Montville Church of Christ

Montville Church of Christ Montville Church of Christ
Dean Burnette, Minister
9601 Madison Rd
Montville OH
Bible School @ 9:30 a.m. Adults and Children
Services @ 10:30 a.m.

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09/08/2026

This day in Church History
September 08
1636
Massachusetts Puritans found a college, America’s first institution of higher education, in New Towne (Cambridge), just six years after founding the town. Later named for donor John Harvard, the college is intended to train ministers.

1741
Lutheran missionary Johann Philipp Fabricius arrives in India where he will work among the Tamil people, revising the Tamil Bible and publishing a hymnbook.

1890
Thérèse of Lisieux pronounces her vows to become a Carmelite nun.

1907
Pope Pius X announces that modernism is heresy.

1943
The Russian Orthodox Church convenes a council that elects Sergius as Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus’. Because of Communist suppression, the church had been without a patriarch for many years. Needing church support because of the war with Hi**er, Stalin had authorized the council, which will also reopen seminaries.

1947
C. S. Lewis appears on the cover of Time magazine.

1955
Shanghai’s Bishop Ignatius Kung, forty priests, and three hundred lay leaders in the Chinese church are arrested over the course of two days.

2012
Release from Iranian prison of Youcef Nadarkhani, originally accused of apostasy for his own conversion from Islam to Christianity; following international outcry, he is charged instead with evangelizing Muslims. Later he will be rearrested and imprisoned along with several other churchgoers.

09/07/2026

This day in Church History
September 07
1643
Death of Leonard Euler, in St. Petersburg. He had been a notable mathematician and a dedicated Christian apologist. In the latter capacity, he experienced the gibes of Voltaire and of Frederick the Great.

1722
Death of Elie Neau, a French Huguenot. Because of persecution, he had fled to the New World. Captured by a French corsair, he had been returned to France where efforts were made to force him to convert to Catholicism. Having refused to give way, he was kept three years in prison, a year in the galleys, and another year in a dungeon until England obtained his release. He had said to one captor, “Sir, do not pity me, for could you but see the secret pleasures my heart experiences, you would think me happy.” Later, living in the United States, he ran a school for slaves.

1774
Moravian women and children, accompanied by a few men, arrive at Astrachan, Russia, having fled an insurgency that threatened to destroy their colony at Sarepta on the Volga, where they had settled to plant the gospel.

1807
Robert Morrison reaches Canton, China, where he will translate the Bible into Chinese.

1823
Samuel Marsden is shipwrecked while sailing to take the gospel to the Maori of New Zealand.

1833
Death of Hannah More, Christian playwriter, Sunday school leader, and philanthropist.

1860
Death of Starets (Elder) Macarius, who had translated many Greek texts of the holy fathers into Russian, bringing renown to the Optina Monastery.

1864
Sir Michael Costa’s oratorio Naaman receives its first performance—at the Birmingham Festival in England, the same venue which nineteen years earlier had premiered Mendelssohn’s Elijah.

1901
The cornerstone is laid for Ida Scudder’s mission hospital at Vellore, India.

1929
The Lutherans of Betafo-Ambohimanarina, Madagascar, unite in a prayer vigil for a confrontation between pastor Daniel Rajaofera and a local sorcerer that is to take place the next day. As it turns out, the sorcerer fails badly and many idolaters burn their idols on September ninth.

1964
Death in Chicago of Luigi (Louis) Francescon, a pioneer in the Italian Pentecostal movement, and an international missionary who participated in the formation of Pentecostal fellowships in Argentina, Brazil, and the US.

09/06/2026

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09/06/2026

This day in Church History
September 06
1320
The remains of Saint Michael, Prince of Tver (Russia), martyred by a Khan, are placed in a church he had built in honor of the Transfiguration.

1529
Anabaptist leader and evangelist George Blaurock is burned to death for “heresy” in Hapsburg, Germany. He had established congregations in the Austrian Tyrol till caught.

1620
The Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, with Pilgrims aboard.

1657
The Catholic Church places Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Letters defended Jansenism, a Catholic reform movement, against Jesuit opponents.

