Mor'esheth-gath {Uah.More'sheth-Gath, T^tTi^-Q rS, possession of Gath ; Sept. K\r]povoi.ila TkSi., Vulg. hcereditas Geth), a town of Palestine (perhaps so named from its vicinity to Gath), where the prophet Micah appears to have been born or to have resided (]\Iic. i, 14), who was hence called a Morasthite (Mic. i, 1 ; Jer. xxvi, 18). It is named by that prophet (Mic. i, 13-15) in company with Lachish, Achzib, Mareshah, and other towns of the lowland district of Judah. His words, "Therefore shalt thou give presents to More- sheth-gath," are explained by Ewald (^Propheten, p. 330) as referring to Jerusalem, and as containing an allu- sion to the signification of the name Moresheth, which, though not so literal as the play on those of Achzib and Mareshah, is yet tolerably obvious : " Therefore shalt thou, O Jerusalem, give compensation to Moresheth- gath, itself only the possession of another city." Hit- zig {Comment, ad loc.) lately insists upon the old Jew- ish interpretation of the name as an appellative for some dependency of the Philistines (but see Maurer, Comment, ad loc). Jerome {Onomast. s. v. IMorasthi) places it a short distance east of Eleutheropolis, and re- marks {Comment, in Mic. prol.) that it was still a mod- erately sized village (" hand grandis viculus"), contain- ing a church over the tomb of IVIicah {Ep. ad Eustach. p. C77). From these intimations Dr. Robinson {Re- searches, ii, 423) concludes that it must have been near Mareshah, perhaps at the site of the church of Santa
Hanneh, twenty minutes S.S.E. of Beit-Jibrin, close by which are the ruined foundations of a village possibly ancient. Thomson inclines to identify it with Mare- shah {Land and Book, ii, 360) ; but the sacred writer clearlv distinguishes them (Mic. i, 15). See Gath ; Micah.
MorettO da Brescia, a distinguished Italian art- ist of Titian's school, and sometimes called Bonvicino, was born, according to Lanzi, in 1514, and was the first to introduce Titian's style to his native district. His picture of St. Niccolo, painted for the Madonna de Mira- coli, is in Titian's best manner. He was mostly em- ployed in his native province, distinguishing himself more by his delicacy than by his grandeur of handling. A fine specimen of this last qualification, however, may be seen in his terrific picture of Elias in the old cathe- dral. His picture of St. Lucia, in the church of St. Cle- mente, is not so much studied as that of St, Catharine, and even this yields to his painting of the great altar, representing Our iMdy in the air, with the titular and other saints seen below. An altar-piece, consisting of various saints, at St. Andrea, in Bergamo, another at St, Giorgio, in Verona, with the Fall of St. Paul, at Milan, are all of the most finished composition. A work enti- tled the Flagellation, in the IMuseo Tosi at Brescia, is remarkably fine ; also the Murder of the Innocents, in the church of St. Giovanni Evangelista at Brescia. The time of his death is unknown. See Lanzi, History of Painting (transl. by Roscoe), ii, 180 ; Mrs. Jameson and Eastlake's History of Our Lord, i, 271; ii, 98.
Morgan, Abel, a Baptist minister of some note, was born in Wales in 1637, emigrated to this country in 1711, and settled at Pemupek, Pa., where he preached until his death, Dec. 16, 1722. He was a good man, well beloved by his people, and did efficient service for the Christian cause among the Welsh who were settled in Pennsylvania in his day. He compiled a folio Concord- ance to the Welsh Bible, which was printed at Phila- delphia, and also translated The Century Confession into Welsh, with original additions. See Benedict, Hist. Bapt. i, 583 ; Bapt. Quar. July, 1874, art. v.
Morgan, Asbury, a minister of the Methodist. Episcopal Church, was born in Mecklenburg County, Va., Aug. 25, 1797; converted in 1812 ; entered the South Carolina Conference in 1818; was stationed in Charles- ton in 1828, and died there, Sept. 25th of the same year, of the "stranger's fever." He was a good man, had been successful on former appointments, and promised usefulness to the Ciiurch. — Minutes of Conferences, ii, 36. Morgan, Caesar, D.D., an English divine of some note, flourished in the second half of last century as canon of Ely. But little is known of his personal his- tory. His works, however, show that he -was a man of much erudition and a close student. He published several of his sermons (1780, 4to ; 1781, 4toJ ; also a work on Philosophy and Rerelaiion (1789, 8vo) ; and another, The Trinity ifj'lato and Philo-Judceus, etc. (1797, 8vo), universally commended as an able work from an ortho- dox stand-point.— Allibone's Diet, of Brit, and Arner, A uthors, s. V.
Morgan, Erasmus B., a minister of the Method- ist Episcopal Church, was born at Wilmington, Vt., in 1806. He was converted when about twenty-five years of age, and immediately began to preach. For two y«ars he was employed by the presiding elder, and in 1833 joined the New Hampshire Conference. He was stationed successively at Athens, Putney, Claremont, Peterborough, Westmoreland, and Chesterfield, Keene, Landaff, East Haverhill, Lancaster, Canaan, and South Reading. In 1846 he was superannuated, and contin- ued in that and the supernumerary relation for seven years, after which, in 1853, he was stationed at Ches- terfield, Mass., within the bounds of the New England Conference. After\vards he was stationed at Palmer, Three Rivers, Brookfield, and Dudle}'. In 1857 he was superannuated, after which time he never resumed aa