Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Historical Writings
Today in Christian History
Saturday, August 27
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.
1660
Following England's Restoration, books by poet John Milton were ordered burned because of his attacks on the monarchy. Milton had advocated an elder-ruled (presbyterian) church government over that of bishop-ruled (episcopal).
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, 199
1830
English churchman John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote in a letter: 'It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that He looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.'
1837
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.
1865
Rhenish missionary Ludwig I. Nommensen, 31, baptized four families of the Batak tribe in North Sumatra (Indonesia) the first to be converted to the Christian faith. Nommensen later established a theological training school and in 1878 completed a translation of the New Testament into the Batak language.
1876
At age 13, future English clergyman G. Campbell Morgan preached his first sermon. He later grew to become one of the most famous expository preachers and writers of late 19th century England and America.
1877
Birth of Lloyd C. Douglas, American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist. Douglas published his first best-seller, "Magnificent Obsession," in 1929, followed later by "The Robe" (1942) and "The Big Fisherman" (1948).
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.
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© 1987-2020, William D. Blake. Portions used by permission of the author, from "Almanac of the Christian Church"
© 1987-2020, William D. Blake. Portions used by permission of the author, from "Almanac of the Christian Church"
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