1748
Death at Bath, England, of Bishop Edmund Gibson, who had produced a definitive and scholarly work on English ecclesiastical law, Corpus Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani.

1806
Baptism of Pran Krishna, a recent convert from Hinduism. About this time, he writes a hymn that begins, “Being in great fear, I came and sat at your feet.” He will eventually be driven from his village and he, his wife, and children will have cow dung hurled in their faces. He becomes a successful evangelist throughout India.

1837
Mary Hosford, Mary Kellogg, Elizabeth Prall, and Caroline Rudd are accepted into the regular course of Oberlin’s Collegiate Department. Their matriculation marks the beginning of college level coeducation.

1837
Death in Combaconum, India, of Pastor Visoowasanaden, whose integrity, meekness, and knowledge of Scripture won many of his countrymen to follow Christ.

1860
Three preachers collapse from fatigue, unable to cope with the overwhelming number of inquirers in a Glasgow revival.

1955
Muslims in Instanbul riot against Christians and Greeks, gutting or sacking sixty of the city’s eighty Christian churches.

1958
Anna-Greta Stjarne, thirty-two year-old missionary, is shot and killed by bandits as she rides in a car in Ethiopia. Her funeral will be held four days later.
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1968
Latin American bishops gathered in Medellín, Colombia, issue a document titled “Justice,” which calls for a more equitable distribution of goods, decrying both Marxism and capitalism, the former because of its totalitarian tendencies, the latter because it puts profits above people.

09/05/2026

This day in Church History
September 05
1538
Valverde and twenty Dominicans arrive to take charge of the Diocese of Cuzco and Bishop Valverde lays the foundation of the cathedral in Cuzco, Peru.

1538
English Chancellor Thomas Cromwell imposes a new series of injunctions against the clergy in Henry VIII’s name.

1569
Death of Edmund Bonner, who persecuted Protestants during the reign of Mary Tudor. Imprisoned when Elizabeth came to the throne, he had spent the last ten years of his life in the Marshalsea prison in London.

1651
Obadiah Holmes is whipped in Boston for privately teaching Baptist views.

1774
The Continental Congress assembles for the first time in Philadelphia. After electing its president, its first official action will be a vote to open Congress with prayers. Episcopal preacher Jacob Duché is selected to deliver the invocations, which he will commence the following day (see tomorrow’s It Happened This Day story).

1958
Death in Concord, New Hampshire, of hymnwriter Jennie Evelyn Hussey, author of “Lead Me to Calvary.”

1981
Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat places Coptic Pope Shenouda III under arrest in a desert monastery because he has protested the leniency shown to Muslims who had killed Christians and destroyed their churches and homes in three days of rioting.

2007
Death of Migsti Haile in Eritrea after undergoing severe torture for refusing to sign a letter recanting her Christian faith. She is thirty-three years old when martyred.

09/04/2026

This day in Church History
September 04
422
Death of Pope St. Boniface I, who was awarded the papacy by Imperial decree. Boniface had supported Augustine of Hippo against Pelagianism.

1646
Johann Companius dedicates the first Lutheran church in America in the Swedish colonial settlement Christina, near present-day Wilmington, Delaware, on Tinicum Island.

1666
The Great Fire of London destroys old St. Paul’s Cathedral.

1741
Thomas Gillespie becomes the minister of Carnock in Fife. He becomes a strong advocate of allowing Presbyterian congregations to choose their own ministers, rather than having one appointed by the general assembly.

1771
Francis Asbury boards ship for America, where he will so organize and extend the Methodist church that by his death it will have grown from being one of America’s smallest denominations to being its largest.

1773
Some of the priests of the Canonical Chapter of Castellena protest having to do homage and pay tithe to a woman “bishop” (abbess) in Naples.

1817
The Dutch announce plans to reorganize the Protestant churches in the Dutch Indies (Indonesia).

1844
Death of Oliver Holden, composer and American Puritan clergyman, in Boston, Massachusetts. He had written CORONATION, the tune to which we sing the hymn “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.”

1846
Death of David Abeel. A pioneer missionary to Batavia, he had also been instrumental in organizing the Society for Promoting Female Education in the East.

