Today is Thursday, September 10, 2009.On this day in history:
1224 - The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first
arrived in England. They were originally called "Grey Friars"
because of their gray habits. (The habit worn by modern
Franciscans is brown.)
1718 - The Collegiate School at New Haven, CT, changed its name to
Yale. (Congregationalists, unhappy with an increasing
religious liberalism at Harvard, had founded Yale, the third
oldest college in America, in 1701.)
1734 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Pain,
if patiently endured, and sanctified to us, is a great
purifier of our corrupted nature.'
1794 - Blount College -- the first American nondenominational
institution of higher learning -- was established in
Knoxville. (It later became the University of Tennessee.)
1819 - Birth of Canadian hymnwriter Joseph Scriven. The accidental
drowning of his bride-to-be the night before their wedding led
to a life of depression; yet he also authored the hymn of
comfort, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
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