APRIL 2
“Our school continues to prosper, and I love the children exceedingly. Do pray that God will bless this incipient step to enlighten the women of this c...”
Henry Harris Jessup. The Women of the Arabs.
Our Soul Inhabits Two Worlds
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became...
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Theodosia of Tyre, having commended Christians who are in chains for their faith in the market place, is seized and tortured. When she refuses to recant, she is thrown into the sea.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1139
Pope Innocent II opens the Second Lateran Council. It will deal with abuses in the church and condemn Peter of Bruys and Arnold of Brescia.
Authority for the date: Leclercq, Henri. “Second Lateran Council (1139).” Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Appleton, 1910.1234
Edmund of Abingdon is consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. His years will be spent wrestling with corrupt King Henry III, who refuses to allow him to fill church vacancies, pocketing the money from them instead.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1548
Martin Bucer declares he will sign the Augsburg Interim if certain changes are made; but Emperor Charles V insists on his signature as the document stands. When Bucer refuses, he will be placed under house arrest and then in close confinement until on April 20, he will capitulate.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1582
John Payne, a Catholic, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, England, allegedly for treason to Queen Elizabeth. A sympathetic crowd ensures he is completely dead before they allow the drawing and quartering to proceed.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1739
At Kingswood, England, Wesley first preaches in the open air to miners, a decisive step that frees him from dependence upon the favor of Church of England clergy for access to pulpits, but which requires him to swallow his pride.
Authority for the date: Lee, Umphrey. The Lord’s Horseman.1767
A sealed letter from Charles III of Spain is opened by authorities throughout Spain and the next morning every Jesuit in the realm is arrested, placed aboard ship, and expelled from the country.
Authority for the date: Hughes, Philip. A Short history of the Catholic Church. Burns & Oates Ltd, 1974.1787
Death in Bologna of Francisco Saverio Clavigero, a Jesuit who had written a sentimental but inaccurate account of the American Indians wiped out by the conquistadors.
Authority for the date: Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908.1844
Death of Radhanath Das, a well-educated Hindu convert to Christianity, who became an educator in Christian schools, a catechist in homes, a peacemaker among Christians and Hindus, a tract writer, and an evangelist. His death is the result of tending boys with smallpox.
Authority for the date: Oriental Christian Biography.1866
Forced into exile from his station in the Orange Free State by Boers, pioneer missionary François Coillard goes to Natal.
Authority for the date: Mackintosh, Catharine Winkworth. Coillard of the Zambesi: the lives of François and Christina Coillard... Londo1894
Death in Sunderland, England, of William D. Longstaff, author of the hymn “Take Time to Be Holy”
Authority for the date: Cyberhymnal.1914
Three hundred Pentecostals meet at the Grand Opera House in Hot Springs, Arkansas, for a ten-day conference. The conference will birth the Assemblies of God.
Authority for the date: “Brief History of the Assemblies of God.” ag.org/top/About/History/index.cfm1952
Death in New York of Samuel Zwemer, who had been a notable missionary to Muslims.
Authority for the date: Wilson, J. Christy, Jr. “The Apostle to Islam: The Legacy of Samuel Zwemer.”1978
Episcopal Canon Mary Simpson of New York speaks from the pulpit of Westminster Abbey in London, the first ordained woman to preach there.
Authority for the date: www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/us/23simpson.html?_r=0