MOBERLY, GEORGE: Church of England bishop; b. in St. Petersburg Oct 10, 1803; d. at Salisbury July 6, 1885. Studied at Winchester and Balliol colleges, Oxford (B.A., 1825; fellow, 1826; M.A., 1828; D.C.L., 1836). He was select preacher before the university in 1833, 1858, and 1863, and Bampton lecturer in 1868; was public examiner in 1830, 1833,.1834, and 1835; as a tutor he had Manning and Tait as pupils; he vacated his fellowship 1834; was appointed head-master of Winchester 1835; became rector of Brightstone, Isle of Wight, in 1868, and a canon of Chester Cathedral in the same year; and was appointed bishop of Salisbury by Gladstone 1869. His sympathies were with the High-church party. In 1872 he appealed to churchmen to consent to an omission of the damnatory clauses from the Athanasian Creed, and in 1877 spoke strongly against the use of the confessional, especially in schools. Hewasthesuthorof: Practical Sermons (London, 1838); Sermons Preached at Winchester College (two series, 1844, 1848); The Sayings of the Great Forty Days between the Resurrection and Ascension, Regarded as the Outlines of the Kingdom of God (five sermons; 1844); All Saints, Kings and Priests (two sermons; Winchester, 1850); The Law of the Love of God, an Essay on the Commandments of the First Table of the Decalogue (Winchester, 1854); Sermons on the Beatitudes, with Others mostly Preached before the university of Oxford, with Preface Relating to a Recent Volume of "Essays and Reviews" (London, 1860); Five Short Letters to Sir W. Heathcote can Studies and Discipline of Public Schools (1861); The Administration of the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ (Bampton lectures; Oxford, 1868); The Bright-

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atone Sermons (London, 1889). He was one of the "five clergymen" (Henry Alford, G. Moberly, John Barrow, Charles J. Ellicott, and William G. Humphry),who published a revised version of John, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians (London, 1857, 1858, and 1881).

Bibliography: DNB, mviii. 8788.

MODALISM: The doctrine, first set forth by Sabellius, that the Father, the Bon, and the Holy Spirit were not three distinct personalities, but only three different modes of manifestation. See Antitrinitarianism; Christology; Monarchianism; Sabellianism; and Trinity.