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information (N. Y. 1854) ; Hyde, Mormonism, its Lead- ers and Designs (N. Y. 1857), an expose by a former Mormon elder; Tucker, Orifjin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism TN. Y. 18G7) ; and the latest and best, Sten- hoiise. The liochj Mountain Saints (N. Y. 1S73), whose book we liavc had occasion to refer to so frequently. See also travels like Kemy's Journey to Great Salt Lake Citi/, Dixon's Xetv America, Kae's Westward by Rail, and OUivant's Breeze from t/ie Great Salt Lake. Among periodical articles, see Revue des deux Mondes, Sept.
1853, Feb. 1856, Sept. 1859, April, 18G1 ; Edinb. Rev. of
1854, p. 185 sq. ; Quart. Rev. April, 18G7 ; Eraser's May. vols, iii and iv, new series, June and July, 1871 ; Good IFor*, June, 1866; Blackwood's May. 1867; Brit. Qu. Rev. Jan. 1862; London Rev. jMarch, 1854, art. iv ; July, 1862, art. iii ; Koiih British Rev. Aug. 1863, vol. viii ; Princeton Rev. Jan. 1862, art. ii; Christian Examiner, Jan. to May, 1858; LittelVs Living Aye, 1852, 1854, and 1856. (J.il.W.)
Mornay, Philip Dltlessis de. See Du Plessis.
Morning (properly "ipin, boker. Gen. i, 5; Trpouta, Matt, xxi, 18), the early part of the day, after sunrise. The break of day, "iH"^, shuchar, was at one period of the Jewish polity divided into two parts, in imitation of the Persians; the first of which began when the east- ern, the second when the western division of the horizon was illuminated. The authors of the Jerusalem Talmud divided it into four parts, the first of which was called in Hebrew "iniT!! r5^X, aijeleth ha-shachar, or " the dawn of day," which is the title of Psalm xxii. The Hebrews, like most simple people, were accustomed to early rising (CSdil, Gen. xix, 27, etc.), as is still the Oriental custom (Hackett, M«s^ra^Jo?w of Scripture, p. 115 sq.). See Afteuxoon ; Day; Hour.
Morning Lecture. See Lectuke.
Morning Sacrifice. See Daily Okfeuing.
Morning Service, it would appear from the Apos- tolic Constitutions, was regularly performed in the early Christian Church. The order observed was as follow.s : " It began with the sixty-third psalm (according to our arrangement), ' O God, thou art my (iod ; early will I seek thee.' After this followed the prayers for the sev- eral orders of catechumens, energumens, candidates for baptism, and penitents. When these were sent away, there followed the prayers whicli on the Lord's-day began the communion service. After the prayer for the whole state of the Cluirch was ended, the deacon exhorted the people to pray, thus : ' Let us beg of God his mercies and compassions, that this morning and this day, and all the time of our pilgrimage, may be passed by us in peace and without sin; let us beg of God that he would send us the angel of peace, and give us a Cliristian end, and be gracious and merciful unto us. Let us commend ourselves, and one another, to the living God, by his only-begotten Son.' Immediately after this common prayer of the deacon and people to- gether, the bishop offered ' the morning thanksgiving,' in the following words : ' O God, the God of spirits and of all flesh, with whom no one can compare, and who art above all need, that givest the sun to govern the day, and the moon and tiie stars to govern the night, look down now upon us with the eyes of thy favor, and receive our morning thanksgivings, and have mercy upon us. For we have not sjiread forth our h.ands to any strange god. We have not chosen luito ourselves any new god among us, but thou, the eternal and im- mortal tiod: O (iod, who hast given to us our being through Christ, and our well-being through him also, vouchsafe by him to make us worthy of everlasting life, with whom unto thee be glory, honor, and adora- tion, in tlie Holy Ghost, world witliout end. Amen.' After this the deacon bade them bow their heads, and receive the bishop's benediction in tlie following form: ' O God, faithful and true, that showcst mercy to thou-
sands and ten thousands of them that love thee; who art the friend of the humble and defender of the poor ; whose aid all stand in need of, since all things serve thee; look down upon this thj' people, who bow their heads unto thee, and bless with thy spiritual benedic- tion ; keep tliem as the apple of an eye ; [)reserve them in piety and righteousness, and make them worthy of everlasting life, through Jesus Christ thy beloved Son, with whom with thee be glory, honor, and adoration, in the Holy Ghost, now and forever, >vorld without end. Amen.' The deacon then dismissed the congre- gation with the usual form — ' Depart in peace.'"
Morocco (or Mahocco), called by the natives Mayhrtb-el-Aksa, i. e. '"the extreme west," an empire or sultanate in the north-west of Africa, is bounded on the E. by Algeria, on the N. and W. by the Jlediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, and on the S. by a line which runs from Cajje Nun (Lat. 28^ 45' 43" N.) in an easterly direction through the Sahara to tlie Algerian frontier, in long. 2^ E. It includes at the present day the for- mer kingdoms of Maghrib, Fez, and Tafilelet, covering about 260,000 English square miles, with a population of 7,250,000, according to Behm (Geogrophisches Juhr- buch, 1866).