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This is the day that … Frederick Wilhelm Baedeker was born in Germany, in 1823.
At the age of 25 we find him discharged from compulsory army training due to ill-health.
In 1851 he married, but, alas, his young bride died three months later.
Sick and distraught, Baedeker set sail on a French ship (which was nearly wrecked [...]

This is the day that … William Penn died in 1718, at the age of 74.
His father was an Admiral in the British Navy, Admiral Sir William Penn, and so young William enjoyed “the favour of the king … he was admired at court, handsome in person, graceful in manners … expectant heir of a [...]

This is the day that … Jenny Geddes flung her stool at the Dean’s head in St Giles’ Kirk (church), Edinburgh! It was in 1637.
William Laud was both Archbishop of Canterbury and adviser of King Charles I of England, and he it was who was responsible for seeking to impose the Church of England Prayer [...]

This is the day that … Howell Harris died, in 1773, “loyal to the last to the church whose sacraments he had been denied. His funeral was attended by 20,000 people.”
He was born in Wales on 23 January 1714, and early in life he decided to become a Church of England clergyman.
By the age of [...]

This is the day that … George Fox was born, in 1624.
Converted at the age of 19 – through the reading of the Scriptures – George Fox took off on an itinerant preaching ministry.
His spiritual journey involved two revelation experiences; one on his conversion where, he recounts, “I heard a voice which said, “There is [...]

This is the day that … Benjamin Keach died in 1704.
He had been born in North Buckinghamshire, England, on February 29, 1640, in the days when England was about to be plunged into civil war…
Although brought up in the state church, he was baptised again at the age of 15 and joined a Baptist church [...]

This is the day that … Isaac Watts was born in Southampton, England, in 1674.
Little Isaac Watts showed a passion for poetry from his earliest years. It irritated his father … So much so that, when Isaac saw the mouse run up the bell rope during prayer time he really upset his father when he [...]

This is the day that … Edward Caswell was born in Hampshire, England, in 1814.
The son of an Anglican vicar, young Edward graduated from Oxford in 1836, and three years later became a clergyman.
But during his first ministerial charge he was caught up in the Oxford Movement, which resulted in his seceding to the Church [...]

This is the day that … Charles McCallon Alexander was married, in Birmingham, England, in 1904.
“Charlie”, as he was known, followed his musical training with evangelistic preparation at Moody Bible Institute. He spent 3 months as a singing associate of Quaker evangelist John Kittrell, and in 1893 was associated with Dwight L. Moody in the [...]

This is the day that … Hugh Bourne preached his first sermon, in North Staffordshire, England. It was 1801, and he was 29 years of age.
Hugh had been converted through reading the Letters of Fletcher of Maddley – “I was born again in an instant, yea passed from death unto life,” he wrote.
By 1802 he [...]