THIS DAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY: September 4 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. September 4, 422: Pope St. Boniface I died on this day. He had been awarded the pontificate by the emperor over his rival Eulalius, who had been consecrated on the same day. Boniface supported Augustine of Hippo on the issue of Pelagianism. Sep. 4, 1633: The ship Griffin sails into Boston harbor. Aboard are three prominent Puritan ministers who have fled religious persecution in England: John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and Samuel Stone. Puritans joke that they now have “Cotton for their clothing, Hooker for their fishing, and Stone for their building.” They became notable leaders of New England communities. September 4, 1645: The first Lutheran church building erected in America was dedicated at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania. Sep. 4, 1646: Johann Companius dedicates the second Lutheran church in America in the Swedish colonial settlement Christina, near present-day Wilmington, Delaware on Tinicum Island. Sep. 4, 1666: The Great Fire of London destroys old St. Paul’s Cathedral. September 4, 1736: Robert Raikes, an English newspaper editor who founded Sunday schools (which met from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) to educate poor children, is born in Gloucester. Sep. 4, 1741: Thomas Gillespie becomes the minister of Carnock in Fife. He becomes a strong advocate of allowing Presbyterian congregations to choose their own minister, rather than having one appointed by the general assembly. Sep. 4, 1771: Francis Asbury boards ship for America, where he will so organize and extend the Methodist church that by his death it will have grown from being one of America’s smallest denominations to being its largest. Sep. 4, 1773; Some of the male priests of the Canonical Chapter of Castellena protest having to do homage and pay tithe to a woman “bishop” (abbess) in Naples. September 4, 1802: Birth of Marcus Whitman, American Presbyterian and pioneer medical missionary. In 1836 his family became the first whites to reach the Pacific coast by wagon train. Whitman and his wife Narcissa were murdered by the Cayuse Indians in present-day Washington state in 1847. September 4, 1803: Birth of Sarah Childress Polk, American Presbyterian fundamentalist and wife of U.S. president James K. Polk. Mrs. Polk banned dancing at presidential functions and was the first First Lady to institute a strict Sabbath observance. September 4, 1813: "The Religious Remembrancer" (later renamed "The Christian Observer") was first published in Philadelphia. It was the first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S., and in the world. September 4, 1842: After a 284-year hiatus, construction of the Cologne Cathedral continues. And you thought road crews took long breaks! Sep. 4, 1844: Death of Oliver Holden, composer and American Puritan clergyman, in Boston, Massachusetts. He had written CORONATION, the tune to which we sing the hymn “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.” Sep. 4, 1846: Death of David Abeel, missionary to Batavia. A pioneer missionary to Batavia, he had also been instrumental in organizing the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East. September 4, 1847: Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, "Abide With Me," before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England. (Lyte died 2-1/2 months later.) September 4, 1939: Evangelist and Bible scholar W.E. Biederwolt died. The night before his demise, he told his wife, "I am soon going to exchange my cross for a crown." He wrote many Christian books. One of the best-known was the Millennium Bible (now known as The Second Coming Bible). September 4, 1965: German medical missionary Albert Schweitzer, who was also a scholar, musician and philosopher, died on this day in what is now Gabon. He wrote The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1910) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. September 4, 1973: The Assemblies of God opened its first theological graduate school in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to establish its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts in Tulsa.) Sep. 4, 1977: Trans World Radio begins broadcasting from its newest station, a 100,000-watt shortwave transmitter in Guam. September 4, 1984: Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, denounced aspects of liberation theology, a popular movement in Latin America that combined Marxist sociology with Catholic thought. 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
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:58:46 +0000
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