February 16
309: Pamphilius of Caesarea, who had founded a library in Palestine and trained many followers of Christ, is beheaded because of his Christian faith. Most prominent among his pupils was Eusebius, the first notable church historian.
1741: English revivalist George Whitefield exhorts in a letter, “Use the world, but let it be as though you used it not.”
1844: Death of Koilas Chunder Mookerjee due to cholera in Calcutta, India. This young Hindu convert (to Christianity) had to suffer considerable persecution, because of his attempts to evangelize fellow Indians.
1865: Sabine Baring-Gould, English clergyman, publishes the hymn, “Now the Day is Over.” It was based on Proverbs 3:24, “When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.”
1910: Conversion of Robert T. Ketcham under the preaching of Harry S. Tillis. He was later instrumental in forming the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.
1911: William P. Merrill publishes his hymn, “Rise Up, O Men of God,” in the Presbyterian periodical, ‘The Continent.’
1912: Repose of Nikolai, archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in Japan.
1916: The Hadassah Study Circle, the sisterhood of U.S. Jewish women, reconstitutes itself under the leadership of Henrietta Szold at New York’s Temple Emanu-El. Szold headed the group until 1926 and made it a nationwide Zionist organization.
1921: Death of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield in Princeton, New Jersey. A renowned Calvinist theologian and the author of The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, he had taught classes even to the last day. He had cared for his bed-ridden wife for thirty-nine years after she was struck by lightning.
1977: Murder of Archbishop Luwum under the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin in Uganda for his Christian faith.
Edited by:Â T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org