MARCH 10
Runaway Slave Harriet Tubman Returned South to Rescue Her Family (1913)
“On the Lord s day morning, March 10, before I went to the chapel I called to see him and found he had slept most of the night from this we flattered o...”
Bangs, Nathan. A History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Volume III. T. Mason and G. Lane, 1839.
God Strengthens the Feeble (1838)
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength—Isaiah 40:29 (ESV). To those who ha...
Events
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Saint Agilbert, bishop of Paris, witnesses the charter of Clotilde’s Abbey of Bruyères-le-Châtel.
Authority for the date: Charter of Clotilde.1528
Balthasar Hubmaier “head and most important of the Anabaptists” is burned at the stake in Vienna after being condemned as a heretic by Roman Catholics.
Authority for the date: Dyck, Cornelius J. An Introduction to Mennonite history: a popular history of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites. Scot1747
John Newton, a sailor on a slave ship, is converted to Christianity during a huge storm at sea. He eventually becomes an Anglican clergyman, the author of the famous hymn “Amazing Grace” and a zealous abolitionist. “That 10th of March is a day much to be remembered by me; and I have never allowed it to pass unnoticed since the year 1748. For on that day the Lord came from on high and delivered me out of deep waters.”
Authority for the date: Newton’s correspondence.1851
Chicago Presbyterians expel some members who had passed resolutions against slaveholding and had threatened to leave the main body of Presbyterians if it persisted in compromising with slaveholders.
Authority for the date: Stockwell, A Better Class of People1858
Death in New Haven, Connecticut, of Nathaniel Taylor, a prominent New England theologian who had modified the idea of freedom of will as taught by Jonathan Edwards to make it come more into line with experience. His New Haven church had experienced great growth and revival.
Authority for the date: http://www.findagrave.com1867
Baptism and first Communion of Chuang Ching-feng, a young Taiwanese Christian. At nineteen years of age he will die at the hands of a mob after unwisely trying to force his fifteen-year-old wife to go to church with him.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.1879
Death of Paul of Taganrog, who had given up a large inheritance and titles of nobility in order to make pilgrimages and eventually to settle at Taganrog and practice an ascetic lifestyle. He had been greatly admired by the common people who came to him for advice.The Russian Orthodox Church will declare him a saint.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1880
After an eventful voyage during which an engine broke down, Commissioner George Scott Railton, assisted by seven young women, “invades” New York. Their hats are emblazoned with scarlet ribbon and gilt letters, reading “The Salvation Army.”
Authority for the date: Chesham, Sallie. Born to Battle; the Salvation Army in America. New York, NY: Salvation Army, 1965.1897
Death in Tokyo of Guido Verbeck. For ten years Verbeck had worked patiently at Nagasaki, building trust, teaching English (with the New Testament and the United States Constitution as his texts) and mastering the Japanese language. When his students became leaders of a new Japanese government, they invited Verbeck to Tokyo where his advice, language skills, and Western contacts proved so invaluable to Japan that the Japanese awarded him the Third Order of the Rising Sun.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1977
Revival breaks out at Duranmin in Papua, New Guinea, while Diyos, principal of the Sepik Baptist Bible College, addresses a small assembly. Fifty listeners speak in tongues.
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