Monument Park
situated N. of Colorado Springs in El Paso co., Col. Though small in extent, the park has many claims of interest, because of the natural stone columns rising 15 to 25 feet from the ground. They are composed of sandstone and are capped by a firm ferruginous sandstone which joins the pillars in pairs and groups. The effects of the weather and erosions of time have given some of the columns a rough resemblance to fantastic figures of human shape, some striking and grotesque.
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Monumental City
. See Baltimore
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Moody
DWIGHT LYMAN, an American evangelist; born in Northfield, Mass., Feb. 5, 1837; received a common school education; ucation; united with the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Bos- 298 MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE ton in 1850; settled in Chicago, Ill., in 1856, and there built up a mission Sunday - school with more than 1,000 pupils. He subsequently built a church in Chicago, which was destroyed in the great fire in 1871. In 1873 he began, with Ira D. Sankey, the evangelistic_work which soon made him famous. He met with unparalleled success both in the United States and Great Britain. In 1879 he founded a school for poor girls at Northfield, Mass., which later grew into the celebrated Northfield and Mount Hermon institutions. His publications include "The Second Coming of Christ" (1877); "The Way to God, and How to Find It" (1884); etc. He died in Northfield, Mass., Dec. 22, 1899.
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Moody (WILLIAM H an American)
WILLIAM H., an American statesman; born in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 23, 1853; was graduated from Harvard in 1876; was district attorney for the eastern district of Massachusetts, 1890-1895; was a member of Congress 1895-1902; when he was appointed by President Roosevelt to succeed John D. Long as Secretary of the Navy. He held this post until 1904, when he was made Attorney-General, and in 1906 was appointed an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He died in 1917.
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Moody, Dwight Lyman
Dwight Lyman (1837-1899), an American evangelist. He was born at Northfield, Massachusetts, and died there. A farmer's boy, a shoe salesman in Boston, again a salesman in Chicago, he became interested in the mission work of the latter city. From 1860 on he gave himself up to holding revival services chiefly in connection with the Congregational churches. During the Civil War he worked among the soldiers. At its close he resumed work in Chicago, becoming associated with Ira D. Sankey, the singer, with whom he visited England and Scotland, holding immense meetings. Great meetings were held also in nearly every large city of the Union. An admirer estimates that Mr. Moody addressed in all no less than 50,000,000 people. Toward the close of his labors he made his home at the place of his birth, where he established an academy for girls, one for boys, and a training school for revival workers. He was a man of fervent, simple eloquence, whose sayings linger.
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Moon
MOUNTAINS OF THE, a high chain of mountains supposed to cross the continent of Africa from E. to W. On the earlier charts they were placed behind the fertile regions which line the S. side of the Mediterranean, separating them from the Great Desert; but the location of the mountains has been gradually changed by geographers southward.
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Moonwort
an interesting fern, native of Great Britain, and widely distributed over northern Europe, penetrating to Arctic regions and Asia, the few other species of which the family is composed appearing also in North America. The plant consists of a root-stock bearing a single erect stem from three to six inches high. A single pinnate leaf springs from the stem about midway, the segments halfmoon shaped, pale green, and thick. The fructification is developed on a branched , pyramidal in outline, from one two inches long. The largest growing , named the rattlesnake fern, abounds in places frequented by that
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Moor
a native of the N. coast of Africa, which formed the ancient Mauritania, now represented by the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli. In 709 the Arabs conquered Mauritania, and converted the people to Mohammed. anism. The conquerors and the conquered amalgamated together, and in 711 an army of this mixed populatión, under Arab leaders, crossed at the Straits of Gibraltar, and began the conquest of the Spanish peninsula. This they speedily effected, with the exception of the mountainous districts of Asturias and Galicia. When almost the whole of the rest of Europe was sunk in ignorance and barbarism, learning and the arts flourished among the Moors in Spain. About the middle of the 11th century, many of the local governors established themselves as independent potentates. The wars that followed so weakened the power of the Moors that the Christians rose against them under Alfonso, "the battler," and took Castile, with its capital, Toledo. Their progress was for a time checked; but subsequently they continued to extend their conquests till the
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Moor Fowl
. See Grouse
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Moore
mor, Thomas (1779-1852), an Irish poet. He was born at Dublin and was educated at Trinity College. He studied law. Byron for England, Burns for Scotland, and Moore for Ireland may be associated conveniently in the student's mind. All were popular writers, all three were dissipated and unchaste in life; but similarity stops here. Byron was terribly in earnest in his bitterness; Burns was at heart reverent and true; Moore was a successful fashionable rake, lacking in depth and sincerity. He began to write verses when a boy. While at Dublin University he translated the Odes of Anacreon. His early volumes of poetry were criticized severely but were widely read. In the Edinburgh Review Moore was denounced as a "corruptor of morals." A duel between the editor, Jeffrey, and Moore was the result of this criticism. Byron made sport of the affair and it was said that the pistols were loaded with saltpeter. However that may be, neither of the participants was hurt and they became excellent friends thereafter. Lalla Rookh is a society rendering in verse of four gaudy eastern tales. It sold wonderfully and brought the author $15,000. The Fudge Family in Paris is written in a lighter vein. Moore wrote a number of prose works, among them biographies of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Lord Byron. His life of Byron is the best biography we have of that author, the two poets having been personal friends.
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