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God Delivered Diebler Through DESPERATE Days (1937)
“A million and more teen age girls and boys have decided that boogie woogie is old stuff and definitely on the way out. They don t sing the blues anymo...”
Shelley, Bruce L. “The Young and the Zealous.” Christian History 92.
Christ is our Wisdom (1869)
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding —Proverbs 3:13. “Buried in the shadows...
Events
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[date derived from her feast day and coins bearing her image] Death in Nicomedia of Empress Helena, mother of Constantine, who had supposedly discovered the true cross on which Christ died, and who had founded many churches in Palestine.
Authority for the date: Catholic Encyclopedia and Chambers’ Book of Days (1881).1520
Publication of Luther’s address To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation. It calls the laity, as spiritual priests, to carry out the reformation neglected by the pope and the established church.
Authority for the date: Bald, Margaret. Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds. Facts on File, 2006. p31752
Agapius of Thessalonica, an Orthodox monk and priest, after a life of active service for the Jerusalem church, is tortured to death by Janissaries while returning to his birthplace.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1917
Cameron Townsend sets off from home to do mission work. He will found Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Authority for the date: Stevens, Hugh. A Thousand Trails. Langley, B.C.: Credo, 1984.1918
Death of American theologian and educator William Porcher DuBose, professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1938
Russell and Darlene Diebler disembark on Batavia, Java, to prepare for mission work in neighboring West New Guinea. Coincidentally it is their first wedding anniversary. Before all is done, they will experience much suffering and learn first-hand the faithfulness of God.
Authority for the date: Darlene Diebler Rose, Evidence Not Seen, p. 11944
Death of John Sung, outstanding Christian missionary in China and Southeast Asia.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.