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This is the day that … Charles Albert Tindley died in 1933. And hereby hangs quite a tale.
He had been born into slavery – in Maryland, USA – 7 July 1851. By the age of five he was an orphan. As the years passed he taught himself to read and write. In Philadelphia in his [...]

This is the day that … Charles Grandison Finney was ordained to Christian ministry, in 1824.
Thus began – or “continued” might be a more accurate word – a mighty moving of the Spirit of God through this converted lawyer. Immediately the winning of the lost had become his one purpose in life … as he [...]

This is the day that … Ebenezer Erskine was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, in 1680.
His father was a Church of Scotland minister. Ebenezer, and his young brother Ralph, followed suit. But their respective ministries encountered stormy days.
The republishing of a volume that had first appeared 73 years earlier – The Marrow of Modern Divinity – [...]

This is the day that …the Magna Carta was signed, “an ever memorable day to Englishmen and to all nations descended from Englishmen!” It was AD 1215!
Few Christians realize the spiritual significance of this landmark document.
Pope Innocent III had placed England under an interdict. (That could be compared to excommunication, not just for an individual, [...]

This is the day that … Billy Bray was born in 1794, in Cornwall, UK.
His early life was one of drunkenness and mischief … but in 1823 the Spirit of God laid hold of him and Billy became a “man in a new world”.
He became an evangelist for the Bible Christians, a branch of English [...]

A long-term debate has raged on the question of whether we are ‘born’ a certain way, such as happy, lucky, blessed or successful, or ‘made’ that way by our circumstances. Are we who we are because of the ‘nature’ of our being, such as something built into our DNA, or because of the things we [...]

This is the day that … St Dunstan is remembered by some churches.  He is one of the 68 saints mentioned in the Anglican Prayer Book.
He is “the most famous of all Anglo-Saxon saints”, according to Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1756-1759).
Dunstan was born in Somerset, England, in the early part of the 10th [...]

This is the day that …  Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared, in the year 1926!
On that day Cecil B. DeMille expected to pick up the morning newspaper and read front-page headlines of his latest cinematic masterpiece.  Instead of which “the front pages were pre-empted by a lady who was the most vocal enemy of the moving [...]

This is the day that … Timothy Dwight was born in Massachusetts, in 1752.
He is remembered for his hymn …
          I love Thy Kingdom, Lord,
          The house of Thine abode,
          The church our blest Redeemer saved
          with His own precious blood.
          I love Thy Church, O God!
          Her walls before Thee stand
          Dear as the [...]

This is the day that …MARGARET McLAUGHLIN, aged 60, and MARGARET WILSON, aged 16, were martyred for their faith, in 1685.
“Use the Prayer Book – or else!”  Such was the substance of the new Act of Uniformity passed in May, 1662.  As a result, persecution broke out with fury against all who refused to conform.  [...]