SEPTEMBER 30
SINGMASTER MADE LUTHERAN IMMIGRANTS LIVE IN NOVELS (1958)
“23. Being thoroughly prepared by the knowledge of the ancient languages and by the aids afforded by the art of criticism, let the Catholic exegete und...”
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We can experience grace and peace (1999)
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through who...
Events
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Death of St. Honorius of Canterbury.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1736
Three slaves are admitted into the church by baptism on St. Thomas Island by Frederic Martin who had replaced the original Moravian missionary Leonard Dober. They are the first converts on St. Thomas. When he is unable to pay a fine, Martin will later be imprisoned for refusing to take an oath in court where he was summoned to testify against a robber.
Authority for the date: John O. Choules and Thomas Smith, The Origin1751
Phillip Doddridge, clergyman and author of the influential book The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul sails from Falmouth for a warmer climate in the hope of recovering from consumption. He will die a month later.
Authority for the date: Knight, Helen C. Lady Huntington and Her Friends. New York: American Tract Society, 1853.1770
Death of George Whitefield in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The English revivalist had preached his last sermon the evening before.
Authority for the date: Larsen, Timothy T., David W. Bebbington, and Mark Noll. Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. IVP Academic, 20031824
James “Diego” Thomson, Scottish Presbyterian and colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with 800 New Testaments to distribute, which will later be considered the first significant Protestant influence on this Catholic nation.
Authority for the date: http://www.prolades.com/cra/regions/sam/ecu/ecu_cronologia_evangelica.pdf1865
Death of Francis Wayland, Baptist preacher and educator, at Providence, Rhode Island.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1882
Death of Johann Jakob Herzog, German Reformed theologian, educator, and a major contributor to The German version of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1943
Death from a seizure of the Orthodox priest Seraphim (Nicholas Zagorovsky), considered a martyr because of the years he spent in exile and because after his release he was forced to live a life of privation and suffering in order to hold religious services in secret.
Authority for the date: http://www.roca.org.1958
Death of Elsie Singmaster, an award-winning and internationally renowned Lutheran novelist and historical writer, whose books featured Pennsylvanian Germans.
Authority for the date: Richman, Kevin. "Lewars, Elsie Singmaster." pabook.libraries.psu.edu1991
Death of Moses Okesiji, a prominent Baptist pastor in Nigeria who had been associated with many efforts in behalf of his church and his people.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.2011
A Muslim mob ravages the St. George Coptic Church in Edfu, Egypt. Islamic officials and local media put the blame on Christians.
Authority for the date: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/3/coptic.church.torched.in.egypt/28720.htm