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This is the day that … William Edwin Robert Sangster was born “on a blazing hot” day in 1900 … in London. (The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church spells it Edwyn … but both biographers, including his son, spell it Edwin!).
His parents attended the Church of England, but young William found the Radnor [...]

This is the day that … David Zeisberger was married – at the age of 60 – to Miss Susan Lecron, at the suggestion of the Moravian Mission Board. It was in 1781.
For the previous 40 years he had devoted his life to preaching of the Gospel among Red Indians. “He had made himself so [...]

This is the day that … William Carey preached his “deathless sermon”, as it is described by his biographer, S. Pearce Carey. 
It was 1792, and the place was Nottingham, England.
At 10.00 a.m. the young cobbler/pastor from Leicester rose to address the small group.  His text was Isaiah 54:2,3:  “Lengthen thy cords … strengthen thy stakes [...]

This is the day that … Hyman Jedediah Appelman was ordained, in 1930.
This remarkable evangelist began life in White Russia on 7 January, 1902, born to an Orthodox Jewish family.  He was reared in the Jewish faith, emigrated with his family to America in 1914, became an outstanding scholar at various schools and universities and [...]

This is the day that … Sir Robert Anderson was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1841.
It was at the age of 19 that he saw a change in one of his sisters … she had been converted at a revival meeting nearby.  “I cherished the thought,” he wrote, “that the next Sunday services in the [...]

This is the day that … William Walters died, in 1907, on the Isle of Wight, where he was holidaying.
Born in Wolverhampton, England, about 1848, to godly parents, William grew up apprenticed to the printing trade.
Eventually he had his own little printing business – and he also issued some Christian publications.  These were almost entirely [...]

This is the day that … the Sudan Interior Mission (S.I.M.) was born, in 1898.
“On 24 May, 1898,” Rowland Bingham later wrote, “Helen E. Blair entered with me into life partnership … we were married three days before the mission was born …” (Flame of Fire, by J. Hunter, page 66).
In the previous decades an [...]

This is the day that … Niklaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was born, in 1700.
Born to an aristocratic German family Count Zinzendorf is described as the Rich Young Ruler who said ‘Yes’. At age 6 he impressed people with his prayers. At age 20 he felt the call do whatever Christ asked, no matter the cost. [...]

This is the day that … John Raleigh Mott was born in New York State, in 1865.
He was an Ameican Methodist evangelist and became “the most influential world religious leader of the 20th century” – according to Ruth Tucker (From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, page 268).
He influenced more students onto the mission field during his [...]

This is the day that … Frederick Arvid Blom died in Sweden in 1927, at the age of 60.
Fredrick was born in Sweeden, May 21 1867 in Bred parish. In 1883 he took a degree in navigation and became a sailor. In 1902 he was declared “not found” in Sweeden - which suggests he absconded.
He [...]