was to detect fraudulent money if offered in payment. The Hebrew word "iniO,.socA<-/', signifies one who goes about from place to place, and is supposed to answer to the native exchange-agent or money-broker of the East, now called shroff. See Merchant. It appears that there were bankers or money-changers in Judaia, who made a trade of receiving money in deposit and paying interest for it (Matt, xxv, 27). In the Life of A ratus, by Plutarch, there is mention of a banker of Sicyon, a city of I'eloponnesus, who lived 240 years before Christ, and whose wiiole business consisted in exchanging one species of money for another. — Kitto. See Changer ok Money.
MONEY, LOVE OF {(piXapyvpia, 1 Tim. vi, 10, «i-- arice or cupidity). See Covetousness.
MONEY, PIECE OF (n-Jiirp,ic5t/a^',Gen.xxxiii, 19 ; Job xlii, II;" piece of silver," Josh, xxiv, 32 ; ara- W/p, Matt, xvii, 27). See Kesitam ; Stater.
Money, Ecclesiastical. See Nu
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Money-stoue is, in ecclesiastical lan- guage, tlie upper slab of a tomb, on which payments were made by or to ecclesiastics.
lere is one at Carlisle, at Y'ork, and at Dunilrv, in England. — Walcott, ISacred
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Monfort, David, D.D., a Presby- terian divine, was born in Adams County, 'a., March 7, 1790. His ancestors were the Huguenot De Monforts of France, who were f Jerusalem, driven to Holland, and afterwards emigrated to this country about 1640. David Monfort was educated at Transylvania University, in Lexing- ton, Ky., and graduated in the theological seminary at Princeton, N. J., in 1817 ; was licensed by Miami Pres- bytery in 1818, and continued all his life a missionarj' preacher, acting at different times as the stated supply of Bethel Church, in Oxford Presbytery; Terre Haute Church, Ind. ; Sharon Church, at Wilmington, Ohio; and a church in Franklin, Ind., where he labored for twenty years. In 1854 he became stated jiastor of the church at Knightstown, Ind. ; and in 1857 he removed to Macomb, 111., where he remained until his death, Oct. 18, 1800. Dr. Monfort was a thoroughly trained minister, an able expositor, an excellent linguist, and an eloquent preacher. He published two sermons on Baptism and one on Jiistificatiuti, which appeared in a volume called Orir/inal Sermons by Presbyterian Dicines in the 3Iississippi Valley. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Al- manac, 1802, p. 104. (J. L. S.)
Monfort, Peter, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Adams County, Pa., March 14, 1784. He was, like the above, descended from the Huguenot De Jlim- forts. He attained his education through great effort, pursuing his course with much dilliculty for want of teachers and books. After several years of private tu- ition in the classics and theology, he was licensed in the spring of 1813, and ordained in 1814 by Miami Pres- bytery ; was pastor four years at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and eleven years in Unity and Pisgah, near liis early home ; subseiiuently he undertook the work of a domes- tic missionary at Findlay, Ohio, where he laliored for three years. In 183G he transferred his relations from the Presbyterian to the Associate Reformed Church, and in that connection preached at Syracuse, in Hamil- ton County, Ohio; Jacksonburg, Quincy, and Aliddle- burg, Ohio; and at College Corner. He died Nov. 13, 1805. Mr. Monfort showed much ability as an expos- itor of the Scriptures, and as an advocate of sound doc- trinal theology. He was a man of deep religious expe- rience, uniform life, and lowliness of mind. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imaiiar, 1807, p. 301. (J. L. S.)
Mongin, I:i).moni>e, a French Roman Catholic preaclior, nntrd lor his jtulpit oratory, was born in 1008 at Baroville, diocese of Langres. At the age of iiiue-
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teen he gave proofs of his talent for the pulpit, and in after-years the French Academy successively awarded him three different prizes for eloquence. He was in- trusted with the education of Louis-Henri de Bourbon and of Charles de Chamlais, princes of the house of Conde. Elected a member of the Academy in the place of the abbe Gallois, he was received March 1, 1708, and it was in this capacity he pronounced in the chapel of the Lou\Te the funeral oration of Louis XIV. He was appointed in 1711 abbe of Saint-Martin d'Autun, and became bishop of Bazas Sept. 24, 1724, devoting him- self entirely to the administration of his diocese. In the midst of the unfortunate quarrels which troubled the Church of France he was as remarkable for his moderation as for his wisdom. " Believe me," said he to an over-zealous prelate, " we should speak much and write little." Mongin died at Bazas, May 6, 1746. He has left some sermons, some panegyrics, some funeral orations (among others, that of Henri de Bourbon, prince de Conde), and several different academical pieces, col- lected into one volume (Paris, 1745, 4to). D'Alenibert says that " his works evince more taste than warmth, more thought than emotion, more wisdom than imagi- nation ; but there is found throughout all a noble and simple tone, a sweet sensibility, an elegant and pure diction, and that sound instruction which should be the basis of Christian eloquence" (^Hist. des Membres de VAcademie Fran^aise, vol. v). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Ge- nerale, s. v.
Mongitore, Amtonino, an Italian ecclesiastic, noted mainly, however, for his literary labors, was born at Palermo, May 1, 1GG3, entered the priesthood, and was made dean of the cathedral of his native place, and finally became one of the papal counsellors. He died June 6, 1743. Besides his Bibliotlieca Sicida (Palermo, 1708-14, 2 vols, fol.), which contains a history of Sicily and its writers, secular and ecclesiastic, we should note Breve Compendia della Vita di S. Francisco di Sales (1695, 12mo): — Vita de due Sante Mamiliani, arcives- covi di Palermo (1701, 4to) ; and the biographies of other celebrated ecclesiastics, and also a histor}' of the Teutonic order of knighthood. See Du Pin, Bihlioth. des Auteurs ecclesiast. du dix-huitieme si'ecle. — Hoefer, Nouv. Bioij. Generale, s. v.