1638: Controversial colonial churchwoman Anne Hutchinson, 47, and
nineteen other exiles from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island, at the
site of modern Portsmouth.
1782:
Ohio Territory militiamen began a two_day massacre of the Moravian Indian town of
Gnadenhutten (modern New Philadelphia, Ohio). In all, 96 Christian Indians of the Delaware
tribe were slaughtered, in retaliation for Indian raids made elsewhere in the Ohio
Territory.
1802: In
Washington, D.C., the first Baptist church was organized with six charter members. Their
first pastor Obadiah Brown was hired five years later, and Brown remained in that pulpit
while involving himself in every important local Baptist program for the next 43 years!
1825:
Birth of Alfred Edersheim, English biblical scholar. Converted to Christianity from
Judaism before age 20, Edersheim later published "The Life and Times of Jesus the
Messiah" (1883A90), a Christian classic still in print!
1867:
Birth of Peter Cameron Scott, founder of the Africa Inland Mission. In 1895, Scott led the
first band of missionaries to reach Kenya. He died in Africa the following year, at 29, of
blackwater fever. Over 700 AIM missionaries have since followed in Scott's footsteps.
Source: William D. Blake. Almanac
of the Christian Church, Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional
information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
