October 8
451 Opening of the Council of Chalcedon, which dealt with the view of the Eutychians, who taught that Christ’s divinity swallowed up his humanity “like a drop of wine in the sea.”
1664 Benjamin Keach is presented before a magistrate on accusation of scandalous behaviour after he printed a Baptist primer for children.
1871 The Water Street Mission of New York, one of the first rescue missions in the world, is called into life by Ex-con Jerry McAuley.
1901 Chartering of the American branch of Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF), which was originally founded as the China Inland Mission in 1865 by missionary pioneer J. Hudson Taylor.
1917 Opening of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary by P. I. Lipsey in New Orleans.
1924 The National Lutheran Conference bans playing of jazz music in the local churches in New York City.
1932 Joseph Nakabaale Kiwanuka arrives in Algiers to enter the novitiate of the Missionaries of Africa. He later became the first native African to be ordained a Catholic bishop in the twentieth century.
1986 The first North American Congress on the Holy Spirit and World Evangelization opens in New Orleans, with 7,000 leaders from 40 denominations attending it.
2008 Demise of Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who rescued thousands of Jews from Lithuania with her husband Chiune Sugihara during World War II.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org