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1801
Strange Behavior at Cane Ridge
1802
Evans Battled Burnout in Welsh Mountains
1802
The Truth about the Wall of Separation
1803
Reformer Thomas Guthrie
1803
Jacob Abbott's Children's Literature
1803
Samuel Hopkins' Unusual Theology
1803
George Müller: God Alone Our Patron
1804
Mary Jones and the Bible Society
1804
David Abeel Born to Lead Women to New Birth
1804
Napoleon Crowned Himself in Notre Dame
1805
Sarah Flower Adams
1805
George Washington Bethune
1805
Hieromonk Gedeon's Confidential Letter Told All
1805
John J. Herzog's Huge Church Encyclopedia
1805
Serampore Compact
1806
Duff Defied Shipwrecks to Disciple India
1806
Edward R. Ames Did Ohio Proud
1806
American Missions
1807
Samuel Adjai Crowther
1807
William Wilberforce
1807
Jacob Albright Followed His Children Home
1808
Elder Randall, Free Will Baptist Founder
1809
Blind Louis Braille Gave Reading to the Blind
1809
The Campbells Formed a Christian Association
1810
Andrew Alexander Bonar Learned the Value of Prayer
1811
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abolitionist
1812
The Judsons
1812
Ann Judson: 1st American Woman Missionary
1812
Devastating Quake in New Madrid
1812
Archibald Alexander Assumed Princeton Post
1813
A Miserable, Dirty Town for the Judsons
1814
Christian Lawyer, Key, Wrote Anthem
1814
Francis Scott Key's Anthem
1815
Tischendorf Recovered
1815
A Battle Won Tahiti for Christ
1815
Revolutionary Mexican Priest, Jose Morelos
1815
Black Americans Reached Ancestral Africans
1816
Separate but Equal for Richard Allen
1816
American Bible Society Replaces Many Societies
1816
Moffat Sailed to Heroic Endeavors in Africa
1817
Yale Leader Timothy Dwight Died in Harness
1817
Why Mrs. Fry Willingly Went to Prison
1819
Channing Threw Down the Unitarian Gauntlet
1820
This Hymn Was More than a Coincidence
1820
Father German Wrote to a Disciple
1820
Conversion of Joseph Tarkington
1820
Piano Prodigy George Frederick Root
1820
Fanny Crosby: America's Hymn Queen
1821
Colorful William Taylor
1821
Auntie Charlotte Tucker Glowed
1821
William C. Blair Set the Pace
1821
Finney Had it out with God in the Woods
1821
Fyodor Dostoevsky: More than a Novelist
1822
James Varick, 1st Bishop of Zion Methodists
1823
Free Methodist Founder Benjamin T. Roberts
1823
William Ward, Carey's Essential Printer
1823
Samuel Marsden Suffered Shipwreck
1823
William O. Cushing Sought to Follow Christ
1824
Premiere of Beethoven's
1824
Feuerbach: a Theologian Who Wasn't
1825
John Q. Adams, His Father's Son
1826
A Significant 1st, David Nasmith's City Mission
1827
Painter Holman-Hunt's Realism
1827
Catherine McAuley's House of Mercy
1827
Henry Alford - Author of Thanksgiving Hymn "Come Ye Thankful People Come"
1827
Sojourner: Witness of Truth
1828
Jeremiah Rankin: How Can Christians Say Goodbye?
