OCTOBER 1
BODIES AND SPLINTERS IN A TAJIKISTAN CHURCH (2000)
“All these brief articles were written with much prayer and often under deep soul exercise. It has pleased the Holy Spirit to own them in a most blesse...”
Gaebelein, Arno C. Lord of Glory. New York, 1910.
God strengthens in our day of insufficiency (1885)
AS THY DAYS— He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days—Psalm 102:23 (ESV). Who is suf...
Events
1529
The Colloquy of Marburg opens, attempting to unify the followers of Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli. When it closes on October 4th, the Reformers will have agreed on 14 of 15 articles, but will remain divided over the Eucharist. Switzerland will remain Reformed and Germany Lutheran.
Authority for the date: Britannica.1533
Students at the College de Navarre enact a satirical play representing Marguerite de Navarre as "a fury from hell" because of her poem The Mirror of the Sinful Soul. The poem, a commentary on the words of Psalm 51:10 "Create in me a clean heart, O God," is suspected of heresy because it does not invoke Mary or the saints. (At the age of eleven, the future Elizabeth I of England will translate the poem into English.)
Authority for the date: James Anderson, Ladies of the Reformation p. 3571555
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is appointed choir master to St. John Lateran, where he will produce some of the finest music before Bach.
Authority for the date: Pyne, Zoe Kendrick. Palestrina: His Life and Times. London: John Land the Bodley Head, Ltd., 1922.1844
(probable date) When a mob attempts to prevent Seventh-day Adventists from crossing a bridge to worship in Paris, Maine, one of the ringleaders horsewhips an Adventist. Fourteen-year-old John Nevins Andrews throws his arms around the assaulted man, declaring, “If you whip Brother Davis, you must whip me also.” In respect for his bravery, the Adventists are allowed to pass. Andrews will become an Adventist leader and author.
Authority for the date: Lest We Forget: Adventist Pioneer Library, Vol. 6 No. 2 (1996).1865
James Bryan invites a revival team to use his circus arena and many people become Christians there.
Authority for the date: Orr, J. Edwin. The Second Evangelical Awakening. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1949.1877
Daniel Warner’s church brings charges against him for preaching holiness.
Authority for the date: Ferm, Vergilius. The American Church of the Protestant Heritage. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953.1924
Mabel Dean and Hattie Salyer arrive in Egypt to begin a mission work.
Authority for the date: Assemblies of God. Heroes of the Faith, 1980.1948
The Communist government of Romania announces that one and a half million persons loyal to the Catholic church are being placed under the control of the Orthodox church.
Authority for the date: Shuster, George Nauman. Religion Behind the Iron Curtain. Greenwood Press Reprint, 1978.1961
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) begins broadcasting and will become notable for its 700 Club.
Authority for the date: ” About CBN.” http://www.cbn.com/about/1978
After discussion with the board of OC (Overseas Crusades International), with whom he had worked many years, Luis Palau forms his own evangelistic organization. The Luis Palau Evangelistic Association (LPEA) will conduct large evangelistic events around the world.
Authority for the date: Buscati, Ellen. Luis Palau: Evangelist to the World. Barbour Books, 2000.2000
Just past noon the first of two bombs rips apart Grace Sonmin Church in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe. Nine people die and seventy others are injured.
Authority for the date: Voice of the Martyrs.2000
Pope John Paul II canonizes Katharine Drexel, American foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, a congregation to serve the African American and Native American people who are oppressed by discrimination and dire poverty.
Authority for the date: http://www.katharinedrexel.org/