Today is Friday, September 11, 2009.
On this day in history:
1672 - Colonial American clergyman Solomon Stoddard, 29, was ordained
pastor of the Congregational church in Northampton, Mass. He
remained at this pulpit for the next 57 years! (From 1727
until his death in 1729, Stoddard was assisted by his
grandson, Jonathan Edwards.)
1857 - Mormon fanatic John D. Lee, angered over President Buchanan's
order to remove Brigham Young from governorship of the Utah
Territory, incited a band of Mormons and Indians to massacre a
California-bound wagon train of 135 (mostly Methodists) in
Mountain Meadows, Utah.
1892 - The Scarritt Bible and Training School in Nashville, TN, was
dedicated, primarily as the result of the conception, urging
and fund-raising of southern Methodist missions leader and
social reformer, Belle Harris Bennett (1852-1922).
1955 - The first Southern Baptist church to be established in Nebraska
was organized at Lincoln, with 34 charter members. Founded by
Southern Baptist U.S. Air Force personnel who had been
stationed in Lincoln, the congregation first met for worship
on Easter Sunday of this year.
1962 - American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in a letter: 'We have
not tasted the things given to us in Christ. Instead, we have
built around ourselves walls and cells, and buried ourselves
in dust and documents, and now we wonder why we cannot see
God, or leap to do his will.'
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