Munsey, Thojias K., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Giles County, Va., Sept. 7, 1816. He was converted and joined the Church ■when eighteen years old, and had a strong desire to en- ter the ministry at once, but his education was so lim- ited that he found it necessary to prepare himself for the great work. He spent one year in Emory and Henry college, and taught one year to pay his ex- penses. At the age of twenty-four he joined the Hol- stein Conference, and continued an acceptable member till his death. His first charge was the Rogersville Cir- cuit, which contained twenty-eight appointments. His labors continued for six years, when failing health com- pelled him to seek rest. From this time he became a sufferer, but whenever sufficiently strong he was found laboring in the cause he loved so well. While he was on the Athens District in 1867 his health gave way entirely, and he was obliged to give up all work. He held a superannuated relation to the Conference till his death, which occurred July 4, 1872. See Minutes of Ann. Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ish.
Munsinger, Johann, a German theologian of the 14th century, is noted in ecclesiastical history on ac- count of the part he took in the Sacramentarian con- troversy of his time. He was rector of the school in Ulm in A.D. 1385, but was ejected because of his decla- rations, " Corpus Christi non est Deus. NuUa creatura est adoranda adoratione qua Deus debet adorari, adora- tione scil. latriaj: hyperdulia debetur creature excel- lenti, sicut est caro Christi, b. Virgo," etc. He main- tained further, " Hostia consecrata non est Deus ; Deus est sub hostia consecrata, corpus ejus, sanguis et ani- ma;" namely, "per hostiam intelligo accidentia quoe sunt in pane, rotunditatem videlicet, saporem et gravi- tatem." He denied the propriety of calling the hostia the corpus Chi-isti, " quia accidentia visa non sunt cor- pus Christi, licet intus sit corpus Christi ;" therefore it was .better to saj', "hie esse corpus Christi sub specie panis." Munsinger, it is seen then, only objected to considering the visible bread to be Christ himself; but by no means denied that Christ should be prayed to, sub specie panis, and hence his propositions were ap- proved by both the universities, notwithstanding that the Dominicans had ousted him as a heretic. See Fla- cius, Catal. testium veritatis, No. 315, and elsewhere; Schelhorn, Amoenitaies literarice, viii, 511 ; 1. c. xi, 222 ; Gieseler, Eccles. Hist, iii, 136, note.
Muuson, Eneas, M.D., a Christian physician, was born in New Haven June 24, 1734; graduated at Yale College in 1753 ; and, after having been a tutor, became a chaplain in the army in 1755 on Long Island. Ill- health induced him to study medicine. He practiced physic at Bedford in 1756, and removed in 1760 to New
Haven, where he died, June 16, 1826, in high repute as a physician. Of the medical society of Connecticut he was the president. He was a man of piety from an early period of his life. At the bedside of his patients he was accustomed to commend them to God in prayer. It was with joyous Christian hope that this venerable old man went down to the dead.
Munson, John, a Presbyterian minister, was bom in New Jersey in 1783. But little is known of his early history, save tliat in 1808 the family removed west of the Alleghany Mountains, and settled near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa. In the academy of that place he received a fair education-, studied theologj' privately; was licensed and ordained in 1817 ; and in 1818 installed pastor of the congregations of Plain Grove and Centre, Pa. In 1838 he was relieved from the former, and gave all his attention to the latter charge, where he labored till 1859, when he resigned. He subsequently removed to London, Mercer Co., Pa., where he died, Dee. 18, 1866. Mr. Munson was a man of superior intellect. He was a great reader, especially of standard works, such as Bates, Edwards, etc. As a theologian he was able, being familiar with all the great questions in contro- versy between the Calvinists and Arminians. His preaching was mostly textual. See Wilson, Presb, Hist, A Imanac, 1867, p. 183. (J. L. S.)
Munson, Samuel, a Congregational minister, was born March 2:i. 1mi4. at New Sharon, Me. He gradu- ated at liciwddin ('oUege in 1829; and having entered the ministry with the intention of becoming a mis- sionary, offered his services to the American Board, and was sent with the Rev. Henry Lyman to Sumatra and the neighboring isles. They sailed for Batavia June 10, 1833, in which place they remained until April, 1834, when they sailed to Nyas, thence to Tappanooly. Having obtained servants and guides, they started to visit the Batta region, but were murdered by the na- tives, April 28, 1834. See Sprague, Annals Aine?: Pul- jnt, ii, 747; American Missionary 3femoi-ial,s.v.
Miinster, Pkotestant Eevolt at. See Ana- baptists.
Miinster, Sebastian, a German theologian and Hebraist, who identified himself with the Reformers, but exerted an influence only as a scholar, was born in 1489 at Ingelheim, in the Palatinate. At sixteen years of age he went to Tubingen, where Stapfer and Reuch- lin became his teachers. He then joined the Order of the Franciscans; but, brought in contact with Luther, he quitted the convent and embraced Protestantism. He was elected professor of Hebrew and theology at the University of Heidelberg, and subsequently at that of Basle, where he died of the plague in 1552. Besides being an eminent Hebraist, he was also an excellent mathematician ; yet his erudition is hardly more praised by his contemporaries than his modesty. His tomb- stone bears the inscription, "Germanorum Esdras hie Straboque conditur." He was a sweet-tempered, pa- cific, studious, retired man, who wrote a great number of books, but never meddled in controversy ; all which considered, his going early over to Luther must seem somewhat extraordinar}'. And yet he was one of the first who attached himself to Luther; but he seems to have done it w-ith little or none of that zeal which dis- tinguished the early Reformers, for he never concerned himself with their disputes, but shut himself up in his study, and busied himself in such pursuits as were most agreeable to his humor; and these were the Hebrew and other Oriental languages, the mathematics, and natural philosophy. His works are, Hiblia Hebraica Charactere Singulari apud Judceos Ge3~manos in usu recepto, cum Latina planeque Nova Ti-anslatione, ad- jectis insuper e Rabbinorum Comme7ituriis Annotutioni- biis, etc. (Basle, 1534-35, fol. ; reprinted in 2 vols. foL in 1546, with considerable additions and corrections). This version is considered much more faithful and ex- act than those of Pagninus and Arias Montanus, and