FEBRUARY 4
Bakht Singh: from Lying Playboy to India's Leading Church-Planter (1932)
“Take my will and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine. Take my heart, it is Thine own, It shall be Thy royal throne. Take my love, my Lord, I pou...”
Smith, Nicholas. Hymns Historically Famous.
Love Your Neighbor (1874)
The love of our neighbor is deducible from our love of God. No man who thinks himself bound to love and obey God c...
Events
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Death at Winkel (near Mainz) of Christian educator, encyclopedist, and archbishop Rabanus Maurus.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1555
English reformer John Rogers is burned at the stake at Smithfield, the first of many martyrs in the reign of Mary Tudor.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1686
Muslims in Aleppo execute Joseph of Aleppo, claiming he had promised to become a Muslim but reneged. He seals his fate by testifying against Islamic beliefs at his hearing.
Authority for the date: http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2011/02/saint-joseph-new-martyr-of-aleppo.html1798
Elizabeth Fry, reared a Quaker, has a conversion experience in Norwich, England, under the preaching of William Savery, an American Friend. She will become a notable prison reformer.
Authority for the date: Kent, John. Elizabeth Fry. B. T. Batsford, 1962.1810
Presbyterian ministers Finis Ewing, Samuel King, and Samuel McAdowhe reorganize the Cumberland Presbytery of Kentucky and Tennessee as an independent presbytery.
Authority for the date: http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/minister/EwingF.htm1928
In South Africa, the parents of teenager Manche Masemola kill her and bury her by a granite rock. Masemola had refused to abandon Christianity, worshiping in the Anglican Church at every opportunity. Decades later, she will be honored with a statue at Westminster Abbey.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.2005
Opening day of consultation at Bossey, Switzerland, which will establish a new alliance for churches and church-related organizations that work ecumenically in relief and development.
Authority for the date: Isabel Apawo Phiri and Chammah J. Kaunda, “Diakonia and Development in a Rapidly Changing2018
Merger in Santiago, Chile, of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church and the First Methodist Pentecostal Church of Chile, enlarging the International Pentecostal Holiness Church to over two million members.
Authority for the date: /iphc.org/gso/2018/02/07/historic-merger-chile/