"OF WHOM THE WORLD WAS NOT WORTHY"
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JULY
14, 1530 --Denmark. Freedom is granted for evangelical preaching.
14, 1768 --Scotland. Within two weeks after his father’s death, James
Haldane is born at Dundee.
14, 1792 --New York. Samson Occom dies. He is a converted Indian who has
served as a Presbyterian missionary among the Indians. He went to
England with Mr. Nathaniel Wheelock to obtain funds for Moor’s Indian
Charity School that will later transfer to New Hampshire and become the
nucleus for Dartmouth College. He leaves behind him the hymn “Awaked by
Sinai’s Awful Sound.”
14, 1850 --Germany. Johann August Wilhelm Neander dies at Berlin. Born
of Jewish descent as David Mendel, he changed his name to “Neander”
which means “New Man” when he was baptized as a Christian. He has
achieved fame as a historian of the Christian Church. He has affirmed
the providence of God is the molding spirit of history, and not human
creation. He has further affirmed history to be the workings of God in
the affairs of men, and has characterized his history by biographical
sketches and by dwelling upon the spiritual life. He has divided history
into three segments: the first being characterized by pure religion; the
second by the re-clothing of religion in the vestments and ritual
similar to that of the Old Testament; and the third by an effort of true
religion to reassert itself.
Three years ago he began to suffer with his
eyesight and was thus prevented from finishing his “History.” A few days
ago he suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
14, 1869 --Maine. The Portland Convention is held by Young Men’s
Christian Associations. They will define the word “Evangelical” as
follows: “We hold those churches to be ‘evangelical’ which maintaining
the Holy Scriptures to be the only infallible of faith and practice; do
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ (the Only-begotten of the Father, King
of kings, and Lord of lords, in Whom dwelleth all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily, and Who was made sin for us, though knowing no sin,
bearing our sins in His own body on the tree) as the only name under
Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved from everlasting
punishment.”
“Art thou all sin? ‘Behold the Lamb of God Who
taketh away the sin of the world!
Art thou all unholy? See the Advocate with the Father, ‘Jesus
Christ, the Righteous!’
Art thou unable to atone for the least of thy sins? ‘He is the
Propitiation for our sins.’
Art thou totally unclean in soul and body? Here is the ‘Fountain for
sin and uncleanness!’
Arise and Wash away thy sins!”
-John Wesley-
15, 1099 --Israel. The crusaders capture Jerusalem and Godfrey of
Bouillon is made “Protector of the Holy Sepulchre.”
15, 1572 --Holland. The States-General convenes at Dort, and Philips Van
Marnix as the representative of the Prince of Orange demands equal
rights for Roman Catholics and Reformed, provided the Roman Catholics
abstain from all acts of disloyalty. Next year, however, public worship
will be denied to Roman Catholics, the Prince of Orange will align
himself with the Reformed faith, and Alva, the champion of Romanism will
leave the Netherlands.