AUGUST 27
FROM HINDU TO CHRISTIAN: THE PROGRESS OF GANGA NARAYAN SIL (1837)
“It being so necessary, and so much longed for, that the said Confession be, with all possible diligence and expedition, approved and established in bo...”
Act Approving The Confession Of Faith Assembly at Edinburgh, August 27, 1647. Sess. 23.
God takes pleasure in his people (1850)
Every intelligent being has some object in which he takes pleasure, except lost souls. Some take pleasure in their form,...
Events
1521
Death of Josquin Desprez, a Flemish composer transitional between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, who had written a large number of religious works.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1820
Conversion of Joseph Tarkington, who will become a Methodist circuit rider and the grandfather of the novelist Booth Tarkington.
Authority for the date: Kimbrough, David L. Reverend Joseph Tarkington, Methodist Circuit Rider. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991837
Baptism of Ganga Narayan Sil, a learned convert from Hinduism, who will become a street preacher to Hindus and Muslims.
Authority for the date: Carey, W.H. Oriental Christian Biography. Calcutta: J. Thomas, 1850.1926
Soviets sentence Ivan Sergeyevich Antonov, an Orthodox priest, to three years’ exile. He will be released in 1929 but in 1937 will be re-arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation,” and subsequently will be shot.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.1937
Evelyn LeTourneau buys the property which becomes Camp Bethel.
Authority for the date: Kooiman, Helen. Silhouettes: Women Behind Great Men. Waco, TX: Word, 1972.