JULY 2
“I saw it to be my duty not only to pray from time to time, but actually to live by prayer. To live by prayer for myself, and for my family, and for my...”
Whyte, Alexander. "It is Sometimes So with Me that I Will Rather Die than Pray."
Don’t lay up treasures on earth
Read Matthew 6:19-24. [Christ] would not have anyone limit his desires by the boundary of this present life, by what is...
Events
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Death of St. Swithun. Hardly mentioned in his own day, his name will be invoked in church reform a century after his death, giving rise to many legends, as that he asked to be buried where “passersby might tread on his grave and where the rain from the eaves might fall upon it.”
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1505
Terrified by a thunderstorm, Martin Luther vows to become a monk and soon afterward enters the order of Augustinian Hermits.
Authority for the date: Christian History 34 (1992).1515
William Tyndale is created an MA. He will place the Bible above philosophy and make an English translation of God’s word that will become the basis of the Authorized version.
Authority for the date: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.1636
French Jesuit Isaac Jogues arrives in Quebec, where he will be martyred.
Authority for the date: O'Brien, John A. The American Martyrs. New York: Aplleton, Century, Crofts, 1953.1834
Sarah Davis Comstock, her husband Grover, and other missionaries sail from Boston aboard the Cashmere for Burma. Sarah’s death of dysentery nine years later will, because of her many acts of kindness, lead several Burmese to commit themselves to Christ.
Authority for the date: Eddy, Daniel C. Daughters of the Cross.1865
William Booth preaches the first of nine sermons in a ragged tent pitched on an unused Quaker graveyard. The name of his organization is the East London Christian Mission, precursor of the Salvation Army.
Authority for the date: Hattersley, Roy. Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and their Salvation Army. Doubleday, 1999.1921
At Zang Xien, China, Wang Ming-dao preaches his first public sermon, taking as his text, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.” He will become the “father” of China’s house church movement, rejecting assimilation into the official Communist-controlled Three-Self Patriotic Church system.
Authority for the date: Lyall, Leslie T. Three of China’s Mighty Men.1931
Execution by Communists in Tomsk province (Siberia) of Constantine Victorovich Korostelov and Nicholas Victorovich Korostelov, two brothers who are Orthodox priests.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia, and Central Asia.