JANUARY 4
BIG CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE IN BOMBAY ENDED WITH A PLEA FOR HELPERS (1893)
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever Do noble things, not dream them all day long And so make life, and death, and that For Ever One grand...”
Daily Thoughts, selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan and Co., 1885.
Enoch’s faith
And Enoch walked with God. Genesis 5:24 KJV. We read in the New Testament a little more of the character of Enoch...
Events
1286
Death of Eustathius I (aka Jevstatije), the sixth Serbian archbishop. He will be commemorated as a saint.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1577
Execution by fire of Hans Bret, a young Anabaptist Protestant in Antwerp. He had been tortured for months in an attempt to force him to deny his faith but kept such a bold testimony his persecutors clamped and seared his tongue so that he could not preach to the crowd when taken to the stake.
Authority for the date: http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/hans_bret_d._15771821
Death in Maryland of Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton, first native-born American canonized by the Catholic church. She had founded the American Sisters of Charity and was behind the present system of Catholic parochial schools.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1834
Presbyterians dedicate Chicago’s first Protestant church building. Before this, they had worshiped in a Baptist school house. The new building is so primitive an observer exclaims, “I have often heard of God’s house, but I never saw his barn before.”
Authority for the date: Stockwell, A Better Class of People1893
End of a three-day conference of hundreds of mission workers in Bombay (the largest assembled there until that time). The delegates issue an urgent appeal for more missionaries and medical workers to conduct evangelistic work in India where the need is enormous.
Authority for the date: Evangelical Christendom (March 1, 1893)1947
Presbyterian clergyman Peter Marshall is elected chaplain of the United States Senate. He will die two years later and his wife will write his biography, A Man Called Peter, which will be made into a major motion picture.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1953
The Catholic Hour airs for the first time over NBC television.
Authority for the date: http://www.tv.com/shows/the-catholic-hour/forums/1965
Death in London, England, of T. S. Eliot, the most influential English poet of the twentieth century, who had converted to Christianity and joined the Church of England.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1979
Anosisye Mwansombelo Jongo is elected bishop in Tanzania’s Moravian Church after years of leadership, often despite serious opposition. He had been the first black African elected by the Moravians as a superintendent in the province of Southern Tanzania.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.