"OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY"
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INDEX
"All Government is
ordained by God in the State to carry on His laws."
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Nairn, Thomas (Aug.1)
Napoleon I --(Bonaparte)--his return from Egypt and his release from prison of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, (Dec.28); upon his accession to the throne, he assures Protestants of freedom of conscience, (June 13); concludes a Concordat with the Pope, surrendering France, (June 13)
Nardlingen, Battle of (Sept.6)
Narragansetts --Roger Williams negotiates with them not to join the alliance with the Pequods against the English, (Oct.9); remain loyal to the English despite overtures made by the Dutch, (Aug.15)
National Bible Society of Scotland (July 3)
National Council of Churches --of India, issues a pamphlet denying the inerrancy of the Gospel account, (Apr.6); issues the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, (Sept.30)
National Covenant --drafted, (Aug.19);
renewed (Feb.28); the coronation of Charles II, (Jan.1)
National Federation of Churches and Christian Workers --founded,
(Nov.21), (Dec.3)
National Society for Seamen --organized, (Feb.16)
Nationalist Chinese --persecution under, (Mar.27)
Nau, Moung (June 27)
Naumburg Convention (Jan.20)
Naval and Military Bible Society (Aug.29)
Navarre, Anthony (Mar.19); releases Antoine de La Roche Chandieu from
prison, (Sept.4)
Navarre, Henry --(See: Henry IV of France)-- the Seventh Huguenot War,
(Apr.15)
Nazianzen, Gregory --taught by Jerome, (Sept.30); directs the Prefect to expel Arian bishops from their towns, (Jan.10); preaches the first known Christmas sermon in the Eastern Church, (Dec.25); cf. (Jan.1), (Sept.4), (Nov.23)
Nazism --its attacks upon the Confessing Church, (Oct.6); the demonic cruelties of the Ustashi under Ante Pavelie, (Apr.17); its ties with Roman Catholicism, (Apr.17)
Neander, Johann August Wilhelm --teaches Merle D'Aubigne, (Aug.27); teaches Charles Hodge, (June 19); his philosophy of history, (July 14); Death of, (July 14)
"Nearer, My God, To Thee" (Aug.13)
The Nebraska Protest (Aug.13)
Nectarius --cf. (Sept.4)
Neesima, Joseph Hardy (Jan.23)
Neff, Felix --taught by Robert Haldane, (Feb.28); opens a Waldensian
Church, (Aug.29)
Neo-Orthodoxy --the National Council of Churches and its authorized
Revised Version of the Bible, (Sept.30)
Neo-Platonism (Nov.13)
Neri (Jan.27)
Nero --initiates the first great persecution against the Church, (June 9); the martyrdoms of the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul, (June 9); the conflagration of Rome and its subsequent blame attached to the saints, (July 19); Death of, (July 1); cf. (July10)
Nerva --recalls the Apostle John from the
Isle of Patmos, cf. (Sept.18); Death of, (Jan.27)
Nestorians --cf. (Aug.23)
Netherlands --accept the Reformation, (July 15); persecution under Alva, (Aug.22); William III, Prince of Orange, sanctions public preaching, (Sept.2); Abraham Kuyper leads a secession from the state church and founds the Reformed Churches In the Netherlands, (Oct.29)
Nettleton, Asahel --Birth of, (Apr.21); conversion of, (Apr.21); ordination of (Apr.21); opposes the unscriptural and irreverent practices of Charles Finney, (Apr.21), (Aug.29)
Nevsky, Alexander Yaroslavitch --his refusal to submit to the Pope, (Jan.23); defeats the invasion of Teutonic Knights, (Apr.5)
New Amsterdam --Religious intolerance in, (Mar.28), (June 6); Richard Nicholls acknowledges freedom of worship to Lutherans, (Dec.16)
The New Connection of General Baptists
--founded, (Dec.21)
New England --George Bancroft of, (Nov.4)
New England Tract Society --founded, cf. (June 9)
The New England Way --published, (June 26)
