JUNE 27
Cyril of Alexandria Defended Great Truths, but Was He Just? (444)
“To day I had the great pleasure of laying the foundation stone of an important addition to the Methodist Ladies College at Whitby....My remarks were f...”
Ryerson, Egerton. The Story of My Life.
Ask for the Promised Spirit (1869)
What is it to have God’s Holy Spirit, then? I will tell you. When a child comes to Christ as his Savior he is born...
Events
1638
Sultan Murad IV has Patriarch Cyril (Lucaris) of Constantinople strangled and his body thrown into the Bosporus. Cyril was the foremost Orthodox leader of the seventeenth century, although he caused controversy by adopting Calvinist ideas, later repudiated by an Orthodox synod. He had also served as Patriarch of Alexandria.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1786
Twenty-six-year-old James Upton is ordained as pastor of the Baptist Church in Greenwalk, London, which has only twelve members. Fourteen years later it will have grown to 290. Upton will also write hymns.
Authority for the date: Burrage, Henry S. Baptist Hymnwriters and Their Hymns. Portland, Maine: Brown, Thurston and Co., 1888.1870
Death of Cyrus Kingsbury a Presbyterian missionary to the Choctaw Indians. He had also raised money to free African-American slaves.
Authority for the date: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/K/KI014.html1895
Ordination of Onangwatgo [Cornelius Hill] as an Episcopal deacon. In 1903 this Oneida chief will be the first member of the Oneida nation ordained as a priest.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia.1899
Launch of the Strathcona, mission boat of Wilfred Grenfell for his Labrador work. The ship is named for a key donor and christened by Lady Curzon-Howe.
Authority for the date: Grenfell, Wilfred. A Labrador Doctor.1933
Death of James Mountain, an English evangelist and writer of hymn tunes. His most famous pieces had been the tunes to which we sing “Jesus, I Am Resting, Resting” and “Like a River Glorious.”
Authority for the date: cyberhymnal1944
Death of James Moffatt, who had made a new translation of the New Testament and taught church history.
Authority for the date: Encyclopedia Britannica.1978
The “Moscow Seven,” Siberian believers, take refuge at the United States' embassy in Moscow.
Authority for the date: Pollock, John Charles. The Siberian Seven. Word Books, 1980.