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INDEX

"Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell."
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Squanto –(Dec.11)
St. Louis Bible Society --founded, (May 7)

Stalin, Joseph --(Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) --Birth of, (Dec.21); the death of his father, (Dec.21); his deliberate starvation of millions through food manipulations, (Dec.21); his bloody purges, (Dec.21); persecution under, (Apr.16); cf. (Nov.29); his deportations of believers, (Dec.21)

Stalingrad --the surrender of the invading German Army, (Feb.2)
"Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus” (Mar.30)

Stanislaus --his denunciation of the cruelty and licentiousness of Boleslas II, and his subsequent excommunication and murder, (May 8)

Stanley, A. P. --his opposition to the condemnation of the book Essays And Reviews, infamous for its liberalism, (Feb.24)

Stanley, Henry --his search for Livingstone, and his subsequent conversion, (Oct.28); his defense of Christianity before King Mutesa (Jan.30)

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady –(Apr.21)
Star In the East –(Jan.31)
Starrs, Rev. George –(May 10)
Statute of 1552 --prohibits interest on loans, (July 7)

Stauff, Argula Von --lodges a protest on account of the forcing Mr. Seehofer to deny the Gospel, (Sept.20); her refusal to submit to any authority regarding the Word of God, (Sept.20)

Staupitz, Johann Von --codifies and publishes the Constitution of the Augustinian Observantists, (Dec.28); recommends Bible study, (Dec.28); brings Martin Luther to Christ, (Dec.28); Death of, (Dec.28)

Stennett, Samuel --pens, "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand", "Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned", (Aug.24); his influence upon John Howard, (Aug.24); Death of, (Aug.24)

Stephens, Archbishop --cf. (May 18)
Stephenson, Marmaduke --Death of, (Oct.27)
Stepinac, Archbishop --the arrest and imprisonment of, (Nov.29)
Stewart Margaret --(Mrs. John Knox) –(Nov.11)
Stiefel, Michael --"mathematically" calculates the return of Christ, (Oct.19)
Stillingfleet --cf. (Dec.12)

Stockfleth, Nils Joachin Christian Vibe --Birth of, (Jan.11); the death of his father and mother, (Jan.11); labors in Finland, (Jan.11)

Stoddard, Solomon --his espousal of the Half-Way Covenant, and his favoring the liberalizing the restrictions to the Lord's Table, (June 22); Death of, (Feb.11)

Stone, Barton --the Kentucky Revival, (June 28); the "Christian" movement, (June 28)
Stone, Samuel –(May 1)
Stone, William --appointed the first Protestant Governor of Maryland, (Apr.21)
Stoughton, William --institutes the witchcraft trials in the Bay colony, (Oct.12)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher --cf. (Jan.10), (May 14)
Straton, John R. --cf. (May 25)
Strozzi, Leo –(July 31)
Studies In the Scriptures –(July 15)

Stuyvesant, Peter --prohibits preaching in New Amsterdam by "unauthorized" persons, (Feb.1); receives a petition drafted by George Baxter calling for representation in government and the recognition of civil liberty, (Feb.1)

Sudan Interior Mission --missionaries of commanded to leave Ethiopia by the Italian Army, (Apr.16)
Summerfield, John --assists in founding the American Tract Society, (June 13), Death of, (June 13)
Sunday Laws --the New Orleans police chief fined for not enforcing, (Jan.14)
Sunday League --organized, and its defiling affect, (July 2)

Sunday Schools --founding of, cf. (Nov.3), (Dec.16); the London Sunday School Union formed, (July 13); Second convention of, (July 4); the first in America, (Mar.31); the first in Greece, (June 29)

Sunday School Society --founded in England, (Dec.19); established in the United States, (Sept.7)
Sunday, William --(Billy) --Birth of, (Nov.19); effects Prohibition, (Dec.5); Death of, (Nov.7)
A Sure Guide To Heaven –(Nov.17)
Susi and Chuma --find the body of David Livingstone, (May 1)
Suttee --abolished in India, (Dec.4)

Sweden --its elevation by Gustavus Adolphus from a position of insignificance to the head of Lutheran Europe, (Dec.9)

Swedish State Church --sends Oskar Herman Hermansson to China, (Apr.7)
Sweet Singer of Methodism –(Mar.29), (Dec.18)
Sweet Singer of Wales –(Jan.11)
Swieter, Baron Von – (Apr.29)
Swiss Brethren --send Gabriel Contessee to Laos, (Sept.4)

Switzerland --the first evangelical church service held in Basel, (Feb.14); the Reformation formally accepted by the city of Bern, (May 21); the Disputation of Bern, (Feb.7); the Disputation of Baden, (May 21); Geneva votes to accept the Reformation, (May 21); Mignet on the city of Geneva, (Sept.12); Zurich enforces the daily public preaching of the Bible, (June 19); passes perpetual banishment against Anabaptists, (Mar.19); the Cantons of Zurich, Bern and St. Giles issues an edict declaring death by drowning to all Anabaptists, (Sept.9); the banishment of Michael Sattler from Zurich, (Nov.18); forbids private meetings, and requires total submission, (July 29); freedom of worship acknowledged to all espousing Christian confessions of Faith, (May 29); state primary education opened to all, (May 29); a refuge to those fleeing Religious persecution, (May 1); the intolerance of the Canton of Vaud to English Methodists, (May 20); intolerance of toward Plymouth Brethren, (Nov.18)

Sword and Trowel –(Jan.31)
Sydenstricker, Pearl --(See: Pearl Buck)
Syllabus of Errors –(Dec.8)

Synods

Of Aachen – (Mar. 23)
Of Amsterdam (1892) – (Oct.29)
Of Ariminum – tolerates Arianism, (Jan.23)
Of Boston – First synod of (1657) decided in favor of baptizing children of unregenerate parents, (June22).
Second Synod of (1662) espouses the Cambridge Platform, (June 22). The Synod of (1680) – adopts the Savoy Confession, (May 12); cf. (Mar.17)
Of Breslau – First synod of, (Apr.4). Second synod of, (Apr.4)
Of Cambridge – checks the Antinomian Controversy, (June 8); cf. (Nov.5)
Of Carthage – (Nov.13)
Dutch Reformed Church – First synod of, (June 2-18)
Free Church in Switzerland – First Synod of, (July 29)
Of Hippo – (Nov.13)
Of Homberg – (Oct.21)
Of Missouri – (May 7)
Of Orleans – (July 10)
Of Oxford – (Nov.18)
Reformed Church of France – First Synod of, (May 26-28); Third Synod of, (Apr.26); Seventh Synod of, (Apr.2); Eighth Synod of, (May 6)
Reforming Synod (Massachusetts – (1679) – (Sept.10)
Remonstrant Synod of Ulster – (May 11)
Of Toledo – Third Synod of (589) – (May 8); Tenth Synod of (656) – (Dec.1)
Of Ulster – the reasons of Alexander Carson declining all connection with, (June 25); cf. (May 11)
Of Vienne (1112) – condemns Lay Investiture, and the excommunication of Henry V of Germany, (Sept.16)

Syrianus, Duke – attempts the arrest of Athanasius, (Feb.8)

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