MOHL, ROBERT VON, 



MORIKE, EDUARD. 



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and ordered a new election. He was again 

 elected by a large majority. But his death, 

 occurring a few days after, disposed of the ques- 

 tion entirely. 



MOHL, ROBERT VON, a German jurist, born 

 at Stuttgart, August 17, 1799 ; died November 

 4, 1875. In 1824 he was appointed Extraor- 

 dinary Professor of Law, and in 1827 Ordinary 

 Professor of Political Economy in Tubingen, to 

 which position was added that of Librarian-in- 

 chief of the University in 1836. Owing to diffi- 

 culties with the Government he was deprived 

 of these positions, and left the service of the 

 state. Soon after he was elected to the Low- 

 er House of the Diet of Wiirtemberg. He went 

 to Heidelberg as professor in 1847, was elected 

 to the National Assembly in 1848, and in Au- 

 gust of the same year was appointed Minister 

 of Justice in the Imperial Ministry. He re- 

 signed in 1849, and went back to Heidelberg. 

 Here he was soon after elected a representa- 

 tive of the university to the Upper House of 

 Baden, and was particularly active in procur- 

 ing the repeal of the concordat in 1860. In 

 1861 he was appointed embassador of Baden 

 to the Bundestag, and retained that position 

 until the dissolution of the German Confeder- 

 acy in 1866. In 1874 he was elected a member 

 of the German Reichstag. He was always a 

 strong advocate of German unity, to which 

 end he devoted his best talents. He was a 

 brother of Julius, Moritz, and Hugo von Mohl, 

 all of whom rose to great eminence in their 

 respective positions. He wrote " Staatsrecht 

 des Konigreichs Wtirtemberg" (1829; second 

 edition, 1840-'46) ; "Die Ministerverantwort- 

 lichkeit in Einherrschaften mit Volksvertre- 

 tung" (1837) ; " Die Polizeiwissenschaft nach 

 den Grundsatzen des Rechtsstaates " (3 vols., 

 third edition, 1866); "Geschichte und Litera- 

 tur der Staatswissenschaft " (3 vols., 1855- 

 '58) ; " Staatsrecht, Volkerrecht und Politik " 

 (2 vols., 1860-'62; third vol., 1869); "Wider 

 die Gleichstellung der Juden " (1869) ; and 

 " Das deutsche Reichsstaatsrecht " (1873). 



MORAVIANS. The statistics of the Unitas 

 Fratrum for 1874 give the following details 

 of the Moravian churches throughout the 

 world : 



German Province, 5,418 communicants, and 

 7,613 souls, besides 170 members engaged in 

 various work in Germany ; British Province, 

 3,289 communicants, and 5,646 souls; Ameri- 

 can Province, 8,705 communicants, and 15,308 

 souls; Bohemian Mission, 115 communicants, 

 and 168 souls. Whole number of communi- 

 cants in the three Home Provinces, 17,527 ; 

 whole number of souls, 28,905. Converts in 

 the Foreign Missionary Provinces, 69,322 ; mis- 

 sionaries and their children, about 400. Total 

 membership of the Unitas Fratrum, 98,227 

 souls. Besides these, there are claimed as at- 

 tached to the Moravian Church about 80,000 

 souls connected with the German Diaspora 

 Mission, who are not counted among the mem- 

 bers, because they mostly belong, as yet, to 



the state churches, in the midst of which the 

 Diaspora is carried on. 



The Church annually educates in the board- 

 ing-schools of its three provinces about 2,850 

 young people who are not of its own com- 

 munion. 



It is claimed on behalf of the Moravians that 

 the statistics show that theirs is not a large 

 church, but, at the same time, that it exerts a 

 very great influence both in the Christian and 

 heathen world. It is scattered over the whole 

 earth, from Greenland to Australia, and from 

 Thibet to South America, and yet constitutes 

 one organic whole, with the same general ec- 

 clesiastical government. It is claimed that 

 this is the only Protestant Church which keeps 

 up such a unity. 



Certain exclusive features in the constitu- 

 tion of the American Province were done away 

 with in 1855. At that time the number of 

 churches was forty-three ; of communicants, 

 4,460; and of souls, 8,831. In 1875 the number 

 of churches had increased to seventy-three, the 

 number of communicants had been doubled, 

 and the whole number of souls had been in- 

 creased by nearly 6,900. 



The receipts for the Moravian Foreign Mis- 

 sions for the year ending July 1, 1875, were as 

 follows : 



1. Collections in Congregations: #, Ger- 

 many and the Diaspora, $13,000; 5, England, 

 $9,800 ; c, North America, $1,000 : total, $23,- 

 800. 



2. Other Contributions : German Province, 

 $15,600; British Province, $34,500; American 

 Province, $13,000 : total, $63,100. 



3. Legacies .-German Province, $11,000 ; 

 British Province, $6,000 : total, $17,000. 

 Grand total, $103,900. 



(The report foots it up to $106,900.) 



The disbursements for the year amounted to 

 about $103,500. 



There were also collected, for extinguishing 

 the debt of the former year, the following 

 sums: In the German Province, $3,600; in the 

 British Province, $22,300; in the American 

 Province, $45 ; in the West Indies, $20 : total, 

 $25,965. 



The whole number of missionaries was 336, 

 or three more than were employed the previous 

 year. Number of stations, 92 ; of out-stations, 

 15 ; of persons under the care of the mis- 

 sionaries, 67,795. 



MORIKE, EDTJABD, a German poet, born at 

 Ludwigsburg, September 8, 1804; died June 

 4, 1875. He studied at the Gymnasium of 

 Stuttgart, prepared himself for the study of 

 theology at the Evangelical Seminary at Urach, 

 and in 1822 entered the University of Tubin- 

 gen, where, however, he devoted more time 

 to belles-lettres than to theology. Having be- 

 come pastor in a small town in 1834, he was 

 forced to resign this position on account of ill- 

 health. He was then for a time teacher in 

 Stuttgart. Although his poems are known to 

 few only, they are still prized as among the 



