TODAY
IN HISTORY
- Russia’s Communists issue a Decree on the Separation of Church and State that strips the church of legal rights and the power to hold property.Authority for the date:
Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. - Death of Pandit Kharah Singh. He had wandered India preaching Christ.Authority for the date:
Adrews, C.F. North India. London: A. R. Mowbray, 1908. - Fanny Crosby writes her first piece for William Bradbury, “A Home Beyond the Tide,” the beginning of a long and fruitful hymnwriting relationship.Authority for the date:
Duffield, Samuel W. English Hymns. Funk & Wagnalls, 1886. - Death in Hackney, of Congregationalist John Pye-Smith who had shown ways of reconciling geology and Scripture and been active on social issues such as the corn laws and slavery.Authority for the date:
Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. - After the success of Mazzini and his followers and the flight of Pius IX from Rome, an Italian assembly declares the temporal power of the Pope abolished.Authority for the date:
Horne, Charles F., ed. Great Men and Famous Women. - Twelve American Congregationalist missionaries first see Africa from the deck of a ship through a mist. Among them is Daniel Lindley who will win renown educating Africans and pleading with the Dutch-descended Boers to ease their inflexible racism.Authority for the date:
Davies, Horton. Great South African Christians. Oxford University Press, 1951. - Rev. Jonathan Allen preaches a sermon “on the occasion of the young ladies about to embark as wives of Rev. Messieurs Judson and Newell, going Missionaries to India,” “ordaining” Harriet Atwood and Ann Hasseltine as assistant missionaries.Authority for the date:
Robert. American Women in Mission. - Death of German theologian and clergyman Philipp Spener, author of Pia desideria known as the “Father of Pietism.”Authority for the date:
Encyclopedia Americana, 1956. - Roger Williams arrives in Massachusetts. Five years later he will flee to Rhode Island after questioning the fusion of church and state in Massachusetts. At Providence, he will established the first Baptist church in America and his writings on religious liberty will influence the development of religious tolerance in the colonies.Authority for the date:
Standard encyclopedias.
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