1828
Javouhey To Africa
1828
Lott Carey Died in Munitions Explosion
1829
Master Mendelssohn Revived Master Bach
1829
J.J. Parrot, 1st Modern to Climb Mt. Ararat
1830
American Sunday School Union's Huge Challenge
1830
Oastler's Letter Shocked England
1831
Peloubet of the Famous Notes
1832
1st Performance of Samuel F. Smith's "America"
1832
Adam Clarke Died but His Comments Lived on
1832
Edward Irving Barred from His Pastorate
1832
More Than Submission Demanded of Lamennais
1832
Cholera Brushed Charles Finney
1832
Lina Sandell Berg: Songs out of Tragedy
1832
Consecration of George W. Doane
1832
Sickly Melville Cox Accepted Liberia's Challenge
1832
George Mueller, Man of Faith and Prayer
1833
Eugene Casalis Landed at Cape Town
1833
Albert Carman, Canadian Methodist Leader
1833
Grand Old Hannah More Died
1833
Oxford Movement Began with Keble Sermon
1833
Dying Wilberforce Learned Slaves Were Freed
1833
Macaulay Stated Evangelical Position on India
1834
Schleiermacher Was Mourned
1834
Muller out on a Limb with God
1834
Matthew Simpson Rode Away from Medicine
1834
Newlywed Gobats' Life of Hardship for Christ
1834
Reaper Patent for Christian Inventor, Cy McCormick
1834
Marianne Hearn, Baptist Blessing
1834
Women Rallied around Missionary Cause
1835
Debut of I Puritani, an Opera about Puritans
1835
Richard C. Trench Loved Words
1835
William Nast Admitted on Trial
1835
Frontier Bishop Jackson Kemper
1835
Fire Destroyed Tappans' New York Business
1835
Nettie McCormick
1836
Theodore Fliedner Opened 1st Deaconess Center
1836
Mary Lyon Opened Mount Holyoke
1836
Mary Lyon's Vision for Christian Women
1836
Having Overcome Much Opposition, Simeon Died
1837
Arthur T. Pierson's Illustrious Heritage
1837
Oberlin Recognized Women's Equality
1837
Evan H. Hopkins Penned Spiritual Masterpiece
1837
Murder of Abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy
1837
Berlioz' Requiem First Performed
1837
Jesus Loves Me
1838
A Gothic Cross to Remember Martyrs
1838
Blanchet and Demers Arrived in Oregon
1838
Sir Robert Grant Penned "O Worship the King"
1838
John Hunt Arrived in Fiji's Cannibal Land
1838
Angelina Grimké: Exiled for Emancipation
1839
Phoebe Palmer Knapp: Rich, Beautiful, Charitable
1839
John Williams Martyred on Erromanga
1840
Demetrius Gallitzin, Apostle of the Alleghenies
1840
What Did They Ask Kierkegaard?
1840
Famed English Preacher Frederick W. Robertson
1841
Modern Tourism Begun by Baptist Thomas Cook
1841
David Livingstone
1841
Carolyn Chisolm
1842
Charles H. Parkhurst Born to Tame Tammany
1842
Borrow's Bible Adventures in Spain
1843
Faithful Fidelia Fiske Sailed for Persia
1843
Robert Richford Roberts, Frontier Bishop
1843
Benajah Carroll Wasn't Beyond God's Reach
1843
Meet James Gilmour, Apostle to Mongolia
1844
Asahel Grant's Romanticized Nestorians
1844
YMCA Became Associated for Christ
1844
Miller Wrongly Set Date for Christ's Return
1844
Tischendorf Found Treasure in Trash
1845
"Sweet Hour of Prayer" First Printed
1845
Layard Found Treasures on the Tigris
1846
Pius IX Is Pope Longer than Any Other
1846
Isaac Hecker Took His Vows
1846
John Geddie Sailed for Polynesia
1847
Phoebe Palmer's Hand in Methodist Missions
1847
Dying Henry Lyte Asked God to Stay Near
1847
Cultural Differences Proved Fatal to Whitmans
1848
First Women's Rights Convention
1849
Zachary Taylor Refused Sunday Swearing In
1849
African Mission Explorer George Grenfell
1849
Ordination of Extraordinary E. R. Baierlein
1850
Stowe's Bestseller Blasted Slavery
1851
Eliza Edmunds Hewitt: Songs from a Bed of Pain
1851
Charles Tindley's Faith Set Him Singing
1851
Karl Gutzlaff Had Original Ideas
1852
Message in a Bottle Guided Dido to Missionaries
1852
Rock Island Baptism Birthed Swedish Baptists
