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This Month in Church History

Below is a listing of what we consider to be significant events and individuals in Church history. Along with the well-known personalities of Christendom, an effort is made to recognize the not-so-well-known but no less faithful servants of Jesus Christ. Their lives are well worth investigating. Sources that were used in obtaining this list include:

Blake, William. An Almanac of the Christian Church. Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1987.

Brown, Theron and Hezekiah Butterworth. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes. New York: American Tract Society, 1906.

Johnson, Guye. Treasury of Great Hymns and Their Stories. Greenville, S. C.: Bob Jones University Press, 1986.

Stewart, Steven. Daily Almanac: Who Did It When in Church History. Compiled and edited by Esther Lense. Lima, Ohio: C. S. S. Publishing Company, 1972.

Thompson, E. Wayne and David L. Cummins. This Day in Baptist History. Greenville, S. C.: Bob Jones University Press, 1993.

http://chi.gospelcom.net/index.php

http://home.snu.edu/~HCULBERT/dates.htm

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/

March

1 1546 George Wishart, Scottish reformer, martyred.

1854 J. Hudson Taylor, arrived in Shanghai, China.

1861 Carrie Esther Parker Rounsefell, hymn composer, born.

1969 Helen Cadbury Alexander, hymnwriter, died.

2 1791 John Wesley, founder of Methodism, died.

1880 Robert Harkness, pianist for R. A. Torrey's evangelistic team, born.

3 1870 Lettie Burd Cowman, missionary and author, born.

1877 William Strong, founder of Gospel Mission to South America, born.

4 1675 An arrest warrant was issued to John Bunyan for preaching. He would spend his jail time writing, Pilgrim's Progress.

1794 Elizabeth Holmes Reed, hymnwriter, born.

1845 William Henry Parker, construction worker and hymnwriter, born.

5 1558 Thomas van Imbroek, martyred.

1824 Lucy Larcom, hymnwriter, born.

1850 Daniel Brink Towner, hymn composer, born.

6 1837 Arthur Tappan Pierson, pastor, born.

1901 Amy Carmichael received her first Hindu girl into her India mission.

7 1804 The British and Foreign Bible Society was formed.

1825 Alfred Edersheim, scholar and writer, born.

1867 Peter Cameron Scott, missionary, born.

8 1607 Johann Rist, hymnwriter, born.

1698 The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K.) was founded by Thomas Bray.

1857 William Young Fullerton, Keswick speaker, born.

1887 Henry Ward Beecher, pastor, died.

9 1839 Phoebe Palmer Knapp, hymnwriter, born.

1875 Dwight L. Moody began revival meetings in London.

10 1528 Balthaser Hubmaier, martyred.

1823 John Bacchus Dykes, hymn composer, born.

1898 George Mueller, died.

11 1812 William Carey's printshop caught fire in Seampore, India. The loss resulted in a renewed interest in missions in India and around the world.

1860 H. Frances Davidson, missionary to Africa, born.

12 1607 Paul Gerhardt, pastor and hymn composer, born.

1779 Mary Webb, organizer of over 200 women's missionary societies in the United States, born.

1826 Robert Lowry, pastor and hymnwriter, born.

13 1804 James Waddell Alexander, pastor, educator and hymn composer, born.

1812 John Quincy Adams finished reading the German Bible in nine months.

1815 James Hepburn, medical missionary and Bible translator to the Japanese, born.

1868 Charles E. Cowman, missionary to Japan, born.

14 1826 William Fiske Sherman, music educator and hymn composer, born.

1835 William Fidden Moulton, Greek scholar, born.

15 1815 Luther Rice leaves the Judsons in India to raise support for Baptist overseas missions.

1909 Torrey Maynard Johnson, youth evangelist, born.

16 1823 William Henry Monk, organist and hymn composer, born.

17 1841 James Ramsey Murray, hymn composer, born.

18 1789 Charlotte Elliott, devotional writer, born.

1885 The "Cambridge Seven," (Charles Thomas Studd, Montague Beauchamp, Stanley P. Smith, Arthur T. Polhill-Turner, Cecil Polhill-Turner, Dixon Hoste, and William Cassels), arrived in Shanghai, China, as missionaries.

19 1589 William Bradford, Pilgrim leader, born.

1813 David Livingstone, missionary to Africa, born.

1860 William Jennings Bryan, lawyer and orator, born.

20 1747 David Brainerd, missionary to American Indians, resigns due to ill health.

21 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, born.

1747 John Newton, converted.

22 1819 Joseph Philbrick Webster, hymn composer, born.

1836 Edgar Page Stites, hymnwriter and missionary, born.

1861 William Bell Riley, fundamentalist pastor, born.

23 1734 John Comer, pioneer Baptist preacher, born.

1891 Martin R. DeHaan, Radio Bible Class founder, born.

24 1820 Frances (Fanny) Crosby, hymnwriter, born.

1927 John E. Williams, missionary to China, martyred.

25 1783 Luther Rice, influential missions promoter, born.

1837 John R. Sweney, pastor and hymn composer, born.

1843 Robert Murray McCheyne, Scottish pastor, died.

1906 Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators, born.

26 1862 Joseph H. Gilmore wrote, "He Leadeth Me."

1889 Faye Edgerton, translated the New Testament in Navajo, born.

27 1746 Michael Bruce, teacher and hymnwriter, born.

1842 George Matheson, blind pastor and hymnwriter, born.

28 1895 Donald Grey Barnhouse, pastor and writer, born.

1929 Frederick B. Meyer, devotional writer, died.

29 1788 Charles Wesley, Methodist hymnwriter, died.

1847 Winfield Scott Weeden, hymn composer, born.

30 1799 Friedrich A. G. Tholuck, conservative Lutheran theologian, born.

1820 Missionaries arrived at the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).

31 1860 Rodney (Gypsy) Smith, evangelist, born.

1874 Thoro Harris, hymnwriter, born.