Montreal

After the lo of Quebec in 1759, the center of the French force was Montreal. Upon this the English forces advanced from Quebec under Murray, from Lake Cham plain under Haviland and from Lake Ontario under Amherst. The various outposts were driven in, and by September 6 the English with 17,000 invested the town. The French were reduced to 2,200 by desertion, and Vaudreuil, feeling resistance to be usele , surrendered, September 8, 1759. ‘The whole colony pa ed to the English, and the French army and officers were sent back to France. On the twelfth of November, 1775, General Montgomery captured the city of Montreal. It was a part of a scheme of the Revolutionary Americans to conquer Canada, which threatened their strategic center, New York. Moody, Dwight Iyman, was born in North field, Ma ., Feb. 5, 1837. His father, who was a stone mason, died suddenly when Dwight was only four years of age, leaving a family of six children and no other property than a little home in North field and two acres of land. Young Dwight had no advantages, but he was industrious, and at an age when other boys were in school he was working heroically to a ist in the support of the family. At seventeen he became a clerk in his uncle’s shoe store in Boston, and soon after joined the church, and in 1860 devoted himself exclusively to Christian effort. He had almost no education, but his powers of oratory were a gift, and he used them with such excellent effect that he became the greatest evangelist America has produced. He met Ira D. Sankey, the sweet singer, in 1870, and the two quickly formed a union for evangelical work. In 1873 they made a tour of England together, which proved an unprecedented | succe , making you sands of converts and raising large sums of thoney for churches and charity institutions. He continued his services with ever growing influence until his death, which occurred at his North field home December 22, 1899. | Moore field, W. Va., asharp skirmish August 7, 1864, between small bodies of Confederate and Union troops under B. Johnson and Averill respectively. The Confederates were defeated and Averill captured 500 prisoners, Moore’s Creek, Battle of, February 27,1776. At Moore’s Creek, N. C., Colonel Caswell, with 1,000 militia, defeated 1,600 loyalists, took goo prisoners, 2,000 stand of arms and £15,000 in gold. This victory | was as inspiring in the South as Lexington had been in New England. Moquis, an Indian tribe in Arizona on the Little Colorado and San Juan Rivers. They killed or expelled the early mi ionaries who visited them, but of late years have been peaceable. They have suffered greatly | from the attacks of Apaches and Navajos. Moravian Brethren. These form an evangelical church which flourished in Bohemia before the Reformation, was stamped out about 1627 and revived during the first half of the eighteenth century. They first settled in Georgia in 1735, but soon moved to Pennsylvania. They instituted a communism of labor; the lands were owned by the church, and its members worked them, receiving in return the nece ities of life. This plan existed till 1762, and greatly aided the church is sending out its itinerant ministers and mi ionaries. They also for a long time excluded from their communities all outsiders, but this system gradually died out and has now altogether disappeared. The American church still maintains its connection with the parent churches in Europe and is growing rapidly, owing largely to its active mi ionary spirit. Number of members in 1g00, 14,521. 470