Taken from Heartlight
1739~
Methodist hymnwriter Charles Wesley, 31, on the first anniversary of his religious conversion, penned the hymn, “O For a Thousand Tongues.”
1740~
English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter regarding Jesus’ character; ‘He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.‘
1864~
Belgian missionary priest Father Damien, 24, was ordained on the Island of Hawaii. Born Joseph de Veuster, the Picpus Father began a work among the lepers on the island of Molokai in 1873. Contracting the disease in 1884, Father Damien succumbed to it five years later.
1944~
German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: ‘God alone protects; otherwise there is nothing.’