1852
Gallaudet's Silent Treatment
1853
Elizabeth Prentiss Sang in Suffering
1853
Hudson Taylor's Heart for China's Millions
1854
Alone Among 500 Million Souls
1854
James Montgomery, Newsman with a Conscience
1854
Death of John Kitto, Deaf Bible Scholar
1854
Immaculate Conception Became Catholic Doctrine
1855
John Bright's Most Eloquent Speech
1855
Dwight L. Moody Was Converted
1855
Medical Missionary to the East Indies: Francis McDougall
1856
Amanda Smith Found Christ in a Cellar
1856
James Milton Black Wanted His Name on God's Roll
1856
Spurgeon's Service at Surrey Gardens
1856
The Anguish and Joy of Amanda Smith
1857
First Methodist Baptism in China
1857
Ballington Booth Founded Volunteers of America
1857
Jeremy Lanphier Led Prayer Revival
1857
When Revival Ran Epidemic
1858
Cause for Waldensian Rejoicing
1858
John Gossner Driven from Russia and Denomination
1858
Dorothy Gurney Wrote a Wedding Poem
1858
John Paton Landed on Terrible Tanna
1858
Lord Kelvin: Blessed Are the Pure
1858
Pandita Ramabai Reclaimed Rejects
1860
Rodney Smith, Gypsy Evangelist
1860
C.F.W. Walther Completed "He's Risen, He's Risen"
1860
Creation-Evolution Debate, Huxley vs. Wilberforce
1860
Michael Faraday
1860
William Jennings Bryan
1861
Valiant Circle of Christians on Erromanga
1861
Nikolai and the Japanese Church
1861
Helen Montgomery Changed our Bibles' Look
1861
James Stewart, Educator to a Race
1861
President Lincoln's Fast
1861
Howe's Hymn Born as a Result of Sanitary Work
1861
Uchimura, Spokesman for the "Non-Church"
1861
Coillards Merged into a Mighty Mission Team
1861
Civil War Christian Commission Was Formed
1862
Billy Sunday Found the Prairie
1862
Sarah Pollard Didn't Like Her Name
1862
Jedediah Smith's Adventures
1863
Renan's Christ Wasn't the Bible's
1863
Christian Businessman Founded the Red Cross
1863
Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
1864
"Impossible" Jerry Mcauley Opened Rescue Mission
1865
Ex-Slave Henry Garnet Addressed U.S. House
1865
1st Salvation Army Sermon Preached in a Torn Tent
1865
Ordination of Successful A. B. Simpson
1865
R. J. Thomas' Deadly Mission in Korea
1865
Prisoners Cried When Wayland Died
1865
India's Praying Hyde
1866
John Mason Neale Is Remembered
1866
Tiyo Soga Translated Pilgrim's Progress into Xhosa
1867
Famed Southern Baptist, George W. Truett
1868
"Hand, Head and Heart" at Hampton Institute
1868
Walter Gowan's Life Drained out for Sudan
1868
Fair-Minded Henry H. Milman
1868
Kingsley Preached the Meteor Shower
1868
John Ralston Clements Hymned the Love of Christ
1869
Madagascar's Queen Converted to Christ
1870
Veniaminov: Paul Bunyan of the Alaskan Church
1870
Isabella Thoburn Taught India's Women
1870
No Rest for a Weary Clara Swain
1870
Pope's Infallibility Declared, Old Catholics Split
1870
Rest at Last for Anthony Claret
1870
Juji Nakada Inspired OMS
1871
John Herschel Laid to Rest beside Newton
1871
John Patteson and Team Murdered
1871
Charlotte Elliott Faced God with One Plea
1871
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
1872
Workingman's Friend, F. D. Maurice
1872
Lord Shaftesbury, Friend of the Poor
1872
Grundtvig Sought a Transformed Denmark
1872
Colorful Peter Cartwright, Circuit Rider
1872
Smith Electrified London with New Flood Account
1872
Era of the Evangelist
1873
Damien Joined the Outcasts
1873
Thailand's Pioneer Missionary, Dan Bradley
1873
Extraordinary Lottie Moon Reached China
1873
It Is Well With My Soul
1874
Frances Havergal Wrote "Take My Life and Let it Be"
1874
Sankey First Sang "The Lost Sheep"
1874
Henry Halley of Halley's Bible Handbook
1874
Founding of National Woman's Temperance Union
1874
Neesima Shimeta: A Joseph for Japan
1875
The First Keswick Convention
1875
