Glimpses of Christian History's Chronological Index of Stories
A.D. 1801 through 1900

    1801 . . . Strange Behavior at Cane Ridge
    1802 . . . Evans Battled Burnout in Welsh Mountains
    1802ff . . The Truth about the Wall of Separation (Glimpses)
    1803 . . . Reformer Thomas Guthrie
    1803 . . . Jacob Abbott's Children's Literature
    1803 . . . Samuel Hopkins' Unusual Theology
    1803 . . . George Müller: God Alone Our Patron (Glimpses)
    1804 . . . Mary Jones & the Bible Society
    1804 . . . David Abeel Born to Lead Women to New Birth
    1804 . . . Napoleon Crowned Himself in Notre Dame
    1805 . . . Sarah Flower Adams
    1805 . . . George Washington Bethune
    1805 . . . Hieromonk Gedeon's Confidential Letter Told All
    1805 . . . John J. Herzog's Huge Church Encyclopedia
    1805 . . . Serampore Compact (Glimpses)
    1806 . . . Duff Defied Shipwrecks to Disciple India
    1806 . . . Edward R. Ames Did Ohio Proud
    1806 . . . American Missions (Glimpses)
    1807 . . . Samuel Adjai Crowther
    1807 . . . William Wilberforce (Glimpses)
    1808 . . . Jacob Albright Followed His Children Home
    1808 . . . Elder Randall, Free Will Baptist Founder
    1809 . . . Blind Louis Braille Gave Reading to the Blind
    1809 . . . The Campbells Formed a Christian Association
    1810 . . . Andrew Alexander Bonar Learned the Value of Prayer
    1811 . . . Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abolitionist
    1811 . . . Nathaniel Taylor "No" then "Yes" to Church
    1811 . . . Jacob Bower's Life-Changing Promise
    1812 . . . The Judsons
    1812 . . . Ann Judson: 1st American Woman Missionary (Glimpses)
    1812 . . . Devastating Quake in New Madrid
    1812 . . . Archibald Alexander Assumed Princeton Post
    1813 . . . A Miserable, Dirty Town for the Judsons
    1814 . . . Christian Lawyer, Key, Wrote Anthem
    1814 . . . Francis Scott Key's Anthem (Glimpses)
    1815 . . . Tischendorf Recovered Codex Sinaiticus
    1815 . . . A Battle Won Tahiti for Christ
    1815 . . . Revolutionary Mexican Priest, Jose Morelos
    1815 . . . Black Americans Reached Ancestral Africans (Glimpses)
    1816 . . . Separate but Equal for Richard Allen
    1816 . . . American Bible Society Replaces Many Societies
    1816 . . . Moffat Sailed to Heroic Endeavors in Africa
    1817 . . . Yale Leader Timothy Dwight Died in Harness
    1817ff . . Why Mrs. Fry Willingly Went to Prison (Glimpses)
    1819 . . . Channing Threw Down the Unitarian Gauntlet
    1820 . . . This Hymn Was More than a Coincidence
    1820 . . . Father German Wrote to a Disciple
    1820 . . . Conversion of Joseph Tarkington
    1820 . . . Piano Prodigy George Frederick Root
    1820 . . . Fanny Crosby: America's Hymn Queen (Glimpses)
    1821 . . . Colorful William Taylor
    1821 . . . Auntie Charlotte Tucker Glowed
    1821 . . . William C. Blair Set the Pace
    1821 . . . Finney Had it out with God in the Woods
    1821 . . . Fyodor Dostoevsky: More than a Novelist
    1822 . . . James Varick, 1st Bishop of Zion Methodists
    1823 . . . Free Methodist Founder Benjamin T. Roberts
    1823 . . . William Ward, Carey's Essential Printer
    1823 . . . Samuel Marsden Suffered Shipwreck
    1823 . . . William O. Cushing Sought to Follow Christ
    1824 . . . Premiere of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
    1824 . . . Feuerbach: a Theologian Who Wasn't
    1825 . . . John Q. Adams, His Father's Son

    1826 . . . A Significant 1st, David Nasmith's City Mission
    1827 . . . Painter Holman-Hunt's Realism
    1827 . . . Catherine McAuley's House of Mercy
    1827 . . . Henry Alford Made a Serious Commitment
    1827ff . . Sojourner: Witness of Truth (Glimpses)
    1828 . . . Jeremiah Rankin: How Can Christians Say Goodbye?
