August 28
430: Passing away of St. Augustine of Hippo, the great early Latin Church Father and one of the outstanding theological figures of his times at the age of 76. The most famous quote from him is “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in thee.”
1413: Chartering of St. Andrews University, in Scotland, by a papal decree from Gregory XII.
1619: Electors vote Ferdinand II as the Holy Roman Emperor; discarding Charles V’s policy which had tolerated the Protestants and he put down the Protestants and anyone who tried to limit his royal power.
1645: King Vladislav IV convenes the Conference of Thorn in Poland, through which he sought to bring reunion among the 26 Catholic, 28 Lutheran and 24 Calvinist theologians. Although the discussions went on till November, no satisfactory theological fusion could be achieved.
1737: Demise of John Hutchinson in London, who took effort to confirm Moses’ account of the flood and other natural events in his scientific work Moses’s Principia.
1840: Birth of Ira D. Sankey, a collaborator and the song evangelist of Dwight Moody’s revival crusades from 1870. Sankey’s most enduring tunes are HIDING IN THEE (“O Safe to the Rock That is Higher Than I”) and SANKEY (“Faith is the Victory”).
1892: Baptism of Peter Ambuofa, a native of the Solomon Islands in Queensland; he returned to preach the gospel to his own tribe, but had to suffer deprivation, sickness, hostility, and threats for many years, till the people turned to God as the result of some troubles in the land.
1953: Incorporation of Campus Crusade for Christ in Los Angeles by its founder Bill Bright. CCC now functions as an evangelical organization training Christian leaders in over 90 countries around the world.
1963: A large civil-rights demonstration takes place in the United States capital on behalf of African-American civil rights. Known as the March on Washington, it brought major civil-rights organizations and many religious groups – Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish – together, and marked the first determined effort by a large number of white clergy to join the cause to end racial discrimination. Rev. Martin Luther King, jr., gave his famous speech “I Have a Dream” during this demonstration.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org