May 3
845: Consecration of Hincmar as Archbishop of Rheims. He had to struggle with his clergymen and even the kings to be able to keep the church free of corruption and tyranny, unfortunately he couldn’t succeed.
1074: Demise of Theodosius, who introduced monasticism to Russia with Anthony of the Caves, and who was co-founder of the Monastery of the Kiev Caves (Kiev Pechersk Lavra).
1512: Pope Julius II opens the Fifth Lateran Council, which had twelve sessions and lasted till 1517; it was continued under Leo X, after Pope Julius’ death in 1513.
1675: A law is enacted in Massachusetts requiring the church doors to be locked during the worship service, since many people used to leave before the long sermons were completed.
1679: Assassination of James Sharpe, Archbishop of St Andrew’s, on Magus Moor. Once a Presbyterian and Covenanter himself, he had joined the Church of England where he became an archbishop, who then started to persecute his previous church men brutally, until a band of Covenanters stabbed him to death to end his cruelty.
1738: George Whitefield, English revivalist, arrives in America for the first time. He died in Massachusetts in 1770, during his seventh visit, after having crossed the Atlantic many times.
1784: Demise of Anthony Benezet, a Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist, in Philadelphia.
1831: Death of Elizabeth Hervey, a missionary to India from dysentery, even before she could begin the work.
1850: Charles H. Spurgeon makes his public profession of faith in Jesus Christ at a Primitive Methodist Chapel, in Colchester, England, as he was just 16. He had a long preaching career till his death in 1892.
1853 Uriah Smith begins his service at the Seventh-day Adventists’ Review and Herald which lasted for fifty years. As the editor of the same, he also wrote books on prophecy, including the well-known Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation.
1862: Demise of Nathan Bangs in New York City, a Methodist minister and theologian, who had authored a massive history of Methodism in America and many other books.
1878: Repose of William Whiting, Anglican poet and music instructor, who won for himself an enduring fame with his single hymn, “Eternal Father, Strong to Save.”
1989: Five-thousand members of the Dani tribe in Irian Jaya in the Western New Guinea come together for a two-day pig feast to celebrate the completion and distribution of a Dani-language New Testament.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: www.studylight.org