Posted 11:35pm CT Jan 12, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

2000: Pope John Paul II was the first Pope to visit the “Wailing Wall” in Jerusalem.

1998: Nineteen European countries concluded a treaty to ban human cloning.

1911: Death of Franz Eugen Schlachter, an evangelist, theologian and Bible translator, who developed the Evangelical and healing movements in the German-speaking Switzerland. – He met D.L. Moody and C.H. Spurgeon in England.

1872: The Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV was crowned at Axum. – His imperial title contained the expressions “Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia and Elect of God.” In 1878, he convened a general assembly of the Ethiopian Church, which ended a long-lasting internal disagreement about the church doctrine.

1817: Death of the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andres, who wrote an all-European history of literature, philosophy and Christian theological literature.

1759: Portuguese government ordered expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal.

1588: Birth of the English Puritan John Winthrop, founder and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England. – In his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630) aboard the ship Arbella that carried him and other Puritans to New England, he described his vision of a society for true Christians, living a holy life based on biblical principles. The sermon contained his famous vision of a “city upon a hill,” containing these often-quoted words inspired by Jesus Christ’s Sermon on the Mount:

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.

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TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!

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