JANUARY 10
Mary Slessor: What Is Courage, but Faith Conquering Fear? (1915)
“May we resolve, God helping us, to be part of the answer, and not part of the problem.”
Blake, William D. Almanac of the Christian Church.
One great request
Cast your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. Psalm 55:22 NAS...
Events
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Fabian, a farmer visiting Rome, is elected pope (tradition says after a dove descends on him). He will serve until 250, when he will become one of the first martyrs under Decius, an emperor hostile to the Christian faith.
Authority for the date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Fabian681
Death of Pope Agatho, a Sicilian, who had played a decisive part in suppressing the the Monothelite controversy.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1514
Funded by Cardinal Francesco Jiminez de Cisneros, a New Testament polyglot translation is completed in Spain, combining Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Aramaic texts.
Authority for the date: Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Expanding World. David McKay Co. Inc., 1969.1604
Death of Juliana of Lazarevo (or Juliana of Murom), considered a saint by the Orthodox Church because as a layperson in Russia she lived a righteous life, helping the poor and needy, amidst her care for her children and others.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1645
Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud is beheaded under a bill of attainder from Parliament. He had been very cruel to Puritans and other dissenters.
Authority for the date: http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/laud.htm1858
Frances Havergal, visiting Germany, writes her first popular hymn, “I Gave my Life for Thee” after seeing a painting of the suffering Christ titled Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”). Thinking the verses of little worth she throws the paper onto a fire but it falls off. When her father sees the words he composes a tune for them.
Authority for the date: Price, Carl Fowler. One Hundred and One Hymn Stories. Abingdon, 1923.1863
Death in New York City of Lyman Beecher, famed anti-Unitarian preacher. In addition to pastoral roles in Connecticut and Massachusetts, he had served as president of Lane Theological Seminary in Ohio.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1883
Death of Elling Eielsen, a lay preacher in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the United States. He had migrated to America in 1839 and won many Norwegian emigrants to Christ, traveling the frontier with the gospel message, an axe, compass, coffee pot, and rain gear. At Fox River, Illinois, he organized America’s first Norwegian Lutheran congregation—The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1960
A car filled with seven Christian workers plunges into deep water in the Black Umbluzi River but Pastor Phineas Dlamini and the other six escape, some with injuries. Dlamini was a leading pastor in the Church of the Nazarene in Swaziland.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.