to see from the ridge Mar Elias the heights about Je- rusalem, if not the hill of Moriah itself; and we are ex- pressly told that Abraham did not see the place until he was fairly within a walk of the spot, and could leave the young men and the ass while he and Isaac proceed- ed, personally laden with the materials for the sacrifice. (3.) A formidable difficulty urged by others is that the fortress of Zion must at that time have been occupied by the king of the Jebusites, some forerunner of Adoni- zedek, or by Melchizedek himself, and therefore Abra- ham must have prepared to perform this awfid sacrifice under the walls of the city. To obviate the great ap- parent improbability of this, it may be said that some- times the outside of fenced cities — where a deep ravine runs between the wall and the suburb — is often one of the loneliest spots in the world. The name Moriah is un(iuestionably given by the chronicler to the Temple hill, but this passage is a solitary one. The more ordi- nary name, even for the entire city of Jerusalem and for the holy mountain, is Mount Zion, and various psalms and prophecies speak of the dwelling-place of Jehovah under this old and honored name. It cannot be true that any writer of the time of Solomon com- posed the narrative of Abraham's sacrifice to do honor to the Temple hill, as was suggested by De Wette ; for, if that had been his intention, he would have called it Zion, and not Moriah. Great stress has been laid by bishop Colenso and by the writer in Smith's Dictionary, ii, 423, on the absence of other reference besides that of the chronicler to the name of Moriah as the site of the Temple hill, and also on the impropriety of associating the name and career of Abraham so vitally with Je- rusalem. In the same article, however, Jerusalem is spoken of as the city of Melchizedek. For the shape of Moriah, its relations with Bezetha and Acra, the bridge that connected it with Zion across the valley of the Ty- ropoeon, see Jekusalkji. Notwithstanding the various and variously motived endeavors to disturb the old He- brew tradition, it has not been proved necessary to deny the identification of the two sites; nor to denounce the old etymology ; nor to cease perceiving the interesting link of connection supplied by it between the sacrifice of Isaac, the vision of (Jod's judgment and mercy, the erection of the Temple, and the offering up of God's only-begotten Son. See Solojiox.
Moriarty, Peter, an early and verj- useful minis- ter of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Bal- timore Co., JId., April 27, 1758, and educated a pajiist; was converted through Methodist influence about 1776; entered the itinerancy in Virginia in 1781, but subscciuent to 1787 his labors were mostly at the North, in the bounds of what has since become the New York Confer- ence. He died at Hillsdale, N. Y., June 23, 1814. Mr. jMoriarty was one of the oldest and most widely known ministers in the connection at the time of his death, a man who had labored l(jng and ardently in the work of saving men. iVlthough not eloquent, he was among the most useful men and successful preachers of his time, and an excellent presiding elder. Many souls were converted through his labors, and he died honored and beloved in all the churches. See Minutes of Annu- al Conference.'!, \,-lW\ i>te\cns, Memoi-ials of Method- ism, vol. ii, ch. X. (G. L. T.)
Morice de Beaubois, Dom Pierre /ft/annthe, a French scholar, was born Oct. 25. 1693, at (>uimperle, Basse Bretagne, of noble and wcaltliy parentage. He stu<lied at the College of Kennes, and made his vows in 1713 at flic abbey Saint Jlclaine, which belonged to the Order of the Benedictines of Saint ^laur, where he was intrusted witli several offices, and also with the instruc- tion of novices. In 1731 he was called to Paris to elab- orate the genealogy of the family Kohan, and lived there in the monastery of '■ Notre Dame of tlio White Kobes." After the completion of this work, which pro- cured for him a pension of 800 livres, he engaged, at the solicitation of the authorities of Bretagne, on a new
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history of that province, but death surprised him at Par- is, Oct. 14, 1750, before the entire publication of this work (aftenvards revised and completed by Dom Taillandier). Morice edited Lobineau's Memoirespota- set-vh- ckpreures a I'flistoire ecclesiastique de Bretagm (Paris, 174-2-46, 3 vols, fol.), and himself published Ullistoire ecclesias- tique et civile de Bretcirpie (Paris, 1750-56, 2 vols, fol.), which is considered superior to Lobineau's by the addi- tions and explanations, as well as by its style and ex- actness of details, and very valuable to the French ec- clesiastical student. A new edition of the two works in 20 vols. 8vo (Guincamp, 1836-37) leaves much to wish for.
Morid is the Arabic name which the IMohamme- dans give to those who aspire to a life of uncommon spirituality and devotion, and for this purpose they are put under the direction of another, whom they call Morshid, that is " director." They have a famous book, entitled Adab al-Moridin, which treats of the qualifi- cations those ought to have who put themselves un- der the direction of one of those spiritual guides. See Broughton, Hist, of Religion, ii, 142.