TODAY
IN HISTORY
- Death in Abeokuta, Nigeria, of James Tanimola Ayorinde, who had been a Baptist pastor, chairman of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, and a respected and beloved leader of the Baptist World Aliance.Authority for the date:Dictionary of African Christian Biography.
- The Greek Orthodox parts of Romania and Eastern Russia adopt the Gregorian calendar on this date, moving the calendar forward by thirteen days to March 18.Authority for the date:Wikipedia.
- Evangelist Sam Jones opens a crusade in Toledo, Ohio, where the mayor is also named Sam Jones. The mayor welcomes the publicity until Jones says, “If the Devil were mayor of Toledo, he wouldn’t change a thing.” Nonetheless, Mayor Jones will be reelected by a wide margin.Authority for the date:www.christianitytoday.com/ch/thisweekinchristianhistory/march5.html
- Death of Maria Grace Saffary, who had been a Baptist hymnwriter and wrote “God of the sunlight hours!” as well as hymns about baptism, including one that begins “’tis the great Father we adore in this baptismal sign.”Authority for the date:Burrage, Henry S. Baptist Hymnwriters and their Hymns.
- Henry Nott and a large missionary party, which includes artisans, arrive at Tahiti’s Matavai Bay. Sponsored by the London Missionary Society, they are to settle on the islands of Tahiti, Tonga and the Marquesas to teach the gospel and useful arts. When the others die, go mad, or desert, Nott remains steady. It will be twenty-two years before he sees his first convert.Authority for the date: http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/giants/bionott.html
- Zurich authorities commence a trial which eventuates in sentences of life imprisonment for the Anabaptists Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock. Two weeks later the three manage to escape.Authority for the date:Wenger, John Christian. “Even Unto Death: The Heroic Witness of The Sixteenth-Century Anabaptist.”
- Erasmus sends a copy of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses to Sir Thomas More, a vigorous opponent of the Protestant Reformation.Authority for the date:Smith, Preserved. The Age of the Reformation.
- Archbishop John sallies forth from Ravenna with crosses, the Gospels, and a retinue of monks, falling at the feet of Theodoric and suing for peace—which the invader grants.Authority for the date:Hodgkin, Thomas. Theodoric the Goth.
- Christian witness Adrianus is thrown to a lion in Palestine and afterwards slain with the sword.Authority for the date:Eusebius Pamphilius. Ecclesiastical History.
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