    1828 . . . Javouhey To Africa
    1828 . . . Lott Carey Died in Munitions Explosion
    1829 . . . Master Mendelssohn Revived Master Bach
    1829 . . . J.J. Parrot, 1st Modern to Climb Mt. Ararat
    1830 . . . American Sunday School Union's Huge Challenge
    1830 . . . George Müller Renounced Fixed Salary
    1830 . . . Oastler's Letter Shocked England
    1831 . . . Peloubet of the Famous Notes
    1832 . . . 1st Performance of Samuel F. Smith's "America"
    1832 . . . Adam Clarke Died but His Comments Lived on
    1832 . . . Edward Irving Barred from His Pastorate
    1832 . . . More Than Submission Demanded of Lamennais
    1832 . . . Cholera Brushed Charles Finney
    1832 . . . Lina Sandell Berg: Songs out of Tragedy
    1832 . . . Consecration of George W. Doane
    1832 . . . Sickly Melville Cox Accepted Liberia's Challenge
    1832 . . . George Mueller, Man of Faith & Prayer (Glimpses)
    1833 . . . Eugene Casalis Landed at Cape Town
    1833 . . . Albert Carman, Canadian Methodist Leader
    1833 . . . Grand Old Hannah More Died
    1833 . . . Oxford Movement Began with Keble Sermon
    1833 . . . Dying Wilberforce Learned Slaves Were Freed
    1833 . . . Macaulay Stated Evangelical Position on India
    1834 . . . Schleiermacher Was Mourned
    1834 . . . Muller out on a Limb with God
    1834 . . . Matthew Simpson Rode Away from Medicine
    1834 . . . Newlywed Gobats' Life of Hardship for Christ
    1834 . . . Reaper Patent for Christian Inventor, Cy McCormick
    1834 . . . Marianne Hearn, Baptist Blessing
    1834ff . . Women Rallied around Missionary Cause (Glimpses)
    1835 . . . Debut of I Puritani, an Opera about Puritans
    1835 . . . Richard C. Trench Loved Words
    1835 . . . William Nast Admitted on Trial
    1835 . . . Frontier Bishop Jackson Kemper
    1835 . . . Fire Destroyed Tappans' New York Business
    1835ff . . Nettie McCormick (Glimpses)
    1836 . . . Theodore Fliedner Opened 1st Deaconess Center
    1836 . . . Mary Lyon Opened Mount Holyoke
    1836 . . . Mary Lyon's Vision for Christian Women (Glimpses)
    1836 . . . Having Overcome Much Opposition, Simeon Died
    1837 . . . Arthur T. Pierson's Illustrious Heritage
    1837 . . . Alexander Merensky, Missionary Fort-Maker
    1837 . . . Oberlin Recognized Women's Equality
    1837 . . . Evan H. Hopkins Penned Spiritual Masterpiece
    1837 . . . Murder of Abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy
    1837 . . . Berlioz' Requiem First Performed
    1837ff . . Jesus Loves Me (Glimpses)
    1838 . . . A Gothic Cross to Remember Martyrs
    1838 . . . Blanchet & Demers Arrived in Oregon
    1838 . . . Sir Robert Grant Made Time for Worship
    1838 . . . John Hunt Arrived in Fiji's Cannibal Land
    1838 . . . Angelina Grimké: Exiled for Emancipation (Glimpses)
    1839 . . . Phoebe Palmer Knapp: Rich, Beautiful, Charitable
    1839 . . . John Williams Martyred on Erromanga
    1840 . . . Demetrius Gallitzin, Apostle of the Alleghenies
    1840 . . . What Did They Ask Kierkegaard?
