September 4
422: Passing away of Pope St. Boniface I, who was awarded the papacy by Imperial decree. It was he who supported Augustine of Hippo against Pelagianism.
1645: Dedication of the first Lutheran church building erected in America at Easton, Pennsylvania.
1666: St. Paul’s Cathedral devastated in the Great Fire of London.
1741: Thomas Gillespie becomes the minister of Carnock in Fife and encourages the Presbyterian congregations to choose their own ministers, instead of them being appointed by the general assembly.
1771: Francis Asbury sails to America; there he organized and extended the Methodist church so well that it became the largest denomination in America at the time of his death.
1773: Some priests of the Canonical Chapter of Castellena protest against their duty to pay homage to a woman “bishop” (abbess) in Naples and pay them the tithe.
1802: Birth of Marcus Whitman, an American Presbyterian and a pioneer medical missionary, who was murdered along with his wife by the Cayuse Indians in present-day Washington state in 1847.
1813: The first issue of “The Religious Remembrancer,” the first weekly religious newspaper in the U.S. and in the world, is printed and circulated in Philadelphia. Later it was renamed “The Christian Observer.”
1817: The Dutch government announces its plans to reorganize the Protestant churches in the Dutch Indies, namely Indonesia.
1844: Repose of Oliver Holden, an American Puritan clergyman and a composer, who is known for CORONATION, the tune to which we sing the hymn “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.”
1846: Demise of David Abeel, a pioneer missionary to Batavia, who was also instrumental in organizing the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East.
1911: Sergius Petrovich Ilmensky, an Orthodox priest, becomes the editor of The Saratov Theological Herald. Due to his increasing popularity and prominence he was made the bishop of Solikamsk six years later and took the name Theophanes. He was drowned at the hands of the Communists on Christmas Eve 1918, while administering the diocese of Perm at their command.
1973: The Assemblies of God openes its first theological graduate school in Springfield, MO.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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