Today is Monday, September 7, 2009.
On this day in history:
1724 - The first American congregation of Dunkards (German Baptists)
gathered in Philadelphia, PA.
1785 - The Sunday School Society was formed in London, under the
leadership of Robert Raikes. It provided weekly Christian
tutoring for the poor. Eventually 3,730 schools were formed,
and their success ultimately inspired the founding in 1824 of
the American Sunday School Union.
1807 - Protestant Christianity first came to China when English
missionary Robert Morrison, 25, arrived on this date.
(Catholic missions had first penetrated China in the 16th
century with the arrival of Jesuit Matteo Ricci in 1582.)
1845 - St. Louis, Missouri, became the site of the first Hebrew
synagogue to be built in the Mississippi Valley.
1958 - The first cathedral of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the U.S.
and Canada was dedicated in Hackensack, NJ. The American
archdiocese for this branch of Orthodoxy was created the
previous year by Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub
III.
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