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MONUMENT PARK 298 MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE after a previous unsuccessful candidacy, he was elected President. He reorganized the finances of the country, remodeled the army and navy, extended railroads, improved the educational system, and gave his support to the principle of ar- bitration in international disputes. He died in Bremen, Germany, in 1910, w^hither he had gone for medical treat- ment, 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 com- posed of sandstone and are capped by a firm ferruginous sandstone which joins ths 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 gro- tesque. MONVEL, LOUIS MAURICE BOU TEL, a French illustrator, portrait and genre painter; bom at Orleans in 1850. Studied at the Beaux Arts and with Carolus Duran after the Franco-Prus- sian War. In 1875 he first exhibited portraits which won several medals, notably a gold medal at the Paris Ex- position of 1890. After this he devoted himself largely to illustrating, winning a world-wide fame. He was especially suc- cessful in depicting child life. He made six canvases on the subject of the life of Joan of Arc for the church at Domremy which were exhibited throughout the United States. Another series on the same subject were painted for Senator W. A. Clark. He was working on illus- trations for a Life of St. Francis of Assisi when he died in 1913. MONZA (mon'za) (ancient Modoetia), a town of Italy, on the river Lambro, 9 miles N. N. E. of Milan; it has an in- teresting town hall (1293), a royal pal- ace (1777), and manufactures of cottons, hats, leather, etc. The ancient capital of the Lombard sovereigns owed much to Theodelinda; and in the Middle Ages, in spite of 32 sieges, it was conspicuous for its cloth trade. The cathedral, founded in 595 by Theodelinda, contains many interesting relics of this great queen. The famous Iron Crovm, removed to Vienna in 1859, was restored in 1866. Pop. about 53,000. MOODY, DWIGHT LYMAN, an American evangelist; bom in Northfield, Mass., Feb. 5, 1837; received a common school education; united with the Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Bos- ton in 1850; settled in Chicago, 111., in 1856, and there built up a mission Sun- day-school with more than 1,000 pupils. He subsequently built a church in Chi- cago, 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 North- field. 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. MOODY, WILLIAM H., an American statesman; born in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 23. 1853; was graduated from Har- vard 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 ap- pointed an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He died in 1917. MOODY, WILLIAM VAUGHAN, dramatist and poet; born Spencer, Ind., in 1869, he studied at Harvard, and was instructor in English there for a couple of years, leaving in 1895 to teach Eng- lish and rhetoric at the University of Chicago. His first published work was "The Mask of Judgment," which ap- peared in 1900, while he was still in- structor at Chicago. In the following year he brought out "Poems," and in 1904 "The Fire-Bringer." These works attracted immediate attention by their original note. Three years passed before the appearance of his next work and the interval was well employed, for "The) Great Divide" which appeared in 1907 ranks high among American plays. In the same year appeared a "History of English Literature," in which he had collaborated with R. R. Lovett, and a year before his death appeared "The Faith-Healer," a drama of a merit almost equal to that of its predecessor. Died in 1910. MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHI- CAGO, a school founded by the famous evangelist Dwight L. Moody in 1886 for the purpose of training students in the knowledge of the Bible, and in the prac- tice of Bible teaching and missionary work. As it is not an endowed institu-