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…
1630 HT: Dan Graves George Herbert‘s ordination on this day, 19 September 1630, was a step of peace and resignation to the will of God. Friends said he was throwing away his talents. At one point in his life, he would have agreed with them. Well-educated, skilled in rhetoric, he had wrestled with God in poetry…
1575 Death of Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger. He had succeeded Zwingli at Zurich and because of the hospitality he extended to English exiles, had gained influence with the English Puritans. 1868 HT: Dan Graves Despite the African heat, Walter Gowans shivered. He was miserable; malaria had laid him low. Seeing the desperate need of the…
1672 HT: CHI Staff In 1650, Master Stephen Bowtell, a London publisher and bookseller, published a book of poems titled THE TENTH MUSE Lately Sprung up in AMERICA, OR Severall Poems… The book is a milestone in English and American literature. For one thing, The Tenth Muse contained the first verses by an American that could stand beside England’s…
Apologies if you’re looking for this Monday’s Isaiah podcast. I’ve had a difficult ministry week and am not fully prepared yet but, God willing, normal service will be resumed next Monday, September 22nd.