Dr. Morrison certainly achieved great things in Chi- na. The compilation of his dictionary in the vernacular language of that country was a Herculean task, which none but a man of the greatest strength of intellect and energy of purpose could have accomplished. Along with that he completed a Chinese version of the Old and New Testaments, which, in the opinion of all the learned men of Europe, was deemed utterly beyond the power of any single person. Nor were his exertions fur the Chinese confined solely to literary works. He went about doing good. "He endeavored," says his biog- rapher, " in the employment of such expedients as he could command, to relieve tlie wants, to mitigate the sufferings, and heal the diseases of the poor and suffer- ing Chinese around him. In order to secure to the natives tlie means of a lil)eral and religious education, as well as to furnish facilities to foreigners to prosecute the study of the Chinese language, he projected the es- tablishment of the Anglo-Chinese college." His whole life and works show the activity and energy and com- prehensiveness of his mental endowments, as well as the Christian benevolence of his heart. His office was that only of a pioneer who prepared the way for the evan- gelization of China. But with the instruments which his zeal and indefatigable industry put into the hands of the Evangelical churches, the preliminary obstacles have been removed, and the way prepared for carry- ing on the work of direct Christian instruction. His coadjutor. Dr. ]Milne, who died some time before, said of Morrison that " his talents were rather of the solid than the showy kind ; adapted more to continued labor than to astonish by sudden bursts of genius; and his well-known caution fitted him for a station where one false step at the begiiniing miglit have delayed the work for ages." It may serve to give an idea of the exertions of Dr. Morrison and his colleagues to state that from 1810 to 1836, 751,763 copies of works, consisting of 8,000,000 pages, were printed in the Chinese and Ma- lay languages at Canton, Malacca, Batavia, rcnaiig, and Singapore. This includes 207.') complete Chinese Bibles, 9970 New Testaments, and 31,000 separate por- tions of Scripture in Chinese. See A/emoirs nj't/ie Life and Correspondence of Robert Morrison, D.D., compiled h>j his Widow, to which is ai)ponded .1 Critical Ksxaij on the Literary Labors oj" Dr. Morrison, by the Hev. S. Kidd, professor of Chinese in the University College
(Lond. 1839, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Aikman, Cyclop, of Christian Missions, p. 102 sq. ; Eclectic Revieic, 4th series, vii, 176 ; Philadelphia Mttseutn, xxxvii, 94; Kemusat, in Journal des Savans for 1824. ' (J. H. W.)
Morrison, Robert E., a minister of the Method- ist Ei)isco])al Church, was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Oct. 12, 1800. When seventeen years of age he united with the Presbyterian Church; but eight years after- wards, being brought into intimate relations with ileth- odists, he united with the ^Methodist Episcopal Church. He j3reached under the presiding elder for three years, and in 1833 was received into the Philadelphia Confer- ence, and appointed to Chester Circuit, Pa., where he labored verj' acceptably for two years. In 1835 he was appointed to Tuckerton Circuit, N. J. The necessities of the case requiring it, he was removed and appointed to Haddonfield. In 1836-7 he travelled Swedesborough Circuit. Here great success crowned his efforts. In 1838-9 he labored in Pemberton; in 1840-1 in Long Branch ; in 1842-3 in Pennington ; in 1844-5 in ^Vllen- town ; and in 1840 at Crosswicks. A throat difficulty compelled him to take a supernumerary relation, and locating at Hightstown, N. J., he became one of its most respected citizens. For a number of years he was pres- ident of Hightstown Bank. He died Aug. 30, 1873. Mr. Morrison, being studious, acquired a large store of knowledge, and became a good thiidier. Though not a graduate of any literary institution, he read Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and was quite at home in mathe- matics. He was also a thorough student of divinity. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 37.
Morrow (^n^, mackar', avpiov). See Prockas-
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Morrow-Mass Priest is the name of the priest who said early mass, mnrnnr being equivalent to inorn- iiir/. — Wah'olt, /Sac. Archievl. s. v.
MoiTOW, Richard H., a Presbyterian minister, was born in Huntingdon Co., Pa., Jan. 13, 1823. In early youth he was hopefully converted, and determined to preach the Gospel. He obtained his preparatory ed- ucation in the academy at Academia, and graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1851, after which he engjiged for some time as teacher in the IMilnwood Academy at Shade Gap, Pa. He studied theology at Alleghany and Princeton seminaries, graduating at the latter in 1854; was licensed by the Presbytery of Huntingdon, and in 1855 ordained and installed pastor of the church at Cedar Hapids, Iowa, where he continued to labor un- til compelled by declining health to resign his charge, in April, 1859. He died June 10, 1859. Mr. Morrow was a plain and practical preacher, his style giving evidence of fine culture. He was humble, consistent, devoted, pos- sessing in an eminent degree the happy faculty of gain- ing the friendship and esteem of all who knew him. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. A Imanac, 1861 , p. 98. (J. L. S.)