Volume 02, Issue 22

November 17

Congress held 1st session in Washington DC, 1800.
English_born Rodney (“Gipsy”) Smith, 16, was converted to a living faith. Smith later became an English Wesleyan singing evangelist whose preaching emphasized the love of God, 1876.

November 19

Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; “4 score & 7 years…”, 1863.
English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: ‘Plead His promises, be much in secret prayer, and never give God rest, till your soul is filled with all His fullness,’ 1742.
Birth of William (Billy) Sunday, American revivalist, 1862..
Birth of Haldor Lillenas, American hymnwriter. He penned nearly 4,000 Gospel texts and hymn tunes during his lifetime, including “It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him,” “Wonderful Grace of Jesus” and “Peace, Peace, Wonderful Peace,” 1885.

November 20

The hymn penned by Annie Sherwood Hawks, “I Need Thee Every Hour” was first sung at a National Baptist Sunday School Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1872.
In Switzerland, French reformer John Calvin, 32, established a theocratic government at Geneva, thereby creating a home base for emergent Protestantism throughout Europe, 1541.

November 21

November 22

1963 C.S.Lewis, English novelist died in 1963.
1963 John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas, 1963.
FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan, 1943.
American lawyer Horatio G. Spafford’s four daughters drowned when their passenger ship, while crossing the Atlantic, collided with another and sank. The following month, as his own ship passed over the spot of the earlier tragedy, Spafford penned the words to the enduring hymn, “It is Well With My Soul,” 1873.

November 25

Delmonico’s, one of NY’s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents, 1834.

November 26

President George Washington proclaimed this date (a Thursday) to be the first national Thanksgiving Day holiday. (National Thanksgiving days were periodically proclaimed by presidents, until in 1863 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated the practice of annually setting the fourth Thursday in November aside for Thanksgiving Day.) 1789.

November 27

American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: ‘What gets me into the Kingdom, from Christ’s own statement, is not saying “Lord, Lord,” but acting “Lord, Lord.”‘ 1950.

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November 30

Roman Catholicism was (briefly) restored to England, under the reign of Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. In the process, “Bloody Mary” had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake, 1554.

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