NOVEMBER 9
BALLANTINE MASTERED MARATHI TO PREACH CHRIST IN INDIA (1865)
“For twenty years this organization has stood with undaunted front against the sin of the state as represented by the legalized traffic in intoxicating...”
Date source: Graham, Frances W. and Georgeanna M. Gardenier. Two Decades: A History of the First Twenty Years’ Work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York. Image source: Hanaford, Phebe A. Daughters of America. Augusta: True and Company, 1882.
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Events
1518
In response to Martin Luther’s recent challenge to indulgences, Pope Leo X issues the bull Cum postquam which defends indulgences as a treasury of merits.
Authority for the date: “Cum postquam.” Encyclopedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1273238/Cum-postquam1572
Fifteen days before his death, John Knox preaches his last sermon in Edinburgh.
Authority for the date: Lansdale, Maria Hornor. Scotland, Historic and Romantic. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier1786
Ordination of Jedidiah Morse as a Congregationalist minister. He will become a lifelong opponent of Unitarianism, founding and editing a journal to defend orthodoxy and, when Harvard elects a Unitarian to its Hollis Chair of Divinity, will help bring about the creation of Andover Theological Seminary to counter Harvard’s liberal theology.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1844
Death in Hannibal, Missouri, of evangelist Barton W. Stone, a founding leader of the the Stone-Campbell movement, later to be known as the Christian Church and the Disciples of Christ.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1865
Death of Henry Ballantine, missionary to India, who helped translate the Bible into Marathi.
Authority for the date: http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.ballantine/83/mb.ashx1929
Soviets arrest the Orthodox priest Michael Gordeyevich Zaitsev for “counter-revolutionary agitation.” The following March he will be executed by being shot.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.1987
Death of Reuben Akinwalere George, the founding general overseer of the Gospel Faith Mission International of Nigeria, a movement that grew rapidly in part because of his faith and zeal. Through his vision, the denomination developed schools and a publishing house.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.