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Richard Baxter was born on November 12, in 1615. The place was Shropshire, England.
Born to parents who had little regard for education, Baxter was largely self-educated, suffered with various bodily infirmities, and knew the reality of persecution in his lifetime … but nevertheless he was to become “one of the foremost Puritan spokesmen within the [...]

This is the day that Charles Haddon Spurgeon resigned from the Baptist Union of Great Britain!! It was 1887.
History refers to it as the ‘Downgrade Controversy’, a sorry spectacle of modern theology creeping into the denomination he loved.
He wrote in The Sword and the Trowel his reason for his withdrawal:
“Believers in Christ’s atonement are now [...]

This is the day that Matthew Henry was born in a Welsh farmhouse in Shropshire, England, close to the border of England and Wales, in 1662.
His father, Philip, had been ejected from his church for refusing to ‘bow the knee’ to the king’s demands. His non-conformist views would not allow him to recognize the king [...]

This is the day that … The Reverend Adam Clarke died in 1832.
Born 1760 or 1762, in the little village of Moybeg, county of Londonderry, this friend and fellow preacher with John Wesley is especially remembered for his massive Bible commentary, which is still in print.
In his childhood his mother taught him to have strong [...]

This is the day that … Rowland Hill was born in 1744, in Shropshire, England, son of Sir Rowland Hill, a baronet. He was afforded education at the best schools, but he chose to relate most with the common man. He scandalised his superiors by undertaking open air preaching and visitation before he was ordained.
This [...]

This is the day that … Thomas L. Johnson was ‘probably’ born, in 1836, in Virginia, USA.
His father was an octoroon (i.e. one-eighth negro) … and his mother a black slave. Thomas was born into slavery. His master refused to sell Thomas and his mother to Thomas’ father, so he spent 28 years as a [...]

This is the day that … Dr A.T. Pierson was almost drowned. It was on Vineyard Lake, 1877.
Arthur Tappan Pierson was born on 6 March, 1837, reared in a godly home, and converted during “special revival meetings in the Methodist church”.
At the age of 23 he was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry, and married Sarah [...]

This is the day that … Amzi Clarence Dixon was born in North Carolina in 1854. His father was a Baptist preacher.
Converted at the age of 12, young Amzi “devoured the Bible, and the sermons of Spurgeon” (Dictionary of American Religious Biography, page 130).
At the age of 21 he was ordained to the Baptist ministry, [...]

This is the day that … Samuel Crowther was consecrated as a bishop, in 1864.
Adijah was 13 years of age, a black boy living inland near the west coast of Africa, when the slave traders attacked. He never saw his father again, and it would be 25 years before he was to again meet his [...]