TODAY IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH November 4 1646 The Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law making it a capital offense to deny that the Bible was the Word of God. Any person convicted of the offense was liable to the death penalty. 1740 Birth of Anglican clergyman Augustus M. Toplady. A highly respected evangelical leader, Toplady authored the hymn Rock of Ages two years before his premature death at 38 in 1778. 1898 The first church to bear the Pentecostal Holiness name was organized at Goldsboro, NC, under the leadership of Methodist evangelist Ambrose Blackman Crumpler, 35. 1936 Future U.S. Senate Chaplain Rev. Peter Marshall, 34, married Catherine Wood, 22. Following Peters premature death at age 46, Catherine immortalized his name through her 1951 best�selling biography, A Man Called Peter. 1966 Londons Evening Standard newspaper published John Lennons controversial remark stating that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The quote touched off a storm of controversy and international protest, resulting in a world-wide boycott of Beatles music.
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