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This Day in HIS-story: September 21

1816 HT: Christian History Institute David Nasmith is famous as the founder of the first Protestant city missions. Here is the first extant letter in which he indicated his desire to be of use for God’s kingdom. It was written on this day 21 September 1816 when he was seventeen years old. “May He who has the hearts…

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…

Revd Dr Alexander Duff (1806-1878): Mission to Calcutta, India

Here’s this week’s inspirational delve into the past by Paul James-Griffiths of Christian Heritage Edinburgh.  Paul writes, “This week’s focus is about an extraordinary missionary called Alexander Duff, whose model for higher education had a huge impact on shaping India, and whose work inspired many other missionaries to go and do likewise in many parts of the…

This Day in HIS-story: August 4

1708 HT: Dan Graves WE KNOW that Francis Makemie came to the American colonies in 1682 or after—the year Laggan Presbytery in Ireland ordained him to evangelize in America. Where or when he landed, we do not know. Yet he would become a notable Presbyterian founder, preaching in Barbadoes, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.…

This Day in HIS-story: August 1

1834 Death of missionary Robert Morrison at age 52. The first English Protestant missionary to China, he had translated the Bible into Chinese, constructed a Chinese grammar, founded an Anglo-Chinese college, and edited a six-volume Chinese dictionary. 1883 HT: Dan Graves Harold Schofield was desperately ill. The young doctor, just 31 years old, had contracted…