August 10
1760: Philip Embury arrive in New York as the first Methodist clergyman to come over from England to America.
1811: Demise of Mrs. Johnston, a missionary to the West Indies.
1815: Samuel Leigh arrives in Sydney, Australia, as Australia’s first Methodist missionary.
1855: Birth of Frederick J. Foakes-Jackson, an Anglican theologian, who published many books on church history. The most popular among them was The Beginnings of Christianity, Part I: The Acts of the Apostles in 5 volumes (1919-33).
1863: Pope Pius IX’s encyclical Quanto conficiamur moerore (On Promotion Of False Doctrines) declares that those who despise Christianity out of ignorance, but observe natural laws and its precepts, “which are engraven by God on the hearts of all,” and “lead a good and upright life” are worthy of eternal life.
1886: Repose of Joseph M. Scriven, Plymouth Brethren hymn-writer, a person who had to face frequent misfortunes and tragedies and who at the same time wrote the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”
1897: Passing away of William Walsham How, an Anglican clergyman, who later became a bishop and had done much work among the poor in East London, so as to be called the “poor man’s bishop.”
1919: Orthodox priest Nicholas Vasilyevich Biryukov, who had opposed communism and  had described communists as enemies of the church, is arrested by the Cheka; subsequently he was executed by them.
1966: Installation of Joseph Abiodun Adetiloye as vicar and provost of the cathedral church of St. James, Ibadan, Nigeria. He later became the sixth primate of the Nigerian Anglican Communion.
1973: A federal judge acquits Jerry Falwell’s ministry (Thomas Road Baptist Church) of all accusations after the Securities and Exchange Commission had accused the church of fraudulence and claimed that it would never repay its bonds.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org