanation : "Plurality of wives is a doctrine very popular among most of mankind at the present day. It is practiced by the must powerful nations of Asia and Africa, and by nu- merous nations inhabiting the islands of the sea, and by the aboriginal nations of the great western hemisp…
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MORMOXS 642 MORMONS ehonld not be considered irrelis^ious for the faithfal, who fire called his children, to walk in the steps of their fa- ther Abraham. Indeed, if the Lord himself, through his holy prophets, should give more wives unto his servants, as he <;ave them nnto the prophet David, it would be a great sin …
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population of the globe to decide that polygamy, as it is called, is a good and not an evil practice ; custom causes the balance, or the remaining tifth, to decide in opposition to the great majoritj-. "Those individuals who have strength of mind snflS- cieut to divest themselves entirely from the influence of custom,…
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MORMONS 643 MORMONS This document was not officially promulgated at Salt Lake City until August 29, 1852 (Kemy, ii, 112-130), when it was given to a great conference, to be thereaf- ter as a possession unto all the Saints (Stenhouse, p. 182 sq.). The Prophet's widow at once denounced it as a forgery, and with four o…
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Pluralism, then, which has thus far failed to gain the hearty support of the more intelligent Mormons, if we may accept Mr. Stenhouse's statement, and there seems to be no reason to gainsay that it has, reacted against the Church of the Latter-day Saints, not only socially, but also numerically ; for since the promulga…
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"The bridegroom answers, 'Yes.' The president then pnts the question to the bride : " 'Do yon, sister' {mtlitii her hn name), 'take brother' (calling hint, h>i nmnr) 'by tin; right hand, and nive yonr- eelf to him to \h- his lawliil and wedded wife for'tinie and for all eteriiitv, with a rovcnani and promise on your p…
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MORMONS 645 MORMONS the Methodist camp-meetings of fifteen or twenty years ago. The singing, as on the latter occasions, was the best part of the exercises— simple, sweet, and fervent. ' Daughter of Zion,' as sung by the large choir one Sun- day morning, was prayer, sermon, song, and all. The preacher that day was a…
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judgment; in fact, the attempt to exercise that right has always been hazardous. The whole duty of a Jlor- mon consists in thinking and doing as he is told, even as regards his most private and personal affairs. The president may order or forbid a man to marry ; a bishop may at any time enter any Mormon's house, and is…
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Several schisms have taken place, but they have thus far but very inconsiderably affected " the Church of the Latter-day Saints." The first departure from the main body was occasioned in 1852 by the widow and sons of the founder of Mormonism on the publication of the revelation authorizing polygamy, the genuineness of …
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MORNAY 648 MOROCCO information (N. Y. 1854) ; Hyde, Mormonism, its Lead- ers and Designs (N. Y. 1857), an expose by a former Mormon elder; Tucker, Orifjin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism TN. Y. 18G7) ; and the latest and best, Sten- hoiise. The liochj Mountain Saints (N. Y. 1S73), whose book we liavc had occasion t…
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The inhabitants, like those of Barbary (the entire country of North Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Mediterranean to the (ireater At- las) in general, consist of Moors, Berbers, Arabs, Negroes, and Jews, with various intermixtures between these races. The Arabians, who have kept their identity no…
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besides their slaves and domestics. Priestesses, who are so far learned as to read and write, are employed to teach the younger part of the harem to repeat their prayers, and to instruct the older females in the princi- ples of their religion. The other religious institutions of the empire are so similar to those of mo…
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Morone, Giovanni, an Italian prelate of consider- able note for the illustrious part he took in the Reform- atory^ movement of the IGth century, and for the noble efforts he made to uphold the lustre of the Koman Cath- olic Church, was born at Milan, Jan. 25, 1509, and de- scended from a noble family. His father, count…
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MORONE 651 MOROZZO suspected Morone of heresy, and the cardinal, in turn, had thought the inquisitor lij'percritical and inhumane in the exercise of his official functions. Yet, moved by the sentiments of a generous mind, JNIorone, after all, cast his induence in the conclave for Caraffa (believing there- by to disa…
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Moroni (Anna). See Jesus, Holy Child, Con- gregation of the Daughters of. Morosino, Giulio (originally Samuel Nachmias), a Jewish convert to Romanism, was a native of Thessa- lonica. In Venice, where he settled, he first received a favorable impression of the truth of Christianity by be- ing present at a public disput…
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Morren, Nathaniel, a Presbyterian divine, noted as the author of valuable Biblical works, flourished in the first half of our century at Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born in 1798, and died in 1847. Jlorren pub- lished, AnniiU of Ike Church of Scotland from 1739 to 1776 (Edinb. 1835, 2 vols. 8vo) ■.—Biblical fheol. vol. …
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Morris, John Piper, a minister of the Methotlist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Devon, England, Jan. 30, 1846. His early life was spent in Canada under the pious training of his father, who was himself a local minister of the ^yesleyan Church. Young Morris was converted at seventeen, and soon after became convinc…
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MORRIS 654 MORRISOX delicate boy. The early religious training of bishop Morris was in the Baptist Church, of which both his parents were pious and exemplary members. He grew up, however, without giving much thought to the sub- ject of personal religion until he was about eighteen years of age. In his twentieth year…
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Morrison, John, D.D., a Scotch divine, noted as a hymnologist also, was born in the County of Alierdeen in 1749. He studied for the ministry, and in 17S0 en- tered upon his pastoral duties over the parish of Canis- bay, Caithness-shire. He was one of the committee of the General Assembly for revising the Church Para- p…
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cepted, and now removed from Hoxton to the Mission CoUege at Gosport. In August, 1805, he commenced the study of Chinese under a native teacher. In January, 1807, he was ordained as a missionary, set out at once for China, and in September of the same year arrived at Canton. Before leaving England, Mr. Morrison had pro…
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Dr. Morrison certainly achieved great things in Chi- na. The compilation of his dictionary in the vernacular language of that country was a Herculean task, which none but a man of the greatest strength of intellect and energy of purpose could have accomplished. Along with that he completed a Chinese version of the Old …
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Mors Peccatorum (the death of sins), an expres- sion used by TertiiUian and other writers to describe the cl!icacy of bajitism, in allusion to Kom. vi, 4; CoL ii, 12. — Farrar, Kccles. Diet. s. v. Morse is the technical term for the clasp of a cope or ]iectoral. Morse, Abner, a Congregational minister, was born at ^l…
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Morse, Joshua. See Morse, Asahel. Morse, Richard Gary, an American Presbyte- rian minister, noted as a religious journalist, and son of Jedediah Jlorse, was born June 18, 1795, at Charlestown, Mass. At the age of nine he was sent to Phillips's Academy, Andover, to prepare for admission to college, and entered Yale Col…
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Morsel (prop. TQ, a bit, especially of food, Ruth ii, 14, etc.; lipMtTKj, Heb. xii, IG; in the jilnr. crumbs, Lev. ii, G, etc.; and so of a piece of ice or hail, Psa. cxlvii, 17; once [1 Sam. ii, 3GJ incorrectly for 123, kikkar', a circle or "loaf' of bread, as elsewhere). See Bkeau. Morta(i)gne, Walter of, a noted sc…
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There is, however, a class of Protestants who go so far as to teach that, " while mortal sins are punishable eternally, venial or deatUy sins are punishable by God's fatherly chastisements in this life;" and in the same way, as regards the pardon of sin, that "while mortal sins are only forgiven through a direct act of…
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