DECEMBER 28
KRISHNA PAL BAPTIZED IN A BLESSED DAY (1800)
“The doctrine of particular redemption by Christ, is free from any imputation of libertinism. It is indeed a redemption from the bondage, curse, and co...”
Gill, John. “The Doctrine of Grace Cleared from the Charge of Licentiousness; A Sermon, Preached at a Wednesday’s Evening Lecture in Great-Eastcheap, December 28, 1737.”
Christ will not desert us
For he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you”—Hebrews 13:5 (ESV). Several times in the Scr...
Events
1065
Although incomplete, Westminster Abbey is consecrated. King Edward the Confessor is erecting it as his burial church. He dies a week after its consecration.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1384
Educator, Bible translator, and church reformer John Wycliffe suffers a paralyzing stroke while saying mass. He will die three days later.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1622
Death in Lyon, France, of Francis of Sales, Bishop of Geneva and author of the popular books Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1733
Aaron, son of an observant Hindu, Sokanada Pillai, is ordained in Tranquebar as India’s first Protestant minister. He will be a great asset for the Lutheran mission because he will be able to travel where Western missionaries are forbidden to go.
Authority for the date: Satthianadhan and Murdoch, Sketches of India1741
Diogo is ordained to the Lutheran priesthood in Tranquebar. He will convert many Portuguese from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism.
Authority for the date: Oriental Christian Biography.1800
Baptism of Krishna Pal, following his conversion from Hinduism to Christianity under the teaching of William Carey and his co-workers. He will preach the gospel to fellow Indians.
Authority for the date: www.wmcarey.edu/carey/krishna_pal/krishna-pal.htm1838
Members of the Methodist North Carolina Conference secure a charter from the state legislature for Greensboro Female College.
Authority for the date: https://museum.greensboro.edu:42001/beyondbooks_briefhistory.htm1948
Jacob DeShazzar, one of America’s Doolittle Raiders, returns to Japan to evangelize the country he bombed during the recently ended Second World War.
Authority for the date: http://www.doolittleraider.com/raiders/deshazer.htm