FEBRUARY 16
“Moscow transit prison. My last meeting with my wife. Where will they send me I don t know.”
Vins, Georgi. Testament from Prison. David C. Cook Publishing Company, 1975.
Prayer Imports Blessings (1803)
Men ought always to pray and not to faint, Luke 18:1. There can be no room for despair; for prayer exports wants and imp...
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Pamphilius of Caesarea is beheaded for his Christian faith. He had founded a library in Palestine and trained many pulpils, including Eusebius, the first notable church historian.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1684
Death of non-conformist pastor Francis Bampfield in Newgate Prison, having been held too long in a damp area. Once a Royalist, his loyalty to the crown had not protected him from the religious persecution of England’s King Charles II. Bampfield dies outside the Church of England, a “non-conformist” committed to Seventh-Day Baptist views.
Authority for the date: Greaves, Richard L. Saints and Rebels; Religious dissenters of England. Mercer University Press, 1985.1844
Death in Calcutta from cholera of Koilas Chunder Mookerjee, a young Hindu convert to Christianity who had suffered considerable persecution. Immediately after his baptism he had endeavored to evangelize fellow Indians.
Authority for the date: Carey, W.H. Oriental Christian Biography. Calcutta, 1850.1910
Conversion in Galeton, Pennsylvania, of Robert T. Ketcham under the preaching of Harry S. Tillis. He will become a leader in forming the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.
Authority for the date: Murdoch, Murray. Portrait of Obedience. Schamburg, Illinois: Regular Baptist Press, 1981.1911
The Continent, a Presbyterian periodical, publishes the hymn, “Rise Up, O Men of God,” by William P. Merrill. The words had formed in his mind while he was crossing Lake Michigan on a ferry.
Authority for the date: Cyberhymnal.org.1912
Death in Japan of Nikolai, archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan. Through a careful strategy that targeted selected groups and by making the Japanese church as independent as possible from the Russian church, he had seen 33,000 converts.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1921
Death in Princeton, New Jersey, of B.B. (Benjamin Breckinridge) Warfield, a renowned Calvinist theologian and the author of The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible. Although feeling weak, he had taught classes that day. He had cared for his invalid wife for thirty-nine years after she was struck by lightning.
Authority for the date: http://bbwarfield.com/biography/1977
Murder of Archbishop Luwum for his Christian faith in Uganda under the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin.
Authority for the date: Dewar, Diana. All for Christ: Some Twentieth Century Martyrs. Oxford University Press, 1980.