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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 2, 20213 min read
Sep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting
1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...


Pearl of Great Price
Jul 12, 20214 min read
July 12 The Fall of Jerusalem and Destroying the Temple
Today we remember how in AD 70 the armies of the Roman Emperor Titus attacked the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege, starting...


Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20213 min read
June 21 The Man who wanted to feed the world
Today in 1834 in Chicago, Cyrus McCormick, a Christian inventor died. He patented the world’s first workable agricultural reaper,...

Pearl of Great Price
May 22, 20213 min read
May 23 The Baptist Slave rebellion in Jamaica
Samuel Sharpe was hanged today in Jamaica for his role in organising as slave uprising referred to by historians as 'The Baptist War'. ...


Pearl of Great Price
Mar 13, 20213 min read
Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I Presume
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1871 and travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa where today the...


Pearl of Great Price
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Feb 20 Frederick Douglass
The story of a slave, who learned to read and write by reading the Bible, and when he escaped became one of the greatest campaigners for...


Pearl of Great Price
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Feb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay
Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 25 - São Paulo founded by missionaries
Today in 1554 a small group of Jesuit missionaries, built a mission on top of a steep hill on the Piratiningha plains . As part of the...

Pearl of Great Price
Jan 21, 20212 min read
Jan 1 - Amazing Grace
On Jan 1 1773, the Anglican priest and former slave trader, John Newton, was delivering his new year sermon in the town of Olney,...
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