NOVEMBER 2
IN LOVE WITH SCIENCE, OLDENBURG MADE THE ROYAL SOCIETY SUCCESSFUL (1639)
“It often occurs in a new movement, that hobbyists, cranks, and fanatics more or less come to it for the purpose of advancing their own peculiar notion...”
Bresee, Phineas F. Report to the Ninth General Assembly [of the Nazarene Church] November 2, 1904.
Gather with other Christians (1885)
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day o...
Events
1600
Death at Bishop’s Bourne, England, of staunch Anglican theologian Richard Hooker, author of Ecclesiastical Polity. His last words are “God hath my daily petitions, for I am at peace with all men, and He is at peace with me...and this witness makes the thoughts of death joyful.”
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americana, 1956.1637
Trial begins for Anne Hutchinson, who will be exiled as a result and become a founder of Rhode Island. She had led religious meetings in her home and advocated a covenant of grace.
Authority for the date: Brechner, Adam. “A Woman Not Fit for Our Society: Social Order, Gender and Authority in Late 17th-Century Boston.”1752
Death of Johann Albrecht Bengel, German Lutheran theologian and Bible scholar, author of Gnomen Novi Testamenti. It marks the beginning of modern textual criticism (so-called lower criticism).
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1885
Death from consumption of Jimmie Aoba, Florence Young’s first convert in her work among the Island recruits who served on Queensland plantations. After becoming a Christian, he had pleaded for nightly classes so that he might learn more quickly, and always brought other “boys” with him.
Authority for the date: Florence Young, Pearls from the Pacific, p. 421918
Martyrdom of Ananius Aristov, who had been serving as village priest in Serginsky, and resisted the socialists who were murderous enemies of the Russian Orthodox Church. He and his two sons Andrew and Hosea are killed in the garden of the Perm theological seminary.
Authority for the date: Moss, Vladimir. Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of the Urals, Siberia and Central Asia.1942
Death of Bud Robinson, Nazarene evangelist.
Authority for the date: Miller, Basil. Bud Robinson, Miracle of Grace. Beacon Hill Press, 1947.1972
Americans intercept a Pathet Lao communication ordering the deaths of twenty-five year old Evelyn Anderson and thirty-five year old Beatrice Kosin, missionaries in Kengkok, Laos. Their bodies are later found burned to death. The Pathet Lao were Communists who hated Christianity because it contradicted the fundamental teachings of Marxism and posed serious problems to their control of people.
Authority for the date: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=265383331992
Death of Bamidele Olusegun Ijagbulu, a Baptist minister and author in Nigeria who founded the Olu-Ibukun Foundation to intervene in troubled marriages and teach youth to live pure lives.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.