August 27
1521: Demise of Josquin Desprez, a Flemish composer, a transitional poet between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, who also had written a large number of religious works.
1660: Books by poet John Milton are ordered to be burned because of his attacks on the monarchy; he had also demanded an elder-ruled (presbyterian) church government over that of bishop-ruled (episcopal).
1837: Baptism of Ganga Narayan Sil, a learned convert from Hinduism, who later became a street preacher to Hindus and Muslims.
1865: Rhenish missionary Ludwig I. Nommensen baptizes four families of the Batak tribe in North Sumatra in Indonesia, the first Christians of the land. Nommensen later established a theological college and translated  the New Testament into the Batak language.
1876: Future English clergyman G. Campbell Morgan preaches his first sermon at the age 13. He later became one of the most famous expository preachers and writers of his century in England and America.
1877: Birth of Lloyd C. Douglas, an American Lutheran clergyman and religious novelist, the author of the best-seller, “Magnificent Obsession” (1929), “The Robe” (1942) and “The Big Fisherman” (1948).
1926: Ivan Sergeyevich Antonov, an Orthodox priest, is sentenced to three years’ exile by the Soviets. Released in 1929 he was re-arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation,” in 1937 and was shot.
1937: Evelyn LeTourneau purchases the property which later became Camp Bethel.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org