strong city of Bethshan on the east, for we are told that "the Midianites and the Amalekites, and all the chil- dren of the east, lay along the valley like grasshoppers for multitude" (ver. 12). The mountain is the site not only of Shunem, but also of Endor and Nain (see Por- ter, Hand-book, p. 357 s(p). Whether this place has any connection with the preceding is doubtful; and it is still more unlikely that either is related to INIoriah, as thought by Stanley \sin. and Pal. p. 141, 232). Van de Yelde locates the battle too far south {Syr. and Pal. ii, 341). See (iiDicox.
Morehead, Robert, D.D., an English divine of some note, ilourished in the first half of this century. But little is known of his personal history. He was for some time rectt)r of St. Paul's in Edinburgh, and there attained to distinction as a pulpit orator. Subsequently he became rector of Easington, Yorkshire, and died in 1840. He was one of the early and most valued con- tributors to the Edinburgh Review, His works are, Tour to the Holy Land (18mo) : — Discourses on Relig- ious Belief (Edinb. 1809, 8vo; 4th ed. 1811-16, 2 vols. 8vo) ; commended by lord Jeffrey in the Edinburgh lit- view, xiv, 82-95 : — JSermojis (1816, 8vo) : — Dialogues on Natural and Revealed Religion (1830, 12mo); praised by Lowndes's Brit. Lib. p. 941, the Edinb. Rev., and the British contemporary press generally, in most untpiali- fied terras: — E.rplti nation of St. Paul's Epistles (1843, fcp. >i\-i>):— Philosophical l)i(dogues (1845, 8vo).
Morel, Claude, a French theologian and preacher of note, flourished in the 17th century. He was a doc- tor of the Sorbonne and court preacher, but is best known as a passionate adversary of the Jansenists. He published against them La conduite de Saint Augustin contre les Pelagiens (1658), and E Oracle de la Verite, ou VEglise de Dieu contre toutes sortes d'keresies (1666). The Jansenists failed not to answer him, as four pieces still attest, viz. a Latin epistle in prose, two pieces in Latin verse inveighing against him, and a French son- net. In 1659 the council of state instituted proceedings against these Jansenistic opponents and sentenced them. — Hoefer, Xvi/r. liiog. Generale, xxxvi, 523.
Morel, Guillaume, a learned French printer, noted for the valuable editions he published of the writ- ings of distinguished ecclesiastical writers, was born at
secular power. Four days later he was found dead in the Conciergerie — rumor reported poisoned. Like the condemned dying in prison, his body was buried the day following; but by order of the procureur-general it was disinterred, brought back to the Conciergerie, carried in a rubbish-cart to tlie area before the church of Notre Dame, and ])ublicly burned, Feb. 27, 1559. — Hoefer, Aotir. Bi'ig. fitnerale, xxxvi. 517.
Morel, Robert, a French Benedictine monk, was born in 1653 at La Chaise Dieu, in Auvergne. He took holy orders at the abbey of Saint Faron de Jleaux in 1671 ; was sent to the abbey of Saint Germain des Prcs to finish his studies, and in 1680 became its librarian. He was afterwards appointed superior (i)rior) of a convent at Meulan, and at Saint Crespin de Soissons, and secretary to the visiting oflicer of France. Deafness, with which he became afllicted, obliged him to resign these offices, and he retired in 1699 to Saint Denis, near Paris, where he divided the rest of his life between pious religious exercises and the editing of several ascetic works. He died Aug. 19, 1731, in the odor of sanctity. He was a man of a clear, well-balanced, fertile mind ; his words breathed charity and righteousness; but great modesty, joined to simjilicity, served to conceal his talents. His publications are : Effusions de caur, ou eutreiiens spiri- tuels et ajj'ectifs d'une dme arec Dieu sur chaque rerset des Psaumcs et des Cantiques de VEglise (Paris, 1716) : — Meditations sur la regie de Saint-Benoit (Paris, 1717): — Entretiens spirituels sur les Evangiles (Paris, 1720) : — Entreiiens .opirituels pour serrir de preparation a la mort (Paris, 1721) •.—Imitation de Jesus-Ch>ist, a trans- lation, with additional pieces (Paris, 1723) : — Medita- tions Chretiennes sur les Evangiles (Paris, 1726) : — Du bonhe.ur d'un simple Religieux et d'une simple Religieuse, qui aiment leur etat et leurs devoirs (Paris, 1728) : — De fesperance Chretienne (Paris, 1728) : — Effusion de caur sur le Cantique des Cantiques (Paris, 1730). — Hoefer, Norn: Biog. Generale, xxxvi, 524.
Morell, Samuel, an Irish Presbyterian minister, flourished in the secoiul half of the 18th century. He was born about 1744, and was educated at Dublin. He was a young man of rare promise, and was very much liked as a minister. He began preaching when not more than twent\-five vcars old at TuUvlish, in the
Le Tilleul, near .Mortain, in 1505. He was the sue- Synod of Ulster, but during the civil disturbances of cessor of Turncbius (1550) in the office of director of the \ 1^"2 he was persecuted for the part he took in behalf royal printing-office, and died in 1561.
Besides his edi- ! of law and order, and in a riot which occurred on the tions of {Jree'k and Latin authors (Aristotle, Strabo, Dio ! 6th of March of that year he was shot down in the Chrysostomus, Cicero, etc.), he published French trans- streets, an'l <Hed f^rom the effects of the wound. See lations of the treatise on the use of images approved by the seventh Nicene Council, and of John Damascenus's Treatise on Images. — Hoefer, Xuuv. Biog. (Jenerale, xxxvi, 515.