Pella is the namesake for such places as Pella, Iowa, founded by Dutch Reformed Christians. The story of Pella is found in church history. From Wikipedia: The fourth-century Church Father Eusebius of Caesarea and Epiphanius of Salamis cite a tradition that before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 the early Christians had been warned to flee to Pella in the region of the Decapolis across the Jordan River. And when ye shall see Read more...
From Judson, the Pioneer: “HI, boys, there goes the Bell Rock alarm! Come on !” The boys of Maiden, Massachusetts, in the old Colonial days were always listening for the Bell Rock alarm. It was a church bell, but it wasn’t in a church tower. It was swung in a wooden frame on a rounding ledge of rock, where now Read more...
Samuel Davies was the pastor of Patrick Henry, and later President of Princeton University, before he died at age 37. Text: Just to the north stands Briery Church, organized in 1755 following the missionary work of Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies. The first church was built about 1760 and was replaced in 1824. The present Gothic Revival church was built about Read more...
Samuel Davies was Patrick Henry’s pastor growing up. Marker: Just west was Polegreen Church’s 18th-century glebe, a farm and residence provided for the benefit of its pastor. Polegreen was a congregation of Presbyterians dissenting from Virginia’s established Church of England. The Rev. Samuel Davies (1723-1761), a leader of the Great Awakening in the South, was Polegreen’s first pastor (1748-1759). A Read more...
Home to Bertha Spafford’s original Steinway piano. From the website: The house was built by an Arab family in 1890, one of the first homes built outside the Jerusalem old city walls near the Damascus Gate, during the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In 1905 it became part of the American Colony as the home of Bertha Spafford Vester, with her husband Read more...
“When the time had arrived to seek out some place to spend the night, Sheffey would seek a home where he could find those comforts which his heart and body craved. He enjoyed sleeping in a bed with a white counterpane over the covers. At the home of Aurelius Vest, where he spent his last days and where he was Read more...
Boyhood home of Rev. Robert Sheffey, “The Saint of the Wilderness”, legendary circuit-riding frontier preacher who gave up wealth and social position to spread the Word and Spirit of God. Built in 1820 by James and Elizabeth White. Partially burned in 1864 during the Civil War. Restored 1866. Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, October 23, 2022, HMDB.org Read more...
Can’t confirm this is THE tavern, but this tavern dates to 1779 and is the oldest surviving building in Abingdon. “In January of [1839] young Sheffey and a group of his drinking buddies, left an Abingdon tavern to go to a small revival meeting being held on an upper floor in Grenway’s Storehouse along Main Street, with the intention of Read more...
Youngest son of Harry A. and Sadie Roloff born at Dawson, Texas on the old Blackland Farm where he spent his boyhood days, he learned the discipline of hard work and of frugal endeavor. Equipped with the word of God. The courage of the American frontier and the homespun philosophy of the common people, Brother Roloff embarked on the road Read more...
This plaque commemorates the 1963 Crusade for Christ with a total attendance of 920,927 highlighted by the concluding session on Sunday, September 8th. Citizens from every walk of life occupied every seat and spilled onto the playing field grass to establish a record turnstile attendance for a single event in the Coliseum of 134,254. An additional 20,000 people were estimated Read more...
In the 1830s and 1840s Christian Missionaries came into Indian Country, which included Bloomington, with the purpose of converting Dakota Indians to Christian beliefs and white person’s ways. This included farming, owning property, receiving a formal education and establishing a money-based economy. Missions established to serve the Dakota were located in proximity to rivers or lakes by permanent Native American Read more...
This plaque is located at Luther Rice Memorial Baptist Church, an American Baptist congregation named in honor of Luther Rice. From HMDB: Luther Rice was one of the first foreign missionaries from the United States. Along with Adoniram Judson and three others, he was ordained a Congregationalist missionary in 1812. In India he and the Judsons accepted the Baptist view Read more...
English Translation from HMDB: He was trained as a priest and developed into the most important (humanist) scholar of his time (Renaissance). He studied in Paris, stayed at the royal court in England and worked with printers in Venice and Basel. According to Erasmus, man must develop in three areas: cultural, religious and ethical. These aspects are discussed in his Read more...
Wikipedia: The house, of late Gothic or early Renaissance style, was built between 1460 and 1515 under the tutelage of Peter Wijchmans [fr], canon and schoolmaster of the chapter of Anderlecht, and a friend of Erasmus. Erasmus stayed in the house for five months from May to October 1521, working on his translation of his Novum Testamentum from Greek into Latin.[2] Read more...
Desiderius Erasmus prepared the first printed Greek New Testament, the Novum Instrumentum Omne, in 1516. Wikipedia: An estimate of up to 300,000 copies were printed in Erasmus’ lifetime.[1] They were the basis for the majority of Textus Receptus translations of the New Testament in the 16th–19th centuries, including those of Martin Luther, William Tyndale and the King James Version.[2] Photo Read more...
Originally located here, with most of the gate relocated to the Berlin Museum, and parts to the former Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Built around 600 BC by Nebuchadnezzar, this is the gate Daniel and his three friends Hananiah, Michael, and Azariah would have entered and exited Babylon thru. Photo – Matson Photo Service Read more...
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is the traditional site of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The primary alternative site, the Garden Tomb, is preferred by evangelicals for the atmosphere but possibly predates Jesus by 5-8 centuries (Matthew 25:28 says that the tomb was a new tomb built for Joseph of Arimathea). See discussion by FIRM, and Read more...
A traditional site for the cave of Lot from Genesis 19:30, and a nearby pillar attributed to his wife who was turned into salt. 30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. Read more...
Traditional site of John Mark’s mother’s house, where Peter went after being released from prison: 12 And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. 13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Read more...
