Today is Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
On this day in history:
1784 - Birth of Thomas Hastings, American sacred composer. Hastings was
an albino afflicted with extreme nearsightedness, yet from his
pen came such enduring hymn tunes as TOPLADY ("Rock of Ages")
and ORTONVILLE ("Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned").
1790 - Ann Teresa Mathews (aka Mother Bernardina) and Frances Dickinson
founded a convent of Discalced Carmelites (a contemplative
working order) in Port Tobacco, Maryland. It was the first
Catholic convent founded in the United States.
1840 - In Melville, Missouri, the Evangelical Synod of North America
was founded. It later became one of the branches of today's
United Church of Christ.
1900 - Pentecostal evangelist Charles Fox Parham opened Bethel Bible
Institute in Topeka, Kansas. It was here on January 1, 1901
that the first Christian in modern times was reported to have
spoken in tongues: student Agnes Ozman.
1948 - American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal:
'"They shall mount up with wings as eagles" (Isa. 40:31).
These wings are not so typical of purity as they are of power
-- strength to live above snares and everything ese...Thanks
for wings, Lord.'
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