The New English Bible --its publication and the subsequent attacks upon its Liberalism, (Sept.30); its appraisal by the Trinitarian Bible Society of London, (Sept.30)
New Hampshire --Governor Wentworth
proclaims a day of Thanksgiving for the conquest of Quebec, (Nov.10)
New Lights (Apr.20)
New Statutes --issued to govern the churches of Russia, (Apr.16)
New York --New Amsterdam forbids all worship except Reformed, (Mar.28); promises the free exercise of religion while practicing intolerance (June 6), (July 6); freedom of worship recognized by the British, (Dec.17); receives fugitive Waldensians, (Dec.17); New York welcomes exiled Huguenots, (Mar.29); a refuge for those fleeing Religious persecution, (May 1); writes its own constitution incorporating Civil and Religious liberty, (Apr20.); the people of claim the rights of Englishmen, (Oct.17); the trial of John Peter Zenger, (Nov.17)
New York State Temperance Society --founded, (Apr.21)
Newell, Samuel --ordination of, (Mar.30); marriage of, (Oct.10); sails for India with Adoniram Judson, (Feb.19); the death of his wife, (Oct.10); arrives in Calcutta, (June 17); assists in the founding of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, (Sept.28); Death of, (Mar.30); cf. (June 25)
Newman, John --pens "Lead, Kindly Light", (Aug.11); leaves the Church of England to be-come a Roman Catholic, (Aug.11); Death of, (Aug.11)
Newton, John --Birth of, (July 24); a slave trader, (July 24); conversion of, (Mar.10); the death of his mother, (July 11); marriage of, (Feb.1); the death of his wife, (Dec.16); appoint-ed minister, (Dec.16); the influence of George Whitefield, (Feb.15); the influence of Jonathan Edwards, (Feb.15); with William Cowper, pens Olney Hymns, (Apr.25), (Dec.21); his influence upon Thomas Scott, (Dec.21); disciples Claudius Buchanan, (Mar.12); pens Glorious things of Thee are Spoken, (Nov.26)
Nicea, Council of --summoned by Emperor Constantine, (May 20); settles the Trinity and the Easter controversies, (May 20); the Nicene Creed, (June 19)
Nicholas I --establishes the Pope as
"Head" of the "Church", (Nov.13)
Nicholas V --issues a Bull calling for a crusade against the Turks,
(Sept.30)
Nicholls, Richard --acknowledges to Lutherans their freedom of worship,
(Dec.16)
Niesing, Monastery of --attacked by the Guilds, (May 22)
Nietzsche, Priedrich Wilhelm --Birth of, (Oct.15); pronounced hopelessly insane, and his subsequent care by his sister, (Oct.15); applauded for his infidelity by liberal theologians, (Oct.15)
Nitschmann, David --initiates Moravian missions by setting out for Denmark, (Aug.21); leads a body of Moravians to Georgia, (Oct.8); his labor among Negro slaves in Africa, (Dec.13)
"No Cross, No Crown" (Dec.12)
Noma (Jan.1)
"Non Ahbiamo Bisogno" --defends the stand of Catholic Action against
Fascism in Italy, (June 29)
Norris, Rev. Samuel (May 10)
North, Brownlow --conversion of, (Nov.9); his recommendation by Robert Candlish, George Smeaton, and John Bonar, (Mar.14); Death of, (Nov.9); cf. (Jan.1)
North Carolina --a refuge for those fleeing Religious persecution, (May 1); a Religious test required for public office, (July19)
Northfield Seminary for Young Women
--opens, (Nov.3)
Northwest Ordinance --adopted, (July 13)
Nott, Samuel --arrives in Western India with Gordon Hall as the first Christian missionaries, (Feb.11); opposition by the East India Company, (Feb.11); establishes the first modern school for boys in western India, (Feb.11); the first school for girls in India established, (Feb.11)
Novatians --Archbishop Cyril closes the
churches of, (June, 27); cf. (Jan.4)
"Now Thank We All Our God" (Oct.24)
Nuremberg Edict (Mar.6)
Nye, Philip --his part in the Savoy Confession, (Sept.29),
(Oct.12); at the Westminster Assembly, (July 1)
Nyssa, Gregory --cf. (Jan.1)