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effective relation. During 1871, while supplying the Church at North Blaudfonl, his health failed, and he removed his residence to Williamsburgh, Mass., where he died, June 10, 1872. "Morgan was a man of strong, clear mind. ... He was a decided man — uncompromis- ing in hostility to the powers of darkness, and in his advocacy of every movement calculated to elevate hu- manity, ami reveal more of the glory of Deity." See Minutes <if Confereuce.f, 1872, p. 47.
Morgan, Gerard, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Baltimore County, ]\Id., June 8, 1784; was converted in 1801 ; entered the Bal- timore Conference in 1806, and died !March 17, 1846. He possessed a clear intellect, a penetrating judgment, and his life was equable, evangelical, and eminently useful. See Minutes of Conferences, iv, 10.
Morgan, Gilbert, D.D., a noted minister of the Southern Presbyterian Church, was a native of New York State, born in 1791, received his collegiate train- ing at Union College, Schenectady, and pursued his the- ological studies at I'rinceton, N. J. At an early age he engaged in Central and Western New York in the foundation of churches and institutions of learning, one of his co-laborers being Dr. Archilaus G. Smith. In 1836 Dr. Morgan became president of the Western Uni- versity of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh, and at the invi- tation of the Legislature drew up a report, which tinal- ly was substantially introduced into the educational sys- tem of Pennsylvania. He aflcrwards became connected with the Hampden Sidney College in Virginia, later re- moved to North Carolina, and finally made South Caro- lina his permanent home, and there preached as a mem- ber of the Southern Presbyterian Church. Failing health and advanced age linally induced his return North. He died in New York City in May, 1875. Dr. Morgan was highly esteemed by his brethren, and greatly beloved among those to whom he ministered in spiritual things. Few men in the Church South could claim the superior scholarship to which he had attain- ed. He was an ornament to his own denomination and to the Christian Church. (J. H. W.)
Morgan, Hector Davies, an English divine, noted for his sociological studies, was born in 1768, and was educated at Cambridge University. After taking holy orders he at once rose to positions of prominence, and finally became canon of Trallong. In 1819 he had the honor to be selected Bampton lecturer, and his ser- mons preached that year were published (1819, 8vo). He also published several other theological treatises of minor value. But he is best known as the author of Doctrine and Law of Marriage, Adultery, and Divorce (Oxford, 1826, 2 vols. 8vo). This valuable work exhib- its a theological and practical view of the divine insti- tution of marriage, the religious ratification of mar- riage, the impediments which preclude and vitiate the contract of marriage, the reciprocal duties of husbands and wives, the sinful and criminal character of adultery, and the difliculties which embarrass the principle and practice of divorce, etc. See Aonrf. Gent. Mag. 1851, pt. i, p. 562 ; Allibone, JHct. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, vol. ii, s. V.
Morgan, Homer Bartlett, a missionary of the Presbyterian Churcli, \vas bcirn at Watertown, N. Y., May ;51, 1827. He was educated at Hamilton College, N. Y., studied theology at Auburn Seminary, N. Y., was licensed by Cayuga I'rcsliytery, and ordained by Wa- tertown Presbytery in 1850. lie entered upon the for- eign missionary work under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign ^Missions, and was by them, in 1851, sent to Salonica, in (ircece, and afterwanls transferred to Antioch, in Syria. He thus completed nearly fourteen years of missionary life, when it was de- cided hy the committee and the Central Turkish Mis- sion to which he belonged that ho should return with his family to this country. When they were about ready for their journey his youngest sou sickened and
died. This event, with his responsibility at his post, and official cares as treasurer of the mission, devolved upon him an amount of labor which brought on ty- phoid fever, and after proceeding on his journey as far as Smyrna he dfed, Aug. 25, 1865. Mr. Morgan, writes the Kev. Dr. Hamlin, then president of Robert College, Constantinople, " was a noble missionary, a man of right judgment, of executive power, and of self-denying de- votion to his work. He has finished it early, but done it well." See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1866. p, 218. (J. L. S.)
Morgan, Joseph, a minister of the (Dutch) Re- formed Church, was born of Welsh parentage in 1674, and ordained in 1697 in Connecticut. After settle- ments at East Chester, N. Y., from 1699 to 1704, and Greenwich, Conn., from 1704 to 1708, he became pastor at Freeholil and Jliddletown, N. J., where he served both the Dutch and Presbyterian churches (1709-31). He gave to the former church about three fourths of his services, although he was a member of the Philadel|ihia Presb\-tery. A revival of religion followed his labors in 1721. His last settlement was at Hopewell and Maidenhead, N. J,, where he preached from 1732 to 1737, Although his library was very small, he seems to have been a studious man and a voluminous author. He was a correspondent of Cotton Mather. One of his Latin letters to Mather, dated in 1721, is still preserved at Worcester, JIass. In addition to several printed ser- mons, he published treatises on Baptism, Original Sin, Sin its own Punishment, Election, etc. His latter years were sadly overcast with trials and sorrow. In 1728 he was charged with having " practiced astrology, counte- nanced promiscuous dancing, and transgressed in drink." These charges were not proved. In 1736 he was sus- pended from the ministry for intemperance, but was re- stored in 1738. He died in 1740. See Webster. Hist. Presb. Ch. ; Corwin, Manual lief. Ch. s. v, (W. J. K. T.)