JANUARY 11
A FEW GERMAN PASTORS REJECTED NAZI CONTROL OVER SPIRITUAL LIFE (1933)
“Dear Sir, Due to violent and inhuman persecutions, a large number of people had to leave their homeland. They are left without means for normal life,...”
Zubrinic, Darko. “Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac and saving the Jews in Croatia during the WW2.” http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/jews.html.
God will guide (1850)
The LORD will guide you always. Isaiah 58:11 NIV. The Lord’s people are singular in their practices, and they have...
Events
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Death of Pope John VI. A Greek by birth, he will be remembered for his intervention in a squabble between Saint Wilfred of York and the see of Canterbury.
Authority for the date: Brusher, Joseph. Popes Through the Ages, Third Edition. Neff-Kane, 1980.1817
Death in New Haven, Connecticut, of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale, a powerful advocate of sound doctrine. As hymnwriter, he had penned “I love thy kingdom Lord.”
Authority for the date: Wells, Amos R. A Treasury of Hymn Stories. Baker, 1992.1869
At the Springfield Baptist Church Augusta, GA, Reverend Kelly Lowe organizes the first African-American Sunday school.
Authority for the date: Jackson, Ed and Charles Pou. This Day in Georgia History. http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/tdgh-jan/jan11.htm1933
Pastors in the Hamburg, Germany, area issue the Altona Confession, offering Scriptural guidelines for Christian conduct in light of the growing Nazi influence on the State Church.
Authority for the date: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Works, Vol 12. Berlin 1932-1933. “Appendix 1: Chronology of 1932-1933.” Fortress1942
Soviets execute Natalya Ivanovna Sundukova by firing squad because she had “propagandized” her Orthodox faith among other prisoners and refused to work for the atheistic communists in the prison camp.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.