#Rev. Devereux Jarratt settles in Virginia

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Today in Christian History

Today is Monday, August 29th, the 241st day of 2022. There are 124 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

284: Beginning date in the Coptic Church’s Calendar of the Martyrs, a date chosen in commemoration of those who died for their faith during the rule of Diocletian the Roman Emperor.

1530: Members of the Evangelical Estates determine to prepare an apology for the Augsburg Confession to present to Emperor Charles V.

1572: In Lyon, France, following the onset of the St. Bartholomew Day’s Massacre, officials place Protestants under protective custody in the city’s convents and jails. It does not save their lives. Two days later, crowds will break in and massacre the prisoners by sword, strangulation, and drowning. Witnesses report that the Rhone River flows red from the blood of thousand of mutilated corpses.

1654: Oliver Cromwell’s government issues an ordinance appointing lay commissioners in all the counties of England and Wales with power to eject “scandalous, ignorant and insufficient [incompetent] ministers and schoolmasters.” Each County Committee consists of fifteen to thirty laymen, with eight to ten divines as assessors.

1683: John Dick, a Scotsman who is a fugitive for his Covenanter faith under King Charles II’s administration, is captured and brought before the committee of public affairs. Although Dick manages to escape, he will be recaptured a few months later and hanged.

1763: Rev. Devereux Jarratt, a minister of the English Church, settles in a parish in Virginia where he will be instrumental in stirring up revival among a largely apathetic and profane people, working in tandem with Methodist evangelists.

1768: Selina Hastings Huntingdon opens an evangelical college at Trevecca, South Wales.

1831: Michael Faraday, a devout Christian, induces an electrical current in one wire from the current in another—a discovery that utterly transforms the world, without which there would be no electronic computers, no power lines, no telephones, no internet.

1882: All of the bishops of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (later known as the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) meet in the First Methodist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss the educational needs of their denomination. They form a board of trustees, promise aid to one college already opened, and establish the Payne Institute.

1928: W.A. Criswell is ordained in the Southern Baptist Church. He will become known for his excellent expository preaching and will pastor a large Dallas church whose congregration will triple under his ministry. Among its members for a time will be numbered evangelist Billy Graham.