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This is the day that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon, England, in 1772.
Coleridge represents the restless abandonment of truth in the pursuit of truth. He readily devoured those things that led men away from faith in God, only to return to the roots which he valued so little in earlier years. Philosophies, idealism, [...]

This is the day Sir John Bowring was born into a Unitarian family at Exeter in 1792.
Educated in a Unitarian school, his early ambition was to become a Unitarian minister. It was not to be … “but he lived to become the most faithful and most honoured among Unitarian laymen” (Memorable Unitarians, page 290).
This particular [...]

This is the day that … Lyman Beecher was born in Connecticut, in 1775.
He has been described as “the father of more brains than any other man in America”, a reference to his 13 children.  These included the famous preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe.  As a [...]

This is the day that … Antoinette Louisa Brown was ordained to the Christian ministry in America in 1853 … the first woman minister of a recognised denomination in the United States. The place was the First Congregational Church, Wayne County, New York.
Luther Lee, a Wesleyan Methodist, preached the ordination sermon on Galatians 3:28. The [...]

This is the day that … Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in 1809.
His father, Abiel Holmes, pastored the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and young Oliver grew up “in a library where he bumped about among books.”
And whilst still a youngster he would accompany his father in the horse and jig as they spent [...]