APRIL 26
EGYPTIAN CHURCH WAS FOUNDED BY MARK THE GOSPEL WRITER (68)
“In Kieff 13,000 students the character of the place and students is somewhat different from Moscow. The Jews are numerous and form a compact group. Th...”
Langenskjöld, Greta. Baron Paul Nicolay: Christian statesman and student leader in northern and Slavic Europe, trans. Ruth Evelyn Wilder. New York: George H. Doran, Co., 1924.
Fly to God in Trouble (1901)
Oh, that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest — Psalm 55:6. Those who wait upon the...
Events
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Death of Paschasius Radbertus, who wrote an influential book affirming that the Eucharist contains the true, historical body of Jesus Christ.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Americana, 1956.1569
Queen Elizabeth I of England issues a special license allowing John Seconton to hold Sunday games because he has fallen on hard times and has four children to feed. She requires local authorities to send “four or five good substantial men” to keep the peace.
Authority for the date: Woodville Republican August 6, 1927.1630
George Herbert is appointed by the Earl of Pembroke to the parishes of Fugglestone St Peter and Bemerton St Andrew, near Salisbury. There he will write notable Christian poetry and preach sermons comprehensible to a rural audience.
Authority for the date: Fitts, Dudley. Herbert. (Laurel Poetry Series.)1731
(Uncertain date; April 24 is also often given.) Death of Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and Journal of the Plague Year, works of fiction noted for their versimilitude, which he wrote from a Puritan non-conformist point of view. He had been hiding from creditors and was found dead, hence the uncertainty of the date of his death. Two centuries after Defoe’s death, Neesima Shimeta, a Japanese youth, will be converted to Christianity through reading Robinson Crusoe.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1865
German missionary Ernst Faber arrives in Hong Kong where he will help create a Chinese-Christian literature by having Chinese associates write their own books in consultation with him. He also will work with Chinese officials to import and apply European technology in China.
Authority for the date: http://ricci.rt.usfca.edu/biography/view.aspx?biographyID=15271877
Residents of Minnesota observe a statewide day of prayer, set by Governor John Sargent Pillsbury, imploring deliverance from a plague of grasshoppers that has been ravaging their crops. Many families are on the verge of starvation. In the next two days warm weather will cause millions of larvae to wiggle to life and skeptics scoff; but a plunge in temperature on the fourth day will freeze and kill them. A chapel will be built at Cold Spring to commemorate the miracle.
Authority for the date: http://www.mnopedia.org/event/grasshopper-plagues-1873-18771969
Emmanuel Oladele Agboola is unanimously elected to chair the 56th annual session of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in acknowledgment of his hard work and zeal for souls. His contemporaries recognize him as one of Nigeria’s greatest indigenous pastors and educators as well as a humble and kind man.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1995
Azmy Mokhtar Aziz, a Coptic Christian, is murdered in the city of Malawy, one of several Copts targeted there this year.
Authority for the date: Bistawros, Baheg T. The Coptic Christians of Egypt Today Under Threat of Annihilation.