    1840 . . . Famed English Preacher Frederick W. Robertson
    1841 . . . Modern Tourism Begun by Baptist Thomas Cook
    1841ff . . David Livingstone (Glimpses)
    1841 . . . Carolyn Chisolm (Glimpses)
    1842 . . . Charles H. Parkhurst Born to Tame Tammany
    1842 . . . Borrow's Bible Adventures in Spain
    1843 . . . Faithful Fidelia Fiske Sailed for Persia
    1843 . . . Robert Richford Roberts, Frontier Bishop
    1843 . . . Benajah Carroll Wasn't Beyond God's Reach
    1843 . . . Meet James Gilmour, Apostle to Mongolia
    1844 . . . Asahel Grant's Romanticized Nestorians
    1844 . . . YMCA Became Associated for Christ
    1844 . . . Death of Oliver Holden, "Coronation" Composer
    1844 . . . Miller Wrongly Set Date for Christ's Return
    1844ff . . Tischendorf Found Treasure in Trash (Glimpses)
    1845 . . . "Sweet Hour of Prayer" First Printed
    1845 . . . Layard Found Treasures on the Tigris
    1846 . . . Pius IX Is Pope Longer than Any Other
    1846 . . . Isaac Hecker Took His Vows
    1846 . . . John Geddie Sailed for Polynesia
    1847 . . . Phoebe Palmer's Hand in Methodist Missions
    1847 . . . Dying Henry Lyte Asked God to Stay Near
    1847 . . . Cultural Differences Proved Fatal to Whitmans
    1848 . . . First Women's Rights Convention
    1849 . . . Zachary Taylor Refused Sunday Swearing In
    1849 . . . African Mission Explorer George Grenfell
    1849 . . . Ordination of Extraordinary E. R. Baierlein
    1850 . . . Stowe's Bestseller Blasted Slavery (Glimpses)

    1851 . . . Eliza Edmunds Hewitt: Songs from a Bed of Pain
    1851 . . . Charles Tindley's Faith Set Him Singing
    1851 . . . Karl Gutzlaff Had Original Ideas
    1852 . . . Message in a Bottle Guided Dido to Missionaries
    1852 . . . Rock Island Baptism Birthed Swedish Baptists
    1852 . . . Gallaudet's Silent Treatment
    1853 . . . Elizabeth Prentiss Sang in Suffering
    1853 . . . Hudson Taylor's Heart for China's Millions (Glimpses)
    1854 . . . Alone Among 500 Million Souls
    1854 . . . James Montgomery, Newsman with a Conscience
    1854 . . . Death of John Kitto, Deaf Bible Scholar
    1854 . . . Immaculate Conception Became Catholic Doctrine
    1854 . . . The Love of Charles & Susannah Spurgeon (Glimpses)
    1855 . . . John Bright's Most Eloquent Speech
    1855 . . . Dwight L. Moody Was Converted
    1855 . . . McDougall Became Bishop of Labuan
    1856 . . . Amanda Smith Found Christ in a Cellar
    1856 . . . James Milton Black Wanted His Name on God's Roll
    1856 . . . Spurgeon's Service at Surrey Gardens
    1856 . . . The Anguish & Joy of Amanda Smith (Glimpses)
    1857 . . . First Methodist Baptism in China
    1857 . . . Ballington Booth Founded Volunteers of America
    1857 . . . Jeremy Lanphier Led Prayer Revival
    1857ff . . When Revival Ran Epidemic (Glimpses)
    1858 . . . Cause for Waldensian Rejoicing
    1858 . . . John Gossner Driven from Russia & Denomination
    1858 . . . Dorothy Gurney Wrote a Wedding Poem
    1858 . . . John Paton Landed on Terrible Tanna
    1858 . . . Lord Kelvin: Blessed Are the Pure (Glimpses)
    1858 . . . Pandita Ramabai Reclaimed Rejects (Glimpses)
    1860 . . . Rodney Smith, Gypsy Evangelist
    1860 . . . C.F.W. Walther Completed "He's Risen, He's Risen"
    1860 . . . Creation-Evolution Debate, Huxley vs. Wilberforce
    1860 . . . Michael Faraday (Glimpses)
    1860ff . . William Jennings Bryan (Glimpses)
    1861 . . . Valiant Circle of Christians on Erromanga
    1861 . . . Nikolai & the Japanese Church
    1861 . . . Helen Montgomery Changed our Bibles' Look
    1861 . . . James Stewart, Educator to a Race
    1861 . . . President Lincoln's Fast
    1861 . . . Howe's Hymn Born as a Result of Sanitary Work
    1861 . . . Uchimura, Spokesman for the "Non-Church"
    1861 . . . Coillards Merged into a Mighty Mission Team
    1861 . . . Civil War Christian Commission Was Formed
    1862 . . . Billy Sunday Found the Prairie
    1862 . . . Sarah Pollard Didn't Like Her Name
    1862 . . . Jedediah Smith's Adventures
    1863 . . . Renan's Christ Wasn't the Bible's
    1863 . . . James Hope Moulton: Papyri & Bible
    1863 . . . Christian Businessman Founded the Red Cross
    1863 . . . Bible-Teacher G. Campbell Morgan
    1863 . . . Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
    1864 . . . "Impossible" Jerry Mcauley Opened Rescue Mission
