JUNE 19
The Council of Nicea Said This Is What Christians Believe (325)
“Let my heart be sound in Thy Statues that I be not ashamed Psalm 119 80 We may regard this inspired prayer as containing within itself the assurance t...”
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith: being precious promises arranged for daily use with brief comments. New York: American Tract Society, n.d. [c.1888]
True Faith Has Real Power (1908)
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for —Hebrews 11:1 (NASB). What, after all, is this “faith”...
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(traditional) Death at Fabriano, Italy, of Romuald. Shocked at seeing his father kill a man in a duel, he became an abbot and went on to found several monasteries in Italy and eventually also the very strict Order of Camaldoli. He was so strict that his monks rebelled against him and smeared him with lies, but his own father followed his example and become a monk, too.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1497
Girolamo Savonarola publishes a letter against his recent excommunication, saying it was fraudulently obtained and arguing that the judgment against him is null and void.
Authority for the date: Kirsch, J.P. New York: The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912.1530
Martin Luther writes from Coburg to his son Hans, telling him of a glorious garden to which he will be admitted if he behaves well, learns his lessons, and says his prayers.
Authority for the date: Koestlin, Julius. Life of Luther.1567
Richard Fitz and several other separatists are arrested in Plumber’s Hall, London, holding a meeting under guise of a wedding. This will be regarded as a red-letter day in the formation of the Congregationalist movement.
Authority for the date: Dale, R. W. History of English Congregationalism. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.1625
Jean de Brebeuf, French Jesuit priest and missionary, arrives in Quebec, Canada. He will be martyred while ministering to Indians.
Authority for the date: MacDougall, Angus. Jean de Brebeuf / 1593-1649 http://www.wyandot.org/brebeuf.htm1692
The pastor of the Salem, Massachusetts, church suggests to his congregation that the New England Psalm book be used in those cases where Mr. Ainsworth's translation has tunes too difficult for the church people.
Authority for the date: Earle, Alice Morse. Sabbath in Puritan New England.1745
David Brainerd commences his influential journal when he begins to preach to the Indians at Crossweeksung (in New Jersey).
Authority for the date: Reese, Ed. The Life and Ministry of David Brainerd. Reese Publications, Munster, IN.1750
In Massachusetts, a local council meets and recommends that the connection between Jonathan Edwards and Northhampton church be dissolved. Edwards will be dismissed three days later and will preach his farewell sermon on 1 July.
Authority for the date: Hopkins, Samuel. The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards... North1787
Death in Haddington of John Brown, a Scottish pastor, author of the Self-Interpreting Bible—a Bible with many marginal notes and comparison of one Scripture to another. He had been a pastor who instructed his flock with a fervor that demonstrated he believed what he taught, and he had generously shared his small income.
Authority for the date: www.preteristarchive.com/StudyArchive/b/brown-john_haddington.html1902
Death in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany, of Lord Acton, an English Catholic historian famed for his saying “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1910
Father’s Day, conceived by Mrs. John B. Dodd, is first observed in Spokane, Washington, at the proclamation of the mayor. It will later become a national holiday in the United States.
Authority for the date: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03-ff08.html2009
The Ecuadorian Christian and Missionary Alliance celebrates with U.S. and Canadian missionaries in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Pastor David Muthre, president of the national church, gives thanks that one hundred and twelve years earlier, George Fisher, J. A. Strain, and F. W. Farnol undertook the evangelization of Ecuador, followed by other Alliance missionaries, including Homer Criswell, who, in 1922, built the first evangelical church in Quito despite fierce opposition.
Authority for the date: http://www.cmalliance.org/alife/a-solid-structure/