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This Day in HIS-story: September 20

1565 HT: Dan Graves The Huguenots were converted out of Catholic France when preachers brought Bibles and the Calvinist doctrines of predestination and justification by faith from Switzerland. Growth of this Reform church was rapid in Gallic lands. Within a hundred years it had won a million and a half converts. Some French leaders saw…

This Day in HIS-story: September 19

1853 HT: Dan Graves ON THIS DAY, 19 SEPTEMBER 1853, the Dumfries, a small sailing ship, left Liverpool. Aboard was one passenger—James Hudson Taylor, bound for China. His mother came to see him off, knowing it would be years before she would see him again—if ever.  Never shall I forget the cry of anguish wrung from…