Devenick, Veiled Figure of Scottish Christianity Church history is full of evocative hints, mysterious names and side paths so eroded and overgrown with brush that we cannot force our way down them. On one of those paths lies the story of Saint Devenick (also known as Sanct Dewynnik, Devenic, Defnyk, Denick, Teavneck, or Devinicus). Traces of … Continue reading On This Day In Christian History…
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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? For years, no one had heard from the Scottish missionary explorer, David Livingstone. In l866, he had disappeared into the East African interior, searching for the source of the River Nile. Livingstone's reports of his earlier explorations in Africa had fascinated multitudes of readers at home. Once asked why he decided … Continue reading On This Day In Church History…
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India's Praying Hyde "Give me Souls, O God, or I die!" That became the plea of John Hyde, born on this day, November 9, 1865 in Carrollton, Illinois. John's family were praying people. Consequently, as a young man, he learned to pray expecting results. John's brother Edmund went as a student missionary to Montana, where he contracted … Continue reading On This Day In Christian History…
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Sickly Melville Cox Accepted Liberia's Challenge For seven years, the money to send a missionary to Liberia lay unused. The mission committee could find no one willing to take the risk. They could find no one, that is, until Melville Cox stepped forward. Deathly ill with tuberculosis, he could speak only with pain. In 1830 … Continue reading On This Day In Christian History…
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