    1865 . . . Ex-Slave Henry Garnet Addressed U.S. House
    1865 . . . 1st Salvation Army Sermon Preached in a Torn Tent
    1865 . . . Ordination of Successful A. B. Simpson
    1865 . . . R. J. Thomas' Deadly Mission in Korea
    1865 . . . Prisoners Cried When Wayland Died
    1865 . . . India's Praying Hyde
    1866 . . . John Mason Neale Is Remembered
    1866 . . . Tiyo Soga Translated Pilgrim's Progress into Xhosa
    1867 . . . Famed Southern Baptist, George W. Truett
    1868 . . . "Hand, Head and Heart" at Hampton Institute
    1868 . . . Walter Gowan's Life Drained out for Sudan
    1868 . . . Fair-Minded Henry H. Milman
    1868 . . . Kingsley Preached the Meteor Shower
    1868 . . . John Ralston Clements Hymned the Love of Christ
    1869 . . . Madagascar's Queen Converted to Christ
    1870 . . . Veniaminov: Paul Bunyan of the Alaskan Church
    1870 . . . Isabella Thoburn Taught India's Women
    1870 . . . No Rest for a Weary Clara Swain
    1870 . . . Pope's Infallibility Declared, Old Catholics Split
    1870 . . . Rest at Last for Anthony Claret
    1870 . . . Juji Nakada Inspired OMS
    1870 . . . African-American Methodists United
    1871 . . . John Herschel Laid to Rest beside Newton
    1871 . . . John Patteson & Team Murdered
    1871 . . . Charlotte Elliott Faced God with One Plea
    1871 . . . Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
    1872 . . . Workingman's Friend--F. D. Maurice
    1872 . . . Lord Shaftesbury, Friend of the Poor
    1872 . . . Grundtvig Sought a Transformed Denmark
    1872 . . . Colorful Peter Cartwright, Circuit Rider
    1872 . . . Smith Electrified London with New Flood Account
    1872ff . . Era of the Evangelist (Glimpses)
    1873 . . . Damien Joined the Outcasts
    1873 . . . Thailand's Pioneer Missionary, Dan Bradley
    1873 . . . Extraordinary Lottie Moon Reached China
    1873 . . . It Is Well With My Soul (Glimpses)
    1874 . . . Frances Havergal Wrote "Take My Life and Let it Be"
    1874 . . . Sankey First Sang "The Lost Sheep"
    1874 . . . Henry Halley of Halley's Bible Handbook
    1874 . . . Founding of National Woman's Temperance Union
    1874 . . . Neesima Shimeta: A Joseph for Japan (Glimpses)
    1875 . . . The First Keswick Convention
    1875 . . . A Feast for Samuel Schereschewsky
    1875 . . . Rescue too Late for Deutschland's Nuns

    1876 . . . John Dykes Composer of "Holy, Holy, Holy"
    1876 . . . Big-Hearted Friedrich Konrad Dietrich Wyneken
    1876 . . . Ironside Laid Aside as Dead at Birth
    1876 . . . Train Wreck Killed Hymn Writer Bliss & Wife
    1876 . . . Blessed Bliss, by Thomas E. Corts
    1876 . . . Blessed Bliss (Glimpses)
    1877 . . . "Mother of Missions" Doremus Died from a Spill
    1877 . . . Mission Founder William Strong
    1877 . . . Caroline Chisholm, Australian Immigrants' Friend
    1877 . . . Mordecai Ham, Outspoken Evangelist
    1877 . . . Beer Garden Became Pacific Garden Mission
    1878 . . . Honoring Humble, Big-Minded Selwyn
    1878 . . . Theologian Charles Hodge Won Hearts
    1878 . . . Francis Grimke's Christian Critique of Slavery
    1879 . . . Lightfoot Left Academia to Become a Bishop
    1879 . . . "Lead, Kindly Light," Wrote John Newman
    1879 . . . George Fife Angas & the Settling of Australia
    1880 . . . Salvation Army Invaded New York
    1880 . . . Educator to the Orient, Samuel R. Brown
    1880 . . . Bud Robinson's Conflict at Camp-Meeting
    1880 . . . Lay-Minister Garfield Elected U.S. President
    1880 . . . Francis Pfanner came to South Africa
    1881 . . . Fundamentalist Leader John Gresham Machen
    1881ff . . Lathrop Traded Literature for Bandages (Glimpses)
    1882 . . . John Darby of the Plymouth Brethren
    1882 . . . Blind Matheson Penned Immortal Hymn
    1882 . . . Titus Coan's Ship Came in
    1882ff . . Samuel Adjai Crowther (Glimpses)
    1883 . . . Dying Harold Schofield Prayed Grads to China
    1884 . . . Drummond's Greatest Thing in the World (Glimpses)
    1885 . . . A Typical Sam Jones Tough-Nosed Sermon
    1885 . . . James Hannington Captured
    1885 . . . Mukasa Beheaded in Uganda
    1885 . . . Haldor Lillenas: the Matchless Grace of Jesus
    1886 . . . Karl Barth Was Monday's Child
    1886 . . . I.B. Kimbrough and the Highwaymen
    1886 . . . How Did Joseph M. Scriven Come to Drown?
