THIS DAY IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY: September 10 Looking back on the history of Christianity and the Church, we notice that it is sometimes violent, sometimes inspiring, shocking, tragic, comic, or just plain bizarre. It is certainly never dull. Our Christian heritage was passed down to us through blood, sweat and tears, but mostly by the faith of our fathers. The church age as we know it is coming to an end very soon. Be very blessed and informed as you read these brief notations on the successes and failures of Christianity throughout the ages. September 10, 422: Celestine was elected pope. During his tenure, he convoked the Council of Ephesus to combat the Nestorian heresy (the belief that Christ had two natures and two persons) and may have sent Patrick to Ireland as a missionary. September 10, 506: The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the council of Agde. September 10,1224: The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first arrived in England, where their austerity and love had a great influence on many, including Bishop Robert Grosseteste, who undertook reform in light of their thinking. They were originally called Grey Friars because of their gray habits. (The habit worn by modern Franciscans is brown.) September 10, 1622: Spinola, an Italian Jesuit, was roasted alive at Nagasaki. September 10, 1718: The Collegiate School at New Haven, Connecticut, founded in 1701 by Congregationalists who feared Harvard was straying from its Calvinist roots, changed its name to Yale. Elihu Yale, a retired merchant, was honored by the name change after he made a substantial contribution to the college. (Congregationalists, unhappy with an increasing religious liberalism at Harvard, had founded Yale, the third oldest college in America, in 1701.) September 10, 1734: English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: Pain, if patiently endured, and sanctified to us, is a great purifier of our corrupted nature. September 10, 1794: Blount College -- the first American nondenominational institution of higher learning -- was established in Knoxville. (It later became the University of Tennessee.) September 10, 1819: Birth of Canadian hymnwriter Joseph Scriven. The accidental drowning of his bride-to-be the night before their wedding led to a life of depression; yet he also authored the hymn of comfort, What a Friend We Have in Jesus. September 10, 1832: English Moravian hymn writer James Montgomery pens the words to “Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of Hosts.” Montgomery is also remembered for authoring “The Lord Is My Shepherd,” “Angels from the Realms of Glory”,”Go to Dark Gethsemane,” and “Prayer Is the Soul’s Sincere Desire.” September 10, 1869: A Baptist minister invents the ricksha in Yokohama, Japan. September 10, 1898: Death of Alexander Crummell, African-American Episcopal clergyman, scholar, and missionary to West Africa. Ordained in 1844, Crummell served as president of Liberia College for twenty years. Sep. 10, 1937: Death of Burnett Hillman Streeter, biblical scholar. His 1924 book The Four Gospels: A Study of Origins, had argued that differences between Matthew, Mark, Luke and John show there were four written sources behind the four gospels. Although his conclusions had not been widely accepted, his thorough research became a major resource for Bible scholars. Sep. 10, 1939: Death of American Presbyterian evangelist W. E. Biederwolf, who had been director of the Winona Lake Bible School of Theology, and founder and general director of the Family Altar League. September 10, 1946: While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.” She would become known as Mother Teresa. September 10, 1958: Anna-Greta Stjarne, just thirty-one years old, was martyred in Ethiopia. She was attacked by bandits as she walked down a road. September 10, 1958: Kornelius lsaak, a Mennonite missionary, was wounded in Paraguay by a Morro Indian arrow and died the next day. September 10, 1987: Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day visit to fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States. September 10, 1990: the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d’lvoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II. My sources for this daily post are --- Wikipedia, Christianhistory.net, Chinstitute.org, StudyLight.org, and books by William D. Blake, A. Kenneth Curtis and Daniel Graves. ---be very blessed and get ready for God’s best.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:21:26 +0000
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