In 1896 the Democratic National Convention would be held in Chicago. Who would emerge as the leader of the party to be their presidential nominee? The Coliseum in Chicago was twice the size of Madison Square Garden, and had just been completed. It almost was finished the previous year when it collapsed – but was quickly rebuilt. Buffalo Bill’s Wild Read more...
TL, DR: Billy Sunday’s first professional baseball game was played May 22, 1883, in Chicago at now-Millennium Park. Ten years later, on June 11, 1893, D.L. Moody would preach to his largest audience at the same spot, in a circus tent! The 1890s were the peak of the Gilded Age. Industrialization, wage growth, railroads, factories, mines, immigration, formed the boom Read more...
Abraham Lincoln, on his way to the White House to be inaugurated as President, stopped by Dwight L. Moody’s Sunday School in “Little Hell” I was once as poor as any boy in this school, but I am now President of the United States, and if you attend to what is taught you here, some of you may yet be Read more...
On this site in 1855, was where Edward Kimball, taught Sunday School. A young D.L. Moody came to his class one Sunday. Kimball was impressed to visit his at the shoe store that his uncle operated nearby. Read more...
John Girardeau was pastor of the Anson Street Presbyterian Mission in the late 1850s, before the Civil War. The Mission was targeted to the enslaved population. In Girardeau’s biography we read: The greatest event in his ministry was the revival in the later fifties. This began with a prayer meeting that constantly increased until the house was filled. Some of Read more...
Written on stationary from the Brevoort House in Chicago, Horatio Spafford penned this famous hymn while on a ship as he crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Not that long ago, his daughters had drowned after the Ville du Havre suffered a tragic crash. His wife telegraphed back, “Saved alone.” The manuscript is now found at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. Read more...
Now private home “[James] McQuilkin had put away the fighting cocks he had been rearing and had turned away from all the worldly pleasures because he claimed God had cleansed him from all his sins. All three of them, being old-line hyper-calvinistic Presbyterians, thought that such a claim as McQuilkin’s was, to say the least, presumptuous. Jeremiah Meneely was Read more...
Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called “the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.”[1] He Read more...
Named for their student, Eric Liddell. From the website: Eric Liddell is one of the most famous pupils to attend Eltham College. He joined the school in 1908 at the age of six and like all the other boys in the school at the time, Eric was the son of missionaries – his parents lived and worked in China. Eric Read more...
Frank Jenner spoke with over 100,000 people on George Street in Sydney, asking them: “If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or hell?” Ray Comfort would often tell the story of the faithfulness in evangelism of Frank Jenner Read more...
Since 2002, Within the Secretary of State’s office in the Minnesota State Office Building is a colorized photograph that has been in the public domain since 1995. The photograph “Grace,” depicting an elderly man bowing his head and giving thanks, was taken in Bovey, Minnesota in 1918 by Eric Enstrom, and was adopted as the official state photograph in 2002. A Read more...
In 1857, the California gold rush was in decline. The railroad bubble peaked in July. Business failures began in August. The fashionable churches were moving north, but Jeremiah Lanphier lived in the nonreligious lower part of the city. Lanphier never married, and had no formal schooling to prepare him for ministry, but he was commissioned as a lay missionary of North Dutch Church (torn Read more...
The Billy Sunday Baseball Field was constructed in the 1930s to serve as a consistent playing location for Nevada’s semi-pro baseball team. The field was originally located on the west side of S14, but was soon relocated to its current location, just east of S14. The Nevada High School baseball team began playing at the field around 1934, which prompted Read more...
According to the Ames Historical Museum, Billy Sunday attended Clearview School, a one-room schoolhouse on the northwest corner of South Duff & Airport Road in Washington Township. At the time, Sunday was living with his maternal grandparents, the Cory’s. Read more...
Horatio Spafford, well-off lawyer and friend of D.L. Moody lived here on the north side of Chicago. During the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, he lost much of his real estate holdings. A couple years later he sent his family ahead to Europe where D.L. Moody would be preaching. The Ville du Havre sank, and all four of his daughters Read more...
From Vance Christie: Carl Becker (1894-1990) was born and raised in Manheim, Pennsylvania. After receiving his medical training at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he successfully practiced medicine in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, for seven years. In 1929 Becker and his wife, Marie, left Boyertown to go to the Belgian Congo (modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the Africa Inland Mission. Read more...
From Daytonian in Manhattan: Three blocks to the north, on Ninth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Street, the New York Asylum for the Blind had stood since 1831. In 1839 it had taken in a 19-year old student, Franny J. Crosby, who quickly was recognized for her talent in writing poetry and hymns. Fanny had been blinded by an incompetent physician at Read more...
From RocWiki: Third Presbyterian Church is a beautiful stone church on the corner of Meigs Street and East Avenue in the East Avenue Historic District. It has served the Rochester community since 1827. Their first building was located on the northeast center of Main Street and Clinton Avenue. Their current structure was built in 1894. Major renovations to provide full accessibility were completed in December 2010. From Third Pres: Third Church was founded Read more...
Now home to Pyongyang University of Science & Technology, in 1931, the “Robert Jermain Thomas Memorial Church” was built near the spot where the namesake was killed in 1866. The Pyongyang Revival occurred in 1907 From Wikipedia: [3]“One government official named Pak Yong-Sik who took home some of the Bibles thrown onto the river bank, used them to Read more...
From Wikipedia: Patmos (Greek: Πάτμος, pronounced [ˈpatmos]) is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It is perhaps best known today as the location the disciple / apostle John received the visions found in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament, and where the book was written. Read more...
