JUNE 5
Fredrik Franson Ruined His Own Health Trying to Save Souls (1908)
“To the young men Cease to strive for the Holy Scriptures teach us plainly, not to recompense evil with evil, but with good. Long have I desired this d...”
Neander, Augustus. Light in the Dark Places: or, Memorial of Christian Life in the Middle Ages. New York: Land & Scott, 1851.
Christ Has Friends and Enemies (1862)
Whoever is not with me is against me —Matthew 12:30 (NIV). Here we have the friends of Christ—the enemies of...
Events
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Felix, Bishop of Tibiuca in North Africa, is hauled before the magistrate of his city and ordered to hand over Christian books in compliance with an imperial decree, but staunchly refuses.
Authority for the date: Chapman, John. The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.1409
The Council of Pisa declares that the rival popes Gregory XII and Benedict XIII are “notorious schismatics, promoters of schism, and notorious heretics, errant from the faith, and guilty of the notorious and enormous crimes of perjury and violated oaths.”
Authority for the date: Schaff, Philip. History of the Christian Church.1568
Counts Egmont and Hoorn are beheaded at Brussels by Spanish overlords, rousing a furious resistance which will free the Netherlands from Spain and embed Calvinism as the principal form of Christianity.
Authority for the date: Stevenson, William. Story of the Reformation. Richmond: John Knox Press, 1959.1724
Death of Rev. Henry Sacheverell, a Church of England priest whose politically charged oratory led the Whig government to impeach him. Anglicans rose in his defense, riots followed, and the Whig government was swept from power.
Authority for the date: Wikipedia1801
A Turkish tribunal condemns Mark of Smyrna to die by the sword after torturing him. He had previously betrayed his Christian faith but, ashamed of his behavior, renounced Islam and testified to the gospel although it meant sure death.
Authority for the date: full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com1831
Rafaravavy Rasalama is one of the Christians who takes part in the first observance of the Lord’s Supper on Madagascar at the Ambatonakanga church. She will also become the island’s first martyr under the persecutions initiated by Queen Ranavalona I.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1851
The first episode of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published in serial form in National Era magazine.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of American Biography.1865
Pastor Sabine Baring-Gould pens the hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers” as a marching song for some children he must keep together as they walk between two villages during a Whit-Monday festival (i.e., the day after Pentecost) in Yorkshire, England.
Authority for the date: www.timeanddate.com.1900
Chinese revolutionists, known as Boxers, behead lay preacher Chen Dayong at Yanqing, and hack his wife and daughter to death.
Authority for the date: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity.1965
Death in London, England, of Eleanor Farjeon. She authored the popular hymn “Morning Has Broken.”
Authority for the date: Cyberhymnal.1995
Steve Saint and some of his family head for the Ecuador jungle with plans to train the Waodani Indians to handle their own lives in the modern world.
Authority for the date: Steve Saint, The End of the Spear.