THIS DAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY: January 30 Looking back on the history of Christianity and the Church, we notice that it is sometimes violent, sometimes inspiring, shocking, tragic, comic, or just plain bizarre. It is certainly never dull. Our Christian heritage was passed down to us through blood, sweat and tears, but mostly by the faith of our fathers. The church age as we know it is coming to an end very soon. Be very blessed and informed as you read these brief notations on the successes and failures of Christianity throughout the ages. January 30, 435: Rome recognized the Vandal territories in Northwest Africa as federati, in an effort to stave off their invasion of Italy. (The invasion was successfully postponed for 20 years.) January 30, 680: Bathild, a slave girl who became the queen of France, died on this day. To escape an unwanted marriage, she smeared her face with ash and worked the dirtiest jobs. When King Clovis married her, she used all of her energies to do good, especially fighting slavery. January 30, 1536: Parish priest Menno Simons leaves the Catholic Church over his doubts about transubstantiation. He converts to the Anabaptist faith and leads a group of followers who eventually come to be called Mennonites. January 30, 1592: Clement VIII was elected pope; his revised Vulgate Bible was used by the Church for 300 years. January 30, 1630: John Brebeuf pronounced his final vows as a Jesuit. In preparation, he devoted himself to Ignaliuss “Spiritual Exercises”, writing later, I felt within myself an overpowering desire of suffering something for Christ. He was tortured to death by the Iroquois in Canada. January 30, 1750: In Colonial America, Rev. Jonathan Mayhew of Boston delivered a sermon entitled, Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission. The sermon attacked both the divine right of kings and ecclesiastical absolutism. January 30, 1788: Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: Alas for the rich! They are so soon offended. January 30, 1813: Birth of Samuel P. Tregelles, English Presbyterian Bible scholar who conceived of a new critical text of the New Testament to replace the “Textus Receptus”. The results of his research were published as “An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament” (1870). January 30, 1839: Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: God feeds the wild flowers on the lonely mountain side without the help of man.... So God can feed his own planted ones without the help of man, by the sweetly falling dew of his Spirit. January 30, 1867: The American branch of the Evangelical Alliance was organized at the Bible House in New York City, with William E. Dodge elected president. January 30, 1877: Responding to Henry Stanleys plea for some pious, practical missionary to follow up David Livingstones missionary foray into Uganda, three members of Alexander Mackays Church Missionary Society team arrive at King Mutesas court. Though missions saw few immediate results, the Ugandan church quickly strengthened and grew after the missionaries deaths January 30, 1912: Evangelical missionary, philosopher, author, and lecturer Francis Schaeffer is born in Philadelphia. A leading figure in the resurgence of evangelicalism during the 1960s and 1970s, he blamed the rise of relativism for the decline of Western culture. January 30, 1956: About 22,500 members of Chinas Little Flock (formerly led by Watchman Nee) were forced to attend a mass denunciation because of their faith. January 30, 1956: American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr’s. home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomer Bus Boycott. January 30, 1972: Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as Bloody Sunday. My sources for this daily post are --- Wikipedia, Christianhistory.net, Chinstitute.org, StudyLight.org, and books by William D. Blake, A. Kenneth Curtis and Daniel Graves. ---be very blessed and get ready for God’s best.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 03:16:30 +0000
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