TODAY
IN HISTORY
- Leonid Zwicki is installed as bishop of the newly-created Belarusian Evangelical Lutheran Church.Authority for the date:www.lutheranhistory.org.
- Death of hymnwriter Mary Ann Thomson. Her best-known hymn was “O Zion Haste, Thy Mission High Fulfilling.”Authority for the date:www.lutheranhistory.org.
- Death of Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelist and religious writer, best remembered for his classic meditation on 1 Corinthians 13 “The Love Chapter” entitled The Greatest Thing in the World.Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.
- Samuel Zwemer preaches his first sermon—to a congregation of black people in a small New Brunswick, New Jersey, church. He will go on to become a notable missionary to the Arab world.Authority for the date:Wilson,J. Christy, Jr. “The Apostle to Islam: The Legacy of Samuel Zwemer.”
- Gerard Manley Hopkins preaches his “dominical”—a practice sermon.Authority for the date:Bergonzi, Bernard. Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- Mendelssohn revives Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at the Singakademie in Berlin. A thousand people have to be turned away from the performance for lack of room.Authority for the date:Rowbotham, Francis Jameson. Story-Lives of Great Musicians.
- Reformation mob burns churches in Perth, Scotland, and instructs the friars to hold mass no more.Authority for the date:Documents of the Reformation.
- After years of iconoclasm (opposition to and destruction of icons), two-dimensional images are restored for worship in the Eastern Empire, an event known as “The Triumph of Orthodoxy.”Authority for the date:http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/ourfaith7053.
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