SEPTEMBER 7
IDA SCUDDER AND THE HOSPITAL FAITH BUILT IN VELLORE (1901)
“Being well aware, as from sad experience, of the heinous nature and pernicious tendency of religious controversy among Christians tired and sick of th...”
“Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington.” September 7, 1809.
Be encouraged: God is always near (1864)
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he re...
Events
1643
Death of Leonard Euler, in St. Petersburg. He had been a notable mathematician and a dedicated Christian apologist. In the latter capacity, he experienced the gibes of Voltaire and of Frederick the Great.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1722
Death of Elie Neau, a French Huguenot. Because of persecution, he had fled to the New World. Captured by a French corsair, he had been returned to France where efforts were made to force him to convert to Catholicism. Having refused to give way, he was kept three years in prison, a year in the galleys, and another year in a dungeon until England obtained his release. He had said to one captor, “Sir, do not pity me, for could you but see the secret pleasures my heart experiences, you would think me happy.” Later, living in the United States, he ran a school for slaves.
Authority for the date: http://satucket.com/lectionary/elie_naud.htm1774
Moravian women and children, accompanied by a few men, arrive at Astrachan, Russia, having fled an insurgency that threatened to destroy their colony at Sarepta on the Volga, where they had settled to plant the gospel.
Authority for the date: John O. Choules and Thomas Smith, The Origin and History of Missions. p1501807
Robert Morrison reaches Canton, China, where he will translate the Bible into Chinese.
Authority for the date: Memoirs of the Life and Labours of Robert Morrison, DD, compiled by his widow. London: Longman, 1839.1823
Samuel Marsden is shipwrecked while sailing to take the gospel to the Maori of New Zealand.
Authority for the date: Reed, A. H. Samuel Marsden: Greatheart of the Maori. London: Pickering & Inglis, ca. 1939.1833
Death of Hannah More, Christian playwriter, Sunday school leader, and philanthropist.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.1860
Death of Starets (Elder) Macarius, who had translated many Greek texts of the holy fathers into Russian, bringing renown to the Optina Monastery.
Authority for the date: stpaisiusmonastery.org.1864
Sir Michael Costa’s oratorio Naaman receives its first performance—at the Birmingham Festival in England, the same venue which nineteen years earlier had premiered Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Authority for the date: John Denison Champlin and William Foster Apthorp.1901
The cornerstone is laid for Ida Scudder’s mission hospital at Vellore, India.
Authority for the date: Wilson, Dorothy Clarke. Dr. Ida. Hodder and Stoughton, 1959.1929
The Lutherans of Betafo-Ambohimanarina, Madagascar, unite in a prayer vigil for a confrontation between pastor Daniel Rajaofera and a local sorcerer that is to take place the next day. As it turns out, the sorcerer fails badly and many idolaters burn their idols on September ninth.
Authority for the date: Dictionary of African Christian Biography.1964
Death in Chicago of Luigi (Louis) Francescon, a pioneer in the Italian Pentecostal movement, and an international missionary who participated in the formation of Pentecostal fellowships in Argentina, Brazil, and the US
Authority for the date: http://www.blogdomario.com/2009/02/historia-ccb-biografia-de-luigi.html