1528 HT: Dan Graves EDUCATED AT OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, William Tyndale became a tutor for the children of Sir John Walsh at little Sudbury Manor. Walsh often entertained the local clergy at his table. Sitting with them, the scholarly Tyndale was appalled at the lack of knowledge the clergy had of the Scriptures. In one…
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…
258 HT: Dan Graves Cyprian was born into a wealthy home around 200. He studied rhetoric, showed a strong gift for debate, and opened a school to train students in public speaking. To demonstrate the best techniques, he sparred in front of his class with philosophers and Christians. When he was about forty-five, the arguments…
1541 John Calvin receives an uproarious welcome on his return to Geneva, whose authorities had banished him three years earlier. 1816 Robert Moffat is ordained and set apart with eight other missionaries to work in South Africa. He becomes a notable translator and the father-in-law of David Livingstone. 1845 HT: Christianity.com William Walford was blind,…
1729 HT: Christianity.com “I went to see a man that had one foot in the grave; but I found a man that had one foot in heaven!” So wrote one of John Fletcher‘s visitors after visiting the godly preacher who had become gravely ill by his strenuous efforts for the kingdom of Christ. Born in…
1519 Philip Melanchthon presents his theses for Baccalaureate of Theology at Wittenberg. They stress the authority of Scripture and of anyone’s inability to meet God’s righteous requirements on their own. 1912 HT: Dan Graves William Whiting Borden was a millionaire at 21 and ordained at twenty five on this day, September 9, 1912. Many young men have…
1767 HT: Dan Graves Many Christians have heard of William Carey, the Baptist preacher and cobbler who became known as the “Father of Protestant Missions.” Few have heard of John Ryland but there is a strong connection between the two. Born in 1753 into a godly Baptist home, John was the son of a Hebrew scholar and…
1785 HT: Dan Graves On this day, September 7, 1785, the Prescott Street Baptist Church of London was humming with activity. Behind the stir was a Baptist deacon named William Fox. Impressed by the Sunday school work of Gloucester’s newspaper editor Robert Raikes which tallied with ideas he had earlier tried to implement, William had called for…