JUNE 10
Gregory Palamas Defended the "Uncreated Light of God" (1341)
“Now among the other things which are proper for recreating man and giving him pleasure, music is either the first, or one of the principal and it is n...”
“Calvin’s Preface to the Genevan Psalter.” Leben 2 No. 2 (2006):16.
Can You Trust for Daily Needs? (1897)
Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things —Matthew 6:32 (NASB). Christ makes no less of our trust...
Events
1695
François Fénelon is consecrated archbishop of Cambrai.
Authority for the date: Mudge, James. Fénelon: the Mystic. Cincinnati: Jennings & Graham, 1906.1821
Joseph Tarkington joins the Methodist Church in Indiana. He will become a Methodist circuit rider and the grandfather of the novelist Booth Tarkington.
Authority for the date: Kimbrough, David L. Reverend Joseph Tarkington, Methodist Circuit Rider1838
Twelve hundred people attend the dedication at Cape Coast of the first Wesleyan chapel in Guinea. English missionary Thomas Birch Freeman preaches for the occasion.
Authority for the date: F. Deaville Walker, Thomas Birch Freeman, the Son of an African1877
Death at Halle, Germany, of Friedrich A. G. Tholuck, German Lutheran Bible scholar and theologian. He had done much to check rationalistic scholarship in Germany within the Lutheran church.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1900
Chinese soldiers and revolutionaries known as Boxers surround the home of the Orthodox priest Fr. Mitrophan about ten at night, having burned his church a week and a half earlier. They torture Mitrophan and the Christians assembled at his house, primarily women and children. Finally Boxers puncture his chest and he dies under a date tree.
Authority for the date: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Martyrs_of_China1921
Death in Chicago of American hymnwriter Edwin O. Excell. Converted at a Methodist revival, Excell had turned his energies toward sacred music. For the rest of his life he will be active in the publication of gospel songbooks and Sunday school conventions. Among his popular tunes are those to which we sing “Since I Have Been Redeemed,” “I'll Be a Sunbeam,” and “Count Your Blessings.”
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1953
The East German Communist government announces that its attack on churches is over. It had tried repeatedly to force youth to renounce the Lutheran Junge Gemeinde [young people’s organizations], but hundreds had bravely remained in the church groups.
Authority for the date: Shuster, George Nauman. Religion Behind the Iron Curtain. Greenwood Press Reprint, 1978.2008
Death of Kwame Bediako, first rector of Ghana’s Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture. He was internationally respected for writings about Christianity in Ghana and Africa.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.