Tabernacles & Sawdust Trails: F. J. Sessions, Superintendent of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, at Davenport, says: “Howard E. and William A. Sunday were admitted to this institution by transfer from the Glenwood, Iowa, Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home when the latter was closed January 29, 1875. They were admitted to the Glenwood institution September 25, 1874. Dismissed from this institution June 10, Read more...
The building is from the time of Herod – but the Cave was visited much earlier. This is the Jewish Cave of Machpelah, the burial place of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Image Credit: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...
From the church: The great Victorian ‘Prince of Preachers’, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, began his ministry here at the Baptist church in Waterbeach. Every great venture of faith has to begin somewhere, and we are seeking to rekindle the passion and impact of Spurgeon’s ministry in our present-day community some 170 years later. Spurgeon always had a fond love and appreciation Read more...
The Pilgrims who gathered first in Scrooby, then moved to the Netherlands, then they worshipped together in the Mayflower as they sailed in 1620. Their meetinghouse was the fort (depicted at Plimoth Plantation but originally located on Burial Hill), then moved down the hill to the current location. In 1801, the Trinitarians left in the split (identifying with the theological Read more...
Place where John & Abigail Adams, and John Quincy & Louisa Catherine Adams worshipped and are buried. Of interest is a letter from John to Abigail about his thoughts on church: Phyladelphia Octr. 9, 1774 My Dear I am wearied to Death with the Life I lead. The Business of the Congress is tedious, beyond Expression. This Assembly Read more...
From the Newspaper: the body was conveyed to the Methodist Church, and a funeral sermon delivered by the Rev. J. B. McFerrin. The speaker, in that portion of his remarks personal to the deceased, gave a brief sketch of his life and public career, passed a high and deserved eulogium on his moral character and unblemished integrity, and detailed in Read more...
On July 17, 1854, Frances Ridley Havergal was confirmed at Worcester Cathedral. In the procession to Worcester Cathedral Ellen Wakeman was my companion. On reaching our seat very near the rails, I sunk on my knees, and for the first time to-day the thought of “whose I am” burst upon me, and I prayed “my God, oh, my own Father, Read more...
From Encyclopedia Virginia: In this 1772 document, the sheriff of Orange County is ordered to summon Nathaniel Saunders, minister of Mountain Run Baptist Church, to appear in Culpeper County Court to answer the charge of “unlawfull Preaching.” Virginia required ministers to obtain preaching licenses, but some Baptists refused to do so on the grounds that it was not a Read more...
Pigeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist church in Florida. It was organized January 7, 1821, twenty-four years before Florida was granted statehood. From the Baptist History Preservation Society: Image Credit: Harris, Joy. “Pigeon Creek Baptist Church.” Old Florida Churches, 30 Jan. 2024, www.historicfloridachurches.com/post/pigeon-creek-baptist-church. Read more...
Church unveiling new monument By BILL TOSCANO btoscano@poststar.com HARTFORD — Dale LaPoint and the other members of the First Baptist Church of Hartford are planning a major event for Friday, and it wasn’t even their idea. “This is not something we generated,” said LaPoint, who is the chairman of the church trustees and the church historian. “Jeff Faggart got in Read more...
From others: Unusual Films souvenir book, 1978, BJU Archives. Katherine Stenholm directed a crew of 76 and a cast of about 800, and the film includes a musical score by Dwight Gustafson. A large camp meeting scene was filmed at the nineteenth-century Epworth Camp Meeting in Greenwood, South Carolina, and other scenes were shot at Cades Cove and the Pioneer Read more...
From the website: ” the founders of Park Street Church pronounced the standard upon which they could not compromise: Jesus Christ was no mere messenger sent from God—He was God himself. This stance on the divinity of Jesus had fallen out of favor in the early 1800s, in favor of the doctrine of Unitarianism. Unitarians believe that Jesus was a good Read more...
From WMF: The original First Baptist Church in Mawlamyine, Mon State, was constructed in 1827 by Adoniram Judson, an American missionary who spent nearly 40 years in Myanmar (Burma) in the early nineteenth century. Well beyond the issues of religious conversion, the Judson experience in Burma nurtured an environment that has profound effects on Mawlamyine today. The hospitals, schools, and Read more...
From the website: The Boneyard Creation Museum is a non-profit educational museum located in Broken Bow, Nebraska for the purpose of displaying scientific evidence for creation and showing the difference between evolution and creation. We believe in the accuracy of the Bible and firmly believe that the earth is thousands of years old, not billions. The museum has many fossil and replica displays highlighting the many problems that Read more...
From Wikipedia: The Billy Graham Library is a public museum and library documenting the life and ministry of Christian evangelist Billy Graham. The 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) complex[1] opened to the public on June 5, 2007.[2] The library is located on the grounds of the international headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte, North Carolina, a few miles from where Graham was reared. The library is styled after Read more...
From Wikipedia: Montgomery himself expected that his name would live, if at all, in his hymns. Some of these, such as “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed”, “Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire”, “Stand up and Bless the Lord” and the carol “Angels from the Realms of Glory”, are still sung. “The Lord Is My Shepherd” is a popular hymn with Read more...
From Wikipedia: St. Mary of Zion claims to contain the original Ark of the Covenant. Reportedly, the Ark was moved to the Chapel of the Tablet adjacent to the old church because a divine ‘heat’ from the Tablets had cracked the stones of its previous sanctum. Emperor Haile Selassie’s wife, Empress Menen, paid for the construction of the new chapel.[citation needed] According to Read more...
Burial Place of David Livingstone William Wilberforce John Milton and more Image Credit: Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...
The only Free Lutheran Church in Copenhagen, started by Niels Pedersen Grunnet (1827-1897) From Christian Cyclopedia: (February 19, 1827–January 13, 1897). B. North Bjert, near Kolding, Den.; joined the Staerke jyder (Strong Jutlanders) movement formed ca. 1800 in opposition to rationalism; taught school at Hedensted and Egtved; soldier 1848; studied theol. at the school of the Basel* Miss. Soc. 1851–54; dismissed because of his refusal to embrace a compromising confessional Read more...
Eric Liddell was known as the “Flying Scotsman” even though he was born in China. Yet when the 100 meter Olympic qualifying rounds were announced for Sunday, July 6th, 1924, Eric knew he could not participate in the race he was considered the clear favorite. Instead, on Sunday, July 6th, Eric preached the Sunday morning sermon at The Scots Kirk Read more...
