THIS DAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY: March 1 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. March 1, 492: Pope Felix III died. He excommunicated Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, for the heresy of Monophysitism (belief that Christ had only one nature, the divine). March 1, 499: Pope St. Symmachus held a synod that issued new rules on papal elections. His own election had been disputed, and King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths had sided against him. March 1, 589 (traditional date): David of Wales, whose ascetic path of restraint earned him the love of all Wales (he is now the patron saint of that country), dies. His final words were, Be joyful, brothers and sisters. Keep your faith and do the little things that you have seen and heard from me. March 1, 1476: Forces of the Catholic monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castillian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro. March 1, 1546: Reformist George Wishart was executed by Beaton. He is burned at stake for “heresy” in Edinburgh Scotland. March 1, 1562: In disregard of an edict of tolerance, French Protestants (called Huguenots) are attacked by Roman Catholics while worshiping in a barn. The 2nd Duke of Guise orders the barn set on fire, killing over 60 of them and wounding 100 more. This will set off a series of religious wars between French Roman Catholics and Protestants that will last thirty-six years. This will mark the start of the French Wars of Religion. March 1, 1587: Peter Wentworth, member of the English parliament, challenged Queen Elizabeth I about England’s right to control Church affairs. He lost the battle. March 1, 1593: The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. March 1, 1633: Beloved English clergyman and poet George Herbert dies of tuberculosis at age thirty-nine. He uttered these last words: I shall be free from sin and all the temptations and anxieties that attend it...I shall dwell... where these eyes shall see my Master and Savior. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn “The God of Love My Shepherd Is.” March 1, 1692: In Salem Village, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the famous Salem Witch trials begin. Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, Rev. Samuel Parris West Indian slave from Barbados, are charged with the illegal practice of witchcraft. Later that day, Tituba, possibly under coercion, confessed to the crime, encouraging the authorities to seek out more witches. This would mark the beginning of what would become known as the Salem witch trials. March 1, 1767:The Jesuits were expelled from Spain, King Carlos III wrote: “I charge the provincials, presidents, and other superiors of the Society of to accept these provisions punctually, and in carrying them out the Jesuits shall be treated with the greatest regard, attention, honesty, and assistance, so that in every respect the action taken may be in conformity with my sovereign intentions.” March 1, 1815: Georgetown College, the first Roman Catholic institution of higher learning in the United States, was granted a charter by President James Madison. March 1, 1854: Pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor lands in Shanghai, China. My feelings on stepping ashore I cannot attempt to describe, he wrote. My heart felt as though it had not room and must burst its bonds, while tears of gratitude and thankfulness fell from my eyes. Taylor would found the China Inland Mission in 1865, and he popularized the idea that missionaries should live and dress like the people they seek to evangelize. March 1, 1910: The first issue of The Evening Light and Church of God Evangel was published in Cleveland, Tennessee. A. J. Tomlinson, the publishing editor, was an instrumental figure in the history of the Church of God (also headquartered today in Cleveland, Tennessee). March 1, 1966 : Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: If Jesus is and does what we read in 1 John 2:2, then He prays for all men: for those who already pray and for those who do not yet pray. March 1, 2007: Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. 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: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:02:37 +0000
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