MARSHALL ISLANDS

[s. 455] : Two chains of lagoon Mic rones i a, called Ratack (13) and Ralick (11); comprise an area of 1,400 square miles, with an estimated population of 10,000. A mi ionary of the ABCFM is located at Kusaie, in the Caroline Islands, and the work among the various islands is carried on by native preachers and teachers under his supervision. Ebon and Jalut and nine other islands have schools and preaching stations. The whole group contains The Ger1 1 churches, 8 pastors, and 1 5 preachers. man occupation of the islands has not improved the morals of the natives. islands, in by the Lazarites, not Rev. been impervious to Protestant influence. Isaac Bird, in the early days of the mi ion, was driven from the region, and mi ionaries have made no attempt since then permanently to Misreside in the Kesrawan and in Bsherreh. sionaries occasionally have summered in the mountains above Tripoli, and the prejudice An inc i against them is gradually subsiding. dental benefit of Mr. Bird’s attempt is that the potatoes which Mr. Bird left behind in his garden have spread all over the mountains, and form a staple of agriculture along with maize. Other societies besides the Presbyterian Board are reaching the Maronites. The Free Church of Scotland has occupied the Metu region just south of Kesrawan for some years. The English schools for girls, established after 1860, and which are scattered over the mountains to the south, are doing very work. The efficient mi ion of the Irish Presbyterian Church in Damascus is reaching the Maronites in that region. In spite of the great care of the Pi,oman Catholics, education is transforming the whole sect, and evangelical truth is more and more.winning its way among them. ill (C. H.), Ten Years’ Residence in Mt. Lebanon, 4 2d ed., London, 1862 (the 4th vol. refers to Druses and Maronites). Churc vols., Marakesli Marshmaii, JoHhna MARSH MAN, Joshua: Born April 20, 1768, in Westbury-Leigh, Wilts hire, England. When young he showed a great pa ion for reading. His parents being poor, his school education defective, and he followed the occupation Removing then to Bristol, of a weaver till 1794. he taught a small school, and at the same time became a student in Bristol Academy, where he and Sj^riac. studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew Having decided to be a mi ionary to the heathen, he offered himself to the BMS, and in 1 799 was sent, with three others, to join Dr. Carey in his mi ion As the East India Company north of Bengal. prohibited mi ions in its territories, they were advised not to undertake to land at Calcutta, but to go direct to the Danish settlement of Serampur. They reached Serampur October 13, 1799, and were cordially received by the governor. Colonel Bie. Carey soon joined them. Dr. Marsh man, finding the support granted by the Society insufopened two ficient, with the aid of his wife boarding schools for European children and a was The income from these school for natives. schools rendered the mi ion nearl}’ independent The Society dis of support from the Society. approved of the course followed, and altho Dr. Marsh man went to England to make explanations, the Serampur mi ion was separated from the BMS for some years. This disturbance of pleasant relations, the death of his a ociate, Mr. Ward, and family afflictions prostrated him, and he died December 5, 1837. Dr. Marsh man He studied Bengali, Sanskrit and Chinese. translated into Chinese the Book of Genesis, the Epistles of Paul to the the Romans and Gospels, and Corinthians. In 1811 he published A Di ertation on the Characters and Sounds of the Chinese Language; The Works of Confucius, containing the Original Text, with a Translation; Clavis Sinica: Elements of Chinese Grammar, with a Preliminary Di ertation on the Characters and Marso’van Mason, Rev. Francis He was Colloquial Mediums of the Chinese. a ociated with Dr. Carey in preparing a Sanskrit grammar and Bengali-English dictionary, and Raja published an abridgment of the latter. Rammohun Roy having a ailed the miracles of Christ in a work entitled The Precepts of Jesus the Guide to Peace, Dr. Marsh man replied in a series of articles in the Friend of India, afterward published in a volume entitled A Defence of the Deity and Atonement of Jesus Christ. To this Rammohun Roy replied. The degree of D.D. was conferred on Mr. Marsh man by Brown University in 1811. 456