1911
Sergius Petrovich Ilmensky, an Orthodox priest, becomes editor of “The Saratov Theological Herald.” His increasing prominence will cause him to be made bishop of Solikamsk six years later (taking the name Theophanes) but the Communists will drown him on Christmas Eve 1918 while he is administering the diocese of Perm by their command.

1977
Trans World Radio begins broadcasting from its newest station, a 100,000-watt shortwave transmitter in Guam.

09/03/2026

This day in Church History
September 03
590
Consecration of Pope Gregory I, “the Great.”

1658
Death of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England. A Puritan, he had made a strong profession of faith early in life.

1692
Death in Berlin of David Ancillon, a learned and highly respected pastor of the Reformed Church. He had built up a famous library while at Metz, which was plundered after he fled France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

1831
Death of John Holt Rice, Presbyterian theologian, who had been the first professor of Christian theology at Union Theological Seminary, Virginia, and the editor of the influential Virginia Evangelical and Literary Magazine.

1905
Baptism of Sundar Singh, formerly an enemy of Christ, who had converted to Christianity following a dramatic vision of the risen Lord.

1906
Conversion of Bentley Deforest Ackley, an alcoholic, who will write almost four thousand hymns, and become Billy Sunday’s organist and secretary. Among his hymns is “I Would Be Like Jesus.” Coincidentally, he dies on this same day in 1958.

1918
Walter Grand Taylor becomes superintendent of the Pacific Garden Mission.

1924
Isobel Kuhn enrolls in Moody Bible Institute. She will be known for her mission work in Southeast Asia and for her inspirational books.

1939
Death of American Presbyterian evangelist W. E. Biederwolf, who had been director of the Winona Lake Bible School of Theology, and founder and general director of the Family Altar League.

1941
Death of Rafailo Momcilovic, abbot of the Šišatovac Monastery and a notable painter of icons, after days of torture at the hands of a Croationa nationlist militia.

1985
KGB agents arrest Vasily Bayechko of the Good Samaritan Mission, which both then and later did an enormous work in Ukraine and the former USSR. He is placed in cells with hardened criminals and leads entire groups to Christ.

09/02/2026

This day in Church History
September 02
459
Death of Simeon Stylites, who lived atop a sixty-foot pillar for thirty-six years.

1192
The Third Crusade ends when Richard Lionheart and Saladin sign an agreement which allows Christians access to the holy city.

1578
The first Anglican worship service held in Canada is led by Rev. Robert Wolfall at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island around this date. The service is commemorated on the third of September.

1636
John Brebeuf, Jesuit missionary, baptizes the first Iroquois to become a Christian. The man, a Seneca chief, will later be tortured to death by rival Indians.

1758
William Romaine preaches a sermon on justification at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He is a notable evangelical within the Anglican tradition.

1784
In Bristol, England, Wesley appoints Thomas Coke to be superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Wesley has tried in vain for years to get the Church of England to consecrate bishops for the Methodists.

1792
A Parisian mob slaughters twenty-five Roman Catholic priests as counter-revolutionaries, beginning a week of “September Massacres” in which 225 priests and hundreds of other people will die.

1821
Death of Brindabun, an Asian Indian gospel preacher, known for his recitation of Scriptures and powerful prayers.

1842
Death of John Ireland, Dean of Westminster. As a public figure he carried the crown at the coronations of English kings George IV and William IV. He published apologetic works and a defense for the remarriage of divorced people. Well-to-do, he expended large sums on charity.

1857
Francois Coillard sails for Cape Town on the Trafalger. A man of sweet disposition, he gives up scholarly pursuits to win Africans to Christ and will perform such brave feats as risking a hail of bullets to plead for the lives of Christians.

1973
Death of J. R. R. Tolkien, a linguist, novelist, and devout Catholic. He had helped lead C. S. Lewis to Christ and was a member of the literary club The Inklings. Among his writings were the fantasy favorites The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

1979
Xie Songsan offers the welcome and benediction for the re-opening ceremony at Moore Memorial Church, Shanghai. It had been closed earlier by Chinese communists who interrogated, beat, and imprisoned Xie. The service is presided over by Sun Yanli, another pastor who had suffered brutal treatment from the Communists.

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