JANUARY 5
Missionary Cyrus Hamlin Made Engineering History with Steel Beams (1811)
“Christian humanity has been living for centuries in the night of division. Its eyes have become heavy from gazing into the darkness. May this meeting...”
Quoted at www.trueorthodoxy.org (accessed October 16, 2104).
Work not begun (1886)
His master replied, “You wicked, lazy servant!” Matthew 25:26. Can anything be sadder than work left unfinis...
Events
1527
Felix Manz becomes the first Anabaptist martyr, drowned in the Limmat River (Switzerland) for rebaptizing Christians as adults.
Authority for the date: Shelly, Bruce. Church History in Plain Language.1547
Death in Wroclaw, Poland, of Johann Hess, the Lutheran reformer of Silesia.
Authority for the date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_He?1743
George Whitefield and Welsh Calvinists Methodists form the first Methodist association at Wadford, Wales.
Authority for the date: Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Expanding World. David McKay Company Inc., 1969.1793
Death of John Howie, author of The Scots Worthies (1775), biographies of the Covenanters. He had written it to counteract a growing tendency among his contemporaries to disparage their Christian ancestors, and he sought to inflame love of Christ by giving notable examples.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of National Biography1874
Kate Youngman and Mary Park open Graham Seminary in Tokyo (named for Julia Graham, head of the Presbyterian’s foreign missionary office). They will form networks to evangelize among the Japanese and Youngman will move on to work with victims of leprosy.
Authority for the date: Thomas, Winburn Townshed. Protestant Beginnings in Japan. C.E. Tuttle Co., 1959.1921
Wang Ming-Dao and his companions break the ice on a frozen river near Baoding, China, and are baptized as adult believers. Consequently Ming-Dao loses a steady income with the Presbyterian mission which teaches infant baptism.
Authority for the date: Lyall, Leslie T. Three of China’s Mighty Men. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980, 1973.1943
Death of George Washington Carver, after falling downstairs at his Tuskugee, Alabama, home. He had overcome the adversity of being born a slave to become a leading American educator and chemurgist. He had been noted for his deep faith, humility, and lively Bible lessons.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.