Thomas Cranmer and Henry VIII
This is the day that … Thomas Cranmer was born in 1489. He was Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of England’s stormy break with the Church of Rome. King Henry VIII wanted his marriage to Catherine...
View ArticleHans Egede Apostle of Greenland
This is the day that … Hans Egede arrived in Greenland in 1721. He was 35 years of age. Accompanying him was his wife Gertrude (13 years his senior) and their little son, Paul, who was later destined...
View ArticleLayard Uncovers Nineveh
This is the day that … archaeologist Austin Henry Layard died in 1894. He was born in Paris 77 years before, of Huguenot ancestry. We are told that whilst poring over his law books, which he was...
View ArticleAmzi Dixon Establishes Fundamentalism
This is the day that … Amzi Clarence Dixon was born in North Carolina in 1854. His father was a Baptist preacher. Converted at the age of 12, young Amzi “devoured the Bible, and the sermons of...
View ArticleJonathan Edwards and That Sermon
This is the day that … a very famous Sermon was preached !! The austere Calvinist leaned over the pulpit – held his sermon manuscript close to his near-sighted eyes – and began to read. The “levity of...
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