November 7
680: The sixth ecumenical (general) council opens in Constantinople. It condemned Monothelitism, which held that Christ, although having both divine and human natures, has only one will, namely the divine will, and that his human will is superseded by it.
1637: Colonial religious leader Anne Hutchinson convicted on accusations of heresy because she challenged the Puritan religious authority (the Antinomian controversy). The home meetings which she organized discussed the Puritan sermons and criticized its beliefs. She was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1781: The Spanish Inquisition burns its last victim in Seville, namely a controversial woman because she refused to confess that she had entered into a covenant with the Devil.
1793: “Christianity” abolished on this date in France, during the French Revolution. The mad crowds destroyed as many as 2,000 churches throughout France.
1814: Chinese convert Peter Wu Guosheng is executed, who had many to Christ.
1828: Birth of Joseph Henry Thayer, a Congregationalist pastor and a well known  American biblical lexicographer, whose main interest was New Testament language. He published his definitive “Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament” in 1886.
1880: Baptism of twenty-year-old Edgar Young Mullins, who later converted and became a Baptist minister and the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in America.
1889: The Northern Christian Advocate (Syracuse, New York) publishes a note from an anonymous correspondent in Jerusalem claiming that an inscription found at St. Étienne’s monastery, north of Damascus Gate, claims to spot Christ’s tomb near that site, and not at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Later it was proved to be unreliable.
1991: Muslim militants murder Coptic Christian Aziz Abdel Masih in Egypt. His body was left on the streets for almost nine hours and his wife was mocked by the investigators as she tried to claim his body.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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