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A Candle for England--Ridley and Latimer
*William Carey goes to India
*Sarah Pierrepoint dies
*Birth of Jonathan Edwards
*Death of Brainard
*Martyrdom of Tyndale
*Lefevre translates Bible into French
*Zwingli mortally wounded
*John Gill dies
*Adoniram Judson back in America
A CANDLE FOR ENGLAND
On October 15, 1555, there was much excitement in Oxford, England, for two men were about to be burned to death for preaching the Gospel. Hugh Latimer was an old man and had been imprisoned for eighteen months, but today he is led to a public place with Bishop Ridley.
They embrace each other and kneel in prayer; then they each kiss the wooden stake. But the frailty of his flesh suddenly causes Ridley to shrink in terror at its sight. "Be of good cheer, brother Ridley, and play the man. We shall light such a candle in England today as will never go out."
The two were consumed by fire, but what rejoicing in Heaven when these two witnesses reached the Heavenly shore.
Our fathers chained in prisons dark
Were still in heart, and conscience free:
How sweet would be their children’s fate
If they, like them, could die for Thee!
Here is question about farm work that even city slickers can answer: Which farmer is able to do a better job, in better time? A farmer with a hand plow, a bag of seeds and a sack of fertilizer or the farmer with a John Deere tractor, a fertilizer and a seeder? Obviously the latter. The same is true in the spiritual realm: a man of God who has studied well the Word of God is better capable of doing a better job for our Husbandman. Whether or not he does a better job must necessarily depend upon his consecration to God. Do not pass aside this opportunity!
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Monday, October 7, at 7:30 P.M.--Congregational Songleading, or
Tuesday, October 8, at 7:30 P.M.--The Book of Romans, or
Friday, October 11 at 7:30 P.M.--Church History
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October 2, 1792-- Impressed by the hand of God, William Carey convinces the local Baptist preachers to form the first missionary society. It will be formed in Kettering, England and its first Secretary will be the famous preacher, Andrew Fuller. William Carey will be its first missionary and will go to India. He will become known as the "Father of Modern missions."
October 2,l758--After 5 days of illness, Miss Sarah Pierrepoint, the wife of Jonathan Edwards, will die. She has had much attention drawn to her, for her early conversion at the age of five years.
October 5, 1703--At Windsor, Connecticut, a son is born to Rev. and Mrs. Timothy Edwards. He is the fifth of 11 children all the rest of whom will be daughters. He will be named Jonathan.
October 6, 1536—William Tyndale, chained to a wooden stake, is first strangled, then burned. His notoriety lies in having translated the Word of God into English that his countrymen could read the Bible.
October 9, 1747—David Brainerd will die today in the home of Jonathan Edwards, his father-in-law. He is 29 years of age. His diary that he leaves though not written for anyone but himself will inspire several notable men to go to the mission field. Among these men will be William Carey.
David Brainerd has spent his life teaching the Word of God to the Indians of New England.
The last words he was heard to utter were, "I am almost in eternity. I long to be there... Oh to be in Heaven to praise and rejoice with God and with His angels!"
October 12, 1524--Jacques Lefevre has finished translating the Word of God into French. Like Tyndale, Lefevre has wanted every Frenchman to be able to read the Word of God in his own language.
October 12, 1531--Ulrich Zwingli has received a fatal wound while acting as a chaplain to his Swiss countrymen. He has been speared on the battlefield. His last utterance will be "What matters it? They may kill the body, but they cannot kill the soul."
October 14, l771--John Gill dies having written ten million words in Gospel treatises and a set of commentaries which unlike any others comment on each of the 775,000 verses of the Bible.
October 15, 1845--After 32 years on the mission field, Adoniram Judson is again on American soil.
THE PARENTAGE OF YOUR BIBLE
Part IV
Text: "Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read..." – Isaiah 34:16.
For a thousand years the western world was in a Dark Age without the Word of God to comfort and to guide men. But God was pleased to intervene several times during these years.
In 765, the Venerable Bede, an English monk, translated Jerome’s Vulgate into Anglo-Saxon, which was early English.
In other parts of Europe, portions of Scripture such as individual books were translated by hand. These, though in the vernacular of the people, were very bulky, and consumed so much time in making, they were often studded with jewels which placed them far out of the financial reach of the average family. But, other copies were made. These too would be under the attack of the Devil. Read about it in the next edition of THE ANGELUS.