A Feast for Samuel Schereschewsky
1876
Rescue too Late for Deutschland's Nuns
1876
John Dykes Composer of "Holy, Holy, Holy"
1876
Big-Hearted Friedrich Konrad Dietrich Wyneken
1876
Ironside Laid Aside as Dead at Birth
1876
Train Wreck Killed Hymn Writer Bliss and Wife
1876
Blessed Bliss, by Thomas E. Corts
1876
Blessed Bliss
1877
"Mother of Missions" Doremus Died from a Spill
1877
Mission Founder William Strong
1877
Caroline Chisholm, Australian Immigrants' Friend
1877
Mordecai Ham, Outspoken Evangelist
1877
Beer Garden Became Pacific Garden Mission
1878
Theologian Charles Hodge Won Hearts
1878
Francis Grimke's Christian Critique of Slavery
1879
Lightfoot Left Academia to Become a Bishop
1879
"Lead, Kindly Light," Wrote John Newman
1879
George Fife Angas and the Settling of Australia
1880
Salvation Army Invaded New York
1880
Educator to the Orient, Samuel R. Brown
1880
Bud Robinson's Conflict at Camp Meeting
1880
Lay-Minister Garfield Elected U.S. President
1880
Francis Pfanner came to South Africa
1881
Fundamentalist Leader John Gresham Machen
1881
Lathrop Traded Literature for Bandages
1882
John Darby of the Plymouth Brethren
1882
Blind Matheson Penned Immortal Hymn
1882
Titus Coan: Early Missionary to Hawaii
1882
Samuel Adjai Crowther
1883
Dying Harold Schofield Prayed Grads to China
1884
Drummond's Greatest Thing in the World
1885
A Typical Sam Jones Tough-Nosed Sermon
1885
James Hannington Captured
1885
Mukasa Beheaded in Uganda
1885
Haldor Lillenas: the Matchless Grace of Jesus
1886
Karl Barth Was Monday's Child
1886
I.B. Kimbrough and the Highwaymen
1886
How Did Joseph M. Scriven Come to Drown?
1886
Student Volunteer Mission
1887
C. T. Studd Gave Huge Inheritance Away
1887
Evangelization Society to Storm Chicago
1887
U.S. President Benjamin Harrison
1888
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Original
1888
Jonathan Goforth Went Forth
1889
Faye Edgerton Gave God's Word to the Navajo
1889
Asa Mahan Went Home
1889
Passing of Bible Scholar Alfred Edersheim
1889
Horatius Bonar Pointed People to Christ
1890
Emma Whittemore Opened Door of Hope
1890
Emma Whittemore and Door of Hope
1891
Armenians 1st in Asia Minor, Late to U.S
1891
Inexpensive Chapels on Wheels
1891
Spurgeon's Last Sermon from the Tabernacle
1891
Charles A. Briggs Called on Heresy
1892
Warner Sallman's Famous Head of Christ
1892
Edith Warner's Quiet Heroism in Nigeria
1892
Ida Scudder Changed Her Mind
1893
Leading Trinity Defender, Phillips Brooks
1892
Joseph Parker's Special Noon Service
1892
Archaeologist James L. Kelso Dug for Christ
1893
World Parliament of Religions
1894
William Passavant Tried to Meet Every Need
1895
John Broadus Taught Sermon-Making
1895
Therese of Lisieux's Act of Oblation
1895
Andrew Murray's Record of His Spiritual Life
1895
Mission Team Reached Mombasa, Kenya
1895
1st Full Performance of Mahler's "Resurrection"
1895
Former Slave Frederick Douglass
1896
Walter Grand Taylor Converted in His Room
1896
D-Day for the Volunteers of America
1896
Bernard Mizeki Took a Brave Stand
1896
Walter L. Wilson Converted
1897
Alcoholic Mel Trotter Delivered from Drink
1897
Death of Christ-Like Henry Drummond
1897
Sister Anthony, Battlefield Heroine
1898
Glynn Put God in Australia's Preamble
1899
What's in a Revised Version?
1899
Koldeway's Verified the Bible from Babylon
1899
Robert Lowry's Ceased Composing
1899
Evangelist Martyn Lloyd-Jones
1899
Charles Chiniquy vs. the Catholic Church
1899
The Pope, the Cardinal, and the "Phantom Heresy"
1900
John Charles Ryle Wrote His Farewell Message
1900
Pastor Meng Died because He Wouldn't Run
1900
Albert Schweitzer Licensed in Theology
1900
Rose Lathrop Abandoned Lit. for Cancer Work

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