OCTOBER 18
British Granted Amnesty to Godly Mutineer on Pitcairn Island (1814)
“Hark, the voice of Jesus calling, Who will go and work today Fields are ripe and harvests waiting, Who will bear the sheaves away Long and loud the Ma...”
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Beware little snares
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler—(Psalm 91:3 KJV). He shall deliver you from the snare of...
Events
1511
William Sweeting and John Brewster are burned at Smithfield, England, for heresy.
Authority for the date: Foxe, John. Acts and Monuments.1534
During the “Affair of the Placards,” pamphlets appear in Paris denouncing the mass and other Roman Catholic practices. Because of the violent and abusive terms on these tracts, Protestants will be persecuted.
Authority for the date: Stevenson, William. Story of the Reformation. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1959.1667
Death of Fasiladas, emperor of Ethiopia, who had made strenuous efforts to remove Jesuit influence and return his nation to its traditional Orthodox roots.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1685
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. The edict had allowed Huguenots (French Calvinists) to worship. With its protections gone, thousands of Protestants will flee France.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1826
Nineteenth-century England offers its last state lottery, having concluded that, although it brought in large revenues, it was evil because it induced many poor people to gamble, and had impoverished many of them. (In 1994 the lottery will be brought back.)
Authority for the date: Chambers Book of Days, 1881.1855
Francis McDougall is consecrated Bishop of Borneo for the Anglican chuch in Labuan and Sarawak where he pioneers a medical mission. He will have little success among the Muslim Malays, will do better among the Chinese traders of Borneo, but will make good progress among the indigenous Dyaks.
Authority for the date: Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. (Pelican History of the Church.) Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: P1938
Spetume Florence Njangali is converted and becomes an active member of the East African revival movement within the Anglican Church. She will overcome barriers that had prevented women from obtaining a theological education and ordination as deacons.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.