This Day in Religious History: August 05, 2004
1570 - Spanish Jesuits led by Fray Batista Segura arrived in the
Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia, for the purpose of converting the
American Indians to Christianity. (Unfortunately, six months later, the
entire group was massacred by the very Indians they had come to
evangelize.)
1604 - Baptism of John Eliot, American "apostle to the Indians."
His evangelistic zeal led in 1649 to establishing the (missionary)
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England.
1656 - Eight Quakers from England arrived in Boston and were
immediately imprisoned by the local Puritan authorities. (The
church-and-state amalgam of Puritanism looked upon non-ritual Quakerism
with suspicion, regarding it as theologically apostate and politically
subversive).
1869 - Birth of Grant C. Tullar, American Methodist evangelist
and music publisher. He is remembered today for composing the tune to
the hymn, "Face to Face with Christ My Savior."
1961
- The South American country of Bolivia adopted a new constitution
that separated the powers of church and state
Source: William D. Blake.
ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the
author. Contact via E-mail:
William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy
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