Today is Wednesday, September 2, 2009.
On this day in history:
1758 - The first Anglican service of worship to be held on Canadian
soil was led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay, on
Baffin Island.
1784 - English clergyman Thomas Coke, 37, was consecrated, the first
"bishop" of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by founder John
Wesley. Coke afterward journeyed to America, where he and
Francis Asbury oversaw Methodism in the Colonies.
1930 - While a missionary in the Philippines, American linguistic
pioneer Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'God is always
awaiting the chance to give us high days. We so seldom are in
deep earnest about giving him his chance.'
1949 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'God, who
foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go
through it, not without pain but without stain.'
1973 - Death of J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, English Christian language scholar
and novelist. His 1954-55 "Lord of the Rings" trilogy
describes a war between good and evil in which evil is routed
through courage and sacrifice.
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