IX. Publications and Literature. — Periodicals of the German Province: Ilerrnhut (weekly); Der Briider- Bote (every alternate month) ; Nachrichten aus der Brii- dergemeine (monthl}-) ; Journal de V Unite des Fr'ei-es (monthly); Berigten uit de Heiden-Wereld (monthly);
Missionshlatt (monthlj') ; BrUdermissionsblatt fiir Kin- der (monthly). British Province: The Messenger (monthly) ; The Missionary Reporter (monthly) ; Peri- odical Accounts (quarterly). American Province: The Moravian (weekly) ; Der Briiderhotschafter (weekly) ; The LJttle Missionary (monthly). South African Mis- sion Province : De Bode (monthly); De Kinder -I'rieiul (monthly). Besides these periodicals, there is an annual published by the Unity's Elders' Conference, entitled The Text-book, containing two passages from the Bible — one from the Old, the other from the New Testament^ — each with a corresponduig stanza from the Hymn-book, and arranged for every day in the year. This annual Jias appeared since 1731 ; it is published in German, Eng- lish, French, Swedish, Esquimau, and Negro - English ; and thousands of copies are circulated every year outside of the Moravian Church.
The denominational literature is very extensive. We mention only the most important works : Cranz, A ncient and Modern History of the Brethren (Lond. 1780) ; Holmes, Histoi-y of the United Brethren (Lond. 1825, 2 vols.) ; A concise History of the Unitas Fratrum (Lond. 1862) ; The Moravian Manual (Bethlehem, Pa., 2d ed.), giving a short but complete account of the Church; Bp. Croger, Geschichte der Erneuerten Briiderkirche (Gna- dau, 1852-54, 3 vols.); Schrautenbach, Zhrjudorf und die Briidergemeine (Gnadau, 1851); Burcklianll. Zln-.in- dorf und die Briidergemeine (Gotha, 1865 i ; Manoriid Days of the Renewed Church of the Jirethren (Lond. 1822) ; Results of the General Synod o/18G9 (Lond. 1870) ; Plitt, Gemeine Gottes in ihrem Geist u. ihren Formen (Gotha, 1859). The principal works relating to the for- eign missions are : Holmes, Missions of the United Breth- ren (Lond. 1827) ; Cranz. Greenland (Lond. 1767, 2 vols.) ; The Moravians in r//<<//A»i(; (Edinb. 1839); Oldendorp, Mission der luiidi r <inf denKaraibischen Inseln (Barby, 1777); The M<,r<,rians hi Jamaica (Lond. 1854); Los- kiel, Hist, of India li Missions (Lond. 1794) ; Heckewelder, Hist.of the Indian Missi.in (Phila. 1817): Moravian Mis- sio7is among the Indians (Lond. 1838) ; Schvveinitz, Life and Times of David Zeisberger (Phila. 1870). Works not emanating from the Church are: Bost, Hist, of the Moravian Brethren (Lond. 1848; an abridged translation q{ Hist, de VEglise des Fr'eres de Boh'enic it Mnraric, Paris, 1844,2 vols.) ; Schaaf, Evangelische Brii<l( ni< un la- de (Leipsic, 1825); '\\\o\\xck,yerm\schti- Sflirifien, i, 433; JMiiller, Selbstbeken/ifnisse mi rkn-iird'nf, r Manner, vol.iii; Schriider, Zinzendorf und III rrnhnt { Xurdhausen, 1857) ; Bengel, Abriss d. Briidi nji im iinh ( I7ri| : reprint- ed in 1859; written against the ('liiir.li >: Litiz, Bliclce in d. Vergangenheit u. Gegenn-art d. I'. K. ( Li/ipsie, 1846) ; Nitzsch, Kirchengeschichtliche Bedeutung d. Briiderge- meine (Berlin, 1853); Kurtz, Text-book of Church IHs- tory (Phila. 1862). This last M'ork contains a chapter on the Moravians, dictated by the personal animosity of the author to their mission in Livonia, -(vhere he resides, and full of gross misstatements, as is shown in The Moixivian Manual, p. 11-14. (E. de S.)
Moravians. See Moravian Bketiiken.
Morcelli, Stefano Antonio, a celebrated Ital- ian archaeologist, of the Order of Jesns, was born at Chi- ari Jan. 17, 1737; studied at Rome, then joined the Jesuits; was sent to Ragusa, and afterwards returned to Rome, and was made professor in the Roman College. After the suppression of the order in 1773, Morcelli be- came librarian to cardinal Alessandro Albani, and while thus employed wrote his De Stilo Inscriptionum Latina- rum, libri iii (Rome, 1780, 4to). In 1790 he was elected provost of the chapter in his native to^vn, and so inter- esting became this work to him that he refused the proffered see of Ragnsa. He died in 1821. Few men lived more unselfishly than jNIorcelli. He liberally be- stowed of his own to the poor, and abounded in philan- thropic labors. Among other provisions, he founded an institution for the gratuitous education of young girls. Besides the work mentioned above, he wrote Inscripti-
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ones Commeniariis suhjectU (Rome,1783,4to) -.-^Parergon Jnscripiiimum Xorissimarum (Pailua, 1818, 4to) : — Ka- lendurium Eccksue ConatiiittiiinpoHtuiKe cum Commenia- riis ill'istrnlum (Home, IT.s.J, 2 vols. 4to), from an ancient M.S. anterior to tlie schism between the Eastern and Western churches. :Morcelli translated the MS. from | Greek into Latin, adding his own commentaries, and rendering it a valuable work on Church history :—Ex- planutio Eccltsiaatica Sancti Gregorii. This Gregorj' was one of the earliest bishops of Agrigentum •.—Africa Christiana (Urescia, 1816, 3 vols. 4to). This is another important work on Church history, from A.U. I'JT till A.D. G97. It may be styled the Fasti of the Christian churches in Northern Africa. Morcelli's works on in- scriptions have been collected and published together — Opera ICpigraphica (Padua, 1818-25, 5 vols.). Professor Schiassi has added to them a Lexicon Kpigraphicum MorcelUanum, in Latin and Italian. Jlorcelli wrote also a book of epigrams — Ekctorum lAbri ii — and various dissertations on Roman antitpiities. See IJaraldi. No- tizia di Morcelli (Mod. 1825) ; Tipaldo, Biogr. degli Ital. X, 102,
Mor'decai (Heb. Mordehay', "'S?"'^, either from the Persian, littk man, sec Gesenius, Thes. Ileb. p. 818 ; comp. Iknfey, Monatsnamen, p. 201 ; or from Mekodach, i. q. worshipper of Mars, Simon, Onom. p. 558 ; Sept. MapSoxd^oc V. r. in Neh. 'Mapcoxiog), the name of cue or two men during the Babylonian exile.