NOVEMBER 12
REFORMATION PASSIONS DROVE VERMIGLI FROM PLACE TO PLACE (1562)
“At present the general aspect of the war situation seems distinctly promising. Everywhere the trend of events seems to have turned against our enemies...”
MacRae, Kenneth. Diary of Kenneth MacRae, ed. by Iain H. Murray. The quote about his dictum for all preaching is from http://www.freechurchcontinuing.org/publications/articles/item/fifty-years-on-remembering-the-rev-kenneth-a-macrae
Make every effort to enter the narrow gate
Read Luke 13:22–30. The enquirer [seems to have been] some Jew from among the crowd, who perhaps had in mind the c...
Events
1035
Death of Canute the Great, of Denmark. The sometimes ruthless king considered himself a Christian and had restored churches and monasteries throughout his kingdom and built several new ones.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1459
University of Basel, Switzerland, chartered.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americana, 1911.1562
Death in Zurich of Peter Martyr Vermigli, an Italian theologian with reformation tendencies. He had fled to England from Italy and, with the restoration of Catholicism under Mary Tudor, had fled again to Switzerland.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1660
John Bunyan is arrested for unlicensed preaching and sentenced to prison. During his various incarcerations, he will pen Pilgrim’s Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, the greatest Puritan spiritual autobiography.
Authority for the date: Allen, John. One Hundred Great Lives. New York: Journal of Living Publishing Corp., 1944.1704
Forty-two year old Matthew Henry writes in his journal that he means to prepare a commentary on the entire Scripture. A couple days later he adds, “I set about it, that I may endeavour something and spend my time to some good purpose and let the Lord make what use he pleaseth of me.” He will complete most of the project before his death in 1714. Friends will put it into final form and publish it.
Authority for the date: Manser, Martin. “Updating Matthew Henry’s Commentary.” Evangelicals Now. http://e-n.org.uk/p-59661836
(or the 13th) Death of Charles Simeon, one of the Church of England’s most famous evangelical clergyman.
Authority for the date: “Charles Simeon (1759–1836)” http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/simeon/index.htm1879
Amanda Smith, African-American evangelist, arrives in Bombay, India.
Authority for the date: Smith, Amanda. An Autobiography; The Story of the Lord’s Dealings with...Amanda Smith. 1968.1886
Death in Shanghai of Huang Guangcai, who had been the first Chinese deacon and the first Chinese clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in China.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.1918
Burial of two Orthodox monks Callistus and Jacinthus at the church of St. Neophytus in the Province of Perm. The Bolsheviks had shot them two weeks earlier, when they refused to renounce Christ, and dumped their bodies into a frozen bog.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.