July 28, 1847
The Mormon community that followed Brigham Young chose the site for their future temple (and present-day headquarters) near the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
July 22, 1620
A small congregation of English Separatists who had taken refuge in the Netherlands with their minister, John Robinson, left Leiden, Holland, bound for their native England. In December of that same year, these Separatists emigrated from England to the New World. In our country we refer to these persecuted religious emigrants as “the Pilgrims.”
July 21, 1958
English Christian apologist C.S. Lewis asserted in Letters to an American Lady: “What the devil loves is that vague cloud of unspecified guilt or unspecified virtue by which he lures us into despair or presumption.”
July 13, 1886
Father Edward Flanagan, Roman Catholic parish priest born in Roscommon, Ireland. He came to the U.S. in 1904 to receive his education, and was ordained in 1912. Flanagan served churches in Nebraska from 1912-16. Feeling an increasing need to help boys before they became hardened in crime and believing there was “no such thing as a bad boy,” Flanagan organized his Home for Homeless Boys outside Omaha, Nebraska, renaming it Boys Town in 1922. It was his aim to develop character in the boys by supplementing vocational training with social and religious education.
July 6, 1970
American Presbyterian apologist Francis Schaeffer noted in a letter:
“There are indeed many reasons why we should go on living, and the largest one is that God really is there. He really does exist, and He made us for himself. …to know that we can speak and that there is Someone who will answer fills the vacuum of life that would otherwise be present.”
