September 25
1392: Passing away of Sergius of Radonezh, a monastic reformer, and one of the most revered saints of Russia. He had emphasized that monks should live by their own labor. He sent out forty groups from his original monastery, the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, who settled down at difficult places until they became centers of expanding civilization.
1555: The Peace of Augsburg is promulgated, making a legal contract for Lutheran and Catholic states to live side by side in the Holy Roman Empire.
1643: The Solemn League and Covenant, a military and religious alliance between the Members of the Westminster Assembly (ie., the Parliament) and the Scottish Commissioners, is sealed.
1727: Demise of Jacques Abbadie, a Calvinist, who had obtained a doctorate in theology at the age of seventeen, and who organized Huguenot churches in Berlin, and ministered in France, England, and Ireland. His works, such as The Truth of the Christian Religion, had refuted atheism, Arianism, deism, and socinianism.
1765: Repose of Richard Pococke, who had traveled extensively in the Middle East and Alps before becoming a bishop in the Church of England, and who brought out extensive travelogues about his visits to the Orient and of his visits in the UK as a bishop.
1789: Elias Boudinot, a representative of New Jersey, request the Congress to appoint a joint committee of the House and Senate to plead with President Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving, a move which sparked vigorous debate about the separation of church and state and whether the president has such an authority under the constitution. Finally, the resolution was approved and President Washington requested the individual states to comply with his proclamation.
1835: Consecration of Jackson Kemper by Episcopal bishops at St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, as a missionary for the American frontier (Missouri and Indiana).
1836: Demise of Luther Rice, a missionary advocate, who had sailed to India as a Congregationalist, and who also founded the Columbian College, the first unit of George Washington University.
1879: Dr. Clara Swain, a missionary doctor, returns from the United States after a break, to continue her medical work in India.
1995: Roz Al-Yousef, an Egyptian Magazine, publishes an article by the Muslim journalist Eassam Abed al-Gewad, bringing to light the murder of a dozen Coptic Christians in Upper Egypt in just one month, an organized massacre with defined goals, but was covered up by the government.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://christianhistoryinstitute.org