FEBRUARY 27
Happy Birthday, William J. Kirkpatrick, Famous Hymnwriter (1838)
“It is our desire that all the various nations which are subject to our Clemency and Moderation should continue to profess that religion which was deli...”
“The Edict of Thessalonica.” Nov. 21, 2014 <http://www.sevencouncils.com/1/post/2013/02/the-edict-of-thessalonica.html>
Discipline Is God’s Purposeful Love
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten, Rev. 3:19. That thou may’st pray for them thy foes are given, That...
Events
1536
The First Helvetic Confession, also known as the Second Basel Confession, drafted by Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud, is adopted by Swiss reformers at Basel.
Authority for the date: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation.1710
Mennonite Melchior Zahler is betrayed, captured, and bound in Switzerland at the instigation of a Reformed churchman. His children and possessions are taken from him and he is brought to Berne where he is sentenced to be transported to America.
Authority for the date: Zahler’s personal account.1792
Death in Cork, Ireland, of Samuel Neale, an internationally-known Quaker evangelist.
Authority for the date: Some Account of the Life and Religious Labors of Samuel Neale. Philadelphia: James P. Parke, 1806.1823
Henry Williams reaches Sydney, Australia, enroute to New Zealand as a missionary. He will be largely responsible for the success of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand, and serve as archdeacon of the Waimate region.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1830
Death on Long Island of Quaker leader Elias Hicks, founder of the Hicksites (a more liberal branch of the Society of Friends) that rejected creeds and taught progressive revelation. Hicks had been instrumental in ridding Quakers of slaves and in getting legislation passed that banned slavery in New York state.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1937
Death in New England of Emily Malbone Morgan, who had founded the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross. The Episcopal Church will commemorate her as a prophetic witness.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1996
A mob of ten thousand Muslims attacks Coptic Christian homes in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
Authority for the date: Marshall, Paul A. and Lela Gilbert. Their Blood Cries Out. Thomas Nelson, 1997.2003
Death from a heart attack of Tilahun Haile, an Ethiopian pastor and evangelist for the Kale Heywet Church, who had preached and taught in the local Amharic lanaguage.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.