Murray, Daniel, a noted Roman Catholic prelate, was born in Ireland in 1768, and educated at Salaman- ca, where he was ordained priest in 1790. He filled va- rious eminent positions in the Church, and finally was elevated to the archbishopric of Dublin in 1823. Dur- ing the agitation for Roman Catholic emancipation in Ireland, he supported that measure hy his influence, after which he took no part in political questions. In 1831 he was joined with archbishop Whately and oth- ers in the commission for Irish education, and sanctioned the institution of the queen's colleges. He withdrew, however, on knowing the contrary pleasure of the pope. He died in 1852. He wrote The Douai and Rhenish Bible and the Boi-deaux Testament Examined (Lond. 1850, 18mo). See Notice of the Life and Characttr of A rchbishop Murray, by Rev. W. Jleagher (1853, 8vo) ; Dublin University Magazine, viii, 493.
Murray, Edward, an eminent English divine of recent times, was born near the opening of this century, and flourished successively as rural dean and chaplain to the bishop of Rochester; vicar of Hinsford in 1823, and of Northholt in 1836. He died in 1852. He pub- lished, Prayers and Collects translated from Calvin (Lond. 1832, 8vo) : — Enoch Restitutus, or an attempt to separate from the Booh of Enoch the Book quoted by St. Jude (Dublin, 1836, 8vo), a work which "displays much learning, research, and diligent inquiry" (British Jfaga- zine, July, 1836, p. 57).
Murray, James (1), a Scotch divine of some note, flourished in the first half of the 18th century. He was born at Dunkeld in 1702, and educated at the Marischal College, Aberdeen; after taking his degree he was licensed for the ministry. He died in 1758. He is supposed to have preached for a time at AVestminster. He published A letheia, or a General System of Moral Truths ami Natural Religion (London, 1747, 2 vols. 12mo). See Chalmers, Biog. Diet. s. v. ; Wilson, Dis- senting Churches.
Murray, James (2), an English divine, who flour- ished near the middle of the last century at Newcastle, where he died in 1782, devoted himself largely to the study of secular and ecclesiastical history, and published I/ist. of the Churches of England and Scotland (Newcas- tle, 1771, 3 vols. 8vo) : — Impaitial Hist, of the jn-esent War in A merica (1778-80, 3 vols. 8vo). He also collect- ed some of his sermons, and they were published in 1819 under the title of Sermons to Asses, to Doctors in Divin- ity, to Lords Spiritual, and to Minisfeis of State (Lond. 8vo). A copy of this curious collection, which is very rare, is in the Drew Theological Seminary library (Mad- ison, N. J.). It betrays much disaffection with the Na- tional Church establishment.
Murray, James Stuart, Earl of a natural son of James Y, king of Scotland, deserves our attention for the part he played in the disposition of Scottish eccle- siastical affairs. He was born in 1531, and educated in France with his sister Mary, but joined the Reformers
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soon after her marriage with the dauphin, and became ahnost immediately cliief of the Protestant party in Scotland. His political history is connected with the fortunes of the queen, after whose imprisonment in Lochleven castle in 15G7 he was proclaimed rcfjent, and defeateil her troops at the battle of Langside, ilarch 13, 15G8. His personal history, in so far as it affects the political, social, and religious history of Scotland during the eventful reign of queen Marj' Stuart, has been no- ticed in our articles on Knox and JIaky Stuakt. See also Scoi'i.ANi). He was shot by James Hamilton, on the accusation that he had seduced (1570) his wife. I3ut this accusation seems groundless; and there is every reason to belie%-e that Hamilton acted as the executioner of a doom pronounced on him (Murray) by his enemies in secret conclave. Earl JIurray was beloved by the people, and acknowledged by his contemporaries as a pious and lofty character who labored to ])romote the interests of the Cimrch, and especially of Protestantism. The Romanists, of course, hated him, and he was slan- dered. Sec Butler, Kcdes. Hist, ii, 550; Fisher, Hist. of the Rrforrndtion, \\ 359, 3G7, 309,373,377,380: Froude, Jlist. uf Eiii/hiud, vol. viii, ix,
Murray, John (1), an eminent divine, regarded as the founder of the Universalist denomination of Christians in America, was born in Alton, Hani]ishirc, England, December 10, 1741. He received the careful religious training of sincerely pious parents. When he was about eleven \-ears of age, the famih' removed to Ireland, and settled near Cork. His father, a mem- ber of the Established Church, a Calvinist in senti- ment, but an early convert to the religious views of John \\'esley, infused his own sentiments and zeal into the mind of his child. His extreme anxiety for the spiritual welfare of his son — who, very young, became the subject of hopeful conversion— and his unwilling- ness to allow him to pass from under his immediate guardianship, induced him to reject a proffered opportu- nity to give him a liberal education. The earnestness, devotion, and ability of young Murray gave him, as he grew up, position and inlluence in religious circles, and he became an occiisional preacher in Wesley's connec- tion. At a later jieriod, he formed an acquaintance with Mr. Wiiitetield— with whom he agreed touching the doc- trine (if election — and became greatly interested in his teachings. About the year 1760 Murray returned to England. Here his experiences were varied, trying, and sometimes humiliating. In a controversy with one who had embraced the religious views of James Kelly, a teacher of Univcrsalism, his own theological positions were somewhat disturbed. At length he allowed him- self to read Kelly's Union ; and entered upon a careful re-examination of the sacred Scriptures. He afterwards attended regularly upon Mr. Kelly's preaching, and re- ceived joyfully the doctrines of Universalism as taught by him. His faith soon became decided " that Christ Jesus died for all, and that every one for whom Christ (lied must finally be saved" {FAfe, newcd. 1870, p. IGl). I^xcommunication from Mr. Whitefield's tabernacle in London naturally followed. Persecutions for opinion's sake, pecuniary embarrassments, and grief for the death of his wife and infant cliild, rendered him wretciicd. Having by a temporary devotion to business discharged all pecuniary obligations, he resolved to leave his native land and to seek retirement and relief in America. Yet on his first arrival in the New World, led, as he undoubt- ingly believed, by a superintending and special Provi- dence, he was constrained to preach, and gave his first discourse in America SciJiember 30, 1770. The service was held in a small church in an ol)scure jilace— called " Ciood Luck" — in New Jersey. Thenceforward he re- garded himself as called of (iod to teach the universal rcdem|)tion of tlie human race through Christ, and gave himself devotedly to the work of his ministry. He la- bored first in New Jersey and New York. Afterwards, as he found opportunity, he i)reached — though often op]x)sed and sometimes bitterly persecuted — in New-