September 5
1538: English Chancellor Thomas Cromwell imposes a new series of injunctions against the clergy on behalf of King Henry VIII.
1569: Repose of Edmund Bonner, the persecutor of the Protestants during the reign of Mary Tudor. Queen Elizabeth had imprisoned him and he had to spend the last ten years of his life in the Marshalsea prison in London.
1651: Obadiah Holmes is punished in Boston for teaching Baptist views privately.
1692: Colonial clergyman Increase Mather receives the Doctor of Sacred Theology (STD) from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first degree to be awarded in America.
1774: The Continental Congress assembles for the first time in Philadelphia, which decides to open Congress with prayers for which Episcopal preacher Jacob Duché is selected.
1810: The formal organization of The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions by the Congregational churches of New England at Farmington, Connecticut.
1870: Foundation of three Roman Catholic universities in the United States – Â St. John’s in New York City, Loyola in Chicago, and Canisius in Buffalo, New York – on the same day.
1950: The beginning of the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, MO, under auspices of the Baptist Bible Fellowship. It is one of the largest Bible colleges in America today.
1958: Demise of hymn-writer Jennie Evelyn Hussey in Concord, New Hampshire, who penned “Lead Me to Calvary.”
1981: Coptic Pope Shenouda III is kept under arrest in a desert monastery by Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat, because Shenouda had criticized the leniency shown to Muslims, who had killed Christians and destroyed their churches and homes in a riot and even protested against it.
2007: Martyrdom of Migsti Haile in Eritrea for refusing to sign a letter recanting her Christian faith. She was just thirty-three years old and had to undergo severe persecution.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy:Â www.studylight.org