TODAY
IN HISTORY
- Death of Guido Verbeck. For ten years Verbeck had worked patiently at Nagasaki, building trust, teaching English (with the New Testament and the United States Constitution as his texts) and mastering the Japanese language. When his students became leaders of a new Japanese government, they invited Verbeck to Tokyo where his advice, language skills and Western contacts proved so invaluable to Japan that the Japanese award him the Third Order of the Rising Sun.Authority for the date:Standard encyclopedias.
- After an eventful voyage during which an engine broke down, Commissioner George Scott Railton, assisted by seven young women, “invades” New York. Their hats are emblazoned with scarlet ribbon and gilt letters, reading “The Salvation Army.”Authority for the date:Chesham, Sallie. Born to Battle; the Salvation Army in America. New York, NY: Salvation Army, 1965.
- Death of Paul of Taganrog, who had given up a large inheritance and titles of nobility in order to make pilgrimages and eventually to settle at Taganrog and practice an ascetic lifestyle. He had been greatly admired by the common people who came to him for advice and the Russian Orthodox Church will declare him a saint.Authority for the date:Wikipedia.
- Baptism and first communion of Chuang Ching-feng, a young Taiwanese Christian. At nineteen years of age he will die at the hands of a mob after unwisely trying to force his fifteen-year-old wife to go to church with him.Authority for the date:Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.
- John Newton, a sailor on a slave ship, is converted to Christianity during a huge storm at sea. He eventually becomes an Anglican clergyman, the author of the famous hymn “Amazing Grace” and a zealous abolitionist. “That 10th of March is a day much to be remembered by me; and I have never allowed it to pass unnoticed since the year 1748. For on that day the Lord came from on high and delivered me out of deep waters.”Authority for the date:Newton’s correspondence.
- Death of thirty-six-year-old Elie Neau, a French Huguenot. Because of persecution, he had fled to the New World. Captured by a French corsair, he had been returned to France where efforts were made to force him to convert to Catholicism. Having refused to give way, he was kept three years in prison, a year in the galleys, and another year in a dungeon until England obtained his release. He had said to one captor, “Sir, do not pity me, for could you but see the secret pleasures my heart experiences, you would think me happy.”Authority for the date:www.winbibel.de/Leseecke/verfolgung/ElieNeau.html
- Balthasar Hubmaier “head and most important of the Anabaptists “ is burned at the stake in Vienna after being condemned as a heretic by Roman Catholics.Authority for the date: Dyck, Cornelius J. An Introduction to Mennonite history: a popular history of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites. Scot
- Saint Agilbert, bishop of Paris, witnesses the charter of Clotilde’s Abbey of Bruyères-le-Châtel.Authority for the date:Charter of Clotilde.
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