JUNE 13
Fijians Roasted Humans Within Eyesight of the Hunts' Home (1812)
“Hunger and thirst after Righteousness till filled with it by being made partaker of the Divine nature.”
Butler, Joseph. Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D., by Joseph Butler, edited by Edward Steere. London: Rivingtons, 1853.
God Doesn’t Speed up for Fools (1860)
Faster no step moves God because the fool Shouts to the universe, “God there is none,” The blindest man will...
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Edict of Milan is proclaimed by Licinius when he enters Nicomedia.
Authority for the date: William Smith, Henry Wace. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines… Boston: Lit853
Beheading in Toledo of Fandila, a priest of Tabanos, who had reviled Muhammed.
Authority for the date: Haines, Charles Reginald. Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031).1231
Death in Arcella, Verona, Italy, of Anthony of Padua, who had been a notable Franciscan preacher and wonder worker.
Authority for the date: Schaff, Philip. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.1525
German reformer, Martin Luther, formerly a monk, marries Katherine von Bora, formerly a nun, who had escaped from her convent in a fish barrel.
Authority for the date: www.lutheranhistory.org.1749
In Germany, John Henry Schramm ordains Philip William Otterbein, who will become a notable evangelist and leader of the United Brethren movement in America.
Authority for the date: Drury's History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Dayton, OH: United Brethren, 1931.1776
Death in Wethersfield, Connecticut, of Elizabeth Scott, a hymnwriter whose most notable hymn was based on Psalm 3:5 and titled “Morning Hymn.”
Authority for the date: Hatfield, Edwin. The Poets of the Church. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1884.1793
William Carey and his family sail for India, accompanied by John Thomas. They will do notable mission work there.
Authority for the date: Walsh, W. Parkenham. "William Carey: India, 1793-1834." www.wholesomewords.org.1857
David E. Campbell, missionary to India, with his wife and two children are put to death by Nana Sahib, a rebel chief.
Authority for the date: http://www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0613.htm1903
A. J. Tomlinson leads an assembly that creates the Church of God (Cleveland), a Pentecostal-Holiness group that considers the years from the Council of Nicaea in 325 until 1903 the dark ages of the church. Over the next century, the new denomination will gather more than a million adherents world-wide.
Authority for the date: www.the-churchofgod.org/history.html1910
A World Missionary Conference is called to order this evening at the Assembly Hall of the United Free Church of Scotland. Lord Balfour of Burleigh reads greetings from world leaders and the delegates arise spontaneously to sing “God Save the King.” The conference will run for ten days.
Authority for the date: Christian History 87 (2008).