NOVEMBER 28
ALF WOULD NOT BE STOPPED FROM PLANTING CHURCHES (1858)
“When I was 16 years of age, we heard a strange Rumor among the English that there were extraordinary Ministers Preaching from Place to Place and a Str...”
https://www.madisoncounty.ny.gov/motf/brothertownone%5b1%5d.pdf
Overcome evil with good (1914)
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good—Romans 12:21 (NASB).How else can we cast out evil? Satan cannot...
Events
764
(or 765) Execution of Saint Stephen the Younger, during the reign of Emperor Constantine V. Stephen was an advocate of the use of icons whereas Constantine was strongly opposed to them.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1568
John of the Cross makes his profession as a Carmelite. He will write his famous “Spiritual Canticle” while imprisoned by superiors who reject his reforms.
Authority for the date: The New Catholic Encyclopedia.1858
Wilhelm Weist, pastor of the German Baptist Church in Stolzenberg in East Prussia, baptizes Gottfried Alf and eight others in Poland, the beginning of the Polish Baptist Church. Alf had been a Lutheran school teacher. Required to read sermons for the Lutherans, he came under spiritual conviction and gradually developed Baptist views for which he first lost his teaching job, and then was thrown off his farm. He became an influential revival leader.
Authority for the date: Wardin, Albert W., Jr. “Baptist Origins in Poland.” Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2007.1902
Death of Joseph Parker, a leading non-conformist pastor of the nineteenth century. He produced a twenty-five volume People’s Bible and many other notable works.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1904
Death of American Congregational clergyman Jeremiah Eames Rankin who wrote the hymns “God Be With You ’Til We Meet Again” and “Tell it to Jesus.”
Authority for the date: Wells, Amos R. A Treasury of Hymn Stories. Baker, 1992.1932
Elizabeth Wordsworth holds her last Bible class, speaking on Psalm 45, “The king's daughter is all glorious within, her clothing is of wrought gold.” That evening she collapses and will die a couple days later. An author and educator, she had been the founding principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and the founder of St. Hugh’s Hall, another women’s College at Oxford. In her ninety-two years she had written many books and hymns. She was the daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln, and great-niece of the famed poet William Wordsworth.
Authority for the date: Battiscombe, Reluctant Pioneer1940
George Jeffreys and several other ministers gather to form the short-lived Bible Pattern Church Fellowship, a Pentecostal denomination.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.1984
Death of Anna Breneman Haagen, an outstanding missionary to the Gujarati-speaking people of India.
Authority for the date: “Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant.” Alliance Witness. (May 8, 1985).