    1886ff . . Student Volunteer Mission (Glimpses)
    1887 . . . C. T. Studd Gave Huge Inheritance Away
    1887 . . . Evangelization Society to Storm Chicago
    1887 . . . Death of Controversial Henry Ward Beecher
    1887 . . . U.S. President Benjamin Harrison
    1888 . . . Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Original
    1888 . . . Jonathan Goforth Went Forth
    1889 . . . Faye Edgerton Gave God's Word to the Navajo
    1889 . . . Asa Mahan Went Home
    1889 . . . Passing of Bible Scholar Alfred Edersheim
    1889 . . . Horatius Bonar Pointed People to Christ
    1890 . . . Neesima Shimeta, Japan's Home-Grown Hero
    1890 . . . Rosa Young Spread Schools & Churches in Alabama
    1890 . . . Emma Whittemore Opened Door of Hope
    1890ff . . Emma Whittemore & Door of Hope (Glimpses)
    1891 . . . Armenians 1st in Asia Minor, Late to U.S
    1891 . . . Inexpensive Chapels on Wheels
    1891 . . . Spurgeon's Last Sermon from the Tabernacle
    1891 . . . Charles A. Briggs Called on Heresy
    1892 . . . Warner Sallman's Famous Head of Christ
    1892 . . . Edith Warner's Quiet Heroism in Nigeria
    1892ff . . Ida Scudder Changed Her Mind (Glimpses)
    1893 . . . Leading Trinity Defender, Phillips Brooks
    1892 . . . Joseph Parker's Special Noon Service
    1892 . . . Archaeologist James L. Kelso Dug for Christ
    1893 . . . World Parliament of Religions
    1894 . . . William Passavant Tried to Meet Every Need
    1895 . . . John Broadus Taught Sermon-Making
    1895 . . . Therese of Lisieux's Act of Oblation
    1895 . . . Andrew Murray's Record of His Spiritual Life
    1895 . . . Mission Team Reached Mombasa, Kenya
    1895 . . . 1st Full Performance of Mahler's "Resurrection"
    1895 . . . Former Slave Frederick Douglass
    1896 . . . Walter Grand Taylor Converted in His Room
    1896 . . . D-Day for the Volunteers of America
    1896 . . . Bernard Mizeki Took a Brave Stand
    1896 . . . Walter L. Wilson Converted
    1897 . . . Alcoholic Mel Trotter Delivered from Drink
    1897 . . . Death of Christ-Like Henry Drummond
    1897 . . . Sister Anthony, Battlefield Heroine
    1898 . . . Glynn Put God in Australia's Preamble
    1899 . . . What's in a Revised Version?
    1899 . . . Koldeway's Verified the Bible from Babylon
    1899 . . . Robert Lowry's Ceased Composing
    1899 . . . Evangelist Martyn Lloyd-Jones
    1899 . . . Charles Chiniquy vs. the Catholic Church
    1899 . . . The Pope, the Cardinal, & the "Phantom Heresy"
    1900 . . . John Charles Ryle Wrote His Farewell Message
    1900 . . . Pastor Meng Died because He Wouldn't Run
    1900 . . . Albert Schweitzer Licensed in Theology
    1900 . . . James Healy, 1st Afro-American Catholic Bishop
    1900 . . . Rose Lathrop Abandoned Lit. for Cancer Work